Posts tagged with 'paranormal'

  • Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:00 am

THE LAST 24 HOURS…

Two psychics, a researcher, and a paranormal investigator search for new “evidence” about mysterious cases through psychic means & good old fashioned investigating.

*Thank you for Sarah Woodward and Davey Davey for the Awesome Video Promo*

THE ASSIGNMENT:

Heather Woodward (Psychometrist), Dave Davey (Psychic Profiler), Bob Davis (Paranormal Investigator) and Brian Clune (Researcher/ Case Manager) will follow the route of James Dean’s last 24 hours to find more clues about James Dean’s death through psychometry, psychic profiling, paranormal investigating and traditional historical research.

At the end of their separate investigations they will come together and share their new found information.

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I am excited about my new film project which will highlight different aspects of psychic investigation that has never been highlighted before. Psychometry is the act of reading information from an object.  Things that we have attachments to like jewelry or clothes or furniture hold the energy from the person that it belongs to. You read the energy locked inside an object in the same way you can read the energy of a person.

THE LAST 24 HOURS is a new show that will highlight psychometry, automatic writing, psychic profiling, paranormal investigating and traditional research methods in order to find out more information on mysterious or unsolved cases from the past. We have been working on buying equipment and coming up with funding to finish this project.  Please click on the link below and find out more about what the show is about and support us in any way you can.  You can donate as little as $1. Every little bit counts. Anyone who supports our project will receive promotional items from the show.  Please see the promotional packages below.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744764181/the-last-24-hoursof-james-deans-life

If you don’t have the funds to help support us, please pass on this blog post or the link to your friends, clients, loved ones or anyone you think might be interested.  Thank you.

 

Click on the link to watch the promo:

Last 24 Hours Promo

 

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Our most sincere THANK YOU for believing in this project. Plus, your name in our special “Thanks to:” credits at the end of the documentary.

 

Our most sincere THANK YOU for believing in this project. Plus, your name in our special “Thanks to:” credits at the end of the documentary. AND you will receive a limited edition signed DVD copy of the finished product.

 

Our most sincere THANK YOU for believing in this project. Plus, your name in our special “Thanks to:” credits at the end of the documentary. AND you will receive a limited edition signed DVD copy of the finished product. AND a THE LAST 24 HOURS… coffee mug.

Our most sincere THANK YOU for believing in this project. Plus, your name in our special “Thanks to:” credits at the end of the documentary. AND you will receive a limited edition signed DVD copy of the finished product. AND a THE LAST 24 HOURS… coffee mug. AND a THE LAST 24 HOURS… t-shirt.

Our most sincere THANK YOU for believing in this project. Plus, your name in our special “Thanks to:” credits at the end of the documentary. AND you will receive a limited edition signed DVD copy of the finished product. AND a THE LAST 24 HOURS… coffee mug. AND a THE LAST 24 HOURS… t-shirt. AND a signed THE LAST 24 HOURS…poster signed by the cast and crew.

 

Our most sincere THANK YOU for believing in this project. Plus, your name in our special “Thanks to:” credits at the end of the documentary. AND you will receive a limited edition signed DVD copy of the finished product. AND a THE LAST 24 HOURS… coffee mug. AND a THE LAST 24 HOURS… t-shirt. AND a signed THE LAST 24 HOURS…poster signed by the cast and crew. AND a psychic tarot phone reading from Heather Woodward – psychic,medium and psychometrist for over 20 years – who is featured in the documentary.

 

 

Kids Who See Ghosts – Guest Blog Post by Caron Goode

  • Posted on June 3, 2010 at 11:05 am

Today, I have the pleasure of being the 10th blog stop on Dr. Caron Goode’s blog tour for an amazing book, Kids Who See Ghosts. If you missed yesterday’s blog stop, check out www.N2L.typepad.com for a discussion of how exceptional thinking can help move kids through fears.

Kids Who See Ghosts – Hot or Hushed Topic

Kids Who See Ghosts opens the door to a topic that has been swept under a proverbial rug and not discussed openly. In some households, kids are told, “Hush. Don’t talk about that. Don’t tell any one. You’re crazy. You’re lying.” Also, very few professionals who work with children want to talk about ghosts and people who see them.

