'Wiccan'...Not 'Wicked'</h1> <article> <h1>'Wiccan'...Not 'Wicked'</h1> <p>2012-02-23T20:41:00.001-05:00</p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/SwBXvjw-x7I/AAAAAAAAQh4/ipkY5A9yedg/s1600-h/wiccan.jpg"></a>Deborah Snavely cackled wildly when asked if she had a flying broom. For Snavely, a British traditional Wiccan priestess for 13 years, witchcraft is no matter of Hollywood hocus-pocus — it’s a reality.<br /> <br /> “Any system of divination is simply a means of accessing a part of our awareness that doesn’t work with the logical brain,” Snavely said, arguing that witchcraft is no more ridiculous than any other religion.<br /> <br /> Having begun her spiritual life at her mother’s Episcopal church, Snavely recalls staring out the window during Sunday service, longing for the shade and ambience of the woods.<br /> <br /> “That was a very restful and healing place for me to be. There were very clear presences,” she said.<br /> <br /> In her teens, Snavely abandoned church and began exploring alternative spiritual philosophies. Now she is a member of the Wiccan priesthood, a denomination of witchcraft whose lineage can be traced back to the 16th century, and whose more ancient descendants were meeting in sacred groves even hundreds of years before that.<br /> <br /> “There are bits and pieces that survive. Our modern practices are quite simple,” Snavely said.<br /> <br /> K.C. Anton of Veneta, Ore., is also a Christian-turned-Wiccan. Always a spiritual person, the idea of God was very real for Anton, but he remained skeptical.<br /> <br /> “Most folks didn’t have a practice that answered to me. You had to take a lot of things on faith,” Anton said.<br /> <br /> Now a teacher of Wiccan rituals, Anton has studied the practice for more than 20 years. For him, Wicca has been the path to happiness and self-improvement.<br /> <br /> “I felt the awe-ful presence of deity. I felt something inside me,” Anton said. “The control and response of your life is in your hands,” he said, to distinguish Wicca from<br /> other religions.<br /> <br /> There are many similarities as well.<br /> <br /> “Christians have prayers, we have spells,” Anton said. Spells and magic are often misunderstood, he explained.<br /> <br /> “A spell is making your intent go out into the world,” said Anton, who explained that desire for success and love are the two main things that people use spells for.<br /> <br /> healing spell can be as simple as saying a few words over and over. Snavely invented her own spell, which she calls “the only spell I will ever give away.” To work this magic, one must look into the mirror each night from new moon to new moon for a month and say,<br /> <br /> “I love and respect you.”<br /> <br /> “People will cry trying to do that,” Snavely said.<br /> <br /> Other times, spells are more akin to what people are accustomed to reading about in fairy tales. To draw someone to you through a love spell, one can use an actual physical part of that person, such as their hair, and create a mental picture.<br /> <br /> The idea is to create the strongest thing one can do to bring about the desired change. Anton said his last two girlfriends have both been brought to him through spells. His first came when he was focused on becoming a writer and he found a woman who was also a writer.<br /> <br /> “She was part of the answer,” Anton said.<br /> <br /> Another fairly classical spell is to physically white out a pay stub and write in a new number.<br /> <br /> “Think of it as a recipe, but it still needs to be personalized,” Anton said.<br /> <br /> After mastering the basics, there are more advanced techniques such as sounding, toning, meditation and use of other languages.<br /> <br /> Anton was always skeptical, and at first he tested the spells by setting time limits and comparing the results with those of Christian prayers.<br /> <br /> “It was like in the laboratory,” Anton said.<br /> <br /> Snavely has also seen magic in the works. She recalled an incident in which a man was hospitalized with an intestinal rupture and was in critical condition. Snavely and 10 others held a healing ritual for the man, and within a few days the man was released from the hospital.<br /> <br /> Pagan celebrations often take place during full moons, and witches work with the four or five — if they count the spirit — elements. Halloween, the Celtic New Year with many names, purposes and even dates, is an active time for witches as it is one of eight major solar holidays or Sabbaths. This is a time to communicate with the dead elders and say goodbye to the old year. The festival is one for the fire element, as jack-o’-lanterns guide good spirits to relatives’ doorsteps and keep the bad spirits away.<br /> <br /> On such a night, Wiccans like Anton and Snavely gather in a sacred, circular space. Placing a drop or two of fine-smelling oil, they “dress” the candles they will use to focus their intent in four directions. Living things have an energy field that people perceive in various ways, but witches operate outside of our official defined five senses. They gather in a circle to contain energy, then raise the energy by dancing, singing and using their bodies. “We are between worlds, the energy world and the tangible,” Snavely said, adding that this is why it is bad to bring watches into the circle.<br /> <br /> The priestess directs the ritual to a crescendo, and everyone focuses on transferring the energy into a physical object such as a necklace or a worry stone meant for a son going to Iraq.<br /> <br /> “We simply raise energy as a gift of the gods,” Snavely said. The physical sensation is an expansion of yourself, a natural high, she explained.<br /> <br /> Snavely is a stroke survivor, and she gave her boyfriend consent for a similar ritual when she was hospitalized. Through an e-mail list, there were circles being done all over the country to help her and she attests that it made a difference. Although she has a permanent disability, she was able to retain her speech and her recovery went relatively smoothly.<br /> <br /> “I am not permanently disabled to not function as priestess, thank goddess!” she said.<br /> <br /> Paganism contains a broad category of nature-based religions such as shamans, druids and witches who observe natural energies and the powers of the mind.<br /> <br /> “Awareness of nature is more than looking at a forest through an automobile window while you speed by. It is actually getting out there and being able to be a part of that forest,” said Eugene Witches leader Jeff Orendorff. “A nature-based individual can simply be in contact with nature and through that nature be in contact with what made that nature.”<br /> <br /> Witchcraft tends to have more of a female goddess orientation, and some Wiccans do not allow men to work in their groups. However, what they all have in common is the idea that what happens in your little world affects everything else in some way. Kindness is spread by being kind to others. For this reason, it is prohibited to do witchcraft against someone else’s will or to manipulate someone. For this, there is the rule of three — whatever you put out comes back to you in a greater magnitude.<br /> <br /> In Old English, Wicca means to bend or alter.<br /> <br /> Anton explained that if you’re really firm like some trees, then you can snap when life starts pressuring you.<br /> <br /> “That’s our magical idea,” Anton said. “Do what you want as long as you don’t harm anyone.”<br /> <br /> Wicca is the most practiced pagan religion in Eugene. Most practitioners are eclectics, which means that they pull together from various sources. Anton said that the popularity of earth-based religion has multiplied greatly in the last 20 years and that the Eugene area probably has somewhere between 1,500 to 3,000 practicing pagans.<br /> <br /> Yet a stereotype remains in the general public’s eye that witchcraft is somehow associated with evil.<br /> <br /> “The word has been grabbed by other folks. What witchcraft means now for a lot of religions is a negative thing because it’s been turned around,” Anton said.<br /> <br /> Snavely said a big reason for this misunderstanding is 1,500 years of churches preaching against witchcraft. When Gerald Gardner, an English witch who is considered to be the biggest influence on modern witchcraft, began writing about witchcraft it was still illegal. Laws prohibiting witchcraft were finally repealed in 1951.<br /> <br /> Today, “witch” is still a powerful word that turns heads and has even caused parents to lose custody of their children.<br /> <br /> Even people who know Snavely well have their prejudices. Snavely said she had to decide between being a “closet” witch or an “out” witch. She is mindful of this and sometimes has to censor herself in social and professional settings.<br /> <br /> “You practice it like any other religion,” Anton said. “What you think affects the world around. 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The neighbors gathered and the newspapers carried headlines concerning the symbol that warned of trouble for the members of the household. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Voodoo">Voodoo</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_%28folk_magic%29">hoodoo</a> though subjugated over the years, still exists in New Orleans.<br /> <br /> If you lived almost anywhere else in the United States, you might simply sweep the porch and think it was just a prank. But if you live in Louisiana, you'll probably react differently....for a cross of salt, in the vernacular of hoodoo, means trouble.<br /> <br /> That is why Mr. and Mrs. Gauthier of New Orleans thought twice before sweeping away the cross of salt that they found on their porch. It is also why neighbors flocked to the Gauthier home to examine it and why the newspapers carried headlines about it. Voodoo and hoodoo has not abandoned New Orleans.<br /> <br /> Hoodoo and conjure are emerging from the shadows and into the lives of everyday people. There seems to be more root workers, two-headed doctors, conjurers, Voodooists, and hoodoos more than ever before. People are flocking to related social networking sites hungry for information about taking control of their lives, defending themselves from their enemies, thriving in a recession, and connecting to their dead loved ones. Websites featuring “love doctors”, “rootworkers” and “Spiritual Mothers” offer a variety of psychic and spiritual services and carry the hard to get sticks, stones, roots and bones needed by the multifarious conjurer. Hoodoo no longer belongs to the poor black demographic of the deep South as historically depicted. Practitioners cross all racial, ethnic, political, geographic and socioeconomic line.<br /> <br /> So...what is hoodoo? In it's purest form, hoodoo taps into the elemental belief that every living thing has "Spirit." Every rock, tree, root, and stone is connected to a single Divine energy and as such, is Divine energy. The practitioner understands that it is the root that connects and grounds the universal life force; thus, the ultimate power lies within the root.<br /> <br /> When enslaved Africans came to the Louisiana delta directly from Africa, they arrived with intact, encyclopedic knowledge of the use of herbs, roots, bones, natural elements and their spiritual qualities. According to <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=4ahwbw3m2asC&pg=RA1-PA212&lpg=RA1-PA212&dq=Dahomean+cosmology&source=bl&ots=dlN_uSJCIE&sig=sLynJx_rqY97SiWUQ-uqU0TgqGU&hl=en&ei=ed7RTOulIoKglAfh1dz9DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Dahomean%20cosmology&f=false">Dahomean cosmology</a>, the knowledge of how to utilize the sacred herbs, roots, bones, and other natural elements for controlling and changing one’s destiny was given to them from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Legba">Papa Legba</a>, who received the knowledge from the "Forest Spirits."<br /> <br /> As a result of slavery, tribes and families were separated, religious expression was forbidden and the traditional transmission of the venerable knowledge of the African religion of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Voodoo">Vodou</a> and spiritual traditions such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juju">Ju Ju</a> were all but stopped. Tragically, the trauma associated with slavery forced a separation of the magic and religious aspects of Vodou. The response to this psychic disturbance was to adopt and assimilate similar beliefs and practices of the indigenous peoples of North America and European immigrants to fill in the blanks...forming what we call hoodoo today.<br /> <br /> ***********<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/TNHrIdMPQ9I/AAAAAAAAWos/hRBg7AWOnBI/s1600/Mariel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>The practice of Voodoo is probably as old as the African continent itself. Sometimes written Voudou, Vodou or Voudun, the word itself means God Creator or Great Spirit. It has been greatly distorted and misused; human sacrifices, vampires, dripping blood and devil worship all make the stuff of spooky novels and Hollywood movies. Yet none of these originated with or ever belonged to Voodoo.<br /> <br /> It was not until the 1930's that Louisiana Voodoo went underground when New Orleans became a major tourist destination. The slave trade brought the African belief in spirits and when the slaves got to New Orleans it was not long before the African Voodoo and the Roman Catholic Church mixed to become Louisiana Voodoo.<br /> <br /> Along came the Voodoo Queens like Marie Laveau who was known as the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. It is said that before long it became known that Marie Laveau was the strongest ever of the Voodoo Queens and Marie Laveau conducted private rituals behind her house on St Ann's street in the French Quarter of New Orleans.<br /> <br /> It was Marie Laveau who encouraged her followers to attend Catholic Mass and it was Marie Laveau who mixed Catholic traditions and beliefs into her Voodoo to make it uniquely Louisiana Voodoo.<br /> <br /> Even today devout voodoo followers travel to Marie Laveau's tomb to try to get a favor from the Voodoo Queen herself. Marie Laveau was a devout Catholic up to the time of her death. Ever since her death people have claimed to see Marie Laveau walking through the French Quarter of New Orleans.<br /> <br /> Modern Voodoo has taken several directions: Spiritualist Reverends and Mothers who have their own churches, Hoodoos who integrate and work spells and superstitions, elements of European witchcraft and the occult, and traditionalists for whom the practice of Voodoo is a most natural and important part of their daily lives, a positive search for ancient roots and wisdom. The practice of Voodoo involves the search for higher levels of consciousness in the belief that -as indeed all of the ancient scriptures teach - it is we who must open the way towards the Gods. for when we call out from our hearts, the Gods hear and indeed are compelled to respond.<br /> <br /> <b>NOTE: there are a myriad of twists and turns when it come to Vodou and Hoodoo....let me suggest the following website - <a href="http://www.alynepustanio.com/">Alyne Pustanio</a> - lots of very good original articles...Lon</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/">Spirit Rescue International™</a><br /> <i>Providing no-cost professional spiritual help, personal support and guidance<br /> Take the first step towards genuine peace of mind</i><br /> ---------------<br /> Sign up for the<br /> <a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.blogspot.com/">Spirit Rescue International Newsletter</a></b></center></p> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"></a><br /> <font color=goldenrod><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"><b>The Spirit Rescue International™ Haunted Help Forum<br /> <i>Discussion of paranormal and spiritual phenomena,<br /> including peer support for those with questions or concerns</i><br /> </a></font><br /> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_119223518147339">*Join Our Group On Facebook*</a></b></center></p> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://beyondtheedgeradio.podomatic.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://www.beyondtheedgeradio.com/listen-live-and-chat.html">Join Eric Altman and Lon Strickler<br /> <font face=VERDANA>*LIVE*</font><br /> each Sunday at 8 PM ET as we go<br /> Beyond the Edge!</a></b></center></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=BniNuDN0ioY:-ocsYv5wUxk:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=BniNuDN0ioY:-ocsYv5wUxk:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=BniNuDN0ioY:-ocsYv5wUxk:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=BniNuDN0ioY:-ocsYv5wUxk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=BniNuDN0ioY:-ocsYv5wUxk:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=BniNuDN0ioY:-ocsYv5wUxk:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=BniNuDN0ioY:-ocsYv5wUxk:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>The Actuality of Invisible Alien Beings</h1> <p>2012-02-20T16:14:00.003-05:00</p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/TSD3ZaJ4mNI/AAAAAAAAXHQ/ZxIEATVfVho/s1600/invisibleET.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>I started to examine the invisible extraterrestrial hypothesis after a friend and colleague experienced two very strange and similar events. Over the years I have read a few witness statements of similar sightings though I mostly discounted the reports. Now, I have anecdotal evidence from a very reliable witness that there is an actual phenomenon that may be associated with non-terrestrial beings including the possible use of a time portal or multidimensional travel.<br /> <br /> Many of you have seen the 'Predator' series films and are familiar with the cloak technology used by the extraterrestrial in the film. Basically, the alien being is hidden or invisible even though a matrix outline of the alien being can still be detected. The description in the following account is akin to the fictional entity in the films.<br /> <br /> Several months ago, Irene Block described an incident she experienced in her backyard the evening before. She had let her dogs out and was standing at the back door while waiting for them to finish their business. As many of you know, Irene is a psychic, clairvoyant and an outbounder...some would describe her as a preeminent ghost whisperer. Her gifts allow her to detect many levels of paranormal energy…be it human, non-terrestrial, earthbound or otherwise.<br /> <br /> As Irene continued to wait for her dogs, she noticed ‘something’ approach her on the walkway from the lower yard. Her description was that of a tall and wide shouldered being but without mass...a pixilated transparent form that continued to move towards her. As this form came near her it abruptly stopped as if it was surprised that Irene was staring at it. Then this form dissipated completely. This was not the first time something of this nature had materialized near Irene. A similar incident transpired the previous year while she was standing adjacent to her garden…this time the being was somewhat smaller in form but similarly pixilated and transparent.<br /> <br /> Her sense of these beings was that it was not a haunting or manifestation by a human spirit. In fact she had never recognized similar phenomena previously. Her assessment was that these were entities from beyond our dimension and most likely of alien origin. After I listened to the evidence, already having knowledge of her surroundings, I concurred that her experience was more than a manifesting human energy. (*<i>NOTE: read Irene’s complete unedited statement below</i>)<br /> <br /> Sixty-four years ago, Kenneth Arnold inadvertently launched the modern UFO era with his report of witnessing nine crescent-shaped objects speeding over Mt Rainier. In 1948, the USAF set up Project Sign to evaluate the many flying disc reports that followed in the wake of Arnold's highly publicized sighting.<br /> <br /> A few years later, UFO researcher Coral Lorenzen wrote, "Clearly the discs had been involved in a general military reconnaissance of the United States". She added that the UFO entities were obviously engaged in "gathering botanical and geological specimens". Early proponents of similar theories, assuming that UFOs came from within our solar system, suspected that they wished to colonize our planet, or to strip it of its minerals or metals or uranium. These theories are no longer valid. There is a wealth of minerals and metals in asteroids and uninhabited planets which is readily available to any astral civilization. As well, there are a high number of non-inhabited planets that could be adapted to support life should the aliens wish colonize.<br /> <br /> Some alien abduction theory proponents have suggested that these non-terrestrials want to gather human DNA in order to develop hybrids. It seems unlikely to expect that highly advanced aliens would need to repeatedly abduct thousands of humans in order to keep their DNA supplies available. Surely they would have the know-how that we possess to synthesize or replicate DNA in their own laboratories?<br /> <br /> Is it possible that extraterrestrials are only interested in our culture and relationship to other living things on our planet? Could we become a part of an united interplanetary trading consortium...or simply become a diplomatic and scientific partner in a league of alien civilizations? Cue up the ‘Star Trek’ music...<br /> <br /> An interesting comment was made by Lord Martin Rees, a leading cosmologist and astrophysicist who is the President of Britain’s Royal Society and astronomer to the Queen of England. Rees, who hosted the National Science Academy’s first conference on the possibility of alien life in February 2010, said he believes the existence of extraterrestrial life may be beyond human understanding.<br /> <br /> <i>“They could be staring us in the face and we just don’t recognize them. The problem is that we’re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology. I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can’t conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can’t understand quantum theory, it could be there as aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains.”</i><br /> <br /> Is it possible that these extraterrestrial entities are all around us and, for the most part, undetectable? Computational biologists and bioengineers are attempting in finding the cure for chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes and others. What has perplexed some bioengineers and medical experts is the presence of strange molecular entities within the intracellular structures within an organism. The biological entities are not bacteria, viruses, or any visible entities. They are invisible. They are impossible to detect without the help of computational modeling and computer assisted search and locate algorithms.<br /> <br /> The premise is that invisible extraterrestrial biological entities all around us are penetrating our bodies and reside within intracellular spaces. They can then attack as they wish to colonize human or animal bodies. That is the reason why targeted drug delivery mechanisms are failing no matter what the biophysicists are doing. It was found that through computational modeling the source of cancer is not the cancer cell only but also invisible entities within intracellular spaces.<br /> <br /> Do these invisible extraterrestrial entities exist in higher dimensions and manifest under certain conditions? Are these beings entering our world by flying craft or through portals…or have they been here with us all along?<br /> <br /> Another personal experience that may add substance to this phenomenon is that of Regan Lee, the author of the UFO blog <b>The Orange Orb</b>. She posted an article at the <b>UFO Digest</b> titled <a href="http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0208/invisible-aliens.html">The Continuing Saga Of My Invisible Aliens: They’re Listening</a>.<br /> <br /> Also, the lack of tangible evidence to prove the existence of several cryptid's may also be due to a theory that has been gaining popularity over recent years, namely, that these beings are ultraterrestrial and multidimensional. I have posted narratives at <a href="http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2010/07/readers-respond-interdimensional.html">The Interdimensional Sasquatch</a> and <a href="http://thecinfluenceblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/bigfoot-paradox.html">The Bigfoot Paradox</a>.<br /> <br /> ----------<br /> <br /> <b>*Statement by Irene Block:</b> I have never been one to be in the past anything alien, in fact, although I never dismissed all the claims the very thought of it terrified me and luckily up till about 14 months ago I had been spared anything to do with this subject. Then something strange happened. It was late at night and I was letting my dogs out into the garden for the last time that night before retiring to bed and as I was standing at my back door watching them down at the bottom of the garden a movement on my patio caught my eye. The patio was lit up by the security light that had gone on automatically as the dogs had previously moved through the beam.<br /> <br /> Crossing the patio and moving in my direction I saw what I could only describe was an outline of some being, I could see straight through it except for the area of the outline, it was about 5' in height and it was clear to see the head, body and arms and legs, it had a humanoid appearance to it. It legs moved just like ours one step after the other just a bit more awkwardly.<br /> <br /> At this point it seemed to show no fear of me and when it got to within about 3 to 4 feet my curiosity went and I became wary of it, my attention on my dogs was lost all I know is that they were still at the bottom of the garden. This thing had now come to close for comfort and I put my hand up to it in the "don't go there" fashion and said in a determined voice "bug off". The next thing that happened shocked me it started to back up, it didn't turn around and it was if it was taking steps backwards all the time facing me and then it disappeared. <br /> <br /> I gathered the dogs together quickly and came indoors and locked up the house, I always thought that if something like this were to happen to me I would scarper so fast you wouldn't see me for dust. But for some reason I was not afraid, I had felt no fear from it, I was quite proud of myself even if I had no idea what it was.<br /> <br /> It didn't stop here in the last few months I have been witness to quite a few UFOs flying across the valley that I live in and then about 3 weeks ago it happened again but this time it was different.<br /> <br /> Again I was letting the dogs out in the garden for their last run of the night but this time I used a different back door, I live in a large detached house in the rural countryside and this house has 2 back doors, only where this one is there is no security light and the light will only go on if anything moves in the vicinity of the other back door which could be seen from where I stood. The only light that was reflecting at his point was the one in the boot room behind me and that was an energy saving bulb that was quite dim.<br /> <br /> The dogs ran out of the door and jumped down off the wall that surrounded my large patio and straight down the garden so they did not come within reach of the beam, I watched them for a while running around down at the bottom of the garden then they all ran up the side of the house and disappeared out of site. <br /> <br /> Suddenly the security light came on down at the other end of the house but no dog had passed through the beam as I stood there again I could see something moving towards me, and again for some reason I was not afraid just curious. I looked straight at it and when it reached about 3 foot away from me a thought went through my head "what the frigging hell are you" it stopped dead in its tracks and just seemed to freeze. <br /> <br /> The appearance of this one was a bit different from the first one I had seen although the same it was transparent, I could see clearly the outline of the head, shoulders and body and the top half of its legs down to just below the knees but nothing from there on maybe that had something to do with the fact that it was not moving. This one was much taller then the first well over 6 foot. The shoulders to me looked broad and muscular it was as if the had a width to them much like American footballers when they are all padded up. The arms were long and seemed to reach down to the area past where the knees were like a primate.<br /> <br /> I sensed from it, that it froze as it was more afraid of me then I was of it, a thought went through my head as if it was thinking "oh bug she sees me" to me it was shocked, I know it seems daft but I do feel that there was some sort of ESP going between us and it left me with the feeling that something it wanted me to know was impressed into my subconscious mind although for the life of me I do not know what it was, maybe at this point in time I am not meant to know and it will only emerge when the time is right.<br /> <br /> This thing had stood in front of me for what seemed ages but in reality could only have been a few minutes when I had had enough of it I called the dogs who came round from the corner of the house and instead of running across the patio to me just stood there looking in silence as if they could see something that they didn't like they were silent did not even growl or bark just stood there waiting, well I could understand this if it was just one or two dogs but six. This I found strange as my dogs are trained guard dogs and obey my commands to the last letter.<br /> <br /> At this point this thing was still in front of me and not moving the thought that went through my head was "I wish you would go" and with that it didn't back up or walk away but just faded away.<br /> <br /> Had I seen an extraterrestrial, a time traveller from the future, I know it was not a spirit of any kind, I had no idea what it was except that it was afraid and wary of me also shocked to know that I could see it and that somehow we communicated even if I do not know about what but the most important thing I found out about it that night was that it must have been solid mass because it set off the beam of the security light.<br /> <br /> Well that's my experience of these transparent beings and I hope that will be the last. <i>Irene Block</i><br /> <br /> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/">Spirit Rescue International™</a><br /> <i>Providing no-cost professional spiritual help, personal support and guidance<br /> Take the first step towards genuine peace of mind</i><br /> ---------------<br /> Sign up for the<br /> <a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.blogspot.com/">Spirit Rescue International Newsletter</a></b></center></p><br /> <p><center><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"></a><br /> <font color=goldenrod><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"><b>The Spirit Rescue International™ Haunted Help Forum<br /> <i>Discussion of paranormal and spiritual phenomena,<br /> including peer support for those with questions or concerns</i><br /> </a></font><br /> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_119223518147339">*Join Our Group On Facebook*</a></b></center></p><br /> <p><center><a href="http://beyondtheedgeradio.podomatic.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://www.beyondtheedgeradio.com/listen-live-and-chat.html">Join Eric Altman and Lon Strickler<br /> <font face=VERDANA>*LIVE*</font><br /> each Sunday at 8 PM ET as we go<br /> Beyond the Edge!</a></b></center></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Hn4Jg6dOevQ:48k1TT69aB0:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Hn4Jg6dOevQ:48k1TT69aB0:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Hn4Jg6dOevQ:48k1TT69aB0:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Hn4Jg6dOevQ:48k1TT69aB0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Hn4Jg6dOevQ:48k1TT69aB0:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Hn4Jg6dOevQ:48k1TT69aB0:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Hn4Jg6dOevQ:48k1TT69aB0:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Spiritual Tools: Amethyst</h1> <p>2012-02-18T17:49:00.003-05:00</p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_HR41i8bw9c/T0AoWGkhjgI/AAAAAAAAc20/E0kSrE70KHY/s1600/amethyst-250x250.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"></a></div><i>There has been an increased interest in several metaphysical subjects over recent years. I have become interested in a few of these esoteric practices which I have used as supplemental tools in my spiritual work. The most prominent of these is the use of crystals / stones...mostly in protection grids, energy work, chakra balance and meditation. The most common use of crystals / stones is for healing, as in Reiki and other alternative therapies. Occasionally I will highlight certain crystals / stones and shapes that I have found useful.</i><br /> <br /> <b>AMETHYST</b><br /> <br /> Amethyst is a very powerful and protective crystal, and is a first choice of many metaphysicians. Amethyst was used in ancient times to recover from both physical addictions as well as addictive relationships, and became know as the “stone of sobriety”. A natural stress reliever, Amethyst can encourage inner strength.<br /> <br /> The strong healing energy of Amethyst can transmute lower vibrations to higher frequencies, transforming negative energy to love energy. <br /> <br /> Amethyst connects the physical plane with higher realm, making it a good choice when working with the Third Eye Chakra. Amethyst also provides a wonderful peaceful energy for meditations, and helps with developing intuition and psychic abilities.<br /> <br /> Amethyst opens and activates the Crown Chakra as well, allowing easier access to the divine. Amethyst enhances spiritual awareness and spiritual wisdom, promoting a higher state of consciousness. Amethyst clears and repairs holes in the aura and draws in Divine energy, as well as aligning and fostering cooperation between the energy bodies.<br /> <br /> Metaphysical:<br /> Primary Chakra: Third Eye, Crown<br /> Astrological sign(s): Pisces, Virgo, Aquarius, Capricorn<br /> Vibration: Number 3<br /> <br /> Geological:<br /> Stone Type/Family: Member of the Quartz family<br /> Crystal System: Trigonal<br /> Chemical Composition: (SiO2) Silicon Dioxide<br /> Hardness: 7<br /> <br /> Physical:<br /> Color: Pale lilac to deep, purple grape<br /> Location: Africa, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Russia Uruguay, and the USA<br /> Rarity: Widespread Availability<br /> Fun Fact: Amethyst is also known as the 'Bishop's Stone' because Catholic bishops still wear rings set with this lovely gem.