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Your Psychic Experiences
/ Interview with Autumn Breeze, 5th Gen Witch Part 2 |
on: Today at 02:34am |
| Started by PaulDaleRoberts | Post by PaulDaleRoberts |
Question: Can you tell me about your angel experience.
Answer: My first encounter was when my son was born. He was very sick with a heart condition and the doctors told me he might die before or during the surgery on his heart. On the forth night after he was born, he almost didn’t make it through the night. That was the night before his surgery and the night I decided to go to the Chapel to pray and ask God if he was going to take my son, take him that night or let him live. I didn’t want to get to know him and love him as a person and have him taken away from me. I went to bed that night and was almost asleep, a voice of a woman said to me, you can now rest because your son will live and he will be a miracle child. I looked up at the direction of where the voice was coming from, She was a beautiful angel with light around her and beautiful wings! My son just had his 21st birthday and is doing well. The second encounter with an angel, I was lying in bed and was almost asleep and I felt something like feathers or soft fur brushing up against my chest. I thought it was my cat. I looked to see if the cat was in the room and what I saw was astonishing. I saw an angel hovering over my husband. I knew for sure that was his angel and not mine. After I saw this, I went back to sleep. The third encounter with an angel happened two and half years ago. I was in deep mediation and I heard a woman’s voice call to me. The woman said her name was Margaret and she said I need to start talking to her and paying attention to her. I asked her if she was my spiritual guide and she said no, that she was my guardian angel. She is with me always now. She is my protector, guide, conscience. She helps me to find things, she directs me to the right books to study. She has the habit of telling me about other people and what to watch for. She watches over me constantly to make sure I am safe. She and I had a conversation and discussed the Karma in my life and is helping me to clear bad Karma from past lives and gaining new good Karma to help me where I may not have to come back for another lifetime.
Question: You gave me some gifts for this interview. Thank you so much, can you explain what those gifts are for the readers.
Answer: The gifts I gave you are: a) black candle for binding and clearing negativity; b) white candle for blessing and bringing positive vibes into an area; c) basil for protection and clearing negativity; d) sea salt for clearing negativity and protection; e) sage and lavender spray for clarification and purification; f) incense, frankincense and myrrh for blessing; g) mirror orb for protecting the doorway to a room or home. Note: The reflection on the mirror will expel the negativity out the door or room.
Question: Can you tell us about your business and what is the name of your business?
Answer: My business is called Design Bazaar. I design and make jewelry. I paint acrylic on canvas. I design parties and weddings. I have a New Age store portion of my business for any magical supplies, incense, oils from India.
Question: How can someone contact you?
Answer: designbazaar@yahoo.com – Myspace – Phone- (916) 420-4507
Question: This ends the interview, any words of wisdom for your readers? Thank you so much for your time.
Answer: Always protect yourself. Keep an eye and ear open and never bite off more than you can chew.
Added Note from Interviewer: Elizabeth is also a Hindu Witch. She at times embraces the Goth culture. She has been a teacher, counselor and mentor that cover all her teachings. She is also known at times as the Autumn Witch.
As I was leaving Autumn Breeze, I had to make one more stop. I had to be in Land Park at 1800 hours to see Carey Peterson. I am conducting a preliminary investigation at her home just to see if she has anything paranormal going on at her house. I am greeted by Carey and her family. Her husband Terry Stigge, her sister Kelly Peterson, her Golden Retriever Ellie and her cat named Zorro.
Carey tells me that around 3am, almost every night she hears very faint music. Her husband has heard the music too. The music may be from the 40s and 50s. A former female occupant lived in this home and died, her name is Charris (I may be incorrect with the name). Carey says that she witnessed a door closing and a door opening. She believes she may have paranormal activity in her home and she wants me to check it out.
In the living room, I took 4 pictures. The first picture shows a shadow descending from the ceiling. The 2nd picture shows the same shadow, but this time with an orb to the left hand side. The 3rd picture the whole area is engulfed in the shadow, except for a light streak. Then the final shot everything is back to normal with proper lighting from my flash. There is no reason for the shadow to be in those pictures, the flash should eliminate all shadows.
When I first started taking pictures, brand new batteries drained almost instantly and I had to change the batteries. Perhaps an entity drained the batteries?
Then I was taken to the basement and retrieved two EVPs. One EVP sounded like an older woman moaning from another room. The next EVP we asked: “is there anyone else here besides Charris?” We received a quick whispery 'yes'.
Further investigation of this house is warranted. To see pictures of the Preliminary Investigation, stop by here:
http://s886.photobucket.com/albums/ac67/PaulDaleRoberts_bucket/CareyPreliminary/
Make sure to stop by www.shannonmccabe.com to see Shannon reviewing the movie: Twilight: New Moon on Good Day Sacramento! Shannon can now call herself a movie critic!
Paul Dale Roberts, HPI General Manager, Paranormal Investigator & Ghostwriter
Shannon McCabe's HPI
Haunted and Paranormal Investigations International
www.HPIparanormal.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7H-zBcb0Qk
Part 1: HPI 2009 Halloween Vampire Ball
http://www.youtube.com/user/jalapeno1a#p/u/0/JHxm8pETx3w
Part 2: HPI 2009 Halloween Vampire Ball.
http://www.shannonmccabe.com/home.html
Behind the Scenes: Michael Jackson: In Search of his Spirit.
