Spirit Realm

As I said and a couple of people confirmed this for me, the pendant has nothing in it. Apparently items said to hold a "Jinn" are all the currently rage on Ebay. They are a scam and my friend fell for it. *shakes head* So have lots of people as they sell and sell.

Now the ring. Ok, he got it from someone who claims to be a Priestess. She also claims the stone in the ring is about 35 years old and has been reset. I doubt that. Old items like that have a history that normally I can pick up on. Not only is the center worthless, but the setting is no jeweller setting. It looks like a nice counter ring you would buy over by the handbags and hair accessories, earrings, etc in say a store like JC Penny's or Khol's. It's nice and probaly cost about $20. However it's not 35 years old. It is said to hold a Fey. Not very likely since I've never met this person nor have I spoken to her nor do I know much about her except that few facts that I have been told. Already I have found some untruths to this.

The ring is however a prison for spirits. The spell that was with it "draws as much paranormal energy as the item can hold". Sure does, I guess. There are approximately 6 spirits trapped within the ring, all male. A 7th spirit was a little boy about 10 years old. I did release him to the light. The others I have been in communication with on a limited basis. With so many in one item, I'm being careful until I learned more. The is no longer intrusive. There is a spirit in there that is michevious and I think tried to scare or bother us, but it didn't. It's a very weak spirit, one that lies, and stays now in the background sulking like a spoiled brat. It won't talk. That's ok, I have no wish to communicate with it anyhow. It's no stronger than a schoolyard bully. I'm not sure it's even strong enough to communicate after being kept in salt for a few hours. ( this is a little graphicCollapse )

Heheh..Ok, bad pun. But really. One of the students at the college I work at is a learner in the arts of Hermetic Magick (High Magick) and was given this object by someone. He knew it contained a spirit as the woman who gave it to him also gave him the spell to awaken the spirit in the object and told him she did the spell. The object is a simple inexpensive department store ring so I had doubts. Neither CM or I are stupid enough to perfom a conjuring spell on a paranormal entity we know nothing about. *le sigh* There's a sucker born every day, right? Well, since I *am* quite interested in things of a paranormal nature and have dealt with such things before, CM gave me the ring since he had no use for it. Right now it's in time out buried in salt. I'll explain in a minute. With it, another item was given to me. A pendant that is said to hold a Jin. Yeah. On that one, I think he got taken. I feel nothing in that object. However the pendant is quite lovely and I think I'll cleanse it for him (just in case there actually *is* something attached to it and though I doubt the story on that one, one can never be too careful). ( this got kinda longCollapse )

I'm really interested in reading some posts of folks who went on any investigations for 2007. If you have a story to tell, post it here! Also post here if you plan on going on any investigations.

Happy new year!

Welcome Oreana! I hope you enjoy the community.

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. We sure did. Elora had a fantastic Yule and Christmas. While we celebrating Christmas holiday at a close friend's home, a paranormal experience happened. YIPPPEEEEEE!
Jeremiah and Helene's new home (they bought in the Spring last year)isn't really that active except every time they take a photo of me there are tons of orbs. I sometimes get the sensation of a whisper of spirit activity. As if it just passed through but didn't stay. They live in Lawerenceville, which is a highly haunted area. THere are many graveyards and churches in the area. One graveyard is near the home and has many unmarked graves in it. I think their sub-division is a passing area for spirits. They never stay, just pass through on the way to somewhere else. It would explain why there are so many sometimes yet they never stay. Jeremiah and Helene and their 3 young daughters have not really experienced any activity themselves but one of Helene's brothers did. They are twins so they are more sensitive then Helene and Jeremiah. Hyl was playing a video game in the bedroom (the boys are 19, btw) and he comes out to tell us that he saw a figure in the doorway to the bedroom that was shadowy and disappeared. My first question was, Are you sure it wasn't one of the girls? No. It wasn't. It was the figure of a man. All the rest of us adults were in the living room playing poker (which I happened to clean up on LOL). Show me, I told him. As soon as I was halfway down the hall I sensed the spirit. It was like a mild electrical feeling dancing up and down my skin. My hair stood up slightly. It got even stronger as I walked into the bedroom. Too bad it was gone by the time I got Helene's camera. Orb pictures are not the best evidence. No really evidence at all on their own so I was iching for an EMF reader, compass, my pendelum, or anything! *sigh* I took a pic anyhow but nothing was found on it. I kind of knew this would be the case as the feeling had passed as soon as I picked up the camera. Next time I visit, I'm bringing my pendelum. I'll post anything I find.

My new years resolution: I'm going to be slowly purchasing some ghost hunting supplies, EMF meters, digital recorders, night vision video camera, laser thermometer, etc. Hope to have a group decked out and ready to go by this time in 2008!

also in May (may 8th)in Savannah, GA, the annual paranormal investigator's convention (Ghostock) will be held. I'll be going (it's to be a second honeymoon for my husband and I). I'll post details for anyone who wants to go as soon as I get them.

