Was 9-11 and Beyond encoded in a book meant to guide us all? A Book Copyrighted 4 Years before the Events

Submitted by Donald Ryles PhD, CH

In the troubled times we now live in people are turning to many sources for comfort and guidance. Some turn to religion, some to government, and still others seek something new.

Author Donald Ryles PhD, CH, a Metaphysician and clairvoyant, feels that Hidden Secrets of Many, But One was "spiritually sent through me as a guide for us all… for our happiness and well-being" Dr. Ryles further feels the book "contains 17 messages and connections to 9-11, war after, and beyond… even mentions of the flight numbers of the attack planes and a vivid description of the World's reaction to the attacks… numerically sent and encoded 4 years before 9-11".

The work, which has been described as a non-religious, but spiritual journey for everyone, also partially chronicles the paranormal life of the author leading to the writing of Many, But One including unusual supernatural events, an often terrifying childhood in a haunted house, life after death contact, and more.

Richard Fuller of Metaphysical Reviews has said Hidden Secrets of Many, But One "kept him riveted" and it is quickly becoming much talked about among the paranormally inclined as well as general readers.

The book is available wherever books are sold and the author’s website is www.drryles.com.

Ouija: A Research

Before anything else, let us ask ourselves, what is a Ouija (often pronounced as "wee-gee")? Any ideas? Ok, for those who do not know what is Ouija, allow me to reduce your ignorance of the subject.

Ouija: The Definition

According to Wikipedia: A Ouija is any flat surface printed with letters, numbers, and other symbols, to which a planchette or movable indicator points, supposedly in answer to questions from people at a séance. The fingers of the participants are placed on the planchette that then moves about the board to spell out messages. Ouija is a trademark for a talking board currently sold by Parker Brothers. While the word is not considered a generic trademark, it has become a trademark which is often used generically to refer to any talking board. In popular culture these boards are considered to be a spiritual gateway used to contact the dead; however, the only evidence for this is the various accounts of users.

Ouija's History

There are many rumors regarding the history of Ouija or Talking/Spirit Board. Some people believed that Ouija Boards are ancient dating back as far as 1200 B.C., while some said that it dates back to 540 B.C.

Ouija was even related to an ancient Chinese spirit writing called Fu Ji (扶乩). Other sources claim that according to a French historical account of the philosopher Pythagoras, his sect would conduct séances at a mystic table, moving on wheels, moved towards signs, which the philosopher and his pupil, Philolaus, interpreted to the audience as being revelations supposedly from an unseen world. However, there is no actual historical record of Pythagoras or his students actually having used this method of achieving oracles or divinations. In addition, the claim of ancient Greek use is called into doubt by questions of historical accuracy, as Philolaus was never the pupil of Pythagoras, and indeed was born roughly twenty-five years after Pythagoras's death.

Frank Gaynor’s 1953 Dictionary of Mysticism states that ancient boards of different shapes and sizes “were used in the sixth century before Christ.” In a wide range of books and articles, everyone from the Greeks to the Mongols to the Ancient Egyptians is said to have possessed Ouija-like devices. But the claims rarely withstand scrutiny.

Other writers tend to relate Ouija with other divination tools, such as pendulum dishes, for Ouija boards. Oracles were rich and varied from culture to culture – from Germanic runes to Greek Delphic rites – but the prevailing literature on oracular traditions supports no suggestion that talking boards, as we know them, were in use before the Spiritualist era.

Now, note that all of the claims above have no supporting evidences, therefore, as true paranormal researchers, we tend to consider them as exaggerations. The only historical events that is considered factual are base on the surviving documents that traces back to the Spiritualist movement of the 1800s.

According to Lewis Spence's earlier book, An Encyclopedia of Occultism (1920), the planchette (the pointer used in Ouija) was invented in 1853 by a French Spiritualist named M. Planchette, who created a small heart-shaped table that had pencils for legs. As the planchette, as it came to be known, moved, it wrote out spirit messages. This was a form of "automatic writing" and was often difficult to decipher. However, there is some question about whether M. Planchette ever really existed, especially since the word planchette (French for "little plank") would be a logical name for the little automatic writing tool, even without the inventor’s name.

During the late 1800s, planchettes were widely sold as a novelty. The businessmen Elijah Bond and Charles Kennard had the idea to patent a planchette sold with a board on which the alphabet was printed. The patentees filed on May 28, 1890 for patent protection and thus had invented the first Ouija board. Issue date on the patent was February 10, 1891. They received U.S. Patent 446,054.

Charles Kennard and his Kennard Novelty Company are responsible for being the first to patent the Ouija. He called the new creation "Ouija" because he claims that the board told him that Ouija was Egyptian for "Good Luck." Well, Ouija isn't really "Good Luck" in Egyptian but no one seemed to know or care. Since then, this is how it came to be known up until now.

His advertisements claimed that the Ouija board would "give an intelligent answer to any question". Unfortunately for Kennard, his shop foreman orchestrated a hostile takeover by his financial backers and by 1892, the Ouija board was in the hands of William Fuld.

Fuld reinvented the history of the Ouija board once he owned the company. He claimed he had invented the talking board and that the name came from a combination of Oui (French) and Ja (German) – making the name of the board "Yes, Yes." He also claimed to be guided in business by the board.

In 1898, William and his brother Isaac went into business together under the name Isaac Fuld and Brother, leasing the "Ouija" name from The Ouija Novelty Company. In addition to talking boards, the brothers also manufactured pool tables and other billiards accessories.

By 1901, the brothers' partnership had ended in a bitter feud. William Fuld changed the name of his company to the William Fuld Manufacturing Company. Going against an injunction, Isaac continued to manufacture talking boards under the name "Oriole" that were exact replicas of the boards that he and his brother had made. William sued his brother in a case that remained open until 1919.

William Fuld’s first talking board trademark, "Oracle", was filed in 1902. A crafty businessman, Fuld sued companies whose talking boards infringed on his trademarks or patents. It cannot be said whether or not he actually took himself seriously. However his numerous publicity stunts made the talking board a very successful product for Fuld, claiming in 1920 that the Ouija board had made him more than $1 million in profit.

In order to combat the growing competition for other talking board manufacturers, Fuld knew that if he himself made a cheaper version of his own product he would get more business. In 1919, he introduced the "Mystifying Oracle", an exact replica of his Ouija board that sold for less money. He also launched a line of trademarked Ouija jewelry and Ouija Oil for rheumatism. Fuld also trademarked the names "Egyptian Luck board", "Hindu Luck board" and "WE-JA" as well as a trademark detailing the way the word "Ouija" would be displayed.

William Fuld became a member of the Baltimore General Assembly in 1924. On February 24, 1927, Fuld climbed to the roof of his three-story factory to supervise the installation of a flagpole. When the rail against which he was leaning gave way, Fuld fell to the ground below. While being transported, a fractured rib pierced his heart and William Fuld died at the hospital. Witnesses reported Fuld’s fall was an accident, but rumors persist that Fuld committed suicide, others say that he was possessed by his own board.

After Fuld’s death, his children ran the company until 1966, when they sold the business to Parker Brothers. Parker Brothers moved the manufacturing of Ouija boards to Salem, Massachusetts. In the first year of production in Salem, Ouija boards outsold Monopoly. Over two million boards were shipped. Today, Parker Brothers owns all the trademarks and patents to the Ouija board, though they stopped manufacturing the traditional Fuld (wooden hardboard version) Ouija and sell a smaller glow-in-the-dark version instead.

Parker Brothers does not manufacture the only talking board, however, and many styles exist to match prevailing trends in mysticism and New Age beliefs. Some of the prettiest boards claim to put the user in touch with angels and carry the angle motif on both the board and the planchette. About 10 brands of talking boards are sold today under various names.

Even disregarding the mysticisms surrounding Ouija, it still has a very cloudy past at best.

The Paranormal Side of Ouija

Ouija had been used by mediums in séance as a means to communicate with the spirit of the dead, or with other spirits. The users or operators claimed that once a spirit tries to make contact, the planchette, with which, the operators' hands were assembled, tends to move on itself, despite the operators' absent of will.