Email: Pauld5606@comcast.net
Paranormal Cellular Hotline: 916 203 7503 (for comments on this
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Your Psychic Experiences
/ Interview with Autumn Breeze, 5th Gen Witch Part 1 |
on: Today at 02:33am |
| Started by PaulDaleRoberts | Post by PaulDaleRoberts |
Interview with Autumn Breeze aka Elizabeth Brown, 5th Generation Witch and Owner of Design Bazaar
Interviewed by Paul Dale Roberts, HPI General Manager
Interview conducted at: Butch and Nellie’s Coffee Co, 1827 I Street, Sacramento, CA - Date: November 21, 2009 Time: 1400 Hours.
Personal Note: As I was heading to Butch and Nellie to interview Autumn Breeze, something very odd happened. Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant played three times on 3 different radio stations. Two times going to Butch and Nellie and one time leaving Butch and Nellie. Was I getting a message from the great beyond? Hmmm...well, listen to the song, while reading this interview:
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/electric-avenue-eddy-grant-hq-audio/31F8EB373049F52012B331F8EB373049F52012B3
Question: Tell us something personal about yourself, your family life and anything else you would like to tell us.
Answer: I was born a fifth generation witch and was always surrounded by people with spiritual gifts of many different kinds. I had many visions and dreams showing me what’s to come in the future. I could even see and feel ghosts. My mother was a great reader and was very well known in the community. I now not only have those gifts that I grew up with but, I read Tarot and Oracle as well.
Question: Let’s get to the guts of this interview, you mentioned to me that you had an experience with a poltergeist, can you please elaborate.
Answer: I was born in San Jose, I lived in this house. This house had a poltergeist. At the end of the hallway, it was very dark and cold. I would hear growling sounds or sounds of an animal in pain. This was coming out from the end of the hallway. Cabinets would open and close. The house would affect people in different ways; it caused people to become irate or violent. My mother would get into physical fights with my father. It got so bad, that my mother almost shot my father with a gun. Things were so bad; they finally ended up with a divorce. My two older sisters got married young and their husbands moved into the house and something influenced their husbands, where they became violent. My new stepfather and mother also lived there and they got into some horrendous fights. The house almost caught fire many times over and there was no reason that the fires would start. Finally we rented the house to another couple, and the couple that lived there had a strange situation, where the female occupant was chasing her boyfriend out of the house with a gun. The house had strange influences on anyone that lived there. We finally ended up selling the house and moving to Texas.
Question: Wow! That is an incredible story. You also told me that you had some ghost stories. Can you elaborate on that?
Answer: The first one I can remember is an apartment that I lived in. I was home alone and my ex-husband was working. I saw a full body apparition of a man standing over my bed. The man was wearing an old west type of outfit, cowboy hat and everything. I yelled at him to go away and leave me alone. My husband came home shortly after and the cowboy ghost was gone and never came back. That was my first ghost encounter. The second apartment that I lived in there was a spirit of a 5 year old boy. I found out some history about this apartment, a mother drowned her little boy in the bathtub. The little boy ghost was not harmful and the kittens would actually play with him. Everyone in the apartment complex knew about the murder of the little boy by his mother. He never harmed us and we were not bothered by his presence. I lived on 60 acres of pecan land in Texas in a town called Reedville. There was a Spanish cemetery across from our land. At night you could actually see apparitions of ghosts floating around at the cemetery. On many occasions some ghosts would leave the cemetery and enter our home. They would actually touch me or my children. I am a sensitive and can feel their presence. We lived at this home for 4 years. We moved to Waco, Texas and the first home we lived in, it was a very old home. There was a ghost of some sort there and it would open cabinets, doors and windows. It was a harmless ghost. The 3rd house in Waco, had a ghost of an old lady and the house has a history. The history is that there was a lady there that passed away from an illness, her husband could not handle this and the husband hung himself in the garage. We moved in and we could smell what I call an old lady perfume, very sweet smell. I could hear her walking down the hallway or rocking on a rocking chair. She would also dial up our phone, turning on the speaker on the phone. She would also turn our TV on when we went to bed. She had a major habit of opening the bathroom window. Finally we gave up closing the bathroom window and would just leave it open to appease her. She was a harmless ghost. We moved to Sacramento, to a three bedroom house and I had a roommate that placed several mirrors facing each other. It seemed to cause a portal to open up in that home in which the following happened: a) we saw black silhouettes with red eyes staring at us from the end of the hall during the evening; b) anyone that came to visit our home picked up strange energy from this house, they felt an evil presence; c) a little boy felt icky things in the house, peering through the door of the house and did not want to enter the home. Now let me tell you the next ghostly encounter, believe it or not I met up with the late Ms. Winchester of the Winchester Mystery House in Santa Clara. We decided to take a vacation and went to the Winchester Mystery House. We went on the tour of this historic house and went into the tea room. This is the room that collapsed on her and she was stuck in that room for 3 days, they had to pull her out of that room and rebuild it. When I was at the tea room, I felt Ms. Winchester run through me, almost knocking me to the floor. My friend was standing next to me and she felt the ghost of Ms. Winchester run through me and held me up where I would not fall on the floor. We instantly left that room, not wanting to be there. During the tour of the house, my friend and I took many photos of various rooms and we discovered later orbs on our photographs. Now I want to take the night tour of this famous house, I am still curious. My last encounter with a ghost would be at Witchapalooza at Cal-Expo where I met you! The Friday night before the festival, my business partner and I was late setting up. It was after 10pm. We were the only ones left there, we were alone. I happened to see the spirits of 3 people run by and disappear, then a cat. I told my business partner…”wow…this place is crawling with people (ghosts)”. I also saw two ghostly cats at Cal-Expo. Note: Cal-Expo is very close to Paradise Beach in which a ghostly man is seen walking the beach in the middle of the night. People say this ghostly man walking the beach is a drowning victim. What is interesting, this ghost has also been seen on the grounds of Cal-Expo.
