GHOST HUNTERS

More often than not, people make assumptions about haunted locations. They see an anguished or tragic history and say, "this place has to be haunted!" And, so, a parade of teams study Eastern State Penn or Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum until the buildings are nothing more than haunted by eager teams. But, what if there was a way to narrow the field of potential haunted locations before you even try them out? What if you found a new location and wondered, "could it be haunted?" Without even setting up a cursory investigation, there are ways to go through a checklist and determine - does this place have the right elements to be a haunted vessel? In 2009, I took 50 of the most repeatedly reported haunted locations in America and looked for common features. I created what I called the Haunted Formula.  By looking at the common features of these locations, I learned that, a building can have a tragic history and not be haunted or it can be haunted and there seemed to b...

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...

In 2009, when I worked on my " Haunted Formula " by studying the qualities of 50 well documented haunted locations in the US, I found a very high incidence of them being near streams, rivers, ocean, or other moving water. In fact, 41 of the 50 sites were near moving water. The very haunted home I grew up in ("Growing Up With Ghosts" by Gina Hana), was originally called the "Springfield" in the 1700s when it was built because it was built over a running underground stream which actually fed us the water for our home. As well, in front of the house was a running stream, the "Pohick," a tributary of the Potomac. Let's discuss what happens when water moves -  Negative Ions Source:   Ions are molecules that have gained or lost an electrical charge.  They are created in nature as air molecules break apart due to sunlight, radiation , and moving air and water. You may have experienced the power of negative ions when you last set foot on the beach or...

In the movie "The Matrix," the popular SciFi movie asked the question; what if what we thought was reality was orchestrated so we didn't realize what the real-reality was? This concept is moving from science fiction to science with lots of new theories about the nature of our universe. The Simulation Hypothesis is a long-held philosophical concept that reality is an illusion.  Source: The 'cosmic ray test' was developed by Silas Beane, a nuclear physicist at the University of Washington and involves scientists building up a simulation of space using a lattice or grid...Cosmic rays are the fastest particles that exist and originate in far-flung galaxies. They always arrive at Earth with a specific maximum energy of 1020 electron volts. If there is a specific maximum energy for particles then this gives rise to the idea that energy levels are defined, specific and constrained by an outside force...Thus, according to the research, if the energy levels of particles ...

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...

Aokigahara Forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan has taken on the tragic nickname of "Suicide Forest." Every year, hundreds of despondent people enter the forest, some of them camping for a time to put their heads in the right place to make the final desperate sacrifice of their mortal life in this beautiful natural setting. Such a location, for 14 square miles of size, and given the amounts of death should be quite haunted, but there are more reasons than just those for why it could be exceptionally haunted. Most haunted locations have death associated with them - that crossing over from this realm to the next, but how those deaths happen is as important as the fact that they passed on there. It appears that the moments that a person is dying, whether in fighting, defending, sickness, suicide or pain, the intensity of emotion and period of time are critical to adding layers in the environment of space "memories" or "markers." Surprise death, such as bei...

(above - my childhood home in the mid 1860s after the war and the basement today) In 2009, I embarked on a study of 50 haunted sites around America and their features and histories to discover if there is a formula for haunted places, or as I like to call them "spirit vessels."   I grew up in an over 200-year-old home that was used during the Civil War as a hospital. The floors were still stained with their blood and the land filled with relics that we dug up and displayed in a cabinet. It had me wondering from a young age why, as a psychic, I noted certain buildings were more haunted. I had come to learn the "features" that make an ideal spirit vessel. Some buildings simply had the "right stuff" to show promise and I intuitively knew those features. My childhood home sat atop a never ending stream and was originally called the Springfield for that. We drank the well water and enjoyed robust health. But, the building itself was an ideal spirit vessel of co...