Blog#18 These spirits keep telling me…Precognitive Ghosts warning from the other side

Precognitive Ghosts are the ones that come to tell that something or something bad was going to happen. I have a story about ghosts on one of the Key Islands here in South Florida.


It was August of 1935, and a category 5 hurricane was head straight for the Keys thru the path of the Caribbean Islands. They were developing warning systems, but its forecasting was always too late. It blast thru the Keys and hit so hard, part of a Railroad Bridge was gone from Henry Flagler’s Oversea Railroad. It was at a point just off the Island of Morada. They were sending people to help out people leaving the Keys and to stay for Disaster Relief down via the railroad; unaware there was no bridge up ahead. They plunged to their deaths to the shallow waters of a mangrove that was alligator invested. Little of amounts of bodies were found due to nature.

There are stories about 24 hours right before Hurricane Andrew that people fishing off the bridge area off Isle of Morada kept seeing shadows of people standing, rocking back and forth in the mangrove. These spirits were warning us that the same type of disaster was going to happen again. And it did.


I visited a place in Williamsburg called the “Peyton Randolph House” which is to be the most haunted place in Colonial Williamsburg. Inside Peyton Randolph House was supposed to lay a precognitive ghost of a servant. She comes to warn that something was going to happen to the family. From death to fires, this ghost would come in the middle of the night, wringing hands, grasping at her apron and running towards the door, only to turn around and repeat her actions. Here read about it in Haunted Colonial Williamsburg, a website I made in 1998.

Click link below

http://johnmcarrparanormal.tripod.com/hauntedcolonialwilliamsburg/id5.html

If a precognitive ghost comes to your bed tonight, would you heed his or her warnings?

Blog #17 All the ghostly voices I know.

Upon doing research in ghosts and the spirit world, I come to realize that ghosts are humans without bodies. They have the options of choice, good choices or bad choices; they have opinions and disagreements with others and like most humans, the need for attention.


EVPs are surprisingly a good way to find the true personality of the entity. To read a message from a Ouija Boards (which you know, I look down on) to use of dousing rods, there is no personality in yes, no, I don’t know answers. Hearing a voice of a ghost is truly dealing with a personality. From the angry young man, to the children that frolic through a haunted restaurant, I’ve heard the screams to laughter that might have some people’s hair on their necks stand up.


Here is a 28 year old fireman who died on his second week on the job. He had a size 13 foot and the boots did come in to the station. He went on a call with the truck and landed in a puddle that was charged from a down wire. We were saying that we were going to leave and this would be his last chance to say goodbye, he replied, “Please, bye, bye”.

EVP caught by John Marc Carr of SEFGR




You can’t get any more personal than that, a ghost that can’t wait for you to leave. During that investigation, he tweaked my nose and flicked my ear. Tiny and Janeane said they felt a tingling that went through them from the shoulder area, above their heart to their right toe. Johnny, one of investigator stated to tear, then did I and Heidi began to sob uncontrollably.
Here is him saying "Strangulate" after I said something. Wow, that was very personal. He is pretty harmless. I was wondering if he was talking about the hanging tree that was across the diagnal corner. Hear his precious words....

EVP caught by Tiny, William Elrod of SEFGR


Inside the same Fire Station is the spirits of 2 young girls. They are playful and sound a lot like boys, so we are unsure of the true identities. There was a house where 2 young girls who died in a fire it was only one block away from the station. I’ve talked with the firemen who took the call and they said, even though the short distance, the call came to them to late, they assume that the building didn’t have a fire alarm or had one but the batteries didn’t work. The two spirits are funny, like siblings, one would mimic each other. Here is them saying “What’s up?”

EVP caught by Tiny, William Elrod of SEFGR


So, think that ghost don’t have any personality, come and maybe you’ll get to hear, see or feel our friendly ghosts at Fire Station No. 3


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Here is a child saying "good"....
EVP caught by Tiny, William Elrod of SEFGR


Fun fact: Doing this late at night might cause you to lose sleep, make sure to allow at least one to two hours after doing EVP's. You might hear them in your sleep. LOL

Blog#16 EVPs Voices from the other side.

