It's Halloween! How to read a curse!

Halloween and 

watch out

for a curse!

So what does Halloween mean to you? To me it's a time for people to ponder the reality of whether or not ghosts and goblins may truly exist? 

  With all the t.v. shows that run specials of the Eerie, bizarre, strange, and unbelievable how can one deny the possibility of something really happening?

  For us it turns into a busy time of year with a huge amount of requests! Some requests aren't the "can you please help us we are being haunted", But rather :hey I'm from a paper writing an article can you please help us?

  We have had numerous requests such as these types through the years, But this is the first year I decided to agree and participate! Yes against all my beliefs of the limelight I actually said yes!

  Well not so fast! My yes turned into a planned phone conversation that ended up not happening due to where I was at the time, with no cell reception, in the white mountains where I was looking into a possible case! So oh boy, I messed that up! So I contacted the gentlemen and explained the situation, So we made another date to do the phone conversation, no biggie! Well once again I ended up in a situation where I was tied up and missed the call again! OH MAN!

  Needless to say I felt horrible, But this was not the whole story by a long shot! First off I usually don't like getting involved with interviews and what not, But here I had actually agreed, So yes this was a big thing for me! 

  Well wouldn't you know we had the craziest week after I received this call which I agreed to! First off we had three calls from people with issues within a 24hr period! The day after the call from the gentlemen my car broke down! Need I go on with the way this story is going or is the picture getting clear? Sheer craziness was in the works, and believe me it went from bad to unbelievably horrible! 

  I won't go into the rest of the bad luck that ensued, But trust me the interview never happened! I had tried calling the reporter and tell him if he was still interested in talking with me I was available on this day like right now! Call while I am here at this very moment before something else terrible happens!

  Needless to say I never got a call! Do you believe in being jinxed, Cursed, or just plain bad luck? Well I'm a living example! I have been my whole life!, and this was a reason why I felt I was a chosen one to have the things happen to me as they did, by being haunted!

  If a person were to sit down and listen to me tell the story of all the bizarre bad luck things that I have had happened to me in my entire life they would probably wonder how I had never contemplated Hara-Kiri!

  Well I probably had some thoughts, but I found a way of dealing with it, and it's called, dealing with it! That simple! I just say yup, Right up to par! Then I go on doing what needs to be done! 

  Halloween to me is a time to relax and accept my fate, but it's because it's Halloween so this is what's normal and this is why these things happen! 

  So oddly enough this is why I look forward to this time of year! Just like a child looking forward to Christmas, Halloween is what I look forward to in order to put my life into a normalcy state!

  Cursed to some is nonsense! They think it has something to do with some kind of VooDoo, Or some Pagan ritual!

  No it isn't! Some are like a magnet and these type of bad events take place on a very uncomfortable amount of occasions, and this I know for a fact, So this brings a slight amount of comfort!

  Though who really knows? maybe somewhere in time I had a family member piss someone off that was a Pagan witch and that person performed a ritual where they cursed the family line!

  Curses are an interesting topic, and one that fits perfect with Halloween in my eyes. When one looks into stories of witchcraft and Halloween It's usually something to do with a scorned witch who performs some type of hex, or curse upon the person!

  Many curses we hear of are those of misfortune that dealt with things like a bad crop, or a well running dry!  

  The real scary thing is there are a lot of people in this world that are truly fearful of anything to do with curses! Such as a cursed object, or a cursed place! There are places that are supposedly cursed where the local people refuse to go to, or partake in whatever it may be. 

  There are stories of places like an Island being cursed where for hundreds and hundreds of years people will refuse to go to, or have anything to do with!

  Why is it that people fear this so much? Well maybe because of events happening due to a so said curse that by sheer coincidence, or is it really possible!

  Some of the more famous and heard about type curses are those of the Egyptian tomb curses. Warning all that if they enter a curse will be placed on them! 

  There are some to this day that will not violate these warnings! Would you? Really would you take a chance and enter a place that was telling you to stay out or you will die? Remember you can't take it back and say, Oh boy I won't do that again!  

  I believe some things are sacred and therefore  I will avoid it, or them! I do believe in curses, but only because of my own bad luck. I believe for whatever reason I am cursed! So yes there are certain things I will, and will not do despite the rewards and possible redemption!

  A do not trespass sign isn't placed there to give you the option, it's put there for a reason! If you decided to risk that warning a whole slew of things are possible from that point out! Such as getting shot, being arrested, getting arrested and being shot, or possibly getting hurt because the sign was there because of danger, and the type of danger maybe one that could be fatal!

  I suppose the best way for a person to interpret these signs is by the wording and your blind faith! BE WARNED! Take it for what they're worth because there is a reason, and enter at your own risk!

  

  There is a recent case that has been brought before us, and it's one that is right along this topic of curses. 

  The particular case is one that is common folklore or urban legends in many states. It's of a hitchhiking female that if you don't give her a ride she will end up appearing in your back seat in which it will cause you to have an accident along with your death! 

  This can be interpreted as two different type curses. The curse of the women being stuck here for eternity, or it could be a curse for the person that refused to pick up the female in which it will lead to the person's death!

  No matter what, it is a story of a warning which may lead to a curse like proposal! If you venture down this particular road at night this may happen!

  As well as if you don't do what the female hitchhiker wants, It will lead to your demise!

  So therefore the sign there is don't get yourself in a risky situation of where you may be tempted to pick up a person you don't know!

  This particular legend is dated back to the 1800's and originally was of a women in an accident with a horse and carriage where she was tossed off in an accident and decapitated!

