I attended a lecture on a particular paranormal subject, at a library, almost a month ago. That tells you about how much time, I've had, lately, to actually blog about something that interests me. Most of the time, I have to deal with things in my life I'd rather not have to deal with- but that's reality for ya. I pepper my reality with brief times of relief on Fartbook... er... Facebook, mostly, because commenting or posting on Facebook takes less time than doing a blog post. To each his or her own. :)
The lecture I went to was about ghost hunting and the woman giving the lecture belonged to an organization that has been around for a number of years and they have done a lot of investigations. She seemed to know what she was talking about. A large group of ordinary people had showed for the lecture and Q & A.
The lecture got me thinking about a lot of things that I experienced in my past.
I believe in ghosts and things that fall under the paranormal heading for a number of reasons. I've talked about those reasons on this blog in the past but to those who are relatively new to this blog that I've been doing since 2007, my reasons, in no particular order are:
1- I've lived in a house that was haunted. The entire family, our friends and even people we didn't know that well, saw and heard many unexplained incidents such as: chairs moving by themselves, laughter coming from our attic when no one was up there, the lights and TV going off and on, whispers of your name next to your ear while attempting to sleep, blood running down the walls, something pulling sheets off of a bed while you are attempting to sleep, black, smoke-like formations rushing past doorways, dolls' heads moving completely around by themselves, running footsteps being heard, coming up from the basement stairs up to the door leading to the hallway (when no one was there) and so on.
Some of this shit, that went on, I think I've purposefully forgotten, to avoid needless trauma.
If you've read this far without thinking me insane, wanting to mock me and everyone else who had to go through the shit we went through or wanting to debate me or point out how one or more things can easily be scientifically explained- then congratulations are in order for you. Kudos! It means you likely have an open mind. Otherwise, if you're here to debate me or do any of the other things I mentioned above, feel free to move on to the next blog about how someone's kid and their latest "hysterical" antic that everyone is dying to know about. Or something equally mundane. I'm not interested and will not respond, as you would probably like, to anything contrary that you have to say. I've heard it before and wasn't impressed. We, meaning the dozens of us who went through the hell of living there or visiting there, know what we went through and tried "scientifically" explaining away everything that happened. Didn't work. End of story.
I might add... and I will...
The only thing more irritating and frustrating to me than an overzealous disbeliever in anything they can't see or explain is an overzealous Christian trying to push their faith down your throat. Giving someone the benefit of a doubt is not the same as being gullible. Either person who displays this type of behavior is showing their arrogance and close mindedness. It's also a sign of someone who NEEDS to feed their ego to tear down one's ideas or beliefs with whatever well written malarkey that they can come up with. Just because it is well written or that person has the last word- it does not make them right.
2- My wife has spoken to the spirit of her deceased grandfather one night, while I was in bed and he gave her details about me that he couldn't have known, because he died three decades before I was even born. I've had several relatives see and talk to dead relatives, whether they were on their deathbeds in homes or hospitals or when they were just standing around, not doing anything in particular. Feelings of peace would usually accompany them while these incidents would happen.
3- I've also had some flashes or images come into my mind, while awake, of things that have happened. Most of those things (images) were of trivial matters. When these images would come into my mind, I would feel like I should remember them. I don't know why that feeling would come over me but it did. A month or two later and the image of the incident in my mind actually became a reality.
The one "picture" that I got in my head was of something that I didn't even know about or what it was and had never seen a picture of it before- until I was older, in school. It came to me when I was around four years old. It was a picture of a nuclear bomb going off. Bright mushroom cloud, everything being caught on fire, vaporized and so on. The whole bit. It was happening, I figured out later in life, in the same direction where a major city, about thirty miles away from where I live now, is located. I'm 48 years old and it is an image in my mind as horrifying and clear as it was when I was four years old.
4- I used to read whole decks of cards. Didn't matter which deck or where it came. They weren't in any order. I didn't cheat by marking any sides or had cards that were bent. I'd simply look at each face down card, say what it was, suit and number, turn it over and it would be what it said I knew it was going to be. Then I'd re-shuffle the cards again, predict the cards, again, correctly and then, one day, I thought to myself, This is too weird and I stopped doing it, altogether.
5- There is another thing I've been involved in, paranormally speaking, but I'm not mentioning it because it would take too long to explain and I'm afraid I'd get a lot of backlash in comments that I'd rather not read because, well, I've heard it all before and sadly, most people are predictable. :) I'm not saying everyone is, but, if you've been around as long as I have, you already know the truth. If you'd really and genuinely like to know what #5 is about, I'll tell you.
These days, I don't have any predictive imagery in my mind. Nor do I attempt to predict cards or attempt transcendental meditation. That last thing I just mentioned resulted in something that freaked me out a bit, not in a bad way, but I'm not going to go into it, either.
