The Haunting Doss House: A Mothers Love with Shawnna Rigsby

A historic house that bends time and captures spirits. The Doss House of Loretto emerged from heartfelt grief when Shauna Rigsby lost her mother to cancer in September 2023 after a devastatingly brief seven-week battle. What started as a way to honor her mother's unfulfilled dream of owning an Airbnb transformed into something far more profound – a paranormal destination where the boundaries between our world and others seem remarkably thin.

Built in 1810 and likely serving as one of the original meeting houses for the town founded by Prince Galitzin, the Doss House sits across from a basilica in a deeply Catholic community. Its walls have witnessed countless lives as it functioned variously as a barbershop, doctor's office, dentist practice, and even an undertaker's establishment. But what makes this location truly extraordinary are the unexplained phenomena that defy conventional understanding.

Investigators have documented security cameras spontaneously resetting to December 31, 1969, a visitor's smartwatch completely failing to register her existence during her time in the house, and phones entering SOS mode upon leaving the property. Objects move on their own, disembodied voices echo through empty rooms, and shadow figures dart through doorways. One particularly compelling incident involved a phone smoothly pivoting on its own while a blindfolded investigator sat nearby, followed immediately by equipment responses indicating an intelligent presence.

For Shauna and her wife Danielle, operating the Doss House and their paranormal team "Unique Paranormal 1.5" represents more than just ghost hunting – it's a healing journey. As Shauna poignantly shares, "Doing all of these things has become my grief journey." The name of their team itself reflects their humble aspiration to embody even "half of what my mother was in this field," carrying forward her values of inclusivity, respect, and genuine community-building.

The ethos of the Doss House stands in refreshing contrast to the sometimes rigid structures found in paranormal investigation. Here, the focus remains on having meaningful experiences, bringing people together, and maintaining a profound respect for both the living and whatever might exist beyond our understanding. As Shauna beautifully articulates, "If you go into something with true, pure intentions and stay steadfast in that, the sky's the limit."

Want to experience the time-bending mysteries of the Doss House for yourself? Connect with Shauna and Danielle through Facebook, email them at thedosshouse.278@gmail.com, or check out their website at thedosshouseofloretto-pa.com to book your own investigation.

Chapters

• 0:00 A Mother's Dream Becomes Reality
• 3:13 Shauna's Journey Into The Paranormal
• 5:32 Continuing Mom's Legacy With Unique Paranormal
• 13:34 The Doss House History and Discovery
• 21:29 Unexplained Phenomena and Time Anomalies
• 41:50 The Creep It Real Festival

Transcript

Shawnna Rigsby: 0:00

First of all, the Doss house came to be because, again, this was another extension of my mom and to do something in my mother's honor. She always wanted to own an Airbnb. Well, you know, mom, like we just didn't have those kind of funds lined up at the moment. So, because my mom always had that dream, my wife was on a mission, like she was searching high and low and like trying to find any place cool that was relatively close to home so it'd be easier for us to manage.

Logan Mathias: 0:33

Thank you, Well, hey everybody, welcome back. Hey everybody, I'm Logan and I'm Nicole and we are Generation X Paranormal.

Nicole Mathias: 1:27

Yes, we are.

Logan Mathias: 1:30

Yeah, guys, welcome back Great show. Got something really cool lined up. I don't know when this is coming out, but right now it is. I don't know. It's 54 outside and a couple of days ago it was 80 almost, and I'm really sick of this.

Nicole Mathias: 1:47

We're in that part of spring in the Midwest where it bounces roller coaster ride.

Logan Mathias: 1:53

That's ridiculous.

Nicole Mathias: 1:54

In the middle of tornadoes. Yeah, nadirs.

Logan Mathias: 1:57

Which, by the way, living in the Midwest is just so much fun to worry about that, Especially where we live. They never really I don't want to say that, but typically they come late at night or in the middle of the night, so you know when you're half asleep and you think the paranormal is scary, I'll take a ghost any day, any day. Anyway, I digress. So today we have on Shauna Rigsby and, yeah, this is exciting. What can you tell us about Shauna?

Nicole Mathias: 2:31

So Shauna, shana Rigsby and yeah, this is exciting. What can you tell us about Shana? So Shana Rigsby, she's, you know, in this with her wife Danielle. She's the owner and founder of the Doss House of Loretto and Unique Paranormal 1.5. Yeah, yeah, so we're going to get kind of into that, okay.

Logan Mathias: 2:39

That sounds great, we're talking to her yeah.

Logan Mathias: 2:41

Let's talk to Shana. Well, hey, shana, welcome to Generation X Paranormal. Thank you. Yeah, we're excited to have you for a couple of reasons. One, and we'll get to the location here shortly, but you got a really cool history with the team that you investigate with, which we definitely want to get to, because I think Nicole and I found that pretty touching and heartwarming. It was pretty cool. But before we jump into that, we should kind of start with what brought you here, tell us a little bit about yourself and kind of what got you to this point.

Shawnna Rigsby: 3:13

Basically probably about 15 years ago. You know I was that kid that a lot of people start off as a skeptic and you know, my mom was so into the paranormal field and she was so excited about it and tell us all these crazy stories and I was like, yeah, you're just full crap, like whatever you know. So, uh, she happened to like drag me along, do a couple of things and, um, in the midst of all that, like just certain things happened that I was like, hey, maybe there's something happening here, and you know, I just go sporadically. And then she started dragging me along to the Gettysburg Battlefield Bash where I met more very interesting, wonderful people.

