Lots of people believe in ghosts but what they actually think ghosts are differs from person to person.

There are many so called ‘Ghost Busting’ or ‘Haunting Nights’ being held across the country and even on the TV.  Ask the potential ghost buster just what he or she expects to see at the event and it differs greatly.

Some say that they fully expect to see a ghost as that is what they believe the event is for.  Others think that they will see things moving of their own accord, such as tables floating and smaller items floating in mid air.

Ask what they think ghosts are and this varies too. Lots seem to believe that every spirit who has left their material body, is able to haunt places and appear at will. Others think it is only the ‘troubled’ souls who stay around to haunt and scare people.

The simplest explanation to me is that a ghost is an image trapped in time. When people say they have seen the ‘white lady’ or the ‘small child crying’, the event is usually relayed in the same way, with the same description, by all those who say they witnessed it, every time. There is usually no variation in the event.

It came through the wall and floated over to the other wall before disappearing into it….

The room went cold and there was a bad feeling or bad smell in the air when the ghost appeared and did her usual thing, whilst carrying an object….

It appears at the side of the road sometimes at 2am and floats across as though the road was not there, doing the same thing each time….

My belief is that the reason the image is trapped in time, is because of a violent and unexpected passing, the shock of which somehow causes the effect to make an imprint upon this earthly plane. Spirits who pass over to the Spirit World in the usual manner do not seem to go in for haunting.

My experiences are usually of  the spirits of loved ones, who are wanting to let us know they are watching over us, and to give us reassurance at difficult times in our lives. They can communicate to us via a medium and bring messages of love, not scaring us or haunting our homes as this would achieve little.

I believe we can all learn to tune into the spirits of our loved ones, if we would just take the time and make the effort.

I know a lot of you like to read and hear about ghosts and hauntings.  something about the subject seems to excite people.  Is it the unknown aspect or the fact it could be a dead person wandering around, that excites? 

There is a perfectly good explanation for ghosts.  Images trapped in time, after an untimely or violent death, is the valid one.  The world is not full of dead people haunting those who they are angry with.  The Spirit World is the home of  ’dead’  people when they move on from this existence.  They do not linger around to frighten and upset.

We all come here form our home in the Spirit World to learn lessons and evolve into a higher existence.  We go back home when our allotted time is up.  Why would we want to hang around haunting people.  Our only ties are with our loved ones and we do not want to alarm them. 

When spirits do come back to communicate, it is to uplift  and comfort those loved ones left behind, not to scare them.  Communicating with our loved ones helps to prove that there is life after death, and reassures those we have left behind, so that they know we all meet again.

Yes, sometimes spirits do make a noise in your home.  Sometimes they do move small things around.  Sometimes they stroke our hair or our face and let you smell their favourite sent.  This is comforting, not haunting.

It is though, a very interesting subject and we are all learning new things everyday.  who knows what we may find out in the future!

I do like to hear your stories. Please share by emailing them to my website.

There is  a lot of rubbish talked about what mediums and psychics can and cannot do.  Lets put a few things straight shall we.  Mediums and psychics are NOT miracle workers.  However well developed they happen to be.  They are certainly not God.

I have heard lots of rubbish given out as messages from the church platform and from the hall stage.  Some of them make me really angry, and I have to learn to rise above it all.  But is does not stop me giving a word to the wise.

I heard about one medium who told a group of novices that their auras were colliding,  because they were sat next to the wrong people in the circle.  Nonsense!

A lady wrote to me and told me a medium had told her that her path was being closed down.  No one can close down your path.  Not you or anyone else.  It does not happen because a medium said so.  Even when you pass over to the higher side of life, your path is still open.  Your spirit lives on.

Ghosts are sometimes said to be naughty spirits.  Ghosts are actually images trapped in time.  Supposed hauntings are spirits of loved ones who have passed over and want to communicate with you.  They are not haunting,  just trying to be close.

Some mediums say they can call up famous spirits.  They cannot.  No particular spirit can be summoned to appear.  The only spirits who come through are the ones who want to communicate via a medium, for the purpose of helping a loved one.