EVP is Electronic Voice Phenomena, which occurs when we have recording device in the haunted environment and a voice is left of the recording device but not heard in real time. If heard in real time, that is called a “Disembodied Voice”. It’s one of the simplest ways to catch a ghost. Sometimes they are aware of us recording them, and sometimes they could care less. It’s hard to get an EVP that is more than 3 to 5 words long.
EVPs could be the result of all 3 types of haunting (intelligent, residual, and poltergeist). If answering a question or an utter of what you might be doing, shows signs of intelligence and should be considered intelligent. If the EVP is a baby crying or a woman’s scream could be residual and would have to be investigated further. Now, if the crying or scream is in response to something that would cause that reaction, it may be intelligent. Poltergeists are going to be loud and obnoxious. They are very vocal and up front that they are displeased with you in their area.

There are some classifications that go into EVPs into groups of words or sounds. We like Class A EVP’s to give as evidence. Word that can be heard clearly and can be made out is more than one person. That’s why it’s good to have a buddy during the shifting through your evidence for the proper one’s to extract. Classes B are those that are clear sounds of a person but cannot be made out. These are the ones that your response would be, “it’ sounds like a woman but I can’t make out what she’s saying”. Classes C are grunts, unintelligent sound that seem like they are being heard backwards. Poltergeist likes to leave these types of recordings.

EVP at Stranahan House

Albert.."You need Sufferage".

Equipment
A recording device
I like devices with extractable files or cards to get those nuggets of evidence. I’ve used Olympus
WS-100 which has a USB end that fits into your computer for easy extraction. I’m currently using a Zoom 360 H2 recorder with a SD card to pull a 4 channel sound files. This device you can hear the directing the sound is coming from.

Software




It’s a matter of choice, just like in recording devices, but I tell you what I have. I use either Adobe Audition or Magix Music Maker. These are multi channel software that would merge your different channels together for those types of EVP sessions. Noise reduction, sound enhancement and separate the sound filters are all types of options used in your software sessions. I like to clip the EVP and make a copy so I don’t tamper with the original file. That copy is what I experiment on to bring out the best captured sound bite from your clip. During the revue, we include 10 seconds before and after. After the revue, we clip them to short bites of evidence for classification and put up on websites.

Earphones
Again, matter of choice, but remember, these going to be your best way to hear these entities, so this isn’t the time to break out cheap earphones from the dollar store. I’ve found some professional style earphones as low as $9 to the extremely expensive BOSE. I do have a pair, they were a gift, they have a noise eliminator so outside noise doesn’t come in. They come with batteries for the system to do their noise reducing. I like my foam Plantronics headphones ($29 on sale) the best, but I have to close the door and eliminate any interferences to me screening for EVPs.

A keen ear is needed and it helps to get a good pair of headphones so you are able to go thru at least 20 minutes of evidence per interval and your ears aren’t hurting. Inner ear headphones are o.k. but remember to watch the decimals level. Inner ear headphones can cause a lot of damage. Personally, I wouldn’t use them.

Another don't is DON'T DO THIS IN YOUR HOME!!!!!! Please let me warn you not to do this at your home. Your living experience of what you call “home” will not be the same again.

So, that’s the end of EVP lesson #1.

Here is a cute video made about he Ouija Board.

This video is not made by John Marc Carr and doesn't assume any responsiblity to this video.
Historically accurate and they did do their research.

Blog #15 Ouija Boards, games for some, portal to misery.

I sometimes get the question about Ouija Boards and why I’m so negative about them. I was very familiar with them at an early part of my life that taught me well not to use them again. You see, I lived in a haunted house on Long Island.

When we left the house, my father had the house blessed by a local Parrish priest, Father Gardner. We found out that Father Gardner was in Mexico when a young girl of 7 got possessed by the spirit of 8 demons. The little girl was fling grown men around like they were dolls and it took 10 men to keep her down. No wonder the Parrish sent Father Gardner.


He found the Ouija board that my mother brought home from a girlfriends house. Her girlfriend hearing my mother’s problems of having a ghost thought it would be a good idea to find out what the ghost might want or why it was there. He took the box and opened it up. He asked me if I ever was a part of the session and told him yes, that my mother would have me or Kevin (HS Friend) and me to use it. We even used to blindfold each other to make sure the answer would come from the other side and not from us.


He took the board out of the box plus the planchette and went outside. He started the BBQ with a bunch of papers. He claimed that the board was used to bring spirits into the house, a portal for any spirit to use to come into this realm we call the living world. They live in the dead realm, where no one hears them. They see us, yet they have no effect, except when they can build enough strength to try to communicate back. They get jealous, angry and mad. These are spirits that haven’t crossed over; these spirits are bound to this area, either house or an attachment article.


