I obtained a white garment like a nightgown. I like it because I can alter it to match the chemises that I see on the Holy Clothing website. I am not done yet but it will look great. I love this photo!
Tonight I am going to Trident Cafe to support a likeminded awesome horror author. I’m celebrating women in horror month. Yay!
Today’s post covers a new exciting event in the world of the paranormal. Enjoy!!!
Thunder Bay paranormal convention set to showcase the spooky side of life this fall
Workshops, guest speakers will cover all manner of paranormal topics
A group of paranormal investigators record a drop in temperature inside a site believed to be subject to paranormal activities. Paranormal investigators will gather in Thunder Bay, Ont., this fall. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters )
With a slate of guest speakers and workshops on the schedule, the first-ever Lake Superior Paranormal Convention will shine a spotlight on the strange and spooky this fall.
The convention – which is being organized by Thunder Bay paranormal investigation group Lucky Paranormal – will take place in October at the Prince Arthur hotel. Tickets go on sale Saturday, March 2, and will be available online.
“At a paranormal convention, they have lots of speakers,” organizer and Lucky Paranormal member Gail Willis said. “All day long, you can listen to paranormal experts on paranormal activity, investigation, UFO’s, Sasquatch, Bigfoot, all of those types of things are spoken about openly at a convention.”
More than 15 guests have been booked so far. They include:
Beyond the Haunting Investigations of History’s Most Haunted;
Shane Pittman, from Netflix’s 28 Days Haunted and Discovery Channel’s The Holzer Files;
Author and researcher Jeff Belanger (Ghost Adventures and Paranormal Challenge);
Author and researcher Chris Rutkowski;
Thunder Bay writer Kim Casey;
Investigator and filmmaker Dee McCullay, and
The Winnipeg Paranormal Group.
The convention will also include vendors, as well as workshops on how to use some of the equipment paranormal investigators use, organizer and Lucky Paranormal member Mel Willis said.
A REM Pod used by Lucky Paranormal during their investigations. The upcoming Lake Superior Paranormal Convention will feature workshops on how to use ghost-hunting equipment like this. (Kris Ketonen/CBC)
The idea for the local convention grew out of visits to other, similar events by Lucky Paranormal members.
“We’ve gone to a number of conventions in the U.S.,” Mel Willis said. “There’s one in Halifax and that’s the only one across Canada and we’re like, ‘well, we’re smack in the middle of Canada, why not here?'”
Gail Willis said the convention isn’t only geared at investigators, and hopes that everyone with an interest in the supernatural will take away something worthwhile.
“I hope that they leave with more information,” she said. “I hope that they leave with a passion for the paranormal, and also maybe new connections.”
A few other events are scheduled around the main convention, which will take place on Saturday, Oct. 5. Those include:
A VIP party with celebrity guest speakers on the evening of Oct. 4;
A celebrity-led paranormal investigation at the Thunder Bay museum, scheduled for the evening of Oct. 5, and
Sunday Spirits n’ Sweets at Cafe Ora, which will include afternoon tea and coffee with Canadian psychic medium Kerrilynn Shellhorn on the afternoon of Oct. 6.
The Lake Superior Paranormal Convention itself, meanwhile, is scheduled for Oct. 5, 2024, at the Prince Arthur Hotel. For ticket information, visit the event’s website.
Superior Morning8:22Mel and Gail Willis of Lucky Paranormal: Paranormal Convention
Thunder Bay ghost hunters and paranormal enthusiasts, mark your calendars, the first-ever Lake Superior Paranormal Convention is coming to the city this fall. Hear from the organizers.
As I type here, snow flakes fall softly. I love this part of winter. New snow is so pretty. I want to honour the memory of Anne Rice. She was a unique and prolific writer. I love the tale of Interview with a Vampire. Let’s all take a moment to cherish her memory. I watched the. movie the other night!
