Caples House Ghost

The Caples House Museum occupies a whole city block in the historic locality of Columbia City, Oregon. Here, near the beautiful Columbia River and with a view of Mount St. Helens, Dr. Charles Green Caples built his two-story home in 1870. The house was occupied continuously by the Caples family until 1959. The Museum consists of a parlor, the doctor's office, an old-fashioned kitchen and three bedrooms upstairs, all furnished with antique furniture and fittings, many of them originally owned by the Caples family.

We were originally approached about an incident that took place in one of the upstairs bedroom. It seems that when the Caretaker did a routine check of the roped off bedroom, she discovered indentations in the bed that resembles impressions left if two people had sat on the edge of the bed. We arrived with our equipment and started a routine investigation of the downstairs using our EMF meter looking for energy anomalies. We discovered an energy anomaly in the corner where Dr. Caples had his medical office.

After completing downstairs we walked up the stairs to the hallway leading to the bedrooms. We examined the bed with the indentations and took photographs, but the impressions in the bed is difficult to see. Sharon walked down to one of the bedrooms and photographed the room from the doorway. That photograph is displayed above. The second image is a close up of the mirror where a face of a lady with an old-fashion hairdo can be seen. The purple haze in the first photograph is ectoplasm. Unlike other ectoplasm images we have posted at this site, the haze is not white, but a transparent purple with white along the edges. This purple transparent haze is not new to us because we have found this same color haze in other photographs taken during other investigations.

We have done darkroom developing on both film and prints and know that this purple haze is not a chemical flaw on the negative. Its characteristics are totally different from the typical flaws that show up in developing. A chemical stain will completely block out the image behind it, not become transparent. If you will examine some of the other images at our site, you will notice that the color purple often shows up. Why? Perhaps because it is near the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum. Food for thought.

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