Village Restaurant Investigation

HISTORY

As with the salon, the Village Restaurant is part of a historical cluster of
commercial buildings located in the heart of Grand Cane. Also built in 1899, the
restaurant was home to a general store. The restaurant is beautifully decorated
and holds true to the time period it was built.

ACTIVITY

According to the owners, the restaurant is home to a number of spirits. They have
numerous reports of sightings of a young woman, a confederate soldier, and a
black male in slave-type clothing. Various other events have been reported such
as lights turning on/off, strange sounds being heard, and doors opening/closing.
Just recently, a group of women were having lunch and observed on of the heavy
wooden chairs slide away from the table. Another experience was had by an
employee in the dish room. As they were standing at the sink, several plates,
which were located several feet from the sink, reportedly flew off the shelf and
into the sink. With so many reports, we were very excited to what the
"occupants" of the restaurant had to offer!

INVESTIGATION

We simultaneously arrived at the restaurant and the salon. As I set up my
monitoring station in the salon, Todd set up his in the restaurant. His focal points
were, of course, the areas where the apparitions were most often spotted and the
area where the chair slid from the table. Once the group went "lights out", they
began conducting the usual EMF sweeps and EVP work. About an hour into the
investigation, Regina and Korrin heard an extremely loud bang in the dish room,
which was where plates were reported to have literally flown off the shelf. Regina
entered the room in attempts to recreate the noise she heard. After trying several
different things, she determined that the most similar noise to the one she heard
was created by dropping one of the large trays filled with silverware. An IR
camera was immediately placed in this room with the hopes of catching this
occurrence again.

Unfortunately, as with the salon, this was the only significant experience felt
during the night. As I've said before, it's as if the spirits know where cameras are
place and/or when they are recording because on many occasions, it's during the
"down time" when things happen. These two investigations were almost identical
in every way. From the age of the buildings, to the history, and even to the types of
activity, they were much alike. Could these two places be haunted by the same
individual(s) bouncing from one place to another? Unfortunately, we do not have
enough significant evidence to sway a decision either way. What was determined
was that this was an amazing place to visit and it was a pleasure to meet the
gracious owners who were very kind, even treating us to dinner. They also made
pretty good "hunters", as they joined the investigation! Thanks again for
everything!

SPECIAL NOTE!!

When the write up was posted, I did not know that Todd was not completed with
his portion of the evidence analysis. He sent me two interested pieces of
evidence: one being a really neat object, white in color, that flies across the
screen. The object definitely seems to have mass to it, even casting a shadow on
the left portion of the wall. Next is a sound clip sounding like a voice saying, "Need
to go". Thanks Todd for the last minute evidence!!