The TAPS team heads to the Slater Mill in Pawtucket, RI. Apparently this is a hot spot for school field trips and our TAPS leaders Jason & Grant had gone there when they were but wee lads in school. Now they are back for a different kind of field trip. Slater Mill was built in 1793 and was the first successful water driven mill. The mill employed children to work on the machines because they were small enough to crawl in to make repairs. Because of this practice, children were injured and killed. Some of the reports here include machines operating on their own, feelings of being watched, full body apparitions and assorted sounds.
J & G have the best experience of the night. They start out in the water wheel room where they debunk the water wheel operating on it's own by seeing that when the river level rises, it comes into a door which is supposed to keep the water out but instead diverts the water into the wheel causing it to turn. They decide to do EVP work and use the K2 meter. They actually start a conversation with a spirit. By asking yes & no questions (and getting the spirit to light up the K2 meter) they find out they are speaking with a 9 year old boy who works in the mill and lives nearby. The temperature drops 8 degrees while they are talking to the boy.
J & G then go into another part of the mill only to discover the boy has followed them. Jason asks if he is lonely and gets a yes reply so Jason invites him to come home with him to his 5 kids. Jason then says he better text the wife to expect a guest.
After discussing whether or not Tango is growing a goatee, Steve and Tango get to work analyzing the tapes. They find audio of the boy shouting hello in response to Grant asking him to yell really loud. They also hear him saying his name as Edward or Edgar. That was a pretty good show and we find out later that Jason is not experiencing any difference at home after inviting Edward/Edgar home. Then again, he has 5 kids, who could tell?
The next stop is the Pettibone Tavern in Simsbury, CT. Built in 1780 there are reports of full body apparitions and a legend that a woman named Abigail was beheaded by her husband after he caught her cheating on him. Let that be a lesson ladies, don't get caught! J & G go into the ladies room, the scene of the supposed beheading and don't experience anything except a toilet looking like it has wings.
Kris & Tango, also coming up empty, get bored and decide to check out an old phone booth and get stuck inside.
After doing some research, it was found that no one had been murdered in the house and that no one named Abigail had ever lived there. It seems the tavern may have been looking for some publicity. Double D
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