Personal Experiences

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Sometimes we experience paranormal activity, but don't necessarily have the proof on video, audio, or photograph. However, they are still very real to us and we would like to share some with you.

If you have an experience you would like to share with us, please submit it to Riversideiowaparanormal@gmail.com.  If chosen we might share it on our website, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

•  Malvern Manor was no doubt one of the scariest places I’ve ever step foot inside. Don’t think I would ever go back to that place alone. In the daylight it seems to put on a mask of a once old home, but at night the real horrors of Malvern come out from the woodworks. Malvern crawls with shadows. In every room the feeling of eyes beaming upon you is permanent. The stench of former patients still lingering in many rooms. Malvern isn’t a good place. My moment of most fear was being in one of the patients rooms. I was to stare into the mirror until the patient was to show herself.  I watched my face take new shape as the patient shadowed over my left side. As I stood for what felt like ages, I watched my face blacken. I felt as if I was watching a feed of myself but with a delay. My reflection in the mirror never copied my movements or mouth formations when talking to the rest of the group behind me. I simply wasn’t seeing my reflection in that mirror. That was someone, or something else.  - Mason  Iowa Jr. Crew

• My most memorable paranormal experience was on Halloween night at the Malvern Manor.  We started out walking through the location before the investigation began and stopped in Gracie's room.  Michelle immediately picked up on her presence when we walked into her room.  She saw Gracie's glasses on a shelf and picked them up which she felt a strong energy from them.  Michelle asked if anyone wants to feel this energy so I volunteered.  As soon as the glasses where placed in my hands I started getting dizzy.  The longer I held on the glasses the dizziness was getting more intense.  I eventually had to let go of the glasses because it got so intense I could barely stand on my own and had to be helped over to a bed so I could sit down.  - Jim K.

• A small group of investigators heard loud screams, got scratched and felt their clothes being tugged during an investigation at Edinburgh Manor near Marion, Iowa.

• Investigators experienced hair being tugged, scratches, pushing and heard whispers close to their ears at Ashmore Estates.

• Investigators had their hand held by an unseen child, one was hit hard enough to be knocked to their knees, they heard voices an laughter in the basement at the Villisca Ax Murder house.

• A group of investigators at Edinburgh Manor were in a room where a rape had happened.  One of the investigators laid in the bed, while another (a medium) stood at the foot of the bed.  The medium could see the spirits reliving the rape, while another watched the door.  The investigator in the bed felt like she was being held down to the bed.  What the investigator in the bed was feeling matched what the medium was seeing.

• While in the basement at the McInteer Villa, a pair of investigators were doing the Ganzfield Experiment.  One investigator was seeing bodies of water, while the other felt like she was being drowned.  Neither of the investigators could hear or see the other one.  The experiment had to be stopped because the investigator who felt like she was being drowned, passed out because she was holding her breath.

• One investigator was doing a live episode of the Warren Files, they were  talking about different topics and the investigator had just lost his brother.   He  didn’t know that the viewers saw an orb around him. He was talking about just having lost his brother. It was a great comforting experience to know he was around protecting him. 

• A group of investigators was at the McInteer Villa in the doll room.   They were communicating with a spirit in her early 20's.  One of the investigators felt very emotionally connected to her.  The investigator could feel how frightened and timid the spirit was to tell her story.  At one point the investigator  couldn't physically open her mouth and felt like this was the spirit  telling her she was silenced all her life.  The investigator had to ask the spirit to leave her alone so she could emotionally disconnect and feel like herself again.  Every time this investigator goes back to the McInteer Villa, she goes into the doll room to check on the spirit.  Occasionally she comes back and other times, typically when it's dark, she stays away.

• A group of investigators at a bed and breakfast in Indiana were in the basement.  One investigator who is a medium picked up on a small child.  The investigator asked the child to hold the hand of a fellow investigator, who then felt the child grab his hand.

• Investigators heard a baby crying and young children running up and down stairs, also sounds of war, such as gunfire, marching feet, and the smell of gun powder at Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana.
• In 2017, I went to New Orleans with my family. I decided to visit the Voodoo Queen’s grave in the cemetery. After that, I got back to the hotel, and somehow I got sick with just a fever for two days. I have no idea what caused my suffering until I did some research. I found out about the history behind where I had investigated a site where many had perished from Yellow Fever. There had many people who had yellow fever. I think I was physically feeling the echoes from that. 
• An investigator looked at a small shed full of old tools and materials (believed to be a janitor’s room).  It was pitch dark inside of door but it was broad day.  He could only see black.  He took one step to the door.  He felt  enormous amount of ants crawling all over my entire body and jumped back out trying swipe them off my body, it was then he realized there was nothing on him!  He looked at the door and felt it back away and left it alone.
• One night I was in my bed sleeping I had a dream I couldn’t feel my own body then I saw my own body laying on bed still I’m like what’s going on? I realized I was pulled out by a spirit and took me a tour all over my grandpa’s yard and schoolhouse floating over it I looked down then looked left I saw a long white hair with a old dress holding my hand I remember in background it’s purplish, white and black sky is purple I saw sun is round and white it was dim not so bright like a regular sun also it not feeling heat from it. I see ground it was somewhat black and purple mixed also see white shapes I believe that is spirits roaming around on ground not one. It’s many. We floated around and go back where I was I could see my trailer roof I look down I see me there is no roof I’m amusing that in spirit world that they could see through walls so white haired start released my hand I could feel the weight is pulling down that heavy I fell right through roof to my body back and it hit me so hard I actually bounced off my bed and woke up after that I still remember it very vividly.