I have been working on new article for the past few months though my health is still not the best.  I will be ready to post the new articles soon over the next 3-4 days.  I am also starting up a discussion group on Facebook if any of you have accounts there you can join me here:

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Thank you all for your patience

Geraldine

Hi Guys and Gals,

I’ve been on a major break for quite awhile due to chronic health issues but I’m back online now and ready to start blogging again and give you all some more really interesting paranormal info.  I will get quite a few new articles posted on this blog before Saturday and thats a promise. 

If there’s anything that you would be interested in reading about within the paranormal then just leave a suggestion in the comment box and I will get to it.

Glad to be back

Watch this space for more Paranormal Studies  Interesting Facts

Brightest Blessings

Geraldine

There has always been allot of stories told about experience with the Ouija Board.  I am sure that many of you reading this have either had your own experiences with the Ouija Board, or know some who used the board and experienced things?

Some people say they have experienced something paranormal in using the board, while others say that the Ouija Board is a silly game and just nonsense.  What is the truth of the board is it just a silly game or is the Ouija Board a dangerous game to play?

In order for me to describe and explain the dangers of the Ouija Board, I must first explain what is an Ouija Board.  In the US, Ouija Boards are sold at as a children's game.  The board itself is about the same size, shape and material made of a monopoly board.

The main differences between an ordinary gaming board and the Ouija Board are the designs on the board.  For e.g. on the front of a Ouija Board at the top center are the words 'Hello', below that are the letters of the alphabet from A to Z.  In the center of the board there is usually a clear circular space.  To the left center of the board is the word 'Yes' and to the far right is the word 'No'.  On the bottom center of the board are numbers ranging from 0 to 9. Below the numbers is the word 'Goodbye'. 

Many people use this board by placing a glass down on the clear space on the center of the board.  Then each person takes the tip of their first finger and places it on the edge of the glass.  A speaker among those taking part is chosen to ask 'is there any ghostly energies or entities wishing to communicate'.  Once a ghostly entity answers then the speaker is the one that asks the questions and asks the entity to reply using the Ouija. 

The main and most damaging and dangerous thing about this board can be cut into two main sections or areas.  The first section covers how people use the Ouija board, while the second covers the dangers of the entities that are communicated with through this board.Section one covers how the board and how children and adults use the board.  In a sense using the Ouija board is like taking part in a séance, where there is no medium to help offer any form of protection for those using the board.  Most children and adults don't even offer up a prayer, before calling out 'is there anybody there'.  With no protection they begin to play a very dangerous game without knowing whether they will make contact with something positive or negative. 

TORCHES/CANDLES/BATTERIES On a paranormal investigation or ghost hunt a torch is like your best buddy.  It is very important that you have a good torch and plenty of extra batteries.  It's also a good idea to bring some candles and matches as sometimes ghosts can affect things like video cameras as in camcorders, electric equipment and torches.  A ghost hunter investigates in the dark and so you don't want to be left in the dark especially with ghostly noises around you, would you?  

CAMERAS, DIGITAL AND CAMCORDERS 

Orbs cannot be seen by the naked eyes.  They can only be picked up by cameras, digital cameras and camcorders.

The best kind of cameras to get is a 35mm with SLR.  A digital camera should have over 300 million pixels and a card of 256mb or higher.  A digital camcorder with night vision is very good as you can walk around in a room with no light and still see where you’re going.  Getting a tripod for your different types of cameras can be a great way to get a different perspective of a room or area.

You don't need to get all of these at first.  A good camera, a tape recorder, a torch, spare batteries, some candles and an EMF Detector would be good enough for a start-up for any ghost group or individual investigator.

Another device that some paranormal groups use is a thermometer.  This is used to read the temperature in different rooms and areas from houses and buildings.  It is a well known fact that when ghosts and paranormal entities manifest, that there is a drop in temperature, before during or after their manifestation.

Monitoring and writing down each room temperature at the beginning of a paranormal investigation, and then paying close attention during an investigation; you may find a drop in temperature and realize that a ghost is around you.