<br /> <br /> More information - <a href="http://www.healing-crystals-for-you.com/amethyst-crystals.html">Amethyst...Potent For Healing and Intense Spiritual Growth</a><br /> <br /> <b>NOTE: For spiritual use, I like to use Amethyst in combination with higher vibration crystals, especially Yttrium Fluorite, Blue Kyanite and Petalite. Smoky Amethyst is also an essential part of my protection grid...Lon</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/">Spirit Rescue International™</a><br /> <i>Providing no-cost professional spiritual help, personal support and guidance<br /> Take the first step towards genuine peace of mind</i><br /> ---------------<br /> Sign up for the<br /> <a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.blogspot.com/">Spirit Rescue International Newsletter</a></b></center></p><br /> <p><center><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"></a><br /> <font color=goldenrod><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"><b>The Spirit Rescue International™ Haunted Help Forum<br /> <i>Discussion of paranormal and spiritual phenomena,<br /> including peer support for those with questions or concerns</i><br /> </a></font><br /> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_119223518147339">*Join Our Group On Facebook*</a></b></center></p><br /> <p><center><a href="http://beyondtheedgeradio.podomatic.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://www.beyondtheedgeradio.com/listen-live-and-chat.html">Join Eric Altman and Lon Strickler<br /> <font face=VERDANA>*LIVE*</font><br /> each Sunday at 8 PM ET as we go<br /> Beyond the Edge!</a></b></center></p><br /> <p><center><a href="http://www.pabigfootsociety.com/"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.pabigfootsociety.com/submit-a-sighting-report.html">Click to submit a sighting report or encounter</a></center></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=C2GMiHjlhpE:E_LPbi6foTc:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=C2GMiHjlhpE:E_LPbi6foTc:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=C2GMiHjlhpE:E_LPbi6foTc:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=C2GMiHjlhpE:E_LPbi6foTc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=C2GMiHjlhpE:E_LPbi6foTc:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=C2GMiHjlhpE:E_LPbi6foTc:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=C2GMiHjlhpE:E_LPbi6foTc:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>A Near-Death Experience to Die For</h1> <p>2012-02-17T18:21:00.000-05:00</p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/SjPIrglijXI/AAAAAAAANp4/WMlnSurGHwU/s1600-h/Fanny_Paget.jpg"></a><br /> <br /> In her 1917 book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/021793319X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=phantomsandmonsters-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=021793319X">How I Know That the Dead Are Alive</a>, Fanny Ruthven Paget offers one of the most vivid and detailed near-death experiences ever recorded. While not clearly stating her illness, one might infer that Paget, a resident of Houston, Texas, suffered from severe pneumonia for several days during 1911.<br /> <br /> "All about and above me I could see nothing, but fancy my astonishment if you can, when looking down, I saw my body resting peacefully on the bed, representing what is commonly called a ‘dead person'," Paget recalled. "I could not move my eyes from it; it fascinated me as it lay in the cold whiteness, robed in a gown of lavender silk, with dainty laces and ruffles...The deep blue ‘windows of the soul,' the eyes, were at half mast; the soul being absent the light was gone; the lips slightly parted wore just a suggestion of a smile; the left hand rested lightly on the breast - the engagement ring scintillating as brightly as ever; the right, which no doubt had been lifted unconsciously at the shock of impact, had fallen a little apart from the body and lay, palm upturned. How peaceful it looked!<br /> <br /> "Thus every detail of the clay image fastened itself upon my consideration as I viewed it dispassionately, realizing that it was a cast-off garment for which I had no further use. However, I felt a protective kindliness toward it; it had been a faithful servant, executing my every wish and whim and now that I had passed beyond the range of its services, it pleased my fancy to robe it in the white, pearl-be-decked dress, the wearing of which had meant so much to me in quite a different way."<br /> <br /> Paget then concerned herself with her fiancé in another town and found herself being propelled by a vibratory sensation to his sleeping body. "As I looked upon him I saw the shadow body more distinctly than the physical. Viewed from the other side of life, the ‘shadow' body seemed the original and the physical the duplicate, the soul the real, the body the unreal. Within and interpenetrating all was a light, which I had not before perceived as being a part of the spiritual anatomy. This light penetrated from within, both the shadow and physical bodies, maintaining through and about the body an aura or illumination which enveloped it; clothing it, as it were, in a magnetized illumination. How wonderful this three-in-one life-manifestation seemed, especially when we generally recognize only the one - the physical!"<br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;"><br /> Talking to the Living</span><br /> <br /> Moving closer to her fiancé, Paget attempted to converse with him, but he slept on, even though his soul, which was not sleeping, responded joyously and tried to help her penetrate his physical consciousness as he moaned and turned restlessly in his sleep. After a few moments, he cried out, "Fanny, Fanny," and sat up in bed, wide awake. As he turned on a light and reached for his glasses and a magazine, she tried to communicate, but he did not react to her words. "I am dead, that is why he cannot hear and see me," she thought, further recalling that she felt more alive than she had ever felt. "There was something pitiably painful about being so near one beloved, seeing him plainly and hearing him distinctly, even knowing that he was thinking of me, and yet having him utterly ignore my presence, and above all knowing that he would never recognize me again - never hear my voice no matter how ardently I called, while I was the same in every way minus the physical body."<br /> <br /> Then she perceived that her vibratory environment did not harmonize with his. "Mine was the vibration of perpetual motion - his more like a ‘dead sea' into which these vibratory currents ebbed and flowed, and it seemed such an easy matter to move out of the ‘deadness' into the ‘ebb and flow' that I waited and watched a long time before I realized that he would make no effort to do so."<br /> <br /> Realizing that she would not be able to penetrate his physical consciousness, she bade him farewell and attempted to move on; however, the vibratory force seemed to restrain her. "Persistently the force held me, as though inviting me to further considerations of earth interests, but I had none. My material possessions were disposed of as I desired; there was no life-work I was leaving incomplete; I had no children, no one depending on me; nothing held me to the earth. My desire had been to go beyond it and now that I had done so, I was well pleased and wanted to go on to the joys I felt awaited me beyond the influence of earth. Yet the force held me, try as I would to pass beyond it, until, instead of struggling against it I tried to understand it - to wrest from it its reason for thus detaining me, feeling that there must be some reason for such marked persistence. Almost instantly the lesson sank into my consciousness and I realized that the long arm of mundane interests can reach into the Beyond and hold its victims within the shadow of earth - pitting its magnetism against the promise of higher things."<br /> <br /> She then felt herself moving in an undulating way within the propelling vibration and was suddenly enveloped in oppressive heavy darkness, feeling alone in eternity and waiting in awesome uncertainty. She perceived that the darkness was really within her and could be eliminated only from within. "There were loved ones and many others welcoming me and rejoicing that I was with them." Her spirit guide, who identified himself as Meon, was also there. She now felt light and carefree.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Visiting "Hell"</span><br /> <br /> Meon then told her to follow him, "and with a soft, bluish light playing about and enveloping us, we floated out on the undulating waves of space." As they were propelled by vibratory waves, they encountered a "red darkness" where she found herself among many others. "I was listening, trying to hear what they were saying but the vibrations were evidently not in harmony, so I could not hear distinctly, and after a long time of vain effort I turned to Meon, and asked ‘What place is this?'" Meon explained that they were in a place still very much within earth's magnetism, or spiritual gravitation. Paget asked why the souls were detained there and Meon informed her that some desire it while others were not yet strong enough to progress beyond that point. "Earth interests hold them," he explained.<br /> <br /> "There was no bar to their going on but they did not want to; some did not know they could not give up the earth life," Paget related. "In this dark earth-magnetized region disembodied spirits lived the mundane existence much as the psychic lives the spiritual while yet in the mundane - one in progression, the other retrogression. Disembodied spirits living the mundane life do so at the expense of human beings in the earth life, while the mundane person living the spiritual life is obeying the law of evolution and progression."<br /> <br /> Paget observed spirits of love and mercy attempting to help those souls stuck in this "hellish" realm, but most of them had not yet acquired "spiritual hearing" and did not respond to the offers of assistance. There were some, however, who heard and struggled up from the vortex. Meon informed her that no soul was irretrievably lost, no matter how many aeons it may remain in the darkness.<br /> <br /> Paget began to wonder if this was to be her new abode, but Meon assured her that it was not. "Did not the Christ descend into this place before his ascension?" he addressed her concern.<br /> <br /> "Far out beyond the red-fringed darkness I could see light, in which rainbows seemed to play, pale as the dawn, of a gray-weird loveliness, coming and going as though flirting with the darkness, for to embrace it would be to destroy," she continue on. "For delicate beauty it seemed I had never seen anything more fascinating or alluring than this kiss of the dawn and the darkness in the Soul world - it was like kissing death goodbye."<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Dawn World</span><br /> <br /> They passed into what seemed to be another world. Paget called it the "Dawn World," since it seemed that the light began to neutralize the darkness. "There were houses, flowers, trees, everything was so life-like it amazed me. I almost fancied I had returned to earth." The inhabitants conversed with her, but they did not seem to realize that they were in the "after life," as they were not entirely free of earth's magnetism. Paget witnessed some of them going earthward, as though drawn by something of paramount importance. "While there seemed no doubt that these people once inhabited the earth, I saw no one I had ever known in this life. They had possibly progressed there out of the darkness and would go back to help those less fortunate into the higher condition which they had attained."<br /> <br /> Meon and Paget vibrated onward in ever increasing light. "So enchanting was this riding on vibratory waves of space in a gentle undulatory way, that I felt like going on forever, and forever, never tiring, never stopping, but after abandoning myself to the witchery of it for some time, I perceived the vibrations changing, merging into a quivering sensation, even more exquisite, and then, as if part of it, my feet came upon something different, something firm and reliable."<br /> <br /> She now found herself in a city of light, one of whiteness, boundless in expanse. "It seemed I had reached the limit of my ability to float in space. It seemed that I was heavier than my surroundings in some way. Everywhere were the most exalted souls I had yet seen. Some came forward and greeted us, addressing Meon as though he were one of them, and then, together, we entered into a building immeasurable in space and height, the veritable soul of architectural magnificence. The material had the transparency of glass of a variegated whiteness, into which colors, harmonizing in the most delicate way, were coming and going, ever changing. Electricity seemed to be the power which held it all together, as the electric blue would merge into violet and play incessantly, in a serpentine way, into which almost imperceptible yellowish streams seemed to flow. It was self-illuminated...It seemed that all the wisdom of all the ages was mine as I stood there. Life and death gave up their mysteries, and I no longer wondered but observed as one who understood. The machinery of earth existence was operated and regulated by and through the power of this plane. It was actually in contact with the earth. No happening on earth escaped the observation of the great spirits who seemed to have nothing else to do but watch over the beings of earth, to teach them, to lift them up through darkness, watch over reincarnations, create teachers and place them where they were most needed. With these teachers they were in direct communication at all times and knew exactly what was going on through some form of wireless telegraphy or telephony, perhaps, but they communicated as though there were no distance.<br /> <br /> "They seemed to draw the highly evolved souls of earth up to them mentally, and these cooperated consciously, responding unerringly. It was marvelous to watch the process or rather processes, as there were many phases of this supervision. There were coming and going all the time. I saw many go out and disappear into the depths, all rejoicing in their work, the uplifting of humanity. The souls were countless, the space immeasurable, yet there was no confusion - it was system idealized, each recognizing his mission and doing it. Truly, it was the Christ principle manifested, for they were laboring for others, not themselves."<br /> <br /> Meon took Paget even higher, where the influence of earth was not felt. A great soul came forward and asked her if she would like to return to earth. She said she would like to return only if she could do good by telling others what she had experienced. The being warned her that many would not believe her and that she might suffer from her efforts, but Paget said she was up for the challenge.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">A Life Review</span><br /> <br /> Paget then felt alone with bowed head. She then saw a little light vibrating directly before her. It began shaping itself into something. "It was not unlike a moving picture." She began to see figures and a small girl emerged. She soon realized that the young girl was herself and she was reliving her life on earth. She saw herself reveling in her grand passion, music, which held her in bondage as she grew in the joy and mastery of it. "How the little, white fingers, too small to span an octave, subconsciously caught fragments from the ‘choir invisible' and imprisoned them on the piano!<br /> <br /> She saw herself grow through college and into a proud, self-centered woman. There appeared before her three roads, one labeled "Good," one "Evil," and the other, the center, was unlabeled. She found herself on the center road, which had many more people than either of the side roads. "These roads were guarded by invisible creatures, according to the indicated propensities of each, who were always calling to those who traveled in the center, in an endeavor to influence them to more determined tendencies. Ever and anon there were paths leading from the center to the outer roads and from one outer road to the other, showing how easily one can change ones course at will."<br /> <br /> Paget then saw the young woman dreaming of becoming a great singer, the compensation being the homage of the world. "I saw her holding to heart in enchanted fancy, as the only thing worth while, the emptiest of all life's coveted cups - Fame." There was no one to remind her that ‘by ambition fell the angels."<br /> <br /> The "movie" of her life continued on to the time she came down with a severe case of laryngitis and lost her singing voice. She saw herself cursing God and being enveloped by a shadow-stained covering of materialism. She saw both her parents pass into the spirit world, leaving her alone, fighting the bitter fight. She saw even the most trivial matters in her life review. "Its faithfulness to detail was perfectly marvelous. Nothing was hidden, nothing slurred over. It was all there. I was standing face to face with my earth life just as I had lived it, awaiting its condemnation or justification."<br /> <br /> When the life review ended, Meon stood waiting. He told her that the purpose of the review was to build an edifice on the ashes as she returned to earth life.<br /> <br /> ‘Meon and other spirits were hovering about me. I could feel the electrified essence, which had manifested its presence everywhere during my voyage, drawing itself away - letting me go, as it were. Then the burden of physical life was full upon me and what a misfit I was!" - <i>Reprinted from <a href="http://metgat.gaia.com/blog/2009/6/a-near-death-experience-to-die-for">A Near-Death Experience to Die For</a></i><br /> <br /> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/">Spirit Rescue International™</a><br /> <i>Providing no-cost professional spiritual help, personal support and guidance<br /> Take the first step towards genuine peace of mind</i><br /> ---------------<br /> Sign up for the<br /> <a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.blogspot.com/">Spirit Rescue International Newsletter</a></b></center></p> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"></a><br /> <font color=goldenrod><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"><b>The Spirit Rescue International™ Haunted Help Forum<br /> <i>Discussion of paranormal and spiritual phenomena,<br /> including peer support for those with questions or concerns</i><br /> </a></font><br /> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_119223518147339">*Join Our Group On Facebook*</a></b></center></p> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://beyondtheedgeradio.podomatic.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://www.beyondtheedgeradio.com/listen-live-and-chat.html">Join Eric Altman and Lon Strickler<br /> <font face=VERDANA>*LIVE*</font><br /> each Sunday at 8 PM ET as we go<br /> Beyond the Edge!</a></b></center></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Qo4bYcRHo1w:dAGSc_wt9NM:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Qo4bYcRHo1w:dAGSc_wt9NM:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Qo4bYcRHo1w:dAGSc_wt9NM:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Qo4bYcRHo1w:dAGSc_wt9NM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Qo4bYcRHo1w:dAGSc_wt9NM:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Qo4bYcRHo1w:dAGSc_wt9NM:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Qo4bYcRHo1w:dAGSc_wt9NM:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Toxic Relationship or Vampire Attack?</h1> <p>2012-02-16T19:41:00.002-05:00</p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__GddvP7YhfE/S8k2s19z0TI/AAAAAAAAAUU/DGW2OtR2U54/s1600/bigstockphoto_Crowd_Walking_518175.jpg"></a><a href="http://waypastnormal.blogspot.com/2010/04/toxic-relationship-or-vampire-attack.html">Way Past Normal - by Dani Harper</a> - You’ve met them. People in your life who, frankly, exhaust you. They drop by to visit and when they leave, all your energy has gone with them. You might even feel depressed. This might be because they’re self-centered attention whores, unrelentingly negative and chronic blamers, or they work for the IRS.<br /> <br /> Or it might be because they’re vampires.<br /> <br /> Thanks to myth and media, we associate the undead with drinking blood to sustain themselves. But what if vamps are living, mortal humans who don’t suck blood but energy? The concept isn’t new. Many cultures have myths and legends about psychic vampires, including some Native American tribes. The Hopi told of the powaqa, a sorcerer who feeds on the life force, the hiksi.<br /> <br /> I ran across an internet quiz this week titled “Are you a psychic vampire?” Apparently, you can be one without even being conscious of it – and you’re considered more of a parasite in this instance. More drama queen than Queen of the Damned. Needy and annoying but usually manageable.<br /> <br /> Other individuals are fairly benign. They merely touch something after someone else has touched it, gleaning the leftover energy.<br /> <br /> But the real vampire is the one who knows exactly what he’s doing and attacks your energy on purpose, literally fortifying himself with your life force. It’s a highly aggressive and predatory act and just the thought of it puts me on edge – hey, I need all my energy and I can only drink so much coffee in a day, bud! Apparently if you suddenly feel tired, mentally confused or irritable it might not be because you skipped lunch. You may have been the victim of a walk-by vampire attack. He or she gets an energy surge and you’re left staggering to the nearest Starbucks.<br /> <br /> Highly sensitive persons are particularly susceptible to having their energy siphoned off. So are those who tend to be givers in the extreme, who haven’t developed good personal boundaries. Apparently you can be a metaphysical doormat too. And if you have what’s called a leaky aura, energy vamps will hone in on you like ants to a drippy syrup bottle.<br /> <br /> As with traditional vampires, repeated attacks by a psychic predator can put you in danger of becoming like them. Maybe you won’t actively go on the hunt at the mall, but if your life force is in a depleted state, you might unconsciously start drawing energy from friends and family.<br /> <br /> Defending yourself takes many forms. Some recommend visualization, picturing a bright white light or perhaps a suit of armor around yourself to block out a known vampire’s attempts. Some say that the equivalent of wearing garlic is keeping a piece of quartz crystal on your person. Watch out for people who step into your personal space, or stare at you (so much for ever riding a subway again). Most importantly, look after your health, mentally, emotionally and physically – remember, lions go after the gimpy gazelles.<br /> <br /> Your turn -- what do you think? Are energy vamps real?<br /> <br /> Dani Harper<br /> <a href=" http://www.daniharper.com/">www.daniharper.com</a><br /> <br /> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/TDSk4h77djI/AAAAAAAAUrA/xS4NK2I7BgY/s1600/Dani_mug_color-268x439.jpg"></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">NOTE: I'm pleased to introduce <span style="font-style:italic;">Dani Harper</span>, who is a newspaper editor turned paranormal author. Dani says there isn't anything she likes better than exploring the supernatural...unless it's writing romance. Of course, if you've read any of her stories, you would know she has at least one foot in the netherworld...Lon</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=RyXws8yCdiA:RtRctEF9LwQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=RyXws8yCdiA:RtRctEF9LwQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=RyXws8yCdiA:RtRctEF9LwQ:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=RyXws8yCdiA:RtRctEF9LwQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=RyXws8yCdiA:RtRctEF9LwQ:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=RyXws8yCdiA:RtRctEF9LwQ:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=RyXws8yCdiA:RtRctEF9LwQ:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>The Traveling Ghost Lady Of Texas</h1> <p>2012-02-15T20:13:00.001-05:00</p> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/SNpEu2PQr7I/AAAAAAAAI-0/lIi4UmcARCA/s1600-h/marshallghost.jpg"></a><br /> Many seek the truth to who the lady is that haunts the hill. But when you finds you she is out to save your life. Many in Marshall, Texas believe it is none other then the ghost of Mrs. D.A. ERWIN. Her ghost can be picked up anywhere along highway I-20 and Us 59. as long as your headed in the direction of Marshall Texas she will be encountered. Many believe her to be the most traveling ghost in America.<br /> <br /> If your coming in from the North South East or West to Marshall, TX, you might just see and have an encounter with one of the most friendliest ghost in the area. Her story may have inspired similar legends in other parts of the great state of Texas as well as the U. S. cities she is said to be picked up in. The ghost Lady is said to haunt U.S. Route 59 and I-20. Interstate 20.<br /> <br /> Interstate 20 (abbreviated I-20) is a major east-west interstate highway in Texas and the southeastern United States. It runs 1,535 miles (2,470 km) from near Kent, Texas, to Florence, South Carolina. Besides Texas and South Carolina, I-20 runs through northern Louisiana, central Mississippi, western and north-central Alabama, and north-central Georgia. <br /> <br /> U.S. Route 59 is a north-south United States highway (though it is signed east-west in parts of Texas). A latecomer to the US numbered route system, U.S. 59 is now a border-to-border route. The highway's northern terminus is nine miles north of Lancaster, Minnesota, at the Canadian border. Its southern terminus is in Laredo, Texas, just north of the Mexican border.<br /> <br /> The traveling ghost lady has been known to ride with a person for many hours and days and keep you talking. She is a very nice dead lady who is worried that you might fall asleep at the wheel and get into a accident on your way to or through Texas. The many who have met her including myself will all tell you she is very nice and will talk your arm off.<br /> <br /> <strong>Where, When And How the Traveling Ghost Lady died?</strong><br /> <br /> Marshall Texas Waterworks Hill Auto Wreck occurred in March 1936 - Woman is Killed, Four Injured in Auto-Truck Crash. But her ghost is said to haunt the spot and flag down people late at night asking for a ride to town. Not unlike the many tales of resurrection Mary. Mrs. Erwin is said to be very polite and is one of the most charming ghost you'd ever want to meet. Many say she is a great travel companion to have on any long cross country drive.<br /> <br /> Mrs D.A. ERWIN. is undoubtedly Marshall's most famous ghost. If you see her and pick her up it is a warning from beyond the grave that you are in danger and she is there to stop a great tragedy from happening to you. Some say she is very talkative and asks your name and where your from. She will even tell you about her family and often pull a photo or two out of her purse and show you it. Sometimes she asks for a ride to Kahn Memorial Hospital which no longer exists.<br /> <br /> Some call her a lost soul or a "vanishing Old Lady hitchhiker". Reports of Mrs. Erwin seem to have stopped around the early 1990s when the highway underwent reconstruction. The original road is said to have since been razed and changed and believers suggest that this may have stopped the walking of her spirit. Despite this, reports still show up from people seeing the apparition walking from time to time. Especially in the beginning of the year and around Thanksgiving and Christmas.<br /> <br /> <em>Marshall, Texas, March 21.- One person was killed and four others injured in an automobile collision Saturday evening on the Waterworks Hill about two miles north of Marshall.<br /> <br /> Mrs. D.A. ERWIN, about 65, was fatally injured and died on the operating table in the Kahn Memorial Hospital, being badly crushed. BALLARD DINWIDDIE, cotton adjuster in the county agent’s office here, received a broken arm and a gash on the head and his three children, Jerry, 13, cut over eye; Tommy, 11, cut on head, and Mary Jane, 10, bruises about the body. They were taken to the hospital for treatment and later the children were taken to the family residence. <br /> <br /> The family had been to Paris to see Mrs. Winwiddie,(sic) who had undergone an operation there, and were returning home when their car collided with a truck and trailer as the truck was trying to pass another car. <br /> <br /> The Dinwiddie moved to Marshall from Clarksville about six months ago.<br /> <br /> The driver of the truck, Billy Owens of Gill, son of Mr. and Mrs. M.L. Owens of Jefferson and his companion, whom he had picked up on the road, were not injured. Owens was placed under $500 bond pending an investigation.<br /> <br /> The body of Mrs. ERWIN, mother-in-law of Dinwiddie, will be taken to her home in Clarksville for burial Sunday. She was a lifelong resident of Red River county.<br /> <br /> Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 22 Mar 1936</em><br /> <br /> Since late 1939 many locals in Marshall tell how a elderly lady is often seen standing along side the dark and lonely dusty road side. Mrs. Erwin's Ghost is said to have saved the lives of over 100's of people or more over the years since her untimely death. I just happened to be one that picked her up one late night March 21st 1994. She did introduced herself as Mrs. Erwin to my surprise. And I knew from the start this was a real ghost because I knew of her story since I was child of 8 from my Father. But since she acted very much alive I treated her as such. <br /> <br /> As we drove through the night for I was coming back home from a visit to South Carolina. W e talked about the weather and such. Then she told me about being from Clarksville, TX. She said that her husband was dead for many years, and about having just moved to Marshall so she did not know her way around like she should. She also spoke of her visit to Paris, Tx and how her daughters husband mother-in-law Mrs. Winwiddie, had undergone a serious female tumor problem operation.<br /> <br /> Paris is a city located 98 miles (158 km) northeast of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex in Lamar County, Texas, in the United States. It is situated in East Texas, specifically Northeast Texas, at the western edge of the Piney Woods. She went on to tell me with her sweet Texas drawl that. "It is the county seat of Lamar County". She talked of Grand children and her children. And could a nice girl like me driving all alone alone was not scared of getting into an accident. <br /> <br /> Since the 1940s, several driving to or from Marshall have reported picking up a older stranded female hitchhiker. This woman ghost I encountered was dressed somewhat formally and had light blond or red gray hair long and in a matching buns on both sides of her head, blue eyes, and wearing a black old fashioned dress and shoes. <br /> <br /> Some more attentive drivers would sometimes add that she wore a thin shawl, or gloves, and that she had a large black purse, and is very talkative.<br /> <br /> When I got to 811 S. Washington area, She asked to be let out, whereupon she disappeared into the darkness.<div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=7LUwuPv4lrw:jq4INVmY4VQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=7LUwuPv4lrw:jq4INVmY4VQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=7LUwuPv4lrw:jq4INVmY4VQ:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=7LUwuPv4lrw:jq4INVmY4VQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=7LUwuPv4lrw:jq4INVmY4VQ:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=7LUwuPv4lrw:jq4INVmY4VQ:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=7LUwuPv4lrw:jq4INVmY4VQ:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Spiritual Tools: Smoky Quartz</h1> <p>2012-02-14T17:01:00.002-05:00</p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hevgAE5H0Xk/TzrYQzTr-cI/AAAAAAAAcvQ/fEA-wTNB6Zg/s1600/smoky-quartz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #cc0000;">Double terminated Smoky Quartz</b></span></td></tr> </tbody></table><i>There has been an increased interest in several metaphysical subjects over recent years. I have become interested in a few of these esoteric practices which I have used as supplemental tools in my spiritual work. The most prominent of these is the use of crystals / stones...mostly in protection grids, energy work, chakra balance and meditation. The most common use of crystals / stones is for healing, as in Reiki and other alternative therapies. Occasionally I will highlight certain crystals / stones and shapes that I have found useful.</i><br /> <br /> <b>SMOKY QUARTZ</b><br /> <br /> A very powerful metaphysical stone, Smoky Quartz emits a high level of energy. Smoky Quartz helps ground the holder with Earth energies and is good for working with the Root and Earth Star Chakras. Use Smoky Quartz to absorb and transmute negative energy. Smoky Quartz is also a great stone for pain relief, and helps to prevent healing crises after a strong energy session. Smoky Quartz can help integrate messages and/or spiritual energy received in higher chakras into the lower chakras and anchor expanded consciousness into the physical body.<br /> <br /> Smoky Quartz works with all of the Chakras, but can specifically focus it's energies with the Earth Star, Root, Solar-Plexus, Hands and Feet Chakras. While this stone has a slow and steady energy to it, it is still very powerful in it's action. Smoky Quartz can facilitate meditation, helping to deepen the state and heighten awareness, while simultaneously pulling away negative energies from the aura.<br /> <br /> This crystal has a vibe that helps to facilitate the transformation of dreams into reality. Meditating with Smoky Quartz Crystal can bring information from other realms into the physical. Many people who work with Smoky Quartz have reported unusual sightings of spiritual entities. Smoky Quartz is great for manifestation programs and grids, and body layouts, due to it's slow and methodical way of pulling higher energies down into third dimensional reality. Protective Smoky Quartz is an important mineral for one's medicine bag.<br /> <br /> Metaphysical:<br /> Primary Chakra: Root, Solar Plexus<br /> Astrological sign(s): Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn<br /> Vibration: Number 2 & 8<br /> <br /> Geological:<br /> Stone Type/Family: Member of the Quartz family<br /> Crystal System: Trigonal<br /> Chemical Composition: (SiO2) Silicon Dioxide<br /> Hardness: 7<br /> <br /> Physical:<br /> Color: Pale to deep brown, golden brown, black brown, gray brown<br /> Location: World wide including, most notably, Brazil, the Swiss Alps, and the US<br /> Rarity: Common<br /> Fun Fact: The cause of the color of smoky quartz has been debated but it is almost certainly related to the amount of exposure to radiation that the stone has undergone. Natural Smoky Quartz is naturally radiated during its growth. Lab enhanced Smoky Quartz is additionally irradiated.<br /> <br /> Helpful Link: <a href="http://www.healing-crystals-for-you.com/smokey-quartz-crystals.html">Smoky Quartz Crystals...Do You Need Protection and Grounding?</a><br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y_1utaW5tJ0/TzrYmGsbdNI/AAAAAAAAcvc/_KDLEtT9oGg/s1600/smokye.