WereWOOFS Ghost Hunting With Dogs
As Bill runs his huskies at night to beat the summer heat he discovered a whole other interest. It's like tales out of the Dark Side but this is real life happenings as Bill will mush and adventure with his huskies through some very historic areas. It all started circa 2014 as Bill was running his huskies in the dark with his co-pilot Rhett on the C&O Canal Trail in Maryland. Bill wanted to rest the dogs as again it was summer and even though in the cool of the night it’s still very important to rest them frequently so they can keep as cool as possible. So while Bill & Rhett pulled over to rest the dogs they spotted an abandoned house right near them close to the trail. This C&O area has tons of history during the civil war as well so with very little if any restorations along the trail everything is almost as it was in the late 1700s early 1800s but of course a lot of it is in terrible shape and falling apart. So Bill asked Rhett if he wanted to go checkout the abandoned house near them while Bill of course would stay with the dogs as they rest. Bill had some previous curiosity of paranormal activity on this trail so he had just recently acquired a FLIR thermal camera that essentially can see heat signatures in the dark. So anything that generates heat including people and animals will be recognized on this FLIR camera. Well Rhett went inside of this dilapidated house. Bill told him to yell if he needs assistance. Not soon after Rhett was talking loud and fleeing from this abandoned house. Bill heard him and was yelling are you ok Rhett? Rhett yelled back I'm coming at you and getting the heck out of here. When Rhett got back to Bill he was telling how there was a staircase in the abandoned house and when Rhett looked up there were eyes looking at him (I'm getting chills writing this page as I recount this incident) Rhett said he couldn’t tell if it was 2 eyes or 4 so maybe there were 2 animals, entities, people whatever, WOW!. Luckily Rhett caught all of this on the FLIR and I’ve posted the video here. This was the beginning of the WereWOOFS Paranormal Investigations!
WereWOOFS is about Paranormal Investigations like Ghost Hunting with Dogs. As I needed to run the dogs at night to avoid the warner temperatures from the sun during the warmer months I thought it would be very interesting as I rest the dogs to do these Paranormal Investigations. Dogs also obviously have good senses and I would say a 6th sense so their reactions could sometimes help with these investigations. Also remember we are running really historic areas that are more apt to have spirits, entities, and everything else around them. That all being said I was not knowledgeable at all with Paranormal Investigations & Ghost Hunting so I networked out and found a professional Paranormal Investigator with a load of experience. His name is Curtis and when I told him what I'm doing running the dogs in the dark of the night in all kinds of really historic areas and I'd like to know waht’s lurking out there. I told him about Rhett's and my experience and he was like yeah let’s do this!
So my concept of WeeWOOFS (Ghost Hunting with dogs) was going to come to fruition. Guess what our first investigation was back to that abandoned house that we have since dubbed the Hell House as we have got a lot of evidence there. I'll post links so you can witness some for yourself. Over the next 5 years or so we investigated all kinds of areas and places and even collaborated with another professional Paranormal Investigator and this all got so interesting we started an Amazon Prime series. You gotta see to believe! By the way as we grew in popularity we stared to go to more places to investigate so we couldn’t always take the dogs but the dogs are what inspired these WereWOOFS expeditions and investigations.As Bill runs his huskies at night to beat the summer heat he discovered a whole other interest. It's like tales out of the Dark Side but this is real life happenings as Bill will mush and adventure with his huskies through some very historic areas. It all started circa 2014 as Bill was running his huskies in the dark with his co-pilot Rhett on the C&O Canal Trail in Maryland. Bill wanted to rest the dogs as again it was summer and even though in the cool of the night it’s still very important to rest them frequently so they can keep as cool as possible. So while Bill & Rhett pulled over to rest the dogs they spotted an abandoned house right near them close to the trail. This C&O area has tons of history during the civil war as well so with very little if any restorations along the trail everything is almost as it was in the late 1700s early 1800s but of course a lot of it is in terrible shape and falling apart. So Bill asked Rhett if he wanted to go checkout the abandoned house near them while Bill of course would stay with the dogs as they rest. Bill had some previous curiosity of paranormal activity on this trail so he had just recently acquired a FLIR thermal camera that essentially can see heat signatures in the dark. So anything that generates heat including people and animals will be recognized on this FLIR camera. Well Rhett went inside of this dilapidated house. Bill told him to yell if he needs assistance. Not soon after Rhett was talking loud and fleeing from this abandoned house. Bill heard him and was yelling are you ok Rhett? Rhett yelled back I'm coming at you and getting the heck out of here. When Rhett got back to Bill he was telling how there was a staircase in the abandoned house and when Rhett looked up there were eyes looking at him (I'm getting chills writing this page as I recount this incident) Rhett said he couldn’t tell if it was 2 eyes or 4 so maybe there were 2 animals, entities, people whatever, WOW!. Luckily Rhett caught all of this on the FLIR and I’ve posted the video here. This was the beginning of the WereWOOFS Paranormal Investigations!