Some mediums say their guide makes them appear drunk, or that the guide can maipulate their body whilst the medium gives clairvoyance.  This cannot happen.  Spirits are not physical.  They have no body.  They cannot make your body do things whch you do not want.  It is showmanship, that’s all. 

There are many more, and from time to time I will tell you some of them.  If you have any yourself, please share them with us.

We were asked to go to a factory where workers were concerned about a possible haunting.  The factory was a group a several buildings where a different part of the process happened in each one.

One particular building was well known amongst the work force for being a cold and eerie place.  They were convinced it was haunted.  We are talking big strong men here, not school girls!

There were tales of men seeing shapes appear in cold spots around the workshop.  One man had seen a figure appear in mist, but he could see right through the figure.  He could actually see what was at the other side of the figure, right through it.

Word got around and it became a workshop where men were reluctant to go.  Once someone was brave enough to talk about it others then admitted seeing and feeling things of an eerie nature.

I went along with  2 other mediumistic  friends.  We went around the empty workshop and felt the cold spots.  It was at one of these cold spots that we sat for a short time to tune into the spirit world.  We soon began to pick up information from spirits.

The main communicator was a man who brought with him a sandwich box containing banana sandwiches.  He proceeded to sit on an upturned box and eat his sandwiches.  He gave his name and said his son worked in the factory.  He also gave us lots of other information including dates and descriptions.

When the communication was ovr we went back to the bosses office.  A workman was just entering the office at the same time.  As we began to relate the information the the manager the workman stood with his mouth open.  Shocked to say the least.

His was one of the names the spirit communicator had given and the spirit turned out to be his dad.  It seemed the spirit used to work in the same workshop and would bring banana sandwiches every day for his lunch. He always sat on the same upturned box in the same area we had seen him.

It was the spirits need to contact his son and give him some advice about a current problem, that had led to the so called haunting.  Once the spirit had served his intended purpose, he was happy to move on and leave the factory in peace.

There was a man who lived over, and worked in, a bookshop in Lincolnshire.  He contacted me because he was having a problem in his store.

He explained that his cat, which once belonged to his now deceased mother,  seemed to be having some sort of fit but it seemed to always coincide with lots of books flying off the bookshelves.  He was freaked out by it and obviously, so was his cat.  He felt he was haunted by a bad spirit!

Having a browse around his bookstore convinced me that there was nothing sinister going on there.  Whatever was happening was of a kindly nature.  There was such a calm and peaceful atmosphere.

A prayer and a seance later and it was obvious what was going on!  The man’s mother, now on the higher side of life, communicated with us.  She said she was concerned that her son was being duped by a would be investor and wanted to warn him. 

She didn’t know how to get his attention and she knew he would not go to see a medium.  So, she took things into her own hands.  She would attract the attention of her beloved cat and this would make the cat go wild.  The cat knew she was there but could not see her. 

As the cat began to go wild, the mother would make books fly from the shelves, although she admitted that she didn’t realise at first that she could do this.  It amused her, but the main aim was to contact her son.

Now she  had managed to get her son in the same room as a medium and she could tell him what and whom to beware of.

Her mission over, the mother left our presence, leaving her love and affection.  We closed our seance and prayed to thank the spirit world for their help.

More stories next time…..

From time to time I get requests from people to help them with their haunting!

It may be that they feel their home is haunted, or even that a member of the family is haunted.  Sometimes they think they have a poltergeist.  They may think they have a ghost. 

It is then that they ask for help.  They may have put up with the situation for a long time , before plucking up the courage to do something about it.

These people often have had no dealings with mediums before and are often unaware of the psychic or spiritualists  world.  On other occasions there maybe someone in the home who  is developing psychic gifts.  It varies so much and I have to keep an open mind.

I usually make an appointment with them  and go along to the home to see what I can find out.  Figuring out what is actually taking place is as important as what I do about it.  It is not always straight forward.