Shawnna Rigsby: 4:01

I was more intrigued about the purpose behind the event more than I was paranormal side, because at that point I was still like maybe they still think about crap, mom, you know. So go in and shopping and buying all the cool stuff. That was kind of my gig with her and it was something that we could just do together. We lived in several hours apart from each other at that time, so it was just something that brought us together to hang out and do stuff. So that's what initially got me into the paranormal field.

Logan Mathias: 4:31

Yeah, yeah, and it's funny because my I guess my father kind of got me started. We've all been through different experiences and Nicole's got hers and I've definitely got mine. But it's funny how our parents usually kind of dictate the flow of these things. My dad absolutely was a big, big believer and I think I was with you. I was kind of like, Dad, I think you're kind of bullshit, but we'd go some places and you'd be like oh, this is really cool. And we were in Arizona and there's a couple of places out there that, especially in Tucson, that we'd go to and you'd get the feels and I remember thinking to myself yeah, I don't know.

Logan Mathias: 5:13

Of course, this was many, many years later. I had my own, you know my own experience, so but it's interesting how some of us kind of get started, yeah, agreed, kind of, I guess, really kind of dovetailing off that let's talk a little bit about your mom and kind of the group that she started and absolutely where it's at now.

Shawnna Rigsby: 5:33

Yeah, so my mom started this. It's kind of hard for me to pinpoint the exact time. It was about 10 or 12 years ago. She was actually living in Westchester, her husband was a professor out there and I was living in St Mary's and she had always wanted to be part of a paranormal group. She had always had abilities and just trying to find that niche or the right people was very hard and I think still is for a lot of people.

Shawnna Rigsby: 6:02

They're interested in it. They just don't know where to turn or who to ask without people thinking they're absolutely nuts. So basically she just by chance ran into this wonderful woman I believe she was at like a history type museum and clicked with this woman who had currently had her own paranormal group and my mom started joining her and going on some adventures with her. And then later, of course, my mom, her husband, traveled a lot because he was a professor, so he took another job in another state and when she moved there she created her own group and she named it Unique Paranormal One and she ran that for a few years and we'd travel up there, she'd host events, um, hooked up with quite a few groups that are um associated with the bash, met a lot of great people there. Um, so, yeah, just slowly started to grow her own group in her own way and, um, let it let her team. The way she saw fit in integrity and respect for spirit Definitely grew a lot of respect for my mom watching her do things like that. She was just always so kind and always there for everybody and just her attitude towards the paranormal itself. With the amount of respect and the way that she did things, I think, kind of pulled me in a little bit more. And seeing her do readings for people that I knew she had no idea who they were, that is what actually sucked me in 100%. So, yeah, she had her group Unique Paranormal One In about July of 2023, she had been sick, battling some issues with a leg of hers for a while.

Shawnna Rigsby: 7:48

Doctor after doctor, specialist after specialist never found anything. And it was in July of 2023, she had been scheduled for a surgery because she was having so much trouble with her left leg and it was during this surgery that they had found a lesion on her outer thigh, on her bones, that was then determined that she had stage four terminal bone cancer. She made it about seven more weeks. So it was very quick, very fast, very traumatic for all of us and September 2023, she passed away. So in the moment of all of that, you know whirlwind, me and my wife Danielle took care of her for those last seven weeks. I basically lived with her, popping back home every once in a blue moon to check on my son, who's an adult.

Shawnna Rigsby: 8:42

But checking in on those, those grown adults, um trust me, you know so, once she passed away, and it didn't really hit me till recently, that doing all of these things has become my grief journey.

Shawnna Rigsby: 8:56

So it just in the moments of, you know, grieving on my own, I decided, um, that I was going to continue my mother's paranormal group and we me and my wife have named, renamed the group, unique Paranormal 1.5 and symbolizing basically that we could at least be half of what my mother was in this field. So, yeah, that's how the group started and we started doing things together with. Our group basically started off with anybody who was close to my mom her best friend Cheryl, my best friend Beth, who was like a daughter to my mom. We started off there and just opened it up to the community. Anybody anywhere, whoever wanted to join us to go have fun and you know, and hunt for spooky ghosts. People were allowed and we've met a lot of amazing people. We've gathered some really great team members through that and basically our mission is just to have fun, be respectful. Anybody at any time is allowed to join us and that's what we do.

Nicole Mathias: 10:02

That's super cool.

Logan Mathias: 10:03

That's a beautiful beginning, yeah, and you hear a lot like everybody on a team has to have a tech person or like a medium. I mean, there's always like these roles that you have to fill and I think sometimes you forget that you're really just kind of there to enjoy what you're doing and you get kind of lost in the weeds of all these different roles and who's in charge or anyway any of that stuff, and uh, you tend to forget that, first of all, if you want to deal with the paranormal and you want to investigate the paranormal, they're really not going to respect your roles, no matter who could care less. And uh, you know, it's just you got to remember that the whole point of it is, like you said, to have some fun, which is that's great. You know, I lost my dad and we say all the time or at least I do that if he was still around he'd probably be our third cast member because you know he was just so into this.

Logan Mathias: 11:00

So, yeah, it's great, we're so happy to know that you guys are doing that, you know, and and, like you said, with you and your wife kind of doing everything sort of as like that almost that family kind of feeling, I would think that kind of helps with investigation too, because you know we've investigated with a lot of different types. You know we definitely have had some investigations with things that are much more stringent. And, yes, there's a leader and an instructor, which is fine. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just that's the way they do it. And then you go and you investigate with people who have zero structure and you find sometimes that it is a different experience.