Question: Please tell us about the one encounter you had with a demon.
Answer: My mother was throwing some books away and I noticed an old spell book in the garbage and I took it out. My mother saw me take the book and told me to put it back in the garbage, the book is nothing but trouble. Being the curious teenager that I was, I retook claim of the book from the garbage. I did a simple love spell in the book and that is when the trouble started. I made a string bracelet charm for the love spell. That night I felt a clawing hand grab a hold of my arm and the entity was doing an Indian burn on my arm. I screamed and my mother entered my bedroom and turned on the light and it disappeared. She asked me what was wrong and I said nothing. The next night, I woke up there was a cold misty fog in my room, I looked up and there was a cloaked figure staring at me. The entity asked me if I chose the darkness. I got very scared and started screaming and said I chose the light of God. He vanished and all of the misty fog went away. The next day, my younger sister was in her room playing with her dolls and a demon like creature came up from the floor and grabbed my sister and clawed her on her chest. My mother came in and saw what happened to her, she automatically knew it was something I did. My mother is psychic and knew that I took the spell book and she asked me what I did and I told her. She told me to get rid of the bracelet. I burned the bracelet and it turned into a hard piece of coal and I threw it into the sewer. It did not stop the creature from coming back. He came into my room again and was throwing the dolls in my room at me and made them fly around the room. My mother came in and saw it. She called the Reverend at the church to come and exorcise the home. The Reverend did his exorcism and it never came back. We burned the spell book. Note: Elizabeth Brown is also an ordained minister and high priestess of the Church of Spiritual Humanism.
Question: Can you tell me about your angel experience.
Answer: My first encounter was when my son was born. He was very sick with a heart condition and the doctors told me he might die before or during the surgery on his heart. On the forth night after he was born, he almost didn’t make it through the night. That was the night before his surgery and the night I decided to go to the Chapel to pray and ask God if he was going to take my son, take him that night or let him live. I didn’t want to get to know him and love him as a person and have him taken away from me. I went to bed that night and was almost asleep, a voice of a woman said to me, you can now rest because your son will live and he will be a miracle child. I looked up at the direction of where the voice was coming from, She was a beautiful angel with light around her and beautif
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Ghost hunting ideas and techniques.
/ Re: Creepy Hollow Update |
on: Yesterday at 6:23pm |
| Started by GHI Paul | Post by GHI Paul |
It is now possible for you to mail order the items you wish to purchase, for those who do not have Paypal or do not use Paypal, here is another option.
Simply print out the Mail Order Form found HERE
Then browse the store listing the items you wish to purchase, add the costs together including the shipping and send your check or money order to:
c/o Paul Bradford
Creepy Hollow Gear
P.O. Box 22336
Tucson, Az 85734
Please make checks and money orders out to Paul Bradford and NOT Creepy Hollow
Thank you for your continued support
Paul
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Your Real Ghost Stories
/ A Haunting on Tyrol Lane - Stockton, CA |
on: Yesterday at 05:30am |
| Started by Paul Dale Roberts | Post by Paul Dale Roberts |
A Haunting on Tyrol Lane - Stockton, CA
By Paul Dale Roberts, HPI General Manager/Ghostwriter
This may be the mother of all investigations, as I write this in real time. Here is the situation. The occupants that lived here have moved out, leaving some of their possessions behind. The negative activity in this apartment (apartment 86) was too much for them to handle. Mia (occupant) says that an entity tried to snatch her baby from her arms. The occupants started having mood swings. The atmosphere in the apartment became hostile. They felt like their lives were in danger and it was time to get out for their own safety. They left the key under the mat and told me that my investigators have free reign of their apartment. They are merely curious on what kind of evidence we will find tonight.
To see pictures from this investigation, please stop by here:
http://s886.photobucket.com/albums/ac67/PaulDaleRoberts_bucket/Tyrol/
I had a briefing with my investigators and placed Mia on the speaker phone. Mia tells us that the family that lived in this apartment previously before them faced a hostage situation, in which the male occupant placed his family under his gun. The male occupant killed his family (possibly 3 family members) and then placed the gun to his head and shot himself. I am still trying to verify this incident. I did discover that there was a stabbing death outside of the apartment complex. Mia once saw a black fog move down the hallway and her boyfriend felt something sitting on his chest. They would get many hot spots in the apartment and there was a time when the apartment became unbearably hot. Note: Black mist, black fog and black smoke are an indication of demonic activity. Hot spots are also an indication of demonic activity vs. a cold spot that is usually ghost activity.
I am having a few sets of 40 minute investigative sessions to see what we can find. Since I have a small group of investigators, we are having what I call a 'free-for-all' investigation where investigators have the ability to go wherever they want in the apartment.
Equipment being used this night are: 4 Static Night Vision Cameras and DVR, 2 Sony Night Shot Camcorders, 2 Sony Night Shot Cameras, 4 Digital Voice Recorders, Monitor, EMF Detector, HD Panasonic Pro Camcorder, Still Temperature Gauge, and Directional Microphone (provided by Placer Paranormal www.placerparanormal.com) Other equipment: digital audio recorders, flashlights, digital cameras, digital video cameras, 3 walkie talkies, Toshiba laptop.
Let's do a roll call.
HPI Paranormal Investigators present: Staci Butler, Peter Devera and Randy Annis of Placer Paranormal; Timothy Dennehy and Ghost his dog; Stephanie Belson; Shari Aresta and Cynthia Meadows. Lead Investigator: Paul Dale Roberts.
