Lava River Caves

Location: Lava River Cave of Oregon.

The Adventure Begins: In March of 2003 I drove through Oregon from my home in Spokane, WA to California. To break up the drive I decided to stop at a cave along the way. I enjoy spelunking and hadn't been in a while. I arrived at 9:00 a.m. and was greeted by a very elderly man. He questioned my going into the cave alone. I thought nothing of it, since I went on many solo adventures.



	At the entrance a chill goes through me. Not a normal chill, but I told myself, " Silly it is a cave, duh". For some reason the fresh batteries I just placed in the camera go dead. So I reloaded fresh ones and began my decent into pitch blackness - alone.
















	Now, as expected, the temperature drops. But then I felt a cold breeze whisk past me. For some reason I didn't feel like I was walking alone. Since the cave was so dark, I used my camera to take photographs just to see the path ahead. I never saw the mist that is present in the picture.

	Okay, this is were I admitted to myself that I definitely was not alone. I've been in a lot of caves, but never one that unnerved me. But not by what was watching me. By what this presence was impressing upon me. "Don't go any further. "" There's danger! " Sudden feelings gripped me of death, hunger, cold, and not knowing the future. I'd taken 20 photographs and my batteries died again. I'm startled by very clear images of people from the early 1900's. A man with his family and soldiers fighting. Confused, I shook my head and called myself crazy. I ignored my senses and continued on my walk.


	And I kept ignoring what I felt, and walked.

	This image was why I joined API. I began to accept that what I saw in my head that day was real. My entire life I had never been able to prove what I just knew. So call me nuts, but look at this photograph first. And ask yourself do we really know that there is nothing else out there. This image is not edited in anyway. Matrixing is ruled out because the face is proportional. I believe there to be the partial face of one of his 2 children in this picture. And that he is holding his infant son, face in. API will head back to this cave to conduct a full investigation, especially EVP and video of this area. After researching these caves, I discovered brutal battles between the Native Americans and Soldiers centering around these caves in the early 1900's. The Native American leaders responsible were captured and sent to Alcatraz.


	These 2 photograph sets were taken immediately following each other.






	These photograph sets were taken immediately following each other.



	The photograph to the left and below were taken right after another. My batteries died for the fourth time and a freezing wind blew past my face. The man from earlier would/could not follow this deep into the cave. I felt like something wanted me out of there and fast. I felt very scared, but couldn't understand it. Nothing could hurt me.



	At this point, I felt extremely exhausted. My batteries are very low again and I have been walking an hour. I decided to turn around.



	On the way out, the elderly man at the gate asked me if I was all-right. I said yes, but he looked at me oddly.