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Investigation Report
   Maria teresa restaurant
         rio grand boulevard
       Albuquerque, New mexico

Date: 01 November 1998 Type of Investigation: Recon

Reported Phenomena
Numerous ghosts haunt this old building.
A busboy quit after coming across a whole
roomful of spirits in the Board Room, but
braver employees have learned to live with
an apparition of a man wearing a dark suit
in the Chacon Room. Other ghosts that have
been seen here include a nonexistent woman
reflected in the mirrors of the Zamora Room
and a ghostly piano player in the Armijo Room.
The structure was built in the 1840's by
Salvador Armijo and was remodeled into a
restaurant in 1977. Recently, plumbers
discovered a cache of old human bones and
horse bones buried under the floorboards

We arrived on site at 1420 hours and began with sweeps of the outside of the building, heading towards the front door. Here Odin encountered a few small EMF Fields, but nothing to really justify as being paranormal. More than likely, these fields were caused by electrical wiring for the lighting above. They appeared to be quite old, so we assumed the wiring was old also, thus giving us the weak fields. We then proceeded into the courtyard towards the entrance of the site. The restaurant is composed of several small dining areas, located throughout the building giving it a different style and atmosphere.


Heading towards the Entrance	Odin by the front door

The courtyard lies at the entrance to the
restaurant. Decorated with a sculpted antique
fountain, there are several iron tables here
for outdoor dining. Once again we picked up
some minor readings on the EMF detector,
but we ruled them to be of natural origin.
The running water in the fountain causes a
slight variation in the EMF field, and there
are several other possible natural causes
for the fields. Most of this area is lit by
sunlight and candles are used at night .


the Zamora Room and it's haunted mirror	Zamora Room, Opposite view

We arrived just after lunch and the restaurant was only serving brunch. It was mostly void of customers and the management gave us permission to look around the place. We started in the Zamora Room, where the ghost of a unknown woman has been seen in the mirrors which lie on the north and east walls. Odin performed a full sweep of the area with an EMF detector but nothing unusual turned up. We then began a random search of the other adjoining rooms of the restaurant.


The Salvador Room	Odd Light Patterns on the walls
The first room that we came to was the Salvador Room, named for the builder of the place. Pictures of family members adorn the walls of this room and some employees have had the feeling of being watched by a unseen presence. We picked up a good reading on the EMF of about 8 milligauss, but it quickly vanished. Once the pictures were developed, it was noticed that odd light patterns are on the walls, but none of the team members recall these patterns while in the restaurant.

This is a VERY expensive place to dine, and all of the dining areas are kept immaculate, including the walls. The paint was in good condition, and the drapes were closed on the window, so it is difficult to determine how these light patterns, if that is what they are, were formed. It is possible that light reflected off the mirrors by the flash could explain some of them, but the spread of the patterns and their locations makes this a mystery.

the Armijo Room The ghostly piano player's haunt
	Hitman's Photo

The Armijo room was next. Odin performed a sweep and didn't find much at first. We started to move on into a adjoining hallway, when Hitman thought that he heard the piano play two notes. He returned to the room, but nothing else happened. He took a picture just for good measure, then proceeded to catch back up to Odin who was really done with the hallway and proceeding towards the bar. The image captured on film was not visible to the naked eye and shows a likely "suspect" target for a spectral energy source of some type.

The board Room

By the time Hitman caught back up to Odin, he had already gotten permission from the management to open up the Board room, which is located back outside in the court- yard. Access is through another door on the north side just as you enter the courtyard itself. This was the room where a busboy quit after encountering a room full of spirits. There was lots of activity here. Several strong EMF fields, particularly by a set of chairs in the northwest corner of the room. Cold spots could also be easily felt moving about through this area. At Odin's bidding Hitman took several photos of the room.

	This photo was by far the best that we got in the room. It appears to show several vortexes . There was a very noticeable cold spot that moved around in this area. The temperature variations could have ranged as much as a 10 degree difference. We were quite pleased by this photograph as getting a ghost to work on demand is unlikely....after all, they're usually non- union.
The bar leading into the chacon Room	Odd form of light in the upper right hand corner of the picture

After leaving the Board Room, we went back to the bar. We were interested in the section of the bar where plumbers had discovered a cache of human and animal bones a couple of years ago. Once again we got some suspect readings, but there was allot of possibilities with natural causes for them. After developing the pictures, we noticed an odd form of light in the upper right hand corner of one of the photos. The view is to the north, going into the Chacon Room (the door is labeled "Wine Press"). This could be another globule or a small pair of vortexes, but is uncertain, and quite difficult to know for sure. We then went into the last room of the restaurant, the Chacon Room. Several customers and employees have reported seeing the ghost of a man in a dark double breasted suit here. Odin picked up a steady EMF field near a picture on the west wall.

The picture is most interesting., and can be interpreted in a number of ways. This is the one that most people see:

A tall man looking down on Odin, with his hands in his pockets. Because of the particular nature of this photo, we performed an analysis of the photo


micron radiation filter	Infra-red light spectrum

Plasma wave graph for EMF Field Strength	Embossed (to show dimensions) 3-D

ASSESSMENT (from emf readings and photo / negative analysis) It is possible that the suspect field in this photograph may be Isotropic, meaning that the dipole moment induced by the electric field is in the same direction as the electric field. We assume this to be true in the simple dielectrics . If it is not true (the material is anisotropic) , then we need to represent permittivity as a tensor . For many materials, the tensor has no off-diagonal elements. These elements have different values of permittivity in the x, y and z direction. This is the basis for many interesting optical effects as light is an EM wave. The magnetic vector potential suggests that the suspect image is a EMF field of AC polarity.

Status
Pending further investigation

Personnel Participating

Odin
Hitman
Cindy Madrid (non-BAMF)

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