  So that story was if you were on the road late at night you may encounter a headless women in white and seeing her is what will lead to a fatality for you as well as others with you!

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  The sign for this story is you should not be on this road at night because it is dangerous! Again if it is true wouldn't this all be in the curse category? I imagine! The morale is that the danger is real and if you don't see the obvious signs, well then you're going to pay the price!

  With dealing in different types of hauntings we find objects that can be the cause of the haunting. Some call these objects cursed! As well in voodoo the subject can curse a particular thing which can supposedly lead to all sorts of misfortunes! 

  There are methods that are available to deactivate, or neutralize the object, and then at times the best solution is to just lock the object away so nobody will handle it again! 

  

  Is there any pure truth, or actual evidence that curses are real and true? Well I suppose it depends on who you ask , and I bet that there are a few out there that would swear that YES! No questions about it!

  My own thoughts are yes! I believe things can be possible and in the case of a curse I suppose it's how you interpret it, as well as define it!

  Some things can be chalked up as just plain bad luck, but when it goes above and beyond one has to wonder!

  So the next time you may be in the area of Downeast Maine in the vicinity of Catherine's Hill and you happen to see a woman hitchhiking at night (possibly headless) will you stop and offer a ride? Well you know the consequences, so I'll let you decide your own fate!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

From all of us here at

The Society of Paranormal Research in Maine!

  

  

  

   

"The Ouija Board Experiment!"

 

"The Ouija Board Experiment!"

  After all it's just a game! Right? Sure!

  We just wanted to talk a little on the use of Ouija boards! The big question do you believe that a Ouija board really works?
  The next question have you ever attempted to use a Ouija board?
and if so would you share your experience with us, or anybody?
  I ask that because some people after using a Ouija board, have found out that something can actually happen! Don't care discussing their experience!
 
  I am the Director of the Society of Paranormal Research in Maine!
I have had more personal experiences than anybody would care to imagine! But the one thing I do not use, Or suggest anybody use, Is a Ouija board!
  Some might find this foolish, or maybe some think it's just game what could it possible do?
  Even though I, and we. do not engage in the practice of utilizing these boards, It doesn't mean I never have! In which I have used one, but only once in my entire life!

  For those that may have read any of my personal Bio at our web page would be aware of the fact of the reasons that had laid the road for my career into the Paranormal field!
  For those that haven't read it! the short of it is, as a young person for around ten years I was very affected by the Paranormal! There it is!
  So at one point when I was a teenager my best friend had showed up at the house with a Ouija board in tow, He had always hated my home because he always felt uncomfortable like something was off somehow.  In which he couldn't have been more right with his intuitions! 
 
  Anyway the whole reason for that Ouija board was he had specifically bought it to use in my bedroom! The thing to take note here is I had never discussed to him anything of the problems I dealt with from issues with the Paranormal activity because I didn't want him thinking of me as nuts!
  Though I do wish he would have discussed with me over the years he had these feelings and then I would of shared with him my experiences!

                  This was a very vintage one especially with the certain images in the corners!

  We opened the box and read the directions and proceeded to engage, the Ouija board! We had everything set up, and had our fingertips just barely hovering above the Planchette! We began asking questions like, "is there anybody here with us?" And sure as the day is light the Planchette starts moving to YES!
 
 When it started moving my friend started yelling at me! Asking if I was moving it? Which I wasn't! and thought it must of been him!
So we continue our questions asking if it can tell us it's name? Again the planchette starts going to the letters on the board spelling a name! At this point My friend is freaking out! I am just jaw dropped in amazement! But I was still somewhat nervous, or scared!
 
  My friend was still in his yelling mode as I was pleading it wasn't me, I swear! The weird thing is, the Planchette was picking up speed! My friend, I believe was getting overly nervous! In truth I almost was somewhat excited to actually find out who had been torturing me for all those years! But before the whole name could be spelled out, my friend had grabbed the board and threw it up in the air, and stormed out of my room leaving the board behind saying he wanted nothing to do with it anymore!

  A few odd things to the rest of the story was, after this this whole thing, our friendship since childhood started fading, to the point we stopped doing anything together, and eventually even stopped talking!
  Which it truly affected me, as those were things I had always feared if people knew! To this day I stew over that happening over 30 years later!

  The one thing I was getting from the board was It was leaning towards a females name, I believe if my memory is right! But that is neither  here, nor there anymore! We had moved from that particular house the following year after sixteen years of living there, Which honestly was the biggest weight ever taking off of my shoulders! So I will leave the rest of the story out as this is about the Ouija board and how it had worked for us!

                                                              Various types of Ouija Boards!                                 


  These are just a few of the reasons why! There of course are the negative parts involved, as well as the possibility of releasing things better left where their at! The list goes on!
  Even despite all we, and anyone else will say, there is always going to be those to want and risk it! Or those that use them for there little communicating to the dead stories! The list goes on there as well!
 
The only thing I can say with any proof, and all my honesty,, is that they can, and do work! Although my belief is it takes a special person for it to do it's thing! Say one of a sensitive type, or some kind of special abilities! And I'll leave that, at that as well!

  So if you still have that burning desire to partake in a Ouija board event please check out the info below! It may, or may not work? I have never put it to the test, but there are those that say it does! Then again they might be the people that never really had that special need talent to actually make one work! So you may be that person to unlock the boards potential!
  If so we're only a click away! Be safe!
Gary. C Director/Founder Societyofparanormalresearchmaine.com
 
  This board is from the 1920's, though not one of the first one's made it was built with wood, and was and still is very popular! The first were hand made until the original maker sold the rights and this is when they were changed! Very pricey as it's vintage!

