This is an experience we would recommend to everyone.  Simply the opportunity to explore this historical treasure is worth the admission alone, but there are haunts and more haunts to investigate.  We came away with a single EVP, but it’s a “keeper”.

During the August 18-19, 2007 investigation at Ft Mifflin, PA, Mark and John were in the room of  Elizabeth Pratt- often referred to as the "screaming lady" - in the Officers' Barracks at approximately 12:42 AM.  A digital voice recorder had been set up, and John remained in the front room while Mark took EMF readings throughout the front and back rooms.   About 7 minutes into this recording, Mark returns to the front room from the back and as soon as he crossed the threshold he complained of feeling a very sudden ache between his shoulder blades, as if he had finished a punishing workout.  When he mentions this to me, I vocally marked the digital recording by saying "Check back 30 seconds ago from this point- Mark may have had an encounter".

We took a break at around 4 AM to review some of the files.  When we got to the one from Elizabeth's room we checked the timing of the encounter, and my marking statement was said at around 8:15 into the recording.  Checking back starting at 7:30, a sound can be heard on the recording, which is Mark's first footstep back into the front room - the point at which he felt the pain.  Immediately following that on the recording we detect a soft, light voice saying "Help".  This is at 7:39, or nearly exactly  30 seconds before the point where I mentioned "check back".

Lorriane Irby from the Ft. Mifflin office discussed this with us the next morning, and relayed to us information she did not tell us the night before.  Namely that Elizabeth Pratt is historically said to have hanged herself, but was revealed by a medium's visit to the fort the previous year, as most likely having been murdered in that room.  Lorraine asked what we believe we captured as an EVP, and we said the word "Help".  She nodded and said that that had been heard before, most notably by John Zaffis - who Lorraine said obtained one of his best EVPs from that room on his investigation.

Our EVP recording is attached.

The entire recording was examined in AUDACITY ( audio software ) and no similar sound to this EVP is heard.  It is distinctly different than the voices of John or Mark or any of the surrounding noises captured on that or other recordings we've reviewed so far.