Seeking Beyond Paranormal

The Knight House

October 24, 2025 | 7pm — 9am

The Claims | Equipment and Setup | The Investigation | Our Results

The remarkable history of the would-be Knight House began in 1815 with initial construction potentially starting under owner J.P. Campbell (deeds weren't generated for new construction yet, so records at the time were iffy at best). The house would change hands a time or two before then-owner R.O.Y. Dill of the Kentucky State House of Representatives sold it to J.B. Knight in 1860. Knight's family would live and die in the house for the next 80+ years.

J.B. Knight and his wife Eliza had seven children — Robert (the oldest, died in 1881), John Jr. (died in 1929), Charlie (dies 1924 in the house), Carrie (died at age 25 of Tuberculousis in the house), Kate (died at age 22 of TB in the house), Ida (died in 1938 in the house), and Thomas (died in 1939 in the house). When Leon (Carrie's only living child) unexpectedly dies and no family is left that can afford the house, the family holds an estate sale to sell off the house and its furniture. A house flipper bought it and installed modern electricity and modern plumbing before selling it to. W.E. Rogers in 1948. W.E. Rogers Jr. and his wife Francis move into the house with their children. We don't know where W.E. Rogers died, but Francis died in the house in 1999. Their son, Terry, would later die in the house in 2014 before a family called the Rassets (sp?) would buy the house. The Rassets would live in the house for ten years and sold it to the current owners, Eric and Rodger Sims, in 2024. If you're keeping track, that's seven deaths in the house... without counting any of the soldiers who died in the house during Hopkinsville's various occupations during the Civil War, when the house's basement was used as a makeshift hospital.

It was originally built in the Federalist style, very simple and blocky. Over the house's history, it would see structural additions to include a large, columned side porch and a dining room connecting the house to the former Summer kitchen, as well as Greek-Revival and Egyptian-Revival style changes.

The Claims

The claims of paranormal activity at the Knight House run the gamut — hearing disembodied voices and other audible phenomenon like knocking and footsteps, cameras catching the sounds of furniture moving when nothing has moved, doors opening and closing, bed sheets being physically disturbed, and physical interactions with objects like marbles and catballs. In an exceedingly rare case, someone has even been touched. The website for the Knight House lists their claims, and even has their own video evidence of some of these claims. One particular video shows a mysterious mist floating across the screen and forming into a sheet or dress-like shape, so visual anomalies are on the table as well.

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Equipment and Setup

Per usual, we brought our usual kit, nothing we haven't talked about before. However, Dianna (our technology consultant) brought a fancy toy for us to play with — her thermal camera. She uses it for work, but made it available for us to use for the investigation. For those that don't know, a thermal camera measures the temperature of the surfaces in its field of view and presents them as a colorful picture of warm temperatures (reds, oranges, and yellows) and cool temperatures (greens, blues, and purples) in a live video feed.

For paranormal investigations, thermal cameras are used to see temperature fluctuations that have no reason to exist. In the simplest of terms, if you spot something person-shaped and moving like a person, but a person isn't in view, that might just be an aparition. But they can also be used to see if something hasn't occurred. That is to say — and as you'll see in the video below — if a door moves but no warm hand prints are found on the door, then you have more reason to look for causes.

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The Investigation

The evening began with a little debunking work. During the tour, the owners recounted to us that the doors on the buffet in the dining room had opened right in front of them earlier that day. It was a first time occurrence for them on this particular piece of furniture, citing the numerous times they've walked past it without causing enough vibration to cause it to happen. After the tour wrapped up and we were set to begin our evening, Pamela walked into the dining room and noted that the doors to the buffet were open. So we decided our first task of the night was to try to debunk this phenomenon.

With cameras poised, ready to capture the spontaneous door movement, we began walking back and forth in front of the buffet. Our working theory was that perhaps the doors loosen over time and end up becoming loose enough to spring open after so many passes by. For the longest time, even after forcefully stomping by, we couldn't get them to open up. Dianna focused her thermal camera on the doors at one point, noting that there were no fingerprints or hand prints on the doors (even showing us how long handprints can linger on similar surfaces long after for comparison). It was beginning to look like a genuine phenomenon... until they opened up for us on another pass by. After resetting the doors and trying another few walking and stomping passes, we were able to replicate the doors opening. Eventually, we were able to get this on camera, as seen in the video below. Our theory was correct: despite being closed with a friction fit, the doors would loosen over time until eventually enough vibration caused them to spring free. As for the owners' experiencing it for the first time earlier that day, we have to assume the doors were secure enough before then and just happened to loosen up after so much vibration from walking over the few months it had been there. There's a first time for everything.