There are two different types of thermometers.  One is an ambient thermometer, which is used to give you the ambient room temperature.  Then the other one is called a non-contact thermometer which is a thermometer that will give you the temperature of anything it is pointed at. 

MEDIUM 

Finding a professional and good medium is very important for any paranormal investigation group.  A medium is a person who has the ability to receive or channel messages from the spirit world. As part of a paranormal investigation group a medium can give the group information about the visitational and non-visitational ghosts that reside with the house or building.

As I said before it is very important that you make sure that you recruit a real medium that can prove the abilities that they say they have.  A fraudulent medium could damage the group's reputation and would definitely effect whether they where taken seriously or not professionally.  The best ways to make sure that you find a good genuine medium is by either asking for their psychic resume, which very similar to a normal resume the only difference is that the previous jobs are with psychic companies.  Asking for references is also a good way to find out if someone who says they are a medium can actually prove it, as is testing the medium on their abilities. 

If someone calls themselves a medium but is not willing to provide a resume, references, and won't let you test them.  Then my advice is to not let them be a part of your group as they would damage your reputation and they would make people not take you serious, so stay clear of them. 

There are many ghost hunting and paranormal groups throughout the world.  There are so many groups and societies that want to find real proof of the paranormal, and in particular ghosts.Many people call themselves ghost hunters or paranormal investigators but carry no more than a digital camera and a few flashlights to the haunted site. These people are not ghost hunters, nor are they real investigators in the paranormal.If you are interested in becoming a paranormal investigator or perhaps even running your own group, then here are a few tips to running your own group or being seen as a professional investigator.  So, here's what you need:

ELECTRO MAGNETIC FIELD DETECTOR (EMF)

An Electro Magnetic Field Detector also known as an EMF, is used to measure the electro magnetic energy that comes off electronic devices such as mobile, microwaves, DVD players and radio's etc..The importance of this device is that ghosts are made of energy.  They use this energy that they are made of to manifest and to move over and through areas in houses and buildings etc.

They can also use this energy to affect electric equipment or devices such as the ones I have mentioned above.  In paranormal investigations, investigators use the EMF device to write down the readings of electric fields each individual electronic device, of within the house or building you choose to investigate.  Once you have these readings then you have what is called your base line investigation. As you move around the building or watch the EMF device when it reads above 2.5 mill gauss, then this could mean that you are not alone and a ghost is within the area you are in.

TAPE RECORDERS

A tape recorder is used in several ways during an investigation.  It can be used to interview the owners of the property that you are investigating. You can also use it to make notes of your own initial thoughts and feelings of the house, building etc…One of the more important uses of a tape recorder is to use it for the purpose of EVP. 

EVP -Electronic Voice Phenonomen is a method used to record paranormal and ghostly noises like voices etc… By using a tape recorder many of these ghostly noises are often recorded like background noises and this is known as Sonic Events.  EVP Recordings are the best type of proof for the existence of ghosts and the paranormal.

POINT-TO-POINT LASER ALARMS

These are small battery alarms that are usually used as a form of home protection.  They are placed at doorways and work by placing a device at opposite positions of a doorway. If someone walks through the doorway they are caught by a laser beam which is set off by the intruder unknowingly crossing the beam.  When doing paranormal investigations these alarms can be used in a similar way to the way they are used for the living intruders. 

By basically putting devices on staircases, corridors and doorways in building's and houses, you will perhaps be able to catch a ghost.  Ghosts are energy and they can manifest fully into a more solid shape so, if they walk or float across a corridor or down a staircase then there energy and solidity will set off the laser. 

TRIGGER OBJECTS

During a paranormal investigation trigger objects are used as an experiment to find out if there really is a ghost or ghosts in a building or house that is under investigation.  A trigger object can basically be anything as long as it can lay perfectly flat on a white sheet of paper.  The way it works is that the investigator draws an outline around the object and then place a camcorder in the room across or near the object making sure the camcorder is on; the investigator goes out and locks the room. 