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #cc0000;">A superb Elestial Smoky Quartz</b></span></td></tr> </tbody></table><b>NOTE: I prefer the Elestial (also called Skeletal or Jacare) form of Smoky Quartz or Smoky Amethyst with a multitude of pyramidal/triangular terminations. These can look like stair steps (one right after the other), they can be literally on top of each other, or in random patterns over the crystal itself. The Elestial may have a series of unusual etchings (called a 'recordkeeper'), cavities, or geometric like patterns that make the crystal look hollow in areas, thus the name "Skeletal". There may also be inclusions containing other minerals.<br /> <br /> The Elestial is a powerful shape that amplifies the vibration of the based crystal as well as the grid around it. The price for one of these crystals is usually high...but careful shopping can result in an Elestial that 'feels' right and doesn't break the bank...Lon</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/">Spirit Rescue International™</a><br /> <i>Providing no-cost professional spiritual help, personal support and guidance<br /> Take the first step towards genuine peace of mind</i><br /> ---------------<br /> Sign up for the<br /> <a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.blogspot.com/">Spirit Rescue International Newsletter</a></b></center></p><br /> <p><center><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"></a><br /> <font color=goldenrod><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"><b>The Spirit Rescue International™ Haunted Help Forum<br /> <i>Discussion of paranormal and spiritual phenomena,<br /> including peer support for those with questions or concerns</i><br /> </a></font><br /> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_119223518147339">*Join Our Group On Facebook*</a></b></center></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Rd9LKRKKGtI:7OOh2F0HG1c:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Rd9LKRKKGtI:7OOh2F0HG1c:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Rd9LKRKKGtI:7OOh2F0HG1c:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Rd9LKRKKGtI:7OOh2F0HG1c:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Rd9LKRKKGtI:7OOh2F0HG1c:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Rd9LKRKKGtI:7OOh2F0HG1c:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Rd9LKRKKGtI:7OOh2F0HG1c:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Exorcists: Battling Evil or Folklore?</h1> <p>2012-02-13T19:55:00.001-05:00</p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/ShQJfuCRWqI/AAAAAAAANQU/VNRMarz2DUQ/s1600-h/crucfix.jpg"></a><span style="font-style:italic;"><b>Seemoy Attong holds Fr Leo's crucifix</b></span><br /> <br /> If you ever saw the entire Exorcist movie-unlikely since we all squeezed our eyes shut in fear most of the time-you would have seen elements of a very real ritual performed by priests of the world's most powerful religion-Roman Catholicism.<br /> <br /> Much of the horror we felt, of course, was the inexplicable things the girl-or the evil that possessed her-could do with her body and voice, and the power of the demon to command others.<br /> <br /> But it was all illogical, the rational mind tried to make us believe. For to accept this as real, was to accept all the things we grew up being delightfully scared of-from the ghosts and goblins, to lagahoo and La Diablesse.<br /> <br /> However, the holy men of the Roman Catholic Church accept the spiritual realm as fact.<br /> <br /> And there are at least three Roman Catholic priests in Trinidad, schooled in the ancient teachings of The Roman Ritual, and prepared for the epic God vs Satan battle to remove from the body of a believer, the evil which may dwell within.<br /> <br /> American priest Fr Clifford Graham is one of the exorcists. He is based at a church presbytery in rural Coryal Village, near Sangre Grande. Graham has written extensively about The Roman Ritual.<br /> <br /> Exorcists too are Frs Neil Rodriguez, Vincent Compton, and Reginald Hezekiah. They have always declined to describe a personal experience with the possessed.<br /> <br /> Former Catholic bishop John Mendes, who died recently, was the famed priest known to have performed several exorcisms locally. He took his secrets to the grave.<br /> <br /> Mendes succeeded Dom Leo van Leuween, who passed on in 1983.<br /> <br /> But it is through a devotee and confidante, businesswoman Seemoy Attong, details of one of his exorcisms have emerged.<br /> <br /> So momentous was the day, that Attong remembers it with clarity.<br /> <br /> The demon, she said, had possessed the body of a 15-year-old girl from Arouca.<br /> <br /> The evil was the work of an Obeahman who had done the deed on behalf of a family jealous that the girl, a college pupil, was doing better in school that their child.<br /> <br /> Attong remembers "the parents found that their child was not the child they knew. She was doing all kinds of wrong things and there were sweeping pains over her body. So they carried her to Fr Leo."<br /> <br /> Said Attong "they didn't tell the girl where they were going. Along the way, the person inside the girl was telling the driver, 'I am fed up being in this child. This child is not worth the while. Carry me where I can be free'."<br /> <br /> The exorcism, said Attong, was carried out at the Catholic church in Mon Repos, San Fernando.<br /> <br /> Attong said, "I heard Fr Leo talking to the spirit and the spirit telling him that they had put him in the child. The thing did disappear because it wanted to go to rest. When I got there, the child appeared pale and like a dead person. But when she got up, she was okay. Fr Leo, when he came out of the room, was exhausted, wet with perspiration from head to foot, from his fight with the devil".<br /> <br /> Fr Leo, born in Holland, died at the San Fernando General Hospital at the age of 69.<br /> <br /> Attong said he asked her to sprinkle his bottle of holy water on his body before he died, much like he would have done during the exorcism of the girl, as he held the crucifix and made his incantations in Latin. Attong has kept as her guard Fr Leo's crucifix.<br /> ______________________<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Trinidad & Tobago Folklore</span><br /> <br /> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/ShQLQ-SahmI/AAAAAAAANQc/p6E_P1ZRs98/s1600-h/LaDiablesse.jpg"></a><span style="font-style:italic;">(La Diablesse)</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Douens</span><br /> <br /> Douens (Dwens) are the souls of children who have died before they were baptized. They are doomed to roam the earth forever. They are seen playing in forests and near rivers and the odd thing about them is that they have no faces and their feet are turned backwards. They may approach children and lead them astray in the forest until they are lost, or they may come near people's houses at night, crying and whimpering.<br /> <br /> Old people talk: To prevent the Douens from calling your children into the forest at dusk, never shout their names in open places, as the Duennes will take their names, call them and lure them away.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Duppies</span><br /> <br /> Duppies are ghosts that roam the earth at night. It is said that to keep duppies out of your house you must either sprinkle salt or rice grains all around the house; as the duppy must first count each individual grain before entering. By which time the sun will have arisen and they must then return to the spirit world.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Gang Gang Sara</span><br /> <br /> Gang Gang Sara (Tobago Folklore by Alice & Gerard Besson) - The legend of Gang Gang Sara, the African witch of Golden Lane, has its origins in the latter half of the 18th century. On a stormy night she was blown from her home in Africa across the sea to Tobago and landed quite safely at the village of Les Coteaux. From there she journeyed to Golden Lane in search of her family who had long ago been transported there. She lived to a great age and is remembered for her wisdom and kindness. She became the loving wife of Tom, whom legend says she had known as a child in her native Africa. She lived to a great age and is remembered for her wisdom. After her Tom had died, wishing to return to her native land, she climbed a great silk cotton tree and tried to fly, not knowing that she had lost the art of flight as a result of having eaten salt. To this day the names of Tom and Sara can be seen inscribed upon the head stones of their graves where they have lain side by side for close upon two hundred years.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Jacakalantan</span><br /> <br /> The Jacakalantan is said to be a mysterious light that appears and attracts people, misleading the unwary into desolate areas far away from their intended destinations. And then vanishes.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Jumbies</span><br /> <br /> Jumbies are mischievous or malevolent spirit or creature.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">La Diablesse</span><br /> <br /> La Diablesse (Lajables), the Devil Woman, roames at night. She has eyes like burning coals and a face resembling that of a corpse, but hides it under a beautiful wide-brimmed hat and a veil over her face. She is dressed exquisitely in a blouse with puffy sleeves and long, petticoated, skirts. She has one cloven foot, which she tries to hide under her long skirts. She turns up at village dances, where she is immediately disliked by the women present, but she utterly charms the men and then asks one of them to take her home. He follows her, totally under her spell. She leads him deep into the woods and then suddenly she disappears. Unable to find his way home, the poor fellow stumbles around in the dark wood until he either falls into a ravine or a river to his death or gets attacked by wild hogs.<br /> <br /> Old people talk: If you feel you may encounter a La Diablesse on your way home, take off all your clothes, turn them inside out and put them on again, and this will surely protect you from a La Diablesse.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Lugarhoo</span><br /> <br /> A Lugarhoo (Lagahoo or Loup Garou) is a person who can change themselves into a half animal from the torso down; and can also alter its size from tiny to very large in an instant. This is done at night as it rattles and drags chains and carries in its hand a whip-like bunch of dried sticks and reeds.<br /> <br /> Old people talk: If you want to see a lugarhoo and not be seen by it, take some yampee from the corner of a dog's eye, put it in your eye and peep out of a key hole at 12 midnight.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Mama Glow or Mama Dlo or Mama Dglo</span><br /> <br /> "Mama Glow" or "Mama Dlo" or "Mama Dglo" whose name is derived from the French "maman de l' eau" which means "mother of the water" is one of the lesser known personalities of Trinidad and Tobago folklore. A half woman, half snake with long flowing hairwhich she combs constantly. Her upper torso is a naked, beautiful woman, the lower part coils into a large form of an anaconda snake that is hidden beneath the water. She is sometimes thought to be the lover of Papa Bois, and old hunters tell stories of coming upon them in the 'High Woods'. They also tell of hearing a loud, cracking sound which is said to be the sound made by her tail as she snaps it on the surface of a mountain pool or a still lagoon. Mortal men who commit crimes against the forest, like burning down trees or indiscriminately putting animals to death or fouling the rivers could find themselves married to her for life, both this one and the one to follow. Sometimes she takes the form of a beautiful woman 'singing silent songs on still afternoons, sitting at the water's edge in the sunlight, lingering for a golden moment, a flash of green - gone. Nothing but a big Morte Bleu, rising in the sun beams.<br /> <br /> Old people talk: "Did you see a fish jump?" "Yes, but it did not go back in again!" If you were to meet Mama Dlo in the forest and wish to escape her, take off your left shoe, turn it upside down and immediately leave the scene, walking backwards until you reach home.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Mermaids and Fairymaids</span><br /> <br /> Mermaids and Fairymaids (Tobago Folklore) - There be mermaids here and Leviathan, great denizens of the deep. Amongst the swirling currents and white capped blue-green waters, just where the Caribbean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean, close by St. Giles and near to Misty Marble Island, past Anse Gouleme and Anse Brisant, towards the Bird of Paradise Island and down the coast past Speyside to Fat Hog Bay, it is remembered from long ago that this was where the mermaids came to play.<br /> <br /> Tobago mermaids are male and live in the deep, deep sea. They mate with the fairy maids of the rivers and the secret mountain pools. Riding upon the crest of waves, they are handsome men like kings of old or warriors of long ago, beplumed and richly garbed. They may grant a wish, transform mediocrity into genius and confer wealth and power. Sometimes the water people seek relationships with mortals. Some men are particularly attractive to the fairy maids, especially men with smooth skin.<br /> <br /> Fairymaids are said to be beautiful with long lush hair and one tiny foot in the shape of a deer's hoof, she may use her power to "turn" a man's head. She may steal his shadow and leave him quite demented. In which case, accompanied by friends and family and with the help of a "workman", he must go to the river and address the water pleading for the restoration of his lost shadow. This done, he must leave the water's edge and not look back. Fairymaids may be found in caves behind waterfalls or beneath certain bridges where the river runs deep and swift. In days gone by, they were seen near certain water wheels. To discontinue a relationship with a fairy queen, offerings of two pairs of shoes must be made. The first must be burnt on the beach, the fairymaid will then rise out of the water and ask if she is to be paid for past services. The answer must be "nothing but this pair of shoes". The second must then be thrown into the waves.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Papa Bois</span><br /> <br /> Papa Bois, also called Maître Bois, lives in the forest and he is the father or protector of the animals that live there. He is often seen by hunters and other people who live near the forest. He gets animals out of snares and treats sick animals at his dwelling. He is an old man who is very hairy, like an animal and usually is only dressed in a pair of ragged trousers with a bamboo horn hanging from his belt. He can turn himself into the form of a large stag or any other animal as well to be able to observe the hunters unnoticed. He is usually very kind, but can be dangerous when crossed. He might even cast a spell on a bad hunter and turn him into a wild hog.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Silk Cotton Trees</span><br /> <br /> Silk Cotton trees are regarded with a kind of awed reverance and fear. These are huge trees. It is reported to be very difficult to be able to find someone who will cut down a silk cotton tree as they are said to be the home of spirits and duppies. To cut it down is to free them to roam the earth.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Soucouyant</span><br /> <br /> The Soucouyant (Sukuya), also called Old Hag, is a supernatural being who has made a pact with the devil to be able to change herself into all kinds of different forms. At night she sheds her human skin and changes into a ball of fire or any kind of animal and casts spells on people to turn them into animals also, but she has to slip back into that skin before dawn breaks and the cock crows, otherwise she will not be able to get back into it. So it may happen, that, when people suspect that an old woman neighbour of theirs is, in fact, a soucouyant, they may trick her by going to her house at night and destroying the skin she left behind by putting salt on it so that it will shrink and she will not be able to get back into it and thus die. In Trinidad, if somebody walks around with a "hicky" (soukie) on his neck, he may get remarks from his friends like: " Eh, Eh, Soucoyant suck yuh or wha ? "<br /> <br /> Old people talk: If you wish to discover who the Soucouyant in your village is empty 100 lbs of rice at the village crossroads where she will be compelled to pick them up, one grain at a time - that is how you'll know the Soucouyant.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Witchdoctors</span><br /> <br /> Witchdoctors, or as they are known in Trinidad, Obeah men, are said to abound. It is said that you can visit one to have any manner of spell performed to grant your desires. It is thought that curses are powerful and can be cast by anyone. Even your neighbour may put the evil eye or MalYeux(Maljo) on you. Any discomfort, hardship or illness may be attributed to this. 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This, however, happened at an employee family housing area in the rear of the property. <br /> <br /> Even though most of the property's past is more mundane albeit historic, there is still an eccentric ring to it. <br /> <br /> When the Opera House was originally constructed in the 1920s, the building housed all of the amenities for a small town of miners, such as a meeting house, a barbershop and restaurant. <br /> <br /> The building also included a hospital for the miners of the town, located in the same wing as the current Opera House. After treatment, patients were moved either to the left of the hospital to recover, or to the right side of the hospital -- to the morgue. <br /> <br /> Although no especially tragic events have been recorded at the hospital, guests and employees believe this to be a likely source of paranormal activity. <br /> <br /> Another source of ghost stories is attributed to the men's and women's dormitories. Only half of the dormitory building was reconstructed to what is now the Amargosa Hotel. The other half remains in a state of disrepair. <br /> <br /> The un-restored half is closed to the public but has earned the name "Spooky Hollow" by reputation. "We're in an old building where anything can happen," says Regnell. It may appear more spooky due to lack of repair than any actual ghosts. <br /> <br /> However, two rooms in this wing generate repeated reports of strange occurrences. <br /> <br /> The atmosphere in Room 32 easily gives visitors the creeps, but there is no known story that relates to the room. <br /> <br /> Unlike Room 24 of this section, which has been nicknamed "the baby crying room."<br /> <br /> Many guests at the Hotel report a baby that wails all night. Some even complain to the management in the morning, when in fact there were no children present in the Hotel all night. <br /> <br /> Everyone who visits the hotel reports that certain rooms have very characteristic scents.<br /> <br /> One room smells like perfume while another room smells like lilac. The smells are pleasant, but Regnell said, "We don't do anything to make the rooms smell like that. They just do."<br /> <br /> Staff can't do anything to make the rooms smell differently either. No amount of air freshener or clean air can clear away the scent.<br /> <br /> Of course, ghosts are not the only possible cause for a particular smell. <br /> <br /> Like a children's ghost story about a haunted hotel room, the spooky occurrences, real or imagined, are enough to drive many guests to leave in the middle of the night. <br /> <br /> About once a month, guests simply pack their bags and leave. Sometimes they leave a note, sometimes no notice at all, but the occurrence is frequent enough that the hotel staff is not surprised when guest check out in the middle of the night. <br /> <br /> Some of the staff have their own stories to tell about the hotel.<br /> <br /> Brittany Jenkins helps in the restaurant and with housekeeping. She was cleaning a shower in a guest room one day when, she recalls, "The shower turned on -- on me. I was kind of hot, but not that hot." The hotel ghosts have either retained their original sense of humor or else are just naturally helpful. <br /> <br /> One day Jenkins heard a father and his daughter who were guests at the hotel, speaking about the night before. The father asked his daughter, "Why did you get up so many times last night?" The daughter replied, "I didn't. Why did you?"<br /> <br /> Both guests had heard footsteps across the room all night long. <br /> <br /> Regnell is passive about the alleged ghost stories. "I think it is important to know about our history -- where we were, where we're going, all the way to the end. There is no definitive. I leave it up to the guests to decide for themselves."<br /> <br /> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/">Spirit Rescue International™</a><br /> <i>Providing no-cost professional spiritual help, personal support and guidance<br /> Take the first step towards genuine peace of mind</i><br /> ---------------<br /> Sign up for the<br /> <a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.blogspot.com/">Spirit Rescue International Newsletter</a></b></center></p><br /> <p><center><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"></a><br /> <font color=goldenrod><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"><b>The Spirit Rescue International™ Haunted Help Forum<br /> <i>Discussion of paranormal and spiritual phenomena,<br /> including peer support for those with questions or concerns</i><br /> </a></font><br /> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_119223518147339">*Join Our Group On Facebook*</a></b></center></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=bpjvDJ9VoNo:76WXYRJvE5Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=bpjvDJ9VoNo:76WXYRJvE5Q:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=bpjvDJ9VoNo:76WXYRJvE5Q:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=bpjvDJ9VoNo:76WXYRJvE5Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=bpjvDJ9VoNo:76WXYRJvE5Q:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=bpjvDJ9VoNo:76WXYRJvE5Q:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=bpjvDJ9VoNo:76WXYRJvE5Q:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>The Phantom of Bayou Coquille</h1> <p>2012-02-11T19:21:00.001-05:00</p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/TEM0IdFti1I/AAAAAAAAU3Y/KbiOj9xA010/s1600/kuntilanak.jpg"></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">I received the following anecdote from a reader:</span><br /> <br /> I am from Southern Louisiana and just recently had back surgery, so I haven't been out my house in a while. I wanted to take a ride in the car...it was about 3:30 am. I was on old Barataria Road which is in a wildlife refuge named Jean Lafitte National Park. It's a dark road with no lights. I like to go in it to see deer, coyotes and other wildlife.<br /> <br /> Well, this night I witnessed something a little different. I drove down the road about a mile and a half past the flood gates when, in my head lights, I thought I could see a person. I slowed down to about 10 MPH. It was a woman facing down in a white dress and long black hair. This was no ordinary woman because the top half of her body was visible and transparent. I could see the trees through her body. She had a whitish dress with a ruffled collar and ruffles around the wrist. I was 5 feet from her and as I swerved to miss her she (as best as I describe it) teleported right into my car. I immediately smelled burnt hair and got this weird feeling of emotion...like a deep sadness. It freaked me out! I drove off fast and had the cab light on the rest of the way as I felt as if there was someone in the back seat.<br /> <br /> I told this story to my mom and she said she had a friend back in the 80's who had said she'd seen a similar thing. I had heard stories about Bayou Coquille, but man it was awesome when it happens to you. Just thought I'd share this with you guys. I know this might sound crazy but it's true...I wasn't drinking and wasn't on no drugs.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">NOTE: I have heard of the ghost of Jean Lafitte and a few other swamp monster sightings in this area, but this is the first I've heard of a phantom woman roaming the bayou. This story is very similar to those I've heard from Brunei and Indonesia in reference to the hitchhiking woman (Kuntilanak) as well as the Pontianak and Penanggalan. I have posted some of the encounters previously. I may look into the entire mythology of the region for a future post...Lon</span><br /> <br /> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/">Spirit Rescue International™</a><br /> <i>Providing no-cost professional spiritual help, personal support and guidance<br /> Take the first step towards genuine peace of mind</i><br /> ---------------<br /> Sign up for the<br /> <a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.blogspot.com/">Spirit Rescue International Newsletter</a></b></center></p><br /> <p><center><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"></a><br /> <font color=goldenrod><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"><b>The Spirit Rescue International™ Haunted Help Forum<br /> <i>Discussion of paranormal and spiritual phenomena,<br /> including peer support for those with questions or concerns</i><br /> </a></font><br /> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_119223518147339">*Join Our Group On Facebook*</a></b></center></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=-VbKx0vNlC0:biVwJ9Ztm0c:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=-VbKx0vNlC0:biVwJ9Ztm0c:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=-VbKx0vNlC0:biVwJ9Ztm0c:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=-VbKx0vNlC0:biVwJ9Ztm0c:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=-VbKx0vNlC0:biVwJ9Ztm0c:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=-VbKx0vNlC0:biVwJ9Ztm0c:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=-VbKx0vNlC0:biVwJ9Ztm0c:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Prince Edward Island Attachment Case Log - Spirit Rescue International</h1> <p>2012-02-10T18:25:00.001-05:00</p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mgjqna13yRA/TWLFgV3ZyUI/AAAAAAAAXmY/RPlgnPOWzKg/s1600/greenlight.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><b>The following notes are from a past case at <a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/">Spirit Rescue International</a>:</b><br /> <br /> <b>Lon's Notes: Tue 1 Feb 2011</b> - Irene and I have had an initial conversation with the client. We have also received the questionaire with the history of this case. The research tasks will be assigned today.<br /> <br /> This case is in Prince Edward Island, Canada and the activity has been occurring for quite awhile. As a result of the client's personal situations over many years Irene and I feel we are dealing with an attachment / possession by one or more entities. The activity has been varied and troublesome.<br /> <br /> That is about all the information I am able to disclose currently. More will be posted after we get the research, go over a 'battleplan', confer with the client then ultimately conduct an RV session. Stay tuned....Lon<br /> <br /> -----<br /> <br /> <b>Irene's Notes: Thu 3 Feb 2011</b> - This is a case of a lady in Canada who over the years has had some strange unexplained happenings surrounding her.<br /> <br /> Besides suffering dreams that she says are hellish and intense which she has talked to us about, things happening in the house which she has now fled had started to increase.<br /> <br /> Every door in the house slamming at the same exact second, cups flying off the work surface and pictures flying around the room in a circular fashion, now this may sound to you like an ordinary poltergeist haunting but there is much more to this case which stems back to childhood, at first when I read the details it reminded me of the film 'Carrie', anger plays a big part in this case.<br /> <br /> Whispering and talking is often heard, a vision of a young girl with Red hair and brilliant bright Blue eyes who changed in to something unearthly.<br /> <br /> The Freezer door would be found open in the mornings when they got up, the partner accused her of having been eating in the middle of the night and only believed she hadn't when one morning they found what looked like black soot handprints on the door, one of the dreams this client has is of people being burnt in a fire, this maybe or may not be connected.<br /> <br /> An apparition of what the client describes looked like a Farmer has been seen floating in a doorway, the client says she did not feel anything negative with this.<br /> <br /> This case consists not only of a haunting but also multiple attachments. This is all at the moment I am going to reveal on this case as it is one being investigated and in the early stages many things I am holding back.<br /> <br /> The research on this Island has revealed one piece of very good information that we would like to look into further, a remote view will be the next step whether this will be done by Lon or myself has yet to be decided. The results will be posted in due course.<br /> <br /> As and when we progress with this we will try to post more information here.<br /> <br /> -----<br /> <br /> <b>Lon's Notes: Tue 15 Feb 2011</b> - Irene and I conducted a remote view on this case on Monday, February 14th.<br /> <br /> Irene set the target coordinates for me and monitored the session. We systematically executed 4 phases in order to perceive the target and to gather as much information possible.<br /> <br /> In Phase 1, the coordinates (a set of two - four digit numbers) were given to me...from which an ideogram (a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept) was developed. The target was narrowed down to a subject. I was drawn to an area in a house which I suspected was a living room. My focus centered on a knit or crocheted blanket or something similar which I sense held some importance to a past or present member of the household. The colors were light green and pink. There was also a fragrance of roses.<br /> <br /> In Phase 2, the target vignette was narrowed by probing for sounds, textures, temperatures, colors, luminescence, contrast and smells. Through this information I was able to focus in on any verticals, horizontals, diagonals, topography, mass and energetics as well as my overall 'feeling' of the target. In this instance, I was directed to a bedroom with a large-mirrored dresser. Again, the focus was on the blanket or covering which was now being used...possible wrapped around the client. I could tell that this was from the past and that this person was feeling fear and apprehension. There was also a man yelling and moving about the residence.<br /> <br /> In Phase 3, I made a rough sketch or drawing of what I was perceiving. At this point, the sketch included the objects in the bedroom including a doorway, a window and a bed.<br /> <br /> In Phase 4, I went into a deeper perception of the target. This included sense, magnitudes, emotions, physicals, subspace and concepts. There were other specifics used...but at this point there was no systematic procedure because the observations are starting to come together into a primary deduction, though I suffered a psychic attack early in the process. I experienced severe nausea and pain to my arms, hands, right ribs and the bridge of my nose. Irene immediately projected her energy towards me in order to alleviate the symptoms and pain. After many minutes, my pain started to dissipate. It's a difficult process to describe but it was obvious that it took a serious toll on Irene. Actually I was quite worried for her (in turn, she was very concerned for my well-being). We were eventually able to continue the session.<br /> <br /> Through the process I perceived this man, that I previously referred to, was in an area outside and near the ocean or a lake. At first, his emotions were that of severe guilt...then it suddenly changed to relief as I felt him leave his physical body. (at the end of the client's father's life he had gone missing for 10 days and committed suicide...further details will remain confidential). Later, I perceived his spirit in a dark wooded area where it was confronted by an unknown being...definitely a vengeful entity that was very tall with dark deep-set eyes and a wrinkled face that walked in a peculiar fashion. It first appeared as a bright green light that started to take form as it neared the man's spirit. I am quite positive that this entity invaded the man's spirit and may have been one of the attached entities we sensed on the client. Irene immediately made an effort to move it away from me...though it did attempt to come back. She eventually cleared this entity which I was able to witness during the remote view. Honestly, it was truly a remarkable experience though this could have easily been a dangerous event.<br /> <br /> At that time, the remote view session was ended. There are still questions to be answered, especially when we consult with the client. The presence of another attached spirit is still a very real possibility...though my sense is that it may be an entity that has accompanied the client since an early age and may be more mischievous than malevolent.<br /> <br /> There are other specifics but because of client confidentiality this information must remain private...Lon<br /> <br /> -----<br /> <br /> <b>Lon's Notes: Tue 15 Feb 2011</b> - I woke this morning with a very sore right shoulder blade...like something hit me. There is no bruise but I needed to take a Vicodin to calm it down. The attack was swift and shocking...the first I have ever experienced. I'm glad Irene was there, but she paid for it I'm afraid.<br /> <br /> -----<br /> <br /> <b>Lon's Notes: Tue 15 Feb 2011</b> - We just talked to the client who verified much of what was perceived during the RV. I seems clear that we were dealing with 2 entities, one of which was cleared during the session. There is still a mischievous spirit attached to the client...this will be dealt with very soon.<br /> <br /> -----<br /> <br /> <b>Irene's Notes: Wed 16 Feb 2011</b> - I have to admit that we took a battering with this one but to me that is part and parcel of the job and I think Lon is beginning to realise that...I am proud of him.<br /> <br /> Anyway the entity removal was successful I believe this entity at one point could of been attached to the father who in the end committed suicide then transferring itself to a friend of the client or the client themself, either way it was then able to attack the client, strange that at the time of the removal the client was with this friend who is normally very somber and witnessed a sudden change come over him, he changed, said he felt great and I am sure he felt the move.<br /> <br /> There, as Lon has said, is another attachment with this client and this one has been with the client for a long time, its not going to want to go anywhere and I already know that we have a fight on our hands to get rid of it, it is a real trickster. If I had to rate it on a danger level out of 10 I would give it an 8.