GHOST HUNTERS

Summers are brutal in Arizona and fall isn't much better, but my mind escapes this miserable hell on earth and I dream of places where pumpkins are ready for harvesting, noses are chilly, sweaters are buttoned firmly, wood smoke floats in the air, and leaves make crackling sounds as they blow in the wind.  Let me take you with me on that fantasy getaway.... Start looking for your costume now - just peruse some great places like these -  Spirit Halloween Party City Pyramid Collection Clockwork Couture Leftovers recipes from Halloween - bake brownie mix in muffin tins. When hot from the oven, press a Reese's cup into the top.  You have time to think about making some cool Halloween decor -  Doll heads with hole in top for candle. Xmas lights and secondhand store doll's heads (aged) Chicken wire ghost  Book that autumn peak colors getaway now! Skyline Drive New Hampshire  Colorado Want to bring a little autumn to your world to get into the mood? Close the blin...

Shadow people, those pesky little boogers that more and more people are witnessing everywhere, often in parks and cemeteries, haunted sites, or modern homes. They are described most often as 3 feet tall, densely black without detail, but arms, head and legs. They are not described making sounds, but they do seem to startle when they realize they are seen and then dart off or disappear. It's hard to come up with good theories about these beings, except that we seem to come across them more and more today than ever before.  Either something has changed for them, or our perceptions have changed. Either way, they do seem to be shocked we are capable of viewing them. Theories run the gamut from interdimensional beings to demons to noncorporeal beings who never had a human form. You name it, it's been bantered about. But, here is another perspective on shadow people and interdimensional possibilities: If you were a 2-dimensional being, the only part of a 3-dimensional human you could...

Expect upcoming books by me that involve my take on lots of para-subjects. I've spent the past few years working on books that are both entertaining and informative. You may be aware of my two most popular books. Growing Up With Ghosts and Vacationing With Ghosts that show insight into my two childhood homes and the psychic child's perspective of how these things work. But, I have a very wide variety. I am sharing some trailers and info so you can decide.  Growing Up With Ghosts (Amazon paperback and Kindle). Short scenes collected together to show an accounting of the author's and her family view of their haunted estate in Northern Virginia that was once a Civil War Hospital. Vacationing With Ghosts (Amazon paperback and Kindle) The viewpoint of the author at her family's summer home on the Chesapeake and how she handled ghostly goings on. Paranormal Geeks (Amazon paperback, Kindle and Nook) An homage to paranormal geeks of all kinds, with interviews, categories, q...

Tonight on Paranormal Geeks Radio , the special guest is paranormal and cryptid researcher, Ken Gerhard .  Ken is the author of several books including one of my favs - Encounters With Flying Humanoids .  The show is on at 9 pm EST/8 pm Central/6 pm Pacific. This is gonna be a great one!

The Hummingbird Pyramid in La Mana, Ecuador was only discovered a year ago and considered a paleo-sanskrit wonder.  The complex includes 17 structures.  Interestingly, they greatly resembles ones found in Bosnia, Indonesia, Herzegovina. From this great posting about it: The apex of the Hummingbird Pyramid is situated closely along the 1° south latitude, 7,472 miles from the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt. This sacred geopositioning relationship between the Great Pyramid and the La Maná pyramid complex was visually expressed in the designs of the UV fluorescent Third-Eye Pyramid and World Map stone artifacts.  A pair of palm-sized octagonal stone disks engraved with UV fluorescent circles reference the mandala of Sanskrit tradition that has been decoded in previous works as the quantum iterated function, expressing the global distribution pattern of infrasound, standing waves. A great deal of research needs to be made, but obviously, this interesting find says much about th...

No matter how happily they paint their faces, clowns unsettle us, freak us out, even induce terror.  Why is that? It begins in childhood.  Masks and weird makeup and "made up" people are just unsettling. Children don't have a concept that there is a person under the makeup or mask. To them, what they see is reality. If you can play with a baby doll and feel that it's real, then what do you suppose a clown does to the nervous system? We have a primitive fear about those whose true face we cannot discern. Even someone like me with facial amnesia, still knows facial cues, even if I can't recall the face when I turn away. If you study the painted face of a clown, you have to wonder if their mouth is really turned up beneath the paint or an angry slit.  It probably doesn't help that popular media has had a field day with our fear.... "It" the Stephen King Miniseries  with  Pennywise, the evil clown "Killer Klowns From Outer Space" The Joker from...

Here's how I see the field of study. We are hopefully driven to pursue the unexplained because of our own encounters or our intelligent minds that want to understand something hard to grasp.  If one enters the field for celeb status, to secure a show, to get attention, those are all the wrong reasons. That is not about the study . That is about the self.   This will show up in what the person does - from ranting, raving, blaming others, airing issues with colleagues in the public realm.   The way you comport yourself as a researcher says if you are in this for research or ego, if you are immature or mature, if you are ready to be part of a growing body of research and knowledge as a collective, or you see yourself as an island. Remember, even an island needs a bridge.   I have seen many attacks by petty self-absorbed people who show their true character when they do this.  If I see a supposed researcher repeatedly bad mouthing others, pointing fingers, blaming o...

**This is a guest post by a living historian and paranormal enthusiast, "Jay Solomon."  So you want to experience psychic phenomena. But you don't have any idea where to go. You are not privy to haunted spots or so-called "haunted houses" and you are not a member of an investigating team. You think you would be a good asset to a team because you watched shows like Ghost Hunters. In reality you are as green as grass. You have no experience. If you want to experience this you need to first know a few things. The first thing to learn is that paranormal phenomena can happen at any time and anywhere. Most of mine have happened on or near battlefields ; particularly those of the Civil and Revolutionary Wars. And if you want to hopefully experience phenomena those are the best places to start. The battlefield is a good place because of the masses of casualties (killed, wounded, taken prisoner, and missing in action) and what remains afterword. That brings me to my seco...

Stonehenge, UK Back and forth, back and forth, there are ongoing debates about the importance of Stonehenge's reported astronomical significance. Some believe the "heel stone" is meant to mark the summer solstice, others say it simply frames the sunrise. Apparently, growing evidence has shown that people visited it during winter solstice, not summer solstice, and so alignment features might be incidental. There are, however, some other sites in the UK that show more clear alignment, like Newgrange. Newgrange, Ireland This monument was built in Ireland around 3200 BC (earlier than the supposed 1500 BC of Stonehenge - closer perhaps to the "creators" of the knowledge).  This large circular monument had stone passageways and chambers within. This structure aligns with the rising sun and light floods the chamber during winter solstice.  Interestingly, there were other structures nearly identical in other areas of Europe. There was, apparently, a common knowledge. Ca...