Subj: [ParanormalFlorida] Last Night's Investigation REPORT  
Date: 10/10/2004 2:24:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time 
From: AngelOfThyNight@aol.com  
To: ParanormalBuffalo@yahoogroups.com,  paranormalghostsociety@yahoogroups.com,  Paranormalflorida@yahoogroups.com,  ParanormalGhostSociety@groups.msn.com  

Tomoka & The Nocoroco Indian Village

We parked and stepped out of the car and Amanda told me she heard the voices of 2 men honestly I heard something but could not make it out. I do know that it could have been ghostly since the voices were coming from a swampy area. We entered Tomoka and finally I could say I was here. We had a high amount of request to investigate this area so as you can see I was smiling the whole time walking in here. One thing right away I noticed was these glowing bugs or leaves which the whole hike there and back were vastly spread throughout the road. They kind of look like green glowing eyes staring at you.

We went past the ranger station and I noticed there was absolutely no bulletin boards explaining where anything is. I had a general idea of how many feet etc but somehow we could not find the Oswald Plantation so we just proceeded to move on to the Nocoroco Indian Village. On our way there I noticed a lot of hot spots rather then cold ones. I thought this was quite abnormal.

We must had hiked a couple miles down a very sandy white road.  We did not even need lights at this point the sand was almost white. But the roads here felt very odd I mean for one we were pretty deep inside Tomoka. You could see every star out, you could not hear a single car, no noise it was perhaps to quiet. We spent a lot of time hiking when we noticed the Tomoka River and some lights way over across from it. We also seen the restaurant and about 3 deer which looked at us then ran off. I was really excited because we were able to get real close to them. But these really were my first deer sightings since I moved down here. Then we took a road which veered off and we ended up in the heart of what was once the Nocoroco Indian Village.

It was a pretty large clearing not a lot of trees just a plaque a few picnic benches and a trailhead which would take you a half of mile through Tomoka's various ecological areas.  I took off for a little bit to explore the village see if I could find any ruins rumor has it some artifacts are left behind but at this point my light was almost exhausted so I was very limited just walking all over blindly. But the village was very cold it was obvious that this was an area people died and Indians once thrived.

I took a few photos and again there were feelings of being watched particularly around the trail which takes you out of the village. I thought I heard some movement back in here as well but none the less it was fascinating just to walk around here where at one time this was ancient grounds where the Indians hunted and lived off the land.

We then walked farther up the road and came across Tomokie fountain unfortunately there was no water in it. This is not just your average fountain this a deep pool made out of stone. We walked down inside of it and It was amazing how large this was only to look up and see the statue of a chief Indian staring off into the distance standing on this giant stone structure. Then surrounding the walls of the stone structure were smaller clay type of Indian statues which seemed to be depicting to me some kind of story. There were also some artifacts of some kind leaning up against the stone structure so this area was very interesting. I had a possum pretty much run over my foot and climb up a tree. He was more scared then I was.

I spent sometime walking around it and had a stone boulder roll onto my leg and onto my foot. At first I could not get my foot to budge ha then it came loose maybe this was a sign or perhaps that I am clumsy lol. But I took some photos and I was intrigued by the statues. We then hiked behind it and came right onto the Tomoka Basin luckily there were no alligators on its banks.

At this point I was a little sad that we could not find the plantation however I did decide for us to take a trail called This Changing Land. The trail I have to admit was very creepy like something out of a movie. There were a lot of twisted vines, trees and it was very narrow with no room to spare. My spotlight ran out so It was quite dark walking down here.

We followed it for awhile came around a corner and there it was lights from the visitors center. I was kind of relieved but the trail itself had a very hauntingly feeling. When we arrived at the visitors center we noticed some kind of stone stove maybe it was part of the plantation but then next to it was a fire ring with three wood shaved branches. Which the native Americans would do to hang there food over a fire and cook it.

We finally looked on over to our right side and seen a little wood structure and a plaque. We looked inside and sure enough it was the Addison Tomb. The tomb was very big with a giant slab of stone just laying on the ground cracked in half. It was very worn and hard to read the inscriptions on the tomb. But we still took photos to show you this. 

Behind us we heard some noise and it turned out to be an Armadillo I managed to get about 6 feet from it to take its photo and the creature bolted lol. But it was my first armadillo I had ever seen and got that close to so I was pretty excited. Finally we decided to head on off back to the truck. We took a little bit different road back to the main entrance. Going back seemed less active in activity but again we looked very hard and did not seen the Oswald plantation. I was hoping to see the ghost lights but its possible that maybe what people are seeing are these glowing objects that get blown up into the air in a good breeze. But none the less I wanted to learn a little about this place and learned quite a lot.

We arrived back at the car we were all drenched from the humidity and we probably hiked quite a few miles in Tomoka. But it was fun and we covered a lot of ground here. Not a lot of activity but still the history that surrounds this place is amazing. 

In conclusion to last night's report  you can clearly see all the work we committed on this investigation. We did a lot of hiking and walking. Eventually what I hope to do is visit each of these places maybe even do a campout at one of them and monitor the activity with a camera etc. But for now each place we visited we found to have various amounts of activity. We learned the whole entire region perhaps is paranormal.

This was a very important investigation and I wanted to bring it to you before Halloween and we managed to do it so it is quite a feat. I am also glad to see more are getting involved with a group and overtime any information about these places you have please pass it on.  But also It was a nice night for wildlife I did not get to ride on any wild boars or anything like that but we did see a lot of mother nature out an about. This was a well earned investigation and each little place had little noticeable things like cold spots, movement etc Which will give us something to work off of in the future and so finally another chapter and a huge one for central Florida has been completed.
Peace,
Rick