Some people believe, however, that the motion of the planchette is explained by the ideomotor effect - a psychological phenomenon wherein a subject makes motions unconsciously (i.e., without conscious awareness). A typical session with the board has two or more people touching the planchette with at least one hand each, so that no single person need apply much force in order for the group as a whole to cause it to move. Each person experiences the illusion that the planchette moves under its own power.

Skeptic and magician James Randi, in his book An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, points out that when blindfolded, Ouija board operators are unable to produce intelligible messages. Magicians Penn and Teller performed a similar demonstration in an episode of their cable television show Bullshit!, in which the operators moved the planchette into what they thought was the positions of "yes" and "no" without knowing that the board was turned upside-down, which caused them to move the planchette into blank spaces on the board.

Spiritualists who believe Ouija boards can be used to make actual contact with the spirit world feel that the act of hindering a medium's ability to use his or her own eyes while the board is in use, effectively places too great of a handicap on the whole exercise. This argument stems from the belief that contacted spirits actually utilize the eyes of the medium during a Ouija session in order to point to the letters and words needed to form a message. Most believers of this notion believe that the board has no intrinsic power in and of itself, but rather, is used simply as a tool to aid a medium while in communication with the spirit world. Although many people have made positive connections with the Ouija board, there have been several horrifying myths and stories.

Ouija in Literature

Talking boards have become an iconic part of culture, demonstrated by their appearances in many books and movies. Their roles in such vary from being a benign object to an evil entity. A more peculiar role of talking boards in literature stems from authors using the board to channel complete written works from the deceased.

In the early 1900s, St. Louis housewife Pearl Curran used her Ouija board communications with the ubiquitous spirit Patience Worth to publish a number of poems and prose. Pearl claimed that all of the writings came to her through séances, which she allowed the public to attend. In 1917 writer Emily G. Hutchings believed she had communicated with and written a book dictated by Mark Twain from her Ouija board. Twain's living descendants went to court to halt publication of the book that was later determined to be so poorly written that it could not have been written by Twain dead or alive.

Sylvia Plath's poem Ouija was influenced by the experiments she and Ted Hughes made with a board. Her Dialogue over a Ouija Board, written in 1957, incorporates the text of one of the sessions.

Author John Fuller used a Ouija board in his research for his 1976 book The Ghost of Flight 401. As he was skeptical of its effectiveness, he worked with a medium and claimed they both contacted Don Repo, the flight engineer on the flight which crashed into the Everglades en route to Miami. According to Fuller, the information divined described facts that neither he nor the medium previously knew.

More recently, Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Merrill used a Ouija board and recorded what he claimed were messages from a number of deceased persons. He combined these messages with his own poetry in The Changing Light at Sandover (1982).

Criticism of Ouija boards

Although Ouija boards are viewed by some to be a simple toy, there are people who believe they can be harmful, including Edgar Cayce, who called them "dangerous." Critics warn that "evil demons" pretend to be cooperative ghosts in order to trick players into becoming spiritually possessed.

Some practitioners claim to have had bad experiences related to the use of talking boards by being haunted by "demons," seeing apparitions of spirits, and hearing voices after using them. A few paranormal researchers, such as John Zaffis, claim that the majority of the worst cases of so-called demon harassment and possession are caused by the use of Ouija boards. The American demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, stated that "Ouija boards are just as dangerous as drugs." They further state that "séances and Ouija boards and other occult paraphernalia are dangerous because 'evil spirits' often disguise themselves as your loved ones—and take over your life."

In 1944, occultist Manly P. Hall, the founder of the Philosophical Research Society and an early authority on the occult in the 20th century, stated in Horizon magazine that, "during the last 20-25 years I have had considerable personal experience with persons who have complicated their lives through dabbling with the Ouija board. Out of every hundred such cases, at least 95 are worse off for the experience." He went on to say that, "I know of broken homes, estranged families, and even suicides that can be traced directly to this source."

Many Christians hold the belief that using a Ouija board allows communication with demons, which they say is Biblically forbidden as a form of divination. Deuteronomy 18:11-12 says that anyone engaged in these practices is "detestable to God." According to Old Testament Law, the Israelites were supposed to stone (execute) anyone who was a medium or a channeler (Leviticus 20:27).

In Isaiah 8:19-20, God says this: "When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light..." Some people who claim to have been oppressed by evil spirits after using a board say that they could only get rid of these problems after Christian deliverance. Many Christians believe that no dead person's soul can be summoned, and that the only summoned spirits are demons who are trying to harm humans.

As early as 1924, Harry Houdini wrote that five people from Carrito, California were driven insane by using a board. That same year, Dr. Carl Wickland in his book stated that "the serious problem of alienation and mental derangement attending ignorant psychic experiments was first brought to my attention by cases of several persons whose seemingly harmless experiences with automatic writing and the Ouija board resulted in such wild insanity that commitment to asylums was necessitated."

The former medical director of the State Insane Asylum of New Jersey, Dr. Curry, stated that the Ouija board was a "dangerous factor" in unbalancing the mind and believed that if their popularity persisted insane asylums would be filled with people who used them.

Decades later, in 1965, parapsychologist Martin Ebon in his book Satan Trap: Dangers of the Occult, states that "it all may start harmlessly enough, perhaps with a Ouija board," which will, "bring startling information... establishing credibility or identifying itself as someone who is dead. It is common that people... as having been 'chosen' for a special task." He continues, "Quite often the Ouija turns vulgar, abusive or threatening. It grows demanding and hostile, and sitters may find themselves using the board compulsively, as if 'possessed' by a spirit, or hearing voices that control or command them."

In her 1971 autobiography, the psychic Susy Smith said, "Warn people away from Ouija and automatic writing. I experienced many of the worst problems of such involvement. Had I been forewarned by reading that such efforts might cause one to run the risk of being mentally disturbed, I might have been more wary."

Additionally, the late Roman Catholic priest Malachi Martin believed talking boards are dangerous and claimed that by using these devices a person opens themselves to demonic oppression or possession, topics upon which Martin spoke and wrote extensively for many years.

Crowley and Modern Occultism

Little is published regarding Aleister Crowley's advocacy of the Ouija Board. Yet, he had great admiration for the use of one and the Ouija board played a passing role in his magical workings.

Jane Wolfe, who lived with Crowley at his infamous Abbey of Thelema, also used the Ouija board. She credits some of her greatest spiritual communications to use of this implement. Crowley also discussed the Ouija board with another of his students, and the most ardent of them, Frater Achad (Charles Stansfeld Jones): it is frequently mentioned in their unpublished letters.

Throughout 1917 Achad experimented with the board as a means of summoning Angels, as opposed to Elementals. In one letter Crowley told Jones: "Your Ouija board experiment is rather fun. You see how very satisfactory it is, but I believe things improve greatly with practice. I think you should keep to one angel, and make the magical preparations more elaborate."

Over the years, both became so fascinated by the board that they discussed marketing their own design. Their discourse culminated in a letter, dated February 21, 1919, in which Crowley tells Jones, "Re: Ouija Board. I offer you the basis of ten percent of my net profit. You are, if you accept this, responsible for the legal protection of the ideas, and the marketing of the copyright designs. I trust that this may be satisfactory to you. I hope to let you have the material in the course of a week." In March, Crowley wrote to Achad to inform him, "I'll think up another name for Ouija." But their business venture never came to fruition and Crowley's new design, along with his name for the board, has not survived.

Crowley has stated, of the Ouija Board, that, "There is, however, a good way of using this instrument to get what you want, and that is to perform the whole operation in a consecrated circle, so that undesirable aliens cannot interfere with it. You should then employ the proper magical invocation in order to get into your circle just the one spirit you want. It is comparatively easy to do this. A few simple instructions are all that is necessary, and I shall be pleased to give these, free of charge, to any one who cares to apply."

Other Notable Users

GK Chesterton used a Ouija board. Around 1893 he had gone through a crisis of skepticism and depression, and during this period Chesterton experimented with the Ouija board and grew fascinated with the occult.

Poet James Merrill used a Ouija board for years, and even encouraged entrance of spirits into his body. He wrote the poem "The Changing Light at Sandover" with the help of a Ouija board. Before he died, he recommended people to not use Ouija boards.

