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