Paranormal Sensitive

I’ve seen the paranormal since as far back as I can remember when I was three years of age. I remember visitors coming to my room when I was younger when my parents would be out in the living room and I was sent to bed. I thought my mom had her friends come over nightly to come see how I was doing and check on me. Most times I had fun with them. All of sudden, the nice visitors stopped coming and I had other visitors come and began to torment me.

There used to be what I called The Grim Reaper type of figure in a dark robe that covered it’s face and it’s hands. The dark hole where the face would be was darker than dark and it would stand there at the end of my bed and face me. Never moving. Never making a sound. Just standing there. I remember that robe was so big and it was so tall, where the top of the head almost touched the 7+ ft ceiling of the room. It came for a long time and by morning it would disappear.

Shortly after The Grim Reaper left, something else came for me. Something more terrifying in my mind. Something else to hurt and torment me almost nightly. Something else made sure I couldn't scream for help. I fought to free myself from its grasp and jump into my parents bed and lie between them. It watched me from the foot of the bed between the rails and glare. Do you want to know what this thing was? I believe now as I look back at it that this was the Grim Reaper that now changed itself into a Blonde haired, Blue Eyed little boy who had a peg leg. Yes, you read that right. I said a peg leg. Like a pirate with a peg leg.

Close your eyes, imagine a small child hearing another small child's footstep approaching from the kitchen. With each small step, there was a loud clop that dragged upon the ceramic floor and then as your heart races faster you begin to feel almost out of breath. You hear that small child step down from the kitchen into the bedroom and peek around the dresser that blocked the doorways view. That blonde haired boy with blue eyes slowly walking around the side of the dresser and standing there. First with a smile on his face. Then the smile became frightening and menacing and you could feel like you wanted to run but there was nowhere to go. His demeanor would change. His face turned into this evil look and that grin that would appear made you realize something bad was going to happen. The intensity and air of the room changes. My voice seemed to disappear as my parents lay nearby across the room and I couldn't even scream to get them as they slept. That child then charged at me. Removing his peg leg and hitting me with it until I was able to get free and jump into my parent’s bed. I could hear him behind me chasing to catch up to me so I couldn’t get away and every time I did and climbed in between my parents he’d stand at the end of the bed and look through the railings at the foot of the bed and sway back and forth. Expressionless. Letting the rails rub against his face as he pressed his face into the railings swaying back and forth. We locked eyes for what seemed like an eternity. Eventually I woke up and it was morning. As each day came, I always seemed to forget about each night and then when the evenings would hit and I knew it was time to go to bed, I’d remember why I was afraid to go to sleep. I was afraid to lay on the opposite side of the room from my parents bed because “that boy” would come and get me. He always came to get me. I would fight my mom to stay up and not go to sleep. She would think that I was just being a child who didn’t want to go to bed and I couldn’t explain what was going on. What I was seeing. What was after me. That child’s face, nails, skin was so cold. I remember seeing close to his nails when he’d grab me and the tips of his fingers were almost blue. His hair was always messy…. But that peg leg of his was so frightening. Just the sound it made as he made his way through the kitchen. The step, then drag and clop against ceramic. It always sounded like it was on a hardwood floor yet our kitchen didn’t have hardwood. All I could do was lie there in bed.. All I could do was wait. Wait to see his fingertips curl around the dresser... the silence was so loud in the room for me, then his head would quickly peak around the side of the dresser and he’d stare at me. Finally, what seemed like an eternity, he’d slowly step out from beside it and just stand there looking at me for quite a while… The room started to feel different and I knew something was about to happen. He’d have this evil sneer come across his face and I would pull the blankets up to my nose and that’s when he would charge at me and pounce on me in bed. There were a couple times that I thought I wouldn’t see him and I’d wake up with someone messing with my legs and I thought it was my brother trying to get in bed with me and when I’d lift my head to see, it was this boy who would then jump on top of me and hit me with his leg that he’d taken off. I would always manage to get away and jump in between my parents and that boy would look between the rails at the foot of the bed and just stare at him. He’d move his face along the rails of the bed, swaying from side to side. Eventually I’d fall asleep.