However, a lot of concerned and caring parents do want to talk about it because their kids see spirits, ghosts, fairies, and light orbs. Thirteen-year-olds who see shadows at night and at school during the day need someone to listen to them.  Teens who have seen ghosts all of their lives have to sort through their realities and determine whether or not to speak openly. Parents of younger children, who won’t sleep in their rooms because a resident ghost visits them, ask me how they can help their children. Moreover, some parents are as scared of the spirits as their children are, while a few others are thrilled with their child’s ability and want to know how to encourage the talent.

Why Aren’t We Talking About It?

Not talking about the topic only adds an air of mystery and fear to the subject. One reason for not talking is the lack of understanding of how people see. What a person sees takes place within the brain’s chemistry by virtue of how our eyes work. Our eyes see light only, and our brains interpret the images based upon our memory banks, which are updated as our brains adapt to our environments, learn new skills and have new life experiences. So are all ghosts figments of one’s own brain chemistry? It depends upon our cultures and how we adapt our worldviews.

A second reason we don’t talk about ghosts is based upon cultural norms. One Native American child who speaks with his grandmother in her spirit body is very different from a child raised to believe that dead bodies go into the ground and that person-to-person connection is over. A third reason is simply the fear of being accused as crazy or nuts.

Yet, Watch The Trend Increase!

Ghosts and other such unknowns live within a metaphorical Pandora’s box. This column opens that box to clear the air and breathe some new life into the topic for interested readers because more kids are seeing ghosts, and I expect the trend to grow. Why?

Ghosts are a hot topic, as evidenced by the average ten million viewers of the television show “Ghost Whisperer.” Current media trends on this hot topic of ghosts will continue because the public is fascinated by what we once called the “paranormal.” I am thinking the term “normal” is more appropriate because more television shows on paranormal topics are airing and books on topics like vampires and fairies of this fantasy genre are popular.

Also, according to a 2007 pre-Halloween poll conducted by the Associated Press, 34% of people polled said they believed in ghosts, and those who believed included people of all religions and socioeconomic levels. That percentage is going up. The Harris Poll conducted a survey during the week of November 2, 2009 to find that 42% percent of Americans believe in ghosts.

This Topic Is Happening Now!

Because I see this trend of children seeing ghosts increasing, I feel all of us need up-to-date answers on the variety of questions that Dr. Goode receives every month on my blogs (www.kidswhoseeghosts.com and http://intuitiveparenting.wordpress.com. The foremost question from parents is “Is my child crazy?” The second and third common questions are, “How can I help my child?” and “How can I help myself?” The fourth popular question is “Does this talent or trait run in families?”

In Kids Who See Ghosts (2010, RedWheel\Weiser), the interviewed mediums felt their talent was an inherited talent. Moreover, each person I interviewed spoke about their upbringing and how their families dealt with ghostly situations. For example, Sonia Choquette mentions how her family had a place setting for the resident ghost each evening at supper. John Holland explained that as a young boy, he wasn’t afraid of ghosts as much as his stuffed animals after his parents told him that the animals came alive at night. Such a story sent him hiding under the covers.

Another reason for the trend increasing is given by the near-death researcher, P. M. H, Atwater, who explained that children in her research studies who experienced near-death episodes early in their lives, had increased psychic abilities.

Seeing ghosts can be an opportunity for both children and parents to move through fear, explore different realities, and learn about the world

of spirits. Ghosts can be children’s best friends, and facing a fear of ghosts is a way for parents and kids to become empowered. Life is to be enjoyed and for finding passionate purpose. If ghosts are part of that experience, then together let’s explore why and how.

To continue the blog tour on stop twelve, please visit www.hillaryraimo.com for a discussion of children’s dreams

I hope you are inspired by the interview you read. Be sure to sign up for the book launch reminder so you can buy Kids Who See Ghosts and receive free thousands of dollars of personal development gifts on June 8, 2010. To register, go to: http://www.kidswhoseeghosts.com (if you are reading this article after that date, you may buy the book directly from that page).

Spooked

  • Posted on October 2, 2009 at 1:36 am

I have been in some pretty crazy situations the past few years.  From being pushed, to rocks getting thrown at me, to hearinng disembodied voices in a reformed sanitarium – I have pretty much encounterd it al when it comes to paranormal activiy. Nothing phases me anymore.  Most times I am just happy something has happened.  Because for every case paranormal activity does happen there are plenty more where I have sat in a room trying not to fall asleep.  You know what I am talking about.