<br /> <br /> I hope to take this one out in the next couple of days, so Lon or I will let you know the outcome.<br /> <br /> -----<br /> <br /> <b>Lon's Note:</b> - After Irene's final clearing in this case, I last talked to the client on Mon 21 Feb 2011...she stated all is well. Her quote...."the last 24 days, since you started my case, have been better than my last 24 years". It has been one year and no further activity has been reported...case closed.<div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4Fx9CygPRAk:AHkjUzliJ8w:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4Fx9CygPRAk:AHkjUzliJ8w:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4Fx9CygPRAk:AHkjUzliJ8w:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4Fx9CygPRAk:AHkjUzliJ8w:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4Fx9CygPRAk:AHkjUzliJ8w:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4Fx9CygPRAk:AHkjUzliJ8w:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4Fx9CygPRAk:AHkjUzliJ8w:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>On The Other Side: A True Story</h1> <p>2012-02-09T18:31:00.001-05:00</p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/TLN4KMK5lVI/AAAAAAAAWYM/p6FmgQaJnnw/s1600/kane.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><b>I received the following anecdote from Shannon in October 2010:</b><br /> <br /> It was November 23rd, 1993, the day before Thanksgiving. I was spending the night at my best friend Lexy's. I was enjoying the simple luxury of being allowed this time with her, because until a few months before, I had lived with my mother and had grown up in a Steven King novel of physical and physiological torture. But now I was living with my grandmother who, while seeming to resent having me in her house, was completely dismissive of who and where I spent my time allowing me freedom for the first time in my life.<br /> <br /> Lexy and I were laughing over something silly when her older sister Ann walked in with the cordless phone. She was simpering over the person she was talking to.<br /> "Oh that's so amazing" she squealed, "I can't believe you could see that!" This went on for some time until she handed the phone to Lexy. After a few seconds, to my great irritation, Lexy was making the same gushing sounds.<br /> <br /> Lexy handed me the phone, "You have to try this! He's physic, he'll tell you things that'll blow you away!"<br /> <br /> "Yea, no thanks" I pushed the phone back at her. I wasn't going to let some fraud turn me into a giddy idiot.<br /> <br /> "Come on" she begged, with her sister chiming in.<br /> <br /> Finally grumbling, I took the phone and said through clenched teeth "Go ahead, tell me all about myself!" I was going to carve him up like a turkey and pass back the phone.<br /> <br /> There was a pause, and a bemused young man said "I don't know, I know you're scary!'<br /> <br /> Very satisfied with his answer I handed back the phone. It really set me on edge that anyone who had psychic abilities could treat them so casually. I had a degree of them myself, and had ruthlessly turned them as off as much I could. I couldn't fathom being at ease. It was a war I had been fighting with myself for a great deal of my life. My mother had almost convinced me anything along those lines was the work of the devil, as she herself had been indoctrinated. I wavered between the fear of the things I could see and complete denial.<br /> <br /> The phone made it's way back to Ann while Lexy laughed at how rude I had been." Eric's a really nice guy" she was saying, "you'd like him if you gave him a chance."<br /> I shrugged it off. "Not into his little parlor tricks."<br /> <br /> Much to my surprise, Ann kept trying to pass back the phone. "He wants to talk to you" she persisted. Finally I took it and made nice for a few minutes rather then be rude to Lexy and her sister. I was relieved when Ann took it back as soon as she could and left.<br /> <br /> "Apparently he likes you" Lexy teased.<br /> <br /> "He's nice, you were right, but I think he just gets a kick out of me. I was the only one who wasn't blown away by him." Privately I was wondering how Eric would have felt if I had turned the tables on him and started digging around in HIS head. Surface reads are the easiest things to do. But, since he had respected my space and didn't try to dig, I would extend the same courtesy. I was kind of surprised and amused with myself, that over the next half hour my mind kept drifting back to him.<br /> <br /> Ann returned with the phone, "he wants to talk to you" she said flatly, handing it to me. She turned on her heel and walked back upstairs to her room.<br /> <br /> I looked at the phone, and Lexy "She into him? I don't want to step on any toes."<br /> Lexy shook her head, "I don't think so, I think she's into his friend Kenny."<br /> "Oh, well do you mind if I talk to him for a little bit? I don't want to be rude to you."<br /> <br /> She waved it off, "don't worry, enjoy yourself." she grinned, "I'll be here all night."<br /> <br /> So I took the phone, and to my utter amazement 5 hours passed in the blink of an eye. After a couple of hours Lexy had gone to bed, and I spent the night getting to know one of the most vital and electric people I would ever meet.<br /> <br /> I feel I should stop here and explain a little bit about Eric. His energy is intense, he's like chaos. When he decides he wants something, it's happened before you even knew it was on the table. Suffice it to say I was his girlfriend by the end of the night and a month later we were engaged. At 16 I can only say I was dazzled by his attention and fell for him very quickly.<br /> <br /> With his encouragement I soon started seeing my abilities in a different light. Within weeks I could describe events that took place in area's we would drive or walk through, see spirits, hazy images of the future, people's true natures with hidden thoughts and images and found my true gift of seeing into the past. Often key events that took place in someones life that molded them into who they are. Eric's strength was looking into the future, channeling, seeing the same aspects of peoples hidden selves as I (hence his little session that night with Lexy and Ann) and receiving visions. It was a whole new world for me, once the door was cracked, it banged open.<br /> <br /> With my new sight I became more afraid of my grandmother's house which was almost 200 years old and had mirrors from the civil war era that would show me frightening almost fun house versions of myself when they weren't hazy with orbs. There was a clock from the same period that would chime at weird times or start and stop when I came home. There was also shadow people who would follow me from room to room. Many was the time I would call Eric scared to death, demanding he tell me how to turn it off. "There's no going back" he would tell me, "you can't walk through life with your eyes closed." He had confidence I would get my bearings eventually and learn how to deal with it.<br /> <br /> In the meantime, Eric's best friend Kenny and Ann who I had grown much closer to due to Kenny's obsession with her, had formed a tightly knit group. That's when things really started to happen. Ann would see shadow people walking through the walls of her house, moving up the stairs and gathering at the chandelier in the dining room. She would also feel people touching her and sometimes calling her name. Kenny would see the same shadowy people, and feel the air around him move as though there was a strong breeze in a tightly closed room. Crosses would appear in the wooden grains of his bedroom door. Things would be moved around his house, his cats would hiss and snarl at things unseen, and he had horrible nightmares of seeing his face in a mirror with blood running down the glass. For all of us, electric clocks and lights and appliances would short out or have surges. To this day I have problems with electricity. I blow out watches, lights, streetlights, etc.<br /> <br /> Lexy and I drifted during this point, I was so busy with Eric and this unworldly experience that Ann and Kenny were also going through with us, that I turned more towards them. I was also struggling to go through the process of becoming fully emancipated as I coped with my mother's increasing viciousness, so I didn't have much to give Lexy at that point. As far as my mother was concerned, Eric noticed as I suffered through her visits and phone call rants, that she paralleled the activity going on around us. When the supernatural activity was really strong, she would get even more ugly, even threatening my life. When things were calmer, she was also. <br /> <br /> One day during the thick of it I was sitting on the steps leading down to the basement where I watched Eric pacing. He was showing me where this all started for him.<br /> <br /> "I was in high school, and my one friend Becky asked me to talk to her friend Heather. She was scared for her. Heather had recently lost her aunt Susan, who had been like a mother to her. She had started dabbling with some pretty dark shit. She had been messing with an Ouija board trying to talk to her aunt and she got in over her head. She started talking to this spirit named David, he seemed OK, he was a little boy who had drowned. He was nice enough to her, but soon another entity started coming through. He used to terrorize her."<br /> <br /> "Why did Becky ask you to help?"<br /> <br /> "Because everyone knew I was very religious."<br /> <br /> "Doesn't being very religious, studying the Bible, and having an open mind to things like the occult, contradict each other?" To me it was all confusing. I had had it drilled into me that God was little different then this evil tyrant who sat brooding up in the clouds, eagerly watching his creations for the tiniest infraction so he could gleefully cast them into a fiery hell.<br /> <br /> "You can't study the Bible and not figure out there's so much more out there then we can even begin to figure out. There's no way to scratch the surface in one lifetime. That's why I don't rule out anything. These things are real, to ignore them because you cherry pick which passages to study would be ignorant and blind."<br /> <br /> "Maybe even in our case, dangerous" I observed.<br /> <br /> He nodded, "So she would sit here, and we would be talking, and she would go into this trance and this being would come through. He would talk about things, in riddles sometimes. He would give predictions, like their being one world currency, politics, things that would happen in my life. He even told me that someday I would meet the Parish."<br /> <br /> I looked at him stunned, "do you think he meant me?" my last name was Parrish.<br /> He again nodded, "Oh yea, he said, you think you're something? Just wait until you meet the Parish! I had thought he meant a church, but now I know better."<br /> <br /> I sat there in stunned silence for awhile, with this eerie feeling that I had been watched my entire life by something evil.<br /> <br /> "There was many things in riddles, things I've never figured out. Couldn't even remember them all now, he just enjoyed playing games with us. As time went on he got more cryptic and taunting. He told us through Heather that in life his name had been Henry Bisby Kane. That he had been a preacher in the 1800's in Arizona. He had taken his congregation out to a cave and sealed them in by making everyone believe it was the end of the world. He never let them go. Even now he preys on lost souls and draws them in. He's full of rage, very cunning and extremely dangerous. Heather had made a deal with him to let her see her aunt one last time. She was down here-"<br /> Suddenly I could feel my blood run cold.<br /> <br /> "Shannon? Shannon what is it?"<br /> <br /> I heard him from a great distance. I was almost in a faint. I saw a figure walk from the wall a few feet away from Eric had been standing. It was slender, in a stained white dress, brittle hair and the flesh melting from the bones. As I looked on in horror, it ascended the steps in an odd jerky gait and passed through me to disappear through the door at my back. The feeling of it moving through me was like nothing I can even begin to explain. The horror of it, the understanding that death itself had just scraped through me, I couldn't breath. I was shaking so hard I felt my teeth rattling and gasping. My heart raced so hard I though I might just die on the spot. I couldn't even speak. Eric was frantic. Finally I managed to draw in a full breath and burst into tears. "He showed her" I sobbed, "He showed her what her aunt looked like, NOW, DEAD, A CORPSE!!! The f**king thing walked right up these stairs, right through me!"<br /> <br /> The next hour is a haze in my memory, I know it took him a long time to calm me down, and for me to stop shuddering.<br /> <br /> When I was able to hear the rest of it, he explained to me that I had just described what she had seen, right down to the dress.<br /> <br /> "Are we safe from this? Every day now Ann or Kenny are freaking out about something they've seen, we're seeing things all the time, can this hurt us? And what happened to Heather?"<br /> <br /> "She's OK now" he said reassuringly. "The last time she channeled him I went toe to toe with him, begged God to save her, quoted scripture and banished him from her in Jesus' name. I'm not trying to say we did an exorcism, but we made it uncomfortable enough he seemed to have moved on. She straightened out after that, grades went back up, she stopped wearing all black, stopped having nightmares and channeling. The really interesting thing is she doesn't remember much of it all. She remembers hanging out down here, but not the channeling or seeing her poor aunt, or the nightmares or anything. No idea of why unless it's her way of subconsciously protecting herself by blocking it out."<br /> <br /> "Have you tried to talk to her about it since" I wondered out loud.<br /> <br /> "She just shuts down, she wants nothing to do with it, it's like talking to a wall."<br /> <br /> "Defense mechanism" I agreed.<br /> <br /> "Yea, most likely."<br /> <br /> Later that night after I fielded a frantic call from Ann who thought something tried to grab her arm when she was walking down the stairs of her parents house, I was walking down the hall by Eric's room. I thought I heard something drop. Forcing myself to be brave, I walked into the dark room, and as I was reaching for the light I saw a hand come towards me. All bravado fled and I screamed the house down until Eric came running in.<br /> <br /> "This has got to stop" I said grimly, "We need to do something, we can't just sit around waiting for it to screw with us!"<br /> <br /> "I could try to channel" he offered quietly.<br /> <br /> He had on a few occasions channeled this one spirit, who was kind and very dear to me. It had explained to me it had been with Eric always and was one of his guardians.<br /> <br /> "How do you know that if you trance out, Kane won't come in?"<br /> <br /> "We don't" he replied uneasily.<br /> <br /> I looked at his broad shoulders and took careful note of the way he out massed me by over 50 pounds and towered over me by almost a foot, and asked him what would happen then. "Would he kill me? Go after your parents? Burn this place down?"<br /> He shook his head, "he can only use my voice, my body is protected. He would never be able to cross that threshold."<br /> <br /> "How do you know?'<br /> <br /> "Heather would have tried to kill me wouldn't she?"<br /> <br /> "Alright" I firmed up my failing courage and managed to sound much calmer then I felt, "let's just do this, either way, I need some answers."<br /> <br /> We closed and locked his bedroom door after leaving word with his mom we were going to be watching a movie. I turned the ringer off his phone and pager, and perched on the side of his bed. I held his hand and watched for any sign of fluttering of his eyelashes. He always closed his eyes when he went into a trance, and the only thing that changed was his eyes would slowly open when he had made the connection. He squeezed my hand reassuringly and I sensed him leave. I can't explain it more then that, I just felt him leave. I gently laid his hand back down by his side and waited for his eyes to open. It took much longer then usual. First I noticed the side of his mouth draw up in a smirk. His cheek twitched. The head turned ever so slightly towards me, then his eyes slowly opened. I watched them slowly sweep the room before they settled on me. They were no longer green, they were muddy and dark. They're not his eyes I thought frantically. Even when he had channeled his dear guardian, his eyes had only become slightly more clear and emerald, these were not the same eyes.<br /> <br /> "You" he whispered.<br /> <br /> The smirk remained. I knew precisely who I was dealing with. "So we finally meet" I said calmly. "I had wondered if you would come."<br /> <br /> The smirk grew. "You called me."<br /> <br /> "How did we do that?"<br /> <br /> "You keep visiting me."<br /> <br /> I stayed silent for a moment, waiting for him to tell me what he had come for.<br /> <br /> Eric's body twitched, his hand spasmed. I laid my hand soothingly on his. The being didn't even notice.<br /> <br /> "Yes" he said after a moment. "You're wondering who I am. I am the keeper of souls."<br /> <br /> ""So what do you want with Eric and I? Our souls don't belong to you."<br /> <br /> "They will" he sighed.<br /> <br /> "Never" I assured him.<br /> <br /> "You don't love him" he turned Eric's brilliant gaze on me. "You never did, and he knows it."<br /> <br /> "I wouldn't expect you to understand love."<br /> <br /> "I know all about you" he continued raspily. "I know everything your mother did to you, I was there when she broke the chair over you."<br /> <br /> I gasped, I had never even told Eric about that. He knew I had been physically abused, but he didn't know how bad it was. "She has split personalities, are you trying to tell me you were one of them?"<br /> <br /> "So weak" he smirked.<br /> <br /> "You're calling me weak now?"<br /> <br /> "No, her. But you were always meant of be one of mine."<br /> <br /> The eyes drifted closed and Eric's hand started spasming again, and a moment later he moaned and started thrashing.<br /> <br /> "Eric? Baby! Wake up, come back! Eric, honey please!" I pulled him up in my arms and rocked him.<br /> <br /> He dropped his head on my shoulder, "It was him."<br /> <br /> "Oh yea, got to say I'm not fond of all of your friends."<br /> <br /> He raised his head and smiled tiredly. I was happy to see his eyes were once again a dark green.<br /> <br /> "What does he want?"<br /> <br /> "I think he really wants us both."<br /> <br /> "What else did he say?"<br /> <br /> I repeated it, right down to him affecting my mother. "That would make sense" he nodded, "if she has a fractured personality, and her depression keeps her down, she's very easy prey for something like him."<br /> <br /> "But why would he bother with me? Did he know I was going to grow up and be with you someday?"<br /> <br /> "I think he targets anyone like us, who are strong and spiritual, maybe having strong physic abilities make us more vulnerable, because we're linked to the other world and more open to them. I think he must target us young because it might be easier to break us then."<br /> <br /> It wasn't long after Eric went to bed, channeling sessions always exhausted him. Since I had been staying with his family for the past few months, I went into his mom's room and watched TV with her until she turned in for the night. I however lay awake all night trying not to jump at every shadow that danced on the walls or every little sound.<br /> <br /> After that things became worse for the four of us, Ann was convinced things were after her whenever she was in the house, Kenny was seeing things and my mother was making my life a living hell. Even going so far as to taunt Eric that if she ever managed to get me back in her house, I would never make it out. To say it escalated is somewhat of an understatement. I was exhausted, as was Eric. Dreading what I knew had to be done, I held off as long as I could.<br /> <br /> Finally after a few more weeks, we decided to try to channel one last time. I was going to try to find out how to get rid of Kane in our lives once and for all. I was nervous, I didn't know the scripture like Eric, I had no idea of what I could actually do, but I knew my own strength.<br /> <br /> I wish I could relate the conversation that took place between Kane and I when Eric reluctantly managed to push himself under, but to be perfectly honest, much of it is gone from my memory. I remember him telling me he has always been there, and wasn't the only one. We were of special interest to him, because of our strength and ability's, and I remember passionately arguing, but I couldn't tell you about what. I have a sense at one time he started challenging me and revealing things I wasn't allowed to keep the knowledge of, but they're far gone. I think this session took place for almost an hour. It went on and on until finally those squinting muddy brown eyes rolled up and Eric seemed to pass out. I was so exhausted, feeling as though all of my energy, even some of my life force had been drained away, I just stretched out and put my head on his shoulder. I knew sooner or later Eric would swim back up. I must have fallen asleep because the next thing I knew I woke with a start to see Eric's brilliant green eyes.<br /> <br /> "Hey you, I think we did it." He passed a hand tiredly over his face and sat up.<br /> I got up and began to slowly pace. I couldn't stay still.<br /> <br /> "He left, I think he he might be banished or at least gone for good. I don't feel him anymore."<br /> <br /> I know we talked at length about what had been said between Kane and I, but as I said before, I don't remember too much of it. I can say things did calm down, Ann stopped seeing things, as did Kenny. Eric and I hadn't told them about his channeling, so they didn't know we believed the source of this nightmare was gone. The fact that they stopped experiencing things as soon as this took place, was proof enough for Eric and I.<br /> <br /> Now at this point I would like to wind this all up with a quick happily ever after spin, but in fact Eric and I didn't stay together much longer. We started fighting too much, and he became obsessively controlling and I became defiant and withdrew completely. At 16 and 19 I don't think we had the life skills to balance two A type personalities. But the interesting thing about the aftermath of this all, (and I'm the only one of the group who believes this) is what happened to each of us. Eric's control issues went to an even darker place, and he started having issues with drinking. Ann who had been this "good Girl" became very loose, and most of her friends lost all respect for her. Kenny who was the most social person I had ever known, who lived for his friends, became dark and bitter and pushed most of us out of his life. I didn't go back to my mother's, but was able to get my own place and go out on my own. I spent the next 5 years in an abusive relationship, where as a stripper, the drinking and drugs almost finished me off. It really seems like we each became the manifestation of our dark side. The impulses that we might have been able to balance and resist before, destroyed everything in each of our lives that had meant the most to us. I find this to be an eerie coincidence.<br /> <br /> I'm happy to report Eric and I found our way back to being friends, each married and doing much better. Our lives have returned to being back under control, Kenny has recently followed suit. Ann is still caught up in it from all accounts. Still playing fast and loose. It's also interesting to me that the two stronger ones (Eric and I) pulled back from this first. I think when you open the door to this kind of thing, the consequences can last a lifetime. Another modern example that quickly springs to mind is Mel Gibson, and the downward spiral his life took after he made "The Passion."<br /> <br /> Now if you're thinking this all sounds just like the <i>Poltergeist</i> film series, you couldn't be more accurate. It really seems like the writers of the films had first hand experience with this entity. Almost everything about the Kane we came to know from personal experience is relayed in this series. In the opinions of Eric and I, it's completely based on the real entity and his story. You can find references to Kane the stealer of souls in popular fiction, such as Nora Robert's <i>Key Trilogy</i> series. You can find little towns in Arizona named Bisbey, or places where there's references to that fateful expedition. I believe we're not the only ones who have had experiences with him.<br /> <br /> Frankly, it never feels over, when Eric, Kenny and I get together weird things start happening. It feels like a live wire that still hums with power.<br /> <br /> So, anyway, that's my weird story. 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He was sitting in a dentist's waiting-room reading a comic book when all of the sudden the thing burst into flames right there in his hands.<br /> <br /> At the time, no doubt, he claimed total innocence to deaf ears. Once a fiery pattern was established after a few more incidents, his surrounding adults may have been more likely to believe him - especially when they actually saw him accidentally ignite things without a match in sight.<br /> <br /> As we already said, Benedetto Supino discovered his strange powers at a young age - around 10 - when a dentist's comic book flamed-up in his hands. Although there were instances of the boy starting a flame with sufficient intention and concentration, it seems that usually neither was the case.<br /> <br /> Paranormal.About.com gives an example of the latter happening:<br /> <br /> "One morning [Supino] was awakened by a fire in his own bed – his pajamas were in flames and the boy suffered severe burns." <br /> <br /> Doesn't sound like a terrific gift there, does it? The same article goes on to give other instances of flames starting by his intention, or merely by his presence: <br /> <br /> "On another occasion, a small plastic object held in his uncle’s hands began to burn as Benedetto stared at it. Just about everywhere he went, furniture, paper, books and other items would start to smolder or burn. Some witnesses even claimed to see his hands glow at these moments." <br /> <br /> Everywhere he went - according to some sources, fuse boxes ignited, newspapers burst into flames and non-specific 'small objects' would smoke and burn. Obviously the boy's parents worried. They sent him to physicians and scientists who apparently found no reason for the strangeness. He was also sent to an Archbishop with the same result - nothing. The burden taxed the boy - he himself can be quoted as saying: <br /> <br /> "I don't want things to catch fire, but what can I do?" <br /> <br /> It seems though, that with some help he was finally able to learn control. According to Prediction Magazine:<br /> <br /> "When an entire army of doctors were unable to help him, he turned to parapsychologist Dr. Demetrio Croce, who taught him to control and hone his abilities." <br /> <br /> Now we haven't found any specifics as to what exactly is meant by the word 'hone' in this case. We don't know whether Supin's just managed to turn it off completely, or just to burn things he wants to burn.<br /> _________________<br /> <br /> The following cases of apparently paranormal firestarters involve some aspects common in people who exhibit psychic / poltergeist - like powers. Unfortunately we don't have much detail about the girls involved, so the case must remain intriguing though unsupported by independent evidence. However, it would be interesting to know if prior to or at the time of the alleged fire-starting incidents, these two girls had made claims of mediumship, telepathy or any other 'psychic' abilities.<br /> <br /> In November 1890, in Thorah, near Toronto, Canada, strange things started happening around a 14 year-old English girl called Jennie Bramwell, the adopted daughter of a farmer, Mr. Dawson, and his wife. The girl had been ill and gone into a trance, crying out 'Look at that!' pointing to a ceiling which was ablaze. Shortly after, to the astonishment of Mr. and Mrs. Dawson, she pointed to another fire. The following day numerous fires broke out around the house; as soon as one was put out, another started. In one instance while Mrs. Dawson and the girl were seated facing a wall, the wallpaper suddenly caught fire, Jennie's dress then burst into flames and Mrs. Dawson burnt her hands extinguishing the fire. Fires continued to break out in the house for a whole week. A report in the Toronto Globe, for 9th November, described charred pieces of wallpaper, which looked as if they'd been burned using a blazing lamp.<br /> <br /> The situation became unbearable, all the furniture was moved into the yard, and the unfortunate girl, blamed for the fires, was sent back to the orphanage from where she'd come. With her leaving, the phenomena stopped. The reporter from the Toronto Globe depicted her as 'a half-witted girl [who] had walked about the house with a match, setting light to everything she came across.' However, he had difficulty explaining how the fire on the ceiling, and those on the walls had been started. Charles Fort, describing the case, commented wryly - 'I'll not experiment, but I assume that I could flip matches all day at a wall, and not set wallpaper afire.' <br /> <br /> The reporter wanted to know if Jennie had any knowledge of chemistry, as according to him the 'half-witted' little orphan was 'well-versed in rudiments of the science.' He subsequently made inquiries around town, and discovered that the girl was also 'an incorrigible little thief', and that she had visited the chemist many times on errands.<br /> <br /> So, the mystery was solved: the girl had stolen "some chemical," which she had spread over various parts of the Dawson's house in order to start the fires.<br /> <br /> In January 1895 there were fires in the house of an out of work carpenter, Adam Colwell in Brooklyn, New York. The fires were investigated by police and firemen who witnessed furniture burst into flames and subsequently reported that the cause of the fires was unexplained. However, the Fire Marshall suspected the pretty adopted daughter of the Colwells, Rhoda, as playing some part. He stated that 'It might be thought that the child Rhoda started two of the fires, but she can not be considered guilty of the others, as she was being questioned, when some of them began. I do not want to be quoted as a believer in the supernatural, but I have no explanation to offer, as to the cause of the fires, or of the throwing around of the furniture.'<br /> <br /> Mr. Colwell asserted that on the afternoon of the 4th of January whilst in the company of his wife and stepdaughter Rhoda, a crash was heard - a large, empty stove had fallen over, four pictures also fell off the walls. Shortly afterwards a bed caught fire, a policeman was called who saw wallpaper start to burn. Another fire started and a heavy lamp fell from a hook onto the floor. The house burned to the ground and the family, who had lost everything apart from their clothes, were taken to the police station. Captain Rhoades, of the Greenpoint Precinct said that he could attribute the strange fires to 'no other cause than a supernatural agency.'<br /> <br /> However, a Mr. J.L. Hope of Flushing, Long Island, came to see Captain Rhoades and told him that Rhoda had worked for him as a housemaid and, between 19th November and 19th December, four mysterious fires had broken out. This was enough to convince the Captain of Rhoda's guilt in the present case as well, and she was warned to admit the truth. Frightened, she wept that she had indeed started the fires as she disliked the place she lived and wanted to get away. The girl had also knocked the pictures off the walls and dropped lighted matches into the beds, continuing with her mischief even after the police, firemen and detectives arrived at the house.<br /> <br /> Though the police Captain had previously thought the fires 'supernatural' he now found a natural explanation in Rhoda's now well-attested fire-starting tendencies. The New York Herald ran the story as 'Policemen and firemen artfully tricked by a pretty, young girl.' So instead of investigating the fires in Flushing the Captain gave the girl some 'wholesome advice' to which she apparently listened, and closed the case.<br /> <br /> Such fire starting seems intimately connected with poltergeist activity (the moving about of furniture for example) and young girls (see A.W. Underwood and Carole Compton articles on this site for more examples). Some, though not all, of the fire-starters seem to be orphans in unhappy situations, and this may, in some cases, explain the motive. But since the methods by which these unusual fires were started are a mystery (explanations at the time obviously being ludicrous i.e. tossing lighted matches at the wall, ) we are still left with the puzzle that certain young people are possessed with the allegedly paranormal ability to unconsciously start fires without any visible means. As mentioned time and time again on Mysterious People, however, the sources for such 'paranormal' stories, especially those from the 19th century and earlier, are usually newspaper accounts, which unfortunately means that the events may or may not have happened as described. We can never be sure.<br /> _________________<br /> <br /> In the year 1882, in Paw Paw, Michigan, Dr L. C. Woodman heard rumors of a man with a remarkable ability. It was said a 24 year-old man, named A.W. Underwood, had to take great care whenever he breathed, apparently to avoid causing fires.<br /> <br /> At first the doctor thought the stories were mere exaggerations, but one day there was a knock on his door, and in walked A.W. Underwood himself, looking for help.<br /> <br /> Dr. Woodman was persuaded to make tests in the presence of himself and some of his colleagues, and to their amazement Underwood performed incredible feats which they could not explain. In an article from Michigan Medical News, dated September 11, 1882, Doctor Woodman stated:<br /> <br /> “He will take anybody’s handkerchief and hold it to his mouth rub it vigorously with his hands while breathing on it and immediately it bursts into flames and burns until consumed. He will strip and rinse out his mouth thoroughly, wash his hands and submit to the most rigid examination to preclude the possibility of any humbug, and then by his breath blown upon any paper or cloth envelop it in flame. He will, while out gunning and without matches desirous of a fire lie down after collecting dry leaves and by breathing on them start the fire.. ”<br /> <br /> Dr. Woodman stated publicly that he was sure that Underwood’s ability was authentic.<br /> <br /> The doctor also noticed that Underwood would hold the cloth or other material against his mouth so that he could force his breath through it, thus condensing whatever strange process it was.