Before, I discuss the investigation further, we are promoting the new movie: Twilight: New Moon for Lionsgate. Thank you Melissa from Lionsgate for providing us with the cool New Moon t-shirts, New Moon collector cards, New Moon pens and New Moon posters! Shannon 'Ms. Macabre' McCabe went to last night's midnight movie premiere and absolutely loved the movie. There was a huge line outside of the door that went completely around the building. Everyone loves vampires and the vampires of New Moon are absolutely hot! Note: Shannon also went to a KISS concert before seeing the midnight premiere movie New Moon. Yes! Shan had a fun night that night! Now back to the investigation:
Our first briefing, Randy tried to debunk the black mist sighting by turning on the heater and air conditioning to see if any debris was coming out of the AC filters. We did not see any debris. There are exceptionally high EMF readings throughout the apartment, which could cause hallucinations, depression and even anger. On the monitors we found some erratic orb movement, we saw orbs that moved in various directions unlike a dust orb that will fall straight down slowly. This will need to be analyzed further. There are gnats in the apartment which could look like orbs in our photographic evidence. Note: Staci later dismissed the erratic movement of the orbs as being the gnats! Stephanie mentioned that when she first entered the apartment, she felt some depression that could be place memories. Stephanie, who has psychic abilities, has not felt anything during the first investigative session. Staci feels the air ducts could be transmitting voices and smells from other rooms, which could be misinterpreted as paranormal. Timothy says that when he first entered the apartment he felt sadness. Timothy picked up orb activity on one of his photos.
As the night progressed, no EVPs were captured. No anomalies were captured in our still photos and video. We commenced with a séance. Staci and Stephanie did some provoking during the séance without any substantial results. No EVPs were captured during the séance. We utilized 3 walkie talkies in the séance, to see if the entities wanted to talk through the walkie talkies, no success. I have been successful in past séances using walkie talkies in which the entities would communicate through the walkie talkies with intelligent responses back to the investigator. See past article entitled: A Séance that Produced Very Scary Results.
FINDINGS:
No substantial findings indicating paranormal activity.
CONCLUSION:
I believe the high EMF (electro magnetic field) readings in this apartment are causing disturbances that are felt by the occupants. This turned out to be the Mother of All EMF Readings!
END OF INVESTIGATION.
Now to another note, Shannon and I will soon be part of a panel at a Paranormal Convention in Sacramento and below is why I think conferences and conventions are important:
Paranormal conferences and conventions are essential in getting information out to the public. Many people experience the paranormal and have no one to relate their experiences with. At a conference or convention, they are consulting with people that live and breathe the paranormal. We are here to understand, to seek out the truth and to exchange knowledge. Paranormal conferences and conventions are one more key in unlocking the unknown.
Paul Dale Roberts, HPI General Manager, Paranormal Investigator & Ghostwriter
Shannon McCabe's HPI
Haunted and Paranormal Investigations International
www.HPIparanormal.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7H-zBcb0Qk
Part 1: HPI 2009 Halloween Vampire Ball
http://www.youtube.com/user/jalapeno1a#p/u/0/JHxm8pETx3w
Part 2: HPI 2009 Halloween Vampire Ball.
http://www.shannonmccabe.com/home.html
Behind the Scenes: Michael Jackson: In Search of his Spirit.
Email: Pauld5606@comcast.net
Paranormal Cellular Hotline: 916 203 7503 (for comments on this
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Your Real Ghost Stories
/ Author of Finding Emmaus Part 2 |
on: Nov 18th, 2009, 2:43pm |
| Started by Paul Dale Roberts | Post by Paul Dale Roberts |
Question: Can you tell us something personal about yourself? Your family life, schools you went to. How you became a writer.
Answer: I was born in the Bronx (in New York City) and raised in Queens. If you ever saw the movie “Funny Girl”, that’s the life I grew up in: everyone’s mother was everyone else’s mother. There were no dividing lines amongst the families. Nancy’s mother or Laurie’s mother could discipline me for misbehaving just as my mother could discipline Diane or Ellen. Didn’t matter; we were all like one big family on a city block with 32 houses on each side of street. A tiny microcosm which, to my young eyes, seemed to encompass the entire world.
It never would have occurred to me that I was not welcome at Nancy’s table for any meal any more than it would have occurred to Nancy that she was not welcome at Diane’s.
My parents decided we needed to leave NY when the neighborhood began to change and became too dangerous to live in. So we moved to Connecticut and, aside from the culture shock, I lost that feeling of knowing down the core of my being that I belonged, that I was unconditionally accepted.
I've lived in some lovely places since and have made some wonderful friends, I belong to a fabulous church and I am regularly surrounded by amazing, talented, remarkable people. But nothing, I think, ever compares to the friendships you make as a young child.
I've been writing as long as I can remember. When my parents would send me away to camp, instead of sending home post cards, I’d write essays! The longest letter I ever sent to a friend from camp was 23 pages. But that was way before the days of copiers (I’m dating myself here!) so I don't have any of them. Too bad, too, because it would have been interesting to be able to look back on them and see what I wrote about, what I counted as important, from a child’s point of view.
I know I always wanted to write a book but I never believed I actually could. I’d sit with paper and pen and think to myself, “What could I possibly write about that anyone would be the least bit interested in?” And then one day, while standing in front of that drawing I mentioned earlier, the entire story of “Finding Emmaus” just came to me —- all of it —- in less than 15 minutes. And then I sat down and, five months and seven hundred and sixty-two pages later, I had a novel.
Question: What are your hobbies and recreational activities?
Answer: I love horses. I can go to a town fair and watch the equestrian events for hours and not get bored. I've had a few horses, but not for a while now because my life does not lend itself to that kind of commitment and responsibility.
