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Whispers Estate: SLS Camera, EVP & Ouija Investigation | Ep 4
Whispers Estate · Mitchell, Indiana · April 9, 2016 · 4:10:33
Return to Whispers Estate in Mitchell, Indiana, for SLS and doll experiments, EVP playback, Ouija and two helmet sessions. Follow the team’s reported scratches, physical experiences, hallway sounds and camera-mapping interpretations through the complete four-hour investigation.
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- CONTEXT: Opening broadcast
- CONTEXT: Saturday-night team introduction
- PHYSICAL REPORT: High-pitched ringing in investigators’ ears
- EVP: Opening silence test before the first questions
- EVP PLAYBACK: Response heard after the opening silence test
- EVP: Bedroom questions and a response to the ZoZo prompt
- GHOST BOX: Team reports the radio switching on by itself
- GHOST BOX: Team hears “eight of us” while asking who is present
- CONTEXT: Moving upstairs to the doll room
- EVP: Silent baseline in Rachel’s doll room
- VISUAL REPORT: Flash and peripheral shadow in the doll room
- EVP PLAYBACK: Team hears “wonderful” in the silent doll-room recording
- EVP: Asking who is on the bed and who switched on the ghost box
- TEMPERATURE: Sudden freezing sensation in a participant’s hand
- EVP PLAYBACK: Laughter and “I want to” interpretation after the ghost-box question
- SLS CAMERA: Kinect body-mapping equipment demonstrated
- SLS CAMERA: Connection failure interrupts the camera setup
- CONTEXT: Requests for doll movement
- SOUND REPORT: Movement on the staircase
- SLS CAMERA: Doll positioned on a chair for the mapping experiment
- SLS CAMERA: Human mapping check before calling Rachel toward the doll
- SLS CAMERA: Glowing chair display without a complete mapped figure
- TEMPERATURE: Draft felt beside the hand during the SLS test
- SLS CAMERA: Human mapping demo and apparent dancing legs while standing still
- SOUND REPORT: Scooting noise compared with camera-switch handling
- SLS CAMERA: Figure interpreted as reaching toward the doll
- SLS CAMERA: Second mapped figure appears beside a participant’s shoulder
- SLS CAMERA: Arm-raising requests and mappings near a participant’s head
- SLS CAMERA: High-five and hug interpreted from the displayed figures
- TEMPERATURE: Freezing sensation during the head-level mapping
- GOD HELMET: Tim’s experiment with Kristen’s concurrent psychic sketching
- PHYSICAL SCRATCH: Three claw-like scratches on Kristen’s back
- PSYCHIC SKETCH: Kristen describes working on her fourth drawing
- GOD HELMET: Tim lies on the bed while Kristen draws her impressions
- EVP: Asking Tim to speak from the adjacent room during his helmet session
- SOUND REPORT: Loud noise judged likely outside the uninsulated room
- EVP PLAYBACK: “I’m not afraid” and “help me” interpretations compared
- EVP PLAYBACK: “Yes, come and help me” interpreted as Tim asking for help
- EVP: Asking whether Tim is in this room or the other room
- EVP PLAYBACK: Team hears “other room” in the follow-up recording
- PHYSICAL SCRATCH: New upper mark beside Kristen’s earlier back scratches
- SLS CAMERA: Couch scan after Tim reports a presence beside John
- PHYSICAL PRESSURE: Tim feels pressure on his chest and stops the helmet session
- GOD HELMET: Tim describes Ouija with a goat-headed figure through a mirror
- PHYSICAL SCRATCH: Three claw-like back scratches on Kristen recapped
- EVP: Asking “Garrett” to identify the doctor from Tim’s impression
- VISUAL REPORT: Figure peeking around John’s left shoulder
- EVP PLAYBACK: Response to the doctor’s-name question remains unclear
- CONTEXT: Resuming after the recording interruption
- PSYCHIC SKETCH: Kristen describes a woman changing into a small dark figure
- SLS CAMERA: Intermittent figure mappings near the bathroom shower
- SLS CAMERA: Two mapped figures interpreted as fighting or pushing
- CONTEXT: Taking a break from the experiment
- CONTEXT: Camera static and broadcast repair before the next experiment
- GOD HELMET: EM pumps and headphones fitted for John’s session
- OUIJA: Attempting to contact John during his helmet session
- MIRROR: Candle positioned as a beacon in the adjacent-room experiment
- SOUND REPORT: Low hum compared with binaural beats or a distant helicopter
- EVP: Asking who is on the stairs during John’s experiment
- DEVICE REPORT: Flashlight brightens after an energy request
- PHYSICAL TOUCH: Leg-touch sensation during the stairway recorder session
- EVP PLAYBACK: Recorder-handling noise checked during stairway questions
- EVP PLAYBACK: “Me, ZoZo” response heard during the stairway questions
- PHYSICAL TOUCH: Cool touch reported at the back of the head