WereWOOFS is about Paranormal Investigations like Ghost Hunting with Dogs. As I needed to run the dogs at night to avoid the warner temperatures from the sun during the warmer months I thought it would be very interesting as I rest the dogs to do these Paranormal Investigations. Dogs also obviously have good senses and I would say a 6th sense so their reactions could sometimes help with these investigations. Also remember we are running really historic areas that are more apt to have spirits, entities, and everything else around them. That all being said I was not knowledgeable at all with Paranormal Investigations & Ghost Hunting so I networked out and found a professional Paranormal Investigator with a load of experience. His name is Curtis and when I told him what I'm doing running the dogs in the dark of the night in all kinds of really historic areas and I'd like to know waht’s lurking out there. I told him about Rhett's and my experience and he was like yeah let’s do this!
So my concept of WeeWOOFS (Ghost Hunting with dogs) was going to come to fruition. Guess what our first investigation was back to that abandoned house that we have since dubbed the Hell House as we have got a lot of evidence there. I'll post links so you can witness some for yourself. Over the next 5 years or so we investigated all kinds of areas and places and even collaborated with another professional Paranormal Investigator and this all got so interesting we started an Amazon Prime series. You gotta see to believe! By the way as we grew in popularity we stared to go to more places to investigate so we couldn’t always take the dogs but the dogs are what inspired these WereWOOFS expeditions and investigations.
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Documenting One Night Of WereWOOFS Investigations
Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Location: The mountains of central Pennsylvania
Purpose: To listen to voices who might otherwise go unheard
By half past 10 o'clock, everyone had arrived at the arranged meeting site. The dogs had gotten out for a nighttime mush, and it was their time to relax while the rest of us got started. The first site for the Werewoofs team: Tunnel Trail outside Blain, PA in the Tuscarora State Forest.
The Newport and Shermans Valley Railroad operated over a span of forty years, transferring lumber harvested locally to the larger trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad. At one point, the construction of a tunnel through the Conococheague Mountain was begun, but it was halted when, fewer than 100 feet into the mountain, the tunnel failed. Who worked the beginnings of that tunnel? What could they have thought and felt as the tunnel failed? Did some part of them have stayed behind, watching the forests return to the mountains, watching people hike in and out of the place that had played such a monumental role in their lives? Did they have something to say? If so, we wanted to give them an opportunity to be heard.
The investigating team included Lead Paranormal Investigator for WereWOOFS Curtis Wimer, Bill the Woofdriver, special guest “Para” Anne, of the Coffee with the Dead podcast and YouTube channel, ChrisP, Dan the Man Williams, Doug Sanford, and Scott Gilman. Body cams, headlamps, and infrared cameras were distributed, and we hiked the half mile to the failed tunnel.
One of the main pieces of equipment being deployed to encourage communication is called the Ovilus 10. It detects changes in the electromagnetic spectrum and uses a software algorithm to analyze the nature of those changes and match the results of the analysis with a word from an onboard dictionary.