Shawnna Rigsby: 11:42

It's a blessing and a curse at the same time. Yes, so you know, like some of our group members I've known for years and years and years and it's like hanging out with your sister, like sometimes you want to choke her, you know. Or you know a chatty Kathy and Cheryl, you know, just can't be quiet sometimes. But like I said, at the end of the day it's all in love and good fun and you know that's what it's all about for us.

Logan Mathias: 12:08

okay, yeah, that's awesome. So with your group and again we're gonna go ahead and get into the dawes house here in just a minute. But, um, how close are you guys to gettysburg? Um about two hours okay, so not too far. Are you like towards york or the other way? Other way, we're more towards the pittsburgh side okay, yeah, I've been in that area a few times so I kind of had an idea where this was. So I just was, I was just curious um, yeah, definitely a bucket lister for sure that place.

Logan Mathias: 12:40

Now we haven't gone as a, as you know. Obviously my wife and I were a team, but, um, I've been there a couple of well, at least one time. And then I went to Antietam, which is also pretty crazy. But walking around Gettysburg is like if you don't get the feels there and you don't, you're into the paranormal. You might want to rethink some things.

Shawnna Rigsby: 13:04

It's a whole different level for people, though.

Logan Mathias: 13:07

Absolutely yeah, so that's cool.

Nicole Mathias: 13:10

Still never been.

Logan Mathias: 13:11

Yeah, we're going. We've been to the.

Nicole Mathias: 13:13

East Coast.

Logan Mathias: 13:14

I know.

Nicole Mathias: 13:15

I haven't been up that way, we'll make it before we go there sometime.

Logan Mathias: 13:20

Okay, so the Dawes house Um, so I know I've got a little bit of the history from some of the other paranormal investigators that have put stuff online and kind of, you know, with the background that you have on Facebook, can you kind of give us your version and what you know about the house and kind of? I really just kind of start there. What's some of the history behind it?

Shawnna Rigsby: 13:45

For sure, history for sure. So, first of all, the Doss house um came to be because, again, this was another extension of my mom and to do something in my mother's honor, um, she always wanted to own an Airbnb. Well, you know, mom, like we just didn't have those kind of funds lined up at the moment. So, um, because my mom always had that dream, my wife was on a mission, like she was searching high and low and like trying to find any place full that was relatively close to home, so it'd be easier for us to manage.

Shawnna Rigsby: 14:22

And we, honestly, we talk about all the time we can't even remember the exact point how the Doss house fell in our lap. We can't even remember the exact point how the Doss house fell in our lap. We just knew we were driving through this little town, which is not far. Because that's what we do. We're like, ok, we're going adventuring today, let's go see what we can find Vacant properties. You know that's where we were at Vacant properties, get a hold of the landowner, see if we could get in there. And we saw this place and she had known about it for years but just it just didn't come to the forefront of her mind. So we were driving through this town and I saw this house and I was like whoa, and she's like, oh my gosh, like I forgot about this place. And she knew just who to contact to get you know, in contact with the owner, and we did.

Shawnna Rigsby: 15:06

She agreed to meet us over there and contacted the owner, and we did she agreed to meet us over there, um, and when I tell you the field, I'm telling you it's it's definitely, uh, a unique place for sure, um, but you know the intention behind it we want to have a haunted location in honor of my mom. So we need to see if it's actually haunted right. So we're very hesitant because this house is in the middle of a very catholic town. You have a basilica across the street, you have schwab estates with the sunken gardens of montecito at the other end, um, so we're like we start to tell this the owner of the property what our intentions are and, to our surprise, she was like that sounds awesome.

Shawnna Rigsby: 15:50

So we were like thank goodness so she agreed to let us in there prior um to check it out and investigate it. Before you know, we decided to make any type of offer on it and the first time that we went in there, I will just say, uh, the night started off with a bang. Literally, it was a couple of us me, my wife, my daughter went with us and two of our closest friends her husband non-believer, 100% non-believer, and all I will tell you is, after this night, his opinion changed.

Nicole Mathias: 16:28

I love to watch that transition transition.

Shawnna Rigsby: 16:30

Oh man, it was something. I'll tell you what. Um. So yeah, that's, you know. A couple of days later, we talked to the owner again. I made her an offer. She was very willing to be rid of this property. It was kind of just like a pain in her, but she didn't want to deal with it anymore. Um, and here we are. Once we got the keys and we got in there, we got to work right away, because obviously my mom's most favorite holiday was Halloween, so our goal was to open it to the public on Halloween, and that's exactly what we did, and it's been crazy, crazy whirlwind ever since. Sure.

Logan Mathias: 17:06

That's really cool. That's awesome. Yeah, it's interesting when you find it. Now we know, we know a few people that have their own properties. Of course we've met and talked and actually investigated with Stephanie O'Reilly at the McIntyre Villa. We've had a few other people like, I think, jill Shelley on, and you know some other folks who have purchased Shelly on, and you know some other folks who have purchased a haunted home or a haunted uh place and the answer is yes, I would buy one. But it is interesting because when you buy something with the knowledge of knowing that you're turning it into potentially a paranormal hots or it's already a hotspot, but you know a paranormal attraction per se, you know you always think to yourself OK, what are, what are some of the guidelines? How do I want to go about this? It must be pretty daunting to have all that going on. Plus, oh yeah, it happens to be haunted.

Shawnna Rigsby: 18:01

So, yeah, definitely, definitely, was in honor of my mom. So if we made you know, if we made enough money to sustain it, great. If we didn't, ok cool. Our team has an awesome place to investigate and expand our abilities and learn more things. So I think that was a jumpstart for us to push us in the right direction, and still is today, by us staying steadfast in our beliefs and the mission behind this and what we're trying to do and bring communities together and helping people the way that my mother always did. So I think, when you put something in front of yourself and you stay true to the original meaning of that, there is no other room but to be successful.