- EVP: Asking ZoZo why the number 28 matters
- TEMPERATURE: Cold pocket around a participant’s head during ZoZo questions
- VISUAL REPORT: Black shadow noticed during questions to ZoZo
- SOUND REPORT: Growl-like noise prompts the team to listen again
- EVP PLAYBACK: Repeated “ZoZo” name interpretation during the number 28 questions
- OUIJA: ZoZo name and number 28 questions on the board
- OUIJA: Figure-eight and infinity movements instead of direct answers
- GOD HELMET: John says his audio stopped and he could hear the nearby team
- OUIJA: ZoZo/Zaza questions and a reported hair-touch sensation
- OUIJA: Repeated goodbye requests close the board session
- PHYSICAL REPORT: Tim feels unlike himself and seeks space in the basement
- EVP: Calling the reported dark figure “Big Black” in the back room
- EVP PLAYBACK: Team hears “no” at the end of the back-room recording
- EVP PLAYBACK: “Upstairs” interpreted after the upstairs-or-downstairs question
- GOD HELMET: John describes a ceiling creature and a half-dreaming state
- EVP: Faint response after asking whether ZoZo likes being around Tim
- GHOST BOX: SB7 reverse sweep asks who is bothering Tim
- PHYSICAL REPORT: Participant feels the ground move behind him
- VISUAL REPORT: Shadow moves up the staircase wall
- GHOST BOX: SB7 switched off to listen near the church pew
- SOUND REPORT: Footsteps and a voice heard after the SB7 is switched off
- GHOST BOX: Asking who was running in the hallway
- EVP: Asking whether someone was running in the hallway
- EVP PLAYBACK: “Yes” response to whether someone ran in the hallway
- EVP: Asking for a question after Tim reports “Abracadabra” in his thoughts
- EVP PLAYBACK: Team hears “Abracadabra” in the recording
- SOUND REPORT: Harsh growl-like noise from the upstairs room
- EVP: Follow-up recording asks for footsteps into the room
- EVP PLAYBACK: Three footsteps compared with horse hooves
- TEMPERATURE: Moving cold area and shadow impressions near the room
- PHYSICAL SCRATCH: Z-shaped mark on Tim’s lower back
- PHYSICAL SCRATCH: Backward Z-shaped scratch shown to the camera
- EVP: Team asks for an “O” beside the Z-shaped back mark
- PHYSICAL SCRATCH: Several new marks examined on the right forearm
- PHYSICAL SCRATCH: Team reports another scratch forming and lengthening
- EVP: Two-room recorder test asks for a growl and a séance-room response
- EVP PLAYBACK: Growl request coincides with wind as recordings are compared
- PHYSICAL REPORT: Dizziness prompts a request to leave the upstairs room
- CONTEXT: Return downstairs and handoff to the next broadcast
Episode notes and background
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This Saturday-night investigation at Whispers Estate moves from EVP sessions and ghost-box questions into the upstairs doll-room SLS experiment. The team demonstrates human body mapping, works through connection problems and interprets displayed figures near a chair, doll and participant. Those device displays and the investigators’ interpretations remain separate from proof of a paranormal presence.
The next sequence follows Tim’s helmet experiment while Kristen sketches impressions. Investigators report scratch-like marks on Kristen’s back, examine them and request photographs. A recorder session in an adjacent room asks for Tim, followed by repeated playback and discussion of possible responses. Tim later describes chest pressure and a dreamlike mirror and Ouija experience as the experiment ends.
A second helmet experiment involves John while Tim and Kristen prepare Ouija in the adjacent room. The recording preserves a useful limitation: John later says his headphone audio stopped and he could hear the team. The investigation continues through recorder playback, spirit-box sessions, reported hallway footsteps and staircase shadows.
Near the end, Tim reports a sensation on his back and the team examines a Z-shaped mark on his lower back and shows it to the camera. Later checks include reported forearm scratches and an apparent forming mark. The chapters distinguish those reports, the camera documentation and the follow-up recorder sessions. No paranormal cause or independently verified mark shape is established by the captions alone.
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The finding-specific playback chapters preserve the team’s interpretations, including “Me, ZoZo,” “Yes, come and help me,” “other room,” “upstairs,” “Abracadabra” and a “yes” response about running in the hallway. Another playback is described as three hoof-like footsteps. These are the investigators’ stated readings, which viewers can compare with the full audio.