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi claimed under oath that, in a séance held in 1978 with other professors at the University of Bologna, the "ghost" of Giorgio La Pira spelled the name of the street where Aldo Moro was being held by the Red Brigades in a Ouija. According to Peter Popham of The Independent: "Everybody here has long believed that Prodi's ouija board tale was no more than an ill-advised and bizarre way to conceal the identity of his true source, probably a person from Bologna's seething far-left underground whom he was pledged to protect."

Bill Wilson the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous used the Ouija Board to contact spirits. His wife said that he would get messages directly without even using the board. For a while, his participation in AA was deeply affected by his involvement with the Ouija board. Wilson claimed that he received the twelve step method directly from a spirit without the board and wrote it down.

The investigators of Most Haunted have been known to use Ouija Boards.

Gerard Way, the lead vocalist of My Chemical Romance, has claimed to have had strange encounters with Ouija boards.

Razorlight singer Johnny Borrell is said to have used a Ouija board to help him write songs, particularly "Keep the Right Profile" and "Hold On".

During sleepovers with her friends, Amy Carter would use a Ouija board to get into contact with Abraham Lincoln, whose spirit is believed to haunt the Lincoln Bedroom.

The Fiery Furnaces said that they used a Ouija board to write lyrics for their forthcoming album Widow City

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are noted for their use of the Ouija board during their highschool years. They made songs called "Mr. Ouija" and "Mr. Ouija 2". The group has since said that they quit using the Ouija board.

'70s powerpop band Cheap Trick got its name from a Ouija board. They asked it what was for dinner, and by collectively moving the planchette, they spelled out "Cheap trick."

On the July 25, 2007 edition of the paranormal radio show Coast to Coast AM, host George Noory attempted to carry out a live Ouija board experiment on national radio despite the strong objections of one of his guests, Jordan Maxwell, and with the encouragement of his other guests, Dr. Bruce Goldberg, Rosemary Ellen Guiley and Jerry Edward Cornelius. In the days and hours leading up to the show, unfortunate events kept occurring to Noory's friends and family as well as some of his guests, but these events would likely be considered coincidences by skeptics. After recounting a near-death experience in 2000 and noting bizarre events taking place, Noory canceled the experiment.

Morrissey was a prominent believer. He has a song titled Ouija Board, Ouija Board.

In the popular 1973 film The Exorcist, Regan MacNeil uses a Ouija board to speak to the demon that she calls Captain Howdy.

In 1963, Jane Roberts and her husband, Robert Butts, experimented with a Ouija board as part of Robert's research for a book on extra-sensory perception. According to Roberts and Butts, on December 2, 1963 they began to receive coherent messages from a male personality who eventually identified himself as Seth. Jane Roberts authored three books of channeled material from Seth.

In the music video of "Bittersweet" (Apocalyptica feat. Ville Valo and Lauri Ylönen), Ville and Lauri are seen using a Ouija board.

Matthew Bellamy, lead singer of rock band Muse, has said that his mother was a medium. When he was a young boy, he and his family played with Ouija boards.

The Mars Volta have written the album, The Bedlam in Goliath in an attempt to reverse the bad luck from a Ouija board that Omar Rodriguez-Lopez bought on a trip to Jerusalem and later buried after a disastrous tour. The Vinyl version will come with it's own Ouija board built into the gatefold.

In one episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a squad of police officers use a Ouija board to obtain information about a suspect. They receive the message "UP YOURS".

In the TV show Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Meatwad gets a game for his Atari called Video Ouija and when he turns two joysticks upside down and draws a pentagram on the floor, he can contact the dead people trapped in the game.

Final Word

So that's in a nutshell. We have heard a lot regarding Ouija, we have found out that some people play it as spirit of the glass. It's kinda strange that what was purposely created as a toy became a popular tool for séance. We strongly believe that Ouija has no power in itself, and we can say it so because a Ouija cannot move on itself. However, when operators decide to try it, that's when paranormal events took place. Maybe, Science has a right to say that all this Ouija stuff is bullshit, considering the fact that operators also fail on numerous attempts, and that they have a higher rate of failure when blindfolded. The Idiomotor effect as explained by science could be the reason behind the supposed paranormal event, however, note that even Science has it's own wonder. Idiomotor effect in a sense is a physical manifestation that couldn't be explained beyond the emperical basis. What causes Idiomotor and why it occurs is a mystery even to Science.

Well, factual evidence seems to be in favor of both the paranormal and normal, that is since a physical explanation could be provided through emperical basis, howbeit, lacking some grounds on the subject, while the occult seems to have the freedom to explain base on ad hoc hypothesis, but also fails to provide an accurate and more tangible information. This eventually leads us into a mystery. A stalemate on both sides.

Now, with an unbiased thought, we make our attempt to delve into the subject. First of all, we consider the facts that Ouija cannot operate on itself and it needs operators, therefore, it's possible that the operators are the ones responsible for the supposedly claimed paranormal or spiritual occurrence. With each successful session, operators believe in the genuineness of the Ouija. And having gained their trust, a delusion may follow, at least, that is what in a scientific point of view. But, Science is a mystery even unto itself, for why we have said this is because, there is no way to directly examine the causes, save for basing it on Psychology textbooks (which is of course, based on scientific studies), and getting a delusion may have some spiritual connection. That is why spiritualists take charge to explain what's beyond the realm of Science.

With regards to the spiritual point of view, Some believe that Ouija is the cause, but some others believe that it's the operators, who, by opening their thoughts into the spirit world have managed to make contact with an astral entity. The Ouija only served as a handicap, that is because of the legend that was passed with it, a legend which seems to have help strengthen the operators' confidence and belief. Such faith seems to have accidentally tapped a person's hidden abilities. Another thing that we also considered is the fact that operators most likely fail when blindfolded. Isn't it that spirits need no eye to see? And if it has one, why use the operators' eye? Some spiritualists believe that spirits do need the operators eye to see our world, which only shows that the operators were once again responsible and not the Ouija.

Some people believed that the Ouija can become possessed by a spirit, but, in our own point of view, it looks like the operators were the ones being possessed and not the board. Why? The operators were the ones who report demonic harassment and possessions, while the Ouija neither said a word. And if indeed, an Ouija had be possessed, that is thanks to the operator.

The Ouija, however, has some uses in séance, because of it, the contacted spirit's words could be put into writing, so it does serve as a medium of communication, however, such a method of communication could be risky, and without proper knowledge and experience, this whole séance activity could lead to disaster. Let me put it this way, the Ouija is not dangerous, but you could make it dangerous. That my friend, depends on you.

We haven't personally tried the Ouija yet, but if we do, we'll add more journals regarding the subject in the future.

GPrincess
Psionist Group Founder

A Study on Ghosts

Written by AL2Fenrir
Published with permission by the Psionist Group

What are ghosts? No one knows for certain. However, there are quiet many theories surrounding these astral entities, and most people believe that they are spirits of the dead. This belief seems to be the widely accepted or the traditionally accepted one.

So now, are ghosts real? We will not answer that question directly, instead, we will throw a counter question like how was it included in the dictionary in the first place? Why would our ancestors create such a term if it didn't exist? Did someone dream of them and thought they were real, or someone had actually seen them and thought they were dreaming? Perhaps ghosts are not true, but could we just dismiss the claims of over a million individuals who keep telling the tale even since ancient times? Yes, the word "Ghost" had been foretold over and over again, and its popularity doesn't seem to diminish. In fact, in the advent of science and technology, it only revealed itself even more. Authentic photographs of ghosts were taken, actual videos were captured, and mysterious noises had been recorded, all these eventually prompted science to create another branch which is known as Parapsychology. We are now attempting to explain that which could not be explained. So now, does this convinces anyone?

The Traditional Belief

Ghost is the right term for the Spirits of the Dead. It was believe that a human being has a soul or spirit contained in its physical host (the human body), but when it dies, its soul departs and exists in another dimension or level of existence - The Astral Plane. However, in some instances, the soul fails to entirely part the Physical Plane and causes them to get stuck in between realms. This erroneous departure is often caused by a trauma or a tragedy, but to some extent, is influenced by some other spirits. And, because of this, the spirit of the dead continues to roam the plane of the living, and sometimes manifest through some unknown process that even our science have not yet managed to understand.

