Show Me Paranormal Investigation ~ Pinehill Cemetery at Spook Hollow ~
Rolla/St. James
This investigation was performed at Pinehill Cemetery located on
Spook Hollow Road situated inbetween Rolla and St. James, MO.
June 7th ~ 2008
Case details:
We actually did this investigation on a whim the same night that we investigated
the Phelps Co. Historical Jail and Museum, so we arrived to the cemetery
fairly late.
History of Pinehill Cemetery and Spook Hollow Road:
Spook Hollow is a well known gravel road that can be accessed on one end
from Rolla and the other end which is in St. James in the Merimac Springs
area, where the Snelson Brinker Cabin is located, which is another site
we have investigated. Spook Hollow Rd. is known both for its atmospheric
creepiness as well as its once upon a time bizarre inhabitants. Eight
or so years ago, you could venture down Spook Hollow Rd. and just be freaked
out by the things you seen along the way, such as a creepy old dilpitating
farm house that the occupants would adorn the trees in the yard with baby
dolls hanged by nooses. This house is gone now, but the old ruin of a
school bus is still there, yet another oddity. The bus is set just off
the side of the road and heavily graffited with satanic symbols and other
negatives. People use to live in this bus, strange people who are now
gone. As you get nearer to the dead end cemetery area from the St. James
side, the trees on both sides of the road seem as if to lean their tops
towards one another like a canopy over the road, causing a blockage of
light and you can feel the temperature drop. The area was and still is
known for its satanic activity. Satanic covens would hold their ritualistic
celebrations and meetings in the woods down by the cemetery. In fact one
of our team members inadvertantly intruded upon them one night and had
the fright of her life. The cemetery was the 'scare and make out' site
of the local teens of St. James, and you cannot go to St. James and ask
about Spook Hollow Cemetery without young and old gathering around you
with a tale of a ghostly experience. The location is a legend in St. James.
Along with what seems to be a steady comfortable temperature year round,
the cemetery also maintains an unsettling environment with its old moss
coated headstones, many leaning this way and that. The grave markers are
not in any particular order, many are falling down, many are no longer
legible. Some are broken by time and the elements and possibly even vandals.
It is officially named Pinehill, but the locals prefer to call it Spook
Hollow Cemetery. One of the legends go that adult noises can be heard
from a small house on the road leading to the cemetery where sacrifices
once were made. This house is no longer there either. Other legends are
that visitors report seeing strange images and phantom vehicles that reportedly
disappear and reappear out of nowhere, flashlights stop working in the
cemetery and a figure has been reported running along the road near the
cemetery, and one group reported feeling lightheaded, dizzy and uneasy
and experienced a constant “swirling wind” in their ears while
in the cemetery. The whirling wind sound is common, but on the back side
of the cemetery there is a bluff which could account for winds or wind
sounds. The cemetery is surrounded by woods on all four sides once you
enter, like an enclosure, and one cannot help but feel like they are being
watched from the woods. It is a place where you can find entire families
buried in small rows, and what appears to be entire families of children
who died at a young age and close together to one another, which probably
stems from the plague that went through the small town springs area in
which many childrens lives were lost. A noticable element of just about
anyone who enters into the confines of the cemetery itself, is the temperature.
Even on the hottest summer day, it feels like air conditioning is on inside
the cemetery. It also seems to hold a comfortable warmth in the cold season.
The temperature is always different inside the confines of the cemetery
then it is outside its perimeters. Following are some general photos of
the cemetery at night. We have some very interesting ones taken during
the day which we will try to post at a later time.
The entry to the cemetery
There are graves scattered among the tall trees, and it is a fairly
large cemetery.
Team member Marsha reading a childs headstone
 
Some of the graves are piled stones such as you see here
  
This is a headstone that is situated in the far back corner of the cemetery,
marking the graves of a husband and wife whom both died in the same
year. The headstone fascinates many with its strange sentiment, one
that the husband had inscribed before his own death. It reads, "Remember
me as you pass by. As you are now so once was I. As I am now soon you
shall be. Therefore prepare to follow me." It is as if Micheal
Wolfe through his inscription in the stone is taunting you about your
own mortality. On the opposite side of the stone, which is inscribed
for his wife, it simply reads, "She is not dead, just sleeping."
Formal Investigation:
The team separated into three groups and went to different areas of
the cemetery with cameras, digital recorders and appropriate meters.
After an hour so the team came back together for a dead time evp session
under the large tree towards the front of the cemetery.
The Findings:
There was little activity in the cemetery this night as with the other
two locations we investigated, but it was predictably a calm night based
on the charts concerning atmospheric elements. Two of our team sensitives
both experienced what felt to be a playful child running about the cemetery.
Even non sensitive team members experienced the whisks of cold spots
that were also detected on the meters. The sensitives literally felt
the child size entity whipping around their legs and waists just as
like a child would be running in and out between persons, and would
wrap their arm around your waist and spin a circle around you and then
take off again in another direction to loop someone else, and this occurred
several times with one of the sensitives. The cold whisps of the entity
passing by quickly in this circular pattern would be what was picked
up by the others and the meters. Eventually this dissapated and the
team moved on from the location within the cemetery. There is a spirit
entity within this cemetery that is referred to as the 'Guardian', and
is an entity that the team has encountered in previous investigations.
There were no evps gained from the dead time session, nor any other
time in the investigation, but it was during the dead time session that
one team member snapped an intentional photo of another team member
standing a few feet away by near a grave. The team member did not appear
in the photo, and in her place was a image of what is believed by some
team members to be the 'Guardian'. The photographed team member also
experienced sensations when this ocurred. The team members immediately
tried to recreate this photo without success, subsequent photos showing
only the team member standing in the photo and nothing else.. There
were many orbs captured during the investigation, but aside from these
three evidential events, the cemetery seemed very quiet this particular
night.
The Evidence:
Mostly you are going to see orb photos until the last two photos. You
know what they say, if you have seen one orb you have seen them all.
That is unless you capture a unusal one. The orbs this night were pretty
standard orbs outside of one blue orb that we got. No further narration
is necessary until the last photos.
The below photos are what was captured instead of the team members photo
that was intended. Some feel it resembles a partially revealed face
that almost appears in motion. The team members joked that this entity
jumped right up in front of the team member just as the camera went
off. The first photo is the original and the second is a lighened version.
As always we welcome any input from our guests.
The Conclusion:
Our team members know this location is very active, some of us having
lived in the area and experienced previous paranormal activity outside
of investigations, as well as during prior investigations. One of our
team members have had children grow up in this area and dealt with the
typical teenage adventures to the cemetery. This is how she encountered
first hand the satanic activity that goes on at the cemetery. She began
checking the cemetery to make sure her teenagers were not there when
instructed to stay away, this due to the history of satanism in the
location and the surrounding area all the way down to Salem. Up until
that last night she went there on a Saturday 'full moon' night, the
satanic activty at the cemetery was just rumor to her. After this event,
she made it a point to warn the teens to stay away from the area, because
although ghosts cannot hurt you, intruded upon and angry humans can.
It is common for cemeterys to hold some paranormal activity, as it is
the final home for the dead. Pinehill not only fits this criteria of
a likely haunt for hundreds of years now, it has been an area where
doors could have, and most likely have, been opened to possible demonic
activity.
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