CAPT had acquired a few new members to the team in the month of July and decided to set up a few training investigations for them to “get their feet wet” with. The first site for this training was at the Carrollton Cemetery in Carroll County Iowa, the entire team was present for this training including the new members.

Carrollton Cemetery was founded in the 1850's and is the oldest cemetery in this area. Carrollton is also the original site of what is now Carroll Iowa before the town proper was moved back in the late 1880's. Not much of the original town is left except for the school house and the cemetery. The tales of the school are that a young boy died on the second floor of the school and then went out the window though the tales change somewhat, they are fairly consistent with the window and falling when told. The cemetery tales are known as this, a mist is to form, greenish in color, when you enter the gates and there are 2 little girls said to be standing and dancing at the gates as well. There was rumored to be a convent near the cemetery at one time that burned down killing the nuns inside and a feeling of being followed is common inside the cemetery as well. In the north eastern corner a “bad” thing is said to guard that area and red lights show up, this thing is rumored to chase you out if you walk under the trees in this area.

The team met at the cemetery at approx 2200 hours to start the investigation. CAPT brought minimal equipment due to this being a training investigation but this turned into a real investigation for some of our members soon enough.

CAPT members started by showing our new member how to conduct an EVP session and how to use instinct for picture taking. The entire cemetery was gone over with our new member with audio, photographic and video evidence with the audio and photographic evidence not showing anything unusual and audio still being gone through. Some personal experiences were obtained and are listed below. All in all this was a good training effort by CAPT for our newest member Chris showing him how a training session can turn into a real investigation without warning and how to be ready for anything at all times while in the field.

The following are the reported personal experiences from this site:

Niki: Saw a mist on the ground near the north east corner of the cemetery. She heard 2 little girls voices and laughing and had a strange feeling near the north east corner.

Lisa: She heard 2 little girls voices and laughing. Lisa also felt she was being lead around the cemetery by something. She felt drawn to a few certain places and heard a voice telling her to visit these places.

CAPT concluded the investigation and set out about the task of evidence review. EVP's will be posted below along with pictures of the site.