The Z House- Southaven Private Residence

Private Residence Southaven #1003

by Angela L- MSSPI

On May 17, 2010 MSSPI investigated a residential home in Southaven Ms. The homeowner had reported seeing a dark shadow figure moving across his hallway from room to room on numerous occasions. He also reported the strange smell of coffee in the master bedroom and bathroom areas at certain times during the day. There were also reports of the feeling of being watched. Disembodied voices heard by himself and several guests to his home. And the sound of cabinet doors slamming shut. His lady friend reported having her hair and arm touched by an unseen entity. There were also reports of shuffling noises, footsteps and doors opening by themselves. The feeling of someone standing behind him when no one was there was also reported by the homeowner and an outside visitor. There was also a report by the homeowners friend that he had stayed over one night and while sleeping on the couch, something poked him hard in the stomach. The homeowner is new to the home having only recently purchased it about 2 or 3 months ago and has been doing some minor repairs and renovations to the home such as patching drywall and painting. He has yet to feel comfortable enough to sleep in the master bedroom. He sent us this photo which he took on his cell phone camera. We have not been able to recreate the shadow as of yet.

The history claims of the home included the original homeowner who purchased the house in the 1960's as having been killed in a tragic fishing boat accident at Arkabutla Lake sometime in the 1980's We are currently researching these claims.


On our initial investigation, we set up 4 DVR IR Cameras, Multiple Digital audio recorders and took multiple still photos as well as collected enviromental data. We had no unusual emf fluctuations or K2 hits, and nothing showed up in our video or still photos, However, we did have numerous personal experiences in the home as well as numerous EVP recordings. You can listen to the EVP clips on our main website http://www.mississippi-spi.com/ on the Case files EVP page.

Some of the personal experiences by our team members included the strong smell of vanilla coffee in the master bed/bath area that we could not find the source of and which seemed to come and go. and trust me when I say, we sniffed everything in the area LOL. We also recorded some evp clips during the same time we smelled the smell. There were also numerous loud footsteps heard and recorded as well as, disembodied voices that were heard by both Angela and Jen as well as an amazing experience, where a dresser drawer was slammed in the master bedroom while Angela & Jen were doing an emf/evp session in the room and had asked if anyone present could make a noise or come near the lights on the K2 meter. There was no one near the dresser at the time and we did catch the sound on our recorders. We were able to recreate the sound by manipulating the dresser drawer but we were unable to determine how the noise could have possibly happened without someone or something manipulating it.

Unfortunately the dresser was not in a clear view of the camera so we did not catch the dresser movement on the video, but it was definately a hair raising experience.


The activity seemed to increase when the girls were present as had also been reported by the homeowner that the activity seemed to increase whenever he had female friends over to visit. There were also some unexplained cold spots when there was absolutely no air or heat vents on or windows in the area.

We are very excited to do a followup investigation at this location as there was so much unexpected activity and there are some things we would like to try and recreate and /or possibly validate on a followup trip. We appreciate the homeowner allowing us to investigate his home. We are keeping the location and homeowner information private to protect the clients privacy. We completed a followup investigation in June 2010 with some added experiences and evp clips. However, we got nothing on our video and we also referred this case to another local paranormal team to get their take on the activity and to see if they experienced anything similar. Their evidence is currently in review and we arte keeping in contact with the homeowner for a possible future followup investigation after the other paranormal team has completed their investigation.
You can listen to some of the EVP clips we recorded by visiting the main MSSPI home website at http://www.mississippi-spi.com/ under the casefiles EVP pages.