This is why I started Spell and Ritual. There are too many armchair occultists (or as in this case, “paranormal investigators”) who lack not only the basic knowledge of their field but common sense.
From WISTV.com:
STATESVILLE, NC (WBTV) – A man who was with about a dozen people who were looking for a legendary “ghost train” in Iredell County was hit by a locomotive and killed early Friday morning.
The incident happened on a train trestle at 2:45 a.m. near the 900 block of Buffalo Shoals Road.
Christopher Kaiser, 29, died at the scene and two more people were injured, according to Iredell County Sheriff Phillip Redmond. Kaiser’s body was found below the trestle down a steep incline, he said.
The injured patients were airlifted to a local hospital. Their condition was not immediately known.
“During the investigation, witnesses told deputies they were at the site in hopes of seeing a ‘ghost train’,” the Iredell County sheriff’s office said in a press release.
The sheriff said the incident coincided with the anniversary of a train wreck that occurred at the same location in 1891.
Crewmen on the train tried to warn the group to get off the trestle and most were able to get away. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Christopher Kaiser’s family and friends at this time of need, of course.
But if I may be so crass as to illustrate a larger point about the growing occult community, which includes these “paranormal investigators” who seem to primarily be thrill seekers looking for scary experiences to share with friends, I would like to ask the following questions:
1) Why was it necessary for them to be on the trestle to investigate the supposed ghost sightings? A follow up to that would be why not send only the people physically capable of reacting quickly if trouble developed?
2) Why didn’t anyone check the schedules of trains, call the railroad to get permission or even scout out the location to see how active the area was? In other words why wasn’t this “investigation” grounded in the real world?
3) Couldn’t the “ghost train” be seen from the ditch the unfortunate Mr. Kaiser ended up in?
The answer to all these questions seem obvious to me. But they weren’t to Kaiser and company. And that’s not his fault.
It’s ours. And by ours I mean the wider occult community that ignores the growing trend of amateurs and dilettantes getting on television and claiming expertise about hunting ghosts or hunting monsters who are really just hunting for quick profits by teaching people to hunt for trouble.
Standing on a section of train track where there’s no place to run waiting for a ghost train is not just foolish, it’s pointless. Had their little adventure been successful and they saw a ghost, what would have been accomplished? Who among us hasn’t seen evidence of ghosts and spirits? And how many of us know of safer and more meaningful ways to explore the outer reaches that we could show people like Kaiser if we weren’t too busy trolling forums and pretending we’re “above” these ghost hunters?
I have always seen the place of the American occultist, whether Thelemite, Chaos Magician, Wiccan or good old fashioned Witches and Warlocks, as a sort of Merlin to the American round table. The fact that we hoard ancient and arcane knowledge, often for selfish reasons, makes us important voices to help steer the wider Judeo-Christian society away from dangers they don’t actually understand. We should strive to be advisers and experts on the things the Christopher Kaisers of the world don’t know but find themselves involved in. This man is dead because he thought he needed to be on that trestle to experience a haunting. We know better but no one shared that with him.
Clearly I’m not of a mind that some Witch somewhere knew what he was up to and sat idle. But we allowed television shows like Ghost Hunters and Paranormal State to supplant real expertise, and to dispense falsehoods. Ghost Hunters, in particular, represents paranormal research as an amusement park ride available year round for people with free time on their hands. Paranormal State does worse in many ways.
And what if Kaiser and company faced metaphysical instead of physical danger? Would the Twilight themed Silver Ravenwolfery disguised as occult expertise that these shows dispense actually be enough to protect them? If you had a child who was going “ghost hunting” would you allow them to prepare by watching these shows and perusing the Internet?
The community of practitioners in America should speak out about the dangerous pseudo-occultism that is being embraced by the mainstream. Christopher Kaiser died because no sane occultist told him he could see this supposed ghost while standing somewhere safe – that he wasn’t going to see something on the tracks he couldn’t from on the road or frankly through a Black Mirror. But how many others are fed on by spirits they disturb, or “crossed” or are otherwise victims of forces they don’t understand?
And how much responsibility do you and I share for that?
