Dolan Family House Investigation, Fall Branch, TN

SSPRS conducted this investigation in 2006.

According to legend, a home in Fall Branch, TN, derelict and abandoned, was once the home of a very wealthy man during the Civil War era, and the house looked it too, despite years of neglect, one could see that it had once been stately, elegant.

The house was unique in design, with round entrances and octogon-like rooms and each room had a door into the other. The house was laden with artifacts, which we hoped to come back some day and salvage to return to the local historical society for preservation.

Moving through the house, we kept going over the legend of the original owners, the Dolan family.
The story goes that Mr. Dolan one evening lost his mind. Why is not known.

He methodically murdered his family, starting with his daughter, in the basement, hiding her remains. Then moved on to his wife and finally shot himself in the upstairs rooms. His wife and his bodies were near each other, but his daughter's was to never be recovered.

For years, families tried to inhabit the home, failing, all leaving shortly after moving in.
The last occupant, according to rumor, was an elderly lady in the 1950s. She would tell wild stories about the house, about shadows and apparitions, and screams and a heavy violent entity that would stalk her, terrifying her to the point that she would sleep with her eyes open.

Finally, she could take no more and left the house, after which it stood empty and fell into disrepair.
It became a hotspot for satanic rituals and teenagers drinking and drugs.

An SSPRS Agent brought the house to our attention and we investigated after the agent and his friend had some very unnerving experiences there, including an episode of possession where he turned and attacked the Agent, not remembering later after questioning.

SSPRS investigated one evening and took many photos, of which only one turned out anything but orbs. You can see it below. We have dubbed it the Plasma Lights. There was no electricity in the house, no running water, nothing that could have made those lights. The photo was taken in total darkness with no flash and no light sources.

As for measurements, we found the nail and area that the father supposedly hung his daughter from. The EMF fields in that area were quite high, reaching over 2.0 mG and rising and falling, never steady.

We also found a hole in the floor that looked directly over the basement area where the girls body supposedly still lies, locked in its tomb of mud and stone, trapped due to the massive flooding in that area.

We attempted an EVP session over that spot with provacation because nothing outright had happened up to that point.

What happened next we have not been able to explain to this day and it is truely one of the most eerie experiences I have ever dealt with.

While standing over the hole, after speaking to the little girl's spirit, asking her to show herself, we all felt a shaft of air explode out of the basement and stay in place directly in the center of the hole, never moving but bitterly cold.

At that moment, EMF meter went absolutely crazy, flying wildly from zero to maxing out, beeping and flashing. We felt a presence in the room with us, and while we cannot provide any objective proof for said presence, we felt it was there, tormented and angry.

We captured nothing on camera try as we might, but the friend-turned agent began to sway on the spot, like a snake who's being charmed. He changed then and there, and was no longer himself, mumbling in a low gravelly voice.

The experience was wild enough up until the point we felt something else in the house. Something cruel and evil. We felt what we believe to be the father spirit in the house then, for the first time, and the room grew ice cold, measured at 31 degrees Farenhiet and dropping low enough for us to see our breaths.

My sister also accompanied us to the investigation and she was holding the digital recorder at which point she asked " What is making you so angry?"
The EVP response is quite clear. " It's YOU!"

We left the house shortly thereafter, our tapes full and batteries dead. We had every intention of returning again.

Unfortunately, in 2007, a bunch of teenagers ( we suspect) gathered and torched the house, burning it to the ground.

The loss of a paranormal site is terrible enough, but with the destruction of the house we also lost the chance to perhaps make a crack at recovering the poor girls body and giving a proper burial.

The fire is overshadowed by the ironic fact that weeks before the burning, the house was designated a new historic landmark and was to be restored and turned into a museum.

It never saw the chance and we at SSPRS at left with questions.

Questions that will never be answered.