It has also been reported that items within the home have been moved when no one else was around or in the house at the time. Permanent residents who live up on the third floor now always experience ghostly activity, such as doors slamming, being touched and hearing voices, specifically in the room where Sarah once lived.
While checking in that afternoon I noticed the ghostly presence of a man walking through the front parlor room. We took photos of the rooms as we normally do when visiting historical bed and breakfasts, and later on noticed an orb in one of the photos in front of the fireplace, near where I noticed the ghostly man walking earlier in the afternoon.
As far as we know, no one else has conducted a thorough investigation of the home so we decided to unpack some of our equipment and hope for a successful investigation on such limited time. The equipment we used were three different digital cameras, dowsing rods and an EMF sensor. Over the next few hours, our equipment seemed to prove our senses were keen to the paranormal activity that took place around us.
In the Red Room, formerly a family’s kitchen, I sensed the energy of a young girl.
We captured an orb where the sense of residual energy was strongest. I felt the young girl cooking in the brick fireplace/oven and standing in front of the closet door to the right of the fireplace.
At this point in time the feeling of someone standing in the hallway between the Red Room and Yellow Room became incredibly strong.
The house cat jumped off the Red Room’s bed and walked into the hallway stopping in its tracks to stare up the back stairs leading to the third floor – where young Sarah once lived.
Taking all of this into consideration, we moved to snap photos and use the dowsing rods in the hallway. The cat then looked into the Yellow Room and ran down the stairs. Note the orb captured near the top of the door.
We quickly took numerous photos of the stairwell and out of all of them we captured one small orb. I sensed that Sarah is most comfortable upstairs in her room, so she may have walked from the Red Room to return to her bedroom.
Sarah is a very curious young woman, hesitant with strangers in her former home, but she warmed up quickly making herself well-known to all of us that night
It was at this time that the ghosts of the Henry Derby House seemed to become playful and elusive between the hallways and three rooms. While standing in the hallway between rooms and staircases taking readings and using the dowsing rods, we began to hear footsteps in the hallway and bedroom on the other side of the Yellow Room. The room which seemed to be emanating paranormal activity was our room, the Mauve Room.
Taking some photos in the Yellow Room before heading over the Mauve room to investigate (note behind the bed is a door that leads through to the Mauve Room):
Photo taken seconds later after taking a few steps back produce an orb above the bed
A knock was heard coming from the front door and when the picture was taken, an orb was captured:
As we made our way downstairs and back up the front stairs to the Mauve Room to investigate the knocking and footsteps, we walked through the dining room and front parlor. It was in this area, earlier in the evening, that I noticed the ghost of a cat walking through the dining room and into the front hall:
