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After many months…

Guess a lot of things got out of hand, and I abandoned this blog. Sorry people. Yes, we’ve been busy trying to get back into the swing of things in life. We’re no longer  having any of those “ghostly” encounters. Just normal problems. Feels good too!

I’ll try and get back into normal posts ASAP.

I want to start focusing on other paranormal events going on in the world, so if you’ve got an event going on, send it in to me to be posted here.

More posts coming soon…enjoy :)

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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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Beyond the reach of the haunted house

One thing I’ve noticed above most other things, since arriving at our new location is that the feelings of almost constant depression and sorrow, grief and loss have dissipated. While we were still at the other house back in NY state, we had always been weighed down with overwhelming feelings of depression, sorrow and just a general troubled feeling. At first neither my wife or I had really given it much thought…we felt those feelings were because of the hard times we had been going through.

When all our troubles back in the other state started to get worse, I researched the history of the land we were on and found that it was the site of a lot of past bloodshed from the french-Indian wars, as well as a family had lost almost everything from their house and pole barn burning down from a bad thunder & lightning storm right on the property we had back in NY state (The old foundation from that family house and barn still stands there to this day). I found out that there was a child whom lost her life back then. It’s most likely an anchor point because of all the grief and tragedy from those wars and that fire. The fire had taken place sometime in the late 1800’s.

Which in turn held residual traces of spiritual activity to a pretty high degree. Which was more than likely the biggest reasons for our struggles and troubles there.

At this new location, we’re not experiencing those feeling of troubled spiritual activity. More to come on all of that in the very near future. Every area more or less, has some type of activity going on, so let’s see what we encounter here.

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More 2012, humanitys future & past

This is pretty widely shared info, so chances are you may have already seen this video on 2012 from Michael Tsarion where he gives a talk at the Granada Forum in Los Angeles, 2006 about our hidden past and potential future. But I wanted to post this and share it regardless, this video is quite good. Enjoy and feel free to share your views on this video. I’ll be updating the featured videos section very soon.

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Last days in our haunted house part 2

Any ghosts ready to be busted?

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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Dimensional shifts and time doppelgangers

Have you ever had someone tell you that your twin was just seen uptown when you were downtown at the same time, and you don’t even have a twin? Eight years ago I made a trip down to the deep south of the United States to meet my then soon to be wife. I had never been to the deep south before (being a northerner, or a yankee as I was called there, and having no twin, the following is impossible…) and upon going to one of the local gas stations there, I was asked how I liked a certain shopping mall I had just been seen at shopping the week before. I had not been in that region the week before, I was still in the north preparing for my trip down south. This person (a total stranger to me) said that he spoke to me for about ten minutes or more and that it was good seeing me again! Again, I have no twin.

As in the true tales story from the paranormal.about.com site that you’re about to read, this also happened to me…an experiance with an time displaced/doppelganger time warp situation. The universe we live in is filled with so many things we simply do not understand, yet that is. Time displacement, time warps being only theory (so far anyhow), is one of them, and a personal favorite subject of mine.

On with the doppelganger story which originaly was posted at paranormal.about.com:

Doppelganger Time Warp
by Robert F.

I have a doppelganger / bilocation / time warp story for you — I swear this really happened to me. I do not really know what happened, but I do have a few theories…

Read the rest of this entry »

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So you want to be a ghost hunter?

By now, if you haven’t become the least bit interested in the paranormal field and really wanting to know what this ghost business is all about, chances are you might not anytime soon. But for all of you have developed a growing interest and want to know how to get started, here some basic tips found at a very good site which cover everything I was already going to hit on anyhow to get you started…

# Check out the area in daylight so you are familiar with the area. Look for dangerous places and obstacles that you will not be able to see in the dark.

# Look for no trespassing signs. Make sure you are not trespassing. If you are on private property you are risking getting a ticket or arrested in some areas. You can get permission from many owners and or caretakers. We will often notify the local Police that we will be in a grave yard “taking pictures” so they are aware of our presence. If you are asked to leave do so immediately, you will not win this argument and you make other investigators look bad if you make a scene.

# Make sure you bring you ID. (drivers license, etc.) so if you are questioned by the police you can prove who you are.

# Never go alone. This is just common sense. If you get hurt, who will get help?

# The best times are from 9pm to 6am, these are the psychic hours, but anytime can produce results. Photos have historically been better in the dark but don’t let that discourage you from taking them during the day.

# Find out all you can about the history of the locale. Newspapers, town historians, WWW and books can be helpful finding folklore or hard facts about the site.

What you’ll need to bring with you to be effective:

* 35mm Camera – Nothing fancy with at least 400 speed film. 800 speed film is also good at night but you’ll have to test your cameras flash strength to see which speed works best for you. Even those single use 35mm cameras have gotten good results. If you are more experienced photographer you may want to try infrared film. I have seen results from Polaroids but I suggest you only use these along with a 35 mm camera so you can compare the results. When you develop them you don’t need to go to a camera shop, the local drug store or department store is fine. Let them know you want all the pictures developed so that you get the pictures that they might think are bad ones. These “bad ones” are normally your best ectoplasm mist photos.

* Digital Camera – Regardless of what you’ve heard digital cameras are great tools for ghost researchers. Once upon a time they had their limitations and problems but that is no longer the case. Not only do they allow you to see instantly if you have a positive photo, they can also take photos in limited infrared range of light.

* Flashlight with spare batteries – Remember to bring spare batteries for everything. Due to spirit activity, batteries often run down very fast and you don’t want to miss anything because of dead batteries.

* First aid kit – just in case, it’s very easy to trip in the dark and get cut.

* Notebook with pens and pencils- you need to write and log in everything that happens. If you don’t then you really don’t have much research information. An example of this is one investigator gets a EMF reading that’s high and never writes it down. Another investigator takes a picture of the same area but is not aware of the reading and gets a anomalous image. Without that EMF reading the picture may be good evidence, but with a report noting the reading, the picture greatly increases in evidence value. Many investigators use a pocket tape recorder in stead and that is fine, just make sure you have spare batteries and tapes.

* Jackets or weather appropriate clothes – if you are cold you are not at your best and your observation skill could suffer.

* Watch – so you can log in the times of events and your arrival and departure.

* Tape recorder with an external microphone and high grade tapes – recorders or digital voice recorders are with out a doubt one of the most important pieces of equipment that you should have in your investigators toolbox. Audio recorders are used for many different purposes throughout an investigation. Recorders are used for interviews, spontaneous thoughts, your notes and electronic voice phenomena (EVP). You have to use a external microphone when recording EVPs. If you rely on the internal microphone you will also be recording the internal gears and motors and this will make your tape worthless.

These are just the basics, there is much more to it. These are just some tips to get you started.

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Notable quotes

‘If we could take a material man and dissolve away his physical constituent without interfering with the sense-data by means of which we perceive him, we should be left with, exactly, an apparition.’

G.N.M. Tyrrell (Apparitions, 1953)

‘Everything that relates, whether closely or more distantly, to psychic phenomena and to the action of psychic forces in general, should be studied just like any other science. There is nothing miraculous or supernatural in them, nothing that should engender or keep alive superstition.’

Alexandra David-Neel (Magic and Mystery in Tibet, 1932)

‘Men are apt to reject reports of  very improbable occurrences. Persons of good judgment think it safer to distrust the alleged observer of such an event than to believe him. The result is that events which are merely very extraordinary acquire the reputation of never having occurred at all. Thus the highly improbable is made to appear impossible.’

G. Wald (Quoted in The Indefinite Boundary – Guy Lyon Playfair, 1976)

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Experiances with the real paranormal

When you look around yourself, what do you see, feel and hear? If your answer was “just what I can see, feel and hear”, then you’re missing out on a world of experiances in a realm that is much more intricate and involved than you could ever know. The realm I’m talking about is one that involves all the things you were always told were “fairy tales” or “childrens stories”. Ghosts, strange things that go unexplained, shadow people (not sure what those are all about? I’ll cover that subject in a later post.), EVPs which stands for Electronic Voice Phenomana.

Sure, there’s also a lot of garbage out there…people who invent stories about being tortured by ghosts or bigfoot or alien abductions, just to get in the spotlight and get their 15 minutes of fame. There’s also people out in the world who have had very real experiances that continue to plague them and cause them problems of all kinds. This blog isn’t about just blindly posting anything that sounds paranormal, but it’s about very real experiances with entities and ghosts and the like. My wife and I are those types of people who have had experiances with entities at our own house that have been causeing many problems lately.

I’ll be posting about our experiances, so keep an eye out for those to be posted very soon. All of our “experiances” at our house are very real. I’ll post pictures and EVPs of the things we’ve captured too.  So bookmark this site and spread the word to your friends about this blog. Enjoy!

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