Monday, March 18, 2013

Ghosts have a new trick??

Last night I was pondering a recent investigation. I asked my guides for help , as I had this suspicion that kept popping up, and after that happens three times, I know I am supposed to be paying attention. I asked and received a simple, and very interesting answer!

Originally on this case there was a strong guardian spirit. Very warm, friendly, even enthusiastic. I wasn't able to communicate with it, as it was on a voice mail, so I don't know if it were a guide or a passed loved one. It was certainly nothing to worry about, and even decidedly helpful.

We investigated. There were two spirits when we entered the upstairs of the house who immediately retreated. They retreated in a major way, as in out of the area totally. All  through the investigation there wasn't a word. No answers to any questions, and not much of anything really. I still have video evidence to review, but for the most part, things were very quiet. I realize now it is because they didn't know the answers and didn't want to be tripped up.

Then just before we finished up for the night, and after making comments as to being almost finished, we heard things. There are two recordings, that are not technically EVPs because I, and one other person, heard them with our ears. There are more recordings that may be also, but no one was in the area, so we can't say for sure if they were EVP or disembodied voices.  The ones we heard were a baby cry that almost sounded like a pull string doll, and another was the ever classic "get out".

"Get out" usually comes with a creepy feeling, a touch, a scratch, cold air, an item flying across the room. This was just a low whisper telling me to "get out", again I heard it with my ears. It wasn't even the least bit scary, it was like it had no energy behind it.

Another EVP, which may also not be an actual EVP, but we can't say for sure as no one was in the area when the recording was made, said "we know who you are". I think it is kind of funny in a few ways. One, why tell the air that it knows who we are? We were in two groups at the time, one up in a bedroom, one in a dining area, and we could easily have had the spirit talk to us. We were hearing them with our ears, so there was no use for the recorder. They knew we heard them as I commented on the ones we did hear right at the time. So why just go make a comment where no one actually was? The other funny part was it was a cliche. Something you hear in all the ghost movies. A ghostly catch phrase.

It was like ghosts playing games. They do that. But it kept niggling at me. There was more to it. These were disembodied voices, MUCH stronger than a spirit who just comes across on EVP.These spirits should be able to rock the house. The guardian wasn't present, which makes sense as his charge wasn't present either, but away at a family member's house. He would stay with her and not the house. They weren't bad or mean, they were strong enough to cause harm, but didn't even begin to go there. So what was up?

So who showed up late for the party?

People seem to think that spirits are attached to places. They generally are where they are, because they want to be there so badly, even in death. They may be confused. They may have built the home there themselves, or living loved ones are still there. They may be afraid to pass so they stay where they are, but they are never trapped, unless they were a suicide or a strong negative entity is holding them there. The second one is rare. They could still leave technically, but it would be a fight of sorts.

Spirits can come and go wherever they please for the most part. The "guardian" went with his charge, and who came in? Who were these two strong "fraidy cat ghosts"? Were they always there? I don't think so, they had no energy permeating the house. It was like they were not there, yet they had to be strong to make disembodied voices!!  This puzzled me. Something I had never experienced before, or at least realized before. There was one possible answer that I immediately dismissed, that would be that the clients put recorders in the  house to play out phrases as intervals. That was clearly NOT what was happening.

So I did what I do every time I get a metaphysical question I can't figure out, I went to the other side for details. The answer was simple, amusing, and something for ghost hunters and homeowners to think about.
When I asked who the spirits were, the answer was "just some spirits wandering through". OK,that is common enough, more common than you may want to think when you are alone at 2 AM, but it is very common. That made sense. But the messages they were spouting and the "baby doll" noise were puzzling. So of course my next question was that if they didn't belong there, why the messages like "get out" and "we know who you are", the answer was simple and one word, "TV". Apparently not only are we watching Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures and Dead Files, but they are too. And why not! Maybe they actually learn something from the shows, or see that there dead uncle starred on last week's episode. When we watch these shows religiously, we probably get a reputation in our local spirit world as open minded or welcoming....a whole other thing to think about.

I then asked my guide "So they got that typical ghost movie crap from a TV show?" He said "yes" and told me which one, I won't mention it. But it made total sense. I had heard these exact words more than once on that show.

So now our ghosts are watching and imitating ghost hunt shows! I thought it was bad enough that the amateur ghost hunters were doing that, but apparently they aren't the only ones. Once my guide said it to me, it all made sense. It "felt right". I thought, how dumb are we that we don't realize that spirits have watched lots of shows. When they know that the blue house on the corner watches Ghost Adventures every Friday, and they are a fan, the whole ghostly crew probably goes in and has a seat, watches and leaves. They may have their own conversation about the show and the "ghostie" feeling the homeowners get while watching the show is because they have a bunch of house guests they can't see!

It puts a whole new spin on ghost hunting. Are the ghosts in any one particular investigation acting out a starring ghost's role on GA Crew? Do homeowners who watch these shows religiously have more hauntings and paranormal activity? Is there a spirit reading this as I write, or as you read? Probably. Do they just try the "cliches" to see if you are scared? I mean after all,  it is no fun to haunt you if you aren't afraid. So do people who watch ghost shows, and have no effects from them, have no haunts,  where people who watch all the time and have trouble sleeping have more? This is a great study for a parapsychologist, maybe one will write a thesis on it.

We DO know that if investigate in your own home repeatedly (or any home really), you will stir things up. Spirits will know where to go for attention. Do they know that going to homes that watch ghost investigation shows are places where they will get attention? When people constantly do EVP work in their own home they find more and more voices, and more and more spirits come to be heard, do the ghost shows work the same way? Looks like they do!

How does this skew our evidence? I mean if a ghost is acting a part, and just passing through, it isn't a haunt. You have heard Jason Hawes say that just having an EVP or two doesn't mean you have a haunting, and that is true for just that reason, spirits pass through! Will the amateur ghost hunters call more and more "passing through acting ghosts" haunts? Will the spirits now have catch phrases, like "get out"? I would think from the shows they know that "get out" doesn't work to get investigators to leave.

It opens up a whole new area of ideas to explore. At least now I have an answer that makes sense. It sounded like a cheap "B" grade horror movie, but they were working with the best they had. By the way, the "get out" didn't work with us either.

It puts a whole new area of possibility into residential investigations. It's better than the "investigators" who saw a demon in every haunt thanks to Ryan Buell and the old version of Zach Bagans. Thank goodness that is finally wearing off. Ryan is gone and Zach got smarter. We have enough actual bad stuff out there to deal with,  than to make a cranky old ghost into a demon.

This realization however doesn't change the answers we gave the clients. Nothing to worry about. However, maybe we need to tell them to cut back on their ghost show viewing. So another puzzling , nagging thought was resolved, and I think it is kind of funny that I never thought of it in the first place!

Remember, ghosts were people too!!

Happy haunting!!



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