Then the investigation began in earnest. We opted to start in the main entry room with a REM Pod and our voice recorders. We had REM Pod activity almost immediately in the form of the temperature sensor going off. Being the main entry way with doors nearby, the REM Pod was likely just catching some kind of draft or natural temperature shift as the night crept on. To further support that, we couldn't ever get the REM Pod to turn on when asked. Curiously, however, it would turn off on command almost every single time. So much so it felt like it was beyond coincedence. So we're on the fence about it being natural or paranormal. That being said, it wasn't the only activity we captured in the main entry room. It turns out we captured an EVP during our time in the room.

The investigation really ramped up when we moved to the parlor. We brought out our flashlights and catballs for this next part, and managed to have a fairly coherent and intelligent flashlight communication session. The session can be seen in the video below, but Eric would provide us with some extra information after the investigation that really sent this one over the top. During the flashlight session, we asked if we were speaking with a soldier (and we assumed Civil War soldier at this point). The flashlights, designated with yes and no options, answered "yes." Curiously, though, the flashlights answered "no" when asked if they were a Union soldier and then a Confederate soldier. We hadn't even considered other eras and more recent occupants' possible military service, and our further questioning about the Civil War received seemingly confused responses. But that's where Eric's information came in handy — it turns out that Terry Rogers (who died in the house in 2014) was a tanker in the Army. Once we had that information, the responses we got made a lot more sense. We may have been talking with Terry Rogers, who was a soldier, but was of course neither Union nor Confederate, and not even part of the Civil War. His military record would come much later than that. Interestingly, we'd also capture some footsteps on our voice recorder in this room.

Next, we moved upstairs where we conducted a series of Estes Method sessions. We'll let the video below handle all the story telling, but we had quite a few experiences crop up during these sessions that are worth pointing out. Jecca and I (David) would perform our sessions in the bedroom right off the stairs, while Dianna and Pamela would perform theirs in the attic (just off the bedroom). During Jecca's session, I got the word "knock" so I asked whoever was present to repeat two knocks for me. I didn't hear it in the moment, but both our video and audio captured two knocks in response to my own. Additionally, I was asking for the names of the homeowners, and was surprised to find out that my own name was given in response.

During my session, while I gave a few anecdotal responses here and there, the real action was occurring in the corner of the room where Dianna and Pamela spotted a moving cold spot on the thermal camera about the height of an adult person over a piece of furniture just as I would say the word "cabinet." Whether or not the two are connected is up for debate, but the team spent the bulk of my session enamored with the mysterious cold spot in the room. You can see the experience in the video below.

Upstairs in the attic, Dianna would go under for the next Estes Method session. Curiously, she recited the words "Estes" and "blindfold" in rather quick succession, arguably related words whether you're a skeptic or believer. Considering *that's what we were doing* in the moment, it's beyond coincedence to us. They might as well have told us what we were wearing. Pamela's session got lost to file corruption somehow, so it's difficult to piece together after-the-fact, but we do have audio of something that occurred during her session. At one point, we heard an audible squeak sound in the room with us. It's worth noting that we also had a REM Pod in the attic with us, and the temperature sensor was going off fairly regularly (likely of natural causes). This squeak was not the REM Pod, as it was far too quiet.

Toward the end of the night, we went to the basement to see if we could get any activity from any of the Civil War soldiers that may have died down there, but it was absolutely quiet. However, a teenager is said to haunt the basement as well, and likes to play with marbles and catballs. So to cover all our bases, Jecca set out some marbles on the pool table to see if we'd see any movement overnight. Unfortunately we didn't see any marbles displaced the next morning, but it was a good test.

We finished the night (I legitimately almost typed "knight") by going to the parlor one last time. This time around, our setup was a bit different. Instead of having the flashlights on one of the sofas, we had them on the mantle. However, after noticing one of them was going off regularly, we assumed there was some kind of vibration setting it off (perhaps from the HVAC). We moved the flashlights to the floor, but it seems like there was still some residual vibrations causing the same flashlight to go off with regularity. As a result, we reverted back to our original setup with the flashlights on the couch, with one minor difference: we swapped the "yes" and "no" flashlights around. You can see in the video that it generated some interesting results.

And now we present our investigation video of the Knight House in Hopkinsville, KY. Enjoy!

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Our Results

With the Knight House being relatively new to the paranormal scene, we didn't know what we were getting ourselves into. As mentioned earlier, the owners have their own evidence on the house's website, but it can still be difficult to really gauge a location's potential if you haven't seen other teams investigate it beforehand. That being said, I can tell you that the Knight House certainly didn't disappoint. Our experiences on the tour alone were enough to really cement this place as a go-to location in the paranormal community. Here are the results of our investigation:

We'd like to thank Eric and Rodger Sims for not only hosting our investigation for the evening, but for setting out to make this place available to the paranormal community. The love and effort you two are putting into the house really shows, and we can't wait to come back! PS — I hope I got everything right! There's a lot of history here!

by David Reimer, posted November 9, 2025

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Seeking Beyond Paranormal is a team of paranormal investigators based in Huntsville, Alabama. First started as a fun way to visit some of the country’s most haunted locations, Seeking Beyond now explores the realm of paranormal investigation.

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