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..The
dead walk at night in the Restland cemetery. One
of the most notorious
specters is "Walkin'
Rosie," assumed to be a ..POSTED ONLINE ANONYMOUSLY: 4/28/2008 Comment: Our Team have just recently left an investigation at this location on 4/20/2008. We could not find any memorial or statue of this little girl. We did however come across a hedged in enclosure that had some really unexplainable things happen to us. One investigator had suddenly felt a sharp stabbing pain in his lower abdomen and suddenly left as soon as he exited the hedge.Two other investigators had the feeling that they were not welcome to enter, while one experienced a cold sensation on one part of her body and the to her felt like there were children running in circles playing ring around the rosie. |
young
woman at who
is buried in the cemetery. She is said to occasionally stroll
the grounds of the cemetery at night at
..Joyce's Thoughts on Restland Cemetery (4/2008): Situated on 25 acres near Monroeville, PA is Restland Cemetery, a place best known for a spirit named “Walking Rosie”, although she is by no means the only ghost in residence. Rosie’s origins are a mystery, most of the stories you find online echo popular urban legends and are therefore, most likely, erroneous. Even though her origins aren’t verified, sightings of Rosie are numerous and ongoing. Other sightings over the years have involved Revolutionary War Soldiers who died in a nearby battle to spirits of those killed in a mine explosion on or adjacent to where the cemetery now stands.
..Before the land became a cemetery, it was the site of a single family farm. The farm house burned to the foundations, and a family member recounted to one of Restland’s current groundskeepers how he saw the silhouette of a boy in the flames. The foundation itself survived the fire and was used for the administration building. Restland began interments in the late 1930’s and in the 90’s added a pet cemetery. Although this is a small section, the headstones and momentos left echo deep love and deep sadness, a poignant addition to a landscape of loss. There’s no shortage of activity at Restland, so on April 12th, we headed out with high hopes. Accompanying the group was Joe, a representative from the paranormal website: www.Visionsmagazineonline.com. Although Joe professed himself a skeptic, he kept an open mind and his camera at the ready...Upon arrival, we split into two teams to allow us to cover more of the huge graveyard. Early in the evening, we met members of Steel City Investigators of the Paranormal, a new local group also visiting Restland on a hunt that night. They’re nice people, we hope to see more of them in the future and wish them luck with their investigations. Although we’re still going over all the physical evidence collected (possible EVPs, reviewing all the images caught on various cameras), a number of us had personal experiences, including:
1. Several of us spotted a shadow person at the nearby tree line
following
us. The presence never seemed menacing, just curious. Oddly enough,
I once spotted him darting from tree to tree, almost like a child
hiding. The entity followed us until we were far clear of the
tree line. |
2. A
number of us entered an area with a hedge fence surrounding it.
This is a
family plot, and the air inside that area feels quite charged.
One of our members reported a small “shove” when
no one was nearby. Again, not something with evil intent, more
of
a way of a presence making itself known. |
3. Another
person in the group caught sight of a man and woman standing
inside the
hedge area. The woman was dressed suggesting a 1910-1920 era
look. The man was dressed in what looked like similar period
clothes,
but seemed more plain. Unfortunately, the apparitions disappeared
quickly, as they so often do, and we didn’t get a thorough
look. The second group attempted to collect some EVPs in the
hedge area, but every time they asked a question the wind picked
up considerably
and made recording a challenge. |
| 4. One of our group was walking along a path with a partner when they were hit in the head with a small rock or twig. There was no one within a distance that could’ve thrown anything at her, and no nearby trees or shrubs. This wasn’t a malicious thing, she reported feeling it was more of an “attention getter” event! |
| 5. Our investigation ended in the pet cemetery area, where I got caught up reading the stones and suddenly looked up and found myself alone. I could hear the group, but I’d let them get out of my sight. As I stood up and began walking to them, I distinctly heard footsteps behind me, but when I turned there was, of course, no one there. This is one of Rosie’s favorite tricks, I wonder if that was her send off for the evening! |
All in all, we felt it was an interesting night and we did come away with many personal experiences. Hopefully, when we have finished analyzing the physical evidence, we’ll have some great photos or EVPs to share. SOURCE: pittsburghparanormalsociety / Joyce & Shawn
..Joe's Thoughts on Restland Cemetery (4/2008) I received an early evening call from PITTSBURGH PARANORMAL SOCIETY DIRECTOR Shawn Kelly around 7:30pm on April 12th, 2008, asking me if I would like to (tag along) with his paranormal investigative team at a cemetery that was, as I learned, located only about 5 minutes from our Monroeville, PA office. The very first question I asked was if we had permission to be on the grounds - and his answer was YES. I agreed that this would be a good opportunity to see how they work, and just go along to document just that - I was NOT there as a Paranormal Researcher. I quickly throw batteries for the cameras on the chargers, check the gear and get ready to go out into the 50 degree night.