Now that my own horror novel might be published, I hope to continue on the tradition or join the roster of dangerous dames who dare to write horror. I am elated! This is just too exciting. I am thrilled because I do have a story to tell and share with the world. I have practiced my writing a lot and I have a lot already published. The ghost in my story steals the show, in my opinion. I don’t know where something so dark came from in me but I will think of it as the dark cauldron of the Goddess giving me the inspiration. I can now share it with the world.
Now, onto other news. Today our journey takes us to this story of a clairvoyant gentleman who lives in Britain.
‘I saw dead people aged 10 – and I’ve met the Black-Eyed Child and creepy man-monkey’
I grew up near Britain’s most-haunted town and have experienced all sorts of spooky and unexplained encounters myself – starting with the haunting of my great-uncle, writes paranormal investigator and author Lee Brickley
Letting children watch movies like Ghostbusters at the age of five is a risky business. Some kids will get scared and hide behind the sofa; others will keep their bedroom light on all night for weeks.
Me? I saw a career path.
I might not have a proton pack or a catchy theme tune (yet), but over the last ten years, I’ve become one of the UK’s leading real-life Ghostbusters – at least, that’s what Eamonn Holmes called me on ITV’s This Morning during an interview about Black Eyed-Child sightings at Cannock Chase.
I can’t give Hollywood films all the credit for my interest in the paranormal though. While they definitely opened my eyes to the strange and unusual, it was a series of experiences in my childhood home that cemented the obsession at ten years old.
When sitting in the living room during the evening hours, I would often see shadows moving slowly across one of the walls behind our sofa. My father would see them too, although he’d talk about something else to draw my attention away.
Have you ever seen a ghost? Tell your story in the comments below
Paranormal investigator Lee Brickley says he was haunted from the age of 10 by the ghost of his great-uncle
Lee has spotted the Black-Eyed Child and what he believes is the British Bigfoot during his investigations
There was another time when I walked into the kitchen in the middle of the night and a single cup was violently swinging from side to side under a cupboard. It was hanging from a hook alongside multiple other cups that were all motionless.
Years later I learned that my great uncle died in that house, and my father now tells me he believes our deceased relative was behind the haunting.
I grew up in a small mining town near Cannock Chase, a large spooky forest in Staffordshire where people have seen ghosts and all manner of supernatural creatures for many years. It therefore seemed logical for someone with my interests to investigate these sightings further, and that’s precisely what I’ve done..
So far, I have written and published four books on the subject of weird happenings in the area, and my latest title Ghosts Of Cannock Chase : Terrifying Reports Of Paranormal Activity From The UK’s Most Haunted Town is selling exceptionally well.
This image taken by psychic Christine Hamlett in 2014 appears to show a figure praying in the dense woodland of Cannock Chase – a hot-spot for sightings of the Black-Eyed Child (
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According to many locals, the woodland is home to spirits, werewolves, black-eyed children, a pigman, and allegedly, even Bigfoot.
During my investigations, I’ve interviewed lots of seemingly genuine people who claim to have seen something scary in the forest, and I’ve even had a couple of unexplainable encounters of my own.
In April 2018, I believe I saw the infamous Black-Eyed Child in an area of Cannock Chase called Birches Valley. She appeared about a hundred metres in front of me, stared right at me for about thirty seconds, then vanished without a trace.
In June 2019, I saw what can only be described as a man-monkey running through the woods when I was investigating an alleged Bigfoot footprint – I wrote another book that covers this investigation called On The Hunt For The British Bigfoot.
Lee has written a number of books about his experiences with the paranormal
Being able to spend my time writing about the paranormal is both a gift and a curse. On the one hand, I get to live my dream of investigating the unexplained and gathering evidence of the supernatural. On the other, people tend to give me a very funny look if I’m asked to explain what I do for a living at dinner parties.
I’ve never told anyone this before, but the career advisor at my high school laughed when I told her I wanted to be a ghostbuster. She said it wasn’t a real job and I could earn more money working in a factory.
But as I sit here ready to continue writing my fifth book about a frightening poltergeist case in Birmingham, I can’t help but smile and take comfort in the fact that my career advisor was definitely wrong, and she isn’t laughing any more.