Types of Ghosts

Upon further research, our team manage to find some interesting facts about ghosts. We learned that there are actually different types of ghosts. Their type are based on their type of manifestations, which were fundamentally based from accounts of people who had the same type of encounter.

The Wandering Type

This is quiet strange, but these type of ghosts could actually interact with the physical world, and sometimes were thought to be alive, only to found out later that they had been long dead.

We cannot find any concrete explanation to this one, but we do have a hypothesis. We base our hypothesis on Hans Holzer's perception. Note that Han Holzer is a veteran ghost hunter who seems to understand something about ghosts. He said that a ghost is a human being who has passed out of the physical body, usually in a traumatic state and is not usually aware of his true condition. We find this true since some wandering ghosts were claimed to interact with the living as if they were really alive or so they believe that they were alive.

We believe that a human being is a multidimensional being. His/her level of existence is affected by his/her belief. We have found people who could levitate, and move objects by believing that he/she could do it. Now, such is the power of faith that a man could defy some laws of nature, and if this could happen to a living person, the same goes with the dead. A soul who believed that he/she is still alive could also defy the laws of the other plane, and this may well explain why he/she could manifest on this world where he/she could either be seen, heard, or both.

However, note that not all are ghosts. There are also other astral beings who could do the same, the Bible referred to this beings as the "Fallen". Some ghost hunters call them entities, while some call them spirits, demons, or angel.

The Residual Type

Some ghosts appear to be mere recordings on the environment in which they once existed. Some examples include a Civil war soldier who could be seen on repeated occasions staring out a window at a house where he once stood guard. A dead child's laughter is heard echoing in a hallway where she often played. There are even cases of ghost cars, ships, and trains that can still be heard and sometimes seen, even though they are long gone. These type of ghosts do not interact with or seem to be aware of the living. Their appearance and actions are always the same. They are like spirit-level recordings - residual energies - that replay over and over again.

"A traumatic moment in time leaves an indelible impression on the building or area," says Strange Nation in "What is a Ghost?," "replaying itself for eternity. This could be anything from a glimpse of the past - a recreation of some traumatic or emotion-laden event - to footsteps up and down a hallway."

What causes these recordings to be made and how and why they are played back is a mystery. "How and why past events are recorded and replayed repetitiously is not understood," writes Lauren Forcella. "Whatever the actual mechanism, it apparently possesses longevity as the encore performances of a haunting can continue for decades or longer. Generally, the haunting is a fragment or portion of an actual event."

The Messenger Type

These kinds of ghosts may be the most common. These spirits usually appear shortly after their deaths to people close to them. They are aware of their deaths and can interact with the living. They most often bring messages of comfort to their loved ones, to say that they are well and happy, and not to grieve for them. These ghosts appear briefly and usually only once. It is as if they intentionally return with their messages for the express purpose of helping the living cope with their loss.

"This category commonly involves one-time visits to someone with whom the apparition has close emotional ties," says Lauren Forcella at Paranormal Investigations, who calls these ghosts "crisis apparitions." "Though the encounter usually seems to be a type of farewell, sometimes important and useful information is relayed to the 'viewer.' Though dying is the most common crisis, other life-threatening situations can also trigger apparitional visits."

However, note that not all visits comes in direct contact, some may use an agent, while others communicate in a dream.

The Haunting

Ghosts exist in a kind of limbo in which they haunt the scenes of their deaths or locations that were pleasant to them in life. Very often, these types of ghosts are able to interact with the living. They are, on some level, aware of the living and react to being seen on the occasions that they materialize. Some psychics claim to be able to communicate with them. And when they do, they often try to help these spirits to understand that they are dead and to move on to the next stage of their existence.

The Hampton Court Palace Ghost

By Jen

To the skeptic it may simply look like a fuzzy CCTV image of someone in a long coat walking through a doorway. But, experts say that the long-coated figure could be the best proof yet that proves that there are really things that do go bump in the night... and the day too.

This may not be a new mystery as it goes back to October of 2003, but it was worth documenting, as this mystery have never been yet solved up until now. As you may have already heard, this mystery occurred at the 16th-century palace, once home to King Henry VIII.

Security staff heard alarms ringing near an exhibition hall, indicating fire doors had been opened. But on investigation, they found the doors closed. Perplexed, they examined CCTV footage, and that is when it got spooky.

The cameras showed the heavy doors popping open but no one there. Then, suddenly, the long-coated figure appeared and slammed the doors shut.

The guards were told the same thing happened at the same time - about 1pm - the day before.

To add to the mystery, the doors also flew open at the same time the very next day. But, the ghostly figure has been spotted only once.

The suspected spook has not just been sighted by CCTV. Australian tourists also claim to have seen a ghost near the exhibition area. The palace, in West London, has ruled out its guides as suspects because they do not enter that part of the building.

Psychologist Dr. Richard Wiseman said that the specter, nicknamed Skeletor, might prove to be a significant discovery.

"It could be the best ghost sighting ever," he said. "I haven't seen anything that would match that at all."

Henry and a History of Haunting

The hauntings that is occurring in the Hampton Court Palace could be related to its dark history. It is said that Catherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife, was charged with adultery in 1541 and placed under house arrest in that very palace. She broke free from her guards and ran to her husband to plead for her life. The guards dragged her back and she was executed. To this day, it is claimed, a woman in white can be seen floating down the Haunted Gallery.

Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, who died in childbirth in 1537, is said to walk through the cobbled courtyard carrying a lighted taper.

Sibell Penn was nurse to Prince Edward, Henry's only son. She died in 1562 and was buried in Hampton Church. When the church was pulled down in 1829 her remains were disturbed and it is said that she returned to the rooms she once lived in as the Lady in Grey.

On this same palace, there can be found what is called as the Wolsey Closet. The room has a 'strange atmosphere'. A phantom dog has been seen and heard here on more than one occasion.

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Palace 'ghost' caught on camera Friday, December 19, 2003 Posted: 1:54 PM EST (1854 GMT)

LONDON, England (AP) -- Are there ghostly goings-on at Henry VIII's palace, or is that hazy image of a fellow in fancy robes just a bit of Christmas cheer?

Closed-circuit security cameras at Hampton Court Palace, the huge Tudor castle outside London, seem to have snagged an ethereal visitor. Could it be a ghost?

"We're baffled too -- it's not a joke, we haven't manufactured it," said Vikki Wood, a Hampton Court spokeswoman, when asked if the photo the palace released was a Christmas hoax. "We genuinely don't know who it is or what it is."

Wood said security guards had seen the figure in closed-circuit television footage after checking it to see who kept leaving open one of the palace's fire doors.

In the still photograph, the figure of a man in a robe-like garment is shown stepping from the shadowy doorway, one arm reaching out for the door handle.

The area around the man is somewhat blurred, and his face appears unnaturally white compared with his outstretched hand.

"It was incredibly spooky because the face just didn't look human," said James Faukes, one of the palace security guards.

"My first reaction was that someone was having a laugh, so I asked my colleagues to take a look. We spoke to our costumed guides, but they don't own a costume like that worn by the figure. It is actually quite unnerving," Faukes said.

The palace, built in 1525 on the River Thames 10 miles west of central London, is a popular tourist attraction and some of the guides wear costumes of the Tudor period.

Wood said she was hoping people would come forward with similar stories and try to explain the figure.

The palace has been the scene of many dramatic royal events, and already is supposed to have a few ghosts.

King Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour, died there giving birth to a son, and her ghost is said to walk through one of the cobbled courtyards carrying a candle.

Her son, Edward, had a nurse called Sibell Penn who was buried in the palace grounds in 1562. In 1829 her tomb was disturbed by building work, and around the same time, an odd whirring noise began to be heard in the southwest wing of the palace.

When workmen traced the strange sounds to a brick wall, they uncovered a small forgotten room containing an old spinning wheel, just like the one Penn used to use.