There are often troubled people involved, and a caring and sympathetic attitude is really important.  It is important to find out what each member of the household feels about the situation and how it is affecting them personally. 

Once I have come to an understanding of the problem I will set about sorting it out, in order to leave the family in peace. 

This week I will write about  some of my experiences.

Sometimes a person will tell me about a happening in their own home.  It is usually something that has had a great impression on them.  They see it maybe as supernatural or of an occult nature.

Here is Wikipedias explanation of the word occult:

Occult

Many people believe in ghosts but what they actually believe ghosts are differs from person to person.

There are many ‘Ghost Busting’ or ‘Haunting Nights’ being held across the country at ancient sites and old properties.  There are also popular TV  programmes which delve into the ‘unknown’!  Ask any potential ghost buster just what he or she expects to see at the events and it differs greatly.

Some say that they fully expect to see a ghost,  as that is what they believe the event is for.  Others think that they will see things moving of their own accord, such as tables raising up and smaller items floating in mid air.

Ask what they think ghosts are, and this varies too. Lots of these seekers seem to believe that every spirit who has left their material body, is able to haunt places and appear at will. Others think it is only the ‘troubled’ souls who stay around to haunt and scare people.  Some kind of vengeance perhaps!

The simplest explanation to me is that a ghost is an image trapped in time. When people say they have seen the ‘white lady’ or the ‘small child crying’, the event is usually relayed in exactly the same way, with the same descriptions, by all those who say they witnessed it, every time. There is usually no variation in the event.

It came through the wall and floated over to the other wall before disappearing into it….

The room went cold and there was a bad feeling or bad smell in the air when the ghost appeared and did her usual thing, whilst carrying an object….

It appears at the side of the road sometimes at 2am and floats across as though the road was not there, doing the same thing each time….

My belief is that the reason the image is trapped in time, is because of a violent and unexpected passing, the shock of which somehow causes the effect to make an imprint upon this earthly plane. Spirits who pass over to the Spirit World in the usual manner do not seem to go in for haunting.

My experiences are usually of  the spirits of loved ones, who are wanting to let us know they are watching over us, and to give us reassurance at difficult times in our lives. They can communicate to us via a medium and bring messages of love, not scaring us or haunting our homes as this would achieve little.

Poltergeists are different altogether and I will discuss this subject in another post.

Having been on the ghost hunt last week, I have been asked if I will be doing others.  My answer is that I am unsure if I want to.  I find it hard to believe that anyone on these hunts can actually see a ghost.  As I have always said, I believe a ghost is just an image trapped in time and therefore not something you can really hunt for.  Though I know some people make a lot of money from these events.

 (Our event was certainly not done for money at all.)

The very best you could expect, is to go to a certain place at the exact time that the image has been seen by others, and on the right day.  Only then are you likely to see the replay of these ghostly happenings.  Spirits though, do not hang around to haunt places and are best contacted via a  mediums seance or circle.

I sometimes get asked to go to the homes of people who feel that either themselves or their house is haunted.  I go in good faith and with an open mind, but not to ghost hunt.  I just try my best to communicate with spirit and and solve the problem.

I will say a prayer and hold a seance in the person’s home and see what I ‘pick up’ mediumistically.  Sometimes I will need to go round the home asking for the troubled spirit to leave and I have developed my own methods of doing this.

Often, it appears to be one of the residents of the house who is troubled by spirits or even just troubled.  Again, I have my own way of dealing with this too.  By the time I leave the home, it is usually all calm and normal.

Often the home is normal anyway, and it turns out that it is just a lack of knowledge and understanding of spirit activity.  Imparting knowledge from my 25years plus experience of being a working medium, helps in these circumstances.  Sending out love to spirit helps too.

I love working with spirit and helping those who do not know the subject, to understand it all.  In some cases the troubled person turns out to be a psychic who has not learned to close down after working.  They pick up energies and go around living their life with their psychic centres open.  This is a BIG mistake.  Those who remain open pick up everything, from bad moods to bad tempers, and other people’s aches and pains.  It is not a nice way to live I can assure you.