So, last night my reaction to what happend probably surprised me more that it did anyone else.  Even through everything that I have experienced in my years of paranormal investigating it seems that I still occassionally get a case of the jitters.  My boyfriend wasn’t sure whether to laugh at me or support me.  Probably both.

Last night around 1 a.m. I was getting ready for bed.  I turned off my computer, went to the bathroom, brushed my teeth and got into my jammies.  I said goodnight to the boyfriend who was on his computer messing around with the CSS for my new personal website (coming soon.) He barely looked up to say goodnight as he is just that much of a techno geek and I headed into the bedroom to lay down for the night.

I laid down in my bed and five minutes went by. I realized I was still kind of awake. So, I debated in my head whether or not I should get up and do something or if I should try and bore myself to sleep.  Looking over at my window I noticed that the the wood blinds are totally shut.  

Now, the blinds that I have are strange. They look old-fashioned. I guess they would be considered wooden window shutters than blinds.  They zig-zag like an according with a metal latch that closes them.  You don’t have to use the latch to keep them shut.  So, I don’t.

I like to keep the blinds open at night because they look out into a big green lawn of nothing and the light in the morning helps me wake up.  If I close the blinds my room is a super dark cave and it’s very hard to start the day.  I would rather sleep it away. I love me some sleep.

There is a point to my blind/shutter habits.  So, I am wide-awake and wondering if I should get out of bed or stay there.  The warmth of my duvet pretty much made the choice for me.  However, like previously stated, I did notice that the window shutters were closed.  For a moment, I thought that I should get up and open them to make sure that I woke up next day, but laziness prevailed and I decided to try and fall asleep instead of worrying about waking up.  Cover warmth is an awesome seductress.

A few minutes went by.  The only light came from the boyfriend’s computer streaming from the living room down the hallway.  Part of me was zoning out while my mind was going over the days events.  I noticed that the hallway closet was open.  Not a big deal. I don’t have a problem with closet monsters.  

However, I do have a problem with a six foot dark silhouette standing in the hallway staring at me. Creeped out, I sat up and gave a good look.  The shadow was gone but the “air” in the room had changed.  There was a heavy feeling that I can only associate with paranormal activity.  Anyone who has ever been in a haunted house knows what I am describing.  It’s like the whole room was under water and it was hard to breathe.

Nervous, I felt the need to go back into the living room.  The boyfriend was now playing some archaic video game from the 80s. He likes to do stuff like that when I am not around.  I plopped myself down on the couch and he inquired what I was doing up.  I told him there was a tall, six foot, male ghost with shoulder-length scraggly hair in the bedroom.  His name was George and he said he was there to protect me.  I thought he was lying.

Nonplussed, he just looked at me.  This was not a big deal in my household. Seeing and talking to the dead people is on the list of things I do.  He looked at me confused.  Unsure of my easiness. I told him that the room got heavy and it creeped me out.  He laughed it off as we were both big, bad-ass, non-afraid paranormal investigators.  He figured I probably drank the Kool-Aid.  I explained that I was going to sleep on the couch until the weird feeling went away.  He resumed his video game play.

Twenty minutes or so must have gone by.  With the presence of my boyfriend and his annoyingly cheerful video game I dozed off into a light sleep.  The couch is not the most comfortable pieces of furniture and I longed for the snuggly feeling of my duvet.  Sensing the house, I decided that the heavy feeling was gone and the room was safe.

Curious, my boyfriend went with me into the bedroom.  Mind you, he wasn’t there to protect me.  Probably more there to mock me and to see if he could figure out why I had been so spooked.  And then to mock me more when he realized it was nothing. I mean, I would have done the same thing.  That’s love for ya.

I walked to the bedroom and tentatively went inside.  The weird, creepy feeling had gone away.  Relieved I headed for my bed ready for sleep.  Until, I noticed the window shutters.  Both sides were wide-open.  Not just a little bit open with wiiiiiiide open.

Now occassionally the wind rushes through the house.  Big Arizona desert winds.  On those occassions my right shutter does open a spell.  Not much. It just kind of sways back and forth until the wind stops. The right shutter never opens though.  Never.  It’s the way the window is set.  There is a wall butt-up against my apartment and it keeps the air flow from that side of the window.  Actually, it keeps the air flow from becomig to menacing.  We never get the full affect of those big, desert winds, thankfully.