Here is a portion of “The Haunted Chronicles” about one of the events using an Ouija board.

 

While in Junior High, I met a friend named Kevin. Kevin was in my Home Room and we got to know each other pretty well. He had heard the stories of my house and the ghost that occupied within and was intrigued with coming over regular to do homework or to study.

One day, my mother came home from visiting Kay, down the street. In her hands was a Ouija Board. Kay's daughter got it from a friend as a gift, but Kay would not let her daughter play with it. She gave it to my mother in order that her daughter wouldn't be able to get access to it.

My mother was fascinated with the board and wants to use it as soon as she came into the house. Kevin was over, it was Friday and he planned on staying over. He was used to being at my house and wasn't scared. Kevin looked at the board and said to my mother that they should try it.


With my mother on one end and Kevin on the other. They tried to connect with the spirit of the house. The pointer wouldn't move. Question after question they asked but nothing. She suggested for me get in Kevin's spot and try it again. Still nothing. Then Kevin suggested that he and I would give it a try. Kevin took over my mother’s end and we prepared to ask questions.

 The question "Who is the spirit that live inside this house?” Kevin asked. The board began to move. The number 2 was first and then the word C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N. We thought the board was referring to my brother and I, so we asked for the name of the children.

The first name was Tykeme and then the name Veure. We thought that was odd names, and proceeded to ask, what happen to the two. The board start to spell out F-E-L-L W-E-L-L. "You fell in a well", I asked. It point to "yes". "Are you a boy?” it answered, "no" and then G-I-R-L-S. "Both are girls?" it answered, "yes".

 By this time my brother was watching this and said that we were moving the Ouija board around that it could be able to spell so correctly without our help. So we decided to blind fold both Kevin and I. We put cotton over our eye sockets and then place some of my mother’s handkerchief and my brother tied them from behind.


After my brother checking, to make sure we weren't able to see, by throwing plastic fruit at our faces, to see if we would flinch. He was sure, that the Ouija board wouldn't work, but he was wrong.



The pointer started to move, first to the word "yes". We asked as question, but my mother asked it. "How will I die?” I didn't like that question and took my hands off the board, they convinced me to go on and that she wasn't scare of the results, but I was. The pointer started to move again, "F-I-R-E". I got scared. "No more questions", I said. Again, they convinced me to go on. She asked, "Where?” the pointer started again, "W-O-R-K". Now I was really scared. My mom just started a new job in a factory and they used highly flammable chemicals. I had to stop.


Both Kevin and I were shaken up by the way the Ouija board event occurred and my brother was silent as he took off the blind folds off Kevin and I. I never thought it would be like this. My mom tried to cover up her emotions but you could see, this disturbed her, but she asked the questions, I guess to try to trick the board, but the board tricked her more.

 Father Gardner burned that Ouija board and then placed the planchette that melted on top of the twisting hissing mass of ashes and plastic. Father Gardner is no longer in the priesthood anymore. He had fell in love with a woman and left his calling.

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In Memory of Kevin

On April 19th 2001, my friend of 25 years passed away. I will always remember you, my friend, every day I walk this earth. I find solice in the day that we will all be together. You taught me bravery and courage, through watching you go through the pains of your afflictions without one complaint. Your memory is vivid in the minds of all you have touched, we will miss you. Rest in Peace.

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Blog #14 Is that an Old Hag on your chest?

Old Hag Syndrome

I’ve had this happen a couple times in my life. I did freak out afterwards when I was able to get control of my body. I heard voices tell me that they were in control now, and the sound of laughter muffled in the air. Arms so heavy, I cannot lift either one. My head cannot lift from my headrest of my recliner and feel like hundreds of pounds. The voices sound like its inches from your ears. High pressures on your chest, as you feel yourself sink deeper into your trapped sleep position and yet you cannot make a sound.

Sounds like a paranormal attack, yes? Sleep Paralysis is what you’ve just gone through. This syndrome has been happening for centuries and I’ve had this happen to me only twice in my life. Yes, it was scary and everything felt real, but I knew if I had no control over my muscles, I must be asleep. I remember my eyes trying to open, but did they really, or was it a dream? Who was on my chest? Who whispered in my ear? Yes, it is sort of a dream and yes, sometime your eyes do open, but it doesn't mean that everything you see is real, sleep paralysis dreams seem very convincing.