Henry's fifth wife, Catherine Howard, condemned for adultery, was held at the palace under house arrest before her execution at the Tower of London. An 1897 book about the palace says she was reportedly seen, dressed in white and floating down one of the galleries uttering unearthly shrieks.

The palace was once a prison for King Charles I, who later was beheaded, and then home to his nemesis Oliver Cromwell, who briefly ruled when Britain was for a short time a republic.

Analysis

To our analysis, the haunting was quiet genuine although there is a possibility that someone could be playing a trick to astonish the public.

However, if the reports of ghost hauntings are true and the palace had a dark history, then, we can connect the two as basis for a sound conclusion. As we have already theorized, the deaths that occurred in the palace could have attributed to an accumulation of spiritual energy, strong enough to break a hole to the spirit world. The residual hauntings are merely energy signatures of the people who once lived there.

Santa Fe's 1st Judicial District Courthouse Mystery Solved?

By Benjamin Radford, Special to LiveScience
Quoted by the Psionist Group

SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO—Over the past week, a glowing, fuzzy white blob became an unlikely international star. It was captured on videotape early Friday morning, June 15, by a security camera at a courthouse here.

The “ghost video” has been seen over 75,000 times on YouTube; what started as a local curiosity soon became a national, then international, story.

Theories abounded: Some said that the image was the ghost of a murdered man. Others thought it was just a video glitch, or a hoax, or a spider, or maybe a reflection from a passing car.

As a scientific paranormal investigator, I was asked by a Santa Fe newspaper to look into the case. Over the past decade, I have conducted dozens of investigations into lake monsters, psychics, ghosts, crop circles, and many other “unexplained” phenomena. This was certainly unexplained, and I was intrigued.

What it is not

After the first day of investigations, I eliminated most of the theories. It was almost certainly not a hoax, because it’s unlikely anyone would think to make a blurry, indistinguishable blob on a courthouse surveillance video. Nor was it a reflection or a video glitch.

I’ve seen dozens of “ghost” videos and images very similar to this. Usually they're simply misperceptions, camera artifacts, or common objects like dust or insects. The quality of the image is often inversely proportional to the belief that the object is a ghost; the fuzzier and more ambiguous the form, the more likely a ghost will be offered as an explanation. In cases like this, however, you have to eliminate all alternative explanations, and while a ghost remained a possibility, it was pretty far down on the list of likely candidates.

In the case of the courthouse ghost, nothing in the video is in focus, and it’s hard to know how far away the object is from the camera; is it a tiny object near the camera, or is it a large object farther away? Logic suggests that people living in the condominiums across the street and driving nearby would have noticed a giant glowing ball near the courthouse. So it was instead small, and probably close to the camera. But what?

What it is

To find out, I conducted experiments at the courthouse to test the two most likely explanations: floating cottonwood seed and insects. First, I dispersed cottonwood tree cotton into the air near the camera to see if the image looked similar to the “ghost.” Upon reviewing the tape with the court’s deputies and security officers, we had mixed results. The cotton did make a fluffy ball, but it did not glow, nor did it move as the ghostly image had.

The second set of experiments involved the bug hypothesis: could a spider or insect have created the image? It was a common explanation, but some scoffed, saying that the glowing image didn’t look like a bug at all. I suspected that the glow was simply a reflection, but I wasn’t sure what the camera would see.

I arrived at 7 a.m. and carefully placed ladybugs and other insects on top of the video camera. I waited for them to crawl around, and soon went inside the courthouse to check the videotape. While some of the images of ladybugs were obviously too large and dark to be ghostly culprit, at 7:26 a.m. we hit paydirt: The ghost appeared in the video.

Using the insects, I duplicated the ghost image. Everyone agreed that the image was exactly the same as the courthouse ghost in every respect, including size, shape, color, and movement.

The weeklong mystery is solved: The Santa Fe Courthouse Ghost was a bug. While I can’t identify the exact species, there is no doubt that it is the unwitting YouTube star. The insect or spider explanation fits all the facts. The object looked like it was purposely moving, not floating; the object is blurry because it is close to the security camera’s lens, and it is glowing because direct morning sunlight is hitting it from a low angle.

Certainly, the object was mysterious. Anyone can be fooled by such an image, and the lesson is that just because something seems mysterious or unusual doesn’t mean there isn’t a good scientific explanation if you look hard enough. Calling something unexplained is often simply the result of giving up too easily. Just ask the YouTube bug.

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A Short Treatise on the Reality of God

Note: This journal does not represent the idea of the Psionist Group as a whole and is still open for discussion.

God is the ultimate reality. He has spun the universes into existence and has created all other beings. As humans, we too had our beginning from God. Like Plato and Socrates, I believe that we pre-existed in a spiritual realm prior to being born into this world. Unfortunately the church fathers, with the exceptions of Origen and Augustine, rejected this view as an overreaction to the heresies of gnosticism and neoplatonism that threatened to subvert the Gospel. How do I know of this pre-existence? I have very faint memories of a spiritual existence before being born into this world. My children spoke of this of this existence when they were small. I have heard of other 2-4 year old children being able to talk of their own pre-existence in the spiritual realm prior to their earthly birth, when carefully questioned about it.

One couple I know of had three boys who each spoke of having been with God and the angels prior to birth without any prompting from their parents when they were small. Evidently as people age and develop, these memories are overlaid with countless earthly memories and are largely forgotten.

One may ask why are we here and forced to leave that spiritual realm. I believe that the answer lies in the fall of Lucifer from Heaven along with a third of the angels. It is my own belief that human spirits were originally intended to be part of Lucifer's cadre in the spiritual realm. Once Lucifer fell, there was no further need for our existence in the spiritual realm, since we had been created to serve Lucifer in carrying out his heavenly responsibilities. Lucifer's disobedience led to our own eventual banishment from Heaven, even though we were not involved in his revolt against God. God in His infinite mercy has brought us to this world to perfect our redemption. He is bound by His own spiritual laws in the eternal realm, but at the temporal level, He can rewrite our destiny through His plan for our redemption. Had not Adam and Eve disobeyed God, this plan would have been much simpler and salvation would have been universal for all mankind.

When that couple listened to Lucifer rather than obey God, suddenly salvation became much more difficult. Man had chosen sides and was no longer just an innocent bystander thus bringing condemnation on all mankind who was to be born on earth from that time forward. Man himself had sinned against God and lost his opportunity for an easier salvation. To put it in the vernacular, man really blew it.

Now man's disobedience had to dealt with in a manner satisfying God, fulfilling the new parameters now required for our salvation and permit our return to the spiritual realm (Heaven) after leaving this earthly sojourn. Christ, the second person of the Godhead, came to earth in the form of a man to die a sacrificial death for our redemption so that by believing in Him and on His death, we can be redeemed and made new spiritual beings fit for His kingdom. Through Christ, the Holy Spirit creates us anew and we are reshaped into His image, no longer designed to follow after Lucifer and his entourage.

Praise be to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit for their gift of salvation through the Son's loving sacrifice of Himself on the cross, the Father's willingness to send Him and the Spirit's perseverance in causing us to believe.

Some have a difficult time grasping the concept of the Trinity. The Trinity is the three distinct, separate, yet simultaneously occurring dynamic states in which God exists and through which He expresses Himself. It may be easier to understand the Trinity by the functions they perform. The Father is the Creator of His creation. The Son controls the interface relationship between the Creator and His creation. The Holy Spirit permeates the creation carrying out the will of the Father and the Son.

Others may ask how does God create worlds and universes, i.e. this temporal existence. I believe the new physics gives us an insight into God's methods. The big bang which began our universe was caused by a large quantum fluctuation. These fluctuations are believed by some cosmologists to be power spikes in a tremendous quantum field of incredible intensity. Since there are undoubtedly many of these power spikes, and at the top of each powerful enough spike is a created universe, there are probably many overlapping sister universes to our universe in existence at this very moment. They are separated from each other only by the different quantum time value that each universe possesses. Thus we can not see or sense them nor can they see or sense us. You may ask how does God fit into the overall scheme of these things. I truly believe that the energy that creates and drives this quantum field issues forth from the mind of God even as He speaks the Word. The beauty of God and His methods is that while we may seem far removed from where God is, He is only a prayer away. He loves us and cares for us, who believe on His dear Son, and longs that all mankind will come to a saving faith in His beloved Son; but God wants our love freely given and not given through coercion. He gives us His Holy Spirit to guide us and lead us into paths of righteousness for His namesake. All that is required of us is simple faith in our living Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

I look forward to the day that I return to the spiritual realm from which we have come and can worship, adore, praise and glorify Him forever. Our Lord made a way back where there was no way, so that we may dwell with Him and enjoy Him forever. Praise be to God that He has not left us nor forsaken us, but through His death established His plan for our salvation when we come to believe on His shed blood.

