Do Ghosts Really Exist? How One Woman Found Definitive Proof

Although I didn't realize it at the time, I began seeing ghosts when I was four years old. I didn't know they were ghosts because their appearance was normal, and they looked and acted much like anyone else you might see in your neighborhood or on the street. It wasn't until I was a little older that I began to realize that my friends and family members couldn't see these people as I did.

At first I found it frustrating, and even a little irritating that other people couldn't interact with my 'invisible friends', as they called them. And then it was confusing to me that I seemed to be bridging two worlds.

I never considered the idea that my friends were 'ghosts'. At such a young age, I wasn't familiar with the term. My playmates were real people, with their own feelings, ideas and opinions. Most of them were kind, and my playtime with them was very interactive. Like most children I had a favorite friend and she stayed with me for several years.

I began to recognize a difference between the two types of people in my life as my Father grew increasingly impatient with my persistence and insistence over the reality of my invisible friends. When his annoyance reached a fever pitch with my discussions with people he could neither see nor sense, he would bark, "that's enough, leave it alone," and I knew I was upsetting him. So, I tried to keep my interactions with my "other friends" limited to times when my family wasn't around.

To make matters worse, my Mother took me to the doctor and asked him about this habit of mine of talking to people who weren't there, and he pulled me aside and told me to "knock it off" that I was "scaring my Mother". I vowed then and there to keep this part of me as hidden as I possibly could.

I grew up in the 70's, a time before any sort of interest about ghosts, the paranormal or psychics became as popular and accepted as it is today. And to make the situation more complicated, we lived in a small Southern town in northern Georgia and my parents were deeply religious. So, as I grew older and the invisible visitors continued on in my life, I was considered odd.

No one in my family or community was familiar with ghosts, psychic children, the idea of intuition or dis-incarnates. In fact, they simply didn't believe in any kind of psychic phenomenon at all. To them, it was all baloney. To them, these things simply didn't exist. But in my life, I wasn't afforded the luxury of that kind of unawareness.

In my religious upbringing, you lived, you died, you were judged and then you went to heaven or possibly hell. I tried to believe what I was being taught, but here I was having a very different experience from what I was told was real.

At this time in my life, I still didn't realize that these people, my invisible friends, were dead people - and there's a good reason for that. They weren't. True, they had left their bodies, all for various reasons, but their spirit lived beyond their body and they were all very much alive. Of that I've always been certain.

It wasn't until much later in my life that I realized these entities I saw and felt everywhere I went were ghosts or earthbound spirits. And it would be even a few more years before I realized their purpose in my life.

Tried as I may to stick to my religious upbringing, my experiences were flying in the face of my church lessons. So, even though I've tried to deny the existence of ghosts, yes, I'd have to say that they do indeed exist.

Ghosts come from all walks of life. They are believers, non-believers, straight, gay, old, young, male, female and from all nationalities. The only commonality they share is that they refuse to move on to the Other Side as a result of different forms of fear.

'The Ghosts of Crowley Hall' Documentary The full Ghost Investigation at Crowley Hall conducted by Arron Kasady and his team was filmed for a full documentary entitled 'The Ghosts of Crowley Hall'. Now you can see what really happened at Crowley Hall in the Summer of 2007. Why did the Ghosthunting Team have to abandon the Investigation part-way through on their first attempt? What really happened to Arron Kasady when he confronted the Evil Spirits there? How did they feel going back a second time to finish what they had begun? And what did they really uncover there? Find out what they discovered at the old sanitarium and what Dr. Leys was really doing with his patients in secret all those years ago. Find out why there are still restless spirits at Crowley Hall and the answers that lay behind it's darkest secrets. Discover Kasady's revelations and conclusion of the infamous haunting in England, and his confontation with Leys' Ghost. What people are saying about 'The Ghosts of Crowley Hall' Documentary - "The movie is seamless, one if not the best para-docs out there. It blows 14 degrees way out of the water. The movie has everything a paranormal investigator would want to see in a film. Great Job.... MORE PLEASE!!" - Middle Tennessee Ghost Chasers 'The Ghosts of Crowley Hall' Documentary is available to buy from a number of sites. The Full DVD is avilable to buy only from this site for only $9.99. The DVD includes the full documentary 'The Ghosts of Crowley Hall' and extras including an interview with Ghosthunter Arron Kasady, Web Promo's, Music Video and Short Movie. Buy the Full DVD Now for only $9.99. The Documentary is available to Buy and Download for $4.99 in DivX format, allowing you to watch it on your PC or Burn to DVD. The Documentary is also available to buy exclusively from Amazon.com for US customers only. Available to Buy and Download now for $6.99. Alternatively available to Rent and Download now for ony $1.99.