This happens to at least 15% of the community (men or women) who have said that this had occurred at least once in their lifetime.

Blog#13- Doing it with a buddy is highly suggested.

In doing research in any haunted environment, it is always suggested that a buddy comes along to provide certain science conditions.

 Safety is the primary condition to having a buddy with you on an investigation.


 Extra eyes to witness any viewable eye witness and caught on video or digital picture.


 Hold more equipment with 2 people, than 1.


 Sharing responsibilities in getting the job done. EMF sweeping, EVP recording, Infrared Laser Thermometer, Dousing Rods and of coarse filming on mobile cams.


 If injury occurs, the other can get help.

Please, pay attention to signs!! This is not there for decoration, if you are not "authorised", do not go into that area.

We don’t go to interviews with clients by ourselves and there should be 1 or 2 other members with you during the interview. We get phone calls and emails for people to come and check out their haunted area. We don’t know these people, nor know their mental conditions. The buddy system can help in instances where you might feel uncomfortable or in signs of danger.

Safety is the most important reason to have a buddy with ya.

Blog #12 I could have been mistaken

Our eyes can play tricks with us and that’s why we rely on video, pictures and thermal imaging. Do you really know to what lengths your brain will try to fill in things to make them look and make sense to your mind?


Here is some fun stuff to fool you mind? Look at each one carefully.

Do you see some of them spinning and it seems like only in the areas other than the ones you are trying to focus on?


Or this one…..

Do you see the little squares that appear in the between the boxes?



Next, Is it a picture or a secret message?

If you don’t see it, tilt you head to the right.






Sometimes directions of which way did they come from might be difficult. Look at this teaser…

or

All of these pictures can show you that you sometimes can’t rely on your own eyes.

Remember those Magic Eye Pictures from the 90's



and even more things to make your eyes go crossed.

Blog#11 Ghosts can be a drain.

In my many years of ghost investigations we’ve found out that we always have to carry extra batteries. I have a whole case just devoted to triple A, double A, C cell, and 9 volts. We consume a lot doing our nightly vigils seeking the unknown. Sometimes we feel like the delivery guy for a pizza for the ghost to consume as well.
While doing our research and using our equipment we sometimes come across equipment failure. Equipment that was working fine, fully charged and now lifeless and have no to little battery strength to finish what they suppose to do. That sudden drain of battery comes with the territory in chasing ghosts. That’s why the case of batteries that I carry for those occasions of equipment failure.
We found that ghosts need energy to do things. They collect it to do a couple of different things. One is to manifest. Manifest means to appear to human eyes. The entity will absorb from the atmosphere and our EMF detectors cans see this flux in electric magnetic field and that’s usually when the batteries will drain. I know it’s the worst time for equipment failure but it happens.

At the Richardson Estate in Wilton Manors, we did our nightly vigils inside the 2 story house. We invite PAS Paranormal Awareness Society to join us. One location gave us the most problems. First, we did have access to this part of the property but whenever we got close to the Carriage House, our camera would go dead. Switch batteries and yet again, equipment failure. It was first reported by PAS and then SEFGR was having the same problem. We can film from a distance, but as soon as we got close, dead.
So, for all those newbie Ghost Investigators out there, get ready. Try to look for those sales that come out every Sunday for batteries, you’re going to need them.

Blog #10 Pareidolia- it’s not only for a haunting anymore!

From Wikipedia


Pareidolia (pronounced /pærɪˈdoʊliə/) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon, and hearing hidden messages on records played in reverse. The word comes from the Greek para- ("beside", "with", or "alongside"—meaning, in this context, something faulty or wrong (as in paraphasia, disordered speech)) and eidolon ("image"; the diminutive of eidos ("image", "form", "shape")). Pareidolia is a type of apophenia.

I’m often given a picture to look at to see orb or an anomaly to ask my opinion on. I often have to explain what pareidolia is and what they are actually seeing.

The eyes can play tricks on the mind to place random spots and lines in some kind of sense. One can spend hours looking at wood paneling or markings on a turtle and see faces, animals, objects and even spirits. There are several very wide known mass pareidolia of people see the face of a religious figure on a piece of toast or on the side of a building. Which is quite amazing in some cases but does it have to do with the actual spirit world?

Devil Image on back of turtle saved by burning Pet Shop, click for story.