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If investigating ghosts and writing about the paranormal has taught me anything, it’s that worrying about what other people think is pointless, and no matter what those naysayers might insist, NOTHING is impossible.
An old ghost-hunter once told me that reality is barely understood, and possibility is limitless.
That’s why I believe in the paranormal… and it’s also why I believe in myself.
The next turn in the Wheel of the year is Yule, or the Winter Solstice. I will post more about that later. For now, I am posting about ghosts and if they are real. It’s hard for people to believe in ghosts and it’s not hard to see why. I found an article about the paranormal in India that presents a balanced, skeptical perspective about the paranormal. I hope you enjoy it, dear readers.
In search of the unknown: The tussle between paranormal researchers and rationalists
Ghost hunters and paranormal researchers are trying to find the science behind paranormal occurrences.
A techie, working in the San Francisco Bay Area, received a call from his home at Shivaji Park, Mumbai, just after the lunch hour. The techie was taken aback because it was three in the morning back home, and that was not the time his aged dad and mom ever called. It was his mom on the other end. “Why are you calling me so early in the morning? Is everything ok?” the techie asked.
The old lady spoke to her son in chaste Telugu: “Why? Can’t I call you now? Can’t I speak with my son when I want to,” the lady shot back angrily, and slammed the phone down. The techie was worried as his mom never spoke to him so harshly — and that too in Telegu, a language rarely used at home.
He called back, and this time it was his father who answered the phone — after five to six rounds of rings. He told his father about mom’s phone call a few minutes earlier. “No, she didn’t call you… She’s sound asleep. Besides, it’s early morning here,” the dad said.
The techie was quite alarmed; he had clearly heard his mom on the other end. He sent a screenshot of his mobile call log to his father on WhatsApp. But his father — and now the mom was also fully awake – denied having made any call to the US at that hour. The next day, the techie’s father visited the local telephone exchange to get a copy of his recent call-log. Upon checking the records, he found no calls were made to US from his home for over a week.
The family decided to pass off the incident as a “telecom glitch”, but a few more bizarre incidents over the next two weeks forced the family to consult a psychologist first, and a psychic healer later, when the shrink failed to solve the problem. Constant ringing of the doorbell at dead of night — and pounding and banging of bedroom doors — made the family believe their house was haunted. “That place had a lot of electromagnetic
swirling around … These energies were causing such actions,” explained Akshai Sthalekar, founder of India Paranormal Team, which conducted a series of “cleansing rituals” (with water, crystals and pranik and reiki healing) to deviate or clear-off bad energies from the techie’s family home.
BUT WAS THAT A GHOST? “We don’t call them ghosts … we call them energies. It could be energies let out of dead people, too. Energies cannot be created or destroyed; it just get released into the lower cosmic strata,” said Rahul Kumar, a trained allopathic doctor and founder of Bengaluru-based Spirit Hunting & Research in Paranormal.
Ghost hunters and paranormal researchers are trying to find the science behind paranormal occurrences. “Metaphysics and parapsychology form the basis of all things that cannot be explained by science,” said Kumar. But anti-superstition activists and atheists are not willing to buy these theories.
“This is all pseudo-science … Paranormal researchers use scientific terminologies to mislead people. They just cheat people with scientific mumbo-jumbo,” said Avinash Patil, state executive president of the MaharashtraAndhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti.Neither pure sciences nor paranormal research have managed to pierce the veil of the unknown. But paranormal researchers are having a field day finding solutions to the problems of the “other realm”trying to unravel the mysteries of the “other realm” – and also make some money off it.
BIG SPOOK BUSINESS India’s top spirit hunters such as Akshai Sthalekar, Waqar Raj, Rahul Kumar and Shishir Kumar attend to 20-30 cases every month.
“Most paranormal cases are misunderstood … in fact, 99 out of 100 cases we attend to pertains to psychological disorders or external energy influence,” said Shishir Kumar, head of Team Pentacle, a group specialising in paranormal activities and UFO sightings.