Some nights, (which was rare) I would get up and go into the bathroom and there would be a woman's hands that would reach out of the mirror above the sink as if she was reaching for me. Other instances would be that in this bathroom across the room from the sink was this built in closet that protruded from the wall. The door would always seem to come ajar as I sat on the toilet and I would see and sense this person staring at me. I would end up having to run across the bathroom, through the kitchen and jump into bed and cover up because I was scared.

Later we came to find out that my dad kept it a secret that a woman was murdered in the bathroom in that little house we lived in. Her throat was slit and she died by the toilet.

You would think moving would have solved my ghost problems for sure and boy was I relieved that we moved up the street from that crazy little house… Well, not so much… Being sensitive to these types of things, I’ve learned there is no freedom from ghosts/spirits. You just learn to co-exist with those who don’t physically exist anymore.. .

When we moved from that little house in the alley that was across from a park, we moved into a bigger home. I was relieved. I thought my night torment was over but it seems we only walked into a new situation. The moment we came to see the house we were going to move into we heard noises. It sounded like someone was banging on the pipes in the basement and my dad went into the basement to see if someone was hiding there. He came back upstairs where we were. Suddenly, the doors upstairs began opening and closing hard. They were being slammed nonstop until my dad decided to go upstairs and said something then it all stopped.

Within a week we had moved everything in and within a week things started happening that made me nervous to want to sleep at night. There were two dominant figures in the home that made their presence known. There was a woman whom we (meaning my siblings) nicknamed “Flower Lady” who had a scent of flowers and she made me feel at peace and calm. Then there was “Musk Man” who wasn’t so nice. He had a very gross musk smell that came with him and his presence made me feel uncomfortable. I was anxious and he made you feel like something bad was going to happen. It wasn’t good. Living in the home for over 15 years, again I learned to coexist for spirits/ghosts that had been living there already.

As I got older I came across many other spirits. Some needed help. Some wanted to give a message. Some just weren't ready to move on and wanted to just remain where they were. Some just continue to do their daily routine.

Along the way, I decided to be a founder for a great Paranormal Group because I wanted to help not just the ghosts/spirits, but the people who live with them.

Being a paranormal sensitive/medium I have seen ghost hunting groups who mistreat these spirits/ghosts as if they are some sort of prop. These are still human beings without bodies. Then you have groups go in and pull out a Ouija board and want to “communicate” with spirits/ghosts. These groups have no idea how wrong that is. They are opening doors that they don’t understand and causing bad things to enter.

Some even lie and tell the spirit they will help them or will do something for them and then don’t after the spirit does what is asked of them. It’s wrong. A spirit doesn’t need to be manipulated, lied to, etc so one can validate their existence. It’s wrong.

I’ve also been asked how do I make non-believers believe in spirits/ghosts? My answer is quite simple. I don’t. It’s not my job to convince someone that they exist. If you’ve never had an experience you can’t force an experience to happen. One may NEVER have an experience. There are some that never had an experience and finally had one and they became a believer. It’s not my job to convince someone. Nor should you try.

In the meantime, I just go on each day and do my normal routine and if a spirit/ghost happens to show itself to me or want to talk I am here to listen, but my goal is to help them move on if possible.

Do you think you’re haunted? Do you think you are being watched? Do you hear your name called? Have you thought you’ve seen someone? There is good news. 90% of people that think they are haunted are really not. There are obvious explanations for what they think they are hearing and/or seeing.

I think I have a spirit in my house and it’s evil or worse... Good news there as well, 90% of what you think is evil IS NOT. There are a couple ghost shows on TV that automatically make claims of something being evil or worse at a location. NOT TRUE! On rare occasions it does happen, but it's not as often as it’s made to seem.

Not all voices that you hear that are scratchy are evil. It’s not bad. It’s the voice of a person who’s body is now invisible. How do you know that person didn’t have surgery or something before they died? How do you know it’s just not their voice?

