Good advice for ghost hunters!

This article is very interesting and very true. If you’ve read any of my postings about me and my wife having gone through many situations with the paranormal, then you have gotten a pretty good insight to what we had gone through. And yes, what this article says about taking precautions against  “ghostly intrusions” is very good advice…it may just save you from having to go through a lot of unwanted problems like we did. Why I say that is because my wife did go to a couple of pretty old grave yards and other areas in search of EVPs and there just might have been an unwanted entity that may have attached itself to my wife or myself and had come back to our former house with us. Click on the link to read the full article, it’s very well worth reading!

Ghost Hunting Examiner: Dangers of the paranormal: a cautionary tale for ghost hunters
Is investigating the paranormal potentially dangerous? Until recently, I would have said “No,” particularly if you are not a sensitive. Since I fall somewhere in between true sensitives and those who are psychic as a brick, I routinely use psychic shielding methods before I begin any investigation or similar type work. I know others on the R.I.P. team also employ their own rituals. However, I’ve now witnessed something that has me convinced that everyone – sensitive or not – needs to be aware of the possible dangers of ghost hunting and take precautions before investigating.

Last year, a new paranormal investigator visited a popular and reputedly “haunted” site and captured several EVPs. Over a period of several months, she became obsessed with capturing EVPs and she began to collect more and more of them, not only at haunted sites, but in her own home. Eventually, she began hearing the voices with her physical ears, rather than merely when she played back her recordings.

Read the whole article here: Ghost Hunting Examiner: Dangers of the paranormal: a cautionary tale for ghost hunters.

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Last days in our haunted house part 2

Did a ghost get busted in the cellar?

In a previous post I promised I’d explain what my buddies reactions were to our short “investigation” down in the cellar where I had explained to him about the brief sightings of the shadowy figure and the sensation of being touched by someone or something that wasn’t there. Not to mention the two kittens that had died in that very same cellar for no good reason at all. And a few other incidences that occurred down there.

We had went down in the cellar this past Sunday afternoon (Feb. 1), my buddy brought his EMF meter (yes, I am well aware of the implications using that with electrical conduits etc., in the cellar) and swept the area. In 3 distinct spots where there were NO nearby electrical wires, outlets etc., present, the meter went from .01 up to .05 in one spot. Then from .02 to .04 in the 2nd.

In the 3rd spot, the meter just started to jump all over the place. I personally had said out loud for any entity or presence to please give a sign on the meter that it was indeed in our presence. Within 10 seconds or so, my friends meter started to jump all over the scale and then made the audible alert come on and also made the LED light up to indicate that the meter was pegged up to the highest end of the scale. My friend then said his entire right side of his body (which if it was there, the “entity” would have been on his right side.) started feeling like he was standing in a walk-in freezer.

I called out one more time for this “entity” to please give us one more indication it was indeed there by doing something we could see or hear. The meter again lit up its LED indicator and the audible warning went off. Now, the seconds before, my friend had used the meters sensor wand and swept the SAME area…no visible readings, then the meters alarm went off as well as the LED indicator when I had called out loud for another indication of its presence.

We did not however try for any EVPs unfortunately. I wish we would have…I personally would have been very interested to hear any results on that one!

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Very closely shared experiances!

Here’s a clipping of a really interesting story I just found while browsing one of my favorite paranormal sites.

The experiences noted below  are very, very close to what has and is being experienced in the house my wife and I are preparing to move out of. The shooting pain portion of that has been felt by myself, and that just started today (2/3/09) and that is something I have NEVER felt quite like that before. The emotional lows have been experienced often as well…coming on for really no apparent reason. Sure, we all feel depressed sometimes, but when it comes on for literally no reason, and very heavily…it really has to make you wonder. The odors: we’ve smelled other types of smells (perfume: sweet, pungent etc.), not the same as below. As for the EVPs…when I have the time, I will be posting a few select ones for everyone to hear.

Hpi chronicles: west roseville: why is this area so haunted?
Experiences Felt by Investigators:

Some investigators felt a heaviness on their chests. Some investigators felt a heaviness in the air as they entered one of the closets. One investigator felt depression or sadness. Three investigators smelled something foul, almost like stale vinegar. The smell comes and gos. The smell would last maybe a half a minute. Tom felt a headache as he entered the laundry room. He felt a shooting pain around his temple areas, later he would feel lightheaded. Investigator thought she saw a dewy mist go past her. At one point of time, I thought I saw a white fleeting figure by a 2nd floor window, it could have been my mind playing tricks. Robbie felt a brushing warmth that went across her face and later she thought she saw a quick moving shadow.

FINDINGS:

Investigator gets what sounds like the word ‘dodgers’ EVP. The EVP sounded like a man. The word sounded like ‘dodgers’ or ‘dodge her’. Another EVP was what sounded like ‘Moslo’ when the question was asked: ‘Is Anyone Here?’ Moslo could have been a ‘Must Go’. Tammy Straling received EVP that sounds like a woman sighing. Kathy takes a picture in the back room on the first floor that looked like a twisting tornado with a bright light at the base of the tornado. Could this photograph be of a vortex/portal? All EVPs and Kathy’s vortex photo need to be further analyzed. Robbie takes a picture with a black shadow moving across the ceiling. Her 2nd photo shows no shadow moving across ceiling. I had Tom take Robbie back into the same area to try and recreate the photo and the photo could not be recreated.

CONCLUSION:

With the possible EVPs and the unusual vortex photo. This place seems to have possible paranormal activity.

via True Ghost Stories : West Roseville: why is this area so haunted ?

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Last days in our haunted house

Since this past December of 2008 when we had finally finished closing out on our sale of our house and land, there’s been a noticeable increase in “things” happening dureing the day and night at our so called “haunted house”.

Last month, Jan. ‘09, an inspector had to come in and look over the foundation, wiring and all for the new buyers. In what used to be our livingroom, we have our home theater system set up, speakers mounted securely  on the wall etc.  In front of 4 people, one of the mounted wall speakers to the theater system flew off the wall and hit the inspector less than lightly in the side of his head!

This whole thing was witnessed by my wife, myself and the new couple who baught the house.

20 minutes later as myself, the same inspector and the husband of the new couple were out in the garage, the inspector climbed up into the attic to check out the layout up there, I was told less than 8 minutes afterwards by my wife and the wife of the new couple that they BOTH heard what sounded like a person yelling loudly & briefly from somewhere in the house.  No one else heard this!

I know for a fact that whatever this entity is that has been inhabiting this house and causeing a great deal of problems, is not very happy with the new buyers.

Both my wife and I have also been experiencing activity such as objects moving by themselves, again (hasn’t happened for more than 2 months until now), certain smells like perfume or a clean hospital like anti-septic smell. Now my father did pass away in this house back in 1994 from cancer and was tended to by Hospice daily back then. I myself have seen partial bodied apparitions to full bodied. But only very short sightings in the recent months. Both my wife and I have been experiencing an increase in lucid to near lucid dreaming. A very big increase.

The closer we get to leaving this house to move, the more activity increases. I’ll be posting a few more details very soon. So stay tuned.

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Signs of a haunting

Here’s a pretty handy list of signs of a haunting at your house etc., I felt this list needed to be posted here (also because of what my wife and I are going through at our own house). Most of these are pretty obvious, but some of these may apply to your situation.

Signs your house might be haunted:

• Unexplained noises – footsteps; knocks, banging, rapping; scratching sounds; sounds of something being dropped. Sometimes these noises can be subtle and other times they can be quite loud.
• Doors, cabinets and cupboards opening and closing – most often, these phenomena are not seen directly. The experiencer either hears the distinct sounds of the doors opening and closing (homeowners get to know quite well the distinctive sounds their houses make) or the experiencer will return to a room to find a door open or closed when they are certain that it was left in the opposite position. Sometimes furniture, like kitchen chairs, are perceived to have been moved. Very rarely will the experiencer actually witness the phenomenon taking place.
• Lights turning off and on – likewise, these events are seldom seen actually occurring, but the lights are switched on or off when the experiencer knows they were not left that way. This can also happen with TVs, radios and other electrically powered items.
• Items disappearing and reappearing – this phenomenon, which we have dubbed “the DOPler Effect” (DOP = Disappearing Object Phenomenon), has been examined in the article “The DOPler Effect.” Others have called this “the borrowers” phenomenon, and it’s the familiar experience of not being able to find a regularly used item – say, your set of car keys – which you believe you placed in a spot you routinely place them. But they’re gone and you look high and low for them with no success. Some time later, the keys are found – in exactly the place you normally put them. It’s as if the object was borrowed by someone or something for a short time, then returned. Sometimes they are not returned for days or even weeks, but when they are, it’s in an obvious place that could not have been missed by even a casual search.
• Unexplained shadows – the sighting of fleeting shapes and shadows, usually seen out of the corner of the eye. This phenomenon has also been discussed in some detail in “Shadow People.” Many times, the shadows have vaguely human forms, while other times they are less distinguishable or smaller.
• Strange animal behavior – a dog, cat or other pet behaves strangely. Dogs may bark at something unseen, cower without apparent reason or refuse to enter a room they normally do. Cats may seem to be “watching” something cross a room. Animals have sharper senses than humans, and many researchers think their psychic abilities might be more finely tuned also.
• Feelings of being watched – this is not an uncommon feeling and can be attributed to many things, but it could have a paranormal source if the feeling consistently occurs in a particular part of the house at a particular time.
• Mild psychokinetic phenomena – hearing a door open or close is one thing. Actually seeing it happen is quite another. Similarly, actually seeing a light go on or off by itself is greater proof that something unexplained is happening. Do you see the TV or radio turn on? Or perhaps you’re present when a child’s powered toy begins to operate on its own. Doors and windows are locked or unlocked. Some people report that when they are in bed they can feel and/or hear something sitting on the bed.
• Feelings of being touched – the feeling of being watched is one thing, and actually feeling like you are being touched is quite another. Some people feel something brush past them, something touching their hair or “a hand” on the shoulder. Some feel a gentle poke, push or nudge.
• Cries and whispers – on occasion, muffled voices, whispering and crying can be heard. Sometimes it’s music from some unknown source. People hear their names being said. This phenomenon, as is true for the one above, gains more credibility if more than one person hears or sees the same thing at the same time.
• Cold or hot spots – cold spots are classic haunting symptoms, but any instance of a noticeable variance in temperature without a discernable cause could be evidence.
• Unexplained smells – the distinct fragrance of a perfume or cologne that you do not have in your house. This phenomenon comes and goes without any apparent cause and may accompany other phenomena, such as shadows, voices or psychokinetic phenomena. Foul odors can happen in the same way.

Rarer still are more extreme phenomena, some of which have been called poltergeist phenomena, and can be quite strong evidence of a true haunting:

• Moving or levitating objects (severe psychokinetic phenomena) – dinner plates sliding across the table; pictures flying off walls; doors slamming shut with great force; furniture sliding across the floor.
• Physical assault – scratches, slaps and hard shoves. This kind of personal assault is extremely rare, but obviously highly disturbing.
• Other physical evidence – unexplained writing on paper or walls; hand prints and footprints.
• Apparitions – physical manifestation of a spirit or entity. These phenomena are also very rare and can take many forms: human-shaped mists or forming mists of some indistinguishable shape; transparent human forms that disappear quickly; and most rarely, human forms that look as real and solid as any living person, but that disappear into a room or even while being viewed.

All the above had been posted at another site. Since this list is actually pretty handy and you might want to print this out, I wanted to post it here for everyone to study and see if any of the above applies to your particular situation. The one thing on this list my wife and I have not had happen yet is the physical assault, and we do not want that to happen of course. As far as any physical evidence, we have had hand prints appear on a mirror hanging on a wall in our kitchen. The mirror measures roughly 3′ X 4′ or so, and a hand print had appeared (not before our eyes unfortunately…I would have loved to see that!) The hand print is NOT from any of us, nor is not from any visiting family etc. We have no children, and no other family has the keys to our house. So no accidental brushing or touching against or on the mirror could have happened.

If any of the above from the list applies to you, please leave a reply here and let us and the readers know about it.

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Hospitals and the disembodied

When you pass by a local graveyard, you must be thinking how haunted these places must really be. Well, maybe you don’t think that specificaly, but I myself have thought that on many occassions. Having done a few EVP capture sessions at two of our local graveyards and having captured five good, clear EVPs, it’s very clear that graveyards have a fair amount of activity. Graveyards are one good place for certain investigations, but hospitals, given the fact that many people do and have passed away at these places, most certainly are hot spots for paranormal activity.

After all, if you had suddenly passed away at a hospital, it would be a traumatic passing for you…not wanting to have died there, but you had no choice and did anyways. Those traumatic moments would certainly lead to a residual haunting in some cases and in most, an ongoing one. The video below is a very good example. It’s an investigation done by the Oklahoma City Ghost Club at the Old Woodward Hospital. I think you’ll enjoy this as much as I did.

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When your home becomes a haven for spirits – part3

Amongst the more disturbing activities that have taken place at our home, one of them had taken place back in September of 2005 when two of our very healthy cats, both younger but still very healthy (checked out by the vet, given their shots, given nutritional food…not the low end junk on the market) and had no signs of infections, illness etc. The deaths were not back to back. One took place about the first week of Sept., the other in the third week. We always keep anything poisinous in cabinets out in the garage. So there had been no way those cats could have gotten into anything like that. Why does this seem so mysterious? Because those cats were checked out very closely and they should not have died like this. Later on, as in this year, my wife asked these entities via a digital recorder to capture a few EVPs if the spirits had anything to do with those cats dieing…the answer was yes.

