Staff Room Investigation

This post is to discuss the random word list I generated through the spirit talker app on the 3rd of May 2021. This is the eighth list I had generated through this app, and it is the first I generated in the staff room where I work. I'm not going to say where this is because I haven't got permission to investigate there, although the general manager does know I've been creating these lists and hasn't told me to stop. I will say it is in the Manchester area of England and it is a location where certain staff members do believe certain areas are haunted. This list was most likely created during the 45 minutes I had on my break and I had no other equipment going at the time, plus I wouldn't have been speaking to the spirits due to the possibility of other staff members entering the room at any time. 

I switched on the spirit talker app at 12:35:46 in the afternoon and the list ended at 13:14:45 in the afternoon meaning it ran for around forty minutes and in that time it generated forty-nine words. I will discuss the times taken to say each word later in the post. 

Looking at the words themselves, only 'one' word is repeated: 'My stomache'. I believe anything repeated in these lists is definitely significant as it isn't something which happens often and so I deem it statistically unlikely. It is especially interesting if I find it says this during other word lists I've created in this location. Unfortunately 'My stomache' is incredibly vague by itself, although it is good that the list says 'Pain' after the second instance as this could be connected. Arguably, the final words spoken could all be related as it could be the spirit of a grandfather who was in pain with stomach problems and has a connection to a house which was once on the site. 

There are a fair few words which could be discussing a battle that occured on the site. Words such as 'Below', 'Deep', 'Medicine', 'Battle here', 'Sick', 'Feel', 'Viking', 'My heart', 'My stomache', 'Grave', 'Medieval', 'Hole', and 'Pain' could all be connected just as both 'Crime' and 'Shot' could be. I feel there are three running narratives in this list. One is about some sort of battle which occured on the land, probably regarding the vikings. Another is possibly about some sort of plague or illness someone died of on the land, or perhaps of someone who died of such things and was buried on the site. Then there is the narrative about a crime which 'Shot' may be relevant to. It is possible that this third narrative is coincidental to random words being generated, so due to the lack of words and the lack of connection between them, I would assume this narrative to be a result of random words.

Five clear female names are listed, these being 'Ann', 'Amanda', 'Ava', 'Laura', and 'Gladys'. The list also provides five male names, these being 'John', 'Glenn', 'Thomas', 'Carl', and 'Edgar'. I was hoping for more male names to have been said as the list says 'I'm a man' and this is the only reference to gender, so I'm surprised it is level between male and female. It is possible that both 'Thomas' and 'Moore' are last names which would give the potential full names of 'Ava Thomas' and 'John Moore'. 

One interesting detail which I noticed when making the list was that it starts with 'Below' and follows with 'Poltergeist'. This is interesting to me because below the staff room, or very close to being below the staff room, is a room where alleged poltergeist activity has been experienced and since I started working there I have had various staff members tell me that room was haunted, even before anyone knew of my interest in the paranormal. It is also interesting that the word 'Stream' is said as there is a stream of sorts close to the building.

The final thing I want to discuss before going into numbers and patterns is how many of these words are positive and how many are negative in tone. 

Positive words:

1. Party

2. Don't be alarmed

3. We're friends

Negative words:

1. Poltergeist (due to connotation)

2. Battle here

3. Crime

4. Sick

5. Shot

6. Pain

I haven't included cross because of how vague it is out of context. It could mean angry, it could mean betray, it could mean to cross swords, it could mean the shape of a cross. I've included 'Poltergeist' in the negatives because of how often they are discussed in a negative light. You can see more negatives have been spoken, so I would assume for something negative to have occured to the spirits at the location, although it is important to note many neutral words were spoken and the amount of positives and negatives is purely subjective to my own thinking. 

Upon cross examination of other word lists from this location it would be expected, based on this one, to see more words talking about a battle and possibly about illness and being buried there. Vikings and the medieval era are also ones I would hope repeat. 

Above, you can see I've placed all of the words into a list which shows how long it has taken for each word to be said. I've also included arrows indicating if there has been an increase or decrease in response time. The increases are the red arrows, the decreases are the green arrows. This is only the first half of the list and I will now analyse any patterns that can be seen in the times and arrows. Apologies if this is a little dull, or boring, but it is incredibly important to find any pattern at all with what should just be a random word generator. 

Minimum response time: 20s

Maximum response time: 1m 19s

Average response time: 49s

Green arrows: 13

Red arrows: 12

I'm very surprised to see that there is a very similar number in increases and decreases in the time taken to respond. The slight majority which the decreases in time taken to respond is interesting as it could mean the spirits noticed I had a communication device and started trying to communicate, or maybe as they saw I was sat in the room they tried communicating with me regardless of the device. You can also see a pattern in the arrows where from the 10th word spoken, there is a double red arrow followed by a single green arrow and this repeats so that four blocks of the double red and singular green can be seen. Again, if this is a random word generator then I wouldn't expect this clear pattern. The list doesn't include the anomaly where the time taken to respond is back to back the same, something you can seen in previous lists where I've placed a red and green arrow on their side facing one another. I also find it interesting that when the pattern occurs, of the double red followed by a green, they are all words I haven't discussed to mean anything. You could argue that at the end of this pattern 'Sick' is spoken, but this is where the pattern breaks. 

Green arrows: 10

Red arrows: 13

I haven't included the smidge of green you can see at the top due to me counting that on the previous list. Here you can see the list leans towards the spirits slowing down in their response time in comparison to the first part of the list, and this means there is a combined total of 23 green and 25 red arrows across the whole list. It is incredibly close, which could be showing there is a 50/50 chance of it increasing or decreasing which could be leaning towards the response times being random. If each list i did was this close but showed more reds than greens in the latter portion of the list, then I would deem it as significant. As a one off, the quantity of the arrows doesn't seem to show anything significant to me. There are brief glimpses of patterns in the second half, but nothing that goes for long enough for me to deem significant. 

In conclusion, the list hasn't given me at all much. The two instances where you have a triple decrease in time taken to respond, and the one instance where you have a triple increase in time taken to respond are both interesting, but again happen too little for me to deem of particular significance when looking at this list on its own. The same goes for the amount of increases compared to decreases. Even the words themselves don't really give me anything strong to work with when looking at only this list, but I am glad it provided me with the two narratives of both a battle (maybe viking) and an illness or burial (maybe medieval). 

Regardless, I look forward to analysing more of these lists. Again, sorry if they are boring to read, but looking into these lists is an important part of investigating as if you can show patterns in a random word generator or show you get the same stuff in certain locations and not others then that is good evidence. Feel free to let me know if there is anything I have missed in my analysis.

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