Logan Mathias: 18:52

Absolutely. Yeah, that makes perfect sense, Not to mention the fact that you know it's all kind of a family. Now, talking about family with your wife Danielle, is she more a believer than a skeptic? Because I think you mentioned you were much more skeptical and I'm always curious about that dynamic. Because of us, I'm probably the more skeptical, I'm more the believer. So I'm always curious about how that goes.

Shawnna Rigsby: 19:19

So Danielle started off. She works in the medical field, she works in the operating room, so she's very much scientific brain. There was always a reason or a logical explanation for everything when we first met. From the moment she met my mother, things changed. It's going different places and her actually being in the position for things to happen to her that she literally could not logically explain, and recently, encompassing the fact that Daniel actually does have very strong abilities that she never realized she had before because her mind just wasn't open to it.

Shawnna Rigsby: 20:02

I think that plays a big part of it too. The way you were raised, things you were taught as a child very much depicts how your thought process works. So if you were constantly told that this is wrong and you shouldn't be doing this and this isn't real, then that's what you believe Until you know these other options are opened up for you and you do start opening yourself up to the possibility that it could be real, and then it just flows in like somebody opened blood gates and that's exactly what's happened to her and she now is a million percent a believer that's awesome.

Nicole Mathias: 20:41

I love to hear that, yeah, yeah well, and it's funny because it's interesting because you're very much like that I. I am.

Logan Mathias: 20:49

I'm also not to make it about me, but you know I'm very skeptical, but yet I also have whatever the heck it is that I have going on with me as far as just sensing things and being able to call some things out. It's just interesting. And what's also interesting is that she's in the medical field and that's what I was in when I was in the military. I was a medic, so I find that incredibly interesting.

Nicole Mathias: 21:17

I was listening to you talk about it and I'm like that's so fun.

Shawnna Rigsby: 21:21

Somebody should definitely take a survey somewhere. I know right. Left and right, like what's everybody's backgrounds. Where were you and where are you?

Nicole Mathias: 21:29

Exactly.

Logan Mathias: 21:31

Exactly Okay. So now you've got this property and you're ready to get everybody in there and start investigating. First off, your team. What did you guys seem like? What's some of the experiences that you guys have had there? What did?

Shawnna Rigsby: 21:48

you guys seem like. What is what some of the experiences that you guys have had there? Well, for the first while we were the only ones obviously in there doing anything, even just cleaning the place out this place was completely hoarded out. It was built in 18. The original part of the structure was built in 1810. The house had sat vacant for almost two years. Not really sure 100% of the backstory from the last family that was there, but this location was completely hoarded out so it took us a while to clean that out.

Shawnna Rigsby: 22:21

So in the midst of all of that, so many things, so many noises, disembodied voices, shadow figures that we all would see being growled at in certain spots, sounds of kids you could hear over in the barbershop or in the big like there was just so many unexplained things or like, oh, whose stomach was that? Or oh, did somebody say. You know you always are double questioning and thinking. So by the time all of that was done and we had everything cleaned out, you know we tried to keep 80% of what was in the house original to the house. That was very important to us, and only bringing in things that were necessary, like a bed and a couch, stuff like that. So, like I said, when you go in there, a lot of it is pertainable to the house, the location, the town. But the weirdest thing was so you have the living room and upstairs. That was the original establishment built in 1810. Then later in the 1800s, there was a dining room built onto the back. Early 1900s, then there was a kitchen put on and mid-1900s was when the barber shop was added to the property. Now, originally the barber shop was not, it was its own entity, literally about six feet from the side of the house, and that's where the barber had his business. That's where the barber had his business. We later found out that when his wife felt ill, he then connected the two parcels together with a ramp and moved her over there for the end of her life. So now you know, connecting everything together.

Shawnna Rigsby: 24:05

We did find out some interesting facts about the place. We discovered just through our investigation our very first night there. We had a lot of information coming through. Later did some fact checking 100% true of a story of a woman but all the names we were getting the occurrences that had happened to her. We actually did fact check and find an article that was relatable to that. We have found that there has been obviously the barber, there was a doctor there, there was a dentist there and an undertaker there. We have had a lot of activity from Father Prince Galitzen, who was the priest at the basilica across the street. We have had some activity with him. We're starting to believe we haven't found the records of this yet but that this was the original structure built in this town. So Prince Galitsin founded this town in 1799.

Shawnna Rigsby: 25:06

Frank, the historian who lived across the road, told us that the properties were not deeded for homes until about 1816 to 1890. Well, the first piece of paperwork for this location was 1810. So we're leaning to believe that this was constructed and it was an original log built out of logs. You can see that throughout the basement and the structure and the posts and stuff. So we believe this was the original meeting house of the town as they were trying to build and establish.

Shawnna Rigsby: 25:39

Frank also told us that for years and years he tried to deem this property a historical site and was unable to because there were so many missing documents between 1799 and 1810. And then again from 1810 to 1843, where then it was then deeded an actual property to be lived in and as a home. So because there was those years of unmarked actual paperwork, paper trail, he was not able to deem it a historical site. So we're still digging, we're still trying.