Introducing Your Cat To Ghosts

What do you do if you are trying to introduce your cat to your household – and your house is haunted? How do you introduce your new cat to the ghosts who, well, may be part of your family?

Yeah, I know, most people will probably lift a disdainful nostril at this. I suspect that the majority don’t believe in the Supernatural, and to tell you the truth I shouldn’t either.

I’ve got a scientific background, having graduated in Chemistry and worked as an Industrial Chemist for many years. As such, I'm fully aware that Science doesn’t recognize the Supernatural.

Now, I have to qualify that. In the 1970’s there was an ongoing movement on the part of the scientific community to investigate supernatural phenomena, and an entire issue of the magazine Science was devoted to it. After several years of investigation, the community concluded that the Supernatural does not exist -- primarily because supernatural phenomena are not reproducible.

For a fact to be established by the Scientific Method, it has to be reproducible – identical results must be obtained under identical conditions by all researchers repeating the same experiment. Because of this, Science concluded that the Supernatural doesn’t exist. Results of experimentation were not repeatable.

It wasn’t amenable to the Scientific Method.

But the nagging question remains: if a phenomenon isn’t measurably reproducible, does it mean that it's not there?

Modern Quantum Physics has reopened the possibility of other realms we can neither measure nor perceive. Stephen Hawking has suggested that the reality we find ourselves in is merely a statistical summation of all possible parallel realities – none of which can be directly measured -- which come about because of choices that, well, we have made.

Now, I’m not a Quantum Physicist, but to me this would indicate that there are indeed other realms beside the one we live in that we cannot perceive.

But maybe your cat can. In particular, there is a mystique surrounding the black cat, which I tried to debunk in my article “A Black Cat is Only a Cat”. I still stand by my belief that there is no “bad luck” associated with a black cat, but I do have to admit one thing.

My black cat acted very strangely on Halloween.

Granted, the Santanas (hot California winds) were blowing through the house, and there were a lot of strange noises and movements that came about because of the wind.

But still…

It was as if he was sensing something else going on. Something that wasn’t there.

Well, a lot of people think cats are psychic. Bill Murray encountered a psychic cat in “Broken Flowers”, when he visited an ex-flame who was a “Cat Whisperer”. Her cat sat and stared at him unblinkingly for the entire duration of his visit. He asked his ex-girlfriend about the cat, and she replied, “He says you have a hidden agenda”.

Cats seem to have some kind of special knowledge or perception of the world that we humans lack. Many cat owners testify to the experience of having their cat arch her back, growl and spit at something that "isn’t there".

So, if this is indeed the case, that at least some cats are sensitive to the Supernatural, and by implication, sensitive to ghosts, perhaps ghost hunters like the TAPS people ("Ghost Hunters", the SciFi Channel), http://www.the-atlantic-paranormal-society.com/) might consider identifying these cats and carrying them into the haunted places they investigate. Sort of like miners carrying caged Canaries down into mines as indicators of poison gas.

Who knows? These “Feline Ghost Detectors” might be more reliable than some of the high tech Infrared devices and sound recording systems TAPS uses to provide indications of wayward spirits. The latter instruments sometimes give false readings due to lazy homeowners who fail to fix their malfunctioning transformers and fuse boxes.

