The video below shows the anomaly we caught in the gym during our first visit.
Below is the only video of the 'push' that one of our investigators experienced. After she says "I just about fell" there's a voice. We can't tell what it's saying.
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The History: In 1919, C.G. Geddes agreed to donate 6 acres of his farm to merge the area’s one-room country schoolhouses. The school boards voted and created the Washington Township Consolidated School District.
The cornerstone inscribed with the year 1921 was set and the dedication ceremony commenced on April 1 1922. The schoolhouse filled with citizens from miles around. An orchestra played on stage in the auditorium as a banquet served the hundreds in attendance. On May 3 2002, once again, the band played, a banquet served the hundreds in attendance and sadly, the 80-year-old schoolhouse closed its doors for the last time. The old school sat empty until December of 2006 when Jim and Nancy Oliver purchased the building. It became their home with hopes of slowly restoring the school to its original appearance and layout. The Claims: Voices, shadow people and orbs are common. Nancy became unsteady on the stairs when a hand on her shoulder helped her catch her balance. She turned to thank her husband for the help only to find no one there. The dark distinct outline of a small boy was sighted on the well-lit stairway descending into the gymnasium. The boy appeared to be about 3' 6" tall with one foot on each step and holding onto the handrail. The figure stayed motionless for almost 2 seconds before disappearing . Several paranormal groups have posted videos and recordings to the official Farrar School site showing what they believe to be paranormal activity. Our Findings: We first investigated Farrar in July, 2016. It was warm – daytime high was 84° with a nighttime low of 57°. Dew point 63° with no precipitation, winds were ESE at 5mph. While we were setting up our safe room one of our investigators heard the sound of folks talking in the hallway – no one was there. Amazingly when we returned in November a different investigator experienced the same thing during set-up. We heard a lot of ‘thumps’ and ‘bumps’ in the hallways but nothing we considered out of the ordinary for an old building. We did catch a great piece of video evidence. Two of our investigators were in the gym in total darkness. The night vision camera caught ‘something’ that seems to come into the gym, look around, leave and then return. We have it posted here for you to see. Two other investigators were watching this anomaly from command central and called to the investigators in the gym. They saw nothing at the time and ruled out interior and exterior light sources. We returned in November, 2016 to further investigate the anomaly we captured in the gym. The weather conditions were fairly similar – daytime high of 74°, nighttime low of 40°. Dew point 45°, no precipitation and winds SSW at 5mph. Again there was lots of hallway noise that we attributed to the building being old and vacant. Most of the activity during this trip seemed to be centered on the third floor. We decided to visit Mr. Hawkins 6th grade classroom on the third floor. While we were in there we used the dowsing rods with no real success. However we did capture a female voice. During our time in the 3rd floor auditorium we heard movement, odd noises and voices. At one point we clearly heard a door slam in the hallway. Toward the end of our investigation activity did ramp up leading to one of our investigators being physically pushed up the stairs leading to the third floor. While we did not catch it on video camera we did catch something on audio from the camera Marcia had in her hand at the time. This road trip to Maxwell Iowa to visit the Farrar School house left us with more questions than answers. Who’s really haunting this Midwest school house? We plan to return again soon with the hope of getting some answers… |