| Nestled among the East San Jose foothills with only a | | | | room for quite awhile. We tried to capture EVP. We |
| two-lane road leading to the park through the | | | | caught pictures with orbs but there was more to this |
| mountains, the Joseph D. Grant County Park can | | | | room. It was one of those rooms where you could |
| easily be missed. This park boasts a beautiful house | | | | feel the excitement in the air but you didn't quite |
| coupled with a few other out-buildings renovated to | | | | know how to put your finger on what was occurring. |
| remind visitors of the days of yesteryear. The house | | | | As nothing did occur, we began to file out of the |
| has period pieces of furniture, an all wood foyer, | | | | room. The reporter was next to the last leaving the |
| hardwood floors in the rooms....and residents they | | | | room and one of our members was last. She had a |
| never expected. For years the park rangers never | | | | video camera and was filming. As she approached the |
| questioned the footsteps, door slams, noises and | | | | doorway and as the reporter began to step through |
| moving things from the corners of their eyes. They | | | | the threshold, our member felt a heavy hand on her |
| merely chalked it up to someone else being in the | | | | left shoulder and stated so. The reporter turned |
| house. When visitors stated that they saw someone | | | | around long enough to find our member being shoved |
| or heard something in the house, the park rangers | | | | into her, almost knocking them both over. The video |
| chalked that up to nothing more than imaginations. | | | | camera was still running. |
| The local newspaper contacted the park rangers | | | | The reporter did a nice article on us and on the |
| stating they wanted to do an article on the house | | | | Joseph Grant house. |
| for Halloween. They in turn, contacted our paranormal | | | | Fast forward a year. We are asked back by the park |
| research group. We made arrangements to all meet | | | | rangers to do ghost tours for visitors. They planned |
| at the house at a pre-arranged time. It was difficult | | | | to open up the house to after hours tours, |
| enough to find the park but to do so in the dark was | | | | something they have never done. As our group |
| even more difficult. You always read about places like | | | | assembled again in the foyer of this wonderful house, |
| this in scary books...the twisting and turning of the | | | | again the feeling of excitement was in the air. The |
| small, two-lane road, the deep darkness of the | | | | visitors with us that night could feel it too. Some |
| forest, the occasional red eyes peering back at you | | | | ladies had their hair stroked while touring. Some |
| caused by a deer; all the qualities for a good horror | | | | visitors could see flashes of light in some rooms. As |
| story. | | | | we stood in the foyer waiting for the visitors and |
| We made our way up to the park and then followed | | | | the rangers to come downstairs, three of us heard |
| the path to the house. It was a gorgeous house; | | | | what appeared to be furniture moving and crashing in |
| white, two stories. We brought in simple equipment. | | | | a room to our left. Upon inspection, nothing was |
| The reporter was nice enough. The camera gal was | | | | disturbed. It was at that point that the historian |
| nicer yet. She followed us as well as she could, | | | | stated that that happened once before up in "J.D.'s" |
| almost as well as a shadow. It wasn't until | | | | bedroom following a séance they held there. |
| approximately 10 p.m. that we began to notice the | | | | He had failed to mention that. He also failed to |
| cold. This was a warm summer evening but there | | | | mention that the medium directing the séance |
| was an obvious drop in temperature. As we | | | | tried to fling herself out of the window. |
| wandered through the house we noticed that some | | | | We were very lucky this night. We captured some |
| rooms were definitely very warm and some were | | | | great EVP. We got possible orbs in some rooms. But |
| very cold. The coldest rooms, we found out later, | | | | the most miraculous occurrence is that we believe |
| were the rooms that visitors made statements about | | | | we may have gotten pictures of two spirits. The |
| having activity in and that the park rangers had | | | | Joseph D. Grant County Park was one of the most |
| disregarded their comments. | | | | unusual houses we have ever had the pleasure to be |
| This beautiful house has a sordid past. The daughter | | | | in. We were pleasantly surprised to find that a house |
| of Joseph D. Grant killed three men and her sister; | | | | that is located out in the middle of nowhere and has |
| two of the men on the property, one of them | | | | never had problems reported before could be so |
| somewhere else. She was apparently crazy, had | | | | haunted. Needless to say, we have changed the |
| some type of mental illness. As we talked and | | | | minds of the park rangers and the visitors to this |
| wandered through the house we came across her | | | | house as well. |
| room. Her name was Edith. We stayed in Edith's | | | | |