Orbs are spirit lights that come up in photos that are perfectly round. They have a nucleus center a inner ring and a outer ring. There is often random dots and other stuff inside the orb as well and when magnified they sometimes take on forms of faces, people, animals, angels, demons and of course…. nothing at all.

So, next time you take that picture and look deep at that little spot and see a face staring at you, ask yourself, is this pareidolia or is it a ghost.

Here pareidolia is explained by Shane Killian on Youtube.







That's all for now, ooooh doesn't that cloud seem to look like.....

Blog#9 Armed and Protected

When I tell people about what I do with SEFGR they often ask, “Do you bring some type of protection with you?” I would joke with them and say, “like a gun or a knife?”


I do bring a form of talisman with me. I was raised catholic, so there is usually a cross on my person upon entering a haunted environment. If I know it’s houses a poltergeist, I may have more, such as Holy Water.


I would keep a medicine bag in my pocket. It has a long cord so I can wear it around my neck at a moment’s notice. Medicine bags are very personal and each are different to attune or strength yourself with what medicine (power) you need. Certain stones are put inside that enhance your strength of protection. For a list of these stones I made a website a long time ago called “Shaman Speaks II” , here is the link. Click on link.

Shaman Speaks

I also like to say a pray of protection, like the prayer for St. Michael

OurLadysWarriors.Org

“Saint Michael the Archangel,

defend us in battle.

Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.

May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;

and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host -

by the Divine Power of God -

cast into hell, Satan and all the evil spirits,

who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen.”

I often go to OurLadysWarriors.Org for prayers of support. I was raised catholic and this might not work for you and your own believes. Check with your clergy, spiritual advisor if you want to learn more about what might help to protect yourself. Mantras are used by the Hindus to raise the vibration levels. There are those who are Wiccan and they might want to wear a pentagram /pentacle. They also have talismans for all types of protection.

In some paranormal investigator groups they will sage to clear themselves of any negativity that they may have brought with them first. Then say a prayer of protection.

Here is a site I found that had lots of prayers of protection plus ones used by many ghost hunters.

Banned Spirits.com

Hope this is helpful for those who might need that assurance there is a Devine and we can tap into it and it can help up with our goals.

Blog#8 “Can a ghost hurt me?” Poltergeist is not only a name of a movie!

Oh boy, this is a loaded question that I run across through our investigations in a haunting or on my ghost tour. I’ll try to answer this question the best I can.

Yes and No.

On my ghost tour, there are only a few poltergeists that move things around or make noise to try to scare you away. They are usually bound to a certain area and won’t be following you home after the tour. I have had some people say they have had dreams about certain spirits the night after taking my tour. This is not a haunting but just the subconscious mind reliving the stories and or events of my tour.

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Most ghosts are harmless. They will be a shadow or something you might catch from the corners of your eyes that will startle you. Mentally, they can cause fear, confusion, or amazement. Some will like to play mental games by taking objects that you know that you placed in a certain location. Upon trying to relocate that item, it’s gone. You will go looking for that item, i.e. keys, glasses, a letter, clothing, only to find that item back to where you let it before.

Poltergeists are only 5% of haunting reported out of all haunts. Out of this 5%, 95% of the case can be debunked by reasonable means. Either it’s a prank, but many are case that there is a person in the house that may have a telekinesis (a person who is able to move things with their mind). This is often found with people who are under a lot of stress. Teenagers and the handicapped are a high percentage of these cases. There pint up anger and frustrations will manifest in an event of moving something or causes a violent reaction in their environment. If you seen the movie “Carrie”, that is the most extreme case of telekinesis. A cup or glass would fly off the table, radio stations will change their stations, and television sets will change their channel or even turn off.



The other 5% are known true poltergeists. Poltergeist is a German word which means “noisy ghost”. There objective to scare you away because they want to lay claim to your property, which they think is theirs. Very few of them will harm you directly, but there are known occasion of them that will scratch, bruised, poke, smack, pinch, bite, or worst yet rape. I’ve been very lucky in cases of poltergeists. I’ve been pinched on my nose, flicked my earlobe, scratched and was given the feeling of pain that they felt during the time of their demise. None of these events have caused me major medical problems and the scratches never lasted long or have caused me to bleed.


If you are ever come across a poltergeist in your home, call a paranormal investigator or ghost research for help. They will determine what you might be dealing with.