I think what creeped me out more was that my boyfriend noticed that the windows shutters were open.  He stared at them with consternation.  Stupidly, I asked him if he had opened them while I was sleeping.

Obviously, he answerd with a big negatory.  He said he never left the living room or his computer.  I knew this to be true because the video game music was the background for my nap on the couch.  He had to have been playing the game for the music to be blaring.

I stood in the bedroom for another couple of seconds while my boyfriend stared at me.  Weirdly, I wasn’t quite sure what to do.  Now, I do believe that my shutters were open by the six-foot ghostie guy.  Again, there is this feeling that lingers after paranormal activity has happened.  It’s a strange, quiet, calm that is otherworldly.  The room had that vibe.  It was clear of the creepiness but now it held…silence.  I am not sure which worse worse.

Honestly, I was confused and a little bit frozen with fear.  Forcing myself to be brave I got into bed.  I asked my boyfriend if he would lay with me for awhile until I wasn’t so spooked.  He actually laughed at me and told me he couldn’t believe that I was scared.  However, he sat at the foot of the bed and rubbed my legs and told me that it was going to be okay.

In those few moments where I was shaken and afraid I really had no idea what to do.  After I calmed down a bit and thought it through, I imagined this was how the normal population felt when they were confronted with a paranormal situation.  There is this feeling of helplessness and panic that sets in.  It’s not a fear of being hurt.  It’s the fear of the unknown.  A feeling of not being in control of the physical world. 

With my boyfriend rubbing my legs, I was able to calm down quickly and asses the situation.  What would I tell someone in my situation.  I have been in private residences and businesses with wrose activity and I have had to coach people through their fear.

I went through all the typical things you tell people in paranormal situations and none of it made me feel better.  But at the same time sleep was looming and my boyfriend wanted to play more video games. I told him I was fine and a few minutes later I fell asleep.

What is strange to me is that when faced with paranormal activity in my own apartment I flipped out.  When I am knee-deep in it out in the field my pulse barely rises.  The adrenaline sets in and I simply do my job.

It just goes to show that no matter how seasoned you think you are, there are always going to be times when you are just simply spooked.

Paranormal unity. Is it realistic?

  • Posted on September 24, 2009 at 11:23 pm

Since 1997, I have done some form of paranormal investigating whether it be by myself or with a team.  My story is pretty standard.  I grew up in a series of haunted houses and the curiosity of the unexplainable paranormal activity fueled me to take it to the next level.

My first real investigation took place at my work at the time.  I worked at a video store with an upstairs that used to be an apartment.  Employees hated to go up there because of a weird feeling.  Some said they heard disembodied footsteps and things being moved around when they were downstairs.

In particular, there was one room near the bathroom that seemed to have the worst energy.  Sometimes, customers asked to use the bathroom and after going past that room either refused or came down the stairs in record time.  Nobody like it up there.  Well, except me.

Instead of being afraid, I was more intrigued.  I would come in early or on my days off just to sit upstairs with an analog tape recorder and ask questions.  Sometimes I would just sit quietly and wait for something to happen.  I even had a friend bring up a camera with infrared film and take pictures every hour overnight to see if anything manifested.  Of course, my efforts paid off.  But because I really wasn’t sure what I was doing I called in Richard Senate to ask him to review my pictures and recordings.  He was surprised at the level of evidence I had gotten by myself and he taught me some tricks of that trade to better my findings in future investigations. 

From there I studied psychic development extensively and dabbled in paranormal investigating when I could.  Soon, I realized I had some cool abilities and I kept moving foward by myself with the investigating.  I didn’t successfully start my own group until five years later.  Typical of most paranormal groups, it imploded after a little over a year due to backstabbing and an alarming amount of drama.  I took some time off and started P.I.S.A. a year later.

P.I.S.A. has definately had its fair share of drama.  We have gone through a lot of members in the past two years.  So many that I thought I was plagued with some sort of curse.  Then I talked to other groups throughout the United States and unfortunately it seems to be the norm.  And not only do paranormal groups have a high turnover, it is always high drama.  Investigators don’t just leave groups with dignity.  They leave embittered and try to do everything possible to take the group down with them.   They have to try and discredit every part of the group and propel a smear campaign on every social media site they can subscribe.  It becomes nearly obssessive.  One minute they are praising your techniques and the next they are telling anyone who will listen how your methodology is flawed to the point of unprofessionalism.

