Subject: [ParanormalFlorida] Friday's Pre-Christmas Adventure Report...
Date: 12/24/2006 3:03:02 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
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Friday was our last investigation of 2006 and we finished the year going out in a blaze of glory as we visited four extremely interesting places. I am sorry the report is a little late I am still pretty exhausted from the adventure. Friday was a very hard day for me cause I spent half of the day in toy stores waiting in line then had to take an old friend to the bus stop out near Orlando turn around come home and get ready to adventure into the heart of Florida's forgotten jewels.
 
The four places we visited were Wekiwa Springs Pronounced Wekiwa...,.Central Florida Railroad, Sorrento Cemetery and Rock Springs & Cavern with a twist to the night. I have to say that this has been one of our best adventures down here in along time. Andrew and I were talking about it for awhile yesterday and it was really a test to see how far of our limits could be pushed.
 
Andrew said to me he has never met anybody who would ever do some of the things we did Friday especially under all the circumstances we had to endure. We had a great night though and now I bring it all to you as we bring you our pre Christmas adventure.
 
Wekiwa Springs
 
We stopped at a gas station to pick up food not sure what the deal is but I have not seen in a 7-Eleven in freaking weeks that has had a jumbo hotdog. I been to like 10 of them this month they must be on strike towards hungry paranormal investigators or something lol.
 
We pulled up in a very ritzy neighborhood hell the one house had a talking electronic Santa Claus singing jingle bells. Their were some people watching us I mean it was a nice night mid 70's was storming earlier that evening so the humidity was high. The people watched us grab all our gear and me put on a Santa hat I am sure no doubt they probably got scared that is just how people are down here.
 
We started our voyage in the woods no trails nothing just straight up forest. It took a long time to make our way threw this place. Their was no rush though we just were enjoying the outdoors.
 
We came up to a road and had a choice to either head towards the camp/lake or springs. I chose the springs cause that was our main focus. I wanted to be close to the water and go deeper into Wekiwa. We followed the road till off to our left we seen a little passage into the woods which went down hill.
 
We took a stairwell down made of stone near a wood board which displayed the history to the area, warned of alligators, black bear etc the history is very interesting to this location. As soon as we went down the stone steps to our left was this giant crystal clear spring. The water was so blue the water was tempting to jump into.
 
These springs were extremely large their was a wood bridge crossing them, a stone wall surrounding the springs, life rings, stairwells leading down into the water etc etc we took our time walking around them and I seen a giant cat fish near one of the stairwells. I also heard thrashing in the water so I was curious if an alligator was swimming around this area. Then some bird freaked out and flew away from us squawking away like crazy.
 
I felt a strong presence around the springs the thing people do not understand is that the state of FL is made of springs and underground caverns. A lot of these people swim in the springs a lot of them drown some of them get scuba gear and swim into these under water caverns getting lost, drowning, etc each spring has usually a boil you can swim down into.
 
We walked down a trail and past the springs where it opened up to a very marshy type of river and around that corner was the canoe rental shop. The light was on the small wood shack and we took a break then moved on back to the springs crossing this long wooden bridge.
 
I found a trail on the other side going deep into the Wekiwa woods so we took it. The area was a nice boardwalk at first with marsh below us, wet lands, and forest which were so thick on both sides at times. We hiked a fairly long ways till we came up to a dirt trail going left or right. At this point we took a break had a session cause we both knew things were going to get intense once we got further from the springs.
 
Andrew and I decided to head towards an area near the Indian mounds and a lake. We never did make it that far but we got close as between the humidity, lack of marked trails, and mileage we just could not fit it all in during one night.
 
We back packed a fairly long ways on the trail and at one time we had something toying with us in the woods. More then likely it was an animal but I will keep an openmind since it did not show fear with us. We came around the corner and it was walked just past some brush and trees.
 
It seems to stop when we stopped then it followed us a good ways down the trail. Eventually it crossed the trail not sure how we did not see this thing and crashed hard to our left snapping branches. Whatever it was had to be no more then 15 to 20 feet away. We did not see a thing but whatever it was had some intelligence in escaping out eyes.
 
Later down the trail the same thing happened again so we are not sure what to think about it. But the woods seemed to be fairly alive. Eventually we came up to another trail which said 4 miles and we decided to head on back to the truck did not want to scare the locals to much.
 
We started our hike back down a road and eventually to the entrance. When I got back to the car I realized I lost an old roll of film from a few previous investigations trust me I was pretty upset. But when your hiking in the woods sometimes you get tears in your back pack and lose things that is what appeared to have happened. I was kind of sad but its part of being an adventurer equipment breaks, you lose things, you get injured, you get sick, you run into wild animals etc this is all part of what we do and we have to learn to deal with it or we would never move on.
 
After this investigation I drank about a liter of water and changed my clothes it was just way to hot out some winter we are having here in FL I just about prayed for snow Friday night lol seriously. We then headed on off to the Central Florida Railroad.