We also have a small dog who refuses to stay in the cellar by himself. We don’t keep him down there of course, but whenever he goes down there, he simply refuses to stay there by himself. Now this is a dog that has chased a full grown german shepard down the road from our driveway…so he’s a brave little thing! This cellar is a prime spot where I have felt this “thing” standing next to me and then giving me this impression that I need to get out of that cellar right away (this happens randomly and not every time I go down there). It’s the one place where the more aggressive EVPs have been captured. My wife and I both have sensed anything from real fear being directed towards us, to feelings of despair and depression in this cellar. My wife has captured many unusual sounds on her digital recorder. Some of these sounds range from growling type sounds to walking (only once has that been captured) and sounds of a child giggling and saying that it liked to play down there. When asked if this child entity was the reason why our washing machine just died for no good reason…it said yes!

It’s normal for any cellar to be cool in the summer. There have been more than a few times when we have both felt colder than normal spots in this cellar. Cold spots that would slowly move from one end to the other. Now these same cold spots have also been felt out in the yard too. On warm summer nights out in the open where there’s no way for any tempature variations to set in because of being close to the woods and all. The EVPs are captured in conjunction with these cold spots, whether it’s outside or inside.

Focusing on the EVPs for a minute, these EVPs again are of a child and what sounds like 3 or 5 seperate adult voices. I’ll post some of these captured EVPs later on. Most every one of these EVPs have not been nice ones either. There have been more than a few times where these EVPs have been threatning. These threats haven’t been about any bodily harm, but as in claiming this entity will never leave and will continue to watch and will not allow us to ever banish this thing. So I guess we won’t be calling in the ghostbusters then huh? lol. When asking this thing its name, several have come up, among those names it has used legion. A demonic name signifieing there are many of its kind. Now maybe this entity is merely being playful or perhaps this entity is demonic in nature. Remember, this land we are on was the site of a lot of misery, bloodshed etc., because of the history of the settlers and Indians in this area. So that in itself lends to the reasons why there has been so much activity here.

Now as far as some of the other recent activity at this house…there have been many nights where my wife was in the back room useing the computer and she has felt something touching the back of her neck, touching her feet, her arm and shoulder. None of these incidents have been harmful, just noticable touching. She has witnissed itmes in that room move by themselves for a short period of time.

I’ll be wrapping this whole thing up in part 4, which is soon to come. So stay tuned!

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When your home becomes a haven for spirits – part2

There’s several theorys about why certain locations have so much activity going on. One theory is because of family members, friends etc., dieing at that location and those spirits are bound or maybe even trapped there due to a strong tie with the location for whatever reason. The second one is that location has a portal of sorts that allows two way travel if you will, of these spirits or ghosts to come and go at will. Another theory is that perhaps these spirits have some kind of “assignment” or a “duty” to help out the living at that location.

I’m more prone to believe that in our case it’s because of family or loved ones dieing at the location. In our case the 1st theory just might be true here…my father had died in our house back in 1994 from cancer. He chose to come back here and was in his last days, confined to an hospital bed braught here and he was being taken care of by Hospice at that time. I wasn’t here that night when he passed away. The EVPs we have gotten from our house have several indicators that he is indeed one of the spirits that is here. Some of the indicators are that he asked several times where his favorite baseball style hat was (he always wore a light greenish baseball style hat). We have both heard the sound of a bell being rang. When he was able to walk around, my father always sat out in his workshop that’s out back of our house and rang the bell when he needed something. I personaly have heard the EVP and his voice is strong and recognizable!

On many occassions I have smelled the odor of perfume or scented powder that will hover in certain areas in this house and then disappear only to show up in a new area of the house. My mother had passed away back in 2005, but not here, she passed away at a place that cares for senior citizens. My mother had a few favorite perfumes she always wore and a favorite powder she would always ask for. Other smells have been of cig. smoke. My father had been a smoker. Some more recent activity has been dishes moving by themselves, figures that may be male or female show up in webcam video footage and still captures when we run the cam to capture any activity in the room where my father passed away. These figures have been most times full bodied to partial and have distinct features like eyes, hands, legs and head and so on.

