Hello everyone. I’ve been trying to formulate the right thing to post about my dowsing experience. I think Wolf and Imperiale have done a good job of getting everyone’s curiosity up. I’m going to try to tell my story as best I can here, but remember, I’m not a journalist or an attorney, just a nobody really who just wanted to know what happened to poor Cheryl Dunlap.

Like many of you reading this forum, I started off reading the comments people were making about the articles the Tallahassee Democrat was publishing online in regards to Cheryl Dunlap’s disappearance and murder.

I followed along and when Wolfscratch came onboard and read his stories about his posts that being deleted, I tried to save the original discussions and eventually became the administrator for this forum, appropriately nicknamed The Heaven Forum.

When someone on TDO would ask a question about comments from December 2007 or January 2008, I would try to find the answer by looking through my archives of articles and links relating to Cheryl Dunlap. During one of these searches I came across the following post. I think this post is what really got me thinking about investigating what happened to Cheryl from a paranormal perspective.

Posted by FLMom: 12-13-2007, 09:30 AM
Beginning of vision:
kym and cdt, glad you're here. What I'm about to say is a completely "for what it's worth" and "take it or leave it, it's OK" post. I've been a dull psychic for years now. It's really frustrating to try to focus and can't, but then things come to you when you least expect or want it. I really hope no one thinks I'm a kook. . . I'm really not, but here goes.

This morning I dropped my daughter off at the high school on Hwy 98. I've been fighting a headache and eyestrain for a week now. I was woolgathering on the way down 319 North thinking about Cheryl. I was sitting at the stoplight at the courthouse and **PING**. . . all of the sudden no headache and perfect vision for the first time in DAYS. I perked up my radar and said a short prayer. I think I even said "wow" aloud. I'm not a big prayer person, but I felt like I HAD to.

There's a big sign now on 319 about Cheryl at the exact spot she disappeared. I drove a little past it and pulled into the state park there, the Leon Sinks. The following is what I got, again "take it or leave it":

She felt something was wrong with her car. . . all of the sudden it wasn't driving quite right. She intended to go to Glenda's, the little BP on the side of the road. Next I see her talking to someone, and it's a friendly conversation. The guy is grinning, charming and helpful. It's one of those friend three times removed kind of people. I feel like she knew his "kin".

Someone else that she knows loosely pulled out of the Leon Sinks that afternoon. This person slows down as he goes by her, and sees that someone is with her and keeps driving. He's not coming forward now as he's got some legal issues himself. I think the key is going to be when he does finally come forward, because while he doesn't know this guy particularly, he does know "of" him and recognizes him.

I get the feeling that she is a very book smart person, but not street smart. She feels embarrassment/shame at what happens next. That's blocked for me, and it's just as well because I don't want to know.

The next thing I see is a yellow house that's badly in need of painting. There's a concrete slab foundation to it. I can see yellow paint feathering, and the pea green color of algae that has built up. There's a floodlight I can see at the front of the house. At the angle that I'm seeing this, you'd have to be laying on the ground looking up at the house.

The other thing is that there is some kind of connection to Hwy 20 and the back roads of it, near the lakes and sand pits.

I hope like ya'll just don't know that she's on a beach somewhere sipping a drink. I hope that I'm wrong and this whole post is cause for much eye-rolling later. There's nothing new that I could find in the Tallahassee Democrat this morning. I really hope that she doesn't fall off of the news radar.
End of vision


I asked Wolfscratch if I could send a letter describing his weird experience to a paranormal investigator and he gave me permission to do that. I sent the letter to one organization and to my surprise, they responded with an email wanting to meet me Saturday August 2, 2009. I contacted a few other local posters from the TDO website and we all met for breakfast. Psychic A was a medium (is able to contact people who have passed on) and Psychic B handles the electronic equipment, just like on Sci-fi’s Ghost Hunter’s TV show. Psychic A informed us that Cheryl’s spirit had come to her about a week after she disappeared. I shared with the two psychics the vision posted by FLMom. I thought I might have found the yellow house in question and wanted them to see it. We went to the yellow house and Psychic A walked right in and looked around quietly and said, “No, Cheryl Dunlap has never been here”
Psychic A wanted to go to the place Cheryl was last known to have been alive, and that turned out to be her house. I was a little leery about going there, but I had unleashed a paranormal investigation to find out what happened to Cheryl, so I just tagged along and watched.

We went to her house and Psychic A stood in the yard for a few moments and then reported that she did not feel that Cheryl had encountered anything violent there.

We went next to Cheryl’s gravesite. It appeared Psychic A made contact with Cheryl. One of the communications from Cheryl was a bible passage. I feel strongly she wanted me to post the following:


Suffering for Doing Good
8Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble. 9Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. 10For,
"Whoever would love life
and see good days
must keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from deceitful speech.
11He must turn from evil and do good;
he must seek peace and pursue it.
12For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous
and his ears are attentive to their prayer,
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."[a]
13Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? 14But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. "Do not fear what they fear[b]; do not be frightened."[c] 15But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, 16keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. 17It is better, if it is God's will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. 18For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, 19through whom[d] also he went and preached to the spirits in prison 20who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, 21and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge[e] of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22who has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.


1st Peter 3:8-22

That was the "peter" connection she felt!
Now i got the goosebumps. Ty for typing all this up.

Thank you daffy. I would cut that out and put it up somewhere, if I had any place to put it. That helped and, naturally, made me cry, surprise.

I know you couldn't put the rest to words yet. But maybe one day we will be able to. So much secrecy, and some of it is just not wanting to hurt people, and that part is understandable. I feel that way myself, for all my trying to wangle out the right story from people. Sometimes I'd just as soon try to learn it all for myself, and keep it and not share it.

But what good would that do, to know and not tell what happened? It seems to me to dishonor the dead to do anything but tell their story....