Shawnna Rigsby: 26:16

In the beginning it was so hard to find anything until Frank came over and started chit-chatting with us and told us where to look. He had a whole bunch of information because he worked on it for years and he's really cool about it. Anything, anytime anything comes up, we can always ask him. And we did get lucky and get a team member who we met at a festival and she happened to see my mom's picture on our table as Unique Paranormal One and it just intrigued her to walk over. And she is now very much part of our team and she is basically our history guru. She goes in our fact checker, she checks all the documents, digs into the libraries, all these sites, and so when something pops up, Brittany's the gal. If there's a linked document out there somewhere, she's going to find it.

Shawnna Rigsby: 27:06

So, that's how we've been able to kind of start linking the pieces together and say, yes, this is factual to the house. No, this, maybe, this is, maybe it isn't, but we don't have any way to. You know, back that up with documents and that's a big thing for us too is trying to, you know, link activity with actual fact. That's a big thing for us. Another cool fact about this place is because it's so new. It's literally like peeling back an onion, like every time a group goes in there, somebody gets something else. We, we can fact check it. Awesome, cool, you know. And we just just keep going with that and getting all these, um, psychic mediums coming and walking through and giving us our, their opinions of what they believe the place is. That matches up with the previous one that has gone in there, so that's been really cool too. So, yeah, definitely, definitely, uh, a track that will suck you in for sure yeah down the rabbit.

Logan Mathias: 28:05

Yeah, we understand that, like especially doing the research, you find something and then you're just like in it forever because you it's just the little tidbits here and there yeah, and it's great that having such a I mean you say you don't have all the history, which is it kind of sucks, but you know, that's the amount of history they never go out. Yeah, it's incredible. Uh, you know, with, especially with some of these older towns, someone just didn't even keep record of some of that stuff when they were first started or they got burnt up.

Shawnna Rigsby: 28:36

That happens a lot too right, yeah, we did hear about that too. Yeah, yeah I know what it makes it up we have. We have gotten a lot. We have, yeah, you know there has been. So basically the the record of 1810 and then it jumped to 1843. From there on, we've basically been able to find most things relatable.

Logan Mathias: 28:55

That's so cool. Yeah, you're very fortunate. And it makes perfect sense for it to have been some kind of city building, especially with the Basilica being across the street. That would just make sense because people would probably go worship and then they would meet in that same area.

Nicole Mathias: 29:13

Think about all the energy going between a place of worship to the main town hall, back and forth. I mean no wonder this place is probably supercharged.

Shawnna Rigsby: 29:23

It's insane. It's so much fun.

Logan Mathias: 29:26

It's so cool, so okay. So you guys have had your definitely your fair share of activity. What have you seen? Some of the other now you mentioned it is still fairly new, which is awesome, but out of the people that have investigated, what's some of the stuff that they've taken away where you've gone? Okay, I didn't expect that gone.

Shawnna Rigsby: 29:51

Okay, that I didn't expect that. Well, I can say, um, there has not yet been a group in there that hasn't gotten some sort of activity. Um, whether you know, there's obviously more quieter nights than some. Um, I would say, probably the event that sticks out in my mind the most, um would be when some pals of our local group here they're called Dark Hollow Paranormal they were in there, pretty large group. So what we do when you have a large group like that, because the house is on the smaller side, we let them rent the house for the weekend and they just split into two groups, so they were rotating, like the guys and the girls.

Shawnna Rigsby: 30:30

So the girls were there at this time and they were standing at the bottom of the steps because they heard something upstairs. And two of them were standing at the bottom of the steps and what they thought they heard was a grovel or some type of voice. Literally scared the bejesus right out of them, because they're literally staring upstairs into darkness and hearing this noise, they both bolt left the stairway, light comes on and they're running through, screaming into the living room. Well, in that moment and they didn't realize it because you know they're being big chickens and they're running and screaming. The REM pod on the bed upstairs is going crazy.

Shawnna Rigsby: 31:12

So that's another cool thing that we have in the house. We have cameras everywhere so if something happens in that moment we can go back, pull up all the different angles. Um, just to make sure, we wanted to make sure that nobody hit the light switch when she ran away to turn the light on. Um, and when I was checking all of that stuff for them was when I was like holy crap, that REM pod is going nuts. So that was a really cool. And when they were coming back into the dining room they had it was a piece of their equipment some type of nun doll or something like that that only gets triggered when certain I don't really even, but in that moment then that doll went off as well and they took off screaming again.

Nicole Mathias: 31:57

So entertaining to watch.

Shawnna Rigsby: 32:00

Hysterical is there yeah, yeah, um, some other groups that have been in there. We recently had Punko Paranormal very unexplained occurrence in the basement, very creepy, creepy basement. He was under Estes, by himself down there couldn't see anything. I think he was under Estes, I think he was under no, I think he was under assist. Regardless, he was blindfolded. He had his cell phone leaning up against one of the support posts on himself and then a chair to the left of that he had a REM pod sitting. Coincidentally, if a phone is leaning up against a pole, you would think if it's going to slide, it's going to tip over, right, right. So the phone was like this and it literally just pivoted and then stood up sideways while we were all watching the live. We were like is somebody else down there? Because literally his phone, just a nice, smooth transition, just kind of just turned and then stopped pointing away from him and then in that moment that that happened, his REM pod started going crazy. So I then pulled up the footage because I'm like somebody had it right and no, I pulled up the footage, sent it to them. Literally, smooth transition. You see the phone turn, nice and smooth and just kind of rest this way, and then the rum pod started going crazy.

Shawnna Rigsby: 33:34

Yeah, there was actually an incident in the house that I was involved in in the middle of the day. I had taken two people in who had never been there before. They just so happened to be available and through the area that day. So I'm like, yeah, sure I'll come meet me over there. We're standing in the kitchen and we hear, like this, scratching and then a bang over in the dining room. So we go, we're like what the was that? So we go through from the kitchen over into the dining room and as soon as we made it to the dining room there's a crawl space Again a super creepy crawl space right above the dining room that I keep a REM pod in, and it was going crazy.

