Tomorrow night is the beginning of the new moon! I suggest you delay your survey. At least for a few days,... seriously sir. "These spirits can be dangerous, particularly the Dominant ones, they can be possessive, jealous and even hurtful and destructive when they feel mistreated, neglected, challenged, or taunted.
They can manifest them selves as they wish, appearing as their host's most beautiful and sensuous of fantasies or as the most wicked and vile creatures that they really are!
They literally feast on human emotions, the stronger the emotion, like love, hate, fear, pleasure and pain the more physical they become, once fully with in the physical realm their main diet consists of sexual energy, passion, lust and devouring the sexual fluids of their host!"
I interrupted her asking "You mean like vampires?"
"Well sort of, but not like in the romantic Hollywood versions, they don't bite the neck, their appetite is satisfied much further down. Vampires are thought by some believers, to be the offspring of an incubus and a succubus. The incubus and succubus once within the realm of the living, feed on any human excrement, from tears to well,..., you can figure that out, basically any thing a human finds abhorrently disgusting gives them sustenance!
They can gain powers over their hosts and others, from potions made from herbs mixed with the most vile disgusting fluids and materials, and can live extended lives as long as they have an abundant supply of what they need. Pandering with their host's deepest desires or using their darkest fears for their longevity.
But that is only because the person who called it is still investing it with either their sexual energy, fear or pain. As long as they have a host paying attention to it, giving it their focused attention, it can be nearly immortal!!
That island sir, "IS" haunted!! If you insist upon going out there don't mess with things you know little about! If you do, you will find "she is" out there, and her presence is strong! If you should be so foolish as to summon her or if she should be there waiting for you, as I know she is! You will need to know how to banish her. Once a succubus or an incubus has appeared to a subject they can bind them selves to their dreams, invading and influencing their fantasies. If she appears to you, she will stay with you! Even when you leave and return back here. That is of course, if you return! In this case your best bet is a banishment spell. You will have to return there to the spot where she first appears to you! You must stay throughout the night! Before going to sleep, burn three sticks of patchouli incense. Take a few moments and breathe deeply, relaxing your body. Focus on the face and features of your spiritual partner. Now picture them fading, becoming translucent, disappearing before your eyes. Now repeat the following three times:
"Thank you for your loving heart
But what is joined must now to part
Go in peace, I set you free
As is my will, so it shall be"
Your spirit may not be terribly happy about leaving (some love affairs end badly) but ultimately you have the power. If he or she comes to you in your sleep after this, you will find yourself able to wake and rise repeating the following:
Three times three
with love and light
I Banish thee!
Picture a white light exploding from your chest, blasting your now unwanted paramour out of sight. You may need to do this a few times to get the point across. Particularly if you aren't as sure about ending it, as you would like to admit, sex is a strong binder to these spirits world and their desire to remain within the physical, and their knowledge of sexual pleasures will blind the host's sense of reality.
"So it's like an exorcism?" I interjected. "No sir only a person who's blessed by a priest can perform an exorcism!" she replied and continued ... "the host must banish it themselves, they invited it in, only they can send it away!"
"I've researched the Brigs family myself, Sarah Ingals was the thirteen year old wife of Colonel Jonathan Brigs. They were married in 1769. The same year that the house was finished. Now, there are no records regarding whether or not they had any children. I mean, out there on that island they could have had a dozen, Who would have known?
It's believed that Sarah Ingals Brigs, was the daughter of Colonel Brigs and Sarah Ingals. But do the math, she still would have been nearly two hundred years old! So there was something going on out there that defies simple explanation. And neither the sheriff nor the coroner's offices would release any information. If there was a succubus out there she's been fed well for more than two hundred years!
The island was used by the British as a prison and armory..." This I knew from my research and nodded as she continued. "Well as things were back then, records on prisoners were not too detailed, but legend has it most people who were sent there were never heard from again! Men and women, mostly younger folks.
Colonel Brigs and Sarah ran the prison and legend has it that they... well.. Took liberties with the prisoners, some were kept as house servants and others were kept chained up and tortured in ways reminiscent of the inquisition. Other people suspected that they were basically shanghaied and sold to merchant ship captains. A perfect feeding ground for a spirit like this one. Plenty of emotions and pain to feed on. And for years no one could or would question them.
Before the civil war Negroes escaping slavery in the south, sought refuge in this area on their way to Canada. Some got lost out on the water near the island and just disappeared. No one knows how many were lost back then. But the shanghaied theory seemed to be a sufficient answer to some of their disappearances.
Then during WWII two escaped German POW's were found floating just off shore. They had escaped from Ft. Niagara where there was a prisoner of war camp. They went out to work a local farm and simply vanished. Until about 6 months later when their bodies were found, near here, covered in bruises and various injuries that could only be contributed to torture. But their injuries were attributed to the rocks and the length of time they were in the water, well, at least that's what the official reports stated.
Terrible things were done to people out there on that island sir! No one here goes anywhere near there, ever!
As a matter of fact the island did just come on the market, but I never thought anyone would ever have any serious interest in it. Not with the history associated with it. But I do have the keys and if you really must go out there, sir, be warned, and be safe! I have to say that I think someone is messing with you, there is no one living around here, not that I know of, by the name of Sarah Ingals, and I'm sure no one from our office called for an environmental survey. Though I would be interested in reading your report. That is, if you go out there, of course."
"Well Ma-am I've never been one to refuse a good paying job and to be honest, I wouldn't pass up an opportunity to explore as historically significant a site like this!" I replied with a confident professional tone.
"I've done other supposed haunted locations and found nothing more frightening than my own imagination. I do believe in ghost's and I've seen one myself, so this doesn't seem too much different than any of those jobs were.
Believe me I've experienced how easy it is to let your imagination get carried away every time you hear a noise in a dark and unfamiliar place.
When I'm going through buildings that are old, and have been empty for years, I can feel the energy left behind. Thoughts of who might have lived and died there and their sorrows and happiness seem to linger behind and feed the imagination.
It is very disorienting to be in a dark unfamiliar building, shadows can become demons behind every corner, if your imagination is so inclined.
As in your fathers story, finding a corpse on the porch would be a rather unnerving experience, all in its own right! But the movement, well..., could have been the wind or a loose board shifting as they walked on the porch, and have no doubt, ma-am, it would have frightened the holy bejeebers out me too!
But as I've found in the past most haunting's are just stories and most haunted places are just dark forbidding places that have been unoccupied for years and even generations.