Perhaps a black cat, who won’t arch his back because of electromagnetism leaking from a defective fuse box, might reliably “spit” at a real ghost.

Who knows?

'The Ghosts of Crowley Hall' Documentary The full Ghost Investigation at Crowley Hall conducted by Arron Kasady and his team was filmed for a full documentary entitled 'The Ghosts of Crowley Hall'. Now you can see what really happened at Crowley Hall in the Summer of 2007. Why did the Ghosthunting Team have to abandon the Investigation part-way through on their first attempt? What really happened to Arron Kasady when he confronted the Evil Spirits there? How did they feel going back a second time to finish what they had begun? And what did they really uncover there? Find out what they discovered at the old sanitarium and what Dr. Leys was really doing with his patients in secret all those years ago. Find out why there are still restless spirits at Crowley Hall and the answers that lay behind it's darkest secrets. Discover Kasady's revelations and conclusion of the infamous haunting in England, and his confontation with Leys' Ghost. What people are saying about 'The Ghosts of Crowley Hall' Documentary - "The movie is seamless, one if not the best para-docs out there. It blows 14 degrees way out of the water. The movie has everything a paranormal investigator would want to see in a film. Great Job.... MORE PLEASE!!" - Middle Tennessee Ghost Chasers 'The Ghosts of Crowley Hall' Documentary is available to buy from a number of sites. The Full DVD is avilable to buy only from this site for only $9.99. The DVD includes the full documentary 'The Ghosts of Crowley Hall' and extras including an interview with Ghosthunter Arron Kasady, Web Promo's, Music Video and Short Movie. Buy the Full DVD Now for only $9.99. The Documentary is available to Buy and Download for $4.99 in DivX format, allowing you to watch it on your PC or Burn to DVD. The Documentary is also available to buy exclusively from Amazon.com for US customers only. Available to Buy and Download now for $6.99. Alternatively available to Rent and Download now for ony $1.99.

2 Spells to Summon Ghosts

Here are 2 spells to summon ghosts that you can perform with very little to no preparation. The more powerful you become and the more you practice these spells, the better the results will be. The same is true for all spells, not just spells to summon ghosts. The more you develop your natural power and the more in tune you get with the natural elements, the better these spells to summon ghosts will work for you. Before you do any of the following spells to summon ghosts, you must find and use a protection spell. Always, always, always do a protection spell first when working with ghosts or spirits in case you end up with an evil ghost or spirit.

First Of Two Spells To Summon Ghosts - Summoning Ghosts and Spirits

This is a very easy spell that can be done anytime. You need a needle, a piece of paper, a piece of red wool, and 5 candles.

Take the piece of paper. Make a big spot in the middle with a red marker, crayon, or color pencil. Then take the wool and put it in the needle's hole. Near the spot in the middle write these words "YES", "NO", "MAYBE" and "I DON'T KNOW". Write them around the circle.

Ritual: Put the needle on the red spot and hold it by the wool string. Don't hold the needle just the wool.

Now you chant: "I call upon the spirit of (name the spirit that you want to call upon.)" You can call anyone you wish. You can call a past family member or an angel or anyone else you choose. Chant this three times. While you are saying these words, remember to spin the needle with your hand in a clockwise direction. Now you ask a question, and you wait for the answer. Try not to move the needle. You will know the answer when the needle goes near an answer (from those you have written).

Second Spells To Summon Ghosts - Summoning A Ghost

Go to the grave of the person you wish to summon. Lay on the grave and close your eyes. Begin breathing in and out through your nose. Once you are completely relaxed, begin to count backwards from your current age over and over again. As you do this, allow one breath in for every 3 numbers, and one breath out for every 3 numbers. Hold an image of the person you wish to summon in your mind. If you don't know the person you are summoning, which is very dangerous, simply concentrate on your breathing.

