Paranormal investigators visiting a notoriously haunted house in Illinois had a rather hair-raising experience when they spotted a tricycle seemingly being moved by an unseen force. The weird moment took place at the historic Ashmore Estates, which was built in 1916 and once served as both a poor house as well as a mental asylum. No doubt due to that dark background, the building has become something of a hotspot for purported paranormal activity and has drawn considerable attention from researchers searching for spirits.
Among them is a ghost hunter named Lee Kirkwood, who recently investigated the site along with a group of like-minded researchers and managed to capture something truly eerie on film. In the intriguing footage, Kirkwood and his compatriots are standing around a tricycle which had been brought into the room as a potential 'trigger' for the spirit of a little girl said to reside at the estate. As he points his flashlight at the bike, Kirkwood is stunned to see it roll ever-so-slightly in a manner suggesting that something had pushed it.
Upon seeing this, Kirkwood asks in an astonished fashion, "did it just move," and the other witnesses in the room quickly confirm that they spotted the same thing. Reflecting on the strangeness to a British newspaper, he mused "it was a pretty creepy piece of video for sure." While Kirkwood attributes the odd movement to whatever spirits reside in the century-old home, skeptics will almost certainly argue that there is probably some prosaic explanation for what the group witnessed. That said, we're hard pressed to come up with anything ordinary that could have caused the motion aside from shenanigans on the part of the group, which seems pretty unlikely based on how the event unfolded.