GHOST HUNTERS

I am sharing an investigation done a week ago by myself and two of my team members in a ghost town in Arizona. I don't usually share my reports because of private home owners, but this was a public location that we had the opportunity to enjoy all night long.  March 24, 2016 We arrived at 6 pm and got situated. The town is within a trailer court area, as odd as that sounds, but the tenants are only there in the winter. The public was invited to the event for early evening. We went into the Opera House which was actually the original store there, many of the owners having been murdered right in it. James from Arizona Paranormal Cowboys gave a talk to the public gathered in the room. Then, he called me up to talk. I got up and talked about ghosts and fielded a lot of excited questions and ran out of business cards. I wasn’t expecting to have to talk. We branched off with small groups of the public into the buildings. We took our group over to the old hotel/billiards/poker building. ...

There is a lesser known experiment in the field of science that had a most unusual outcome - the paranormal. Not many people speak of it and yet it has highly intriguing implications. Dr. Walter Rawls, an expert on monopolar magnetic effects on matter, decided to try an experiment by placing a monopolar north pole magnet to the center of the forehead in front of the pineal gland. For many decades people have spoken of the pineal gland as being the psychic third eye. He wanted to see what might have perpetuated this belief.  The pineal gland is a walnut-shaped gland about the size of a piece of rice, floating in cerebrospinal fluid and with a bit of magnetite in it which is believed to help us find our direction, much like birds have for knowing where to fly, as well as a close connection to vision, allowing it to know when light is low and it is time to release the sleep hormone, melatonin. The experiment:  A mask was made which held the North pole end of a long cylindrical ma...

Genuine unexplained (above) *more later on this -  We want to capture the paranormal on cameras, but honestly it is so unbelievably rare that it can be disheartening. Before you get too excited about some of your oddities on your photographs, let's talk a wee bit about the explainable and how to discern it. Before the advent of the digital camera, orbs were not a photographic issue, or if they were, it was only with certain cameras. Now, they are very common. In fact, on a dusty hayride at night in an autumn country fair, I took a shot of the orchard and when the flash went off, it lit all the particles in the air and it looked like sparkling confetti. The people on the ride cooed at how pretty. This was the process of orbs being made - dust, pollen, and moisture in front of the lens is lit by the flash and shows up.   Translucent looking orbs are actually very close to the lens and so you are able to see through them and ones that are back a bit from the lens reflect the ligh...

Which hallway is more haunted? Chi - a Chinese term used for "energy." There is good chi and bad chi according to the practice of Feng Shui. Yin energy is associated with spirits and negativity. If there is "yin" energy within a building, it will follow simple paths. This is why clearing out a haunted location and getting rid of clutter and darkness are critical to keeping yin energy moving out of the way and not being trapped. Take hallways for example. If doorways open to each other, the energy can go from one room to the other creating a current of energy just in that spot, but if the doorways are staggered, energy can come from the room, hit the wall, bounce and ricochet, all the way down a corridor, mixing with the energies from all the other rooms coming out and hitting the wall and bouncing back and forth. You create a sort of energy current down the hallway. Consider it a spirit labyrinth, if you will.  Interestingly, windchimes are supposed to attract spiri...

Thinking of calling in a ghost team? You need to consider a few things before you do so. Begin with keeping a journal of what's happening, when, and who is encountering it and where for at least a couple weeks ideally. This log will help the team to get some insight into what and where and why certain areas might be active and also what explainable triggers might be present. Then, I suggest you sit down with yourself and ask why you want a team in.  Do not bring in a team if: 1.  You want to see a team in action (that is no good reason to take people's time, expense and effort).  2.  You are hoping your home might end up on a TV show. Believe me, your home is no more a celebrity than you are. Give up the notion that somehow somewhere someone is going to want to showcase your home.  3.  You are hoping to join a team and thought this was a good way to show them your knowledge and get a conversation going. Once again, do not waste people's time, expense and e...

I have performed many seances over the years and what I can tell you is this; there is no perfect saying or ritual, but there are some basics that should be adhered to - That being said, the elements of seances are similar, no matter how you word them or pace them. MEDIUM:   You do not need a trained medium, but you should have someone who is psychically sensitive. I would prefer to not use a empathic psychic , but someone who is more in control of the emotions that might bombard him/her, so I'd choose a psychic who has either precognition abilities, physical abilities like PK or psychometry, or someone who is very good at reading people by any means, whether it's tarot or palm reading, tea leaves, or whatever.  GROUP: You will want a group. I have found a group should consist of 4 people but no more than 8 . That seems to be ideal. Too few bodies and there is not enough energy. Too many bodies and it's intrusive and too much energy. Whether they are male or female does n...

This week, I'm kicking off a death, grief, afterlife theme. We're hitting everything every day. Today, we begin with the ghost hunting shows and what they have helped and how they have hurt. "Ghost Hunters" show came onto the scene around 2003/2004 with the promise of showing the population what it is to go and investigate the paranormal. For most viewers, the concept of poking around a dark building calling on ghosts was a chilling one and they eagerly watched to live vicariously. The reality of it as portrayed by keen editing and production guidelines, seemed rather glamorous: The team sweeps in with their equipped van, assures the owners of the property they are in safe hands, and then spends a dark evening talking to the other side, reviewing some video and audio and voila! Proof of contact. The beneficial outcome of having ghost hunting shows is that people like myself are no longer embarrassed to admit we seek answers. A "fringe" group is suddenly hip...

I like to occasionally write about concepts in the evolution of paranormal research. I keep using the word “ghost” because no other word quite captures the phenomena associated with “haunted” locations. But, what if we could prove the afterlife once and for all? All the photography, EVPs, and video in the world will not prove ghosts. What will prove them? Some exciting outside the box thinking, technology and custom experiments. Did you know that in one ER they mounted a scrolling screen atop a cabinet facing the ceiling where no one can see it and it scrolls random messages. Why? So if someone has an out of body experience and can report what they saw on the screen while hovering over their own body, they might answer the question of whether we actually do have a consciousness that rises out of the body during the moment of near-death. Here's another exciting advancement: (Wiki) A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a direct neural interface or a brain–machine inter...