Personal Experiences

My Mom the other morning, early heard knocking three different times, single knocks each. She found out later that one of the three spirits that where hanging around across the street with the spirit of my biological grandfather, came back and rushed into the yard. So the relatives protecting us, basically fought this spirit, and their fighting is the knocking my Mom heard.

Over Memorial Weekend, we went to visit the graves of family members. We stopped at this small, forgotten, old cemetery....I mean its not totally forgotten, someone mows the grass, but no flowers are ever placed, the stones are left to rot...

But we stopped there because my Mom believed we had family buried there (we didn't). Spirits followed us home, some good some bad; and were circling our house. That night and the next morning our puppy was going crazy...as well as we were getting on each others nerves....yelling & snapping at each other & the puppy for no reason.

So that next morning after our visit to the cemetery, while the spirit of my family members cleared out the unwanted spirits, my Mom, myself & our puppy got the heck out of the house and went for a long drive.

Two days ago, my gift expanded even further. While watching my cousin who is a musician, perform, I saw black curtains around him. Then yesterday, while he was performing again, I saw those same black curtains close in front of him.

He's in his 70's and hasn't been in good health lately.

My other cousin who can communicate very well with the other said, said (after I told her about the curtains) that this musician cousin, is the next to pass on, according to our family on the other side.

This gift is not all its cracked up to be.

Also yesterday, during his second performance, I saw his parents, who were also musicians, performing on stage with him, and they passed on years ago. My Mom also felt a cold breeze go past her during one of his performances, and there was no logical source for this breeze.

I guess its a good thing that my gift is growing...but I'm not sure I like how its growing.

A few weeks ago, my puppy out of the blue turned towards our fireplace & started doing his "I see someone" bark & growl. I knew someone had 'popped' in. Same thing happened three times last night.

When that happens I say out loud, "please introduce yourself to Po (our puppy), and could someone he recognizes appear please to reassure him this new person won't hurt us. Please and thank you (I always say please & thank you when dealing with my family spirits....just because they're dead doesn't mean I shouldn't have good manors or not be respectful.)."

Our Puppy is very sensitive to spirits and weather. And the increased activity with my cousin's potential passing, and spirits protecting us, and change in the weather...he's been going a little bonkers lately. Only thing that seems to calm his down is car rides. He falls right to sleep....too bad gas is soo expensive.

Animals and the paranormal

Article from CPS Paranormal

There is no doubt that animals are aware of paranormal activity. The senses of sight, smell and hearing are superior to that of humans. They can see, hear and smell things that are not within the spectrum of our sensing ability. Not to mention: Their sixth sense. They have the ability of not just sensing but predicting an occurrence of something before we can.

As a paranormal investigator we rely on the use of scientific instruments in order to obtain evidence from a spectrum that is not within our own realm. The use of sophisticated voice recorders allow us to record sounds well below and above the audio spectrum of the human ear. Using infrared cameras give us the ability to see in the dark thermal cameras to differentiate between hot and cold and UV camera into a different visual spectrum. EMF detectors are used to measure unseen magnetic fields. We also use various other instruments to detect and measure an array of things we cannot see, hear or feel. In short; all we are doing is using instruments to measure outside of our own realm and into a larger spectrum that animals already see, hear, smell and sense.

Upon the first initial visit with a client; experienced investigators will ask about pets in the business or residence and how they have been acting. Unfortunately, most of the time that there is reported paranormal activity going on; the client does not make the connection with their pet’s behavior unless its overwhelming, and they just discard it. An animal will also become use to it after awhile, especially if it is residual in nature. It becomes part of their surroundings and natural environment. Much like people when they move to a new home, at first our realm is different, but we get settled in and use to it after awhile.

CPS has investigated cases where clients have told us that their sleeping cat has looked up and suddenly bolted from the room; for no apparent reason. The family dog was barking into thin air or would not go into a certain room or even go near the house, garage or a certain building on the property. During investigations of these premises, we did in fact find evidence of paranormal activity. There has been many cases like this reported and documented throughout the years in the paranormal field by many different groups.

CPS does not use animals in their investigations for two reasons. The first being that when you bring an animal into a place, all sensory items like sight, smell and audio are new to the animal. Nothing is familiar to the animal being brought in, the animal does not know what belongs there. They can and do react to all unfamiliar smells and noises. Secondly, If there is a spirit (intelligent) present, they might be fearful of the animal and not be open for any type of interaction or communication.

When it comes to client’s pets, we prefer NOT to have the animal or animals in the home (This depends on the type of pet). Safety of the investigators is a major concern. When it comes to dogs, you can never tell how it is gonna react to strangers walking in and out of the house. Dogs, cats and other animals make a variety of noises which lead to contamination of captured evidence. Tripping over the animal also posses an additional safety hazard. Also, you would not be in good grace with the client if their indoor cat or dog happened to get outside and ran off. On the other hand, a small turtle or pet fish doesn’t pose a problem.

Unfortunately while doing outside investigations, a variety of animal are encountered or closely encountered all of the time. This is one of reasons why any noises, other than voice responses should be discarded. Even a voice response can NOT be totally trusted in an outside investigation. Animal and wind contamination is a huge factor. A field mouse running through the leaves or a deer over 500 yards away can sound like someone walking towards you. Most times animal encounters are mistaken for EVP’s than they are of harm to investigators.

Ghost animals are and always will be a huge split amongst investigators. On one hand, everything is made of energy. Therefore; if energy never dies out, animal energy like human energy would continue on after death. On the other hand; case studies have shown at the brink of death the human body loses 1/16 of a pound, or 1 oz. An animal does not lose any weight at all. Some say this is the soul leaving the human body and that is why animals do not lose any weight. They have NO soul. I would say that this is still an open ended question until further advancements in the equipment used in the paranormal field can find the answers. Any other answer without substantiated proof would only be a belief.