Continue to breath and you will eventually enter into what is called a suspended state. While in this suspended state, you will be able to communicate with the spirit of the person you are trying to summon.

Please remember that any and all summoning spells can be very dangerous. If you don't know what your doing you can easily summon an evil spirit or ghost and not be able to send them back. Only with training and time should you ever try and summon a spirit or ghost of any type. Get the proper training first, then try to summon.

'The Ghosts of Crowley Hall' Documentary The full Ghost Investigation at Crowley Hall conducted by Arron Kasady and his team was filmed for a full documentary entitled 'The Ghosts of Crowley Hall'. Now you can see what really happened at Crowley Hall in the Summer of 2007. Why did the Ghosthunting Team have to abandon the Investigation part-way through on their first attempt? What really happened to Arron Kasady when he confronted the Evil Spirits there? How did they feel going back a second time to finish what they had begun? And what did they really uncover there? Find out what they discovered at the old sanitarium and what Dr. Leys was really doing with his patients in secret all those years ago. Find out why there are still restless spirits at Crowley Hall and the answers that lay behind it's darkest secrets. Discover Kasady's revelations and conclusion of the infamous haunting in England, and his confontation with Leys' Ghost. What people are saying about 'The Ghosts of Crowley Hall' Documentary - "The movie is seamless, one if not the best para-docs out there. It blows 14 degrees way out of the water. The movie has everything a paranormal investigator would want to see in a film. Great Job.... MORE PLEASE!!" - Middle Tennessee Ghost Chasers 'The Ghosts of Crowley Hall' Documentary is available to buy from a number of sites. The Full DVD is avilable to buy only from this site for only $9.99. The DVD includes the full documentary 'The Ghosts of Crowley Hall' and extras including an interview with Ghosthunter Arron Kasady, Web Promo's, Music Video and Short Movie. Buy the Full DVD Now for only $9.99. The Documentary is available to Buy and Download for $4.99 in DivX format, allowing you to watch it on your PC or Burn to DVD. The Documentary is also available to buy exclusively from Amazon.com for US customers only. Available to Buy and Download now for $6.99. Alternatively available to Rent and Download now for ony $1.99.

Ghosts of The Great White Horse Hotel

My first contact with this hotel was when I was asked to conduct a paranormal investigation with a local radio station for their Halloween programme.

We were looking for the Lady in Grey and the victim of a murder, maybe the murderer was still about too as there was something not very nice on the back stairs. We found much more than we bargained for, so much so that during a glass moving experiment the glass almost flew off the table! With its rabbit warren of corridors and back stairways I decided a full public investigation was called for which we carried out in March 2006. We were not disappointed.

Hidden behind a Georgian facade, the Great White Horse Hotel is a timber framed coaching inn dating back almost 500 years to the 16th century. Today the original courtyard still remains, though now glazed over.

Originally built on this site in 1518 and previously called The Tavern it gave it’s name to the street it stands on. It was rebuilt, strangley enough, in 1815 and it’s guest list reads like a who's who of historical and famous people.

From 1520 onwards, The Duke of Norfolk, Queen Elizabeth 1st, King George II, King Louis XVIII of France and Lord Nelson (then High Steward of Ipswich) with Lady Hamilton. Charles Dickens was another famous guest, featuring the hotel in the Pickwick Papers. In more recent times Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson (after the abdication) and many more names you will know from your history books.

As for our investigation, the disembodied leather boots of a soldier were seen walking along a back corridor and contact was made with a servant girl, we believe the murder victim we originally searched for. The table on wheels we use for Table Tipping danced around the ballroom, as if the ghost in contact was re-living the memory of a bygone age. Unexplained moans, an uncomfortable energy; we believe may have been the murderer, remained unidentified, weird lights and EVP: (Electronic Voice Phenomena) captured by a customer on their camcorder, completed the weekend.

