Rhode Island: Boys’ Reformatory

Rhode Island Paranormal Research Team, Scituate, Rhode Island

The group collected some very eerie EVPs (electronic voice phenomena) at Saconawa Prison, which used to be a boys’ reformatory. “We had a recording of Ray and Barbara setting up the equipment, but in the background, you can hear someone saying, ‘Get out!’ in a very ominous voice,” Andrew Lairdsaid.

At other locations, the groups have recorded similar threatening EVPs, such as “Get out of my house!” and “Get out and leave us alone!” Some of the language on the group’s EVPs is so abusive that, in Andrew’s words, it “would make a truck driver blush.” The hostile tone of some of these EVPs can be traced, Andrew believes, to the fact that some of these spirits simply do not want to be bothered.

Not all of the team’s EVPs are angry, however. “We recorded one in the Paine House that is a little girl’s voice,” Andrew says. “Her name was Sarah. She told us to look in a particular place. We did, and we found a ring.”