The Investigations
 6-6-2010

Below the bridge

The park below and surrounding Suicide Bridge in Pasadena, California is beautiful, full of walking and running  trails, streams, archery ranges, and as legend has it, ghosts. These are supposedly the ghosts of the 150+/- people who ended their lives by jumping off the bridge over the years.
 The park itself is sited in the Arroyo Seco ravine, and as a matter of fact, if you travel through the park far enough north-ish you will run into the Rose Bowl.
Under the bridge we've found very little evidence of anything besides traffic noise, homeless people living in the bushes,  sparse wildlife and fitness minded people running and walking, with dogs and without. Oh, and the occasional horse poop. Ghosts on the other hand must be busy doing things other than posing for pictures or attending EVP sessions.

Having said this, I must qualify it. We have only been there, under the bridge and in the park during daylight hours, and I suspect things pick up under the bridge in the "dead" of night.

 
 Top of the bridge.

 We'd never investigated the top side of the bridge before, mostly because we felt that noise from vehicles on the bridge, adjacent freeway and surrounding area would ruin the experience, but I'm happy to say that we're wrong about that.  The top side is fascinating, and more active than I would have previously believed. We explored the top side with Yussi Paranormal on June 6th 2010, joining them for this event. A word about Yussi's group: Great people, great mind set, and we were both pleased and honored to spend time with them. On that note, please know that on the bridge we'll only talk about what our group experienced, as this was Yussi Paranormal's gig, and we've not asked them what they experienced except in passing, nor are we privy to their gathered evidence. To see what they got, the best place to go is their MySpace page.
 What we experienced on the bridge itself (at night) was really hard to put into words, but I'll try. There were areas which were very heavy, the air or the general feeling of the areas themselves. What comes to mind is desperation, and very deep sadness, enough to make the air feel somewhat thick. The EMF meters were very  quiet, and in fact I can't think of a single time they did anything on the bridge. The Paranormal PX refused to talk (it was talking up a storm earlier in the day when we were below the bridge, but again, the EMF meters were mostly silent), but we did catch a couple of photos that were interesting on the bridge, as well as a couple of EVPs.
The weird stuff.
One of us did get the sense of a lady walking the convex side of the bridge, the north side heading west. She was in a tattered dress which looked like it had once been a drape or sheet, (it had had tassels at one time?) a white knit sweater, and barefoot. She was muttering "Who owns my life! Who runs it! It's mine. They do, that's who. I'll SHOW them. My patron. Ha!" This was an imprint, not an active, and I don't think she jumped off the bridge, at least not on the occasion the imprint was left.  The word "patron" was not the Spanish variant, but the English variant, like a patron of the arts.  The sense was that she had left this imprint after having had her employment as a housekeeper for a well-to-do family terminated, probably in the late 193o's. However, she was not JUST a housekeeper, perhaps she was an aspiring painter, musician, writer or the like, but other than that I don't know how the word "patron" plays into it.  I think  she was led on. "Work for me as a housekeeper while you hone your craft" comes to mind.

If anyone knows what this all means, have something to correct or something to add, let us know! team@claranormal.com. Just so you all know, nobody on our team is a real psychic, but most of us pick up on things that ordinary people do not, though they can, which are unexplainable and  / or irrational at times, so don't feel like you can't call us on it.  We want you to, because we ourselves take it with a huge grain of salt.

Ok, one person from Yussi's group did come up with something, so I guess I will bring up something that they did. This person, at about the same place we picked up the phantom lady, picked up on a person, probably an imprint, who had jumped off the bridge in about 1997 or so. she thought the name was John Lawson. To the best of my knowledge this person with Yussi's group had no prior knowledge, and neither we nor they confirmed this name, so as I wrote above, if you have anything to add, or know anything about this, write us at team@claranormal.com.

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5-12-2008

Suicide bridge is accessed via a trail from a park about a quarter mile down river from the bridge. You park your vehicle in the park's dirt lot and walk the rest of the way to the bridge. You'll find people exercising at the park, running, and walking their dogs on the trails that lead to the bridge at pretty much any given time during the day, which makes an investigation a little tricky because it's easy to pick up human noises there, but hard to know where these noises come from due to tall vegetation.
The investigation was started at about noon, and only ran a couple of hours because we all had to get back. We viewed it largely as a trial run for this location, a first phase, so we could get a feel for the logistics and baseline noise levels.
The EVP's we did throughout were all pretty much compromised  due to an inability to rule out human causes of noises.
Steve

-Justin-