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