I also love reading, but I sort of go on a ‘reading hiatus’ when I’m writing, except for the non-fiction research required for The Lodestarre series. Although I recently got my hands on a lovely biography of Increase Mather, a man with whom I became fascinated while I was writing “Finding Emmaus”. He was very involved in the Salem witch trials and, as such, I was prepared to hate him. Instead, even though I no longer need to delve into his life, after reading some of his sermons and learning the comparatively small amount I've learned so far, I just can’t stay away from him. So I guess he’s become another hobby of mine.
Question: If you had 6 dinner guests, 3 historical and 3 fictional, who would they be and why?
Answer: Well, obviously, one would be Increase Mather. Despite his active role in the witch trials, I don’t believe he agreed with condemning those people to death. He actually apologized, but eventually he recanted. I think he was torn. I’m certain he was concerned for his safety and that of his family. It’s clear from writings that he was devoted to family. I’d love to ask him in person what it was like to be him, Harvard graduate and professor, well-loved and well-respected minister, extraordinary orator and, though not the hangman, definitely complicit in the deaths of those he privately deemed innocent. An enigma if ever there was one.
The other two historical figures would be John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and his mistress —- and eventual wife —- Katherine Swynford, née (de) Roet. I fell in love with the two of them, and with English history, when I read Anya Seton’s historical novel named “Katherine”, a wonderful tale about their life-long love and the turbulent times in which they lived. Katherine was actually sister-in-law to Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of Canterbury Tales. I would love to know, first-hand, what their lives were like in the 1300’s.
Far as fictional characters go, I think I’d enjoy chatting and sharing a glass of wine with Nick and Nora Charles, fictional sleuths played by William Powell and Myrna Loy in the famed “Thin Man” films. I can’t imagine anyone more entertaining than the two of them, except perhaps Dr. David Huxley, the long-suffering paleontologist from “Bringing Up Baby”.
Question: What TV shows, movies do you like?
Answer: My favorite TV show, hands down, is Law and Order, followed closely by it’s cousin, Special Victims Unit. My favorite films are (in no particular order) Goodfellas; Beetle Juice; Corpse Bride; Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix; The Girl In The Cafe; Baby Boom; How the Grinch Stole Christmas!; Labyrinth; LadyHawke; Coal Miner's Daughter
Question: What are some of your favorite books?
Answer: Well, as I said earlier, Katherine by Anya Seton is my all-time favorite historical novel. I’ve read everything Terry Brooks has written and I adore Stephen King. There is one book I've loved longer than any other in my life, and that is “Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose” by Dr. Seuss.
Question: What is your website address and how can someone contact you?
Answer: The web address for “Finding Emmaus” is http://www.lodestarre.com/index.html and if anyone wants to contact me, probably the easiest way is through Facebook. My ID is the same as my name: Pamela Glasner.
Question: Thank you for the interview, any words of wisdom for your fans?
Answer: If I've learned anything at all through this experience of ‘suddenly’ writing a novel and becoming a published author at the age of 55, it’s that nothing is more important than trusting that voice inside. Some people call it intuition; I call it my gut. That doesn’t mean I never struggle with three-o'clock-in-the-morning courage, but you can’t let the fear win.
You know, in the Olympics, the uneven parallel events, when the athlete comes off the bars? She hits the mat, bends her knees just a bit and then … you can just see it in her eyes when she knows with everything in her that she absolutely ‘stuck’ that landing.
There’s a lot of advice out there and not all of it is good. And I’m not saying, “Ignore everybody else”, or “Stick your head in the sand” or “Get pointery” or “Don’t get an education” or “Don’t try and learn from other people, especially people you respect.” What I am saying is that, above all, there comes a time when you just need to trust what’s going on inside you, the part of you that is truly YOU.
True creativity comes from your heart and your soul and your gut and some inexplicable, insatiable need to express it. And it can be anything. It doesn’t have to be writing. It doesn’t even have to be an art form.
Inventing the light bulb and the process of pasteurization came from the same place in Edison and Pasteur as my writing comes from in me. Otherwise, who would spend so much time and energy doing something over and over, in face of criticism or undisguised contempt or continuous failure, in the face of never knowing if you’ll ever succeed or be appreciated, much less get one red cent for your trouble?
At some point you just have to shut out all the rest and look inside —- and if what you’re feeling resembles that look in the athlete’s eyes when she sticks that landing — that’s when you know that you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing.
Interview conducted by Paul Dale Roberts
Interview with Author Pamela Glasner
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Your Real Ghost Stories
/ Author of Finding Emmaus Part 1 |
on: Nov 18th, 2009, 2:43pm |
| Started by Paul Dale Roberts | Post by Paul Dale Roberts |
Interview with Pamela Glasner, Author of “Finding Emmaus”
Interviewed by Paul Dale Roberts, President of www.jazmaonline.com – HPI General Manager – www.hpiparanormal.com
Please note: nothing said in this interview is a spoiler —- everything here is either something that is established in the very beginning of the book or is stated in such a way so as not to give away any part of the suspenseful story.
Question: Pamela, give us a briefing on what “Finding Emmaus” is all about.
Answer: Francis Nettleton, a 17th century Empath living in Puritan New England, a society steeped in myths and intolerance, grows into adulthood believing himself to be insane. Inadvertently, he sets in motion a murder which will reverberate through four families and three centuries.
Wiccans have their Book of Shadows; Christians have their Bible. Even the secular world has its encyclopedias, but for Empaths there was nothing until Francis sacrificed everything to spend his life creating one authoritative body of knowledge, a central set of guiding principles meant to put an end to the relentless persecution and needless suffering of anyone who did not - or could not - fit the societal mold. He named it The Lodestarre.