Hallelujah, God is truly great and greatly to be worshiped in spirit and truth.

In awe of the Living God
Richard E. Franing

The Astral Plane

Written by AL2Fenrir
Published with permission by the Psionist Paranormal Group

What is an Astral Plane? I bet you have already heard about this coined-up term from Psychics and other Paranormal Researchers, and have actually acquired a slight idea, howbeit you don't really understand what it is.

An Astral Plane is a level of existence, an extension of the world we knew, a transition place or doorway to access other planes. As you may had already knew, we have only one world or universe but this world is actually dynamic, to which it could extend to several other worlds or level of existence. To better understand it, think about it this way, you are inside your room and believed that you are indeed inside your room, but didn't you know that there's a chance that you're also in somebody's room? As in, two rooms existing in the same place at the same time? But, you didn't know that because your consciousness is focused on the world where you are right now.

Note that the other world I was referring to is the Astral Plane while your world is the Physical or Mortal Plane. When we are conscious, this is where our thoughts are concentrated, that is why we can't see the other plane. However, there are actually gifted individuals who can see both planes at the same time, these people have managed to open their senses beyond the physical aspect.

Are there any Laws governing each Plane?

No doubt, every plane has its own rules, and it is always observed. The laws governing the Physical Plane are also known as the laws of Physics, and as for the Astral Plane, no one exactly knows what laws apply, but one thing is certain, it is different than that of the Physical Plane.

Crossing Planes?

We have found out that there are actually individuals who know Astral Traveling, and according to them, they have been into worlds that are different from the world we knew. One of the famous Astral Travelers is Robert Bruce, and he calls this worlds or planes -Kingdoms.

In our sleep, we also sometimes explore other planes. This is somewhat by accident, and it could be in the form of a dream or a nightmare, however, note that not all dreams can be product of what psychics and parapsychologists call as Remote Viewing.

The Mystery of EVP

EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) are said to be manifestations of voices of ghosts or spirits made audible through static on the radio, or on electronic recording media.

According to Psychic Researchers, EVP is a way to communicate with spirits. They believe that the voices of the dead can be recorded and played back on magnetic audio tape. It is the most modern way to communicate with the spirit world. However, some skeptics believe that they are not voices of the dead but interference from CB radio transmissions. Some say that they are capture errors, or results of processing artifacts. Others still, believed that, this is a case of Auditory pareidolia, or Apophenia.

It has been said that Thomas Edison was working on an EVP device. However the credit for discovering EVP goes to Fredrich Jurgenson when he was recording bird sounds in the Swedish countryside and on play back he distinctly heard the voice of a man discussing nocturnal bird songs in Norwegian. He had heard nothing during the recording but many voices on playback, some giving him instructions on how to record more voices. EVPs are also called Raudive Voices after Konstantine Raudive who recorded 100,000 voices. He published the book entitled "The Inaudible Made Audible". EVP research is done all over the world but most heavily in the United States and Germany. The Association for Voice Taping Research was founded in the 1970's in Germany, and the American Association - Electronic Voice Phenomenon in 1982. Conferences are conducted world wide by engineers and electronic experts who devise special sophisticated equipment to record EVPs.

In 1982, engineer George Meek and psychic William O'Niell built a device called a Spiricom. Meek says a discarnate scientist told him how to build it while contacting Meek at a seance. Meek then founded the Metascience Foundation of North Carolina. The Spiricom enabled two way conversation between the living and the dead. He Gave Spiricoms to anyone who wanted them at no cost, however most people reported no success. Other EVP researchers credited the initial success to the mediumship of O'Neill. Up until now, researchers continue to strive to capture on tape some EVPs, which might be evidence of life after death.

Instrumental TransCommunication (ITC) is a more general term than EVP and refers to communication between spirits or other discarnate entities and the living, through any sort of electronic device such as tape recorders, fax machines, television sets or computers. ITC include visual and other anomalies, rather than only auditory effects. The term was coined by physicist Professor Ernst Senkowski, of the Faculty of Engineering in University of Mainz, Germany.

For example, according to Claus Schreiber an instance of ITC occurred at 1:22 p.m. on October 21, 1987 in which the image of EVP researcher Friedrich Jürgenson (whose funeral was held that day) has appeared on a television in the home of a colleague, which had been purposefully tuned to a vacant channel. It is claimed that similar effects can be achieved using a TV and video camera via the Droste effect. This involves aiming a video camera at the television and feeding the output of the camera back into the TV, in order to achieve a feedback loop.

ITC is highly controversial, and skeptics say that there is not enough evidence to conclude scientifically that ITC is of paranormal origin.

What was it at Santa Fe's 1st Judicial District Courthouse?

A surveillance camera at the First Judicial District courthouse downtown captured a strange image Friday morning that left sheriff’s deputies, lawyers, clerks and judges scratching their heads as to what it might have been.

Some thought it was the ghost of a man killed at the courthouse more than 20 years ago after bringing a rifle to the building and taking several people hostage. Others felt it had to be a reflection from a passing car or a piece of cottonwood tree fluff. Still others threw their hands in the air, but somehow liked the image anyway or at least the hullabaloo it prompted.

"I don’t know what it is, but I think it's neat that it showed up on a Friday," said Sally Saunders, assistant to District Judge Stephen Pfeffer. "Now we have something to talk about."

Deputy Alfred Arana first noticed the image when he arrived at the courthouse early Friday morning and began reviewing the surveillance video from the night before, said Sgt. Vanessa Pacheco of the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department. Pacheco arrived half an hour later, and Arana said he'd seen something he couldn't explain on the digital video and asked Pacheco to rewind it, she said.

When she watched the video, Pacheco was stunned. "It's something unexplainable," said Pacheco, who watched the 12-second clip over and over Friday. "I don't believe in ghosts so I don't think that's what it is."

The image, which starts at 7:27:11 a.m., shows a bright spot of light that comes from either the roof or near the courthouse's back door on Catron Street — which is used only by law enforcement personnel. The light flits with buglike movements toward the west, appears to move across the front bumper of a parked police car and then traces a small semicircle in a gravel area in the frame's foreground before leaving the frame at 7:27:23.

"To me, it looks like a person walking, but I don’t know why they have this neon light on their head," said Steve Aarons, a lawyer.

The light looked a bit like a crab and seemed to crawl like a bug, though Pacheco and others who regularly look at the video said they've seen bugs on the lens before, and they don't look like Friday's image.

Perhaps the most bizarre aspect of the image is that it appears to cast shadows that look a bit like the movements of the invisible movie monster in the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger film, Predator. Many who watched the video said the shadows looked like legs. Mary Marlowe, another lawyer, said she saw hands in the image.

Courthouse employees debated whether it might have been a reflection. However, the angle of the sun didn’t fit with the image, and a large tree outside the door shaded most of the area from above.

"It looks like a reflection of something but the angle of the sun is all wrong," said Juanita Sena-Shannon, a court clerk.

District Judge Michael Vigil said he, too, thought it was a reflection at first, perhaps from a passing car. But when he looked closer, he realized a reflection would have moved in a straight line, which the light did not. "It doesn’t make sense," the judge said. "It is bizarre."

Arana said the footage was clearer when he first watched it than when it was replayed over and over Friday. During that first viewing, he said, it looked as if the light had stars in the shape of a diamond that were each spinning clockwise. Arana said he had no idea what the cameras might have captured.

"But after I saw it, I even went to the door to see if anything was there," he said.