By external energy influence, Shishir means the presence of an electronic device which emits a lot of electromagnetic waves (EMWs). Higher levels of EMW exposure leads to incurable headache and auditory hallucinations, researchers say.
Most paranormal researchers advise their clients to approach a psychiatrist prior to opting for a psychic investigation. Only when the shrink fails, the psychic healers start investigating the phenomenon.
Paranormal investigators charge about Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000 for primary investigations.
The remedy part could get expensive as it may entail a series of cleansing or healing processes and religious rituals. Psychics may charge anywhere between Rs 20,000 and Rs 1 lakh to exorcise, deviate or neutralise “bad energy” or negative vibrations.
“We come across a lot of such cases every month… our clients come from all backgrounds… Bollywood stars, politicians, rich socialites, slum dwellers — everyone comes to us when they’re left with no other option,” said Sthalekar of India Paranormal Team, a member organisation of the Secret Society of the Paranormal.
“We’re flooded with panic calls when horror movies such as Conjuring get released in India,” he added.
Waqar Raj, who heads the Indian Paranormal Society, has a word of advice: “There’s a lot of fraud happening around paranormal sciences … Lot of people are entering this field to make money. I personally feel paranormal researchers should not charge money for investigations. It should be seen as pure research.”
A few paranormal research groups have also started offering certification courses in paranormal sciences. They charge Rs 50,000-75,000 for three to six-month courses.
DECODING GHOSTS THROUGH SCIENCE The red needle on the electromagnetic field meter (EFMs) jumped to life, swinging wildly towards the extreme right end of the monitor. The static sound flowing out of a digital voice recorder is interrupted by a short crackling sound and a prolonged hum. It turned cold suddenly — the reading on the thermometer dropped to 22 degrees Celsius, from 29 just a few minutes earlier.
A team of paranormal researchers, spending a full moon night at Kuldhara, an abandoned village in Rajasthan, was scared and elated at the same time. It was the first time all their scientific “ghostbusting gadgets” reacted concurrently to the presence of “supernaturals”.
“Kuldhara is a haunted place … there’s no electricity in that place, but still your EFMs come to life; sometimes it scales to as high as 20-30 milligauss. Now such high levels can’t be the effect of the earth’s geomagnetic fields alone,” said Waqar Raj.
Many a time, clients approach paranormal experts when they stumble upon “white patches” or “white apparition forms” in photographs clicked at home.
“They believe their house is haunted then … But many a time, these are just orbs resulting out of humidity in air or dust particle on lens. We use photo detailers to inspect these photographs and report back,” said Sthalekar.
Several “poltergeist actions” also come up on the tables of most paranormal researchers.
These include beds and chairs getting picked and dropped or dragged, incidents of stone throwing and crockery breaking. “But poltergeist actions are not actually classified as paranormal activities … some people have “high levels of brain power” to move things, without actually touching them,” said Raj. Then comes cases of apparition sightings.
“It will require a lot of energy for a ghost (or a spirit) to appear as an apparition…,” says Rahul Kumar, the allopathic doctor-turnedspirit hunter. “So most of them time, an apparition you see is the result of a weak mind. Prolonged exposure to EMWs could weaken your mind; it maysetoffboutsof hallucination or even turn you a schizophrenic,” he added.
Cases of ghost possessing — where the ghost is believed to have entered a living person’s body — always accompany tales of the afflicted physically “bending and twisting” in unimaginable ways. This, according to Kumar, is a case of ‘Rubber man syndrome’, a rare medical condition. Cases pertaining to people speaking a foreign language never learnt or even heard by them relate with another medical condition called ‘Foreign accent syndrome’. A person suffering from ‘Alien hand syndrome’ would hit or harm people sitting next to him without really meaning to do so.
“Many a time, all the above cases are misunderstood as a demonic possession or haunting,” said Rahul Kumar.