<br /> <br /> The doctors washed Underwood’s mouth out with various mixtures, and obliged him to wear surgeon’s rubber gloves - but it made no difference - the phenomenon carried on as normal.<br /> <br /> A similar case was reported In 1927, when Vice President of the U.S., Charles Dawes, personally investigated the case of a car mechanic in Memphis, Tennessee, who supposedly had the mysterious ability to set inflammable material alight merely by breathing on it.<br /> <br /> The man took General Dawes’ handkerchief, breathed on it, and it caught fire.<br /> <br /> No reasonable explanation could be found, but Dawes and his colleagues decided it was a genuine ability and not a trick.<br /> <br /> If genuine, these cases are unusual in that both Underwood and the anonymous car mechanic seemed to be able to control the phenomenon and produce it at will.<br /> <br /> Paranormal researcher Charles Fort wrote of an incident which took place at Bridgewater, Scotland, in May 1878. Mysterious fires were being started with no apparent cause, loud raps were heard and household items such as dishes and loaves of bread moved about. After a police investigation a servant girl, Ann Kidner, aged 12, was arrested, and accused of tossing lighted matches, but was released by the magistrate because of insufficient evidence.<br /> <br /> In October 1886, a 12 year-old boy named Willie Brough, of Turlock, Madison County, California, was accused of setting things on fire ‘by his glance,’ and was expelled from Turlock School after five unexplained fires had started in his presence. His parents thought him possessed by the devil and sent him away.<br /> <br /> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/">Spirit Rescue International™</a><br /> <i>Providing no-cost professional spiritual help, personal support and guidance<br /> Take the first step towards genuine peace of mind</i><br /> ---------------<br /> Sign up for the<br /> <a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.blogspot.com/">Spirit Rescue International Newsletter</a></b></center></p> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"></a><br /> <font color=goldenrod><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"><b>The Spirit Rescue International™ Haunted Help Forum<br /> <i>Discussion of paranormal and spiritual phenomena,<br /> including peer support for those with questions or concerns</i><br /> </a></font><br /> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_119223518147339">*Join Our Group On Facebook*</a></b></center></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=8gABOTUOl24:qB-jxYL3Fns:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=8gABOTUOl24:qB-jxYL3Fns:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=8gABOTUOl24:qB-jxYL3Fns:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=8gABOTUOl24:qB-jxYL3Fns:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=8gABOTUOl24:qB-jxYL3Fns:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=8gABOTUOl24:qB-jxYL3Fns:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=8gABOTUOl24:qB-jxYL3Fns:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Personal Experiences: 'Shadow People'</h1> <p>2012-02-07T20:40:00.002-05:00</p> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/SbPVeXvgMbI/AAAAAAAAL7w/JcR3ZXbshGc/s1600-h/shadowpeople.jpg"></a><br /> <strong>I received the following email about one person's personal experiences with 'Shadow People'...very interesting account:</strong><br /> <br /> <em>Shadow people are some of the most menacing and frightening entities around. I believe they are of a demonic nature. Not only do these dark shadowy figures cause anxiety and terror but often enjoy terrorizing people in their beds. Most shadow people are not alone but have partners in crime. The shadows that terrorized me were never alone. Sometimes my bedroom would be filled with dozens, big and small. Some could touch me. These shadows would pinch me. It wasn't till I was maybe about age 9 that I finally told my parents about these entities and it caused quite a stir in my family. As usual my parents thought I was suffering from nightmares and suggested I eat less before bed time. <br /> <br /> Without fail these Shadows returned every night. It wasn't until one night I couldn't stand hearing their laughter that I resisted their powers to make people catatonic or in a paralyzed state that the reality of the situation was no longer a joke to my Mother as my bed began to shake violently as if a giant hand was shaking it. I jumped out of bed and ran so fast that I don't even remember running to my Mom's room. I jumped on her bed in the dark and her bed started shaking too. She held me in her arms as she prayed out loud to God and slowly the shaking resided. By the end of the month we moved out of that home.<br /> <br /> Now this is what I gathered from that experience. One; That house was extremely old. I don't know if that had anything to do with it. But there was a bad vibe there from day one. A lot of crazy things happened there with my family fighting all the time. Never in the history of my family had there been soo many arguments and cases of domestic violence and abuse. Two; besides fights and arguments there was a vibe of mischievousness. When I played in that house it was almost as if all of us were in some kind of altered state, like some kind of dimensional trance. A good example of this was the movie ET where the kid gets aroused in the class room and he starts releasing the frogs. Yeah! I can't remember the whole thing. Let's just put it this way, I guess I went through intense puberty there. I remember having bad thoughts all the time. I remember my best friend Diana flirting with me and acting mature, but only in the house. When we played outside she was a normal kid. I swear this house had some effect on people's feelings and whatnot. The strange thing is that I don't remember much of my childhood in the house as I remembered most of my childhood in school or playing outside. I remember being cruel to my pets. I was never like that but I became a bad kid in the house. Outside I was quite normal.<br /> <br /> The strange thing is that we moved about 5 blocks away from that house into a new apartment and I thought things were back to being normal for almost half a year with no incidents. No fights between Mom and Dad, when we all got together it was fun again. I noticed it right away the vibe change. I noticed that the old house was really dark inside. Half a year passed when I had my last incident one night.<br /> <br /> It was early, maybe 2:30am I had woke up to use the restroom and I was maybe about 10 years old. I remember laying down in the bed and getting comfortable when I felt my bed got shoved from one side. At first I stood still as I thought maybe it was an earthquake. It passed and I played it off as just my imagination. As I began to fall asleep I had the sensation of being cold and clammy so I covered up. I felt feverish and I felt a small pinch on one of my toes. I became frightened as I looked around in the dark and saw 3 black outlines around my bed. The Shadows were back! <br /> <br /> <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/SbPUBhRRCeI/AAAAAAAAL7o/hhnaOKdysCA/s1600-h/shadowpeople.jpg"></a>I became paralyzed as I screamed for help, I'm still not sure if I did try but nothing came out or if I imagined screaming out. The point is, I was freaking screaming! I felt some cold weight on my chest as I became face to face with one of these entities. Still paralyzed it looked me right in the eye and this is what I saw. It's eyes were black as black velvet and evil looking, but the outside rim of it's eyes was black line yellow line, black line yellow line all around the outside perimeter of it's eye in a pattern and it moved counter clockwise motion. It's two other Shadow friends had red and the other full yellow eyes. It was unreal as they all burst out in this wicked laughter and vanished and never bothered me like that again. <br /> <br /> Shadow people can move objects and touch people. I believe they can physically hurt people. There are theories that Shadow people are alien beings. Some claim they are travelers from a different dimensional plane. Professor Stephen W. Hawkings has talked about shadow people being a real possible phenomena. Millions of people have had similar experiences and even video footage, photos of this phenomena. You are not alone, but the best we can do is share our experience and hope to learn as much as we can about this. I'm sorry about the sloppiness of my writing and spelling but hope that you can have a heads up to this strange phenomena. Good luck..Carlos</em><br /> <br /> <i><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933665378/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=phantomsandmonsters-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1933665378">Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us</a><br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1440115656/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=phantomsandmonsters-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1440115656">Shadow People: A Journal of the Paranormal</a></b></i><br /> <br /> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/">Spirit Rescue International™</a><br /> <i>Providing no-cost professional spiritual help, personal support and guidance<br /> Take the first step towards genuine peace of mind</i><br /> ---------------<br /> Sign up for the<br /> <a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.blogspot.com/">Spirit Rescue International Newsletter</a></b></center></p> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"></a><br /> <font color=goldenrod><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"><b>The Spirit Rescue International™ Haunted Help Forum<br /> <i>Discussion of paranormal and spiritual phenomena,<br /> including peer support for those with questions or concerns</i><br /> </a></font><br /> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_119223518147339">*Join Our Group On Facebook*</a></b></center></p> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://beyondtheedgeradio.podomatic.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://www.beyondtheedgeradio.com/listen-live-and-chat.html">Join Eric Altman and Lon Strickler<br /> <font face=VERDANA>*LIVE*</font><br /> each Sunday at 8 PM ET as we go<br /> Beyond the Edge!</a></b></center></p><br /> <p><center><a href="http://www.cafepress.com/phantomsandmonstersgear" target="_blank"></a></center></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=MHkVmewe_i0:2rb3bfi-VsE:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=MHkVmewe_i0:2rb3bfi-VsE:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=MHkVmewe_i0:2rb3bfi-VsE:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=MHkVmewe_i0:2rb3bfi-VsE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=MHkVmewe_i0:2rb3bfi-VsE:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=MHkVmewe_i0:2rb3bfi-VsE:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=MHkVmewe_i0:2rb3bfi-VsE:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>The Neath Cafe Haunting - Part II - Spirit Rescue International</h1> <p>2012-02-06T17:40:00.003-05:00</p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kbhItvqI_Q4/TzAZCow3HBI/AAAAAAAAcgc/1qA8HKHMbMc/s1600/Neath%2BAbbey%2B5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /> <b>The following is the 2nd installment of the Neath Cafe Haunting, an investigation that <a href="http://www.spiritrescueinternational.com/">Spirit Rescue International</a> has recently concluded. The <a href="http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2011/11/esoterica-neath-cafe-haunting-einsteins.html">1st installment was posted in November after it was published in <i>Haunted Magazine</i></a>. There will be a 3rd and final installment in the near future. This was a very complicated case that took almost 4 months to investigate and finally clear, though the location will always be a beacon for spirit energy. It is hopeful that any future entities will be more benign that those we dealt with...Lon</b><br /> <br /> The 3rd on-site investigation at PJ’s Place in Neath was attended by Irene, Brian and Jamie. It had been raining all day and by the time they arrived at the location it was coming down in torrents. There is a saying that when the weather is bad it adds to paranormal activity…at least that’s what they were hoping for on this night. The client unlocked the shop to let them in. Irene said that there did seem to be a feeling of ‘something’ when she stepped over the threshold…not good or bad, but different. As Brian and Jamie starting rigging up the cameras Irene logged online to Lon and Kim, who are part of the SRI team in the USA. The client began to describe the activity since they had last been there.<br /> <br /> Apparently an apparition of a young boy dressed in Edwardian garb is often seen in the shop. On one particular day, the boy had been witnessed by a customer. As well, the client’s partner had been feeling a sensation similar to a child clinging to his legs when he was preparing food behind the counter. For some unknown reason he got the impression of a young girl about the age of 3 or 4 who seemed to have taken a liking to him. On another day the client witnessed the apparition of a man walking by the counter that suddenly disappeared without a trace. <br /> <br /> Irene prefers to keep an open mind until she has proof though, there is a palpable consciousness present at the location. Along with her perceptions she has no reason to disbelieve the client’s revelations. The extended area around the building has an enduring and complicated history and it would not be surprising to anyone on the team if other buildings in the vicinity were experiencing paranormal problems. The venerable Castle Hotel, which is nearby, has a well-known history of active spirits. The past chronicles of this building suggests specific events have been imprinted in the structure. There could have easily been several uses for the location…either for business or as dwellings. For instance, our research uncovered that bodies awaiting burial were stored in this cellar at some period of time.<br /> <br /> The night started off slowly. They collected footage and photos as well as several recordings in the hope of gathering some tangible evidence. This included placing locked off cameras and voice recorders in certain areas in the cellars. Trigger objects were placed on the shop floor…one of these being a bright red ball in the hope it would attract a child spirit if there was one about. Unfortunately no movement was detected.<br /> <br /> The client left for the evening to attend an engagement thus leaving the upstairs living quarters empty. The team sat at a table with the voice recorder on while Brian began to call out. A few minutes into the session, just as Brian asked for the spirits to make noise, several loud bangs came from the living quarters above the shop. They knew that no one was up there. When the client returned home it was apparent to him that nothing had been moved out of place. There was no clue as to what caused the loud banging sounds they had heard downstairs.<br /> <br /> About 3/4 of an hour before the team planned to leave Jamie, who was standing at the top of the steps that led to the cellar, screamed out that he was “seeing something”. Irene ran to him with a camera hoping to catch it. He later revealed that he noticed something very vague, though shaped like a person, was at the bottom of the stairs and seemed to be moving up the steps toward him. He stated that the apparition resembled “a round head soldier from the Cromwell period”. The apparition only lasted a short time and he tried to catch it on camera as it was beginning to dissipate. The footage did capture some movement but the apparition was not discernible.<br /> <br /> Nonetheless his sighting was very interesting because, unbeknownst to Jamie at the time, a Parliamentary or ‘Roundhead’ officer was perceived in that same cellar area during a previous remote view session conducted by Lon and monitored by Irene. Was the apparition witnessed by Jamie a confirmation of our glimpse into the past?<br /> <br /> The investigation was subsequently cut short because Irene received a telephone call from home. Her daughter-in-law, who was alone at Irene’s house, was frantic. Irene’s resident spirits (she has 3 in her home) were acting up, apparently none too thrilled about being left with her daughter-in-law.<br /> <br /> During the 4th on-site investigation, Billy and Natalie traveled from London to join Irene and Brian. They arrived in Neath at 8PM and, for once, it was a nice dry late Autumn evening. One thing Irene always does when first entering a supposedly haunted location is to consciously note her first impressions…notably the feel of the atmosphere. This night the shop’s atmosphere felt warm and inviting. They put all the bags and equipment down and at the same time the client was telling them of his latest shock the place had given him.<br /> <br /> During the week, the client had come downstairs early in the morning to find the door to the cellar wide open. The client is the only person to possess a key and he had locked the door the previous evening. On investigating the cellar he found a pile of wood strewn all over the main cellar floor as well as cases of coffee cups and lids scattered about. His tools had been tossed around and the freezer with spare ice cream was switched off. All of his stock had thawed and was completely ruined. It was obvious that someone or something had ransacked the cellar the previous night. Irene followed him down the cellar steps…he wanted to show her what had happened and where everything had ended up. Walking into the room she could feel nothing paranormal. She could see the piles of wood rubble but she didn’t sense anything out of the ordinary.<br /> <br /> One important detail that Irene chose not to disclose to the client was that on the evening of the disruption in the cellar Lon and Irene had conducted a 2nd remote viewing session. During the session there were a variety of subspace beings perceived including the Parliamentary officer who was very active throughout the session. There was a specific wall in the cellar that attracted Lon’s attention during each on-site investigation as well as in the midst of the remote views. He wasn’t sure if it was a vortex but it seemed to expel an intermittent benign energy. He had decided to focus on this area during this night’s investigation.<br /> <br /> Returning upstairs to the shop floor the client left the team to themselves and went upstairs to the living quarters. They went about rigging up all the equipment and then logged on the webcams, connecting Lon and Sunny in the USA. Natalie began by doing a walk around taking photos of the shop floor and the cellars. These images produced a variety of orb activity, something they were to see a lot of during this night’s investigation. Billy set about placing a camera on a tripod in a position where it was able to capture the full view of the shop itself. Brian was placing locked off digital recorders in the cellar.<br /> <br /> As the evening went on it was decided to place the two laptops, with Lon and Sunny, in the cellar so they could watch and listen through the webcams via Skype. Lon’s webcam was pointed toward the aforementioned wall and placed backed far enough to get a good view of the entire area. Sunny’s webcam was place at the entrance to the tunnel that started in the cellar and continued under the street in front of the building. Both we left on their own as the team returned to the shop floor above. This proved a very good move as they were able to hear some unusual sounds and witness odd activity through the webcams.<br /> <br /> During the session in the cellar, Sunny stated that she witnessed a shadow move across the tunnel wall. She was able to take a webcam capture of part of the shadow. She also stated that there was another apparition that crossed in front of the camera. Throughout the session there were a number of odd sounds including hissing and muffled voices though very few of these sounds were heard on the voice recorders.<br /> <br /> Lon was interested in the far wall in the forward room of the cellar. There may have been a fireplace or tunnel in this area at one time since there were different grades of brick and blocks now embedded in the wall. There was also a flex sewage pipe extending from the ceiling to a few inches above the floor. The pipe was about 2-3 ft. in front of the wall and was sturdy enough that it was very hard to move by hand. As Lon watch the wall area he was shocked when he noticed that the pipe was fading from view then reappearing. He quickly took several webcam captures of this activity…images with the pipe visible and others with no pipe visible were the result. This was, by far, the strangest paranormal activity he had ever witnessed. The team is still in a quandary as to this anomaly. Had they discovered a dimensional overlap...possibly a tear in the veil between realities?<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wU7G_X2n4pc/TzAZV3GHejI/AAAAAAAAcgo/c_TQgITOES4/s1600/cellar6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rMeGxVlDgfE/TzAZawIB0CI/AAAAAAAAcg0/l6HG5liFRJk/s1600/cellar4a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-luen5BCUeyg/TzAZxgSloSI/AAAAAAAAchM/FZmjhiMZ9Uw/s1600/cellar1a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a></td></tr> <tr style="color: #cc0000;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Notice that the pipe has 'disappeared' in the bottom image...this anomaly was observed 3 times</b></span></td></tr> </tbody></table><br /> Upstairs in the shop, the CCTV was switched on and projecting on to a flat screen television for all present to see. The sight they were watching was hypnotising according to Irene… “the only way I can describe it is as if you have ever been in a snowstorm when the wind is blowing. The way the snow is blown sideways. This is what it looked like. Hundreds and hundreds of orbs moving all in one direction down the length of the shop from front to back. It certainly was a lovely sight and we found it difficult to pull our attention away from the television screen”.<br /> <br /> After relocating the laptops from the cellar to the shop, Irene returned with Billy to the cellar. Billy went into one of the cellar rooms and Irene walked into the tunnel…standing there trying to get a feel of this place. She was propelled forward as something pushed her in my back and a cold icy chill seemed to surround her for a moment. She stated that she hates it when things like that happen as if something sneaks up on her. She’s not the type to scream and panic but instead, her dander gets up and she becomes a bit confrontational.<br /> <br /> At the time, Billy was in the cellar room adjacent to the tunnel. He had Irene’s oldest bit of equipment in his hand…an old Sony Ericson cybershot cell phone that had proved its usefulness many a time before. Out of curiosity he went into the tunnel hoping the same would happen to him. He started filming from the end of the tunnel with the door open giving him a good view of the staircase.<br /> <br /> Time was quickly passing and after a couple of sessions of calling out in the shop and because of the lateness of the hour they decided enough was enough for this night and wrapped up the investigation. The worst part of these investigations are the hours of waiting and hoping something will happen. It may seem as if nothing of interest has been seen or captured. The thought of many hours of trolling through all the footage taken can only feel worth it when there is something caught on the camera or voice recorder that cannot be debunked. Arriving at her home it was time for Irene to start the tedious job of reviewing everything and sending footage to the USA for Lon to examine.<br /> <br /> Besides the webcam captures Lon gathered there seemed to be nothing of interest until Irene watched the footage Billy had taken in the dark on the Sony Ericson cell phone. When reaching the bottom of the cellar steps, straight ahead is the tunnel. If you turn right, there is a door that leads into the center room of the cellar which has a door either end leading into other rooms. Billy was standing at the walled off end of the tunnel with the tunnel door wide open filming the staircase the other side. Irene was upstairs in the shop looking for the missing camera while Natalie and Brian were watching the television and the flood of orbs traveling through the shop. They can be heard on the audio of the film…Irene moaning about the camera as well as Brian and Natalie discussing the orbs. Billy is shouting to Irene in an attempt to tell her where the camera is…but she can't hear him. The film plays on and suddenly the door on the left to the center cellar opens and closes as if someone had just walked out the cellar…but no one is there. Billy was unable to see this as he was filming in the dark with only the light of the camera. Before the recording finishes Irene can be seen coming down the steps to say something to Billy. There were only the four team members on this investigation and each one of them can be accounted for.<br /> <br /> After the evidence was examined and discussed we are still left with many questions. We have our work cut out for us…but we are very confident that we can remove the offending entities at this location. 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All 38 passengers and 7 crew members were killed instantly as the airliner impacted at high speed and produced a crater fifty feet deep.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/SMsv7T8HYbI/AAAAAAAAIyg/f57cQ2Tpjl4/s1600-h/flight93.jpg"></a>Soon afterwards, the FBI and State Police brought in a house trailer to be used as a command post and to store some of the evidence collected at the site. In order to protect the site, a Johnstown security company known as R.A.C. was hired to patrol 24 hours a day. One of the R.A.C. security guards was assigned to duty at the crash site on November 9, two months after 9-11. His name is Robert Wagstaff, 32-years-old and a longtime Johnstown resident.<br /> <br /> He and other guards heard voices and other noises near the trailer. Wagstaff also reported he witnessed a ghost near the main gate. This development was first reported locally in Johnstown on Fox TV 8. The following is Robert Wagstaff describing some of the hauntings he had personally experienced during security duty at the United Flight 93 crash site.<br /> <br /> <strong>Condensed interview by Linda Moulton Howe at Earthfiles.com</strong><br /> <br /> <em>"Me and another guard had just got into the trailer. We were in there for only about two minutes and we heard somebody knock on the door. And there was nobody around, nobody. Well, my partner went out and he searched the area and I stood in the doorway. Now, keep in mind, I'm only five foot nine inches and I weigh about 220 pounds. So, to get passed me, it's kind of difficult to do. You know, especially in a trailer door.<br /> <br /> Anyway, he's looking around and he didn't see nobody and he came back in and we just kind of blew it off, like maybe it was the wind or something. You know what I mean? So, we go back into the trailer and we got our coffee and we went to sit back down to play some cards. We didn't have any chairs set up yet. Well, when we went to sit back down, one of the chairs was already set up and we didn't set it up. I don't know where the chair came from. I don't know who put it there."</em><br /> <br /> And yet you know for a fact that it was not there before the knock on the door?<br /> <br /> <em>"Right. And Jerry and me looked at each other like, 'What the heck?' And then we kind of ignored that, too, like maybe we're just imagining things. And we sat down and got into the chairs and started to play cards. We played two hands of cards and then we heard someone walking through the trailer."</em><br /> <br /> Like on the inside?<br /> <br /> <em>"Yeah. And we looked at each other and we looked around. And there was not a soul to be seen. OK? The next thing we knew, we heard mumbled voices like they was outside of the trailer."</em><br /> <br /> Any words?<br /> <br /> <em>"We couldn't make out the words. It was too muffled, you know what I mean?"</em><br /> <br /> Male or female?<br /> <br /> <em>"It sounded like a group of people. It sounded like more than one. They all sounded like they was outside on the back half of the trailer. So we hurried out and ran outside and we looked and there was no footprints in the snow."</em><br /> <br /> You even had snow to look for tracks?<br /> <br /> <em>"Right, and there was no footprints. So, me and him got back in my car and went back up to the main gate and we didn't go back in the trailer. (laughs) Needless to say that kind of startled us.<br /> <br /> Another time I was sitting out there at the main gate and it was about 3 o'clock in the morning. I lstarted to lay my head back to kind of relax for a couple of minutes instead of just staring at the gate and doing crossword puzzles and stuff. I laid my head back and keep in mind, I'm out there all by myself. Got my car doors locked. And out of nowhere, I hear a voice inside my car say, 'So, now what?'<br /> <br /> And I jumped up and looked around and there was nobody in my car, nobody around. I went, 'OK.'</em><br /> <br /> Was that a male or female voice?<br /> <br /> <em>"That was a male voice. And it startled me real bad."</em><br /> <br /> It was loud just like somebody was sitting in your car?<br /> <br /> <em>"It sounded just like somebody was in my car, like somebody was in the passenger seat and I was in the driver's seat. That's how clear it was, but there was nobody there!<br /> <br /> One night it had quit raining and I'm sitting there all by myself listening to my stereo, got my car running. I drive a 1987 Cougar, OK. So, it's an older car, just so you have an idea. And I'm sitting in my car and all of a sudden - have you ever felt what it feels like when you are in your car and somebody sits on the trunk?<br /> <br /> OK. I'm sitting in my car doing a crossword puzzle and it felt like somebody jumped up on the trunk of my car. And I'm looking and I don't see anybody. So, I get out of my car and close the door and I walk around to the back of my car, got my spotlight on, you know, and I'm looking around. And there's absolutely no marks in the mud except for the tire tracks from me pulling in and out and moving around, you know. Otherwise, there was no tracks in the mud. There was all kind of dirt on my car. You figure it had just rained, it's muddy out there. So, I had a real filthy car at the moment, but there was no scuffs in the dirt on my car, like nothing was ever there.<br /> <br /> But while I was looking right there in front of me, the rear end of my car jumped back up. Like whatever was on it came off.<br /> <br /> There was one time I was sitting out there at the main gate. Now keep in mind, the main gate is almost a mile away from the main crash site. OK? But I seen this lady walking around in the dead of winter at 4 o'clock in the morning. It was a full moon out, 4 o'clock in the morning, and I seen this woman as clear as day, like if you was to be looking at me dead in my face and you was standing in front of me."</em><br /> <br /> Was she at the crash site?<br /> <br /> <em>"She was actually coming towards my car."</em><br /> <br /> From the crash site?<br /> <br /> <em>"From the direction of the crash site."</em><br /> <br /> And how was she dressed?<br /> <br /> <em>"She had on like a blue baseball jersey. OK, one of those button-down-the-front ones with a pair of blue jeans on. She had medium length, like light brown colored, hair. She had glasses on. I mean, this lady was so clear. I was getting ready to get out of my car and ask her why she was walking around out there in the middle of the night, dead of winter, snowing. And why didn't she have on a coat?<br /> <br /> So, I went to get out of my car and as soon as I pulled on my car door to open it, she vanished."</em><br /> <br /> How did she vanish?<br /> <br /> <em>"She just vanished. She totally disappeared. She didn't like fade out or nothing. It was almost as if I blinked and she wasn't there no more."</em><br /> <br /> How far away from you was she when she disappeared?<br /> <br /> <em>"An approximation as far as guess on size of her and everything else in distances, I would say probably no more than about ten to fifteen feet away."</em><br /> <br /> When she disappeared like that, then what did you think?<br /> <br /> <em>"The first action for me to do being that I'm a security guard was take out my planner and write down everything I seen. I wrote down the time, the description, how old she looked to me, the whole nine yards. How far she was away from the car, what direction she was coming from and how many steps I seen her take. I seen her take like seven steps. And like I said, she was walking right towards me and just vanished into thin air."</em><br /> <br /> What about other reports from other security guards?<br /> <br /> <em>"The overnight guards have heard people walking through the trailer, heard people knocking on the trailer door. As a matter of fact, another guard mentioned he saw what appeared to be shadows of people walking around. And what those are called are called shadow people.' And basically what that is is spirits, too. OK? And you can only see them at night time, too.<br /> <br /> Now, the funny part is, I would see the shadow people and there would be nothing to create a shadow. No kind of light source to create a shadow, OK? But yet, you would still see shadows running around in the dead of night."</em><br /> <br /> Where were they and what did the shadows seem to be focused upon?<br /> <br /> <em>"They seemed to be focused upon trying to get away from the crash site is what it looked like because they was going away from it. It was like they was running away, is what it looked like. And you would see on average probably about six or seven shadows over the course of an average night out there."</em><br /> <br /> So, how do you see shadow people moving in darkness?<br /> <br /> <em>"That's my point. I don't understand how you can see them. I mean, you just do. You see them. And I would even hit them with my spotlight. They would vanish into thin air. As soon as I would hit a shadow with my spotlight, it would vanish into thin air. But when I would take my spotlight back off of (where the shadow had been), it would be right there in front of me again running. And it was hard to catch them (with my spotlight) because they was fast. You know, it was hard to catch them with your spotlight."</em><br /> <br /> When you and the other guards and your boss have talked about this haunting in the Flight 93 crash site, what do you all conclude?<br /> <br /> <em>"We was going out there to protect the things that belonged to the people on the crash, that was in the crash. We was there to protect the people that was in the crash, in a manner of speaking. And that's how most of us felt. And we can't help but think that maybe, just maybe, that the spirits that are from that flight, the ones that acted heroically are trying to protect us as well. And every time we go in that trailer, they knock on the door to get our attention to get us back out of the trailer.