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IS LLANELLI, WALES MOST HAUNTED TOWN?
Who better to talk to than Llanelli's own Spirit rescuer Irene Allen-Block, who was quoted by The Wales on Sunday as saying that Llanelli is a "hotbed of ghostly activity."
My name is Irene Allen-Block. I'm a spirit rescuer with over 40 years experience and Llanelli has more than its fair share of haunting and negative energy.
When did you first become aware of the paranormal?
I have had the ability to see spirits for as long as I can remember. This was just very normal to me, so there was never any single occurrence which I can call a turning point.
I never even realised that I was any different than other children until I was about ten years old.
It was at that time that I became aware that such a thing existed called the paranormal and realised that I could sense and see things others couldn't.
Can you tell us some of your early experiences?
The earliest experience I can remember was around the age of 4 or 5. In those days it was relatively safe to play outside as long as I didn't stray further then my mum could see.
A group of us village children all about the same age, would congregate to play outside of my house. Often as we played I would see a small boy of about the same age standing watching us.
He had wavy hair and short trousers, and he looked so sad and lonely.
Many times during these weeks of seeing him I would call out and try to get him to come and play with us but he never answered me.
I even asked the other kids to ask him, but they just looked at me strange and said 'ask who?'
One day I was playing by myself on my brothers homemade stilts and I saw the boy there again watching me.
I was trying to walk on them, but kept falling off more than staying on. I fell off and went down on my bottom. Feeling silly, I lost my temper at him and shouted for him to go away.
He just stood there and after a few more shouts, I yelled out that his mum and dad was looking for him. I could hear them calling.
With that, he took his gaze off of me, looked to the side, and disappeared right there and then!
I never saw him again and now often wonder if that was my first clearing of a spirit, I am sure it was.
Did you have any other experiences?
Looking back at those days there were lots of them. I saw spirits where ever I went, whether I was out shopping with my mum, or playing in the house.
One that stands out happened when I was about 7 years old. I then lived in a small English village in Sussex. I was allowed to go to play with my friend who lived down by the church. As I walked past the Vicarage, I saw a young girl in old clothing about my age playing in the garden.
I called out to her as I climbed up on to the gate to get a better look. She seemed to notice me, but never answered. This carried on all through the summer holidays.
Every time I went past the Vicarage garden she was there. Each time, I would stop and try to get her to talk to me with no success.
Time went on and eventually, as a family, we moved to London. I never gave the little girl another thought.
Years later, I went back to the village as an adult and whilst there, I decided to visit the church and the graves of my grandparents.
I had forgotten the little girl now, and went straight past the Vicarage garden and into the church. On the side there was a pile of small books that had been written on the history of the village.
Whilst flicking through the pages of one, I noticed my family name so I decided to buy a copy.
While I was returning home to London on the train I started to read it. There was a piece in there that talked about the time that renovations had been done on the Vicarage about 10 years previous.
The builders had discovered the skeleton of a young girl. It was thought that she was aged
between 7 or 8 years, and dated to about 250 to 300 years ago. She had been taken and given a proper burial in the churchyard. Somehow I know this was my little girl I used to watch playing.
Were any of them evil or bad spirits?
As a child I never saw anything malevolent and although sometimes I did see spirits that were in the form of adults, they just seemed to pass me by.
It was nearly always the spirits of children that I saw, and was interested in. Maybe because that was where my attention lay.
Children don't have fear until they have knowledge, and a lot of that is put into children by their parents. Much of it is for safety, for example look both ways crossing the street and don't talk to strangers etc.
I was always trying to touch things to learn about them. Smoke, mists, ugly things, etc.
I had no fear. I felt we were connected. That all was connected, all part of life.
This is why I say don't dismiss a child when they talk about friends unseen; it could be imagination or not.
Just keep an eye on the situation. As long as the character of the child does not change then most times, as the child gets older, the child seems to grow out of their friend.
I was lucky here, I had a father who understood and explained things in a way that wasn't frightening.
To be continued in Part 2 when Irene talks about a very frightening experience for one family.
