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We are a paranormal investigation team for the international paranormal research community. Our name is "Cold Spot Paranormal Research", although most just call us "Cold Spot". Cold Spot was founded by paranormal investigator, Michelle McKay, on August 2, 2002. She has been investigating and researching paranormal activity for over 10 years. She is not the first paranormal investigator in the family -- her great-uncle, well respected UFOlogist Henry McKay, and former MUFON Director for Canada, investigated UFO phenomena for 42 years while he was alive. We offer free investigations at your home or place of business. To request a free investigation for your home or place of business click here. Or, to submit your true ghost story for our research click here. |
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Michelle McKay Director, Cold Spot Paranormal Research michelle_coldspot@yahoo.com  Michelle Mckay is the owner and founder of Cold Spot Paranormal Research. She has been investigating and researching paranormal activity for over 10 years. She is also the Senior Lead Paranormal Investigator for Cold Spot, and is our Paranormal Consultant to the media. She is not the first paranormal investigator in the family -- her great-uncle, well respected UFOlogist Henry McKay, and former MUFON Director for Canada, investigated UFO phenomena for 42 years while he was alive. Read about him here. Q) Are you a sceptic or a believer? "I consider myself to be a 'sceptical believer' in the sense that I do believe in the possibility of the existence of spirits, however, I often tend to take a more sceptical approach then most of the others on the team when looking over the evidence." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sef Senior Field Researcher  Sef has been on our team since Cold Spot began. He is an integral part of our team; is very focused on the task at hand, and is obsessed with science and wires. Q) Do you consider yourself to be a sceptic or a believer? "Believer. I know the truth is out there because of an encounter I experienced with a poltergeist at a friend's farm house." Q) What is your most memorable experience with Cold Spot? "When an unseen force squeezed my lung at Churchill Mansion in Nova Scotia." Q) What do you like most about working with Cold Spot? "Searching for absolute answers. And the team members." Sef's poltergeist story: "The year was 1983. One of my classmates invited me up to his farmhouse in Woodstock, Ontario. At this time of my life I didn't believe in ghosts. When we finally arrived, my friend took me on a tour of the house. One of the rooms he took me to was called the "parlour room". There was a small magazine table with an old television resting on it. After entering this room, the television seemingly turned itself on. I said to my friend that he must have turned it on. He replied that he hadn't. This parlour room also had an old phonograph in it. Directly behind this phonograph was a closed door. The strange thing about this door was that it seemed to go nowhere. I asked my friend about it, and his response was "that is where the ghost lives". Well I didn't believe in ghosts, so I didn't believe him -- or his story. He then led me to the upper part of the house and into his parents' room. He then told me that the man who built this house in the mid 1800's was killed in this very room. And that this man is the one who haunts the house. We then went back downstairs and went back into the parlour room to eat our lunch. When we entered, the television turned itself on again. "Holy sh*t!" I exclamied. As soon as the words came out of my mouth, there was a loud bang that emanated from the door behind the phonograph. My friend told me not to swear because the ghost "doesn't like it", and he said that this is what was causing the banging noise. Of course I didn't believe him, so I swore again. Sure enough there was another loud bang from the door. I was amused by this, and still didn't believe that the place was haunted, so I kept swearing. Every time that I swore, the door would bang and shake. We finished eating our lunch and decided to play a game of pool, still in the parlour room. We racked up the balls and started to play. It wasn't long after we started playing that the balls on the table started rolling along the table by themselves. The table was not slanted, and the balls were completely still just before this happened. They just suddenly started moving very quickly as if somebody was shooting them with the cue stick. They even followed lines of path that led them into the holes. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. They were behaving in the exact manner as if some unseen force decided they would have a game of pool. I accused my friend of rigging the table. He of course denied any wrong doing. That night we slept in the parlour room. It wasn't long before my friend was asleep. I myself wide awake, trying to make sense of the days activities. That is when I heard the door in the kitchen open then close. I then heard the dishes in the dish rack start to rattle. This went on for most of the night. I finally fell asleep early the next morning. Upon waking that morning and sitting down for breakfest, his grandmother asked if we let the dog out the night before. We hadn't let the dog out, and neither had anyone else. But the dog was outside when she got up. "It must have been the ghost again" she said. Later on that day we went back into the parlour room and I asked my friend if the old phonograph in there still worked. He said it did. Right away I started to look through the records in the base of the phonograph. I put one of the records on the turn table then placed the needle on the record. When the music started, the door behind the phonograph began to shake and bang violently. The record came to the end, and the door stopped. At this time I asked my friend if we could move the phonograph to see if we could open this mysterious door. He said we could, so we did. Once the phonograph was moved out of the way, we tried to open the door. This door could not be opened no matter what we tried. It just wouldn't open. We eventually gave up on trying to open the door. We moved the phonograph back to its original position in front of the door. We then put on another record. When it started playing, the door began to shake and bang as before. I searched the records again and put on a different record. The door again began to bang and shake, but this time the television also came on and the magazine table where the television sits on popped open. Then, the back of the magazine table which was nailed to the back, flew off hitting the wall behind it. I was so scared this time that I asked my friend if we could go out for a while. That night when we went to bed. Again I heard the door in the kitchen open, then close. The dishes in the dish rack began to rattle again, which went on for most of the night. Again in the morning his grandmother asked if we let the dog out the night before. Again we said we hadn't. After breakfast we decided to go for a tractor ride before leaving to go back home. While riding the tractor through the field, I heard someone whistling. I asked my friend if it was him. He told me it wasn't him. I saw his face as he was telling me this, yet meanwhile I still heard the whistling. At this point I realized that the tune being whistled was a song from one of the records that we previously played from the phonograph. That was the end of my weekend there. But ever since then whenever someone tells me a place is haunted, I don't dismiss them as easily as I did then." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Field Researcher  Matt owns a franchise business. He has a keen sense in knowing when something is amiss.... The rest of his profile will be coming shortly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sarah Field Researcher  Sarah is a dedicated field researcher for Cold Spot and helps take measurements for the investigation unit. The "ghosts" seem to always like to pick on her, but somehow she pulls herself together to complete her missions... Q) Do you consider yourself to be a sceptic or a believer? "I am definately a believer." Q) What do you like most about working with Cold Spot? "The team. They're all awesome people." Q) What is your most memorable encounter? "The time I heard the voice in the bathroom at the Beild House." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Field Researcher  Steven has conducted undercover infiltrations for six years as lead investigator with the police. As a result he has extensive experience with audio survellience. He is presently a technical specialist for IBM. He always shows up, and will drive through any weather. Oh, did we mention he is also fluent in French? Q) Do you consider yourself to be a sceptic or a believer? "Actually, I consider myself to be a little bit of both. While I am certainly a believer based on the paranormal experiences I have had in the past, I still need to experience something for myself to believe it. Which is why I continue to investigate new cases on a regular basis. " Q) What is your most memorable encounter? "My most memorable encounter was when I was in my late teens. I was driving home from an evening out with some friends and I passed through a particular stretch of roadway with high overhanging trees. In the distance I became fixated visually on a dark form. As I got closer, I found that I was unable to look away from it. It was a female form, in a long white flowing dress, but without any form of face, just a dark void. I was mesmerized as I continued to approach the form, and suddenly realized that it was crossing the street out in front of my car (with me going well over 60km/h!) Suddenly, my attention snapped back to the roadway and I realized that I was going to hit this person. I closed my eyes, let out a huge scream, and slammed both feet on the brake pedal. When I came to a stop (not having heard a thud) I got out and looked everywhere around the car, but was unable to find any trace of the form. All that was left of the encounter were skid marks on the roadway." |
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