<br /> <br /> The people on Flight 93 who had to jump the terrorists to get them to quit flying the plane towards Washington, D. C. - just maybe they decided to use the trailer as like a prison for them terrorists. Because you get an uneasy feeling when you go into that trailer whether you've been there before or not."</em><br /> <br /> What you are saying is that you all are making a point that the terrorists on that plane who caused it to crash died with the passengers who acted heroically. All of those souls and spirits were mixed up together?<br /> <br /> <em>"Right."</em><br /> <br /> What have you and the other guards discussed in terms of how can something in the unseen after the moment of death interact with matter to move a chair, to knock on a door, make stairs creak and that sort of thing?<br /> <br /> <em>"For me, I don't question it. I honestly don't. But like one of the other guards who is a little bit younger than I am and he was the one that was originally working over night. And he was kind of gun shy so to speak. He didn't really know what to expect as to how is it possible that spirits are able to interact with us if they are dead? And the only thing I kept telling him was, 'You can't be afraid of the dead. They really can't hurt you. The most they can do is scare you.' If you've got a bad heart, then I guess they can kill you. (laughs) But otherwise, there's really nothing to be afraid of. And he said, 'But how are they able to do it?' And I said, 'Well, honestly, I don't know. I haven't been dead yet.' (laughter)<br /> <br /> But I believe it is a learning process once they pass on suddenly like that. I think it's a learning process for them to go ahead and be able to move things around and appear as a form of a human and so on after they pass on suddenly like that.<br /> <br /> Yes, there is supposed to be an association between sudden death and hauntings, that there are more hauntings where there have been sudden deaths.<br /> <br /> Well, you can't get more sudden than that. Nobody got on that airplane expecting to die, except for the terrorists. And they wasn't even expecting it until they was boarding the plane. So, I mean, they acted heroically as far as saving a bunch of lives, but at the same time they wasn't trying to die. And that's what happened. I can't help but think with that many people dying at one time, totally unexpectedly, there's going to be something there."</em><br /> <br /> When Robert Wagstaff went to the United Flight 93 website to look at the passenger photographs, he told me he shivered with goosebumps when he saw one of the females who closely matched the woman he saw walking toward him and then vanish. In respect for the family, he has asked that her name not be given.<br /> <br /> Information was gathered from the following sources:<br /> <i><a href="http://www.Earthfiles.com">Earthfiles.com</a><br /> <a href="http://www.ghosthunter.com">Ghosthunter.com</a><br /> <a href="http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/king/296/index.html">Pa. 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I don't know for sure if she wanted my help but she definitely wanted to tell her story.<br /> <br /> She died young, just barely into adulthood. She was in an auto accident and didn't survive like she thought she had.<br /> <br /> This is where it gets really interesting. For a long time she didn't know she was dead. The reason is that there are more people than we know of, live human beings that can see spirits and many of them can interact with spirits.<br /> <br /> Some people don't actually see dead people but sense they are there, or hear a whispering voice; Some people see apparitions; only veiled wisps, or transparent forms with vague features. Then there are those that see them as if they are alive, a complete body, face and voice. These live people can see and speak to the deceased person like they would anyone else, interacting with the spirits, as if they were still alive.<br /> <br /> In fact, there are a few live people who can't quite discern the difference, so they treat the spirit as if they are alive. And that is confusing. Thus, a spirit came to me and told me her story in first person, literally. For a brief while in my dream, I became her.<br /> <br /> It started out, I was in bed. I was attempting to clear my mind and sleep when I heard my dog growl ever so softly. He does that when certain spirits are around, or if he hears a strange noise that bothers him.<br /> <br /> Right then I knew a spirit had entered my home but I was tired and had few other concerns at the moment. Sleep was more important than greeting a ghost at the door.<br /> <br /> I never caught this spirits name but as her story unfolded in my mind, I became her, seeing through her eyes, her mind. For now, I will call her Annie.<br /> <br /> Annie was a lovely young lady, attending college and enjoying her young adulthood. She vaguely recalled an accident but thought she was OK. For some time it never dawned on her that some people who she knew in school and home, totally ignored her while others spoke with her, smiled and then moved on.<br /> <br /> It didn't dawn on her that the party dress she liked in a store window just seemed to appear on her body, or that her attire changed at just a thought. She was confused but accepted it as normal and continued trying to live a life she no longer had.<br /> <br /> Then in one moment, it all changed and the horror (to her) of what she is, became clear. There were denials and she begged those around here not to tell her the truth but too late. It was her own mother that told her how she died in a car accident and that it was her mother's love that kept her in limbo, in the living world.<br /> <br /> In Annie's state of denial, she approached every person she saw and begged of them, "You see me, don't you? I'm real, I'm real!"<br /> <br /> Most people ignored her, for they couldn't see or hear her but there were some who could and they made things worse. They could see her but were afraid, or couldn't tell her what she needed to know.<br /> <br /> And so, Annie came to me in a dream. She "relived" her sad story in my mind and before I could tell her that indeed, she is dead, Annie faded away and left me with the memories of a sad and broken spirit.<br /> <br /> Annie, if you are reading this, it's OK. You are OK. Love, peace and happiness await you in the light. - <i>Sunny Williams - January 31, 2012</i><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4h266Ayaa6g:0qS8CKgin74:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4h266Ayaa6g:0qS8CKgin74:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4h266Ayaa6g:0qS8CKgin74:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4h266Ayaa6g:0qS8CKgin74:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4h266Ayaa6g:0qS8CKgin74:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4h266Ayaa6g:0qS8CKgin74:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4h266Ayaa6g:0qS8CKgin74:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Secret NSA Psychic Spy Program Targeted al-Qaida</h1> <p>2012-02-02T21:04:00.001-05:00</p> <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/TPvymdnYyZI/AAAAAAAAW6k/z8E4HflL59E/s1600/remote-viewing-spy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a> According to multiple sources on two continents, the US National Security Agency (NSA) is back in -- or, perhaps, never left -- the psychic spy business.<br /> <br /> In the mid-1990s, the US Central Intelligence Agency revealed the existence of official paranormal activity -- conducted by the US government -- at the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the US Army, USAF, the Navy, and other organizations.<br /> <br /> Declassified documents from the DIA's STAR GATE program include several references to meetings attended by representatives from the NSA, who were interested in paranormal intelligence collection and psychic powers.<br /> <br /> Early NSA interest in the paranormal arms race was discovered in a declassified CIA Office of Technical Services Memorandum for the Record from 1975. A few years later -- based upon thousands of STAR GATE files -- the entire Department of Defense Community appears to have been dabbling in paranormal activities, including tests of mind-over-matter psychokinesis-induced damage to electronic circuits and the use of psychic vision, or remote viewing, to collect intelligence on Soviet targets.<br /> <br /> Some of the early US Army intelligence (INSCOM) activities involving paranormal intelligence were parodied in the movie adaptation of The Men Who Stare at Goats, inspired by the non-fiction book by British investigative humorist Jon Ronson. Examination of one 1981 INSCOM 'memorandum for the record' reveals that although NSA had been sending unofficial 'observers' to the Department of Defense paranormal program called GRILL FLAME, the Director of NSA requested an additional investigation by an NSA-sponsored committee.<br /> <br /> Briefings for the NSA representatives were attended by CIA, DIA, SRI International, INSCOM (Army Intelligence), and Jake Stewart, of the Office of Naval Intelligence. Among those present from NSA were representatives for "Tech Applications & Advancement" and NSA's Scientific Advisory Committee at RAND Corporation.<br /> <br /> According to INSCOM notes -- describing a personal briefing for LTG Lincoln Faurer, the Director of the NSA (given at NSA HQ on August 5, 1982) -- the Director stated that NSA's scientific panel had reviewed paranormal phenomena and were attempting to determine whether or not NSA would "cease all interest, pursue the subject within the agency, or join the DoD community."<br /> <br /> If current STARstream Research sources are correct, NSA eventually decided to pursue paranormal and psychic intelligence collection deep inside a special compartmentalized or 'black program' within the agency.<br /> <br /> According to one NSA source, mind-science research in support of the on-going NSA paranormal program is allegedly conducted at Johns Hopkins University. The alleged involvement of Johns Hopkins has not been confirmed by other sources at this time; however Johns Hopkins University was among the select institutions recommended by Office of Naval Intelligence representative Captain Jake Stewart, in a SECRET EYES ONLY report presented to the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.<br /> <br /> Chris Robinson -- a British citizen known for predicting terror attacks -- also claims he had contact with US NSA representatives following a warning he sent to the CIA London Office just prior to 9/11.<br /> <br /> Robinson's claimed foreknowledge of the 9/11 events was also confirmed to British television by Professor Gary E.R. Schwartz of the University of Arizona. Schwartz conducted informal tests of Robinson's psychic skills in August 2001.<br /> <br /> Robinson's claim of having met with a high level NSA contact was later confirmed by another NSA-related source. According to Robinson, several of the US government representatives he met with following 9/11 were "extremely knowledgeable" about psychic remote viewing.<br /> <br /> Based upon the historical record of US government paranormal activity prior to 1995, and the need for exceptional human intelligence collection following the terror events of 9/11, the existence of a compartmentalized NSA-based psychic spy effort cannot be dismissed out-of-hand. Information about previous paranormal programs leaked into the public sector in the 1970s and 1980s. The late Jack Anderson wrote about the DoD psychic spy program for the Washington Post, when it was still considered a national security concern.<br /> <br /> STAR GATE documents from the DIA include official US government psychic spy tasking against targets that included terrorists, future terror events and threats, and drug smuggling operations.<br /> <br /> An on-going paranormal program at the NSA would likely include tests of material psychokinetic effects; a search for a signal carrier for psychic information (one source claims the NSA considers psychic 'telepathy' to be a valid form of Signals Intelligence, or SIGINT); and operational tasking to collect information on targets of vital interest to the US national security. In addition, NSA would monitor foreign developments in paranormal intelligence and research and their potential impact against sensitive US locations, projects, and persons.<br /> <br /> <b>NOTE: here is a link to a related post - <a href="http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2010/07/project-stargate-document-remote.html">Project Stargate Document: Remote Viewing ...'a real phenomenon'</a>...Lon</b><br /> <br /> <i><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1604074361/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=phantomsandmonsters-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1604074361">Remote Viewing: The Complete User's Manual for Coordinate Remote Viewing</a><br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743462688/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=phantomsandmonsters-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743462688">The Seventh Sense: The Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a "Psychic Spy" for the U.S. Military</a></b></i><br /> <br /> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/">Spirit Rescue International™</a><br /> <i>Providing no-cost professional spiritual help, personal support and guidance<br /> Take the first step towards genuine peace of mind</i><br /> ---------------<br /> Sign up for the<br /> <a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.blogspot.com/">Spirit Rescue International Newsletter</a></b></center></p><br /> <p><center><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"></a><br /> <font color=goldenrod><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"><b>The Spirit Rescue International™ Haunted Help Forum<br /> <i>Discussion of paranormal and spiritual phenomena,<br /> including peer support for those with questions or concerns</i><br /> </a></font><br /> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_119223518147339">*Join Our Group On Facebook*</a></b></center></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=nQYokNOn6OE:SZdhua3zSFc:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=nQYokNOn6OE:SZdhua3zSFc:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=nQYokNOn6OE:SZdhua3zSFc:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=nQYokNOn6OE:SZdhua3zSFc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=nQYokNOn6OE:SZdhua3zSFc:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=nQYokNOn6OE:SZdhua3zSFc:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=nQYokNOn6OE:SZdhua3zSFc:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet</h1> <p>2012-02-01T15:42:00.001-05:00</p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/TTst4eHe_4I/AAAAAAAAXTs/EbnVkDf2Urs/s1600/cayce1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>Edgar Cayce has been called the "sleeping prophet," the "father of holistic medicine," and the most documented psychic of the 20th century. For more than 40 years of his adult life, Cayce gave psychic "readings" to thousands of seekers while in an unconscious state, diagnosing illnesses and revealing lives lived in the past and prophecies yet to come.<br /> <br /> Cayce was born on a farm in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1877, and his psychic abilities began to appear as early as his childhood. He was able to see and talk to his late grandfather's spirit, and often played with "imaginary friends" whom he said were spirits on the other side.<br /> <br /> Through the years, Cayce would find that he had the ability to put himself into a sleep-like state by lying down on a couch, closing his eyes, and folding his hands over his stomach. In this state of relaxation and meditation, he was able to place his mind in contact with all time and space...the universal consciousness, also known as the super-conscious mind.<br /> <br /> In 1910, the New York Times carried two pages of headlines and pictures in which he was declared the "World's Most Mysterious Man" A national magazine ran an article titled, "Miracle Man of Virginia Beach", and Cayce was swamped with an avalanche of 25,000 requests for medical help. President Woodrow Wilson sought the services of Edgar Cayce for healing and guidance while he was President and conceiving the idea of the League of Nations.<br /> <br /> <b>The Outbounder, Healer and Prophet</b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/TTsuBLUXNBI/AAAAAAAAXTw/Tq1T6qI6Xnw/s1600/cayce3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>At the age of twenty-one, Cayce contracted a throat problem which developed into aphonia...a total loss of voice. Doctors were unable to help him, and Cayce began to regard his problem as incurable. He resorted to hypnosis, but this too had no useful effect until it occurred to Cayce to attempt re-entering the kind of hypnotic sleep which had enabled him to learn his schoolbooks when he was a boy. A hypnotist was found who was willing to give Cayce the necessary suggestion. Once in a trance, Cayce reportedly spoke in a clear voice, spelling out precisely what his symptoms were, and what should be done to cure them. Cayce had succeeded in curing himself and, in doing so, had launched himself on a lifelong career as a psychic diagnostician and healer.<br /> <br /> It made no difference to Cayce whether his patient was sitting next to him in the same room or a total stranger living hundreds of miles away. His preparations for the health reading were always the same. As he himself described it, he would first loosen his clothing in order to have a perfectly freeflowing circulation. He would then lie on the couch in his office, with his head to the south, and his feet to the north. Placing his hands on his forehead between his eyes, he would wait a few moments until he received what he would call the go signal, a flash of brilliant white light. Cayce would then move his hands to his solar plexus, and fall into a trance. His wife would tell him the name and location of the patient, leaving out any mention of age, sex or physical problem. Cayce might pause a while before repeating the name and address until he had succeeded in 'locating' the patient and describing his or her condition. He would then prescribe medication and any other corrective measures, always ending his reading with the words: "We are through."<br /> <br /> In 1933, he explained that he still understood very little about what he was doing. "Apparently," he said, "I am one of the few who can lay aside their own personalities sufficiently to allow their souls to make this attunement to a universal source of knowledge...but I say this without any desire to brag about it. In fact I do not claim to possess anything that other individuals do not inherently possess. Really and truly, I do not believe there is a single individual that does not possess this same ability I have. I am certain that all human beings have much greater powers than they are ever conscious of...if they would only be willing to pay the price of detachment from self-interest that it takes to develop those abilities."<br /> <br /> Cayce took a holistic approach to health. He believed that a man was composed of body, mind and spirit, and that all three are one. He talked about consciousness in the cells of the body, each contributing to the total consciousness of the individual. Health, he indicated, would flow from a perfect harmony of body and mind. In accordance with the concept that we are what we eat, think and believe, Cayce would often urge his patients to improve their mental and spiritual outlook in order to regain their health.<br /> <br /> Cayce's prophetic powers often emerged during readings. Cayce gave advice to businessmen who were worried about the location of their holdings or the stability of their stocks and bonds. Six months before the 1929 stock market crash he warned people to sell everything they owned. He predicted the beginning and end of both the First and Second World Wars. In October 1935, Cayce spoke of the coming holocaust in Europe. The Austrians and Germans, he said, and later the Japanese, would take sides. "Thus an unseen force, gradually growing, must result in an almost direct opposition to the Nazi, or Aryan theme. This will gradually produce a growth of animosities. And unless there is interference by what many call supernatural forces and influences,which are active in the affairs of nations and peoples, the whole world as it were...will be set on fire by militaristic groups and people who are for power expansion." <br /> <br /> In 1939 he predicted the deaths of two presidents in office; "Ye are to have turmoils...ye are to have strife between capital and labor. Ye are to have a division in thy own land, before ye have the second of the Presidents that next will not live through his office...a mob rule!" President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office in April 1945. In November 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.<br /> <br /> In 1944, he prophesied that China would one day be "the cradle of Christianity as applied in the lives of men." Through Russia, he said "comes the hope of the world. Not in respect to what is sometimes termed Communism or Bolshevism...no! But freedom...freedom! That each man will live for his fellow man. The principle has been born there. It will take years for it to be crystallized; yet out of Russia comes again the hope of the world." Russia, he said, would be guided by friendship with the United States. It's attempt to rule "not only the economic, but the mental and spiritual life" of its people was doomed to failure.<br /> <br /> The possibility of a third world war was also predicted. He spoke of strife arising "near the Davis Straits," and "in Libya, and in Egypt, in Ankara, and in Syria; through the straits around those areas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf." When asked in June 1943 whether it would be feasible to work towards an international currency or a stabilization of international exchange levels when the war had ended, Cayce replied that it would be a long, long time before this would happen. Indeed, he said, "there may be another war over just such conditions."<br /> <br /> One of Cayce's most striking predictions, particularly in view of many other prophecies relating to the approaching end of the millennium, concern dramatic changes in the Earth's surface in the period of 1958 to 1998. The cause of these he put down to a tilting in the Earth's rotational axis which he said would begin in 1936. He prophesied that the Earth's axis would be shifted by the year 2001, bringing on reversals in climate, "so that where there has been a frigid or semi-tropical climate, there will be a more tropical one, and moss and fern will grow." By this time, he indicated, a new cycle would begin.<br /> <br /> <b>Future Calamity</b><br /> <br /> Cayce's most calamitous prediction came not long before he decided to start scaling back his session workload. He stated...."watch New York, Connecticut and the like. Many portions of the east coast will be disturbed, as well as many portions of the west coast, as well as the central portion of the United States. Los Angeles, San Francisco, most of all these will be among those that will be destroyed before New York, or New York City itself, will in the main disappear. This will be another generation though, here; while the southern portions of Carolina, Georgia, these will disappear. This will be much sooner. The waters of the Great Lakes will empty into the Gulf of Mexico." None of his predictions ever pinpointed the year 2012.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/TTsuKvBVytI/AAAAAAAAXT0/-r7uzTLanK4/s1600/cayce2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>His lifelong secretary, Gladys Davis, took down virtually all his readings, and they are recorded and indexed in the Association for Enlightenment and Research, established in Virginia in 1932 to study Cayce's work. In all, he gave 14,879 readings, well over half of them for people concerned about their health. Over a period of forty-three years, he read for more than six thousand people.<br /> <br /> In the spring of 1944, he became ill and began to grow weak. His own readings advised him to rest, but he felt a tremendous obligation to those who were asking for his help. Finally, he collapsed from sheer exhaustion; he gave his last reading for himself in September of 1944. The reading told him he had to rest. When his wife asked "How long?" the response was "until he is well or dead." Shortly afterwards, he had a stroke and became partially paralyzed. Although Edgar told them he would be healed after the first of the year, they understood what he meant and he died on January 3, 1945. He predicted the date of his burial, January 5, 1945...again, he was correct.<br /> <br /> ----------<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/TTsunb86mtI/AAAAAAAAXT4/j27yF9VwKMU/s1600/cayce4.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/TTsunb86mtI/AAAAAAAAXT4/j27yF9VwKMU/s1600/cayce4.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /> </a></div><b>The following is a list of Cayce's most important and interesting known prophecies:</b><br /> <br /> * "There will be upheavals in the Artic and Antarctic that will cause the eruption of volcanoes in the torrid areas, and pole shift." <br /> * The greater portion of Europe will be changed in the twinkling of an eye. <br /> * Southeast Canada will be safe from earth changes.<br /> * Mt. Etna and nearby Vesuvius, and Mt Pelee signal the major changes.<br /> * As to the changes physical again: The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea. <br /> * The upper portion of Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of an eye. Land will appear off the east coast of America.<br /> * There will be the upheavals in the Arctic and in the Antarctic that will make for the eruption of volcanoes in the Torrid areas, and there will be shifting then of the poles so that where there has been those of a frigid or the semitropical will become the more tropical, and moss and fern will grow. And these will begin in those periods in '58 to '98, when these will be proclaimed as the periods when His light will be seen again in the clouds. As to times, as to seasons, as to places, ALONE is it given to those who have named the name and who bear the mark of those of His calling and His election in their bodies. To them it shall be given. <br /> * As to those things that deal with the mantle of the earth, these shall call upon the mountains to cover many. As ye have seen those in lowly places raised to those of power in the political, in the machinery of nations' activities, so shall ye see those in high places reduced and calling on the waters of darkness to cover them. And those that in the inmost recesses of theirselves awaken to the spiritual truths that are to be given, and those places that have acted in the capacity of teachers among men, the rottenness of those that have ministered in places will be brought to light, and turmoils and strifes shall enter. And, as there is the wavering of those that would enter as emissaries, as teachers, from the throne of life, the throne of light, the throne of immortality, and wage war in the air with those of darkness, then know ye the Armageddon is at hand. <br /> * "And those that seek in the latter portion of the year of our Lord as ye have counted in and among men 1936, He will appear!" [Corrected to 1998] <br /> * The sun will be darkened and there shall be proclaimed through the spiritual interception in the hearts and minds and souls that his star has appeared and will point the way for those who enter into the Holy of Holies in themselves. He will appear!" [Corrected to 1998] <br /> * The regenerated shall come and declare that John Peniel is giving to the world the new order of things. <br /> * [Cayce gave October 31 as the anniversary of Noah's Flood, or poleshift.<br /> * "That same name as to which the priest was banished the constellation of Libra, or to Libya were these people sent. <br /> * Is it not fitting, then, that these must return? as this priest may develop himself to be in that position, to be in the capacity of a LIBERATOR of the world in its relationships to individuals in those periods to come; for he must enter again at that period, or in 1998."<br /> * There will be the breaking of agreements <br /> * The earth changes are affected by sunspot cycle, they will be at max! <br /> * The hottest weather occurs during the greatest sunspot activity. <br /> * In 2100 AD water covered part of Alabama, and New York was gone. Most of the houses were of glass. <br /> * Jupiter and Uranus influences in the affairs of the world appear the strongest on or about October 15 to the 20th destructive conditions <br /> * May cause an earthquake in southern California <br /> * "for the time and times and half times are at an end" [Propose a time is 1,000 years. If this count began with Daniel, the 2500 year span is coming to an end.] <br /> * The young king's son will soon reign<br /> * " In 1998 we may find a great deal of the activities as have been wrought by the gradual changes that are coming about. These are at the periods when the cycle of the solar activity, or the years as related to the sun's passage through the various spheres of activity become paramount or Catamount [?] [Tantamount?] to the change between the Piscean and the Aquarian age. <br /> * Then the area where the entity is now located [Virginia Beach] will be among the safety lands, as will be portions of what is now Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and much of the southern portion of Canada and the eastern portion of Canada; while the western land much of that is to be disturbed in this land as, of course, much in other lands." <br /> * "The geographical changes, as we find, will not be of any appreciable change in the affairs of men, save as induced by those activities of men respecting their application of those laws pertaining to same, in this Particular generation." <br /> * In America the people are to hold more power in their hands. <br /> * that there would come three that would make of the perfect way of life. They achieved balance in their spiritual, their mental, their material experiences. They may proclaim the Atlantean records. <br /> * If men in America don't show brotherly love civilization must wend its way westward, and again must Mongolia, must a hated people, be raised. <br /> * "His messenger shall appear there." Hints, is finding those that make the paths straight. <br /> * There are healing powers in the waters off Bimini, Changes near the site of the soon to be found Atlantis. <br /> * Roosevelt was "called". <br /> * "scientific change has been found by the observation into the terrestrial forces and into those places and conditions about the earth's planes, there is missing some one of the earth's companions or planets, and the combustion or destruction of same caused much changes" <br /> * Quartz crystals amplify, lend, and synchronize many types of energy, such as light and electricity. <br /> * Wear Lapis Linguis on the wrist or on the waist. <br /> * Oil exists all across America along a line from Monterey, Mexico to Concord, New Hampshire in the Hickory Sands formation, 2400 3000 ft. in Texas. <br /> * Atlantis lies west and south of Bimini. <br /> * The Earth is catching up with Time. <br /> * When the lines about the earth are considered from the mathematical precisions, it will be found that the center is nigh unto the Great Pyramid. This is a gradual, not a cataclysmic activity in the experience of the earth in this period. 16023" <br /> * "Is Virginia Beach to be safe?" It is the center and the only seaport and center of the White Brotherhood. <br /> * "this occurs in the entrance of the Messiah in this period 1998."<br /> * Watch for them near Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the lifeline to a land open. <br /> * Watch Libya and Ankara, and Syria and the Persian Gulf. <br /> * Much of ancient Mexico under sea <br /> * South California and South New Mexico were settled by Lemurians. <br /> * A recession in the 1980's was predicted, caused by greed. <br /> * Someday a "City of Gold" will be discovered in the Gobi Desert, a temple with elevators; electric cars <br /> * On Russia's religious development hinges the hope of the world. <br /> * Other planets and stars affect the elemental powers of the earth: Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. <br /> * An ancient temple to the sun and moon is near Santa Barbara. <br /> * for the satellite of the moon had not faded then <br /> * Mu settlers in Oregon, gave the totem the family tree. <br /> * The fear of death hinders <br /> * Evidence of Atlantis can be found in the Pyrenees and Morocco, and in British Honduras, Yucatan, and America. <br /> * Atlantis during its highest point was in the southern portion of South America and the Artic, and Siberia, and also in Hudson Bay. <br /> * In Atlantis, Adam was called Amilius. <br /> * The stars of the Pleiades and Arcturus were mentioned. <br /> * Earth is slowly receding or gathering closer to the sun, from which it receives its impetus for the awakening of the elements from that which it receives from the sun. elements that give life itself, by radiation of like elements. <br /> * Let it be remembered, or not confused, that the earth was peopled by animals before peopled by man! <br /> * Stars and planets have various forces of attraction or detraction. <br /> * Atlantis had gas balloons <br /> * Their "tempered brass", the temperament of that as becomes between aluminum and that of uranium. Iron fluxes combine and carbonized with those of other fluxes <br /> * One of Cayce's clients went to Bimini and found an old fresh water well, walled around the top, with stones of peculiar composition and strange symbols. <br /> * This well and area are for "regeneration" of certain ailments. <br /> * There is much gold under the sea. <br /> * Devil's Triangle there are those conditions as related to the varied powers that are in power or in affluence as respecting activities of any nature there. <br /> * Iltar the Atlantean leader of the Maya built the first temple, it will rise above the sea again. <br /> * A Temple in the Yucatan is "overshadowing" the location of the Atlantean records. These records contain the history and sciences of the Atlanteans. <br /> * The slaves of the Atlanteans were called "things". <br /> * Egypt the center of the Universal activities of nature, as well as the spiritual forces. <br /> * Mathematical, the astrological and the numerological indications <br /> * A "community home" was at Ararat before Noah "who again joined with many in peopling the earth this was caused on Og. <br /> * The records of Atlantis will be open to those that are the initiates in the knowledge of the One God. <br /> * The rising of the Temple will make the records accessible. <br /> * The secret record chamber lies, as the sun rises from the waters, the line of the shadow or light falls between the paws of the Sphinx that was later set as a sentinel or guard. And which may not be entered from the connecting chambers from the Sphinx's right paw until the time has been fulfilled when the changes must be active in this sphere of man's experience. <br /> * the Sphinx, and the treasure or storehouse facing same, between this and the Nile, in which those records were kept. <br /> * It is thought that people are still going there for initiation as well as to interpret the religious changes man will undergo. <br /> * The Nile was called Nole when it dumped into the Atlantic, "on the Congo end." <br /> * A chosen priest came from Arabia or Tibet to teach the worlds astrologers. This was 10.5 million years ago. <br /> * most of the people had tails then These left mounds in the Sahara. <br /> * There were a 133,000,000 souls in the earth plane then. <br /> * The sands of the Gobi cover many an ancient ruin.