You must learn to open up and close down properly if you wnat to work psychically or mediumistically.  Say prayers, keep grounded and stay safe.  Not all spirits are good, just as not all humans are good, but if you learn to protect yourself properly you will be fine.  Communicating with spirits is neither a game nor for amusement.

For more on development and safety, see earlier posts on this blog site, or email me and I will answer your questions and help all I can.  Do not take chances with your mind.  I have known those who remained open, preferring not to close down and it affected their life big style.  Use your intelligence to guide you.

There is no short answer to this question, but I will tell you about the event and what we did become aware of.  You can make up your own mind too.

We first had the guided tour led by Peter, who works for the Sheffield Markets.  Peter is very knowledgeable about the market and its origins.  Along with Peter we had a local historian, Dave.  Between them they were a font of knowledge and could answer most of our questions.

There were health and safety issues which had to be obeyed, so we were limited in where we wandered.  For instance, there are tunnels underneath the markets (and also under a lot of the buildings in central Sheffield) but the public are forbidden entry via the manholes because of these health and safety issues.

We had an agreement with Peter not to divulge any information which would get in the way of our experiments.  Once you have all of the information in your mind it tends to block off the inspiration from spirit.  Peter agreed not to tell us about any market events unless we ‘picked them up’ first.  Then he would fill in the details for us.

We first went to the ruins of the early castle wall.  This was remarkable and made me feel a great sense of history.  Whilst John, the healer, picked up a lot of shivers, his hair standing on end and other things, I picked up nothing, but I was over awed by the sense of history.  John is clairsentient and does pick up feelings etc, whereas I am more clairvoyant and tend to tune into spirit.

We next went on a tour of the market itself.  Two of the mediums, Kevin and Andrew, used dowsing rods and the rods did start to quiver and cross whenever we were in an area where Peter later told us that there had been a death.  Again, John picked up the ‘feelings’, which were on these same spots.  Sue and Gill also felt the energy in these areas, as did Keith.

We all seemed to pick up things in the same areas and it was good that Peter could fill in the details for us later.  It reassured us that we were not imagining it all.  Plus, as they were items of recent history it is possible to check on some of them.

Sue, picked up information clairvoyantly and made notes. Kevin and Andrew were working clairvoyantly as well as using the dowsing rods.  We would all state aloud what we were feeling and picking up as we went along and ask if others were aware of the same thing.  If the energy was strong we would all stop and try to tune in.

There were three areas in particular where we all picked up feelings and information which was linked.  It was at these three places that we decided to use the table tappings to try to get more information.  Three sat at the table whilst the rest looked on.

Although the table did rock and tap and spell out letters, bringing information for us, it was of recent history rather than Elizabethan history.  We noted the information and Peter agreed to look into it for us.  This was information previously unknown to Peter.

There was one spot in particular where we all picked up things.  I recall telling Peter that I was clairvoyantly picking up on someone who was panicking and gasping for air.  He later told us that a lady had had a heart attck at that same spot.  She panicked because she could not get air.  Sadly, she later died.

Most of us used recorders and cameras as well as note books.  Power of suggestion can be overwhelming, so we kept some things to ourselves until later.  It was quite interesting that often some of the notes were the same.

Whilst the evening was interesting and exciting, it was also very tiring ,but that did not stop us from having one last visit to the castle walls in darkness.  Again, it was awesome but we saw no ghosts.  John picked up the energies again.

I have search my camera images looking for anomalies or maybe some orbs, but I found nothing.  Although John picked up orbs on his camera but not on his camcorder.  Both John and myself left recorders in one area in the hope of picking up ghostly noises but to no avail.

My personal verdict is no ghosts but lots of spirit energy.  The energies seemed to come from the spirits of those who had died during the market’s history.  I will keep you informed of any feedback we get and as usual look forward to your comments and questions.

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!  A big thankyou to the market management and to Peter and Dave. And a very big thankyou to Linda, a market cafe owner,  who kept us fed and watered throughout.