Shawnna Rigsby: 34:13

So later on that evening my friend Sarah had messaged me and said, hey, pull up the footage from that time and just see what happened. So I did, and in that moment we're standing in the kitchen. You see something dark flash through the breezeway that goes over to the dining room. Then you hear the scratch and the bang and then you hear the REM pod going off. So that was very interesting, to say the least. She then proceeded to tell me that her smartwatch for the day showed that she did not exist from the time that she left her house come to the Dots house until she returned back home, and that was the first time that that had ever happened to her. When she got to the property, her phone would not work, which is not uncommon. Um, that has happened to a lot of people.

Shawnna Rigsby: 35:05

Um and the houses. There's certain times that the cameras are stuck in a time loop, so time loop stuff happens there all the time. We had two of the cameras the kitchen and the barbershop. There was an incident again. I was in the house, me and my son were doing some last minute things before the first group was supposed to go in there, and my wife was actually away at work in Lancaster. And she's she's like hey, what are you doing? I'm like I was just getting ready to leave the house, why? She's like well, I just pulled up the cameras and I saw somebody in the kitchen and I was like I'm just walking, walking out the front door. There's nobody in the kitchen. She's like go check, I go over there, nothing.

Shawnna Rigsby: 35:45

Obviously middle of the day again. She's like okay, wait, that's not the weirdest thing. She's like the time and the date on the camera says December 31st 1969. That's, and I was like what that's on? So in that moment I I pull up all of the other cameras and, mind you, everything's hooked to the internet. So where is this date coming from? Right?

Shawnna Rigsby: 36:10

right all of the other cameras were legitimate. New Year's Eve 1969 in the kitchen and New Year's Day 1970 in the barbershop, two rooms side by side of each other. We tried calling the security company, we tried resetting the cameras, we tried changing the SD cards and the company was like we're really sorry, this has never happened before. We're happy to send you some new cameras. And I was like nope, that's fine, it's fine with us, don't worry, we'll just keep on rolling with that. They had us try to change the time zone. Nothing worked.

Shawnna Rigsby: 36:54

So we had an event on New Year's Eve, this past New Year's Eve, to see if we could figure it out. No, didn't figure it out. But a week later Brittany came over with her camera to take photos because we were trying to do some PR stuff. And she called me later that evening and she's like OK, you know weird thing she's like my camera says New Year's Eve 1969. And I was like no way, nah. And she's like yeah, so she snapped a picture of it, sent it to me. So then that enticed me to pull up the cameras at the house. No more time left. Everything was back to normal on all of the cameras and we have never had an issue with it since.

Nicole Mathias: 37:37

Did you happen to look into, like any historical files that you?

Shawnna Rigsby: 37:41

had with those dinks. We did not find anything associated with those dates. The only thing we can think of and this is just the story of the town we don't have a date of it of when it happened. We had a medium at the house that night that said that they had a vision of a car crashing into a tree. So we had learned that there was, like this wise tale, full-floor story of the town that years and years and years ago someone crashed into a tree in the front yard of the Doss house and we're not sure if they were killed or whatever, but or unalived. I don't know if I'm allowed to say that on here You're fine.

Shawnna Rigsby: 38:27

But so then the tree was cut down, but it was still left with, you know, a fairly decent, you know stump there and all of the town called it the blood stump. Wow, that was the only thing that we could think of. That might possibly be relatable, but you never know, we're hoping eventually, someday.

Nicole Mathias: 38:51

well, I wouldn't you'd yeah call it a blood stump if somebody yeah left that alive, you know?

Shawnna Rigsby: 38:58

oh yeah, that's usually how better our age that we've talked to remember it as the bloodstone.

Nicole Mathias: 39:04

Right, yeah, well, and if it was New Year's Eve I mean drinking typically goes along with that I mean that could.

Logan Mathias: 39:12

But you know what I mean.

Nicole Mathias: 39:14

It would make more sense.

Logan Mathias: 39:15

Yeah, it would. Yeah, ooh, I'm like Speculation at this point, but yeah, no idea, I'm the researcher of our team and now I'm like really intrigued, but like 30 emails, um, that's wild though, because you know my background is uh technology, so I know for a fact you can't really manipulate that, especially if it's if it's being synced to the cloud. It's gonna pull the, it's gonna pull the time, whatever it syncs to and two to nine minds on separate.

Nicole Mathias: 39:49

That's crazy, especially a camera, I mean like a actual camera. That's crazy. It was wild. Yeah, that is really wild. That's the first I've ever heard something like that, like that either people get like in their evidence.

Shawnna Rigsby: 40:01

They get time loop all the time or they have issues with their cell phones, or I mean obviously a lot of locations. Your equipment dies quickly. But yeah, the biggest thing, like the first couple weeks we were going over there, every time I left that location my phone went into SOS mode Every single time. But it doesn't anymore. It's just weird. Yeah, sarah didn't even exist that whole day while she was there Weird.

Logan Mathias: 40:28

Right. Well, it kind of lends into the possibility there's a rabbit hole we can go down here, but it's called time slips, and there's some people in the paranormal field that feel like some of the paranormal activity that we're experiencing isn't exactly ghostly per se. It's more like an intrusion of either us on their time or vice versa. So it kind of makes me think about that a little bit.

Nicole Mathias: 40:58

I thought the exact same thing yeah.