<br /> * Ice, nature, God changed the poles and the animals were destroyed.<br /> * "The waters of the lakes will empty into the Gulf, rather than the waterway over which such discussions have been recently made." "It would be well if the waterway were prepared, but not for that purpose for which it is at present being considered." <br /> * When asked, "Give in detail what the sealed room contains." referring to the Atlantean Library": A record of Atlantis from the beginning of those periods when the Spirit took form, or began the encasements in that land; and the developments of the peoples throughout their sojourn; together with the record of the first destruction, and the changes that took place in the land; with the record of the sojournings of the peoples and their varied activities in other lands, and a record of the meetings of all the nations or lands, for the activities in the destruction of Atlantis; and the building of the pyramid of initiation, together with whom, what, and where the opening of the records would come, that are as copies from the sunken Atlantis. For with the change, it [Atlantis] must rise again. In position, this lies as the sun rises from the waters as the line of the shadows or light falls between the paws of the Sphinx; that was set later as the sentinel or guard and which may not be entered from the connecting chambers from the Sphinx's right paw until the time has been fulfilled when the changes must be active in this sphere of man's experience. - <i>mendhak.com</i><br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6332800117824374483#">Click for video</a><br /> <br /> ----------<br /> <br /> <b>The Akashic Records and Edgar Cayce</b><br /> <br /> The Akashic Records or "The Book of Life" can be equated to the universe's super computer system. It is this system that acts as the central storehouse of all information for every individual who has ever lived upon the earth. More than just a reservoir of events, the Akashic Records contain every deed, word, feeling, thought, and intent that has ever occurred at any time in the history of the world. Much more than simply a memory storehouse, however, these Akashic Records are interactive in that they have a tremendous influence upon our everyday lives, our relationships, our feelings and belief systems, and the potential realities we draw toward us.<br /> <br /> The Akashic Records contain the entire history of every soul since the dawn of Creation. These records connect each one of us to one another. They contain the stimulus for every archetypal symbol or mythic story which has ever deeply touched patterns of human behavior and experience. They have been the inspiration for dreams and invention. They draw us toward or repel us from one another. They mold and shape levels of human consciousness. They are a portion of Divine Mind. They are the unbiased judge and jury that attempt to guide, educate, and transform every individual to become the very best that she or he can be. They embody an ever-changing fluid array of possible futures that are called into potential as we humans interact and learn from the data that has already been accumulated.<br /> <br /> In terms of contemporary insights, perhaps the most extensive source of information regarding the Akashic Records comes from the clairvoyant work of Edgar Cayce (1877-1945), Christian mystic and founder of A.R.E. For forty-three years of his adult life, Edgar Cayce possessed the uncanny ability to lie down on a couch, close his eyes, fold his hands over his stomach, and put himself into some kind of an altered state in which virtually any type of information was available. The accuracy of Cayce's psychic work is evidenced by approximately one dozen biographies and literally hundreds of titles which explore various aspects of his information and the thousands of topics he discussed.<br /> <br /> When asked about the source of his information, Cayce replied that there were essentially two. The first was the subconscious mind of the individual for whom he was giving the reading and the second was the Akashic Records. Cayce described his experience as follows:<br /> <br /> <i>"I see myself as a tiny dot out of my physical body, which lies inert before me. I find myself oppressed by darkness and there is a feeling of terrific loneliness. Suddenly, I am conscious of a white beam of light. As this tiny dot, I move upward following the light, knowing that I must follow it or be lost.<br /> <br /> As I move along this path of light I gradually become conscious of various levels upon which there is movement. Upon the first levels there are vague, horrible shapes, grotesque forms such as one sees in nightmares. Passing on, there begin to appear on either side misshapen forms of human beings with some part of the body magnified. Again there is change and I become conscious of gray-hooded forms moving downward. Gradually, these become lighter in color. Then the direction changes and these forms move upward and the color of the robes grows rapidly lighter. Next, there begin to appear on either side vague outlines of houses, walls, trees, etc., but everything is motionless. As I pass on, there is more light and movement in what appear to be normal cities and towns. With the growth of movement I become conscious of sounds, at first indistinct rumblings, then music, laughter, and singing of birds. There is more and more light, the colors become very beautiful, and there is the sound of wonderful music. The houses are left behind, ahead there is only a blending of sound and color. Quite suddenly I come upon a hall of records. It is a hall without walls, without ceiling, but I am conscious of seeing an old man who hands me a large book, a record of the individual for whom I seek information."</i><br /> <br /> <b>NOTE: I find much of Cayce's work fascinating but hardly the work of a prophet...at least not someone under the direct instruction of a Supreme Being. Let's say for argument's sake that Edgar Cayce's incredible predictions all came true. Even under that scenario, it would still be an unexplained phenomenon...not proof that a Deity exists. My spiritual agnostic nature aside, Cayce was blessed with extraordinary abilities...Lon</b><br /> <br /> <i>Sources:<br /> www.edgarcayce.org<br /> www.near-death.com<br /> www.scribd.com<br /> www.dreamscape.com<br /> www.2012prophecys.com<br /> www.cayce.com<br /> www.akashicstudies.com<br /> www.mendhak.com<br /> "Edgar Cayce in Context: the Readings, Truth and Fiction" - K. Paul Johnson<br /> "The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?: Interdimensional Communication and Global" - Wynn Free and David Wilcock</i><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Oozxg0dbf4U:3nwUAi2bcGc:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Oozxg0dbf4U:3nwUAi2bcGc:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Oozxg0dbf4U:3nwUAi2bcGc:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Oozxg0dbf4U:3nwUAi2bcGc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Oozxg0dbf4U:3nwUAi2bcGc:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Oozxg0dbf4U:3nwUAi2bcGc:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=Oozxg0dbf4U:3nwUAi2bcGc:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>'The Entity' Investigation - The True Story</h1> <p>2012-01-30T17:49:00.002-05:00</p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i-vIl4y38As/Tycdw7H1VFI/AAAAAAAAcZ0/UCZ47XXvvM0/s1600/entity11.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"></a></div><br /> On August 22, 1974 at 11547 Braddock Drive in Culver City, California an investigation began that was to be like no other that parapsychologists Kerry Gaynor and Barry Taff had ever experienced. "At the time I had a colleague named Barry Taff," said Gaynor. “We were working under the auspices of Dr. Thelma Moss, but Barry and I did most of the research on this case.” Believing that this would be an open and shut case they journeyed to Doris Bither’s house with few expectations.<br /> <br /> While in a bookstore, Kerry Gaynor and Barry Taff were overheard talking about the paranormal when a woman approached and mentioned to them that her house was haunted. She gave Gaynor a few details of the haunting, in which Gaynor told her that he would discuss this with his associate. Gaynor and Taff made an appointment to meet at her home to discuss her situation. <br /> <br /> <a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fjze9RkKJIw/TYzJnMrm0ZI/AAAAAAAAX80/sOzDf_qB63E/s1600/entity4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><b style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Parapsychologist Kerry Gaynor</span></b> <br /> <br /> Doris Bither, a petite thirtysomething woman, greeted them at her door. Bither lived in the small house with her six year-old daughter and her three sons, ages ten, thirteen and sixteen. The house was in squalor with substandard living conditions and had twice been condemned by the city. There was also an uneasy relationship between the mother and her sons, especially by the eldest. It seemed they harbored dark resentment towards their mother, most likely as a result of their living conditions. Young minds unconsciously troubled by physical and/or verbal abusive and in a negative environment are lightning rods for paranormal activity that can manifest into psychosomatic or poltergeist activity.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-CWZfAqpOis8/TYzJE6OY1sI/AAAAAAAAX8w/LnsoJ0DpSxM/s1600/entity2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">A recent photograph of the house on 11547 Braddock Drive (2011)</span></b></span></td></tr> </tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /> Gaynor said that during the initial meeting a two-hour interview was conducted. Gaynor realized fairly soon that she was holding something back. “I kept pushing her," said Gaynor. "Finally she said that a ghost had raped and beat her. Barry and I laughed when we left her home, and I thought she was probably off her rocker. But she called me back a few days later and said that several people visiting her had seen an apparition. This is what we're always looking for...independent verification of the phenomena. I'm a scientist and that's how I approach it. I don't take their stories at face value. Their story is the beginning and I don't discount it, but I'm there to experience the phenomena and document it."<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-YTfaqAe5vB4/TYzJ7kDhy1I/AAAAAAAAX84/2rmsAuauE2w/s1600/entity7.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><b style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Recent photo of Dr. Barry Taff</span></b><br /> <br /> During the second visit by Gaynor and Taff, it was starting to become apparent that this was not a simple haunting. Doris claimed that spirits would physically attack her, either bumping into the ghosts while walking through the house or actual spectral rape on occasion. Gaynor and Taff were still skeptical of these claims until they saw the dark bruises on her inner thighs and over much of her body. Doris’ eldest son did admit to seeing his mother being tossed around the room. In one instance he tried to intervene and was thrown across the room by the unseen force. Doris claimed that the spectres were Asian men and that the children had also witnessed the manifestations. The sightings were so frequent that the children dubbed one of the more prominent spirits as “Mr. Whose-it.” People outside the family corroborated through testimony that they had also seen apparitions. Gaynor and Taff did witness some visual phenomena. "We were seeing little pops of light," said Gaynor. "It would happen quickly. We would try to shoot the camera, but they were happening too quickly and we just couldn't catch them. We were shooting with a Polaroid and with a 35mm camera."<br /> <br /> How could these investigators prove “spectral rape” or even claim it? The team decided to setup at the location and brought in high-speed cameras and photographers as well as other investigators to help capture something on tape. In the report, all the investigators and equipment, as well as Doris, were in her small bedroom. Uncomfortable and anxious to see any paranormal activity, they decided to have Doris call out to the spirits. Doris began swearing and yelling at the spirits while the investigators hoped for any evidence. Very soon small lights started to manifest throughout the room. As Doris continued to bait the entities, a greenish mist started to form in a corner. The green mist started swirling and growing quickly forming a visible upper torso of a man...very large and defined with muscles was reported. One of the investigators fainted after witnessing the manifestation. Unfortunately, none of the equipment was able to capture the definition of the form, only free floating arcs of light.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-3gwC-ulPfE4/TYzKM751l1I/AAAAAAAAX88/HsleN38VhdE/s1600/entity6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-xARkamZihdk/TYzKR6nGTFI/AAAAAAAAX9A/YwdDJkGFnMg/s1600/entity1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /> The most famous of these photographs is the one that shows Doris sitting on a bed, investigators surrounding her and the free floating arc of light in the middle of the picture. The arc of light appears smooth, even though this is a room with corners and one would expect bends in the arc as when someone uses a projector to display an image and the image hits corners in a room. If this were the case, the image would bend. The photographic evidence produce by the team shows the arc of light floating above Doris with no bends, even though behind it is the room’s corner.<br /> <br /> There was also more common poltergeist activity noted during the investigation. “I was standing in the kitchen talking to the woman's 16 year-old son when a lower cabinet door slammed open and a pan came flying out," said Gaynor. “It flew out and landed about three or four feet from the cabinet. I immediately tore the cabinet apart to see if there were any tricks, or if anyone was hiding in the cabinets. But there was nothing.” Not long after this occurred Doris screamed, “it's in the bedroom.” Gaynor explains “we ran in there and that's when all the lights started happening. That's when we got the Polaroid shots. Again Doris shouted, 'the ghost is in the comer'. We snapped the picture, but it was bleached out and not very interesting. She shouted again, 'it's in the corner' and again the photo was bleached. At this point, I thought the camera wasn't working. So I took two control pictures. I asked her if the ghost was gone. She said yes. The picture came out perfectly. A few seconds later I took another one….perfect picture. But then we got the most interesting Polaroid. Doris said, 'It is right in front of my face.' Those were her exact words. So we took a shot. And in the photo you can see the curtains and the buttons on her dress, but her whole face is obliterated. We took a second picture when she once again said, 'it's right in front of my face.' Amazingly, her face was obliterated again, but you could see details in the rest of the picture.”<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-aEpB-uTboCU/TYzKdJ-MCbI/AAAAAAAAX9E/jvfFW0NofYM/s1600/entity5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Nnfol2WlonQ/TYzKijETkjI/AAAAAAAAX9I/Ww-sOSsYcok/s1600/entity3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /> The investigative team observed lights and poltergeist activity for about two and a half months. As time went by, the activities decreased. Doris was attacked about 15 times during the ten-week investigation. "But she got stronger," said Gaynor. "And she was able to realize that she wasn't crazy and that there really was something going on. She got stronger, and in my opinion, she outlasted it." Doris moved five times, but the attacking entity followed her. She eventually moved further away. "As she moved," Gaynor said, "the phenomena diminished, and after about two years the attacks stopped altogether.”<br /> <br /> Regardless of the evidence a few factors must be pointed out. Barry Taff notes that Doris moved from Culver City to Carson, CA. Then from Carson to San Bernadino, CA , then from San Bernadino to Texas. She eventually found her way back to San Bernardino. Doris reported that the phenomenon followed her and the family to every place they moved. This seems to support the theory that the poltergeist activity was a manifestation of the unstable environment and diseased mind. Doris was addicted to alcohol and she was very abusive and belligerent on a daily basis. Her refusal to deal with her own personal issues intensified negative energy in the home that eventually manifested as poltergeist activity. According to the reports paranormal activity was more intense ONLY when Doris was present in the home. Doris’ intoxication would attract the desired phenomena. It was also noted there were times when Doris was present with the team and sober. As expected the activity did not manifest during these periods. Because of the negative energy provided by Doris’ addiction and temperament combined with the resentment of her son’s towards her because of the abuse and poor living conditions it is rather easy to see why dark entities were attracted to the location.<br /> <br /> <b>NOTE: According to her son, Brian Harris, Doris McGowan Bither had a very turbulent upbringing. Both her parents were alcoholics and were not suited in providing a well-rounded environment for a child even though she was raised in an upper middle-class family. Harris states, <i>“living in that home was hell.”</i></b><br /> <br /> <b><i>“…we all experienced some form of attack.” “…there were about 4 entities in the home, and they made themselves known by appearing all the time.” “…we were so used to the poltergeist, that we just got to a point where we wouldn’t even care.”</i> Harris continues, <i>“The rapes were real. My room was right next door to my mother’s. I would hear the attacks happening. Things being thrown and her screaming.” “…she would come out of the bedroom and have all these bruises on her legs, her inner thighs.”“…there were times where we would see it happen in front of us. It was like if a man was standing in front of my mother and would start to beat her. You could see her being picked up and thrown around. Sounds of slaps…but there was no one there to actually do it.”</i></b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-OpwHjC5cFmI/TY0jcT1m67I/AAAAAAAAX9Y/HGZrW9PshNM/s1600/The_Entity_34970_Medium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-TW5NbL_QXZ8/TY0gkz570fI/AAAAAAAAX9U/PRxZEa05IEc/s1600/entity8.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #cc0000;">Actress Barbara Hershey played the role of Carla Moran in the Hollywood film version of "The Entity"</b></span><br /> <br /> <b>Harris disagrees with many of the assessments made by the investigation team as well as how they were treated. <i>“…well it was hell. Between Barry’s team of 30 or so people crammed in a small, and I mean, small room. Cheering and yelling at this thing. I was in the next room trying to watch television. I tried to mind my own business.”</i> Harris continues, <i>“The investigation lasted about 2 or 3 months, but it wasn’t like Barry was there every single day. So for him to say that this could have been some sort of telekinetic thing that my mother was creating is all bullshit. She didn’t want to have this happen….it’s a possibility, but it’s not like he knew what we were really going through. He was only there for three months. And from that, he would show up every Thursday or so.” “…when the team would show up, I knew as soon as they left, they (the entities) would become so angry that the house would come alive!”</i><i>“The place we moved to was hell….in the bad part of Carson, CA. There was very little paranormal activity happening. It was hell because of the neighborhood. It was a bad neighborhood and school. The paranormal stuff was very rare at that point.”</i> Harris adds, <br /> <br /> Harris says that his mother passed away in 1995, from pulmonary arrest.<br /> <br /> The book <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082334/">'The Entity'</a></i> written by Frank deFelitta (and subsequent film by the same title) was based on this case.</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyO1Dllhe38">Click for video</a><br /> <b>The video contains a segment on the Doris Bither / Entity case</b><br /> <br /> <i>Sources:<br /> robertjrgraham.com<br /> "Sightings: The Real Entity Case" - Susan Michaels - 1996<br /> "Weird California: The Entity Haunting" - Greg Bishop, Joe Oesterle, Mike Marinacci, Mark Moran, Mark Sceurman - 2006<br /> Orange Coast Magazine - 10/1989<br /> barrytaff.net</i><br /> <br /> <i><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0983436916/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=phantomsandmonsters-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0983436916">Aliens Above, Ghosts Below: Explorations of the Unkown</a></b></i><br /> <br /> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/">Spirit Rescue International™</a><br /> <i>Providing no-cost professional spiritual help, personal support and guidance<br /> Take the first step towards genuine peace of mind</i><br /> ---------------<br /> Sign up for the<br /> <a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.blogspot.com/">Spirit Rescue International Newsletter</a></b></center></p><br /> <p><center><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"></a><br /> <font color=goldenrod><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"><b>The Spirit Rescue International™ Haunted Help Forum<br /> <i>Discussion of paranormal and spiritual phenomena,<br /> including peer support for those with questions or concerns</i><br /> </a></font><br /> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_119223518147339">*Join Our Group On Facebook*</a></b></center></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=YJqOPtaVvqY:LzljhUfMltY:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=YJqOPtaVvqY:LzljhUfMltY:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=YJqOPtaVvqY:LzljhUfMltY:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=YJqOPtaVvqY:LzljhUfMltY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=YJqOPtaVvqY:LzljhUfMltY:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=YJqOPtaVvqY:LzljhUfMltY:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=YJqOPtaVvqY:LzljhUfMltY:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>The San Pedro Poltergeist</h1> <p>2012-01-28T18:40:00.002-05:00</p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wFGisW_5OX8/TySHNMW14rI/AAAAAAAAcYU/Fq-qhmcQf9k/s1600/sanpedro7.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"></a></div><br /> One of the more infamous haunting investigations was the San Pedro Haunting or the Jackie Hernandez case. Dr. Barry Taff got involved in the case, along with cameraman Barry Conrad, in 1989 when he was asked to look into a house in San Pedro, California that was allegedly being haunted. The owner of the house was Jackie Hernandez, a young woman who also had some emotional problems in the past.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-DJ4ym4KLnqA/TY5r0wAHG0I/AAAAAAAAX94/QBPZjijm53U/s1600/sanpedro3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-HY-J6Ey-PTs/TY5rYX_FF9I/AAAAAAAAX90/gdHBnnmVGZM/s1600/sanpedro1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #cc0000;">Recent images of the San Pedro, CA poltergeist house</b></span></td></tr> </tbody></table><br /> The investigators were told of strange smells, unexplained sounds, moving objects, apparitions, a glowing cloud that tried to suffocate her (and which had appeared in front of other witnesses) and actually witnessed a peculiar, dripping substance dripping from the kitchen cabinets.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-vGoMtMqkwl0/TY5sCJQFQWI/AAAAAAAAX98/Ms5Q1jWewAM/s1600/sanpedro2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-26cuSiYtYrk/TY5sJaRN80I/AAAAAAAAX-A/T8LzIg92npA/s1600/sanpedro6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #cc0000;">Barry Conrad hanging from a cord attached to a nail in the attic. This was the result of an attack by the entity</b></span></td></tr> </tbody></table><br /> The events in the house grew stronger and even followed Jackie from place to place. Taff began to believe that she was creating the phenomena unconsciously because of her emotional problems and what became a strong romantic attachment to Barry Conrad. It seemed that anyone who might be perceived as threat to Jackie’s relationship with Barry ended up on the end of a violent attack by the poltergeist.<br /> <br /> However, there are problems with the theory that this was strictly a haunting brought on by living subject. The unexplained lights are certainly odd and so would be the reports of male apparitions from witnesses. Also, as Taff found out later, Jackie’s house continued to be reported as haunted long after she moved out. According to the owners, no subsequent tenants stayed there for longer than 6 months. Could this be merely some residual from Jackie’s presence there or was there really a bonifide malevolent spirit?<br /> <br /> <b>Here is a link to a recent interview with Barry Conrad: <a href="http://zfirelight.blogspot.com/2011/03/03-18-11-san-pedro-haunting-open-lines.html">3-18-11 - San Pedro Haunting & Open Lines - Barry Conrad</a></b><br /> <br /> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/up-F6Ztstgk&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param></object><br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up-F6Ztstgk">Click for video</a><br /> <br /> -----<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uYZoIcdpyh0/TY5s6GYE6FI/AAAAAAAAX-E/0cJeikgOeg4/s1600/sanpedro5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /> <b>Here is another brief version of the investigation:</b><br /> <br /> On the night of August 8, 1989, Barry Conrad along with friend and photographer Jeff Wheatcraft, and Dr. Barry Taff, formerly with UCLA’s parapsychology lab and principal investigator of the now famous “Entity” case, would be witness to some of the most compelling and disturbing paranormal activity. Hernandez had told them stories of flying lamps, oozing blood-like gelatin from the walls, an apparition of a decaying old man, an invisible force that would hold her down as though trying to smother her, as well as a floating disembodied head in her attic. So before they left that evening Conrad suggested that Wheatcraft check out the attic. Not long after crawling through the small hole in the ceiling, Jeff’s camera was ripped from his hands into the darkness of the attic. Expectedly, quite shaken he bolted from the attic. Later he would venture back up into the attic in hopes of retrieving the camera. As he searched the empty attic he found an old dusty grape box, which when opened contained his camera, but strangely no lens. Continuing his search he found the surprisingly undamaged lens behind the trap door to the attic. Jeff decided to see if he could get a couple more shots before leaving. But as he began shooting a foul stench began to permeate the attic and without warning he was shoved by an invisible hand into the rafters. And this wasn’t the worst of the activity.<br /> <br /> A month later on September 4th, they would be called back by a frantic Jackie Hernandez. The activity was escalating and getting more violent. Arriving around 1am, Jeff and friend Gary decided they should investigate the attic again. Jeff would pay for it, as he was attacked more brutally than the first encounter. Conrad down below with Hernandez heard a loud moan, it was Jeff. Something had grabbed Jeff by the neck and pulled him into the rafters. Somehow able to pull himself free, Jeff and Gary exited the attic. It was then that they all noticed an old cord wrapped around Jeffs neck. It was then that Gary explained that he actually had to pull Jeff off a nail in the rafter and if he hadn’t been there Jeff might have been strangled to death. But there was a plus to the attack, Gary snapped off a photo at the precise moment of the entity yanking Jeff into the rafters.<br /> <br /> Jackie Hernandez would eventually move out of the house after the activity became so dangerous that she felt her children were in danger.<br /> <br /> <b>NOTE: I attempted to contact the current occupants of the house....no dice. I can understand their reluctance to comment...Lon</b><br /> <br /> <i><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1434991881/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=phantomsandmonsters-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1434991881">An Unknown Encounter: A True Account of the San Pedro Haunting</a></b></i><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4sl6cMo_sDU:mYjneR1fnmw:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4sl6cMo_sDU:mYjneR1fnmw:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4sl6cMo_sDU:mYjneR1fnmw:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4sl6cMo_sDU:mYjneR1fnmw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4sl6cMo_sDU:mYjneR1fnmw:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4sl6cMo_sDU:mYjneR1fnmw:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=4sl6cMo_sDU:mYjneR1fnmw:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Will Time Travel Be Possible?</h1> <p>2012-01-27T20:36:00.002-05:00</p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9Xc_ZE5h83k/ToX0L47QswI/AAAAAAAAZrU/jBKKeIemMm8/s1600/timetraveller4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /> Although there is debate over the exact date it started, on November 02, 2000, a person calling themselves Timetravel_0, and later John Titor, started posting on a public forum that he was a time traveler from the year 2036.<br /> <br /> One of the first things he did was post pictures of his time machine and its operations manual. As the weeks went by, more and more people began questioning him about why he was here, the physics of time travel and his thoughts about our time. He also posted on other forums including the former Art Bell site. In his posts John Titor entertained, angered, frightened and even belittled those who engaged him in conversation.<br /> <br /> Titor described the time machine on several occasions. In an early post, he described it as a "stationary mass, temporal displacement unit powered by two top-spin, dual positive singularities", producing a "standard off-set Tipler sinusoid". The earliest post was more explicit, saying it contained:<br /> <br /> * Two magnetic housing units for the dual micro singularities<br /> * An electron injection manifold to alter mass and gravity micro singularities<br /> * A cooling and X-ray venting system<br /> * Gravity sensors, or a variable gravity lock<br /> * Four main cesium clocks<br /> * Three main computer units<br /> <br /> According to the posts, the device was installed in the rear of a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette convertible and later moved to a 1987 truck having four-wheel drive.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2l2xWcx-8yI/ToXtq8zAKPI/AAAAAAAAZrM/s52r9jk4XV4/s1600/titor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /> In the five years since his absence John Titor has spawned a book, a theatre performance and rumours of a movie, as well as plenty of webpages attempting to prove or disprove his claims to be a time-traveller visiting us from the near future.<br /> <br /> On March 21, 2001, John Titor told us he would be leaving and returning to 2036. After that, he was never heard from again. Speculation and investigation about who John Titor was and why he was online continues to this day.<br /> <br /> -----<br /> <br /> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/SzpI2ygU6vI/AAAAAAAARI8/DA5YLjk3tfA/s1600-h/ufosketch1.png"></a><br /> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/SzpIvDblPJI/AAAAAAAARI0/hDNQB5auN1c/s1600-h/ufosketch2.png"></a><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The following narrative was copied from the MUFON CMS in December 2009. Is this an example of the John Titor effect?</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">MUFON witness report (unedited):</span> Saskatchewan, Canada - What I am about to describe is the truth. The precursor to the UFO event began in June 2007 at 9:23 PM. I was living in the city with my mom and was on the computer. A message popped up from my instant messenger with the words, "Agent...[censored]" and "BlackOperations", stating that someone would like to add me. I stared at it for a minute and felt amazed. Thinking to myself, "Could it be someone 'in the know' who would like to talk to me? What is 'black operations'?". I eagerly accepted the add request and opened a conversation window. The avatar displayed an emblem of, "U.S. Department of Defense" with a black background. I said, "Hello, Agent...[censored]?" the mysterious person replied and a conversation began. The "agent" told me about how I'm "key" to an "event" in the "future" along with a few "others". Than the agent elaborated a bit about a person from the year 2036 by the name of, "[censored]" (not "John Titor") and that this person was part of a special operations unit with "C204" equipment the team uses. The agent first advised me to walk away from this time traveler because, I'd understand when the time comes. Later the agent asked if I met the traveler. I have not to this day. Being so confused and amazed at the same time, I wanted to ask a lot of questions and was told that is all the agent was able to say. So I knew a little about the Titor story and seeked others for information. A few days later after divulging what had happened, to "Titor" experts, the agent contacted me and said I couldn't be trusted. There was another. I felt I had lost an opportunity to be part of a "top secret" time travel agenda because, after running a quick search on the agents name, there appeared to be a real world person. But was I being deceived or cleverly entangled with fact and fiction?<br /> <br /> Here is a link to the <a href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread61544/pg1">interview with John Titor</a> and <a href="http://www.think-aboutit.com/Misc/TimeTravelJohnTitor.htm">some of the predictions</a>. Many people have simply regarded the John Titor story as a hoax...it could very well be. But on a personal note, I have many questions concerning the possibility of time travel...especially after an 'encounter' the Spirit Rescue International team had during an investigation in Llanelli, Wales in the Winter of 2010.