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Sometimes, the most profound moments in paranormal investigation come not with a bang, but with silence. After last year's unprecedented surge in activity at Point Pleasant Lighthouse, I've made one final visit to the site. What I found – or rather, what I didn't find – marks the end of this particular investigation.

Following reports of the activity gradually diminishing over the past months, I returned to Point Pleasant with my trusty TriField meter. This same device had recorded readings of 25 during my first visit in 2001, dropped to 8 after the storm damage, and surged to an incredible 35 during last year's phenomena. Today, it registered zero. Not a fluctuation, not a slight deviation – absolute zero.

The cold spots that once commanded attention? Gone. The Morse code signals that sparked so much speculation? Silent. Even the peculiar weather patterns reported throughout the past year have normalized. It's as if whatever energy source powered these phenomena has simply... departed.

In my years of conducting paranormal investigations alongside my regular work, I've observed that supernatural activity often follows patterns we don't fully understand. Sometimes it builds to a crescendo, as we witnessed last year. Other times, it simply fades away, leaving us with more questions than answers.

The historical society's records show something interesting – similar patterns of activity and dormancy at Point Pleasant have been reported roughly every twenty years since Phelps' disappearance. The last major cycle was documented in 1983, though those accounts are frustratingly vague about specific phenomena.

Part of me wants to maintain monitoring, to see if this is truly an end or merely a pause in the cycle. However, as someone who pursues these investigations in whatever spare time I can find, I have to acknowledge when it's time to move on. Sometimes, the most honest conclusion we can reach is that we don't have a conclusion at all.

What happened to Thomas Phelps in 1943? What caused the surge of activity we witnessed last year? Why has it all gone quiet now? These questions join the countless others in the ever-growing file of unexplained phenomena. Perhaps that's where they belong – not every mystery needs to be solved to be meaningful.

To those who've followed this investigation since my first visit in 2001, thank you for your interest and support. While this marks my final post about Point Pleasant, I hope someone else will be there to document the next cycle, should it emerge. After all, in this field, silence rarely means the end of the story – it's often just an intermission.