“Ghosts or spirits are intelligent energy sources … They’re not like what they show in movies. These can’t enter human bodies in normal courses,” said Shishir Kumar of Team Pentacle.
Sthalekar added: “Psychics try to communicate with energies and try to send them away … If the lingering energy is of a dead person, we tell the energy source it is dead and it has to move on. We help them to cross over to the other realm.”
According to Waqar Raj, the problem of “bad energy” only compounds when people use these powers to harm others. “These powers may not affect you, if you’re not scared of them … But if you start worry about them, they’ll make you a nervous wreck, make you depressed or start suicidal tendencies,” he added.
These words do not mean much for the non-believers though. “This is purely superstition … We challenge them to prove their theories. These people should be prosecuted under anti-superstition laws,” Patil of Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti said.” End of article.
I disagree that an ‘energy’s is responsible for the angry prank calls late at night in the article. I need way more proof to be able to believe that. I find it very hard to believe. I am sure that someone got hold of the phone, a living person and is the one responsible for the calls. No ghost could do that. Someone broke into the parents’ home and did the prank calls. The phone was slammed down too. Right. If those people are willing to blame it on a ghost or energy, then they are in dire need of a good head check. It would take a huge amount of energy on the ghost’s part to do that. I welcome your opinions in the comments below.
There will always be believers in the paranormal and skeptics. They are both entitled to their beliefs. They work best when balancing each other out. A good dose of skepticism can actually be of help when dealing with the paranormal. There just may be a rational explanation for creaking floorboards. If you believe it’s ghosts for every single time your cat Fido stares at the ceiling, your doors creak open from an open window, or your hat keeps falling to the floor, you will have serious health problems to deal with. Paranormal investigators first rule out possible solid scientific and rational explanations for occurrences.
Yule is almost here! I hope you’re looking forward to it!
Now we are past the mind blowing fun activities of October 31st, it’s time to turn our attention to other equally as fun matters. The sun is shining this morning. A chill lingers in the air. Colourful leaves are strewn over the sidewalks, lawns, gardens. It’s like Mother Nature took a paintbrush to the trees. I took that photo yesterday when I was on the nature trail. I know, the beauty of the trail stuns me too.
The energy of autumn is still present. I am excited to share another Canadian paranormal story with you, dear readers. So grab a mocha, get comfy and enjoy!
Paranormal investigators check out old hotel in southeastern B.C.
VANCOUVER –
Paranormal investigators were at a hotel in southeastern B.C. over the weekend, checking for evidence of activity.
The group from True North Paranormal arrived at the Three Valley Gap Lake Chateau and Heritage Ghost Town in Revelstoke Friday.
Hosts of the show, from Thunder Boyz Productions, Inc., planned to make stops in the ghost town including at the historic Hotel Bellevue and the Train Roundhouse.
According to those behind the production, which airs on Amazon Prime and Paraflix, both buildings “have a huge history of paranormal activity.”
The hosts said they felt something almost as soon as they entered the hotel, which was built in 1898 in Sicamous, but has since been moved to the Three Valley Gap Ghost Town and restored.
“As soon as I entered, I had a sense of going upstairs and what I believe I’m feeling is the feelings of a lady that spent a lot of time here. She didn’t like to come upstairs,” host Karina Kozuska told CTV News.
But those behind the show say it’ll be up to those who watch the episode to decide what they think.
“We want the viewers to make up their own mind as to what we found – whether they believe it’s haunted or not,” host Jon Kozuska said.
“We’ll tell you we found stuff we can’t explain, but it’s up to you to decide.”
The husband-wife team is based in Kamloops, and say Canada is a “hot-bed” of paranormal activity. Through the show, the Kozuskas investigate reports at abandoned gold rush towns, old theatres and more.
Previous episodes include the Powerhouse and Vernon Towne theatres in Vernon, B.C., and the Kamloops Indian Residential School. They’ve also filmed in the Falkland Museum and Heritage Park, Sagebrush Theatre, city hall in Sandon, Caetani Centre and other spots in B.C.
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