Since direct observation suppressed the activity, the officers used empty soft drinks bottles as “decoys”, placing them in the special sites and telling the employees to stay away. Several crashed to the floor when no-one was near enough to give 

them a helping hand, including Julio Vasquez, the 19-year old shipping clerk who seemed to trigger the incidents.

Most of the special sites were on the east side of the large stockroom. This had three free-standing tiers of shelves and one along the west wall. It also had desks and shipping tables.

There had been object-focusing as well. Certain items, such as beer mugs and “Zombie” glasses, were especially restless. Since direct observation inhibited the events, these types of objects were placed in the special sites. These sites were then isolated from the employees and the owner of the warehouse. However, several of the targets fell to the floor.

As an example, on 31st January, at 11:27 am, Julio was sitting on his haunches, placing a toy alligator on a shelf, when there was a crashing sound. A zombie glass which investigator, William Roll had placed on a shelf four feet behind Julio, lay shattered on the floor. When the glass broke, Roll was standing five to six feet from Julio, watching him. Both of his hands were occupied – in the right he held the toy alligator, in the left his clip-board. There were two other workers in the warehouse but they were more than 15 feet from the glass. They could not have picked it up previously and then thrown it because Roll had placed the glass on the shelf and no-one had been there since. Roll wanted to find out whether the objects simply slid off the shelves or whether they could be made to rise up in the air. He therefore placed some notebooks in front of the glass and other objects along the sides. These objects were undisturbed,so the glass must have moved up at least two inches to clear the obstacles.

At 2:40 pm on the same day, a box of ten beer mugs which Roll had placed as a target object on the shipping desk, crashed to the floor two or three feet from where he was standing.The glasses spilled out and three broke. At this time, Julio was five feet from the box’s original position, walking towards Roll and away from the desk. It was Roll’s firm opinion that neither Julio nor the other employee present, Mr Hagemeyer, could possibly have caused the incident.

The Zombie glass and the box of beer mugs were among ten target objects that moved from an experimental area under the following conditions: Either one of the two principal investigators had previously examined each object and the aera where it 

was placed. One of them had the area under surveillance prior to and during the event. One of them went to the area immediately after the event, before any of the employees, and again examined the object and the area. The two incidents were among seven where Pratt or Roll had Julio in direct view at the time of the incident. They concluded that it was not possible to account for the events, except by RSPK. In total, 224 events were reported. They began in mid-December 1966 and ceased on 

1st February 1967, when Julio left the firm.

Things had been quiet for two days but Friday evening and Saturday morning there were more than 50 incidents when he was present. It seemed as if the unknown force liked the attention. Moreover this poltergeist was not shy about performing in front of strangers.One time John was in the grandparents’ living room looking at Roger, who was sitting with his back to the TV, when there was a loud crack. Roger jumped away and at about the same time John saw a cloth doily and a large plastic bowl on the TV fall to the floor behind the set, while the plastic flowers that had been in the bowl remained. Then John saw the flowers slowly move off the set and also land behind. Here he found the three items arranged as before, the flowers in the bowl and the bowl on the doily. At the same time that these objects moved behind the TV, a clock that had also been on the set moved forward, landing on the floor in front of John, about four feet from the TV. Two Chinese plaster fo Paris figurines remained in place. John found no strings or other contrivances and it seemed impossible that Roger or anyone else could have caused the events fraudulently.Mrs. Callihan had another apparitional experience during John’s visit. She had gone to bed when she saw a white shape that looked like a “large white Catholic nurse.” A minute later, as she was sitting in the living room trying to calm down, a small cabinet in the kitchen suddenly slid forward. This cabinet was repeatedly affected.John phoned William Roll with the news that the case was active, and he arrived at the grandparents’ home the night of December 15. The whole family was present, including Roger, his younger sister Beverly, and their parents Tommy and Helen Callihan.

A short time afterwards, Helen announced that they had to go home so the children could get to bed. John and Roll went along.Until then there had been no disturbances in the boy’s own home, except three times when they had heard knocks on the outside doors and no one was found there. Things changed after we arrived. In the evening of December 15, after Roger had gone to bed, Helen had served John and Roll coffee at the kitchen table – an ordinary piece of furniture with a wood and plastic top and metal legs.Shortly after midnight Roger, who got up again at that point, went into the kitchen with Roll a few feet behind, when the same kitchen table flew up, rotated 45 degrees on the horizontal plane, and fell on the backs of the chairs that stood around it, its four legs off the floor. When this happened, both the table and Roger were fully in Roll’s view. The boy had just turned around, and was facing him when the incident took place. Roger was impassive about the event, but his parents – Helen more than Tommy – were obviously disturbed.Roll was now prepared for something to happen.

He was impressed by the table incident; this was the first RSPK incident he had actually seen. There had been several other reported incidents when Roger was by himself, so Roll tried to keep him in view.Five minutes later Roger went into the living room and was facing Roll, when the coffee table behind the boy flipped upside down. There was no normal way in which he could have caused this event. Beverly was sitting next to the table in Roll’s line of vision. She might have touched the table but it was highly unlikely that she could have turned it upside down without detection. John and Roll estimated it weighed at least 60 pounds.Then at 12:20 A.M. when Roll was standing in the doorway between the living room and the children’s bedroom, a bottle came off the dresser and landed four feet away. Roll was facing the dresser and saw the bottle in the air. It did not slide off and roll into the room but was clearly airborne. When the event took place, Roger was in the living room to Roll’s right and in his peripheral vision. Beverly was standing slightly behind Roll on his left. There was no one else in the room. Roll could discover no way in which this event could have been produced normally.The bottle contained “rose gel” and had been involved in one of the unobserved incidents.

At that time, Roll checked it and the dresser for mechanisms that might have been involved in a fraudulent scheme: he found none.That night and the next morning, there were nine more incidents when Roger was unobserved. In no instance was there any indication of fraud.ENERGETIC ASPECTSRoger’s position was known for 107 of the object movements. These showed an extreme clustering close to the boy followed by a sharp decline: 94, 12 and 1. In spite of this pronounced proximity effect, 21 of the occurences in the grandparents’ home had apparently taken place when Roger was away.PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTSThere were no psychological tests with Roger, but the pattern of events was interesting. Before John and Roll arrived, the incidents had been confined to the home of the elderly Callihans, suggesting that the relation between Roger and his grandparents may have been a contributing factor. When John and Roll came, there were two changes: the frequency of occurences increased, and the incidents spread to Roger’s own home. It seemed that the outsiders’ attention to the boy facilitated the events.

When Ora Callihan phoned her son to see how the investigation was going, Tommy said, “You got nothing to worry about now, Mommy, because whatever was up there on Zimmerman Hill is now down here on Henderson Branch.” He was able to take things in stride, “You had two months of it, and now we are going to get two months of it.” But Helen was not prepared to see her things ruined. Roll had hoped to bring Roger and Beverly to Duke for psychological tests but the parents would hear none of it, even if they could go along. Helen had formed the opinion that they occurences were due to a demon and that far from being helpful, John and Roll had brought the demon with them from the grandparents’ house (which in a sense they had). Helen said that the phenomena had to stop and that she therefore must ask us to leave, hoping the demon would follow. This unfortunately did not happen.In the meantime a local group of Jehovah’s Witnesses had offered an exorcism, which Helen now accepted. In the belief that the demon was attached to Roger’s new clothes, these were burnt during the ritual. The demon ignored the proceedings and carried on as before. The family then fled to Ohio where they had relatives. Evidently they shed their tormentor along the way, for things were quiet when they returned