Logan Mathias: 40:59

I'd be interesting to talk to Mike about that. That's so cool. Yeah, I mean, I'll be honest, I I, in the years that we've done this, I've never really curved down.

Shawnna Rigsby: 41:09

So yeah, definitely in 15 years. That was first for me too. I was like this just, you know, you try to make sense of it, but then you just can't. And then you're like, well, what now? What?

Nicole Mathias: 41:20

now Right, so cool. It's like walking into the Bermuda Triangle no right and walking back out. Seriously.

Logan Mathias: 41:27

Oh shit, People still want to go there to visit it.

Shawnna Rigsby: 41:31

How crazy is that.

Logan Mathias: 41:32

How in the hell do you put that in a disclaimer or something Like? By the way, you may slip into another time, Should that?

Nicole Mathias: 41:39

happen.

Logan Mathias: 41:43

The Dawes house is not responsible for any time slips. That's so cool. So what's coming in the future? I know that things have kind of just started out. How do you see it kind of going and where do you want it to go?

Shawnna Rigsby: 42:01

I'm going to be honest with you. I'm doing this like I said for my mom. I'm 100% content with where it's at. We are going to have a festival. You know, we had an idea like okay, because my mom was very much about community and bringing people together to have fun and help one another and support one another. She was so huge on that. Um. So we're like, okay, this is the nice little town, they have a big community center. Let's just have like a little vending festival, um, to bring the community together and, you know, hopefully get this little town on board with what we're trying to do and that it's not just all about spooky, scary stuff. That's not our biggest mission. Biggest mission here, um, it's just so happened to be what my mom loved, um, but she also loved this aspect of life too. Um, so we started creating an event, a festival. Um, we called it the creepy real festival and it was. It was supposed to be about this big and it's about this big. Now, oh, wow, um, we have, we're up. We have over 40 vendors already signed up. We have an incredible lineup of people.

Shawnna Rigsby: 43:10

My mother knew a lot of wonderful, wonderful people and, like everybody just wanted wants to come to be in support of that and show us their support for her. And so you know, a lot of our lineup is just that People that she knew and who respected her and she respected them. So, like we have. Santiago Cirillo knew my mom very well from the Walking Dead. He's going to be coming out. Ernie Atwell, trying to think man, I'm putting myself on the spot here, let me see who else. Larissa Rex with the Haunted Mafia they're going to be coming out. Paranormal Theory is going to be coming out. We just got word and this hasn't even been announced yet. So you guys are the first to know.

Shawnna Rigsby: 43:59

I'm not sure if you're familiar with who the Blue Boaty is. If you don't know who she is, definitely check her out. She's going to come. She has huge platform of followers, huge on the interweb. She has a huge following. She's an amazing woman. And then, I'm not sure, heather Matarazzo. I'm not sure if you know who she is. She played Lily on the Princess Diary. She had a role in Scream and Hostel and she recently just did a string of episodes for the newest show Wednesday. She's going to be joining us too. I haven't announced those last two yet, so you guys got the first sneak peek of that. That's awesome. So yeah, amazing, amazing people. It's going to be an awesome day. We're so super excited.

Shawnna Rigsby: 44:46

Like again, we're just trying to just do a nice little bit deed and it's kind of exploded and we're super excited.

Logan Mathias: 44:53

But here's the deal.

Shawnna Rigsby: 44:53

What's that Shauna?

Logan Mathias: 44:55

When you're a genuine person and when you're just, when people know you're just kind of trying to have a good time and do all that it's going to to make people want to come. Yeah, I agree, I think that's great. I'd say, let it blow up.

Shawnna Rigsby: 45:08

I mean yeah maybe not meant to be. It will be like my mom always pressed everything is in divine order. She always, always, always said that everybody comes into your life. You know some people are like, oh, I don't believe in that. Everything happens for a reason. Well, I 100% do I do you know. Some people are like, oh, I don't believe in that. Everything happens for a reason. Well, I 100% do, I do.

Shawnna Rigsby: 45:25

You know, even though you have the ability to choose your path, I personally believe divine order already knew what your choice was going to be, so your story has already been written for you. My mom was really big on that and instilled that in me and again to each is their own. I'm not saying everybody has to believe that, but that's just where my foundational beliefs are. And everybody that comes into our lives and it's just, it's been amazing. So if you go like I said at the beginning of all of this, if you go into something with true, pure intentions and you stay steadfast in that, you keep your feet planted and you don't let anything get in the way of what it is you're truly setting out to do in a positive way, with kindness and love and support of one another. The sky's the limit.

Logan Mathias: 46:15

Beautifully said. Yes, agreed. Beautifully said. Well, sean, I know that our audience is going to want to know kind of what you got going on, how to get a hold of you and maybe more information about Creep it Real. Which I finally said without messing that up. Trust me, I tried it before we started and you had you on and I just completely I was like don't mess it up.

Shawnna Rigsby: 46:35

That's all the time. Everybody's always like keep it real. You're keeping it real. I'm like, yep, that's what we're doing. It's a cool name. It is indeed, so yeah yeah, tell our audience what you got going on, yeah, so, um, you can find the doss house on facebook. We have a tiktok also with unique paranormal 1.5. We're on all platforms um facebook, tiktok, instagram. Uh, we're trying to start a youtube channel. I'm not not techie. My wife's trying to learn how to be techie, that's just not our thing.