..At about 9:00pm I met Shawn, his team and the other investigators (one of whom was named Joyce - seems she and her friend Pam can "feel spirits") and followed in caravan to the Restland Cemetery location, arriving at about 9:20pm. Teams were chosen, I tag along with Shawn's group and Joyce & Pam... just following their lead walking along the path through the entire cemetery, scratching my head as to how the Hell I'm going to be able to get ANY shots to document this - even with NIGHTVISION on the camera (SONY 717) I wasn't holding my breath.
..At
times, people would just stop in their path to "sense
something - a presence
- trying to communicate". One area was an overgrown hillside
said to be the location of many deaths - a fire or accident from long
ago. The most active area for everyone seemed to be upon the Military
Graves. There is a huge plot area surrounded by a hedge line forming
a rectangle perimeter surrounding this plot. The investigators were
announcing that they w
ere "hearing
voices, seeing dark figures, being touched, and felt the presence of
many,
if not some... evil spirits".
..FRAME 274 and FRAME 276 show a first / next shot of this hedge enclosed plot location, standing at it's entrance break, photographed from the EXACT same spot (note the TREE LINE in both shots), shot two different ways, with some things I as a photographer for over 25 years find, as in my Professional Opinion.. a little unusual and not easy for me to photographically explain... we were surrounded by ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, as can be seen in the Arial View GOOGLE MAP of this EXACT AREA (to the right).
..Moving on back toward the entrance to the cemetery, Shawn gets a cell phone call from the other investigative team searching at the far side of the park - "They see Rosie" he states with a kind of I-just-missed-it in his voice. I'm really, really cold. I'm shivering... my hands are cramping up so damn bad that I am having trouble holding onto the camera, or even being able to feel the camera in my hands. I put the camera inside my jacket to keep it warm and to preserve the battery in the cold weather and to keep the camera lens clean (yep - that works), and we all, with haste, trek back to the second teams reported location. We are on top of a huge hill - they are in a depression far ahead and below us - maybe 100-150 yards. I am straining my near-sighted, tearing eyes at about 10:30 at night to see something - even watching my step became problematic. As we walk slowly, quietly creeping ahead... my eyes start to focus on a Christ Statue that was in the immediate area in front of us, now coming into focus. Was what the other team saw possibly the statue, an optical illusion due to the cold weather and water mist from a pond about 200 yards to the right of us, or Rosie? I just don't know, but....
..We
start to walk toward the pet
cemetery with both teams this time. As we are
leaving
the Christ statue behind us, we pass by a huge Oak tree. EVERYONE STOPS. "Did
you see
that?". Then someone else
states anxiously from behind me... "She's
right there, under the tree!!" I am only 30 feet away in
front of this tree... I raise the camera slowly - aiming the lens toward
the tree shooting into the
pitch black area,
seeing NOTHING in the viewfinder - just aim and shoot. I here from
Joyce beside me
say " Right there under the tree... She's
right in front of us..."
..FRAME 301 and FRAME 303 show the tree that everyone was stating Rosie was standing next to, darting in-out from behind it, playing with everyone perhaps. There is Nothing on the lens to cause any flairs, nobody passed in front of me, and I was standing as still as I could to get a sharp photograph. Something appears to be almost a cigarette-like smoke trail cutting across the frame, but... there is NOTHING to "BACKLIGHT" the smoke-like trail to make this photographically appear in the shot in the traditional photographic sense. This one caught my eye and was sent via e-mail to Shawn the next day. To use his words as a Paranormal Investigator: He said that he was very pleased and impressed, and not very surprised.
Visionsmagazineonline.com would like to Sincerely thank the PITTSBURGH PARANORMAL SOCIETY DIRECTOR Shawn Kelly for the invitation to cover their investigation, Joyce, and the rest of the teams assembled to make this article exist... I'm sure we will be seeing more Investigations from them soon...
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