Tranquil, Elegant and Haunted!!

Nestled among the East San Jose foothills with only aroom for quite awhile. We tried to capture EVP. We
two-lane road leading to the park through thecaught pictures with orbs but there was more to this
mountains, the Joseph D. Grant County Park canroom. It was one of those rooms where you could
easily be missed. This park boasts a beautiful housefeel the excitement in the air but you didn't quite
coupled with a few other out-buildings renovated toknow how to put your finger on what was occurring.
remind visitors of the days of yesteryear. The houseAs 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 theyroom and one of our members was last. She had a
never expected. For years the park rangers nevervideo camera and was filming. As she approached the
questioned the footsteps, door slams, noises anddoorway and as the reporter began to step through
moving things from the corners of their eyes. Theythe threshold, our member felt a heavy hand on her
merely chalked it up to someone else being in theleft shoulder and stated so. The reporter turned
house. When visitors stated that they saw someonearound long enough to find our member being shoved
or heard something in the house, the park rangersinto 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 rangersThe reporter did a nice article on us and on the
stating they wanted to do an article on the houseJoseph Grant house.
for Halloween. They in turn, contacted our paranormalFast forward a year. We are asked back by the park
research group. We made arrangements to all meetrangers to do ghost tours for visitors. They planned
at the house at a pre-arranged time. It was difficultto open up the house to after hours tours,
enough to find the park but to do so in the dark wassomething they have never done. As our group
even more difficult. You always read about places likeassembled again in the foyer of this wonderful house,
this in scary books...the twisting and turning of theagain the feeling of excitement was in the air. The
small, two-lane road, the deep darkness of thevisitors with us that night could feel it too. Some
forest, the occasional red eyes peering back at youladies had their hair stroked while touring. Some
caused by a deer; all the qualities for a good horrorvisitors 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 followedthe 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 wasdisturbed. 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 untilbedroom following a séance they held there.
approximately 10 p.m. that we began to notice theHe had failed to mention that. He also failed to
cold. This was a warm summer evening but theremention that the medium directing the séance
was an obvious drop in temperature. As wetried to fling herself out of the window.
wandered through the house we noticed that someWe were very lucky this night. We captured some
rooms were definitely very warm and some weregreat 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 aboutwe may have gotten pictures of two spirits. The
having activity in and that the park rangers hadJoseph 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 daughterin. 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 themnever had problems reported before could be so
somewhere else. She was apparently crazy, hadhaunted. Needless to say, we have changed the
some type of mental illness. As we talked andminds of the park rangers and the visitors to this
wandered through the house we came across herhouse as well.
room. Her name was Edith. We stayed in Edith's