This post is a long time coming, and we apologize for the delay.  There's just so much to say about Blood Mountain Cabins that we don't know where to begin!

Our journey to BMC began on April 20th, 2019.  We carpooled from Kristin's house up to Blairsville, GA, in the Appalachian Mountains.  We had been asked to investigate by the owner, Matt, who was concerned about activity that had been affecting him, his family, and the guests in the cabins.

The activity included:

• Lights flickering on and off in bedroom, that stop when Matt enters the room.  Starts flickering again when he leaves.
  
• Traci was tapped on the shoulder while doing laundry and when she turned around, no one was there.
  
• Coworker staying in the downstairs apartment said he was awoken by his bed shaking.
  
• At approximately 3:30 AM, loud sounds along the floor in daughter’s room, leading to the door, which swung open.
  
• A Native American man reported seen in Deer and Wild Boar Cabins.
  
• A report of waking up and being held down and unable to move in Deer(?) Cabin.
  

We arrived at BMC and went into the main house to meet Matt and talk about what was going on there.  He told us all about the activity in the main house as well as reported in a few of the cabins.  After getting the low-down, we went to Deer Cabin to unpack.  We would be spending the night in one of the cabins with reports of haunting.  We got all our stuff stowed away, and our equipment unpacked.  As the sun was going down, we returned to the main house with our gear, ready to get started.

We first sat around the table in the downstairs, which was a combination sitting room and general store for guests to come in and buy whatever they needed.  We set up the K2 and flashlight on the table, and began our EVP session.  Matt had decided to join us, and he was sitting near the K2 and flashlight.  Before long, the flashlight began to blink seemingly in response to our questions.  (You can see it in the video.) 

We first sat around the table in the downstairs, which was a combination sitting room and general store for guests to come in and buy whatever they needed.  We set up the K2 and flashlight on the table, and began our EVP session.  Matt had decided to join us, and he was sitting near the K2 and flashlight.  Before long, the flashlight began to blink seemingly in response to our questions.  (You can see it in the video.)

Next, we moved to the laundry room.  We didn't catch anything here on the first trip.

Then, we moved to the downstairs bedroom where Matt's coworker was staying for a short time.  The flashlight interacted again, responding especially to questions about Matt's wife, Traci. 

We investigated the rest of the house, and captured a bedroom door opening and closing.  We tested everything we could think of, opening and closing other doors, configurations of other doors closed while being opened and shut, wind, footsteps, and nothing would cause the door to behave the way it did on our security camera.  (You can see this in the video too!)
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Next we moved to Wild Boar Cabin to investigate reports of activity there.  Upon entering, we were all hit with an overwhelming sense of malaise.  The feeling was very unpleasant, and we could not imagine spending a night in that cabin (which we did do on our next visit!)  We later recommended that the cabin have a full cleansing.

It's here that we caught some interesting EVPs, such as these Class Bs.

^ In the above EVP there is a muttering voice.

^ In this EVP  there sounds like a voice saying "oh gosh".

We also investigated Wolf Cabin, and last Deer Cabin, where we stayed for the night.  We caught EVPs in both Wolf and Deer cabins.

In the end, we feel there is activity at Blood Mountain Cabins.  There appears to be a specific entity in the main house, and perhaps a different entity or entities in the cabins.  We recommended that Boar Cabin be cleansed, due to the extremely negative energy feeling of the place.  On our next trip, we stayed overnight in Boar before cleansing it in the morning.  Check out the video up top, and stay tuned for Part 2!

On September 28th, 2019, we carpooled down to Warm Springs, GA to investigate the Hardaway Cottage.  We had been in contact with Beth and Mark Trimble for some time, with Erin and Meridith having visited a month earlier to discuss the house and its history.  We were finally going to investigate the Hardaway, and we were so excited. 

​The reports of activity were very interesting, and included:

• Objects going missing, occasionally to turn up in strange places like the middle of the hallway
• Painting moving in bedroom
• Blinds opening and closing in bedroom
• Footsteps on or around the stairs and upstairs
  

When we got to the Hardaway Cottage we began to set up our four infrared security cameras, and get the rest of our equipment ready.  We brought:

• EMF (ElectroMagnetic Field) meters such as the K2 meter
• A mini-Maglite that can be configured for entity interaction (check out the video linked later in this blog).
• Each member has her own Digital Voice Recorder (DVR) to capture EVPs (Electronic Voice Phenomena). 
• A handicam which takes nightvision footage. 
• A 4-camera Sansco security camera system, with infrared nightvision which allows to keep an eye on 4 rooms or 4 angles at the same time.
• A digital camera to take still photos.

We were waiting for Kristin, who had not carpooled with us, to arrive so that Beth could give us a tour of the house.  Kristin got a little lost on the back roads around the Hardaway, where GPS fails, but she found the house in the end.

When we were all set up, and Kristin had arrived, Beth gave us a detailed tour of the house.  You can see parts of that tour in the video below:

We did our first EVP session in the window seat bedroom, where the reports of the blinds moving and picture shaking had come from.  

We caught a couple weak EVPs in this room, and we'll share one with you here.

 Next was the "art deco" room.

We did not catch any EVPs or K2/flashlight activity in this room, but Erin did see a shadowy shape move by the door, and a floating black spot near Kristin just before her video camera malfunctioned.

We investigated the children's room next, with no results, then took a break in the screened patio to discuss our experiences so far.

Next we investigated the downstairs, again with no results.

Finally, we came to the basement, where things got very interesting very quickly.

We seemed to have interaction with the mini-Maglite, with an entity appearing to turn the flashlight on and off in response to our questions.  You can watch the entire thing in the video linked above!  

While we did not get many usable EVPs at the Hardaway House, we did capture the fascinating interaction with the flashlight in the basement.  BCPI feels, based on what we did find and on the eerie feelings in the upstairs rooms, that there may be a haunting at the Hardaway House.  We would love to go back and visit again, and try to collect more evidence to corroborate what we have found so far.