Evidence Review of July 17th William Penn Fire Tower Investigation

The fire tower was originally built in the 1800’s out of wood. In April of 1923 the tower was burned down to the ground by arson. A can of gasoline was found at the site. During its reconstruction it is said that a man had died while working on the building as well as the grounds keepers, Marsha and Earl Walker, had also passed on after the restoration of the Tower itself. It is said that you can hear foot steps on the steel stairs, knocking and other strange noises. This is one of Reading PA’s most famous landmarks and the ESPRS is greatly appreciative to have had the opportunity to investigate the tower and hopes to go back in the future.

The investigation started around 8:15pm when members of the ESPRS first showed up to the fire tower, pictures were taken of the outside and the area was walked around, the property is enclosed by a chain link fence and pad locked shut. Once we were inside we were locked into the area. Lights out at about 8:35 and the investigation began. Equipment that was brought along for this was an EMF detector, Mini DV recorder with low light recording, digital voice recorder and digital cameras.

Fire Tower investigation Video Evidence Review.

8 Minuets and 18 seconds through 8 minuets 26 seconds unexplained knocking after asking if whoever was with us was happy with the restoration of the tower.


Martha and Earl Walker were the care takers of the William Penn fire tower in the 50's,60's, and 70's .

35:26 we start talking about the walker family the care takers of the tower and the family spent countless hours in this building. They have since passed. At 35:41 you see boxes stacked up on each other at 36:55 you hear the boxes moving

38 minuets Kate is focused on the boxes that just moved she noticed earlier that the camera went out of focus and seconds later at 38:18/19 they go out of focus again without the camera moving and nothing in front?

51:44 Disembodied voice like a Moaning through 52 minuets. Steve had been upstairs and asked if it was a car that went by, however myself, Cory, and Kate were all downstairs looking out the windows and saw no cars or headlights reflecting as they would when one did go past.

Check out the mist that was caught on camera. You will be able to see that all these pictures are taken with the same camera and no other picture shows the mist captured.