What’s more irritating to me is the fact that I see certain ghost hunting groups on TV swear that any female child spirit that one comes across is EVIL! That’s not true! Not all child spirits are from a different realm ready to cause harm to someone.

What are some things that I have come across that people have sworn to me that their place is haunted and I found logical explanations to some of these situations that were told to me that I was able to debunk.

1. A ball dropped on the floor and it seemed to move from one area to the middle of the floor - the floor was not level

2. There is a knock on the wall that happens periodically - Behind the wall, there is piping which knocks against the inside of the wall now and again making it sound like someone was banging on the wall

3. Things are falling off the shelves on the wall - when you place wet items on the shelf that is already not level things will slip off the shelf

4. I’ve seen numerous people take a picture from the outside of location on a sunny day and there are trees in the reflection and they will swear to me that I need to focus on that blob type image in the picture - most times when people take pictures aimed at glass what they catch is the reflection of trees or something behind them and your mind wants to make sense of the image and causes matrixing. Your mind will try to turn the image into an image in your mind that is most recognizable. Now, this isn’t the case all the time. I have seen great images caught in the reflection of windows of an actual apparition caught behind someone or into a residence/location by snapping images. I’m discussing those who take a picture and see the reflection of a tree or trees and you see the branches and leaves and if there is a branch that is bent differently and there is a larger opening between branches, people will assume that they can see a blob in the image and swear it’s something evil coming after them.

5. You’ve gone into the basement and the light would flicker on and on and you just know someone is there with you - well, it could be several things. #1 - you have loose wiring or brackets near the stairs to your basement so when you walk down the steps it knocks against the bracket or wiring and it shakes it causing the flickering or #2 - it could be bad wiring all together

6. You feel you are being watched - in most cases, the EMF (electromagnetic field) could be really high in certain areas which can cause:

a. Sleep issues

b. Insomnia

c. Fatigue

d. Headaches

e. Paranoia

f. Sometimes skin irritations

g. Anxiety

h. Changes in mood

i. Dizziness

j. Irritability

7. You saw a shadow in the hall or near you - Sometimes, it’s your own shadow and isn’t paranormal

8. You feel paralyzed and can’t seem to move in your own bed - sometimes, people have what is called sleep paralysis. It’s where your body is going from full sleep to waking up and it causes you to not be able to move your body yet your eyes are opened and you are aware of what is going on. Some people may feel pressure on their chest or as if they are being choked. It’s best to be able to realize that it’s more likely sleep paralysis than something evil holding you down. If more people look at it more scientifically then it should calm their fears and help them not panic and think something is there to harm them.

Now there are some cases where you may have something come and bother you in your sleep, but a more obvious case should be looked at and talked about before going towards the thought that an invisible something is attacking you.

I’ve had to show people to look for obvious answers to the things that are happening around them. Don’t automatically panic and think a spirit is haunting you. That’s normally not the case.

For those that are determined to do their own ghost hunting here are some tips to follow:

1. Understand that these were once living breathing individuals and now just exist without that body

2. Don’t treat these people as your prop to prove that spirits exist

3. Don’t yell, talk down, demean, disrespect the spirits

4. DO NOT use Ouija Boards to “talk to a spirit” because you have no idea what you are asking to come through one place to another. I believe “you are tearing holes from one world to the next” so you can end a Ouija session, but you aren’t closing the actual door and now you’ve just opened it for anything and everything to pass to and from where it was to where you opened the spiritual door.

5. Respect Respect Respect those who are no longer living. Did I say Respect? Show respect!

6. Don’t ask the spirits to do something ridiculous so you can film it for your pleasure

7. Don’t make promises you don’t plan on keeping with the spirit(s). Meaning - don’t tell a spirit that if they “perform” for you in some way that you will do XYZ for them and then don’t do it. You’ve now deceived that spirit

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WHY ARE GHOSTS/SPIRITS AROUND?