Two seperate occassions my wife has woke me up at times of 3am and 4am to tell me the front door has been wide open. Keep in mind that I make sure the front door is shut and the security locks are locked tight. The cats, we have two indoor cats, will seem to watch something that moves from the floor to the ceiling and around the house. I’ve inspected the areas the cats were watching and there were no insects present and so on. There has been a couple of times when I personaly watched one of the cats try to lay down on the couch and then as if something chased it off, lept up and ran off the couch. The same type of behavior was repeated several times…as if something was either playing with the cat or trying to be malicious.

There have been the usual cold spots all over the house, ones that would “hover” from spot to spot. I have felt, more than once, a “breeze” that had shown up when none of the windows were open and this house is quite well insulated too. The breeze would show up in the same room and same area where my father had that hospital bed and where he passed away. Touching on the note of manifestations and how spirits use the environment around us to empower themselves to manifest…we have gone through pack after pack of brand new batteries that would be completely drained within 3 minutes of useing them in a camera or digital recorder throughout this house and outside on our land. We both know this house has multiple spirits because the EVPs we’ve captured have been of childrens voices, adult voices and other types of sounds or voices that simply don’t sound human in nature!

The land on which this house was built has a long history of violence and many other interesting attributes dateing back to the french-indian wars, the first settlers to this region of NY state and more. All of which I’ll be posting on in later parts to this. Not all of this activity at this house been playful either…there have been too many times when the activity has been trying to become less than just nice and pleasant. Too many times, whatever these other entities are, they have tried to cause very prominant feelings of fear and dispare and depression that are experienced in areas such as the stairwell that leads to the celler, over-cross on our land where more than 60 years ago, a family lost everything they had because of a lightning strike that burned down the barn and house where they lived. A residual haunting? Maybe…I’ll hit on why I think it’s not that in a later post.

So has our home become a “portal” of sorts for spirits, or is our house a bona-fide haunted house? There’s much more to all of this and what’s going on here…so keep watch for part 3 to be posted ASAP.

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When your home becomes a haven for spirits – part1

And no, I’m not talking about the kind of spirits you enjoy in a glass (even though from time to time that’s not such a bad thing) lol, I’m talking about the ones who have passed on to a new dimension of life or existance…the dead ones. There was a time long ago when I was in complete denial about the existance of ghosts, entities and the like. That was many years ago. So what made me open my eyes and relise that there truly is another side to this life we live? One night about 17 years ago at around 2 or 3 am I was woke up by something that made me look over the foot of my bed and see something that made me run out of my bedroom screaming. Yes, screaming and feeling actual fear and very real terror.

What I saw looked like a very large, large as in I would say 4 foot in diameter and maybe 4 and a half feet long, deep dark black spider like creature. This thing stood out in the darkness the way it did only because I remember that there was a full moon out and no clouds in the sky that night. Trust me, after experianceing that, that night, I remember all the details for a good reason. I wasn’t outright attacked, this things seemed to crawl or walk by the left side of the bed and seemingly disappeared into the darkness. I had thaught for a second or so that it had been a nightmare, but it wasn’t! Whatever this thing had been, it was most likely an entity that had maybe just “passed through” that night? Whatever the case, that night this thing had caused me to feel very real fear that made a 5′ 11″ 210 lb muscular guy to actually scream.

Since then I haven’t had any other encounters with that entity. But perhaps this thing only caused me to feel that level of fear because of some instinctual primitave response to its spider-like form? Or perhaps this creature amplifies fear in a person and feeds from it? Since entities are known to be attracted to those with strong emotions etc., and just like when a battery is drained even though full when a ghost or entity is present, to almost “feed” off of the batteries energy, just maybe these perticual entities feed off of emotional output.

Fast forwarding to the present day, the level of activity in my wife and I’s house has increased…faucets have turned on by themselves, doors openned up without any of us around to do so, the increased presence of “shadow beaings” seen passing in front of doorways and in the hall. Personal items being moved or just come up missing and then show back up when neither of us ever have touching those items. Hearing these “murmurings” or voices of these ghosts/spirits/entities that most times sound as if there’s some kind of echo in the voices. At first I thaught maybe both of were just going crazy and letting the stresses of life get to us (I’ll be posting more about how stress and emotions tie in with ghost and entity activity later on) and cause us to go all schizophrenic. But that wasn’t the case here.

Amongst the other things that have gone on in our house, the most active thing that continues to go on is EVPs. Electronic Voice Phenomanon…useing a tape recoder, digital is the best way to go, and letting it tape in a silent room. You can also ask questions as well, give it a nice long pause inbetween questions though, and then replay later on and you just might be amazed at what you’ll hear on that seemingly blank tape or file.

I’ll be covering more of the activity in our house in part 2, so stay tuned!

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