If, when the investigator returns after a period of time and if the object is outside its line and shape, then by looking at the camcorder you will have documented proof of the paranormal.To be continued………

Another Tower of London prisoner was a young woman called Lady Jane Grey.  Grey was the niece of King Henry VIII, and became Queen of England for nine days in a coo to change the royal line from the then Tudors to a family of Dukes in Northumberland called the Dudley's. 

In the attempt by the Dudley's, Jane was told that she was to be married to the Duke of Northumberland's son, Guilford Dudley.  The marriage took place on May 1553.  Her accession to the throne took place on the 10th July 1553 and ended on the 19th July 1553, when Mary daughter of King Henry VIII, had Jane and her husband Guilford Dudley arrested.  Mary had them sentenced to death; they were both beheaded on the 12th of February 1554.  Both their ghosts have been seen in and around the Tower of London.

Often within the years I have spent in the paranormal industry.  I have been asked many times 'what makes a house haunted'.  This is a difficult question to answer because there are so many different factors that come into the answer itself.

Some of the main factors include the history of the house, like was there any violent deaths, abuse or cruelty done to any, woman or child on the property.  The age of the house or how old the house happens to be is also an important factor because, if there happens to be allot of families that have lived in the house then there is a good likelihood that there were events and situations like death, un-happiness, betrayal, sickness and death.

All these things seep into the walls of the house and can leave an impression, energy or ghosts in the house.  There can also to be said about the land that the house is built on. For e.g. people who were murdered, who fought in battles and whose blood seeped into the land upon there death can leave unsettled ghostly energies or entities not only on the land itself but also in any house that is built on.

I will try to describe in more detail, 'what makes a house haunted' by giving you several story examples of haunted houses and buildings so, that hopefully you can better understand what I mean.

Anne Boleyn was one of the many wives of the English King Henry VIII.  Henry ruled England during the 15th century and is well known throughout history for being fickle when it came to woman.  Boleyn replaced Catherine of Aragon as Henry's wife, because one woman was never enough for him.  A few months's after Anne gave to birth to their first and only child, Elizabeth I.  Henry's eye was already roving towards a young girl called Jane Seymour.  So, he got rid of Anne by getting one of his Archbishops's to bring up false charges of adultery and incest on her. So, that she would be sentenced to death and he would be free to marry his next wife, Jane Seymour.

Anne Boleyn was beheaded at the Tower Green, which is outside the Tower of London in 1536.  With her death being so violent and the falsehoods that lead to her death, it is not surprising that her headless corpse has been seen near and around the Tower of London.  You would think that being headless that she would be difficult to recognize but believe or not, she has always been easily identified by her clothes.  Her ghost has also been seen at Blicking Hall situated in Norfolk, which at one time in the 15th century was once her family home.  It would appear that Anne's ghost has always been most active on the Anniversary of her death.

GENERAL NOTICE: I’ve noticed some websites that have taken some of my paranormal articles from this blog and pasted it on their sites.  Many have not linked or credited these articles back to this site or to me the author.  So, I just wanted to say that I don’t mind people taking my articles for their own or their friends’ paranormal websites or paranormal communities as long as they are linked and credited back to my Paranormal Studies Blog here.   

IMPORTANT: I would also ask that anyone intending to use my paranormal articles e-mail me at psychic_hecate@hotmail.com for permission to use my articles and let me know where the articles are to be posted on.

Thanks very much

Geraldine 

MARILYN MONROE

Monroe is said to haunt certain areas of 'The Roosevelt Hotel'.  She was born Norma Jean Baker on the 1st of June 1926.  At the beginning of her career she was a model which lead her unto the path of the movie business.  For two years she lived in Suite 1200, at 'The Roosevelt Hotel' at the start of her modeling career.
A mirror that once hung in her room now hangs in the lobby is said to be haunted by the actresses' spirit.  It has also been said that Marilyn haunts the ballroom of the hotel.  Both staff and visitors have claimed to have seen her ghost dancing in the ballroom.
 