Ghosts are around because they may not have had a chance to finish what they wanted to do and have returned to try to complete their task(s).

Sometimes spirits linger around because they have a message that they want relayed to someone or several people. Some don’t know that they have passed on. Maybe it was a sudden death and they are left confused as to what is going on, while others just aren’t accepting of their passing and weren’t ready to go.

WHY ARE SOME GHOSTS/SPIRITS SO MEAN?

I get asked this question A LOT. I don’t believe all ghosts/spirits are mean. I believe several things are happening:

1. There’s a lack of understanding from the person who sees a spirit and automatically thinks the spirit is mean or worse when a spirit is just trying to let someone know he/she/they are there

2. Spirits may make noise or move things to try and let you know they are there. So if you see something levitate in front of you or slide across the room or something else … don’t automatically assume THE SPIRIT IS MEAN OR WORSE… 90% of the time that is not true.

3. Some spirits/ghosts as I mentioned before don’t know they’ve passed on or refuse to accept they are dead and will mess with people to try and scare them out of what was their home by any means possible. Think about it… if you didn’t know you passed on and all of a sudden your stuff was gone and someone was moving in and changing how you decorated and was changing things up and they couldn’t see and you had the chance to make a big noise and scare them so you could have your old to yourself again I’m sure you’d do that too… Doesn’t make you a bad person. You just may not understand that you’ve passed away or you are just refusing to move on because you are stubborn.

4. Some spirits/ghosts are harassed by the living. People are always wanting a spirit to perform and do something for them when the spirit(s) may not want to

5. Some people accuse the spirit(s) of being some evil entity and/or worse and talk down to the spirit(s) with no respect. So OF COURSE the spirit(s) are going to get tired of being accused of something that they aren’t and get mad. Just because they have no body anymore doesn’t mean they don’t have feelings.

6. Some spirits/ghosts were just mean when they were living and sadly, when they passed, they are still mean after the fact and the person on the receiving end gets to see, feel and/or hear that

Now don’t get me wrong, there are some spirits that are evil, but that’s normally not the case. There are spirits that claim to be something they aren’t as well just to scare the person to make them leave them alone.

WHY DO ONLY CERTAIN PEOPLE CAN SEE GHOSTS/SPIRITS?

This is still up in the air about this. Some believe certain people are more sensitive to them while others believe some people’s minds are more open to any/all possibilities. For those who are sensitive, they are like beacons for the spirits to come to them.

WHAT EQUIPMENT DOES ONE NEED TO DO INVESTIGATE?

Here a few things that one should always have with them:

Whistles - (if walkie talkies are drained or break you can still be located. So blow your whistle in case of emergency)

Compass - because some of your other equipment can give false positives, you can use a compass to see if there is an energy around you. The energy affects even a compass and can cause it to spin when it shouldn’t

K2 EMF Meter - can be used to communicate with a spirit by lighting up to give yes or no answers

Flashlights - if you loosen the end of one, it can be used as a way to communicate by giving a yes or no answers

Voice Recorders - always start by saying your location, who you're with, if you're on a certain floor say what floor you're on. If you make a noise say that it was you on the recorder, try not to whisper so softly that it’s mistaken for a spirits voice being caught

Cameras - You will need full spectrum cameras. Something that can see in the dark and capture things that the naked eye can’t see at the time of the investigation

Batteries - you will need all types of batteries for your equipment so stock up

Full Spectrum still camera - be able to take actual photos that can see in the dark in case something is there and it can be seen by the camera if not by the naked eye

Thermal Imaging Camera - helps you see hot and cold spots of what is around you

Kinect SLS camera - helps you be able to see if something else is there with you by giving it a stick figure shape

Equipment Case - you will need something to put your equipment in that will be protective. Or use something of your own to protect your equipment

Mel-Meter - reads the temperature around you

Rem Pod - the spirit can touch it to help give you yes and no answers or let you know that they are around you

Spirit Box - when you ask questions you can turn on the spirit box and hope to get a response through it. My only issue is that sometimes what is said isn’t clear and then a person in a group will say that the spirit said this or that when that is not what is heard at all.

