|
SPIRITS AND GHOSTS.. ghosts real or
not...
"I see dead people"
I'm sure that you have all seen "The Sixth Sense" preview in which little Haley
Joel Osment whispers those four powerful words. But what if you really do see
dead people? You are not alone. As a paranormal investigator, the statement I
hear most often from clients who see apparitions in their homes is "Please tell
me I'm not crazy?""
"Paranormal" is word we use when we describe any experience we cant find a
rational explanation for it. A perfect example of a paranormal experience is
seeing someone who isn't really there. Apparitions, ghosts, spirits...call it by
whichever name you like. The question is: Does psychic sensitivity open one up
to having a paranormal experience or does an experience with the paranormal
increase one's psychic ability? Below is an article which may help you to
understand why some people can see ghosts and others can't.
"Why can't everyone see ghosts?"
Let me first start off by saying that everyone has the potential to see a
spirit. Maybe that will happen once just briefly or it could happen many times,
but the thing to remember is that everyone can see them given the right factors.
Why only some people will see a ghost in a certain location can be explained in
many ways but let me put it in simple real world terms that most people will
understand. Let's pretend you and two friends are in the woods and you all have
AM/FM radios with you. You are all standing side by side and each of you is
trying to tune in a very weak signal from some small radio station. Your one
friend has a great radio and they easily tune in the station clearly. Your other
friend has an average model radio and they can get the signal briefly but it is
filled with static. Your radio is the cheap model and you cannot get the station
tuned in at all. Even though you are all standing next to each other and trying
to tune in the same station you are getting three different results. Now picture
each person as a "radio" that can "receive" the signals that a spirit is
transmitting. One person may get the spirits signal string and they will see the
spirit. The next person is not as tuned in and they may see something briefly
but they may not be able to make out all the details. The third person cannot
receive the spirit's signal at all and will not see anything. Hopefully this
gives you an idea of how this tends to work. Each person is actually a receiver
of the signals or energy that a spirit gives off. Sometimes the signal can be
tuned in and other times in cannot.
There are varying conditions that may interfere with the spirits "radio signal"
and may only let people with really good "radios" see them. We call these people
sensitive or psychics. They are able to tune in more often to the spirits and
see, hear, feel, etc. the signal and energy the spirit is sending. Some
locations may make some people more sensitive than other locations and they will
see something in just those places while they will see nothing in others.
Sometimes even the people who have the "cheap radio" can get a brief signal
tuned in and that is what happens when someone who has never seen anything all
of a sudden has their once in a lifetime ghost sighting. Some of the things that
can make our ability to receive these signals are our relation to the spirits,
how comfortable we are in a location and our frame of mind at the time, etc. For
example many people just see the spirits in their home and no where else. This
is where the person is probably the most relax and comfortable and that will
raise their ability to receive the signals. If the spirit is a relative or a
friend you are already on that "frequency" so you will be more likely to be able
to tune into that spirit.
Hopefully I haven't confused you all with the radio and signal talk but it
really does seem to be that we are sort of receivers or spirit "signals" and
this is the explanation is use at all the lectures and most people seem to
understand it better this way than going into all the theories.
"What Spirits Look Like?"
When you think of the word, spirit, you do not imagine it as something that can
be seen. However, spirits ... good and evil ...do occasionally appear to people.
They take different shapes and forms depending on what they are and why they are
appearing. A ghost or a human spirit may be seen as a person, albeit a
transparent one. A demon on the other hand may appear as anything it chooses.
Obviously, if it wants to scare you, it will appear in such a manner as to do
that.
Throughout history, spirits have been portrayed in different ways. Everyone
knows what Casper looks like, right? There is the infamous white sheet over the
head routine. Devils have appeared as horned creatures and in many cases, demons
took on a reptilian quality. You sometimes come across an old movie or two where
the spirit looked very much like a person, albeit a misty one. I have seen
ghosts portrayed as humans complete with rotting flesh. We can go on and on this
way but the question is, just what do spirits look like? Well, some of the above
mentioned descriptions are not all that far off. In fact, in some cases, they
are right on the money. Let us take a look at the various types of spirits and
how each one may be seen.
