We were hoping to find a scientific explanation for the uneasy feelings along the backside of the mound. Well, that didn’t work out the way we planned; we actually left with more questions than we started out with. Let me explain.

We arrived as the sun was setting and started to walk towards the west side of the burial mound. I was getting a base EMF reading of 0.0 to 0.3. We immediately checked the electrical box and found EMF readings as high as 35.0 within 12 inches of the box, but at five feet away, the EMF returned to the base reading.

Next we decided to follow the trail behind the mound. As we passed through the trees in the image below an uneasy feeling began to grow. We came to a spot where the hair on my arms started to tingle and the hair on my neck stood on end. Luna mentioned she was also having the same feeling, without any prompting from me.

The EMF meter stayed at the base reading as Luna snapped a few pictures, including this one:

Obviously, there is a bug in the picture, but we are not sure exactly what the blue light could be. Just to clarify, this picture was taken facing the back of the burial mound, which is 15 feet high or so with no lights. For now, we’re going to refer to this as an anomaly.

Here is a close up:

Next we continued to move south behind the mound and we noticed a raised area of earth that runs from the mound under the fence to the rail yard. I don’t know if this is part of the mound or just dirt from the construction of the railroad. There is no way to be sure since the railroad has been in that location for nearly 100 years.

As we moved along the south side and headed back east, the uneasy feeling seemed to fade. We decided to take a look at the steps going up to the top of the mound. As we approached the steps, the feeling returned and was even stronger. We stopped to do a little EVP work but, like before, audio at this location is going to be difficult at best. Between trains, radios from the rail yard and people talking it will be nearly impossible to get uncontaminated audio.

Luna was about six to eight feet in front of me as we went up the steps of the mound when she suddenly stopped and turned around. She looked at me, had a strange expression on her face and said that someone or something had just touched her on the shoulder. Later, she described it as having been two taps. A quick examination of the area turned up no likely suspects for the tap- no low hanging tree branches, and I was too far away. Here is the audio clip from this point in the investigation.

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About this time a couple of cars showed up and we decided to call it a night and head home to review what we had caught. We ended up with one photo anomaly, one personal experience and we managed to disprove our theory that the uneasy feeling in certain areas was caused by high EMF coming from the rail yard.

It occurred to us that we are ghost hunting at a place that- to the best of our knowledge- has no history of paranormal activity, but we believe that between the Ais burial mound and the Fort, the possibility exists. Remarkably little information is readily available about the fort, its activities or the men that served there from 1838-1842. For this reason, I sent a request to the Library of Congress for diagrams and layouts of the fort, military rolls, service records and death records for Fort Pierce. At one point twelve to fourteen hundred soldiers were stationed here. There is no record of where the dead were buried-and we find it hard to believe that in four years, not a single soldier died of disease, old age, accident, animal encounter or Indian engagement.

The Library of Congress has redirected me to the National Archives, so we will keep you posted.