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The occurance of ghosts in film or pics has been studied by many throughout history. Some researchers believe if the spirit is experiencing deep emotions before death then it can be seen again when it relives this as a ghost. Others believe that sometimes the camera picks up the energy around warmth or cold created by the ghost (occassionally ghosts create this when trying to gather energy) and so sometimes this comes up. And lastly others speculate that all ghost images are fakes.
Whether they are fakes or not, let's look at history first before judging, ghosts were more excepted as reality about 100 years ago in most parts of the world. People would spend time actually studying ghost behaviour and trying to understand it more. People in high positions had experiences with ghosts and more commonly they were excepted as a part of life. This takes me to the understanding of two possibilities, one was that all ghost concepts were fake which is not what I believe but I will say it anyway or the other that ghosts are more noticeable when looking for them..
I tend to lean towards the other, some people I find really attract or notice ghosts all the time. In fact they tend to go from almost one haunted dwelling to another, yet others if they were in their shoes may not feel the same. It all seems to come down to understanding consciousness in the end.. Maybe this means these ghost photoes or pics were taken from those that understood this consciousness.
Another question to ask yourself is are ghosts really scary or not? It all comes down to one thing, the mind judges that, in most peoples experiences most lean to the idea of when it was happening their was no fear but later on when thinking about it fear creeps in.. Does this mean most fear is just what the mind creates, I mean a ghost really is a human after all?
Throughout history what many claim as being REALLY SCARY GHOST PICS have been captured. In this video above are some ones from history to show what I mean. It is good to look at these with a clear mind and reflect, remember most of these were taken a long time ago and some maybe very real..
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Basically there are two main differences between Ghosts and Nature Spirits, the theory is that ghosts are the souls or memory of someone who has died where as nature spirits never knew life as we know it as they originate from another realm of existence. But in today's society people are more readily to accept a belief in ghosts rather than nature spirits, I think this originates from the fact too many people have been affected by ghosts during their lives or they know close friends or family who have been affected but today's society finds belief in the typical Victorian Fairy very hard, described as no more than four inches tall these creatures displayed butterfly wings and danced around in fancy dresses.
Quantum physicists will openly discuss the theory of alternative universes but mention you have Fairies at the bottom of your garden and before you know it you are enjoying your lunch through and straw in the confines of a padded cell.
Incidentally, the word "nature" derives from a Latin word "natus" which is
the past participle of "nasci" meaning "to be born". So nature is what has
been born, and "physics" is originally the study of what has been born (in
a broader sense, the universe, then), it seems. Over the course of time I think it has strayed from its original meaning as we have seen physics become the study of physically measurable quantities and their relations, but we as a whole in the paranormal field know there is much more to nature than that which can be physically measured. Ironic to think that modern physics makes use of "invisible fairies, which cannot be measured": they are referred to as "quantum fields".
A reference taken from the Fortean times describes the Earth Spirits as particles, which are there and not there; like electrons they are both material and non-magical. they are quantum events at the bottom of the garden. we cannot know particles in themselves, but only by the traces they leave, like tiny yetis. they are as elusive, maddening and paradoxical as fairies ever were.
Well, what an easy explanation! Or is it?
I know from my own experiences with nature spirits that the phenomenon is strikingly different from that of a typical haunting if indeed you can have such a thing as a typical haunting. On most occasions you will be able to walk into a property and you can almost sense if a ghost in present, I am aware at times they can mess the team about and stay well away. But a nature spirit, should it choose to, will approach you and its vibrations are much more prominent. One case we are currently studying in Northern Ireland involves a Rath, a pre-Christian settlement. In local folklore there have always been tales of a chamber underneath the Rath, but there has never been any archaeological digs to prove or disprove this tale.
From our own experience the nature spirit, which is linked to the site has indicated through a series of loud thumps where this hidden chamber lies. The chamber is known as a Souterrain, which was often used as ritual sites and hiding places. If the Iron Age settlement became threatened the women and children fled into these passageways and would have been protected by one of the males from anyone who would have dared to crawl through to the main chamber.