In many cases, a human spirit may appear in much the same form as it did in
life. It is usually not in solid form although that does sometimes happen. Many
people have reported seeing spirits with defined features. In a large number of
these instances, the spirit seemed to be transparent. In other words, while the
spirit certainly resembled a person, you could see clear through it. These
spirits have been widely reported to have no legs that can be seen. They usually
appear as from the waistline up, although that is certainly not always so. It is
common for the spirits hair to move around, as if there is a light breeze in the
air. The same is true with the clothing they are wearing. I have seen this
myself. On several occasions, back in my haunted house, I and many others saw
the spirit of a lady. She was wearing a flowing white gown, which appeared to be
moving in response to a breeze. When she moved, the gown flowed some more. As is
common with this type of spirit she did not walk ... she seemed to float.
Although she did react to those of us who witnessed her, she never attempted to
come towards us or otherwise threaten us. Let me use an example. If she was
appearing to me when someone walked into the room, she would turn around and
look at that person. When she decided she no longer wanted to be seen, she
simply faded away, growing lighter and lighter until she was no longer there. At
that point, I shook my head and began questioning whether I really saw her or
was it all my imagination? Despite numerous appearances over the years, I always
found myself asking that same question. I want to point out something about that
particular spirit. Aside from being frightened the first few times I saw her, I
came to believe she was a benign spirit, possibly even a benevolent one. I felt
she was watching over me since she most often manifested when I was either sick
or injured. We had a spirit in that house that would cry and sob from time to
time. At least I believe that was the spirit.
There are times when a spirit will appear exactly as it did during life. It will
be as solid as you and me. There are scores of stories of people seeing deceased
loved ones appear as alive as they had before death. They are there one minute
and when they finish their business, they suddenly just disappear. Poof! A
common experience, according to many stories I have read about, heard, and even
experienced, has to do with seeing someone you know on the street. Sometimes,
you just wave at them and they return your greeting. Later, you arrive home and
receive a telephone call telling you that so and so died two days before. You
profess amazement to the person you are talking to and you tell them all about
the encounter you just had with that person. A little while later, after the
shock wears off, you begin to question yourself again. I have even heard of
people talking to someone who had just passed away. It is a startling but common
occurrence. There have also been many instances where people have seen very
solid spirits who they did not know. This is not limited to haunting alone.
These apparitions will sometimes appear for other reasons.
Once I awoke to find someone standing next to my bed. This apparition was as
solid as I am. I stared at this entity for several seconds. He was wearing a
black pinstriped, three-piece suit with a gold pocket watch in his vest. The
suit was of a style from long ago. He appeared to be in his late sixties, with
neatly cut white hair and he wore a well-trimmed mustache. Although he was
staring at me, his eyes appeared lifeless. I watched him for several seconds,
frozen at the sight. Suddenly, he pitched forward, stiff as a board and came
crashing down on me. I braced for the impact, which I felt. It hurt and actually
left a bruise on my ribs. He seemed to lay on me for a few seconds as I
struggled to push him off. His body was very stiff and cold. Then, just like
that, he was gone. I jumped out of that bed and charged out of the room. I woke
my mother up and started to explain to her what I had just seen. I was talking a
mile a minute and she was doing her best to calm me down so I could tell her
what had just happened. As I was talking to her, the telephone rang. It was from
one of my uncles, informing us that my Grandfather had just died. After the wake
and funeral, I spent a considerable amount of time looking at old pictures,
trying to identify my visitor. I never did. Was this spirit a messenger sent to
herald the passing of my Grandfather? It would seem so.
Most of the time though, human spirits do not appear that solidly. They are
often transparent. From sight alone, it is hard to tell whether the human spirit
you encounter is benign or evil. During my haunting, I saw another spirit from
time to time. This spirit was also a woman and she too wore a white dress. She
appeared to be considerably younger than the other spirit I mentioned. The
astonishing thing about her was she was always engulfed in flames. Although she
never appeared blackened or burned, the flames engulfing her did move. She and
the flames were both transparent. When she appeared, we could see most of her
body. She too reacted to us and she floated around as opposed to walking. I
always felt very uncomfortable when she appeared. I found her to be very
frightening. Unlike the other spirit, I sensed this one meant trouble. I am not
saying she was definitely evil, but I never sensed benevolence from her. Perhaps
the flames bothered me. Was she a human spirit or an inhuman one? There is no
way to be sure.
|