MONTGOMERY CLIFT

Monty as he was known to his friends also haunts 'The Roosevelt Hotel'. He was born on the 17th October 1920 and is best remembered for his roles in such movies as 'From Here to Eternity', 'The Misfits' and 'The Judgment at Nuremburg'.
During the year 1928, he spent three month's in Room 928 of 'The Roosevelt Hotel'.  Over the years since the death of Montgomery Clift, it has since been claimed by the hotel staff and visitors that Clift can be seen walking along many of the corridor's in the hotel.
 

JEAN HARLOW

Jean was born on the 3rd of March 1911; she was an American born actress who took Hollywood by storm in the 1930's.  She was the original 'Blonde Bombshell'; she was also known and described as 'The Platinum Blonde' which was also the name of one of the movies that she starred in 1931.   Jean starred in over 30 movies but her career and her life was tragically cut short at the age of 26, by kidney failure.  Since her death in 1937, there have been many sightings of 'The Blonde Bombshell' in the mansion she once called home.
 

CAROLE LOMBARD

Carole Lombard was born on the 6th of October 1908 in Fort Wayne in Indiana, USA. She began her film career at a very young age.  She made her debut at the age of 12, in the movie 'Perfect Crime' in 1931 were she played the role of a tomboy.  From there she starred in a few low-budget movies and then moved on to work for studios like Twentieth Century and Paramount Studios.  Best known for films like 'My, Man Godfrey', 'To Be or Not to Be' and 'Mr and Mrs Smith'.  Carole is also famous for being married to actors such as William Powell, who she married in 1931. Divorcing Powell in 1934, and was linked romantically to actors like Gary Cooper and George Raft.  Her most famous marriage was to actor Clark Gable in 1939. She died on the 16th January 1942, and like her husband Clark Gable she is said to haunt 'The Oatman Hotel' in Arizona, where Clark and she spent their honeymoon.
 

GEORGE REEVES

Reeves was born on January 5th 1914 in Woodstock, Iowa, USA.  He began his movie industry in 1939 with a minor role in the epic movie 'Gone With The Wind'.  Through that one small role he was contracted to Warner Bros, where his acting included a few B-Movies or B-Pictures as they were known then, such film's as 'The Fighting 69th', 'The Strawberry Blonde', 'Torrid Zone' and 'So Proudly We Hail'. Though he acted in many movies as the ones above, he will always be remembered for his portrayal of the comic super hero 'Superman' in the 1951 television series. 
George died on the 16th of June 1959 by his own hand; he committed suicide by shooting himself.  It has been said the he can often be seen in his Superman costume roaming the rooms of his former home.
 

JOHN WAYNE

He was born on the 26th of May 1907 in Winterset, Ohio, USA.  Wayne was best known for his western and war movies that's what made him famous acting in film's such as 'The Son's of Katie Elder', 'The Angel and the Badman', 'The Searchers' and many more .  He was sometimes described as American's Favorite Movie Star especially with his roles in classic movies like 'The Quietman', 'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon' and 'Hatari'.
John died on June 11th 1979 of stomach cancer, his ghost is said to have been seen on the yacht he once owned and enjoyed sailing called 'The Wild Goose'.
 

LUCILLE BALL

She was born August 6th 1911, in the town of Jamestown, New York, USA.  She was an actress that appeared in movies and TV shows from the 1980's to the 1970's. Though she was well known for her film, television, stage and radio work.  It was her talent that made her an icon that will never be forgotten.
Lucille died on April 26th 1989, she was 77 and since her death in North Roxbury Drive. The house itself has become a paranormal phenonomen known as 'Haunted'.  The next people to own the house after Ball have described a lot of strange going on's.  For example; furniture and objects moving on their own. Unexplained broken windows and voices being heard from an empty room.
 