As we were getting ready for the trek up the trail to the abandoned tunnel, the Ovilus 10 began saying “Ike! Ike!” Curtis smiled, saying that he and Bill had visited Pennhurst Asylum somewhat recently, where they met “Ike”, a spirit who led them throughout the asylum until they found a coloring book which seemed to have been important to him. Now, it seemed, Ike had decided to follow them from time to time. As we began to walk the trail to the tunnel, however, the Ovilus 10 fell silent. After a walk that is probably beautiful in the daytime, but was rocky and slippery at night, we came to the abandoned tunnel. Immediately upon entering, the ambient temperature dropped at least ten degrees. Perhaps a temperature drop when entering a cave certainly is to be expected, but then again...
Aside from that, nobody felt any particular reaction to our group entering the cave. Curtis' K2 Meter, a device that measures spikes in the Electro-Magnetic Frequency spectrum, occasionally would light up a little, from green to yellow. Curtis spent several minutes asking any spirit there if it would spike the meter to red. It happened once, but requests to repeat the feat went unanswered.
At this point, another piece of investigative equipment came into play: the Portal. The Portal is comprised of an amplifier, a noise reducer, and a reverb unit. It connects to another device such as a Spirit Box, or even a smartphone app that takes advantage of your phone's own EMF-receiving antenna. The portal processes these signals, removing noise, and making any words clearer. In this case, the words heard were:
“Get out.”
“Get out of the tunnel”
“Heavy”
“The local (unintelligible) are dead”
“Contrition”
While the first thought upon hearing “Get out of the tunnel” way be to take it as a warning to the team, the fact that nobody felt any sense of unease or unwelcome undermines that idea. Perhaps the warnings were not meant for us. Perhaps they, along with the other words, were an echo of the most terrifying, and perhaps final, moments of some people's lives.
This is a good place to talk a little bit about the history of Pennsylvania's forests, particularly Tuscarora State Forest, where the tunnel is located. By the end of the 19th century, lumber and iron companies had harvested and mined central Pennsylvania's forests into near-nonexistence. The mountains were barren; the local forests were dead. Some time not long after construction on the railroad tunnel was halted, the area was acquired by the newly-formed Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters. The department was dedicated to bringing back the once abundant hardwood forests; an act of contrition.
After delivering those warnings from the past, a little after midnight, the investigators' equipment fell silent. It was time to move on to our second site for the evening. Sadly, Para Anne and her husband had to leave, but the rest of the crew pressed on.
At close to 2:30AM, we arrived at the second site: a small plaque mounted on a stone just off a dirt road near the tops of the mountain.
On Oct. 26, 1956, Air Force aircraft number 51-8026 departed Sewart Air Force Base in Tennessee headed to Olmsted Air Force Base in Middletown, Pennsylvania on a cargo airlift mission. Flying through rain and fog, at 3:11PM, the pilot was given permission to descend to the airfield. At 3:15, 40 miles west of the west of the landing strip, the cargo plane crashed into Tuscarora Mountain and exploded, apparently the victim of rapidly changing weather conditions and zero visibility. Four men died instantly. Not until 50 years later were the lives of these servicemen memorialized with a plaque beside the dirt road near the crash site. Perhaps they would have something to say about being forgotten, or about being remembered after so long?
We parked about 200 feet from the memorial and walked over. Unfortunately, in the dark it was impossible to find the actual crash site, so the group headed for the monument. Perhaps spirits would have gravitated towards it as a source of attention.
As we approached the memorial, the Ovilus, which had been silent for most of the last half hour, spoke up:
“Crash.”
“Release.”
“Airplane.”
“Conditions.”
“Angry.”
This remarkable initial outpouring proved short-lived. After some initial spikes on Curtis' K2 meter, all the investigators' devices fell silent. The monument, which has been in place for 14 years, appears well tended. Someone has left solar walkway lights in front of it along with 4 American flags, of the size you would hold in your hand. The flags appear to be no more than a few months old. It may be that any spirits here are grateful that they are still remembered, and are able to rest easy, in spite of the suddenness of their departure from this world into the next.