We here at the Society of Paranormal Research do not engage in the practice of using Ouija boards for any circumstances!    
 But we have acquired a technique that is supposed be used when engaging in the use of one! If you do choose to use one we recommend trying this technique but,  strongly advise everyone to never take the chance!
 So anyway here is the directions if you are ever compelled to give one a whirl! Good luck!

5 Steps on How to Use the Ouija Board Safely:

1.) Be prepared to use the board. Do not use the board alone. Get some friends to use the board with you. to protect yourself, Get sage, sage incense with an earthly smell to it. Light the incense.

2.) Spread the incense smoke around the board. this should make you be prepared for your session

3.) Say an Affirmation. Once you are ready to start a session, say a prayer so that you can communicate with a good spirit. Here is the prayer for you:
"I CALL UPON THE ANGELS FROM THE LIGHT, CALL UPON MY SPIRIT GUIDES, GUARDIAN ANGELS FROM THE LIGHT TO COME HELP ME CLEANS THE BOARD. PLEASE REMOVE NEGATIVITY FROM THIS BOARD AND SURROUND IT WITH HEAVENLY LIGHT!" Keep repeating it until you feel a light, and positive energy from the board. Then when you hear a spirit say hello, say a prayer so you can have a good spirit to talk to you.

4.) Begin your session When you begin your session, no laughing or talking. Be quiet and ask positive questions, Do not ask questions that makes the spirits angry such as, "are you sexy?" Ask the spirits a positive question. some times the planchette moves slowly. If the planchette moves slowly, Be patient! REMEMBER, This is a spirit you are talking to! Not a person. You may be impatient with a person but you must be patient with a spirit.

5.) End your session properly. When you are done talking to a spirit, say goodbye to it. After you say goodbye, say, "WE ARE SENDING THE SPIRITS BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM AND WE ARE CLOSING THE DOOR." This shows that you are closing the doorway for the spirits. When you end your session, wrap the board with white cloth and put it somewhere such as your drawer.

We do not make any guarantees that this method will in any way increase your chances, decrease your chances, harm, hurt, or save you from any wrong doings by the physical world, or the supernatural realm! You are completely taking 100% risk whenever engaging in the use of a Ouija board, and again we STRONGLY advise to not engage in the use of one! I have attempted to use one once in my life and yes it did work! And no I never will again and it was not because of any negative affects, but they can and do cause things that most people are unprepared to take on! Thanks and all the best!
Gary C. Director of the Society of Paranormal Research in Maine!


              "Paranormal Multiple Personality Disorder"          

 

  
 We have recently been doing several investigations at a location that has been a goldmine in the E.V.P. (Electronic Voice Phenomena) area.
  As a matter of fact, at this one location we have gathered more EVP's then any ten investigations put together!
  Without a doubt an incredible amount of valuable data was gathered from this location! As I had stated we have been to this location several times now; Three total! And every time there we have gathered a phenomenal amount of EVP's which have ranged from very intelligent, to off the wall bizarre! But even the bizarre one's had been performed with an intelligence behind it, as if it were just having fun and kidding around!

  When we gather all our EVP's together we go back and fourth through them with over, and above the normal standards of scrutinizing!
  As the director of this organization I have a duty to the clients and to this group! All else comes second, and this means to the general public when we place any material on our social pages! I have a strict code of what we release, and most places wouldn't agree with me on this, but I'm not in this for any ratings, or popularity contest! I'm in it for the understanding and proof!  
  I started this group to help those that were being affected by things that were beyond their understanding. The paranormal realm  isn't something most feel comfortable with being possible, But it is! My goals were, and still are to aid, and educate those in all areas of the paranormal!
 
  So back to the results of this location: On all of our verifiable EVP's we had gone over, and over before finalizing, and after the first round we knew we had a challenge ahead of us to say the least!
  I say this because of the reason's for our clients engaging our services in the first place.
  We had been contacted by another paranormal investigation group that had gotten in a little over their wants and capabilities, so they had contacted us for some assistance.
  This other group had been contacted by the owner of this location and was complaining of a few things that were going on, but one in particular that was very concerning to the home owner!

   According to the home owner people living in the house were physically being scratched and pushed by unseen forces!
  They had documented the scratch incidents by photo's. The concern with the home owner was his daughter was expecting a baby soon, and she was going to be living there with her new born!
  He was very nervous with worries of something possibly happening to the baby, so this is when he contacted the first paranormal group in which he was told of by his son who had heard of this group by some friends.
  So the group had arrived to perform an investigation, and it was really no more than just a couple of young girls hoping to capture some evidence of he paranormal for kicks, then any real professional research! All they showed up with was a couple of digital tape recorders and one camera which wasn't capable of night shot!

  So during the course of there little walk through and trying to replicate things they had learned from t.v. shows, one of the girls was doing a provoking method and in the process was attacked by an unseen force! in which ended the investigation because they got to nervous and shaken up to continue!
  They documented the marks that were left on her back with a photo. It was the same type of marks that are very common for this type of occurrence. The marks were as if someone had dug into the skin with long finger nails!
  We have seen these on several occasions, and have had personal group experiences with these exact types of markings.

  The following day this other group had contacted my organization and told us of the story behind the home owners current situation, as well as things that he may have ben involved in, in the past that may have lead to these current problems they are experiencing.
  They had asked, if this type of case is something we deal with? And if it was something we could help to resolve?