CLARK GABLE

Clark was born on the 1st of February 1901 in the town of Cadiz, Ohio, USA.  He was once nicknamed 'The King of Hollywood'.  He is best remembered for playing Rhett Butler in the 1939 epic, 'Gone With The Wind' also starring Viven Leigh.  Other movies that made Gable famous were movies such as 'Mutiny on the Bounty' made in 1935, 'It Happened One Night' in 1934.  It has been said that that Clark Gable also haunts the 'Oatman Hotel', the same hotel that Carole Lombard and he spent their honeymoon in after their marriage in 1939.
 
ORSON WELLES

Welles was a genius when it came to directing in Hollywood; he also had a talent for writing and producing.  Orson was born on the 16th May 1915.  He directed, produced, acted and was an exceptional writer of film, stage, radio and television.  For acting he is best remembered for his roles in 'Citizen Kane' and for his very real radio broadcast adaptation of 'The War of the Worlds'.  At the time it was broadcast there were many who truly believed that the world was under attack and that what they were listening to was a real news broadcast.
Orson died of a heart attack in 1985 at the age of 70.  At his favorite restaurant 'The Sweet Lady Jane' customers and staff have reported seeing him sitting at his favorite table.
 

JOAN CRAWFORD

She was born on the 23rd of March 1905, in San Antonio, Texas.  She was an actress signed with the great MGM Studio's and with Warner Bros.  Joan started her career as a dancer in a chorus line on Broadway.  She started her movie career in a silent film called 'Pretty Ladies' in 1825, moving on and becoming famous through other movies like 'Possessed' made in 1931, 'Dancing Ladies' 1932 and 'Double Indemnity' which is just a few of the movies Crawford starred in.  Her former home is said to be haunted by the actresses' ghost that is said to be just one of the ghosts to be linked with Joan Crawford's former home
 
 

Another famous haunted place is that of the Borley Rectory in Essex.  A book called 'The Most Haunted House in England' by the famous Psychical Researcher, Harry Price. 

The facts surrounding this particular house are that anyone who has lived in the house has never been able to stay living it.  This is because of the paranormal phenonomen that has occurred in the house from 1900 to 1939.  The house burnt down mysteriously in 1939, and from that time no one has lived on the site that is now a burnt out shell, so you could say that there has been no reported paranormal phenonomen since the house became ablaze.  

Facts and history have been so deeply intertwined in this particular case that after so many years it is difficult to separate out the facts from the fiction or folklore.  Therefore in order to give you what information I can, I shall give you everything I have read and researched on the rectory and perhaps if you are interested in the story then perhaps you can research it more on your own, and share any findings you make find.

In July of the year 1900, Ethel Bull the granddaughter of the Reverend Bull who built the rectory was out walking with the daughter of the then current Rector of Borley, when suddenly Ethel saw a figure of a female dressed in a nun's habit.

Throughout the years that the rectory was in use, many people saw the ghostly nun.  It was said to float over the land and disappeared as soon as anyone got close.  Many called the area in which the ghostly nun was often seen as the 'Nun's Walk'.  Throughout the years there was and have been many theories and explanations of the ghostly nun were.  Some people said that the rectory was built on a 13th century monastery.  A monk was supposed to have fallen in love with a nun from a nearby convent.  The monks and the other nuns discovered the lover's secret love and the nun was killed by the other nuns because of her broken vows, and some people say that is why she haunts the place that she died.

The second explanation for 'Nun's Walk' is that at some point during 1667, a nun was forced to abandon her calling to serve God in order to marry one of the sons of a family call the Waldengrave family who at that time lived in Borley Manor.  It is said that she was murdered on the site of the rectory and so haunts there.

The third and last explanation for Borley Rectory is that there was once a French nun called Marie Larre, who ran from her convent in France to be with the man she loved.  Unfortunately for Marie, not long after arriving in England and at Borley she had an argument with the man she loved.  In a moment of violent rage her lover killed her and buried her body in the basement/cellar of the house that was on there before Borley Rectory was built.  Many people believed this third theory more than any of the others.  This may have been because a female jawbone and skull where found on the site as was a selection of religious artifacts.