Deputy Anthony Maes, however, had no problem venturing a guess. "I say it's a ghost," he said. "What makes us think we’re the only beings on this planet? It's too weird."

Maes said he thought it might be the ghost of convicted murderer Andy Lopez, who took nine people hostage at the courthouse in February 1985 after killing the wife of his original victim. Lopez, who had a rifle at the time, was shot by a sheriff's deputy when he peaked his head out the back door, said Judge Vigil. Deputies originally thought the incident might have taken place in June, and the alleged ghost was making an appearance on the anniversary of Lopez's death, though that proved false.

Joanna Salazar, a victim's advocate for the District Attorney's Office, said she believed the image was of a spirit. "It's a little girl, and she can't find where she needs to be," Salazar said. "Somebody disturbed her."

Candy Sisneros, a clerk, said she thought it might have been a ghost disturbed by the construction of the city's new convention center across the street. She said her husband, a sheriff's deputy, used to work in the courthouse at night when the county's dispatch center was located there, and he used to hear footsteps, doors opening and closing and elevators going up and down.

Jude Torres, 29, has worked at the court house as a janitor for four years and said he sometimes hears noises at night in the building.

"You sometimes hear the cells — like the doors closing." he said.

He also hears the sound of water around the building but figured the Judge Steven Herrera Courthouse is an old building. However, the noises mainly originate from the same side of the building where the light was seen, Torres said.

To Torres, the image looked like an insect or a spider. He said he's puzzled by what he saw on the video and would dismiss it outright if it wasn't for the Predator-like shadow. "There's just no explanation for that," he said.

Earl Rhoads, a public defender, had a different take. "I think what you have is a piece of material from a cottonwood tree," Rhoads said. "I'm not willing to say it's proof of paranormal activity. I think it's totally explainable."

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Analysis

Judging by the looks of it. It appears like a spirit. For why we have said this is because of the following anomalies found on the video. First is the casting of shadow. If it's some insect on the lens of a camera, then there shouldn't be any shadow casted on the ground. Second is the insect legs, its legs keep changing in numbers, and it shouldn't be rotating too. Moreover, there were mysterious paranormal events that occurs in the courthouse itself as testified by the workers working on that place.

Though we cannot determine why spirits are manifesting on our physical world, the Santa Fe First Judicial District Courthouse may have some history that lures spirits into the site.

Spirits need an energy source to maintain their attachment on this plane. A bad history is enough to meet such requirement. As such, not even the physical laws that was reinforced since creation could prevent them from making contact.

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The Secrets and Hauntings of Glamis Castle

The Glamis Castle, the ancestral home of the Lyon, and later on, of the Bowes-lyon family. It is located in Angus, Scotland near the village of Glamis, 5 miles west of Forfar.

One of the things that it is most famous for is that it was the setting for Shakespear's "Macbeth". Among the oldest and most haunting parts of the castle is Duncan's Hall, which commemorates the slaying of King Duncan by Macbeth. Although the actual killing took place near Elgin, this is the traditional Shakespearean scene of the crime.

At the head are the Earls of Strathmore, who, though ennobled three times before, became Scottish Earls in 1677 and UK Earls only in 1937, when Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Duchess of York, became Queen of England. And later, Queen Elizabeth, best known as the Queen Mother, who's childhood home was Glamis.

Glamis Castle was where Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's daughter was born. In 1034, King Malcolm II, after being seriously wounded in a nearby battle was taken to a Royal Hunting Lodge, which sat at the site of the present Castle, and here, he died. The Castle was visited by Mary Queen of Scots on August 22, 1562. It is also infamous for its secret chamber, which is said to be known only to the Laird and his heir.

The Castle was also said to be full of legends and secrets.

The Secret Chamber

There are many legends and tales surrounding Glamis Castle, one of them is the secret room or chamber that is hidden deep within the castle walls.

The secret chamber is thought to be located deep in the thickness of the crypt walls on the left as you face the two small windows at the end of a hallway (see picture to the left).

It is said that The Lord of Glamis and "Tiger" Earl of Crawford played cards with the Devil himself on Sabbath. So great were the resulting disturbances that the room was permanently sealed up 300 years later.

The second story was about Earl Beardie, who was a guest in Glamis Castle.

One night he was drunk, and he demanded to play cards. However, it was the sabbath so his hosts refused. Lord Beardie was so furious that he claimed that he would play with the Devil himself. A stranger turned up at the castle and inquired if Lord Beardie wanted a partner to play cards with. They began to play in one of the rooms. Later, the servants heard yelling and curses coming from the room. One peeped through the keyhole, and the story goes that a blast of light through that keyhole blinded him. The stranger disappeared, taking the Earl's soul with him.

Later, many have claimed to hear shouting and the sound of dice rolling. It is claimed that the Earl is still playing cards with the Devil and this seems to last for eternity. Due to the disturbances, the room was permanently sealed up later.

It is also said that the chamber contains the bones of Scottish clansmen who sought refuge from enemies. They were admitted by the lord of Glamis, and led to this chamber. The doors and windows were bricked in and the clansmen were left to starve to death.

Another story tells of a stonemason who accidentally went inside the room, the horrors he saw were so great that they caused him to die from shock. The stonemason's wife was given several thousand dollars compensation, and packed off to Australia to prevent any scandal.

The White Lady

There was this story of a prominent Edinburgh lawyer who was driving to Glamis on a visit, he and some friends had been invited to dinner there. As they drove into the castle grounds they saw the shadowy figure of a woman dressed in white. To their astonishment she glided along so swiftly she kept pace with the car-and accompanied them right up to the castle doors. Then she vanished. At first they thought she was one of the maids out for an evening stroll. But they were soon informed that all the maids were indoors that night. However, because of the strange appearance of the woman and the speed and manner with which she had moved, the lawyer admitted that he believed she had been a ghost.

This ghost is believe to be of the Lady of Glamis who became Lady Campbell after her husband's death. A trumped-up charge of witchcraft was bought against her by the cruel and wicked Monarch James V. Although she was a woman of impeccable character and a very beautiful and popular lady, she was imprisoned. After a long imprisonment in a dark dungeon, she came out almost blind. She was burned alive at the stake outside Edinburgh Castle. Even her young son was condemned to death and imprisoned only to be released after the king had died.

Her ghost known as "The White Lady" has haunted Glamis Castle for hundreds of years.

The Gray Lady

Other than the White Lady, there is also another ghost called the Gray Lady, who roams the castle and the grounds. No one knows about her as history does not record anything about her sad past. She is a complete mystery.

The only story given to visitors by castle tour guides states that one seat in the chapel is always reserved for the "Grey Lady". According to the guides, the chapel is still used regularly for family functions, but regardless, no one is allowed to sit in that seat.

This could have been laughing matter, however, more than 100 people present in the castle on one occasion saw her glide past them.

The Small Boy

Another ghost, a small boy servant, is often seen waiting patiently on a stone seat just inside the Queen Mothers Sitting Room.

The Ghost in Armor

A woman guest once saw a Ghost in Armor. One night as she could not sleep, she kept a candle burning, and during the night a chilly blast swept through the room, blowing out the candle. The woman looked around and she saw the huge figure of a man in a suit of mail armor, silhouetted against the glow of a night light, which was burning in her baby's room, and glowed through the open adjoining door. The specter seemed to be seeking some way into the child's room, and on finding the door it went in.

Seconds later, the mother heard her child screaming with terror.

Frantically the mother rushed into the room, but the child was alone, sobbing out something about a giant who had come into the room and leaned over her face.

The Monster of Glamis Castle

The most famous legend connected with the castle is that of the Monster of Glamis, a hideously deformed child born to the family. In the story, the monster was kept in the castle all his life and his suite of rooms bricked up after his death. Another monster is supposed to have dwelt in Loch Calder near the castle.

An alternate version of the legend is that to every generation of the family a vampire child is born and is walled up in that room.

There is an old story that guests staying at Glamis once hung towels from the windows of every room in a bid to find the bricked-up suite of the monster. When they looked at it from outside, several windows were apparently towel-less.

The legend of the monster may have been inspired by the true story of the Ogilvies. Somewhere in the sixteen-foot thick walls is the famous room of skulls, where the Ogilvie family, who sought protection from their enemies the Lindsays, were walled up to die of starvation.