  After listening to the low down, I explained to the young lady, who we are, and what we do! I explained we are a full service research organization that deals with these type of cases, and are capable to help resolve issues as well!
  It was at this point I relayed my interest in taking on the case!
So I had her fax me all of the material they compiled! as well as all the photographs of the scratching's.
  As I had stated the scratching's were very common, but nonetheless still remarkable! As any type of physical contact from the spirit realm is always remarkable, and the hardest to believe if a skeptic! It is also a very hard thing to scientifically prove unless actually witnessed by someone with scientific authority from MiT or the likes! I say this because I have volumes of evidence, but I never attended Harvard, so nobody wants to take it for what it truly is, Remarkable!

   So after reviewing all the material I set up a meeting with the home owner in order to evaluate any possible physiological issues, and dig a little deeper into his supposed story!
  Apparently the home owner dabbled around in satanical no, no's back in the day! During the interview I had no doubts of his involvement into the area, as he was extremely knowledgeable, and held nothing back!
  Thankfully he laid all of his cards on the table! Which helps us in not having to do as much guessing work, and head scrtching when we find certain things while investigating!

  After doing all our interviewing, and other fact finding info of the home owner, and his property. I agreed to take the case and help to the best of our abilities!
 I explained what we do, and how we do things, to which he agreed! so we set a date for an investigation, and the rest is history still in the making!

  Our first night investigation, I planned carefully! according to all the things that happened, and the way it all happened.
  I only brought along two other investigators, and they were both female. The key thing with this, was the fact that everyone who had been physically scratched, had all been female!
  Age wasn't a sure factor? so as a trial thing I brought our youngest, and one of our older females, to use as bait so to speak!
in which proved very, very fruitful!

  As I stated we are a full service research organization in which we have a lot of helpful electronical gizmo's and gadget's that aid in our searching's!
  We had several static camera's placed throughout the home, as well has sound recorders placed in strategic locations.
 The static cameras all had sound available as well, and we all carried recorders at all times! "Which I do as a common practice at all times anyway!"
 
  I had placed specialty cameras in various locations with certain devices placed in front of them, like EMF (Electromagnetic Field) detectors, so we can see if there were any abnormal changes, or fluctuations at locations that are otherwise unknown without them!
  When these meters start picking up changes with say an electrical anomaly, it can be a good chance on occasions, that something of a paranormal nature may be present! So with placing the cameras in front of them it can help with our verification, and by recording the proof for evidence!

                                    The first is a K-2 meter and the second is a MEL meter

   We look for magnetic disturbances when paranormal activity is present. We have discovered this to be a proven method that works in verifying the presence of an intelligent energy!
  There are many types of these devices and we use several different types at any giving location.
  We also use other types of energy monitors that read spikes of electricity in the area such as static electricity, instead of magnetic disturbance! which they both work, and it all depends on the type of energy we are dealing with, and how it manifests!
   The theory being that a spirit uses energy, and even needs it, to build itself up! by either attempting to manifest as a light anomaly, a form, or just when it wants to perform a task like physically moving things, objects, and even reaching physically into our realm!
 
 One of the main reasons for the theory of spirits using electricity is because of the notable drain of battery power from any, and all devices being used during an investigation when an occurrence is taking place if a spirit is present! This happens on many, many occasions when at active locations!
  The other reason that validates this theory is the fact that things can start happening! like objects being moved, and actual sightings of forms of sorts, some being full body apparitions, or at times a mist like vapor! as well as audiable voices which can be heard without needing a recorder.

We sometimes use various devices that can pump electricity into the air EMF (Electromagnetic field) pumps, in hopes of a spirit utilizing the energy it needs to manifest! The pumps come in various shapes and sizes depending on the amount of electricity you want to emit. 
                                     this is a medium size EMF pump!
                                                                               

  
  At the home we were utilizing several different pieces of equipment such as the pumps, and some static electricity detectors in case something would cross it's path and set off the alarm!
  Which we never had any luck with that happening, But we did on several occasions have fluctuations with our EMF meters! We were getting readings of electrical anomalies in areas, mostly where we were preforming our evp's !. Which were more validating signs of possible activity!
 
  We had no strong signs of activity like everyone had claimed that was happening! So after several hours of our investigation I decided to perform some EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) sessions in this one small entertainment room, which I honestly didn't think anything would pop up, but this would prove me wrong!
 
  We set up for our EVP session and it was going to be myself, as well as our younger female investigator for the first round!
 We brought in some newer devices to try out as well! Here is the list!
   We had the spirit box along with two digital voice recorders, and a hand held spectrum camera, as well as there being a static night vision camera in the room already.
  We also had a small EMF pump, and four different types of static, and magnetic current detectors as well as our K-2 meter.
                                       EM (Electromagnetic) Meter

EM (Electromagnetic Meter!) This device is very precise in measuring variations in natural electromagnetic fields (atmospheric electricity, etc.) 
  So needless to say we had the place very well covered! The Spirit box we were using was one that at the time was new to us, and we were trying it out! It was the SPB7 and since then this particular type has been upgraded to a SPB11.  We have liked working very much with both! Over the years we have tried various versions including some of our own rigged up radios, but these really have proven well!
            This is the newer SPB-11 Spirit Box                                       This is the SPB-7

 

   
  For those that don't know, a spirit box is pretty much just an AM/FM radio that sweeps through the channels, and you can control the speed on some, such as these types.
  through these is the theory a spirit can manipulate the words through the sweeping effect by picking out the words it comes across, As well it can utilize the white noise (static) and with the sweeping effect they can manipulate the sounds and build a word vocabulary!
  So it's actually providing two capable ways for a spirit to communicate!
 