I just met one our new students who happens to be a fellow paranormal investigator and works with Ghost Hounds and they are a the southern chapter of TAPS. We hope to get together and do an invesitgation. So now I'm all geeky and squeeish.

I've been absent for a bit as on the 3rd of October little Elora was born! We're home now from the hospital (I ended up having to have a C-section, but I'm recovering well.) Our future paranormal investigator was 7 pounds and 12 ounces!

I'm not at work right now so my computer access is limited. I'll be able to check on the comunity as much as I can. Thanks for your understanding. I hope to make it to the e-cafe at least once a week. Thanks!

In October, we want to do a twilight visit to Oakland. They have tours and I believe they are free. I'll post more info on this as I get it.

Who wants to join us??

This time it caused almost a panic attack in my rest. I was awake but I couldn't open my eyes or move. I think it just took me by surprise is all. Again I heard footsteps in my apartment and then a voice very close to my ear say "Holly". The voice sounded just like my mom. Also the voice sounded very sad.

Something hit me when it was over and I could move again. My grandma always said how much my mom looks likes my great grandmother when she was a teen. Perhaps their voices sound the same as well. I think with my mom not taking care of her diabetes (her foot is very infected again. I think if she goes into the hospital this time, they will amputate it, so she won't go and that is what my great gran died of)and my uncle about to die (in a phone call to my mom recently, he kept the conversation going about anything and everything. A couple of times he said that he felt as if it was the last time he would be able to talk to her), she is here. My mom had seen her in my grandmother's bedroom doorway about 2 months ago when my Uncle started getting really bad. My mom is afraid to aknowledge why she might be around, so I think maybe she is trying through me. I suppose it might be easier since I never knew her. She passed away when my mom was only 12.

I just got off the phone with my mom. Everything is ok, except she wants a cigarette. She ran out on Sunday. Hopefully, she'll just get over it. But anyhow, I called her because of this dream I had after coming home from taking brazen66 to work this morning. Who dropped a 10lb clamp on his toe this morning. Not broken but he hurts pretty badly. I hope he's ok. I won't be able to see it until tonight. I'm getting off subject here...trying to get my random thoughts together. Ok, so I'm back in bed for not more than a few minutes. I'm not even asleep yet. I'm hovering in that relaxed 'in-between' stage. I suddenly hear my mother's voice. She's chiding lenny77 for not answering the door when she first knocked. (His car still isn't running, so he stays over with us right now on Tuesday night so he can get to work on Wednesdays until the baby is born.) He won't just answer our door unless he knows exactly who it is. He doesn't answer the phone either. If we want him to pick it up, we tell him to screen the answering machine to see if it's us. Anyhow, I hear my mom talking to him, making coffee in my kitchen (when she's upset or grandma is...they want coffee....hey, everyone has a comfort food). I can even hear her footsteps coming down the hall towards my bedroom. She needed me to get up and come and talk to her. She *needed* me. So something was wrong with either my grandma or my uncle. Since I could also hear my grandma's voice, it had to be Uncle Don. Oh Great Goddess, did he die?? The doctor's said 2 more weeks! I'm struggling to sit up and open my eyes and to speak to her. I hear her in my bathroom. I hear open my bedroom door. I still hear her talking to me and to lenny77. My rational brain is telling me to ignore all of this. None of it was really happening. I argue back that I have to get up to make sure. Mom doesn't have a car to get to me. Even if she did, she has no idea how to get to my apartment. She'd have to call me first. Finally the sounds went away. Then I had dreams of my home being invaded by burglers in the neighborhood. This was a dream, but I woke up with the sense that there are people in my apartment that don't belong there. At least my mind recognized that this was truly a dream and I was actually sleeping.

Ok, here is the weird part: On Sunday, my Uncle had this overwhelming feeling that something was wrong with grandma and mom so he called her in a panic. Now with the cancer, he does have auditory hallucinations as well as visual ones. Still though, that is two of us with an overwhelming sense that something is wrong with mom and grandma. I told her to be careful over the next few days.

Now, here is the thing that crossed my mind. Could this be part of the random mischievious poltergiest activity that I, brazen66, and lenny77 have all witnessed. It's been kinda quiet lately and that would not explain the coincidence with my uncle. So I'm ruling that out. Could it be my great-grandmother who has been near my uncle and my mom right now? Possibly, but I don't think she would mimic voices. The only spirit I had ever been around that would mimic voices would be one that is the spirit guide of a friend. I don't think it was her. However, I don't want to rule out that it was possibly a spirit trying to give our family a 'heads-up' on something.

Any thoughts??

(x~posted to chimerawinds)