The paranormal investigator (one of many ghost hunters, so to speak,) brought all of her equipment, including dowsing rods, an EVP recorder, an EMF meter and a laptop computer showing orbs (spirits) she and others had videotaped during their investigations. Later, she shared information about a tour through a place where people, in a nearby city, had reported experiencing spirits one way or another. She didn't talk about the future tour much, in case you're wondering if she was there to make money off the local town folk. She was there to demonstrate how the instruments worked, how her own personal experience as a child got her interested in the paranormal and answering any questions that people had about ghosts.
She talked quite a bit about how her personal experience with spirits and how it told about and shown on TV, through reenactments. The paranormal investigator was interviewed about the full apparition she saw of a little girl named Nora, sitting on the floor in a room, upstairs at her childhood home.
The woman also was there to investigate someone who had died at the library she was speaking at. According to the dowsing rods and the EMF meter, something was definitely there and it was communicating what had happened when she died. For one thing, she used to work in the same old building a long time ago and she was pregnant at the time. Ever since my sister and her coworkers had been working at the library, they had heard talking, from out of nowhere and had seen things move (on their own?) while being employed at the library. It wasn't a malicious spirit, obviously. It just wanted to be acknowledged.
On her laptop computer, the investigator showed orbs, like I said and turned up the volume of strange, yet clear, disembodied voices.
There was a teenage girl, who worked at the library, who had an experience on a ghost hunting tour, a few months back, who was not associated with the investigator. She told us about how she thought a spirit from the place she toured had come back home with her. She said she could feel "him" touch her arms, at times, and how it felt cold or like being brushed by spider webs. This spirit, she said, had also displayed non-malicious behavior toward her but the investigator advised her that she should explain to the spirit that he was dead and should move on to the other side. Her family, who had also gone on the same tour, also heard voices "from out of nowhere" and felt things.
The other side, what happens after death, call it Heaven or what you will, is also something I happen to believe in for a great many number of personal reasons, NOT religious reasons.
The paranormal investigator seemed pretty genuine to me. I had an open mind about it because of things I and others close to me have witnessed and experienced. Btw, I'm quite open to any of your own experiences, concerning the paranormal in the comment section, or if you'd like, through email or Fartbook... er.. I mean Facebook.
Supposedly, I'm supposed to get a nice pair of dowsing rods from the link I already provided, as a gift, from my sister, for my birthday, October 3rd. I'm not saying I completely believe in dowsing rods but they may be of some personal good to me. I'm not saying anything beyond that.
Take care, everyone!
The lecture I went to was about ghost hunting and the woman giving the lecture belonged to an organization that has been around for a number of years and they have done a lot of investigations. She seemed to know what she was talking about. A large group of ordinary people had showed for the lecture and Q & A.
The lecture got me thinking about a lot of things that I experienced in my past.
I believe in ghosts and things that fall under the paranormal heading for a number of reasons. I've talked about those reasons on this blog in the past but to those who are relatively new to this blog that I've been doing since 2007, my reasons, in no particular order are:
1- I've lived in a house that was haunted. The entire family, our friends and even people we didn't know that well, saw and heard many unexplained incidents such as: chairs moving by themselves, laughter coming from our attic when no one was up there, the lights and TV going off and on, whispers of your name next to your ear while attempting to sleep, blood running down the walls, something pulling sheets off of a bed while you are attempting to sleep, black, smoke-like formations rushing past doorways, dolls' heads moving completely around by themselves, running footsteps being heard, coming up from the basement stairs up to the door leading to the hallway (when no one was there) and so on.
Some of this shit, that went on, I think I've purposefully forgotten, to avoid needless trauma.
If you've read this far without thinking me insane, wanting to mock me and everyone else who had to go through the shit we went through or wanting to debate me or point out how one or more things can easily be scientifically explained- then congratulations are in order for you. Kudos! It means you likely have an open mind. Otherwise, if you're here to debate me or do any of the other things I mentioned above, feel free to move on to the next blog about how someone's kid and their latest "hysterical" antic that everyone is dying to know about. Or something equally mundane. I'm not interested and will not respond, as you would probably like, to anything contrary that you have to say. I've heard it before and wasn't impressed. We, meaning the dozens of us who went through the hell of living there or visiting there, know what we went through and tried "scientifically" explaining away everything that happened. Didn't work. End of story.
I might add... and I will...
The only thing more irritating and frustrating to me than an overzealous disbeliever in anything they can't see or explain is an overzealous Christian trying to push their faith down your throat. Giving someone the benefit of a doubt is not the same as being gullible. Either person who displays this type of behavior is showing their arrogance and close mindedness. It's also a sign of someone who NEEDS to feed their ego to tear down one's ideas or beliefs with whatever well written malarkey that they can come up with. Just because it is well written or that person has the last word- it does not make them right.