 The word vocabulary manipulation theory is a newer idea, and there are actually special devices that have a preprogrammed dictionary in which spirits in theory, are capable of manipulating the device to perform a word by word speech dialect! This device is called the (ovilous) and there are several models and versions.
                                              Ovilus device- preprogrammed word device!

  There is one key thing to keep in mind with all these devices that are on the market nowadays! They aren't always the way to go! As well as understanding the whole facts of the matter, and what is really involved!
  
 Things use to be fairly cut and dry! Now it's turned high tech it seems! This is not always right, and these devices don't always perform correctly!
  What I'm saying is that someone is always going to try and make a buck, and to those that are young, or easily impressed by technology, well sometimes a tape recorder is the best piece of equipment in your arsenal!
  What we do here is trial and experimental runs, and at locations that are in theory, really haunted, this is a good place to put these devices to the test!
  We have scrutinized all devices we use, and we surly don't use all these devices at every location, because relying on them to tell you  whether or not a place is haunted is just highly impractical! When performing EVP sessions in the old days we only used tape recorders and patience! 

  At this particular location the best piece of equipment we had was digital audio recorders, and the spirit box was a big success as well, considering what we came up with for very intelligible proof!
  During the EVP sessions I couldn't believe the replies we were getting! I mean these were so far from being just chance it was scary!
  As an example: I introduced us saying ("My name is Gary and this is Casey! Can you tell us your name?") As plain as day we here through the box "Casey!" Like it was repeating me!
  The chances of that happening randomly were astronomical!
The other remarkable thing was, I introduced us a second time to see if it was just coincidental?  And for a second time it said "Casey!"
How is that for incredible?

  I have the EVP's to that on our YouTube sight for anyone who cares to doubt it, or for anyone to be surprised to it!
  During the session we had so many incredible things happen in the EVP area, it took us several weeks to go through, and pull all the audio out, and scrutinize over! We put it through our audio editing device and played every piece, over, and over, because we had found several other pieces of audio inside the white noise as well!
 
 One particularly eerie thing was the audio of the hand held full spectrum camera we had placed about six feet away from us!  It was aimed out into the room behind us. We had it up about five, or six feet off the ground. It was recording everything behind our room we were in.
  You can hear us in the background doing our EVP session, and all of a sudden you hear this low deep voice like it were growling the word HELLLLLLLL! It drags out a bit, and is real spooky sounding! But the thing was, it sounded like it was standing right over the camera! Just like it's mouth was right by the mic, if not on it!

  Now with that one particular sound, and the claims of the home owner things started coming together!
  They felt it was an evil presence, as well as the scratching incidents, and his claims of being involved in satanic ritual stuff! 
  That one sound is what made all the rest of the EVP's we captured sensible! Like the mimicking of names for instance!
  We had so many various EVP's it woulden't have made sense if we had not known a lot of the facts! We would have just thought it some kind of portal location! Where all sorts of spirits came to, for whatever reason? But because of the honesty, and our better understanding of the paranormal, we were able to put it all together!

   The other EVP's were everything from young to old! Female and male! inquisitive to scared, and some just bizarre! But with an intelligence meant behind it!
  In one EVP there was an instance when I asked, "Do you need help?" We had three replies for help from three different sounding voices, but all female! The first two were very obvious, but the third was very hard to hear, but it was there!
 The interesting thing though it wasn't coming from the voices on the spirit box. but rather in the white noise! When you hear these type of happenings they are very eerie sounding! Like it's just floating in this void of space! When you hear it, it is almost like you can't help but have this feeling of sadness, or desire to help in whatever way you can!
  I have always thought of these white noise sounds as something, or somebody, being trapped or lost in some dark space! I guess like a limbo type of state! This is just a feeling I get when I hear these types of EVP's in white noise!

  Now after saying those last statements! We need to go back to the part where I discussed the possible evil presence everyone felt is at this location!
  When dealing with things of an evil nature at times, they can be very deceiving! Sometimes child like, or a sad like tone that makes you feel bad for it!
  Sometimes they can mock your words, or copy whatever your saying like a parrot! Then at times when you push it to far you can provoke anger that is very unmistakable as being evil, or extremely bad and violent!
 So one should beware! and reasons like this case is why these people that are just in it for kicks, and wanting to capture some proof of a ghost, may end up with more then they bargained for! Such as the young girls that contacted us on this case!

  Then there are the possibilities that whatever may be haunting, or tormenting a location may have the capability to attach itself to an individual! Then next time someone is running around playing ghost hunter they end up visiting a shrink twice a week because they think there losing their mind!
 
  Believe me this happens! We have done several cases where once very normal people entertained the thought of checking out some paranormal hot spots, and ended up having some very negative adverse affects!
 So much to the point they had been placed on medication from receiving psychiatric care! Which is very strange, when an otherwise normal person! with no history of problems, ends up seeing, and hearing things that just by all rational means should not be happening! 
  All this happening just by chance, after they entered a location that was supposed to be active with paranormal activity, because they wanted to witness something for themselves!
  Just coincidence? And they just happened to have some mental break down? Or  just maybe the paranormal has latched ahold!