Three hundred years later, Katherine Spencer, after years of hospitals and drugs, is given a rare opportunity: a second chance at life. At fifty-four, after she is told that, rather than being insane, she’s more likely Empathic, she sets out to find Francis and the legendary Lodestarre, both 300 years gone, in a last-ditch hope that she can finally learn to live. In the process, she unwittingly becomes a champion for the voiceless millions who are being victimized by a corporate machine of such omnipotent political power that she puts her life in jeopardy when she challenges the all-but-unstoppable pharmaceutical industry, America’s most powerful and affluent lobby.
“Finding Emmaus” is a very dark fictional yet factually-based novel in which two otherwise ordinary people find a way to transcend time and death to try and save millions of others whose lives are shattered because they, too, have been erroneously labeled mentally ill.
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It was released on October 1st of this year and has been very well received, albeit on a limited basis. Among those who’ve read it, the response has been enthusiastically positive, with an audience equally divided between men and women.
Question: Wow! How did you come up with this idea of having 2 empaths living 300 years apart, both working in unison to save the world?
Answer: Well, originally the story did not involve two Empaths, it only involved one: Katherine, who lives in the 21st century. But as I was writing it, I liked what I had, but it wasn’t really knocking my socks off. And then one day I was standing in front of this beautiful drawing I've had for about 25 years, a drawing of a very old man who really did live in Vermont, who sat in the shade of a covered bridge weaving baskets. The man’s name was Frank.
Of course, he would have been called Francis three hundred years ago, so that’s where I got the name of the story’s second principal character.
And staring at him, the whole story just sort of popped into my head: the name of the new England town where the story takes place became Weaver's Bridge and Francis was the ‘Father Of Empathy’, he literally ‘wrote the book on it.’ And then I thought: But the book disappeared and faded into legend.
On the heels of that thought came: well, if the book faded into legend, it must have been written a very long time ago, and since modern American history is only about 390 years old, the decision of when it happened was made for me.
I knew the story was going to take place in Connecticut and that narrowed it down even further, since the earliest white settlements/chartered towns in Connecticut were in the 1630’s.
And then I asked myself (AND answered myself, something I do pretty regularly, whether there’s anyone around or not!) “why did the book fade into legend?” The answer was, if you were white and lived in Connecticut Colony in 1630-something, you were a Puritan.
Puritan philosophy was based on a very literal (at least, the Puritan’s very literal)interpretation of the Bible. If something wasn’t specifically addressed in the Bible, it had no place in their lives. And Empathy, which has the appearance of mental illness to anyone who does not understand it or is completely ignorant of its existence, certainly would not have been excepted under any circumstances.
So even though Francis ‘wrote the book on it’ —- the book called The Lodestarre, which is the name of the series —- he would never have been able to publish it or in any other manner disseminate the information because it would have been considered blasphemous at best, the work of the Devil at worst and grounds for getting close up and personal with the inquisitor’s noose. So it was plausible that The Lodestarre would have hidden away for centuries, in the hopes that some day someone, in a less fearful, more tolerant society, might come along and unearth it.
Which is what happens in “Finding Emmaus”, three centuries after Francis creates it.
Question: Can you tell us some more about Francis and Katherine, your two main characters?
Answer: Francis and Katherine are both Empaths who suffer abominably because, not only are they the victims of those around them who do not understand the gift of Empathy, but they, themselves, do not understand it. Each suffers the torments of the world in which they live.
In Francis’ time, the 17th century, the medical community honestly believed that lunacy (the mentally ill, which is what Empaths would have been perceived as, were not referred to as ‘patients’ until many years later) was contagious and that the ONLY cure for lunacy was physical torture. Lunatics were therefore segregated from society into places like Bethlam Royal Hospital (sometimes referred to as Bedlam), and subjected to the most hideous treatment imaginable —- and then treatment which is not imaginable. This treatment is all well documented and described in gruesome and graphic detail in numerous historical sources. It is also fairly graphically described in my book.
In the New World, in Connecticut Colony, there would not have been an asylum like Bethlam, not back then, so lunatics would have been locked away in a room in the family home, probably chained there to prevent escape, or would have been put to death for the good of society and the repose and salvation of the lunatic’s tortured soul.
In Katherine’s time the tortures and trampling of basic human rights are just as prevalent, though more sophisticated.
For example, as recently as twenty-eight years ago, twenty-seven states in our country were actively forcing surgical sterilization on patients labeled mentally ill, even though, in most cases, there was (and still is) no standard or definitive way to diagnose or prove the mental illnesses which those people were thought to be victims of. But they most certainly did become victims!
And, of course, there are the myriad psychotropic drugs which, 70% of the time, fail to have their desired effect, but nearly all the time, have horrible, lasting, sometimes permanent, sometimes fatal, side effects.
Katherine lives this hell until her mid-fifties when an especially enlightened psychiatrist friend of hers suggests that she is an Empath rather than a victim of mental illness.
Question: If this book became a movie, who would play Francis and who would play Katherine?
Answer: I’m smiling as I write the answer to this question because as I wrote the book, there were, in fact, three characters whom I put actor’s faces to in order to “see” them move through their days and interact with other characters. I’m a very visual person and that’s how I write: I “see” the scene in my head and then I write it.
However, I never did picture anyone specific for either Francis or Katherine, only for Michael, Carly and Humphrey. And I will leave that for the readers to guess!
That said, I think I could see Sir Ian McKellen as Francis (in the year 2008, as a 98-year-old ghost)and perhaps Marcia Gay Harden as Katherine.
Question: What other books have you written?
Answer: “Finding Emmaus” is my first novel. I’m presently working on book two of the series.
Question: Can you tell us something personal about yourself? Your family life, schools you went to. How you became a writer.