The strange thing about the EVP is that it was in French. We know that Louis XVIII of France and his entourage stayed there but we were unable to ascertain if one of his staff were killed or died there. The customer was waiting and filming in a corridor with his team ready for their next experiment. One of the team asked if anybody knew if this was the right place. The answer, recorded in French said “File d'attente ici”, translated to “Queue here”. It would seem ‘they still serve those who stand and wait’.

On a more normal note, the artist Jevan Watkins Jones was in residence at the Great White Horse Hotel from September until December 2001. During this time, he recorded and reflected upon the tedium and buzz that a hotel encounters in its daily life. His works; The Housekeeper, the Head Chef, the Night Porter and All – Life at The Great White Horse Hotel, were displayed in The Room Upstairs gallery at Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich: 8th December 2001 – 27th January 2002.

John Blythe is Senior Executive Manager for Haunted Weekend who organise public paranormal investigations in haunted hotels and castles throughout the UK. He has appeared on television with Haunted Weekend clearing a haunted house and has featured in and written for many paranormal magazines. He is also a featured expert on the paranormal for World Reviewer, a website that specialises in unique experiences.

Ghosts Around

Are these ghosts a reality....?

YES....I have seen it once, I have really experienced in my home, in my office...

People have different personal instances to share once you start talking about Ghosts.
Ghost stories are a spicy subject in campus life also. Due to fear or of a neutral personality, majority tends to believe in ghosts; and of course, there are few who do not believe in these stories at all.....If u utter any such ghostly experience, they would daringly challenge such things.

I remember such a story happened to a medical student, who publicly questioned the existence of ghosts and challenged to undergo any such ghostly experience. It was during a general discussion on ghosts, that he strongly disapproved the existence of ghosts and narrated those things as fake and absurd. Sooner, it became strong topic of debate and he entered into a bet with his friends to disapprove their views.

The guy agreed to undergo any fear filled, ghostly experience. And the bet offered him prize money once he is through with the challenge. The guy seemed to be so tough and was ready to take up any daring action.

The bet was like this,

There was a peepal tree near the boy's hostel. And it was a hot topic of discussion during the past years of that hostel. The tree was famous either with suicides or with vampires and related stuffs. It says ghosts usually find their aboard on it. (Not scientifically proved, but great story tellers say so). And here, the guy was asked to pierce a nail on the peepal tree. The time of his daring action was set to be 12: 45 mid night.

It's almost 70 meters distance from the hostel to the peepal tree. As decided earlier, the guy took his determined steps towards the tree with a hammer and nail. It was getting darker when he moved near to the tree. He looked around, the hostel seemed to be a dark chamber from distance, and the screaming of bugs added a horror ambience too.
By then, slowly he could feel the coldness passing through his feet. He ensured twice that he was holding the hammer tightly though his palm was getting sweaty. He thought to hit few strokes and finish the job so fast.

Now, the coldness has passed on to his body and to his finger tips as well. It's totally dark around...The whistling wind moves with a panicking ambience. He felt like its long way to reach near the tree.

With trembling strides, somehow he managed to reach over there...

The moment he reached at one arm distance to the tree, he raised the hammer...fixed the nail.... The wind was blowing bit heavy, and he felt as if the wind will pull him up. He hit the nail with maximum power. When it pierced an inch on the tree he quickly turned back and tried to run away......ALAS.....he couldn't....... some thing is horrifying...
Somebody pulled him from back....his neck was getting tight...He felt like somebody is trying to strangle him. ...ohhhhhh... he screamed aloud. But no sound came out and nobody came to help. Few minutes passed.....

His friends thought that they have lost the bet money. And they waited in anticipation of his successful return. They waited and waited for long. But they couldn't find his return. So they decided to go on search of him. Once they reached near the tree, they found him laying down the peepal tree. Totally lost with senses and movements...They all screamed. Meanwhile somebody brought water and sprinkled on his face.....But no response....Its really ghostly...