  So with this one location we have performed three investigations total! The first two were great with tons of EVP activity! But the third was like everything had packed up and just left!
  The other thing which I don't mention much, but I myself have always had this natural gift of sensing whether or not things of a paranormal nature may, or may not be present!
  No I don't sell myself as being any type of medium or sensitive! But the location for whatever reason had just changed! Like a fog that had finally dissipated! And honestly sometimes my gift can be a little screwy depending on the situation.
  This is another reason why I don't pawn the gift off as something I'm capable of! Sometimes things are hard to read when I'm dealing with stressful issues, or just personal fog!
 
 At a time in my life though it was a very overwhelming, and an uncontrollable thing! Instead of ever getting hold of it, or having anybody help, or show me ways of handling it! I was treated horribly! So it was a gift that just never evolved into something more than what it could be! Honestly though, that's fine with me!

  Though it was funny because the home owner had asked me, if by chance we might of brought home anything after our last visit? Which I already knew the answer to, because this is always something we take precaution to! and was no we hadn't

   What happened to the location? I can't really say! Maybe somebody had stopped in one day, and left with something extra! 
  For whatever reason the home owner was happy! Though to myself it was kind of concerning!
  I don't like when activity disappears like that! Mainly because of what we were dealing with! And it wasn't any good! 
  So if it did indeed attach itself to another person I fear the possibilities!


  Like I had said the one thing I knew for sure was it had a fondness towards younger females, without any doubts!
  What was the true nature of what we were dealing with? It was a very malicious entity! But whether or not it was truly demonic, we and I, couldn't ever really identify with 100% certainty!
 
  If I were to take a stab in the dark, I would say yes it was demonic! Just because of the characteristics it displayed with answering questions! Plus it's multiple personality's that it kept switching in and out of! Just like a loop, it just kept going around, and round switching! But always saying, or having the same request, but using the same character when cycling through them!
  It would constantly bounce around between identities, like it was trying to bait us, or have us feel sorry by taking pity on it!
  I have had previous experiences with entities almost like this one, Though by far this one has helped us understand multitudes of information on the true capabilities these types of entities can wield, especially when trying to deceive and manipulate!

  In all of my personal career there have been several occasions I have felt an overwhelming compassion for various entities.
 Some I know were of an evil nature trying to get me, and us into it's grasp where if I, and we were not who we are, could have possibly falling for the bait! Luckily this has never happened, nor would I want to even imagine the what if's?
  I have seen the devastating outcome these things can do to people, and I always find myself asking the same question! How can this be?
 
  To this have no answers! I am not highly religious, though I am very spiritual! I believe my energy will continue to go on, but I believe our energies just head back into the cosmos from where we are all created from!
  I believe that somehow, through space and time, we all get recycled back into some form of life! What I don't know, and can't say?

  Then there are the energies that are trapped, or lost, and some just have unfinished business!
  These I have the hardest time with, when being asked for our help! I personally am very capable of performing several types of ceremonies to help energies, or spirits move on! Though there lies the problem!
 Is that what they wanted our help for? Maybe we, and everyone else are misreading these requests?
 At most we can only guess this is what is being asked of us! there have been times that I know there has been more at play with the situation! Though there was, and is no way of truly being able to help with their wants during certain situations!

 I truly believe that maybe sometimes it's better we not know certain things! Because they may be a little more than our intellectual understanding can grasp at this point in our evolution!
  At some point though I think we will have the answers, and will be able to compute the true meaning of our existence, and our demise! Things we may perceive to be a certain way, just may not be what we once thought!
  We just may be in for a surprise at some point of our existence! Or maybe by that point things such as what we see and deal with now, will have been nothing but thoughts of an immature species, young, and naïve in our evolutionary existence!
  

  Until then we will continue to do what we think is right! We will never learn unless, we try to listen, and see with our eyes, those things that defy all of our rational psyche's conceptions of what is really going on! 
  So we will continue to lurk in the shadows searching for the answers to the cause of the bumps, and bangs in the night!         

From "Paranomalgies" This is  Geo-Pod which detects vibrations such as foot steps, and bangs, and bumps. This piece of equipment actually works well! t lights up in accordance to how loud and close things may be occurring! This business makes a few different pieces of equipment which might look neat,  but that's all it is, "neat!"

This is the Rem-Pod It detects static electricity! When something passes by the pull out antenna it lights up and sounds an alarm with a tone that increases or decreases depending how close the occurrence may be! Works well only if something is right in the area of the antenna! Pretty lights, and looks neat, but that's about it! These people make a slew of different versions now that are supposed to do more things! They are Expensive, and nothing but a toy! they used one on that Ghost Adventures show, and off to the market everybody went! These are very overly expensive for what they are! A piece of PVC pipe painted black with some cheap lights and an alarm. Probably cost four dollars in materiel and 15 minutes to make it! and they sell for 300.00 to 400.00 dollars! Crazy for something that is useless! They actually make a device as the above Geo-Pod and it works just as well so that may be the only thing that actually preforms well! But in all actuality both of these devices can be made for a couple of dollars with what they use for easily found parts to buy!

This is the real deal! This is a device that is powerful enough to detect the Earths magnetic field! So this has no problems detecting an anomaly in any area! Kinda pricy! But that's what the difference is between toys and real equipment!

This is another device such as the one above called a "Trifield" but this detects three different fields of current! Again this is a professional piece of equipment that produces professional results! In the blog we had a brother to one of these devices that we use a lot and it's a Trifield as well, but it's used to detect Natural "EMF Electromagnetic Fields" Which is something as these! The difference being some are more powerful, and some offer different fields! These devices we recommend way more so than the toys, But if your in it for the pretty color lights and crazy noises they make the first two in the list has more versions of garbage to choose from!                        