Legends in our area range from a Bigfoot to the Mothman to the New Jersey Devil and much more. Although with some of these cases there seems to be some overwhelming evidence; as well as personal experiences. The JURY is still out on this subject! Is it possible? YES!!!

Paranormal Abilities ( The most common ones)

Article by: Lauren C. Dole

PARANORMAL ABILITIES:.....Psychic

• Mediums: Those who have a "Direct Line "to our loved ones in the afterlife.
• Empath: Those who feel others emotions....Remote viewer/seer...Those who can place Themselves into homes etc. far away and see events that took place there.
• Premonition Dreamers/seers; Those who see an upcoming event usually death and destruction in dreams or visions.
• Sensitive's: Those who can "feel" a spirit presence.
• Spirit seers/communicators:; Those who can visually see spirits ( those who can do this often can see orbs and Auras also).
• Astral Projectors: those who can leave their bodies traveling long distance ( Attached to their bodies by the silver thread).
• Healers: Those who have the power to heal others.

These are the most popular abilities.

Answers to Frequently asked Questions about the Paranormal

By Jennifer Scelsi in CSI: Paranormal'

As a paranormal researcher I've seen some unexplainable things and talked to hundreds if not thousands of people about the paranormal in general.

So I will post them all here with my answers so here we go ....

Is there a difference between a ghost and a spirit ?

Some people believe that ghosts are earthbound souls, and spirits are people who have died, crossed over, and chosen to come back for whatever reason.

In other words, proponents of this theory believe that earthbound souls can't or wont, move on to the other side until they've delivered a message or fulfilled some purpose, or that they are otherwise not ready to leave the earthly plain. Earthbound souls could even not realize they are dead.

Ghosts can be earthbound for any number of reasons.

A person who died in their sleep might literally wake up dead. As funny as that sounds such people honestly wouldn't have any recollection of dying or being aware of their death. They could go for years carrying out their day to day routine as they had in life. Imagine their frustration at wanting to communicate with people around and not being able to do so, or having strangers move into their home that they still believe to be theirs.

Another, more complicated reason ghosts might remain earthbound is to avenge their death. In some cases a ghost might choose to remain here to ensure secrets guarded in life remain secrets and are not brought up to the surface.

Spirits, on the other hand, know they’re dead, have made the transition to the other side, but make a choice to return to their familiar surroundings on earth from time to time. Whether it's to check on the safety and welfare of loved ones, attend a special family function, or to communicate a message, they are not bound to do these things but rather it's their choice to do them.

Article by Bishop Long

I get asked A LOT about the Bible and what it says about Psychics and Mediums. I have friends who are incredibly gifted and the idea that they are doing the work of the Devil is utter nonsense.

For those of you that missed it. Here is the article that I wrote.

Deuteronomy 18:10-11. It says,
"Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead."

Now many who would read this say, see, those Paranormal People are practicing evil and doing the devils work. Well, not really. Let's understand this passage first. This is why I teach Bible study EVERY Wednesday Night on inspireradio.org at 9pm, set. I teach the historical aspect of scripture, so that people can get a better understand as to why passages were written. It is important to understand that.

Polytheism was rampant and obviously Moses was fighting against this and trying to establish a Monotheistic culture. People at that time adored and worshipped many deities and those deities were not good.

Now, regarding the sons and daughters passing through fire was important because that is historically a ritual that worshipped Moloc. With some tribes, they allowed their children to just jump over the fire without actually sacrificing them but there were tribes that actually sacrificed their children to Moloc by throwing them in the fire and this superstitious act was condemned by the Council of Trullo (65).

It continues by describing soothsayers and wizards and keep in mind that many who practiced polytheism as this time claimed to have received special "powers" by the many strange deities and these wizards and soothsayers used these "powers" to threaten others and manipulate the culture at the time.

Finally, there are many translations of this particular passage. But it speaks of charmers, witches, etc. Charmers of serpents mean those who made a pact with the devil. Those individuals who mean do to harm to others.

Fortune tellers, or "wise men" known in Hebrew promised great knowledge from the secrets of caballa or magic and this was very misleading. It was lying. Period. It was wrong. They promised the world and delivered smoke and mirrors; if only you would give them your money, they would give you special powers. That would be like me telling you, you give me $500 and I will give you the power to fly and yet, I never give you that power. That is lying. That is cheating and then you try and get a refund and I tell you, you are crossing the line and if you threaten me, I will send my evil powers after you and the issue is dropped. That is wrong and that is what occurred.

And Necromancy was very common in those days. Now keep in mind that necromancy is a magic that summons the spirit by "magic" or raising them bodily by "magic" for the purpose of DIVINATION (imparting the means to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge). - BLACK MAGIC!

Now, lets get a couple of things clear here. Paranormal Investigators do not participate in Necromancy. We do not chant to raise dead bodies, we do not participate in divination, and we are not charging clients and therefore, there is no form of fraud that we are committing.

Look, we have homeowners who call us. They are frightened and we come to their home. We try and debunk what is occurring in their home.

We do not pray to the evil being Moloc and we are not throwing our children in the fire. We are not summoning the dead through black magic and we are not using their information for the purpose of power. We are using proof of their existence to help families who are frightened because they are hearing things that go bump in the night and sometimes, even worse.

Therefore, this passage in scripture, is null in void when it comes to Investigators doing the work of God! ;-)

Bishop Long