Wahhh.... Its...Unbelievable right... but what happened in reality? Due to extreme fear and horror filled ambience, he pierced the nail on the tree along with a corner of his shawl. So once he turned back the shawl on the neck got tight and it pulled him back slightly. Once the inner fear increases, obviously we will experience high stress, right? So here also the slight pull from the hooked shawl felt to him like somebody was pulling from back, thus he lost his mental control and fell faint...

This is just a story to an extend ...But are these things a reality.

There are lots of beliefs in each and every culture. They have something to talk about ghosts. Both oriental and occidental traditions have its on style of narration about horror creatures. Film industry has grown big with ghostly content. And what more to say, even there are specialists who demands controls on all these extra sensitive affaires...and takes a big fee to cure your mind. What do you say? Do you believe? Or daring to take a challenge?

By Pradeep Chamravattom

Ghost Videos - Fact or Fiction?

Ghost videos. Have you ever watched one? If you love a good scare, you're not alone. We watch ghost videos or ghost documentaries when they come on TV, or we rent them. Whether you're watching for education purposes or solely for entertainment, many, including me, feel intrigued, or drawn to, ghosts and the after-life.

What intrigues me about watching ghost videos is the thought that these ghosts (or spirits) were alive and real at one time.

What if ghosts walked, talked and ate like any other person? What if they had the same thoughts as other people? Perhaps they themselves even watched a ghost video, or saw a real ghost. What did they think about ghosts and the after-life while they were alive?

What if ghosts are real? Sometimes while I am watching a ghost video , I'm left wishing that I myself could talk to the ghosts and hear what they have to say. What kind of stories would they have to tell me? I personally think ghosts are quite real.

If they are ghosts from history, I'm especially interested in how and where they lived, and how they died. Did they know famous people? Did the ghosts from the Civil War fight with General Robert E. Lee, for instance?

Some people believe ghosts that haunt present-day dwellings or houses where they used to live are ghosts that can't seem to make it to the other side. Something has stopped them, or they just need a little help to move on.

Others believe that these ghosts may want to stay behind and tell us something, warn us about something.

Still others believe that these ghosts don't even realize that they are dead. These ghosts think that they're still living, and that society and fashion, etc. have merely changed a lot in their lifetime, not having a sense of real time, or knowing that time has moved on, perhaps without them.

Whatever the case is, watching ghost videos never ceases to amaze me.

By Krista Brehaut

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Crowley Hall Review by AngryPrincess

The Paranormal has always fascinated me. Whether it be as a child when it terrified me, or as an adult where it became an obsession to prove to myself that there was something after life besides just death. Have I personally ever found anything concrete…not really only a few what ifs made it to me. Today in our world the paranormal is almost like having a second language, everyone delves in it. I have went to countless cemeteries, abandoned buildings and mental asylums and all I ever manage to get were dust orbs, a few unexplained glowing orbs, and an incident that caused me to run like the wind out of that place and I’ll never forget it.

Crowley Hall was built in the 19th century and served as a hospital. Then from the 1920-1930’s Doctor Leys and his wife Beatrice took over and it became a place for the criminally insane. Dr. Leys was noted as being a key figure in creating new treatments for mental illness in Northern England. Some say Dr. Leys liked to perform sadistic experiments on the more violent patients. It is stated that Leys death was from a heart attack but insiders new better and spoke of an operation gone wrong in which Dr. Leys ended up a victim from the patient he was treating. I guess he should of tied those restraints a tad tighter and he wouldn’t have ended up stabbed in the neck.

The Ghosts Of Crowley Hall is a documentary Arron Kasady and a team of other experts set out with a vengeance to make and you see their determination as well as many parts of this old historic building. When the team holds a séance things start to get interesting and are visited first by a man named Alfred and then by a spirit believed to be Leys himself. If you like shows like Ghost Hunters or if you like old abandoned buildings like me this film is for you. It was a little hard to hear some of the reaction bangs but none the less it was exciting to watch. I sincerely hope they go back and see what other things they can find out about this amazing historic place!

7/10

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