Shadow Man Report

A couple of days ago I was invited to join in on an investigation of a property where the owner/tenant has been having paranormal experiences. I found out some information that clarified the experiences and the property’s history. I also experienced my own personal experiences while investigating.

The warehouse that once was a movie theater

I discovered that this present-day warehouse used to be known as ‘The Bison Theater’. It was built to look like that of another theater, which was in the same vicinity. Recently, the long time owner of the property passed away. The property was left vacant for a time until a new owner bought it and leased it out to a new tenant, who is the one who is experiencing things he can’t explain. The man occupying the property is a person who didn’t believe in the paranormal, until now.

View of old projection room from the warehouse.

The tenant came home one day, and while parking his car out front, saw someone or something in the upstairs window. The window is to the apartment that used to be the old projection room. At present, and at the time of this experience, the apartment was and is being renovated.

As the tenant was exiting his vehicle, something caught his eye in the upstairs window. He looked up and saw what he describes as ‘an old-time, white cotton shirt with a high collar’. The shirt was moving in such a way, it was as if someone was bending over, either to pick something up, or to put something down. The tenant is quite sure of what he saw. As he focused on the shirt, he noticed two distinct things. He realized that what he was witnessing, had no pronounced human attributes, such as a head or arms. It was as if a shirt was moving all by itself. Then he realized that the window he was looking at was completely boarded up. What he was watching was as if it were an x-ray. The image was showing itself through the boards of wood. Shortly after his sighting, a friend arrived at their planned meeting time. He explained to his friend what he had just seen, so they investigated the entire piece of property thinking that there was an intruder. They scoured the entire warehouse and apartment, but found no one.

One of the upstairs apartment windows.

When I arrived on site, the tenant took me around showing me the property. While on the impromptu tour, I had my digital voice recorder, as well as my digital camera. The tenant and I were standing in the warehouse talking. At this point, our topic had changed to what we do for a living and nothing about paranormal experiences. As we were bantering back and forth, a loud slamming sound came from the warehouse garage door. We obviously stopped talking immediately. The sound was as if a large object was slammed against the metal garage door. We both went over to see if something had fallen against it, but there was nothing there. I don’t know why, but what I immediately thought of when the sound occurred, was ‘someone had just thrown a body against the door’. That was just the first of my experiences that night.

The exact moment the garage door sound occurred.

After my tour was done, the tenant left me alone to conduct my investigation. He went and stayed up at the front of the property, where there is a little office.

I always carry my voice recorder with me when investigating. There is a switch on it that ‘locks’ all buttons on it so that it remains recording. At one point during my investigation, I had to take a restroom break. While in the restroom, I started to hear voices. At first, I didn’t know where they were coming from. Then I discovered that what I was hearing was myself and the tenant talking. I looked down at my recorder, which I wear on a lanyard around my neck, and noticed that somehow, the locking switch on the recorder had been physically switched off and the recorder switched to its playing option. Something had switched the recorder to our conversation. I have never had this happen before until that moment.

I knew then that it was time for me to sit alone in the upstairs apartment. There are several rooms at this site that seem to be active to other paranormal groups. In the upstairs projection room, multiple EVP’s were recorded as well as the classic ‘orbs’. It was this room that I sat alone in as well as the apartment itself since that is where the shirt apparition appeared.

Alone in the projection room.

This place was hard to do a thorough investigation as it is located along a major road with traffic traveling 24/7. The boarded up windows have since been replaced with real windows, which allow light in from the passing traffic. The roof to the warehouse is metal with no type of insulation insulating the warehouse from outside noise, such as rain. I also noticed there to be several vents leading up through the roof completely open. These are just some of the things that contribute to the noise pollution that I noticed.

Standing alone in the upstairs apartment, listening.

Even though I debunked some of the things that I heard, there was still the two incidents that happened to me that I couldn’t. I still have a lot of evidence that I need to go over, but when you are a one-man operation, you tend to fall behind a lot. I still have evidence from several recent investigations I’m still trying to go over, but it’s going to take some time to do so.

I was invited back by the tenant to come back anytime, which I plan to do so. My hope is to be able to do a longer, more thorough investigation in the near future. I will announce my findings of this investigation and the next time I visit this site here on my blog.