2- My wife has spoken to the spirit of her deceased grandfather one night, while I was in bed and he gave her details about me that he couldn't have known, because he died three decades before I was even born. I've had several relatives see and talk to dead relatives, whether they were on their deathbeds in homes or hospitals or when they were just standing around, not doing anything in particular. Feelings of peace would usually accompany them while these incidents would happen.
3- I've also had some flashes or images come into my mind, while awake, of things that have happened. Most of those things (images) were of trivial matters. When these images would come into my mind, I would feel like I should remember them. I don't know why that feeling would come over me but it did. A month or two later and the image of the incident in my mind actually became a reality.
The one "picture" that I got in my head was of something that I didn't even know about or what it was and had never seen a picture of it before- until I was older, in school. It came to me when I was around four years old. It was a picture of a nuclear bomb going off. Bright mushroom cloud, everything being caught on fire, vaporized and so on. The whole bit. It was happening, I figured out later in life, in the same direction where a major city, about thirty miles away from where I live now, is located. I'm 48 years old and it is an image in my mind as horrifying and clear as it was when I was four years old.
4- I used to read whole decks of cards. Didn't matter which deck or where it came. They weren't in any order. I didn't cheat by marking any sides or had cards that were bent. I'd simply look at each face down card, say what it was, suit and number, turn it over and it would be what it said I knew it was going to be. Then I'd re-shuffle the cards again, predict the cards, again, correctly and then, one day, I thought to myself, This is too weird and I stopped doing it, altogether.
5- There is another thing I've been involved in, paranormally speaking, but I'm not mentioning it because it would take too long to explain and I'm afraid I'd get a lot of backlash in comments that I'd rather not read because, well, I've heard it all before and sadly, most people are predictable. :) I'm not saying everyone is, but, if you've been around as long as I have, you already know the truth. If you'd really and genuinely like to know what #5 is about, I'll tell you.
These days, I don't have any predictive imagery in my mind. Nor do I attempt to predict cards or attempt transcendental meditation. That last thing I just mentioned resulted in something that freaked me out a bit, not in a bad way, but I'm not going to go into it, either.
The paranormal investigator (one of many ghost hunters, so to speak,) brought all of her equipment, including dowsing rods, an EVP recorder, an EMF meter and a laptop computer showing orbs (spirits) she and others had videotaped during their investigations. Later, she shared information about a tour through a place where people, in a nearby city, had reported experiencing spirits one way or another. She didn't talk about the future tour much, in case you're wondering if she was there to make money off the local town folk. She was there to demonstrate how the instruments worked, how her own personal experience as a child got her interested in the paranormal and answering any questions that people had about ghosts.
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She talked quite a bit about how her personal experience with spirits and how it told about and shown on TV, through reenactments. The paranormal investigator was interviewed about the full apparition she saw of a little girl named Nora, sitting on the floor in a room, upstairs at her childhood home.
The woman also was there to investigate someone who had died at the library she was speaking at. According to the dowsing rods and the EMF meter, something was definitely there and it was communicating what had happened when she died. For one thing, she used to work in the same old building a long time ago and she was pregnant at the time. Ever since my sister and her coworkers had been working at the library, they had heard talking, from out of nowhere and had seen things move (on their own?) while being employed at the library. It wasn't a malicious spirit, obviously. It just wanted to be acknowledged.
On her laptop computer, the investigator showed orbs, like I said and turned up the volume of strange, yet clear, disembodied voices.
There was a teenage girl, who worked at the library, who had an experience on a ghost hunting tour, a few months back, who was not associated with the investigator. She told us about how she thought a spirit from the place she toured had come back home with her. She said she could feel "him" touch her arms, at times, and how it felt cold or like being brushed by spider webs. This spirit, she said, had also displayed non-malicious behavior toward her but the investigator advised her that she should explain to the spirit that he was dead and should move on to the other side. Her family, who had also gone on the same tour, also heard voices "from out of nowhere" and felt things.
The other side, what happens after death, call it Heaven or what you will, is also something I happen to believe in for a great many number of personal reasons, NOT religious reasons.
The paranormal investigator seemed pretty genuine to me. I had an open mind about it because of things I and others close to me have witnessed and experienced. Btw, I'm quite open to any of your own experiences, concerning the paranormal in the comment section, or if you'd like, through email or Fartbook... er.. I mean Facebook.
Supposedly, I'm supposed to get a nice pair of dowsing rods from the link I already provided, as a gift, from my sister, for my birthday, October 3rd. I'm not saying I completely believe in dowsing rods but they may be of some personal good to me. I'm not saying anything beyond that.
Take care, everyone!
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