There is tons of stuff on the market for Paranormal gear, But most of it is junk! And some of it is crazy expensive junk! There are some very good professional equipment out there, but it wasn't made with a stamp saying for paranormal use! Even though that's exactly what there capable of!
 For the price you get some gadgets that are made to do what we need even though they might not have pretty lights, and if that's what you want just wait for Christmas to get it out of your system!
Buyer beware! then again in all honesty the people probably buying these things and using them have no idea of what there doing but I just hate seeing people getting taking for a ride! Good luck!

Cultures and Ghosts!

The Chinese living with ghosts!

There are many ghosts in Chinese culture; they have been worshipped by the Chinese for a few thousand years. Even Confucius said, "Respect ghosts and gods, but keep away from them." While many people believe in ghosts, there are others who don't. The Chinese people often say, "If you believe it, there will be, but if you don't, there will not."
  The ghost is a classical image in Chinese culture, i.e., the young woman whose face is covered by long black hair, who dies due to misfortune, then comes back for revenge.
  The word "ghost" for many Chinese conjures up similar images. Often the ghost is a beautiful young woman. The sudden switch from a beautiful girl to a frightening ghost is striking. The seemingly fragile, helpless and beautiful women turning into fearless killers is a favorite theme among Asian movie directors and storywriters.

  Chinese Ghost Festival Just as the West features Halloween for ghosts and ghouls, the Chinese have a holiday to honor the departed spirits of the underworld -- the Chinese Ghost Festival. It is said that ghosts roam the world every year for one lunar month. In some areas of China, visitors can see small roadside fires, where believers burn paper money and other offerings to appease the restless spirits that have temporarily been released from Hades. The
 Chinese Ghost Festival is also called "Half July" (Lunar). It is a popular occasion celebrated throughout China on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month. Historically, families offer sacrifices of the newly harvested grain to departed ancestors on this day, which also coincides with the Buddhist Ullambana (Deliverance) Festival and the Taoist Chinese Ghost Festival.
 Since each of these traditions in some way honors the spirits of the departed, the seventh lunar month has come to be known as "Ghost Month" and is a time when the "Good Brethren" (ghosts from the underworld) come back to earth to feast on the victuals offered by the living. Over time the Ullambana Festival and Ghost Festival have melded together to become the present-day Chung Yuan Putu or "Mid-origin Passage to Universal Salvation."

 The Chinese believe that the dead become ghosts between heaven and earth. Spirits without descendants to care for them are summoned during the Ghost Festival so that they may also enjoy the warmth of life among the living.
 This custom -- an extension of the traditional Chinese ethic of "universal love" -- has been woven together with the didactic legend, "Moginlin Saving His Mother From Hades." It lends the Ghost Festival a positive spin as a time for remembering the importance of filial piety. People now have inherited releasing river light as an important activity. It is said that river light can comfort and warm homeless ghosts.

 This is just an example of one of many types of cultures where their society has held firm in their traditions and beliefs of such things!
  In ancient Japanese culture ghosts are seen as suicide victims who come back to reek havoc on the living. Japanese culture produced story of a ghostly woman who told men to torture and kill a man she blamed for her murder. Another traditional story suggest that a warlord was haunted by many people he killed. The Japanese believed that ghosts are everywhere and easy to conjure.

Mexican culture
 There is extensive and varied belief in ghosts in Mexican culture. The modern state of Mexico before the Spanish conquest was inhabited by diverse peoples such as the Maya and Aztec, and their beliefs have survived and evolved, combined with the beliefs of the Spanish colonists.
 The Day of the Dead incorporates pre-Columbian beliefs with Christian elements. Mexican literature and movies include many stories of ghosts interacting with the living.

After death the soul of the Aztec went to one of three places: Tlalocan, Mictlan, and the sun.
 The Aztec idea of the afterlife for fallen warriors and women who died in childbirth was that their souls would be transformed into hummingbirds that would follow the sun on its journey through the sky. Those who drowned would go to Tlalocan, the first level of the upper worlds.
 Souls of people who died from less glorious causes would go to Mictlan, the lowest level of the underworld, taking four years and passing through many obstacles to reach this place.
 
 The Cihuateteo, spirits of human women who died in childbirth, were not benevolent. On five specified days of the Aztec calendar they descended to earth and haunted crossroads, hoping to steal children whom they had not been able to have themselves.
 
The Cantares Mexicanos is an important collection of lyric poetry transcribed from Náhuatl into Roman letters around 1550 CE, about 30 years after the fall of Tenochtitlan.
 In his 1985 edition of these poems, John Bierhorst interprets the poems as "ghost songs" that were intended to summon the spirits of dead Aztec warriors back to earth to help their descendants under Spanish rule.
 If the songs were successful the ghosts would descend from heaven fully armed and ready to fight, demanding payment in human sacrifice.^[ This interpretation is, however, controversial.

Maya beliefs 

The traditional Maya live in the continual presence of the "(grand)fathers and (grand)mothers", the usually anonymous, bilateral ancestors, who, in the highlands, are often conceived of as inhabiting specific mountains, where they expect the offerings of their descendants. In the past, too, the ancestors had an important role to play, with the difference that, among the nobility, genealogical memory and patrilineal descent were much more emphasized. Thus, the Popol Vuh lists three genealogies of upper lords descended from three ancestors and their wives. These first male ancestors - ritually defined as "blood letters and sacrificers" - had received their private deities in a legendary land of origins called "The Seven Caves and Seven Canyons" (Nahua Chicomoztoc), and on their disappearance, left a sacred bundle. In Chiapas, at the time of the Spanish conquest, lineage ancestors were believed to have emerged from the roots of a ceiba tree. Comparable beliefs still exist amongst the Tz'utujiles.