Answer: I was born in the Bronx (in New York City) and raised in Queens. If you ever saw the movie “Funny Girl”, that’s the life I grew up in: everyone’s mother was everyone else’s mother. There were no dividing lines amongst the families. Nancy’s mother or Laurie’s mother could discipline me for misbehaving just as my mother could discipline Diane or Ellen. Didn’t matter; we were all like one big family on a city block with 32 houses on each side of street. A tiny microcosm which, to my young eyes, seemed to encompass the entire world.
It never would have occurred to me that I was not welcome at Nancy’s table for any meal any more than it would have occurred to Nancy that she was not welcome at Diane’s.
My parents decided we needed to leave NY when the neighborhood began to change and became too dangerous to live in. So we moved to Connecticut and, aside from the culture shock, I lost that feeling of knowing down the core of my being that I belonged, that I was unconditionally accepted.
I've lived in some lovely places since and have made some wonderful friends, I belong to a fabulous church and I am regularly surrounded by amazing, talented, remarkable people. But nothing, I think, ever compares to the friendships you make as a young child.
I've been writing as long as I can remember. When my parents would send me away to camp, instead of sen
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Your Real Ghost Stories
/ Interview with Paul Dale Roberts by CCortez |
on: Nov 17th, 2009, 8:08pm |
| Started by Paul Dale Roberts | Post by Paul Dale Roberts |
Interview with Paul Dale Roberts, Paranormal Investigator, Paranormal Writer of Shannon McCabe’s HPI (Haunted and Paranormal Investigations International) www.hpiparanormal.net
Interviewed by: ccortez@att.net
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From: ccortez88@att.net [mailto:ccortez88@att.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:22 PM
To: pauld5606@comcast.net
Subject: Interview Questions
Thank you so much for taking time to answer my questions. If you can please answer them throughly, that would be great.
1. What's the process of getting rid of ghosts in a haunted house?
Answer: First off, we must determine that there is a ghost or ghosts in the residence. This requires that we investigate the home and gather the needed evidence to deem that the home is truly haunted. If the occupant wants the home blessed or cleansed, then we will conduct this ritual. We have various methods, they are: Catholic blessing, American Indian cleansing, metaphysical cleansing, Wicca/Earth cleansing. With a blessing or cleansing, we attempt to send the entities to the light; we assist the entities to cross over.
2. How do you know when there is a ghost present? What does it feel like?
Answer: Various equipment may indicate that there is paranormal activity present. EMF Readers will determine an influx in the electro-magnetic field. Temperature gauges will determine various temperature drops, known as cold spots. Cold spots are when the entity absorbs the energy from the air, causing a vacuum which feels cold. FLIR (Forward Looking Infra-Red) determines various heat and cold signatures. Digital audio recorders for EVPs (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) and digital cameras for photographic anomalies. Camcorders to visually record anomalies on video. We can determine intelligence, if we ask an orb to move towards an outstretched hand 3 times and the orb actually goes towards the hand 3 times.
3. In your opinion, what's keeping them from crossing over?
Answer: Unfinished business. Example: Grandmother passes away, but her grand-daughter is ready to have a baby. The baby is born and the grandmother no longer wants to go into the light, but wishes to remain with her grand-daughter’s baby. She wants to protect the baby and become the angel of this baby. Other entities may not want to go into the light, because they feel they will be judged and condemned to an eternal fate of damnation.
4. I don’t know if this is a weird question, being as you’re in this business, but do you ever feel afraid?
Answer: Absolutely not. Excited, yes. Afraid, no. I would not be in this business if I was afraid. I am a curious creature and wish to find answers to the unknown.
5. Can you tell me about your most interesting experience?
Answer: There have been many. I saw a full body female apparition in Marysville. In Citrus Heights, I had 5 investigators witness a female child entity giggle twice and then say hi to me, we actually heard it with our ears. Then on the same night in Citrus Heights, 15 investigators heard the walls ripping apart and a series of knocks during a séance. Finally a walkie talkie came on and a man’s voice yelled ‘get out!’ During an investigation in Pioneer, pennies were thrown at the investigators.
6. What do you think about ouija boards? Do you believe they work?
Answer: Ouija Boards are an ancient device to communicate with the dead. It is said that you can open up a portal and allow a negative entity to enter your realm. If this happens, you have problems. Negative entities may cause harm. Never burn an Ouija Board, or you may be cursed. To get rid of an Ouija Board, bury the Ouija Board on Hallow ground or away from your property. You may also throw the Ouija Board into a fast moving river.
7. Have you ever witnessed a person being possessed?
Answer: Yes. One of my investigators named Donna Jackson is an empath and the child entity went into her body and she felt sadness and could see through his eyes. The possession lasted for 7 minutes.
8. Are ghosts usually friendly or hostile?
Answer: Ghosts seem to be benevolent. I believe the malevolent entities are instantly taken to a darker realm by dark forces. Demonic forces are a threat and many people have made claims of demonic forces at work.
Once again, thank you for your time.
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Introduce yourself
/ Long time listener! |
on: Nov 16th, 2009, 11:53am |
| Started by newwife | Post by newwife |
new to the forum, but i have been a listener for a couple years now...just wanted to say hello, hope to be on here more often 
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The Radio Show
/ News Desk? |
on: Nov 16th, 2009, 11:49am |
| Started by newwife | Post by newwife |
Hello! quick question, i always here dave say to check the news desk for adrian's news links, but i can never find it , or if it is there the desk is empty? am i looking in the wrong place?
