GHOST HUNTERS

Sure, I grew up in a notoriously haunted house. I witnessed a lot of phenomena, much of it I assumed as a kid growing up was perfectly normal. Some of it, like poltergeist activity, made me wonder how in the hell such a thing could occur. One time, when I was 10 years old, I stole my father's tape recorder he practiced his speeches on and sat on the stairs all night waiting for those booted footsteps and I captured them on tape only to have the sounds shot down by others saying I simply wore my father's boots and recorded it. I realized at a young age, you cannot disprove a haunting, but you also can't prove it! Jump ahead a few decades, living in a modern and not-haunted home, I had left the ghosts behind me, right? It all changed when my ex was asked to a work friend's girlfriend's party. He wanted to go so he could play drums during the open mic all evening. I went along, but wasn't thrilled. I hated attending parties of people I didn't know, but luckily...

It's quiz time, my pretties! You know how I love to make you think about your mental processes. Let's see how mental we are: Count your a's, b's, c'd and d's and see which one you get the most of. Scroll down and find out which horror movie you would like to see that hasn't been made. 1. I sometimes have emotional troubles when it comes to... a. I can get angry outbursts. b. I am a bit OCD/obsessive-compulsive about things. c. I am timid/easily dominated. d. I depend too much on others saving my ass. 2. My idea of a perfect Saturday is to.. a. Avoid human beings--dealt with them all week. b. Finish off chores and things I need to get done. c. Get away to a quiet place. d. Have friends over and watch something on TV, maybe BBQ. 3. I am really intrigued by... a. Jack the Ripper. b. Ancient Egyptians/pyramid construction. c. Reanimating the dead. d. Listening for signals from outer space. 4. I like a horror movie to have... a. Lots of victims...

What is with the common fear of dolls ( both baby and ventriloquist ), clowns and mannequins? My acquisition of both Dale the ventriloquist doll and Skittles the clown doll were to try to unsettle myself and perhaps manage to get over my distaste for these toys. As well, I plan to add a mannequin to my list of acquisitions. Those 1950s female ones that look like June Cleaver most unsettle me. Human facsimiles are unsettling. We feel the same way about robots that are too human-like. Ventriloquist dolls with their hinged mouths and ability to "talk," are unnatural. Clowns are people in costumes and makeup that look human-like but their expressions are exaggerated in a disturbing manner. Mannequins look nearly identical but stand stiff and stuck in one position. There is a lack of soul to these effigies that gives them a sinister feel. Have you ever seen a dog react to a stuffed dog? Yeah, humans do the same with these dolls. They approach with apprehension, study it, shake the...

For those of you who haven't read my "Alone" series, I put it on the right hand bottom area of my screen. It's about places I've been alone in that people don't usually like to be alone in. Hope it gives you chills . Today, another in my series about My Childhood Haunts--encounters I had growing up with ghosts: Having five kids in the family could be a curse, like riding in our Cadillac together, piled into a mess in the back seat, or a blessing like when it rained and we could enjoy penny poker with plenty of players. We had an odd phenomenon from time to time that occurred when I was growing up. When I was really little, I didn’t think much about it because my mother smoked so I was used to smoke being around the house. The smoke I’m going to tell you about, however, was something quite different. On the cool marble coffee table in the front room, we would sit on the sofa and play penny poker. Right behind the sofa was a huge bloodstain from the Civil War (w...

It's time for another installment of a house call complaint of a haunting for you to work your skills. This homeowner had inherited the house from her family. Her father died when she was in her 20s and then her mother retired to Florida. The house was paid off, in a nice neighborhood, a little old and tired, but ready for redo. Being a middle-ager never married, the woman considered her childhood home the future home for her children that she was determined to begin having as soon as possible. She worked like a mad woman on the place every weekend, evening and holiday, enlisting friends and family to help out. She contacted with concern that something was in the attic. It began after she started to gut out the rec room. The wall between the room and the living room came down and opened the area up into one huge space. It brought in lots of light and was a brilliant choice for her modern tastes. Exhausted from the hard work, the woman went to sleep in the master suite that her pare...

It's another installment to turn your brain inside out and make you ponder things in a new way. Today's installment is the Power of Intention. I talk about intention a lot, but it's that forward motion the mind goes through when you're driving home from work and already considering what you need to get done and by the time you pull into your parking spot, you have no idea how you got there. It's that ruminating we do when we go to sleep at night, considering the next day, next week, next year... It's also the motivation with which we approach things, our personal intentions. Does our intention also spread to things we come into contact with? Plant studies showed that simply thinking about hurting your houseplant makes it cringe. Praying over water changes it on a microscopic level. What if my Dale the Doll has concentrated my affection and projections into him? As a psychic, I know we leave residual on what we come in contact and it is very much corrupted by our...

This week in horror movies and paranormal TV is rather lame-o, except for a new Ghost Hunters International and a new "Ghost Adventures" in Nevada. Tonight premieres the show "Being Human" based on the premise of three 20-somethings living together and learning how to survive in a world where they must keep the secrets that they are a werewolf, vampire and ghost on SyFy.

Long story. I decided to put the boombox away--it's the 21st Century and I was doing my 1-hour hip hop dance routine to a boombox that needed the CD changed every few songs and needed coaxing to work,i.e. a good wallop to the side of it. So, I got an MP3 player and a docking station. Called Philips and asked if they matched. No problem--so long as you have a USB cord. Nope . Not so. The Philips MP3 player and the docking station-not friendly. Do not match . So, I tried to return the MP3 player to NewEgg. Nope . They don't take returns, only exchanges ( I will remember this in the future when I do not use them ). So, I had to get an IPOD-- compatible . Now, I have an MP3 player that is brand new but I don't need. So, considering that it was a fucking mismatch, I'd do a giveaway for it. Y'all know me. I can't make this a normal giveaway. The whole incident reminded me of my defect. Ears that are mismatched. My left ear has two earlobes. I had plastic surgery but i...

This post should give you the ideal example of what this blog is about. If you're new here, read this whole post and when you're done, you'll know if we're a match made in heaven : I admit I was thrilled when a couple seasons ago “Destination Truth” rushed to Chile to look at some mines that were supposedly inhabited by little alien creatures and the strange lights seen around the area. They did have some interesting occurrences involving lights and the possible finding of a chicken skeleton wrapped in cloth (sans its head) which was probably some miner's lunch--surely they bury their scraps rather than litter the cave? I’m interested in Chile because it has the largest copper mines in the world. It is also part of the world that has an enormous amount of UFO sightings. Whether mining and aliens go hand-in-hand, I can’t prove, but I do think there is definitely a connection. I also can’t say if they’re UFO lights or they’re spooklights created by the awesome earth c...

It's that time. You can ask anything you want to know about me and what I'm up to or what plans I have for the blog, about investigations, where I grew up, even the personal stuff. Not that I have a lot of personal stuff. Lately, I pretty much work 7 am to 11:30 pm every day--either the full-time job or my book writing. You can ask Dale the Doll what he's up to also or how he feels about anything. He loves to voice his opinion. Nothing is off limits. Now, hit us with questions.