Walkie Talkies - as a way to communicate with the group

Other things that would be needed on an investigation that aren’t ghost related but for the protection of your group would be:

1. Bug spray

2. Medical info on each staff member and in case of emergency contact info and a hospital request where one would want to go in case of an accident if possible

3. First-Aid equipment like gauze, band-aids, ace bandage, tape, scissors, swabs, etc.

4. Swabs for Bee Stings

5. Tasers - can be used for protection if you are uneasy in a location

WHAT NOT TO WEAR OR DO BEFORE AN INVESTIGATION

1. Do not put on cologne or perfume - it will prevent you from smelling any phantom smell(s)

2. Do not smoke before going on an investigation - same reasoning as above; it will prevent you and others from smelling any phantom smells because you’ll only be able to smell the cigarette smoke

3. Basic rule of thumb - DO NOT wear/put something on your body that will be an overpowering smell that you can’t smell anything else around you that will stop you from being able to investigate because all they smell is you.

CAN YOU GIVE ANY ADVICE FOR THOSE WANTING TO INVESTIGATE?

*Be respectful

*Know some information about a location before going to a location

*DO NOT use Ouija boards … you are only causing more problems for yourselves and a location

*DON’T use spirits as your prop for your amusement

*DON’T make promises you don’t intend on keeping

*Look for obvious things in a location before claiming it to be haunted

*DO NOT threaten a spirit(s)

*DO NOT think a spirit is EVIL because YOU don’t understand what is going on. Whether you hear noises, voices, etc.

*Did I mention … BE RESPECTFUL!!!!

*DO NOT expect a spirit(s) to want to talk to you unless he/she/they want to (you got to remember that there may be a spirit(s) who have groups come in all the time and ask them to do things ALL THE TIME or aren’t respectful and they don’t like it)

*Let the spirit(s) know your name(s).. Make sure you make a known introduction to the location.

*Be understanding and know that spirits work on their time, not your time

*If you have been scratched or marked by a spirit - take pictures of it and take pictures of your hands to show that there is no blood on your fingernails from scratching yourself

*I know you may get scared and that fight or flight moment takes over, but if a ghost decides to interact with you, please don’t yell out curse words because he/she/they complied

*If you’re scared, please don’t run (unless stuff is being thrown directly at you or you are being harmed in any way), you are there to collect evidence. You can’t collect it when you are running the opposite direction

*Stay with a partner at all times. If one person is going down the hall and one is on the other end that is fine, but don’t disappear far away from your partner without telling them where you are going. Why? Because if you get hurt or are caught in a situation that no one knows about, your team won’t know where you are or what happened. So stay together.

*Remember if you are going to ghost hunt in a cemetery, contact the local police department so they don’t come there to arrest you for loitering. In fact, any commercial location you go to it’s best to let the police department know in case a neighbor or passer by doesn’t think you are breaking and entering at a location. Residential homes shouldn’t be a problem with the owners permission of course.

*Make sure you have your ID with you at all times (I personally had made my Group, ID name tags with a picture on the front) or wear your group shirts with who you represent

*Keep all information confidential about a location unless you have written consent to share some info about that location

*Make sure you have appropriate insurance when you investigate in case someone gets hurt. Some locations will not let you on their property unless you have insurance in case you/they get hurt or you accidentally break something on the premises. You need to be covered.

*Please don’t break into abandoned places to investigate just to catch something on camera.

WHY DOES ONE GHOST HUNTING GROUP DO THINGS DIFFERENT AND SAY OTHER GROUPS ARE DOING THINGS WRONG?

Each group has their own rules. Not that one group is wrong and another isn’t. Sometimes, groups just make up their own rules to what their beliefs are.

CAN ONE PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF SPIRITS/GHOSTS?

Spirits/ghosts are not accepted by the scientific community at all. There is no way to prove that they exist. Even if one sees, hears, feels them. There is no way in the scientific community to prove their existence.