Other Poltergeist Phenomena

Another guest saw on a moonlit night as he was gazing out of his bedroom window another window directly opposite. Looking back at him from there was another face. This did not alarm him. He knew there were other guests staying at the castle. Then he took a second look at the face and noticed what he had not observed before. The face was too transparent and misty to be that of a human and as he looked at the sad face of the ghost and wished there was something he could do to help it, it disappeared. Shortly after the face disappeared, he heard a faint, horrifying scream coming across from the window, he thought that it sounded like a man being tortured. He then saw a bent figure of an old woman carrying a heavy bundle across the grounds below. The woman walked a few steps then disappeared.

The late Sir David Bowes-Lyon, while taking a late stroll on the lawn after dinner, reportedly saw a girl gripping the bars of a castle window and staring distractedly into the night. He was about to speak to her when she abruptly disappeared, as if someone had torn her away from the window.

Once again another woman guest awoke at about 4:00am by the sound of loud hammering. The sound continued for some time and kept on going as she fell asleep. She told the hosts about her experience the next morning and was surprised to be told by them that she was not to mention this incident again.

Analysis

Considering the history of the castle, there are reasons why certain spirits tends to reside in the castle. One is the unjustifiable deaths that took place. Second, is due to its antiquity. Base on our experience, houses and castles for that matter, become haunted as it grows old for some unknown reason.

As for the secret chamber theory, we find the lord of Glamis and the devil tale to be too superstitious, same as with the Monster of Glamis story. The Ogilvies story is the most widely accepted story that points to the existence of a secret chamber. We've chosen this story because first of all, it is the most widely accepted one, and second, because it's the story closest to reality. The point of why we should consider factual evidence first is to distinguish which one is normal and which one is paranormal. Of course, since we're living in a physical world, the paranormal should only be a secondary cause.

The White and Grey Lady sounds like spirits other than ghosts. Same as with the other poltergeist phenomena, and they also seem non-malevolent. A good entity since there were no signs of aggression, particularly to the house owner and the visitors. But, it's also a possibility that there are stranded souls in the place since there were people who died in certain spots of this castle. This sometimes causes residual hauntings.

The Ghost of Jim Morrison

Written by AL2Fenrir
Published with permission by the Psionist Psychic Group

Just recently, our team were looking for real ghost stories, pictures, and videos, and stumbled upon this.

This picture is owned by Brett Meisner, a Rock and Roll Bad boy writer, and one of the popular Hollywood figures. Apparently, this photo was taken from Jim Morrison's grave in Paris. What you see in the picture is Brett Meisner himself, and surprisingly, someone who shouldn't be there with him.

The picture to the right is the zoomed version of the same image. Look carefully, a strange figure forms at the doorway. This entity was believed to be the ghost of Jim Morrison. Now, who was Jim Morrison? We've also researched his background and bibliography, and this is what we found out...

About Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison's real name was James Douglas Morrison, he was an American singer, songwriter, writer, film director, and poet. He was best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the popular American rock band, The Doors, and is considered to be one of the most charismatic, unique, and influential frontmen in the history of rock music. He was also an author of several poetry books, a documentary, short film, and three early music videos ("The Unknown Soldier", "Moonlight Drive", and "People are Strange"). Morrison died in Paris on July 3, 1971, at the age of 27.

Morrison's Death and the Conspiracy

He was indeed a great man, but why would he manifest? Isn't it that ghosts appear due to an unfinished business? Could there be a reason behind?

Upon further research, we found out that in March 1971, Jim Morrison took up residence in an apartment at 17 rue Beautreillis. Once in Paris, Morrison gained a great deal of weight and shaved off his beard. By all accounts, he became very depressed, and was planning to return to the US.

However, he admired the city's architecture and would go for long walks through the city.

He died on July 3, 1971, and in one account of his death, he was found in the rue Beautreillis bathtub by Pamela Courson, Morrison's lover.

Pursuant to French law, no autopsy was performed because the medical examiner claimed to have found no evidence of foul play. The absence of an official autopsy has left many questions regarding Morrison's cause of death.

In Wonderland Avenue, Danny Sugerman discussed his encounter with Courson after she returned to the United States. According to Sugerman's account, Courson stated that Morrison had died of a heroin overdose. Courson said that Morrison inhaled the substance because he thought it was cocaine. Sugerman added that Courson had given numerous contradictory versions of Morrison's death, and at times saying that she had killed Jim, or that his death was her fault. Courson herself also died of a heroin overdose three years later. And like Morrison, she was also 27 years old at the time of her death. Coincidence?

In a July 2007 newspaper interview, a close friend of Morrison naming Sam Bernett, announced that Morrison actually died of a heroin overdose in the bathroom of the Rock n' Roll Circus nightclub, on the Left Bank in Paris. Bernett stated that Morrison had snorted heroin and was found with foam and blood coming out his mouth, with his head and arms hanging down by his legs, while sitting on the toilet. Bernett says that a doctor, who was among the patrons at the club that night, determined that Morrison had died, but other patrons disagreed and insisted that he was still alive, only unconscious. Morrison was then allegedly moved back to the rue Beautreillis apartment and dumped in the bathtub by the same two drug-dealers from whom Morrison had purchased the heroin. Bernett says that those who saw Morrison that night were sworn to secrecy, in order to prevent a scandal for the famous club, and some of the witnesses immediately left the country. Bernett has authored a book entitled The End: Jim Morrison, in which these claims are discussed in more detail. This is just the latest of many conspiracies surrounding the death of Morrison.

Proof of Authenticity

Now, if there was indeed a conspiracy, then the manifestation of Morrison's ghost could be partly justified, however, there is no assurance to this statement. The photo, however, was said to have been found authentic. So authentic that it amazes paranormal expert, Chris Fleming, who called the photo, "One of the best ever seen". This also dragged the media into investigating the story.

Here is the link to the Site that claims to have the evidences..

Link

This Site happens to be Brett Meisner's Site himself.

Jim Morrison haunts Rock Fan

We recently found an update to the 1997 Père Lachaise graveyard photo story. This seems to be the latest update.

The story goes on to say that Brett Meisner have been having a lot of bad luck lately. He claimed that the photo was causing him more harm than good. "I've had strangers come to my home at all hours of the night wanting to talk to me saying they had messages from Jim," explained Meisner. "At first it was sort of interesting to see how many people felt a spiritual bond with Jim and the photo, but now, the whole vibe seems negative."

A failed marriage and the loss of a young friend to a drug overdose were just a few of the tragedies that have befallen Brett Meisner since he rediscovered the photograph. "I've lost some high paying clients and nothing but bad luck has plagued me for the past few years." A spiritual adviser and a close friend recently told Meisner that they believe the photograph is part of a curse and that he needs to find a respectful way to part with the image and bring closure to both Brett and the spirit of Morrison.

"Part of me wishes that I would have never stepped foot into the graveyard in the first place," admits Meisner. "While I also know I'm partly to blame for talking about it in the first place. I should have kept it to myself and not let the media have a field day with something so special and private.

Analysis

We are not sure of what Brett Meisner was trying to pull, however, the photo was investigated and found authentic. If so, then Brett Meisner was not lying after all. Our team, however, has some questions to throw at the photo and the men behind the photo.

First of all, how sure are they that the ghost was really Jim Morrison? I mean, the ghost figure had no face.

Second, could the iconic figure be really a ghost? It could be the mist, a light projection, or was cause by some other natural phenomena. If not, then could the ghostly figure be really a ghost or another spiritual entity?

Third, if it's really Jim Morrison's ghost, what was he trying to impart? Was he trying to contact Brett Meisner? Was he asking for help?

Fourth, could the picture be really a curse? Brett had suffered unfortunate events in his life thereafter. The weirdest of it was most probably be his friend's death to a drug overdose. Now, let's recall everything that happened. Jim Morrison died of a drug overdose, Courson died of the same fate, and now, Brett's friend. Is this just a coincidence? Or maybe too coincidental?

We will attempt to delve deeper into the subject and document what we'll find as we go further.