This just doesn’t happen between paranormal groups and their former members.  This happens between regional paranormal teams as well.  Team A hates Team B because they hate their methodology.  Because they don’t believe their way of investigating works.  Or they aren’t professional enough.  Or they use experiemental equipment without the permission of their clients.  The list goes on.  There are more reasons to hate another paranormal group then there are reasons to collaborate. 

When I was happily investigating by myself (and I am sure there will be criticism about that since most groups believe you should never investigate alone) I didn’t even consider group politics.  It never even occurred to me that methodologies would be scrutinized so heavily.  I thought that the reason for investigating was to find reasons for paranormal activity.  To perhaps find some answers to those big questions.  Never in my life did I imagine that I would be involved in some crazy blood bath of ideals and protocols. 

I will be the first person to tell you that I have done some crazy name calling. I have criticised other groups methodologies.  I have called some groups unprofessional. I am not immune to the cattiness.  That doesn’t mean that I condone it in anyway.  Often, I am sorry later that I ever opened my mouth.  But sometimes its so easy to try and discredit someone else’s protocol when it doesn’t blend with my own ideology.

And I think that’s partly why we as a paranormal community will never be able to unify.  Paranormal investigating has so much to do with our own personal views of spirituality and theology.  And I think where a lot of us as paranormal investigators go wrong.  We don’t wholly embrace the correlation between spirituality and paranormal investigating.  A lot of groups try to make a scientific endeavor using the Ghost Hunters TV show as their model. 

I know that this is clearly evident but I must state the obvious here: Ghost Hunters is a TV show NOT a methodology.  It’s a fact that a lot of paranormal investigators don’t seem to understand.  Using Ghost Hunters as a methodology model for paranormal investigating is  like using Rock of Love as a manual for dating.  I don’t have problems with the show(s).  I think they work for what they are made for, entertaining people.  But they aren’t scientifc nor are they a model to follow for practical paranormal investigating. 

TAPS as a paranormal group has a very strict protocol and it works well for them.  As paranormal investigators I know they are passionate about what they do and they do it well.  However, there should be a clear distinction between TAPS the group and Ghost Hunters the TV show.  And that goes for any paranormal TV show. There is a clear difference between the TV show and the groups that star in the show.  One is for entertainment, the other is real.

What does this have to do with paranormal unity.  Well, we have subgroup of a society who are working with spiritual ideologies and trying to prove to themselves and others what they  believe does exist through paranormal investigating.  And we have TV shows that are used has methodologies for those spiritual ideologies.  And it’s a mess.  A mixture of theories coupled with a unrealistic sense of how paranormal investigating is suppossed to be.  The technical (scientific) groups don’t like the psychic groups because their methods don’t have any quantifiable results.  The psychic groups don’t like the technical groups because they fail to realize the importance of psychic impressions and the human experience (qualitative results.)  Somewhere in the middle there are groups that use both the technical and psychic methods.  And some who use their own. 

 Everyone seems to think they have the right way of doing things.  A lot of people purporting to have the true way of investigating. Hell, even I get on my high horse and think I am doing it right.  But that’s just my ego talking thinking that I am more self-important than I really am.   The truth of it is that nobody knows what the truth is. It’s a large, enigmatic subject that boundless with possibilities and unanswerable questions.

However, if we are all getting the same kind of evidence (evp, pictures, etc.) and having the same kind of personal experiences (disembodies voices, cold spots, etc.) then who is to say that there is only way of investigating? And how much of what is evidence is truly paranormal and not the agent of sloppy methodologies?

These are all good questions but I think it’s urealistic to think that anyone can answer these questions with any subjectivity.  It’s all based on our own ideologies.  There are those who work in the true parapsychological (scientific) realms and even they don’t have straight-forward answers. 

Still, if paranormal investigating is every going to be taken seriously there has to be a measure of realism.  I think the first step is to come up with methodologies and protocols that don’t involve TV shows.  I think it’s wiser to pick up a book and read about spiritualism or the forefathers of the paranormal field or even parapsychology than to immerse ourselves in an unrealistic ideology edited by producers and prepackaged for the masses.

Because of this sometimes I wish I never had a paranormal group. Sometimes I wish I was that naive investigator immersed in my findings and wide-eyed with a curiousity that etched through the possibilities…Sometimes it seems simpler…

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