Shawnna Rigsby: 47:08

You saw me in the beginning of this trying to turn my volume up on this new laptop. I just don't. It's not my thing. We do have a website under construction. There is a lot of information there already. It's the Doss House, dash PA. Actually, I think it's the Doss House of Loretto, dash PA dot com. You can check us out there. If you want to book, the best way to do that is to hit us up on Facebook. Shoot me a messenger or an email at the Doss House. 278 at gmail dot com. Those are your top two, so yeah.

Nicole Mathias: 47:41

That's right. We need to take a trip up there, because I'm very intrigued by this place you may have us there at some point hey, I'll tell you we got a lot of cool places to investigate within about 20 minutes of us.

Shawnna Rigsby: 47:58

I love that whole area you have the Dawes house, you have the Old Stone Jail in Evansburg, you have the Liberty Theater Jail in Evansburg, you have the Liberty Theater in Nanty Glow and then you have the Crescent Sanatorium 10 minutes away. So we tell people who are from far away, like if you are that type of paranormal and you want to just make a couple day trip out of it, we got four awesome places to close by.

Nicole Mathias: 48:21

Take. We got four awesome places to post by Take. A week Sold For you guys. It'd take a little bit longer. You're really far but, yeah, yeah, we are.

Logan Mathias: 48:29

Well, Shauna, thanks again for coming on. That was great.

Shawnna Rigsby: 48:32

Thank you for having me.

Logan Mathias: 48:33

Yeah, and we'll get all that out and hope to have you back on soon.

Shawnna Rigsby: 48:38

Of course anytime.

Logan Mathias: 48:39

All right, thanks for coming on, and we'll talk to you soon anytime, all right, thanks for uh coming on and we'll talk to you soon. Thanks, hey, shauna. Thanks for coming on. Yeah, thank you so much. She's cool. I really do want to have danielle on. That'd be cool too yeah you know I need to talk to both. I talked to both of them because I'm really I'm always curious about that. Again, we talked about the dynamic, yeah, and it's just I find that interesting, especially kind of feeling like it's a little close to home.

Nicole Mathias: 49:03

Yeah.

Logan Mathias: 49:04

Agreed, I think so. But yeah, you know, you got to tell us what you guys think. So often you know in the paranormal field, kind of like what I said, we have to always have these roles and everybody's got to do this and I'm the tech person and all that stuff, and you forget to have fun.

Nicole Mathias: 49:24

Well, sometimes you just naturally fall into that.

Logan Mathias: 49:26

True.

Nicole Mathias: 49:27

You are more that person. You like all the gadgets and all to do that stuff and I like more of the feeling that I get and being in the quiet and knowing the history of the place and trying to make a connection with who I think might be there. So I think people just naturally, what they're naturally attuned to fall, kind of fall into it naturally. But yeah, some groups like forget to, yeah, you know, just go with the flow, right, go with the flow and are very strategic.

Logan Mathias: 49:58

Apparently, I just feel my gadgets Stop. But no, this should be a lot of fun, guys, and if you're in the area you should check that out. That looks like a lot of fun. You know, it sounds like the. The whole premise behind what they do is is just to have a really good time, have that family oriented type.

Nicole Mathias: 50:17

You know situation I love the fact, yeah, the whole setup of it.

Nicole Mathias: 50:21

Yeah, to honor her mother. Oh yeah, absolutely beautiful. And you know, that's the thing is, the majority of us get into this because of some experience. We've had someone we've lost, not understanding what happens. Yeah, you know, when we die, and I think a lot of it's like are they okay? Yeah, you know that love, it comes from that love. We want to know that they're OK and we want to honor them and I think that's a beautiful way that they're doing this. Yeah, but yeah, I'm, I'm super intrigued by this place.

Logan Mathias: 50:57

Yeah, I am.

Nicole Mathias: 50:57

This whole loss of time.

Logan Mathias: 51:00

Yeah, that's Mike Rick Secker, we will be reaching out, but yeah, I mean ever since we talked to him. Now, like that always in the back of my mind is when I hear this stuff, I'm like it makes sense For sure, without a doubt, of all the other things that we've talked about and seen in the past, with different experiences, there could not be a more clear-cut experience of time slip, in my opinion, than that.

Nicole Mathias: 51:28

Well, he talked to us about the Conjuring house, you know like, and your parent had that experience and I think it was her mother that saw the lady and it was a time they were pretty sure it was a time slip. So that, I mean, is that like a portal in the home home? I'd be interested to see what all the mediums had to say. Yeah, in this house. Yeah, they think that because this is overused, I think a lot of the time in these places like, oh, there's a portal, there's a portal, there's a portal. You hear it all the time and it becomes one of these things that people are, you know, are like, oh, they don't even listen to it anymore because it's always the thing that's said. But in this case, yeah, it very well could be there's a good potential of it, for sure.

Nicole Mathias: 52:12

Because of the time. I mean. The watch acted like she wasn't even there. How do you explain that?

Logan Mathias: 52:19

You got to go there. Mediums, if you're in the area, go report back I don't know why I just gave them all a directive.

Nicole Mathias: 52:30

Yeah, I want to go check this place out. It's definitely one of the. I'm super intrigued by this. This is going to be cool. I want to figure it out.

Logan Mathias: 52:37

Guys, tell us what you think. Comments anything you want.

Nicole Mathias: 52:43

If you want to be on the show, info at Generation X Paranormal yeah and contact Shauna and Danielle at the DOS house. 278 at gmailcom.

Logan Mathias: 52:49

For sure.

Nicole Mathias: 52:50

Or go to Facebook. She said that's the better way. So Unique Paranormal 1.5. That's how you find them.

Logan Mathias: 52:56

Other than that, guys, pleasure having you and we'll see you next week. See you next week.