Public Investigations

Public Investigations

Public Areas of investigations are for us, very educational. We generally get to learn the history of the area. Most public areas also have some sort of historical significance attached to it. The downside of doing an investigation in a public area are somewhat the same as a cemetery investigation. There are sometimes time constraints, and as always respect others using the area, and any laws that are enforced for the area. You may be able though administrators of the area to set aside a scheduled investigation time..

*Research Phase

In this portion of the investigation, we try and conduct interviews with the people associated with area. They may range from the people who have encountered anomolies first hand, to people that may know the history of area and have a story to tell about it. With this information we try and gather information, as experiences they've had, names, and dates, that will give us a background of what we may or may not encounter.

*Investigation Phase

We run investigations the same as all other investigations, following our group protocol. Each team will have at least 2 members for safety reasons

*Analysis Phase

This phase we also run the same as any other investigations

*Review Phase

This phase may differ slightly because a lot of times the investigation was purely set up by our group, for our group. On the occasion were an administrator of the area wanted us to do the investigation, then we will review all the evidence gathered with the administrater as any other type of investigation.

If you have any questions pertaining to your particular case, or would like to request an investigation, please feel free to contact us at

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Another resource we use are the local historical societies. They're a valuable source of documented histories of the area, and what I've found pretty accurate. There may be a small fee for doing this but it is well worth it.

Links to Area Historical Societies by states
Minnesota---------http://www.mnhs.org/places/sites/index.html

Iowa-----------------http://www.iowahistory.org/

South Dakota----http://www.sdhistory.org/

Wisconsin---------http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

The county recorders' office is another source of information. They can provide names of previous owners of area, date a building was erected. among other information. Here also, there is a small fee if you want the information copied.

The Internet is also one of the tools we will use. We use this such as in geneology searches to cross referencing information previously acquired. There generally is a lot of information out on the web

Some of our Investigations to Date

Mayflower Park
Belmont County Park
Red Rock Ridge
"Mr. Boogity's Farm"

Great Bend School House
Highwater Township School house
Sibley State Park
Lake Shetek State Park

Private Family Homesite and Cemetery

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*NOTE*

We as a team, feel that disturbing or vandalizing any site we are on, is not only wrong but a violation of the law. I stress the point, that vandalizing sites such as cemetery headstones ect..only helps in erasing a portion of history and records of the past. We try and do our part by not littering,cleaning up our and others trash, ect when circumstances allow us to do so.

For those that are into exploring such sites, please try and leave things as you had found them.

Historical Societies sometimes need volunteers in help restoring such places. If you are interested in volunteering, contact your local Historical Society. Thank you

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