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5_plwSh6USo/ToXtIWJsVGI/AAAAAAAAZrA/ttFMXvliQHE/s1600/timetraveller1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Who was this person?</b></span></td></tr> </tbody></table><br /> Irene and Lorna were in the small bathroom of the residence and taking digital photographs. Irene took a shot at the large mirror...in the image there was a young man dressed in a unusual brown outfit with some type of device in his hand. He was passing between Irene and Lorna heading in the direction of the bathtub.<br /> <br /> The person fit description of anyone on the team or in the residence. In fact, the space between Irene and Lorna was so tight that is hard to imagine anybody getting through there...especially undetected.<br /> <br /> We went back and looked through all the images in order to rule out a possible super imposed image but everything checked out as normal. It's just another strange mystery that we may never be able to explain.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZJ4tcTFffl8/ToXtReuZIeI/AAAAAAAAZrE/yFnJlsy0J-8/s1600/timetraveller2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iGMmbiTmL0U/ToXtXnTL7AI/AAAAAAAAZrI/p3-XsxwrRx4/s1600/timetraveller3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RAZwkZj-nr4/ToXtysWo0lI/AAAAAAAAZrQ/JcPv-Zegcdc/s1600/timetraveler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Is the guy in the sunglasses a time traveller?</b></span></td></tr> </tbody></table><br /> Then there is the strange M6 accident in Birmingham, UK and another similar event in Paris, France. Here are the links from these incidents:<br /> <a href="http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2011/01/was-time-travel-element-in-m6.html">Was Time-Travel an Element in the M6 Paranormal Event?</a><br /> <a href="http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2010/11/m6-paranormal-crash-update-man-arrested.html">M6 Paranormal Crash Update: Man Arrested in Manchester</a><br /> <a href="http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2010/11/investigators-hunt-for-key-witness-in.html">Investigators Hunt For Key Witness In M6 Paranormal Crash</a><br /> <a href="http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2010/03/m6-crash-paris-accident-being.html">M6 Crash / Paris Accident Being Investigated - Vehicle Occupants 'Disappear'</a><br /> <a href="http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2010/01/highway-accident-may-have-involved.html">Highway Accident May Have Involved Paranormal Activity</a><br /> <br /> <b>NOTE: Have you experienced an unexplained event? Please forward your story to me. 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They are referred to many as Gypsies (though this moniker is historically incorrect) and have been persecuted for centuries throughout the world because of their traditional culture. <br /> <br /> Romanies place a high value on the extended family. Virginity is essential in unmarried women. Both men and women often marry young and there has been controversy in several countries over the Romani practice of child marriage. Romani law establishes that the man's family must pay a bride price to the bride's parents, but only traditional families still follow this rule. Once married, the woman joins the husband's family, where her main job is to tend to her husband's and her children's needs, as well as to take care of her in-laws. The power structure in the traditional Romani household has at its top the oldest man or grandfather, and men in general have more authority than women. Women gain respect and authority as they get older. Young wives begin gaining authority once they have children. Many Romanies follow a strict form of Marhime, which is similar to the Hindu purity laws.<br /> <br /> Romani legends and mythology tell of certain Romanies who possess passive psychic powers such as empathy, precognition, retrocognition, or psychometry. Other legends include the ability to levitate, travel through astral projection by way of meditation, invoke curses or blessings, conjure/channel spirits, and skill with illusion-casting.<br /> <br /> During many traditional burials, steel or iron needles are pushed into the body's heart and pieces of steel in the mouth, over the eyes, ears and between the fingers. Hawthorn was placed on the legs or driven through the legs. They would also drive stakes, pour boiling water on the grave, and behead or burn the body. All this preparation was to ward off Vampires. Romanies have a particular concept of good and evil forces. Dead relatives were looked after loyally. The soul enters a world like the world of the living, except that death does not exist. The soul lingers near the body and sometimes wants to live again.<br /> <br /> The Roma legends of the living dead added to and enriched the Vampire legends of Hungary, Romania, and Slavic lands. The Indian deity associated with blood drinking is Kali, who has fangs, wears a garland of corpses or skulls and has four arms. Her temples are near the cremation grounds. She and the goddess Durga battled the demon Raktabija who could reproduce himself from each drop of blood spilled. Kali drank all his blood so none was spilled, thereby winning the battle and killing Raktabija. Sarah, or the Black Goddess, is the form in which Kali survived among Roma.<br /> <br /> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/TJUhwRFcoAI/AAAAAAAAWFY/pu9cUZht_8o/s1600/saintsara.jpg"></a>Some Roma have a belief that the three Marys from the New Testament went to France and baptized a gypsy called Sara. Some refer to Sarah, their Black Goddess as "Black Cally" or "Black Kali". In 1448, four decapitated female skeletons were discovered in the foundation of a church in southern France and were tentatively identified as those of the three Maries and Sarah, their Egyptian servant. Over time, Mary Magdalene disappeared from the trio of Maries and today, only Mary Jacobé and Mary Salomé are the official Saints of the Catholic Church. One legend says that Mary Magdalene became a hermit, grew her hair long and hid herself in a cave to atone for her sins. Sarah has been forgotten by the Church and the official modern version of the legend offered by the Church authorities is that only the two Maries (Jacobé and Salomé) arrived in a boat from Palestine with their servant Sarah who is now called Saint Sarah despite the fact that officially there is no such saint in the hierarchy of Catholic saints. Equally mysterious is the presence of the black female statue in the crypt of the church in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France. The present statue is said to have replaced an previous statue, which in its turn replaced an earlier one. Most Romani worldwide and of different religions celebrate Sarah in one form or another and by alternative names.<br /> <br /> Some authors, taking up themes from the pseudohistorical book <span style="font-style:italic;">Holy Blood, Holy Grail</span>, suggest that Sarah was the daughter of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. These ideas were popularized by Dan Brown's novel <span style="font-style:italic;">The Da Vinci Code</span> and is also the main plot in Eron Manusov's novel <span style="font-style:italic;">Ahavah's Dream</span>.<br /> <br /> Another form of Vampire in Romani folklore is called a Mullo (one who is dead). This Vampire is believed to return and cause malicious havoc and/or suck the blood of a person. The victim is usually a relative who had caused their death or hadn't properly observed the burial ceremonies or kept the deceased's possessions instead of destroying them as was proper.<br /> <br /> People who are hideous in appearance, missing a finger, or had appendages similar to those of an animal, were believed to be a Vampire. If a person died unseen, they would become a Vampire...likewise if a corpse swelled before burial. It is believed that female Vampires can return, lead a normal life and even marry though they would exhaust the husband to the point of death, similar to a Succubus.<br /> <br /> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/TJUiJfqGhcI/AAAAAAAAWFo/owBr7hD9eOk/s1600/romani2.jpg"></a>Roma people in Kosovo believed that Vampires were invisible to most people. However, they could be "seen by a twin brother and sister born on a Saturday who wear their drawers and shirts inside out" according to a late Serbian ethnologist. "This pair could see the Vampire out of doors at night, but immediately after it saw them it would have to flee, head over heels."<br /> <br /> Romani Gypsies have also been incorporated in gothic literature, most notably in Bram Stoker's '<span style="font-style:italic;">Dracula</span>' in which the infamous Vampire's loyal 'Szgany' henchman (Romani Gypsies) were Dracula's caretakers and defenders.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-style:italic;">“Always help brothers; Never harm Brothers; Always pay when you owe although not necessarily money; And never be afraid.”</span>....Romani philosophy<br /> <br /> This was only a brief overview of culture and legends of the Romani people. Please read the following links in reference to Romani history and the past / present discrimination they face - <a href="http://5magazine.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/the-gypsies-in-history-and-today/">The Gypsies in History and Today</a> and <a href="http://lolodiklo.blogspot.com/">Romani Against Racism</a> as well as <a href="http://sciway3.net/clark/freemoors/roma.html">Roma in the Americas</a> BTW, the Romanies were the only other population besides the Jews who were targeted for extermination on racial grounds in the 'Final Solution'. You can read further at <a href="http://www.rromaniconnect.org/Romasintiholocaust.html">Rroma and Sinti Holocaust</a>.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-style:italic;">Sources:<br /> www.svabhinava.org<br /> romani.humanities.manchester.ac.uk<br /> en.wikipedia.org<br /> kopachi.com<br /> monstrous.com<br /> www.atheistnexus.org<br /> ovari.hr<br /> www.rromaniconnect.org<br /> www.radoc.net<br /> www.imninalu.net</span><br /> <br /> <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520221869/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=phantomsandmonsters-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0520221869">Gypsy Law: Romani Legal Traditions and Culture</a><br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1563979624/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=phantomsandmonsters-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1563979624">A History of the Romani People</a></i></b><br /> <br /> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/"></a><br /> <b><a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.com/">Spirit Rescue International™</a><br /> <i>Providing no-cost professional spiritual help, personal support and guidance<br /> Take the first step towards genuine peace of mind</i><br /> ---------------<br /> Sign up for the<br /> <a href="http://spiritrescueinternational.blogspot.com/">Spirit Rescue International Newsletter</a></b></center></p> <br /> <p><center><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"></a><br /> <font color=goldenrod><a href="http://srihauntedhelp.forumotion.com/"><b>The Spirit Rescue International™ Haunted Help Forum<br /> <i>Discussion of paranormal and spiritual phenomena,<br /> including peer support for those with questions or concerns</i><br /> </a></font><br /> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_119223518147339">*Join Our Group On Facebook*</a></b></center></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=k2SAs2VBi4E:JkykjejABHA:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=k2SAs2VBi4E:JkykjejABHA:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=k2SAs2VBi4E:JkykjejABHA:qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=k2SAs2VBi4E:JkykjejABHA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=k2SAs2VBi4E:JkykjejABHA:TzevzKxY174"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=k2SAs2VBi4E:JkykjejABHA:ZC7T4KBF6Nw"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/zXjgpo?a=k2SAs2VBi4E:JkykjejABHA:J-RIHRuWe4o"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>The Maria Rivera Alien Encounters</h1> <p>2012-01-25T19:39:00.002-05:00</p> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/ScVqvyjllVI/AAAAAAAAMNc/fSOd6xy4jG8/s1600-h/PR-ufo.bmp"></a><br /> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/ScVr6lSuLiI/AAAAAAAAMNk/NGnpZQUKh14/s1600-h/PR-ufo2.bmp"></a><br /> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/SLQlJApsquI/AAAAAAAAGQU/T5Xsr-ujsWA/s1600-h/aliensPR.jpg"></a><br /> From Maria M. Rivera, Aguada, Puerto Rico:<br /> <br /> <em>Submitted herein is this UFO sighting/alien encounter story which occurred here in Aguada, Puerto Rico (a U.S.territory). This alien encounter and subsequent abduction was reported to several UFO/extraterrestrial investigator websites. However, it was so frightening that it reminded me of the "Amityville Horror" story. We had to abandon our house after we bought it in August 2005 because no investigator came to help us, and recently sold the house to move away from that rainforest. The following 11 paragraphs were reported, however, included after that are additional occurrences that were not reported to any other websites before and which occurred after May 1, 2006.<br /> <br /> On November 10, 2005, at approximately 3:00am, my daughter and I heard a weird humming sound like a hurricane wind going by my house. The sound was so strange that penetrated our ears. When my daughter and I looked outside, we observed what appeared to be a disc-shaped object moving westward towards the rear of the house where an enormous rainforest and a huge antenna are located and which leads all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. The disc was silver in color with a row of windows around it and had a greenish haze or aura covering the craft. All the windows appeared to be a darker greenish color. The craft appeared to be descending as though it was about to land somewhere behind the house. We lived in Brooklyn, New York near Kennedy Airport for over 20 years and the airplanes flew low over my house 24 hours a day. I know what we have seen and the sound it made were something very unusual, something we've never heard or seen before. After that, my daughter and I heard the same sound at least twice a week. I used to go to sleep at 3:00am watching (Novelas) Spanish soap operas.<br /> <br /> Almost exactly two years ago, on Friday, April 28, 2006, at approximately 3:00am, I heard again the same sound going by my house. At about 10 or 15 minutes later I heard my dog (Dora) barking continuously in my backyard. When I went to investigate by turning on the backyard light (the light in the house was off) and by looking through my dining room window, I observed my dog lying on her back with her 4 legs up apparently unconscious. The dog was chained to a metal pole next to the back fence which separates my property with the rainforest in the back. I called her name, "Dora, Dora, what's wrong Dora?", but she did not respond. When I lifted my eyes and looked at the back fence, which is about 25 feet from where I was standing, I observed two creatures (extraterrestrials) standing close to and behind the chain-link fence looking at me. One of the aliens was about 3 feet from the dog and the other alien was about 5 feet away from the other alien. They were about 3 and a half feet tall with a large oval head and big black slanted eyes. They had pale grayish skin and a barely visible slit for a mouth and two little holes for a nose. They also had very skinny arms and they seem not to have any clothes on. Their legs were not showing because under the fence there was a cinder-block wall about one and a half feet high. I could only see them from the waist up. The aliens were staring at me and I was staring at them. I think that they were communicating with me telepathically because they were reading my mind when I said mentally, "I'm going to wake up my husband, Nelson," I left the window and walked through the hallway leading to the bedrooms. On the way to wake up my husband, they detoured me to the other bedroom to wake up my daughter instead. I woke up my daughter (17 year old at the time) and both of us went to the dining room window where we observed the creatures still standing in the same place. Again, they stared at us and we stared straight into their large black eyes for a while. My daughter said to me, "Mommy, I'm going back to bed because I'm scared, then I won't be able to sleep." I then followed my daughter to the bedroom because she was afraid to go by herself. Approximately 10 minutes later I returned to the dining room window, the aliens were still there in the same location. While staring straight into their big black eyes, the one closest to the dog was telling me in my mind to open the door leading to the backyard. I said in my mind, "I'm not going to open the door." He demanded telepathically, "You're going to open the door." I then felt myself moving towards the door and was getting drowsy.<br /> <br /> I don't remember what happened after that. I woke up in my bed. I asked my daughter if she had seen the same thing in case I was imagining things. She described the incident and the creatures the same way and manner I described them. We then told my husband who slept in a separate bedroom facing the backyard. He slept there because my daughter was afraid to sleep by herself so I had to sleep with her. My husband stated that he did hear the dog barking wildly at about 3:00am. He said that he looked out the bedroom window, without getting off the bed, since the bed was against the window. He saw the dog barking towards the rainforest in the back, but thought that she was barking at a cat. He stated that he did not look at the fence or the rainforest and was so sleepy that he immediately went back to sleep. Please be advised that behind the back fence, where the aliens were, is an enormous rainforest that leads all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, where a huge antenna is located and is pitch black at night. I later found out that the antenna and the land where it sits are federal property and the area is fenced in.<br /> <br /> What concerns me the most is that my husband informed me that he discovered the back door opened when he got up at about 8:00 in the morning, but did not know what happened. My daughter informed me that she opened her eyes about 5:00 in the morning and did not find me next to her in bed. She thought I was in the bathroom or somewhere around the house and went back to sleep. The dog did not want to eat or drink anything for days and was lying down apparently sick.<br /> <br /> On Monday, May 1, 2006, at about 12:50am, while sitting in the living room and while talking on the phone, I saw a bright light, like an enormous light bulb, moving through the woods (the rainforest). I informed my husband and we immediately closed all the louver windows in the kitchen and dining room. I became hysterical and began to cry because I thought that they were after me and my husband had to calm me down.<br /> <br /> At approximately 2:00am, the same night, I heard the same sound again over the house. Seconds later, while lying in bed, my husband and I heard a loud crashing noise like something hitting the flat concrete roof and shook the house like if something had landed there. We were afraid, but did not call the police for fear of being ridiculed and not come to investigate. It was such a terrifying experience that we didn't even considered to go outside and check it out. Instead the three of us huddled in one bed.<br /> <br /> I feel relieved to know that I was not the only one seeing those alien beings. My 17 year old daughter saw them too. Otherwise I, myself, would think that I was hallucinating and imagining things. Could it be possible that I did open the backyard door and was abducted by the aliens? I don't know, my husband found the back door opened early in the morning. In addition, I have dotted puncture marks on my left hand which is circular and had a slight burning pain which diminished as time went by since April 28, 2006. Although faded it is still visible, especially when observed in person, after almost 2 years. Please see enclosed pictures and drawings.<br /> <br /> We moved from New York City and bought that house in August 2005 when my husband retired as an Assistant Deputy Warden after working for 20 years for the New York City Department of Correction (Riker's Island jail complex) and after getting a heart attack. I am a serious woman who doesn't like to lie. I never thought that we would go through something like that. But what my daughter and I saw and what my husband and I heard is the truth. Never in my life did I believe in UFOs or aliens. I never cared, seen, read or even heard anything about how they look like until we witnessed the unexplained here on the island. We moved to another house that we own in Aguada which is pretty far from the beach and that rainforest. And my daughter was so traumatized that we sent her to live with my sister in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Since we sold that house now we're planning to sell the other one to return to the U.S. mainland because I fear they're after me.<br /> <br /> Several days after our encounter with the alien beings, on May 9, 2006, at approximately 1:00pm, we went to see Mr. Luis A. Echevarria, the mayor of Aguada. We were informed that he was not at City Hall, but attending a meeting in San Juan. We instead notified Mr. Martin Concepcion, who works for Puerto Rico's Civil Defense Agency in Aguada, and handed him a written copy of the incident. He stated that he will investigate, will put a request to the Municipal Police to patrol the area and will make a copy for the mayor. He also stated that he will get back to us, but he never did.<br /> <br /> On May 11, 2006, at approximately 11:00am, we went to the channel 5 television network located in the city of Mayaguez. At the television network, we were interviewed by a young man who stated that here in Puerto Rico people are superstitious or when they report that they saw a UFO/extraterrestrial it is later dismissed as a hoax. My husband and I were so upset, we told him that we are "Nuyoricans" therefore not superstitious and just because someone lied, doesn't mean that we are liars.<br /> <br /> We even sent emails to several Puerto Rican UFO investigative organizations, but they didn't email us back. We did not know who to turn to since we were not getting help from anyone here on the island. So my husband and I started sending emails to the U.S. mainland to see whether someone or some organization would help us. We are not seeking publicity but the truth.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/SLQlPY_zkEI/AAAAAAAAGQc/xD-Ae8SdR1k/s1600-h/aliensPR2.jpg"></a><br /> Please note the following other incidents which were not reported to anyone before:<br /> <br /> On June 5, 2006, at approximately 3:00am, after watching television, I proceeded to the kitchen to get a glass of milk before going to bed. As I walked through the living room on my way to the bedroom, I observed an alien peeping through the glass-pane window on the main entrance door. Outside that door is a balcony and obviously, he was standing on top of a patio chair next to the door, because being a short creature, he shouldn't reach the high window on the door. This one really scared me a lot because he looked older, meaner and had a mark on his forehead. The two aliens I saw behind the fence in my backyard looked like little kids with a serene look on their face. But not this one, he had a sinister evil look on his face. I hurried to my husband's bedroom, woke him up and he grabbed a machete in case it was an intruder, and proceeded out to the balcony, but no one was around. Could this alien be their leader?<br /> <br /> On October 22, 2006, at approximately 11:00pm there was a 3 hour blackout in the town of Aguada (which is located in the northwest corner of the island). At approximately 1200am, I awoke my husband so he could hear a weird humming sound coming from behind the house in the rainforest. The whole backyard surrounding was pitch black when we went out with flashlights to listen closely. I called my sister on the cellphone so she could hear the weird sound coming from the woods, but suddenly we got frightened and hurried back inside the house.<br /> <br /> On February 25, 2007, at approximately 4:00am, I was in my bedroom which faces the front of the house. I looked through the window and observed a disc-shaped craft, similar to the one my daughter and I saw previously, hovering motionless about 40 meters from the house and about 40 meters from the ground. The craft was about 30 feet in diameter. It was so low and so close that I was able to observe curious extraterrestrials watching me and the house through viewing ports surrounding the craft. They were silhouetting through the bright greenish blue background and appeared very inquisitive looking out the windows and passing a long rod to one another. My immediate reaction at the moment was that it may have been a telescope or some other device. Unlike the others I've seen and heard, this craft was hovering silently. The whole event probably lasted about a minute. I ran to my husband bedroom and woke him up. He immediately grabbed the camcorder next to his bed. Unfortunately by the time we got to the window, the UFO was nowhere in sight.<br /> <br /> On May 21, 2007, at approximately 1:00am my daughter, Barbie, was on her cellphone in the living room by herself talking to her friends in New York. The lights in the living room were off except for a dim light on a table lamp. Suddenly she heard the humming sound again and a greenish blue light flashing through all the windows.The light flashed in sequence starting from the front windows to the back windows. It looked like something had flown low by heading towards the back of the house. My daughter screamed and ran to the bedroom where she was shaking in fear. It may have been nothing, but it showed that she was traumatized after what she had seen on November 10, 2005 and April 28, 2006.<br /> <br /> My 21 year old son, Jonathan, came to visit us from New York. On June 2, 2007, at approximately 2:00am, Jonathan explained that while in his bedroom, which is located downstairs, a very bright beam of green light shone through the window and through the glass-pane door lighting up the whole bedroom for a few seconds. He was so frightened that after the light vanished he hysterically ran upstairs in his pajamas to inform us. He refused to sleep in that bedroom again.<br /> <br /> On August 14, 2007, early in the morning, we noticed that our dog, Dora, was gone. We do not know if she had come loose and ran away. We do have a high fence that goes around our property and the dog was kept chained overnight, so I don't see how that's possible. We looked all over our neighborhood, we asked our neighbors if they had seen her and we even searched throughout the town of Aguada, but to no avail. I do not know if it had something to do with those aliens, but after what happened to me and my family in that house, anything for me is possible.<br /> <br /> In this house where we live now, on November 3, 2007, at approximately 2:00am, while in bed before I fell asleep, I saw a small blueish green neon light, about the size of a penny, coming from the window, moving through the bedroom in the dark and I was being paralyzed while looking at it. Suddenly my bed was being surrounded with those creatures. Obviously, I was made unconscious because when I opened my eyes I found myself naked in a different cold room and lying face-up on very cold "stainless steel" platform. This platform seem to be floating on the air without legs or anything supporting it. It was narrow enough that each arm hanged on each side. Still feeling paralyzed but conscious they commenced injecting me with a long needle or something. I begged them with my thoughts, to please not to do it, but they ignored me. I also felt that they put something metallic, like a round suction cup about 5 inches in diameter, on the right side of my abdomen. It felt like my flesh was being stretched and my inside was being sucked out like a powerful vacuum. I was in excruciating pain when they did that, but I was unable to scream or move. About 5 or 6 creatures surrounded the platform, one being taller than the others and the rest were the short grays I previously saw in my backyard. This time they were not communicating telepathically among themselves because I heard a weird incoherent mumbling sound coming from them. However, I didn't see their mouths move. I remember calling them "marcianos" (Martians), they revealed telepathically, in Spanish, that they don't like being called Martians, but preferred to be called creatures. When I got up the next morning, I still had pain on the right side of my abdomen, but no mark was visible. Since my daughter doesn't sleep with me anymore because she now lives in Pennsylvania, I now sleep with my husband. He keeps telling me to wake him up when it happens, but I could not move or speak. Many times he stays awake late at night in bed, but nothing happens so he falls asleep. I do, however, feel or have a sense when they're around.<br /> <br /> It is important to be noted here that I've had ovarian cancer, and have had several operations to remove parts of my intestine. I also received several operations for breast cancer. I flew occasionally to New York City to see my private doctors since here on the island private doctors are reluctant to accept Blue Cross and Blue Shield or GHI which I got from my husband retirement. I was informed by my doctors in New York that the cancer had returned and that I urgently needed another operation. I used to be in constant stomach pain and noticed blood in my stool and urine when I went to the bathroom. It was not the first time, the cancer has recurred before and they operated me after each recurrences. But after the encounter with those creatures on April 28, 2006, I returned to New York, several tests were performed and no cancer was detected. The pain and the bleeding had stopped. I truly feel that those creatures had cured me. What is my opinion of the creatures? I sincerely believe that they're benevolent and compassionate creatures, but I'm afraid of them. They do not have my permission to do with my body whatever they please. Although I believe they had cured me, I am not their guinea pig.<br /> <br /> I have something in my right lower back that has been bugging me for a long time. It moves when I touch it and I know it was not there before. I saw on the History Channel the program called UFO Hunter when Mr. Bill Birnes took a man who was abducted by a UFO to Dr. Roger Leir. The man had an alien implant in his leg. When Dr. Leir put a powerful magnet where the man had the implant, to our amazement, the object inside his flesh moved towards the magnet and the skin bulged. Like that man, I don't have an entry wound or a scar where the object is. That prompted me and my husband to do the same experiment. Unfortunately, we do not have a powerful magnet like the one used by Dr. Leir. The mark on my left hand and the object on my back have been noticed by me since my encounter with those aliens on April 28, 2006.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/SLQlXiWGzdI/AAAAAAAAGQk/QanLGB9TE98/s1600-h/aliensPR3.jpg"></a><br /> We recently learned that here in Puerto Rico this type of phenomenon occurs all over the island, especially in El Yunque rainforest where people get lost for days and come back with incredible stories. El Yunque is the only tropical rainforest in the United States National Forest System. Could there be an extraterrestrial base in the El Yunque rainforest? Could there be an extraterrestrial base in the woods behind my property or somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean? Since the town of Aguada is situated in the northwest corner of the island, could that be a route for UFOs to fly towards the Bermuda Triangle? My daughter and I did hear a weird humming sound very often and very close to the house. The craft we observed on November 10, 2005 appeared to be descending as though it was about to land somewhere behind my house. Let me reiterate, we lived in Brooklyn, New York near Kennedy Airport for over 20 years and the airplanes flew low over my house 24 hours a day. I know what we have seen and the sound it made were something very unusual, something we've never heard or seen before.<br /> <br /> I have tried to write a thorough and detailed story to focus attention on what my family and I went through in that house and to demonstrate our reason for moving. What happened to me and my family is no hoax, it was a terrifying experience. To prove this, I am willing to submit to a polygraph test, go under hypnosis, be under oath or whatever. I sincerely say thank you for reading this long written story and hope for your understanding.</em><br /> ______________________<br /> <br /> <strong>UPDATE: Maria M. Rivera was kind enough to contact me in order to explain the story behind this video (link) she captured by cellphone.</strong><br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/UjR_fACXNfk&hl=en&fs=1">Click for video</a><br /> <br /> <em>Dear Lon,<br /> <br /> As per your request, I do have one more thing to show you. You might have seen it before because I did send a copy of this video recording to Ufodigest.com.<br /> <br /> Enclosed herein is a recording of a saucer shape object for your observation and analysis to supplement the UFO sightings and subsequent alien abduction story you have on your website.<br /> <br /> On June 11, 2008, at approximately 2:52am, I was alone in the living room when I suddenly got a feeling that I should go outside onto the balcony and there it was again. My camcorder was not in the immediate area, but luckily I had my cellphone with me. It appeared to be a saucer shape object, similar to the UFOs I've seen previously, with lights around it. It was hovering motionless.<br /> <br /> Listen carefully at the background noise. You can hear the crickets chirping mixed with the sound that the object is making. The sound is similar to the other UFOs I've seen before. It was over the wooded mountains near the other house I moved to.<br /> <br /> The reason why I send it to you now was because it was recorded on my cellphone. We didn't know how to transfer the recording into my computer or burn it on a DVD disk. A friend transferred the information on a disk and then into my computer. I recorded the object for approximately 15 seconds before I feared to be alone on the balcony and in the dark.<br /> <br /> Thank you for your attention.<br /> <br /> Sincerely, <br /> Maria M. Rivera</em><br /> <br /> <b>NOTE: Spirit Rescue International is one of the very few paranormal organizations that conducts remote viewing and clearing services for suspected alien and/or non-terrestrial infestation. 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