I WAS RAISED TO BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS SPIRITS/GHOSTS

I was raised that God made heaven and the earth. God made the seen and unseen. We are to believe there is a heaven, yet we’ve never been there. We can only imagine what it looks like because of what is written. We are to believe in His Angels and we have only a description. We are to believe in the Holy Spirit and we have no idea what the Holy Spirit looks like. Most of us believe in God or a greater being and have never seen him. So why can’t there be spirits. In the bible there was a man that called forth spirits/ghosts of those passed on. So why can’t there be more than what is written? Am I forcing you to believe in the unknown? The Unseen? Of course not. I am just stating my point of view.

HAS A GHOST/SPIRIT EVER HELPED SOLVE THEIR OWN MURDER?

Yes, there was one such case on record. She was known as the “Greenbrier Ghost of Virginia” Her name was Elva Zona Heaster who married Erasmus Stribbling Trout Shue. He was a very abusive man and on Jan 23, 1897 she was found dead at the bottom of the staircase by a small boy who was running an errand. Erasmus arrived at home and appeared distraught realizing his wife had died and carried her body upstairs to the bedroom. The coroner was trying to examine the body and Erasmus would weep and sob, covering up her head so the coroner couldn’t examine Elva. Finally the coroner gave up trying to examine the body when Erasmus became angry and violent. Erasmus dressed his wife’s body, covering up her bruises and broken neck by placing a dress on her with a slightly taller collar that was more stiff to keep her head from showing the wounds. He also placed a dark veil over her face.

No one suspected any foul play. At the Funeral the next day he placed a pillow next to her head and tied a scarf around her neck claiming it was her favorite. He wouldn’t allow anyone to approach Elva’s body and became suspicious of everyone at the funeral and in town.

Elva’s mother, Mary Jane, needed no convincing that he did this to her daughter, she just wanted to know how and why it was done and she prayed continuously for Elva to come to her and tell her what had happened. Finally Elva came to her for four nights in a row in her dreams and explained that Erasmus was an abusive man. He snapped one night after thinking she didn’t have food on the table for him and broke her neck. He then threw her body down the stairs. To prove to her mother her neck was broken she turned her head backwards to face behind her.

Elva’s mother, Mary Jane, went and told the local prosecutor. It was unclear if he believed the woman or not but was willing to reopen the case. Elva’s body was exhumed and examined and it was also noted that Erasmus refused to let Elva be examined by the coroner when he came.

On Feb 22, 1897 it was recorded by law for Erasmus to be at the new autopsy of his wife while the procedure was going on. He complained the entire time that it was being done, but could do nothing to prevent anyone from thoroughly looking at her body this time. After the long 3 hour autopsy was performed in a one-room schoolhouse 3 coroners findings were completed:

1. The neck was broken and her windpipe was smashed

2. Fingerprints were present on her throat proving she was choked

3. The neck was dislocated between the 1st and 2nd vertebrae

4. The ligaments in the neck were torn and ruptured

5. The windpipe had been crushed at the point in front of the neck

Within 2 weeks of the autopsy being completed, Erasmus was arrested for the murder of Elva. While waiting for his trial new evidence came to light. His first wife, Allis Cutlip, divorced him for being a horse thief and for the grounds of cruelty. His second wife, Lucy Tritt, died after falling and striking her head on a rock. He let it be known to reporters that no evidence could convict him of the murder of Zona and he wanted to eventually marry seven women.

On Jul 11, 1897 he was convicted of the murder of his wife Elva and sentenced to life. He never lived that long. 3 years later he died from an epidemic that was going around in the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville and was later buried in an unmarked grave in a cemetery nearby.

DO YOU BELIEVE THAT A HIGH EMF FIELD WILL MAKE 100’s OF PEOPLE OVER TIME SEE THE SAME THING?

No, I don’t. I believe that the high emf field that is around makes it easier for spirits/ghosts to manifest. It would not cause people to see the same thing over and over for years on different occasions.

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