Christianity identified it as a demon. Legend states the reason for it being there was to protect treasure, I know from experience it is just as curious about us as we are of it. One account of a clergyman entering a renowned Fairy ring at night, tells of the man being held down by these small creatures and hearing an unforgettable buzzing. I too have been on site at sunset and experienced the buzzing almost similar to a mosquito, and several times after. An associate of mine who is a practising pagan claimed the buzzing was not myself getting in tune with the entity but the entity getting in tune with me.
Unfortunately due to other commitments and cases I have not been able to return to the Rath, but I do plan on being back in the next few weeks, both with recording gear and night vision, though this is to try and capture footage and understand the movements of the badgers that live near the Rath.
They say there are over 3000 different breeds of Nature Spirit though I suspect there maybe mis-identification over continents but I'm only familiar with about 30. Ireland is renowned for its Fairy Tales and it's a well-known fact when men moved out of the old forts and Abbeys the Fairy moved in. Even in today's environment I can travel approx a mile from home and find a Fairy tree. These thinly crooked and rather worthless trees dot the landscape and are usually found near the middle of a cleared field, but a great superstition lingers about cutting one down as they are links to the Fairy world.
There are various legends and claims made about these entities but in fairness we know so little. In the late twentieth century they were nearly forgotten and resigned to myth, but I have been watching a growing interest near the end of the 1990's to present and hopefully we may get the chance to observe and understand this close and yet very distant world.
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Ghost Hunters was live at Waverly Hills Sanatorium last night for their second annual Halloween investigation. Unable to watch the entire 6 hours, I made it through the first 2. On the second floor, where the ghost of a little boy is said to remain, a ball was recorded moving by itself on command. Also, sounds of footsteps and strange lights were seen by team members in the infamous body chute. Unfortunately for me, I missed whatever came next. I will be looking forward to the reveal which will be aired next week on SciFi.
I do have to say the one thing that really annoyed me during the show was the overlay of "creepy" music. I found it loud and quite irritating. I was unable to hear if any "unexplainable" noises were occurring. Other shows dealing with the paranormal do this too. I guess producers try to set the mood. I wish they would omit the cheesy music already!
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Date: 1983 Time: Approx: 9:00 p.m.
Location of Sighting: South Vancouver. Number of witnesses: 2 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Walking figure of a man in a longish old style tweed coat and flat tweed hat.
Full Description of event/sighting: Hello Brian, you asked for ghost stories and I happen to have had a very strange, unexplainable thing happen at my house years ago. It was approx: 9:00 in the evening, and my wife and I were sitting in the living room of our 'just bought house'. We had only just moved in a few months previously. Our house was built in 1903 and was the first house built in our neighborhood, back when it was mostly farmland and orchards. We had just finished dinner and were sitting watching TV and relaxing after a hard days work at our respective jobs. All of a sudden we heard a loud scraping noise coming from our basement area, and our cat came flying up the staircase all puffed up and looking completely insane and terrified at what he was seeing. He was staring bug-eyed at the basement stairs, and from where I and my wife were sitting, we couldn't see the area that the cat could.
I jumped from my chair and ran into the kitchen where 'Hugo' the cat was now spitting and growling madly at the top steps. I was in the process of trying to calm the cat down, when out of the corner of my eye I saw a movement, and as I turned to see what it was I saw the back of the figure of a man wearing a longish tweed coat and a flat old styled tweed cap moving through what was our open bathroom door into our bathroom. I stood speechless watching this 'person' disappear across the bathroom and into our toilet area, with no apparent legs, it was just drifting over the floor. I yelled to my wife what I had seen, and after finally calming down a bit, I felt I should phone my father and see if everything was alright with my parents. For some reason I thought I was seeing some kind of premonition of someone's demise, but everyone was fine at my parents house. I told my Dad what I'd seen and we talked about it for a bit, and he suggested I make a search downstairs in the basement, and check the floor joist patterns and see what was once built in the area directly above and into what is now our bathroom.
I did and found out that before the renovations and the added on back part of our house, the back stairs had once been located directly where the bathroom door now was situated, and whoever it was I saw that night, was walking out on to a long gone staircase, and out into our back yard. We've lived here now for 24 years and have had a couple of other 'supernatural things' happen, but never another sighting of the old guy in the tweed coat and hat.
Thank you to the person for telling this awesome story.
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