 Looking at how the Chinese honor the thought of their dead is strikingly familiar sounding to the customs of the Spanish in South America! These type of events date back thousands of years! Way before either society had met to examine each others cultures and ways of life! When reading below about  how they celebrate the "Day of the dead" in South America keep in mind how the Chinese had done their honoring as well!

--Day of the dead--

Families tidying and decorating graves at a cemetery in Almoloya del Río in the State of Mexico

Main article: Day of the Dead

The Day of the Dead (Spanish: El Día de los Muertos), is a holiday celebrated in Mexico and by Latin Americans living in the United States and Canada.
 The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. The celebration occurs on November 2 in connection with the Catholic holidays of All Saints' Day (November 1) and All Souls' Day (November 2).
 Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed, and visiting graves with these as gifts.
 Due to occurring shortly after Halloween, the Day of the Dead is sometimes thought to be a similar holiday, although the two actually have little in common. The Day of the Dead is a time of celebration, where partying is common.
The Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico can be traced back to the indigenous cultures. Rituals celebrating the deaths of ancestors have been observed by these civilizations perhaps for as long as 2500–3000 years.
 
The festival that became the modern Day of the Dead fell in the ninth month of the Aztec calendar, about the beginning of August, and was celebrated for an entire month. The festivities were dedicated to the god.^[8] known as the "Lady of the Dead," corresponding to the modern Catrina.

 People go to cemeteries to communicate with the souls of the departed who are paying a holiday visit home. The descendants build private altars, containing the favorite foods and beverages, as well as photos and memorabilia, of the departed. The intent is to encourage visits by the souls, so that the souls will hear the prayers and the comments of the living directed to them.

 In most regions of Mexico, November 1 honors children and infants, whereas deceased adults are honored on November 2. This is indicated by generally referring to November 1 mainly as "Día de los Inocentes" (Day of the Innocents) but also as "Día de los Angelitos" (Day of the Little Angels) and November 2 as "Día de los Muertos" or "Día de los Difuntos" (Day of the Dead).

 So there was a few examples of cultures and ghost! As we stated a few paragraphs ago about the similarity of how they honor their dead doesn't it seem strange that societies separated by thousands of miles of oceans have a similar belief and system of doing things?
 
 So we will share a few more cultures in the next blog and then we will look at the darker side of how these cultures have looked at the ghost factor! and the things that have been tried, and done, and believed! With communicating with these cultures dead ancestors!

 We wanted to add a few of the Spanish version ghost stories as well!                                                                                                

Modern ghost legends

La Llorona

"La Llorona" is Spanish for "The Crying Woman" and is a popular legend in Spanish-speaking cultures in the colonies of the Americas, with many versions extant.
 The basic story is that La Llorona was a beautiful woman who killed her children to be with the man that she loved and was subsequently rejected by him.
 He might have been the children's father who had left their mother for another woman, or he might have been a man she loved but who was uninterested in a relationship with a woman with children, and whom she thought she could win if the children were out of the way.
 She drowned the children and then, after being rejected anyway, killed herself. She is doomed to wander, vainly searching for her children for all eternity. Her constant weeping is the reason for her name. In some cases, according to the tale, she will kidnap wandering children or children who misbehave.

La Planchada

"La Planchada" is Spanish for "the ironed lady". Contrary to what people may assume because of the legend's title, La Planchada was not a woman who was crushed, rather it is similar to La Llorona. However, legend says it was a nurse who was attracted to a doctor and he rejected her, or a disgruntled nurse, or a nurse who killed her patient.
  Many variations of how she was created exist, but one consistent theme is that her ghost appears in many hospitals, though mainly in the metropolitan areas, especially in Mexico City.

  Many hospitals such as Hospital Juárez claim she appears there in her old 1930s/60s nurse uniform, which is perfectly ironed (hence the name "La Planchada") and heals patients in the emergency sections. Just as there are claims about how she was turned into a ghost, there are many others in which eyewitnesses claim she appears.
 Some say she emits a sort of glow. Others say she looks like a normal nurse. Others say she floats, while others say she walks normally, but her steps are never heard.
 This happens at night and the next morning patients feel better and are taken to another room for further recovery.
 When asked why they feel better, patients say that "a nurse came in and healed me", but no one in the hospital was either guarding the room or no nurse came at the time the incident happened.

Vanishing hitchhiker

In the Mexican version of the Vanishing hitchhiker urban legend, the hitchhiker is a beautiful woman, who chats with a stranger in a taxi.
 When she leaves as a normal person she leaves her address.
When the person tries to reach the woman at her home, he is informed the woman is dead and that it is also the anniversary of her death.

Cemetery hauntings

Often there are ghost legends associated with the older cemeteries. For example, the Panteón de Belén (also Santa Paula Cemetery), a historical cemetery located in Guadalajara, Mexico is the site of legends and night tours. The cemetery was opened in 1848 and it was formally closed in 1896. Legends that are part of the local folklore include the Vampire, The Pirate, The Lovers, The Monk, The Child afraid of the Dark, The Story of José Cuervo, The Nun and many more.

 It's almost as the dead aren't dead but rather just in a different place where we can still communicate and so fourth. Which is the actual belief!  but does that mean their classified as ghost? Or passed on spirits? Or are they the same as they always were but just somewhere else? We'll let you know in the next blogs so stay tuned!