Devil in the Delta by Rich Newman

so I hoped that this might make her feel better about being there.
    She quickly said yes, though she avoided mentioning any particular denomination or religion for the blessing. When I asked her who she would like to do the blessing, she lit up. “Oh, I believe in it all,” she said with a huge smile.
    The First Investigation
    Now that the preliminaries were over with, it was time to get down to business. Trucks were unloaded, household furniture was rearranged to accommodate movement in complete darkness, and the heat/air-conditioning unit was silenced so that it would not interfere with audio devices. Video cameras and audio recorders were then strategically placed throughout the premises.
    Once we had extinguished all the lights in the trailer, we were then able to turn on all the night-vision cameras and kick off our investigation. Gear was distributed throughout the team and the residents were informed to stay quiet and out of the way during our visit. The Mississippi investigators gathered to plan their approach for the evening as I took a few moments to go through a few preliminary steps.
    After taking some base readings throughout the house (EMF levels, temperature, etc.), I then took an extensive number of reference photographs, covering almost every inch of the place. I would turn to these photos if I needed to see the original position of a particular item, piece of furniture, or whatever during my review back home. During this photographic trip around the trailer, I noted some strange things.
    First off, there seemed to be a lot of magic/occult-
oriented items about the home, including small bottles of herbs (marked with their own magical attributes), a small wand carved with symbols that were unfamiliar to me, and some sort of ward/mandala that was drawn on paper and tacked onto the wall. This disturbed me in a small way.
    It was one thing to say your home is simply “haunted,” but it’s quite another thing altogether if you are actually performing rituals and/or attempting to conjure something. I made it a point to ask Joanne about these things. In the meantime, I simply noted (and photographed) the unfamiliar items and continued my walkthrough.
    Soon I was confronted with an even more disturbing discovery. Along with the magical paraphernalia, there was also paraphernalia of a different sort: drugs. At least one person in the home was engaging in casual drug use. While this might not have been the case for the majority of the inhabitants—or even explain the ghostly happenings—it definitely meant eyewitness accounts would have to be taken with a grain of salt.
    In addition to documenting the environment, walking through the trailer also allowed me to smell for natural gas. There were no signs of the telltale odor, and though this did not completely rule out a leak, it did mean the egg scent that they had smelled was probably from a different source, since the scent would still be present if there was a leak.
    Once we had our base readings and everything had be en photographed for posterity, we then placed some environmental monitoring devices (digital thermometers, EMF detectors, etc.) strategically within the trailer and took up positions throughout the property to wait for activity. I thought it best to start the night at “ground zero” because of the events reported there, so I took up a vigil in the master bedroom along with Terri of the Mississippi group.
    While Patricia, Tom, and Blake staked out various other hot spots in the trailer, Terri and I did some EVP work in the bedroom. Again, this is an attempt to record ghostly voices on our audio recorders. This is done by asking questions and then waiting for a reasonable amount of time for an answer.
    Typically, these answers are not heard right after asking the questions, but appear later when listening to the audio during the review. On occasion, if the haunting or entity is strong enough, the answers can even be