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Your Real Ghost Stories
/ The Haunting Activities of a South Sacramento Home |
on: Nov 15th, 2009, 06:29am |
| Started by Paul Dale Roberts | Post by Paul Dale Roberts |
The Haunting Activities of a South Sacramento Home
By Paul Dale Roberts, HPI General Manager
To see pictures of this investigation, stop by here:
http://s886.photobucket.com/albums/ac67/PaulDaleRoberts_bucket/Sabrina/
The date is November 14, 2009, Saturday. Tonight my investigators will be investigating a home in South Sacramento. A home in which the previous owner died. How she died, it appears that no one knows, but it is rumored she died of natural causes or old age. This is a home that footsteps are heard in the hallway, an apparition has been seen walking past the bathroom. Let’s find out exactly what is going on in this home. Let me conduct my first interview with the occupant (Sabrina Jacquez). Sabrina says that she has seen an apparition walk past the bathroom; she has heard knockings on the windows and walls. The knockings will happen 40 minutes after any given hour. The next person I am interviewing is Chelsea (Sabrina’s daughter). Chelsea has experienced the following:
1. Knockings on the wall. 40 minutes after any given hour. Usually it is 4 knocks.
2. When Chelsea is getting ready, she feels like she is being watched, or she sees moving shadows from her peripheral vision.
3. Chelsea mentions something odd; she has heard strange knockings at her boyfriend’s (Juan Prieto's) house and has seen a full body apparition of a man at her boyfriend’s house. Could it be that the entity is following Chelsea from her house to her boyfriend’s house?
Let’s take a roll call. HPI Paranormal Investigators attending are: Kimberly Phillips; Crystal Seudder, Stefanie Belson, Leslie DeSoto, Shaun McMahon – Videographer, Michelle and Renee Fontana aka the Border Girls, Tania Gonzales, Tiffany Gonzales, Kathy and Tom, Diana Fisher II, QM, Lynn Combs and Connie Brenner of En-Vision Paranormal (E.V.P.). Lead Investigator: Paul Dale Roberts.
Equipment Used: Ghost Radar, EMF Readers, pendulum, digital audio recorders, camcorders, digital cameras, dowsing rods.
The first investigative session lasted for 40 minutes. First briefing, we discovered the following evidence: In one bedroom the EMF readers went off, and then cold spots were felt. Tom felt a chill that went all the way to his bones. In this same bedroom, the investigators received a Class A EVP of a small child saying: “ooh, ooh, ooh.” Past history of this bedroom: Sabrina’s son stays in this bedroom and claims to see a skeletal figure with red eyes.
Note: On each investigative session, the teams move into different rooms of the house.
During our briefing, I learn that St. Mary’s cemetery is very close to this residence. During the briefing Lynn Combs Ghost Radar reader picked up the name “Tom”. Of course, one of the investigators is named Tom. I also learn from Sabrina that this home was built in 1952.
2nd investigative session lasted for 30 minutes and here is what we got:
I took 4 pictures of the kitchen area in which the first picture shows a shadow on the ceiling, and then the 2nd picture has the same shadow with a designer orb on the left. 3rd picture shows the shadow overtaking the kitchen area. 4th picture is normal, with normal lighting from the flash. The shadow should have not manifested with my flash from my camera. Two EVPs were retrieved; one was a man’s voice that sounded like it was in the wind saying hello. The other EVP was an inaudible voice. We of course obtained a lot of orb photos and the psychics have felt wind blowing out of nowhere. Note: Psychics are used as a tool and we obtain evidence from what they may feel. The evidence would be photographic evidence or EVPs.
3rd investigative session, Shaun the videographer heard 4 knocks on the cabinets. He did not know the story about the knockings. Sabrina and I looked at the time when Shaun heard the knocks and it was 40 minutes after 10pm. Sabrina took many photos of the living room and obtained dark shadowy photos where you could not make out the furniture in the living room. Then finally everything was back to normal and her photos were clear, she used a flash at all times. At the fireplace there was a strong crackling noise, as if a log was burning. There was no log burning.
After the investigative session, we conducted a séance. During the séance, the following occurred:
1. The strings from the ceiling moved slightly, when we asked for a sign.
2. Shaun had battery failure on all of his equipment. He had new batteries in all of his equipment. The camcorder was plugged in, but it still shut down during the séance.
3. Vibration on couch is felt.
4. Moving cold spots are felt by investigators in the séance.
5. Inaudible whispers are heard during the séance.
6. Shadowy movements are seen.
7. Candle flickered wildly during questioning period.
8. We heard tapping and a few knocks.
9. We heard 4 taps at 40 after midnight.
10. One investigator saw a little red moving orb by the DVD case.
Disclaimer: Even though all these items happened during the séance, some are questionable as being true paranormal activity.
After the séance, the investigators were released and I conducted a Catholic blessing to cleanse the home. Shaun was outside and he said that during the blessing the street lights started flickering.
Now I must wait to see if my blessing was successful.
As I left this house and dropped off Shaun, I played a song that is Sabrina's favorite. A song that will haunt me every time I hear it, a song that will revitalize the memory of this investigation. That song is Confusion by New Order.
Paul Dale Roberts, HPI General Manager, Paranormal Investigator & Ghostwriter
Shannon McCabe's HPI
Haunted and Paranormal Investigations International
www.HPIparanormal.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7H-zBcb0Qk
Part 1: HPI 2009 Halloween Vampire Ball
http://www.youtube.com/user/jalapeno1a#p/u/0/JHxm8pETx3w
Part 2: HPI 2009 Halloween Vampire Ball.
http://www.shannonmccabe.com/home.html
Behind the Scenes: Michael Jackson: In Search of his Spirit.
Email: Pauld5606@comcast.net
Paranormal Cellular Hotline: 916 203 7503 (for comments on this
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