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2005 Archive:
Whose Scrooge? - by Lee Prosser
December 15, 2005

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Spirit Dor by John Richards
December 9, 2005


The Witchcraft Connection - The Ghostly Carpenter - by Marcus Foxglove Griffin
December 6, 2005

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Nature is a Haunted House - by Lee Prosser
December 1, 2005

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Hollywood Ghost Hunt Weekend by Richard Senate
November 28, 2005


Clairvoyance, Ghosts, and Music - by Lee Prosser
November 15, 2005

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Halloween and the End Times - by Lee Prosser
November 1, 2005

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The Witchcraft Connection - Resurrection Mary: The Conclusion - by Marcus Foxglove Griffin
October 20, 2005

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1 Corinthians 12:10 - by Lee Prosser
October 15, 2005

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Gift From A Child By Rick Hayes
October 14, 2005


Ghost Hunt: The Liberace Mansion by Richard Senate
October 7, 2005


Mimosa, Marigold, Cayenne, Dandelion, Mullein, Clairvoyance, Uncle Willard, and Ghosts - by Lee Prosser
October 1, 2005

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Today's Cults of Personality by Wayne Harrup
September 19, 2005


Clairvoyance and the River of the Mind - by Lee Prosser
September 15, 2005

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Bide One's Time - Rev. Pat Robertson - by Lee Prosser
September 1, 2005

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Cedar Key Inn - The Man in the Kitchen by Janice Cottrill
August 29, 2005


Bide One's Time - High Spirits - by Lee Prosser
August 15, 2005

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CBS Introduces the Ghost Whisperer by Jeff Belanger
August 5, 2005


Bide One's Time - Ghostly Encounter - by Lee Prosser
August 1, 2005

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Bide One's Time - Don Bachardy - by Lee Prosser
July 15, 2005

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Bide One's Time - New Mexico, Land of Enchantment - by Lee Prosser
July 1, 2005

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Tibetan Beliefs On Death and Beyond Part 2 of 2 by Janice Cottrill
June 20, 2005


Bide One's Time - Why Do We Enjoy Ghost Story Movies? - by Lee Prosser
June 15, 2005

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Tibetan Beliefs On Death and Beyond Part 1 of 2 by Janice Cottrill
June 13, 2005


Bide One's Time - We are Each a Living Ghost in Our Own Story - by Lee Prosser
June 1, 2005

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Electronic Voice Phenomena (E.V.P.) by Todd M. Bates
May 23, 2005


Bide One's Time - Sensitive to Ghosts - by Lee Prosser
May 17, 2005

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Emotions of the Paranormal by Brian Leffler
May 13, 2005


George Lutz's Amityville Horror by Jeff Belanger
April 12, 2005


Connecting Through Reincarnation? by Rick Hayes
March 16, 2005


Chinese Hopping Ghosts by Janice Cottrill
March 4, 2005


Dr. Hans Holzer - A Lifetime of Explaining the Unexplained by Jeff Belanger
February 7, 2005


The Legend of Lucy Keyes by John Stimpson
February 4, 2005


Raymond Buckland by Lee Prosser
January 28, 2005


The Mysterious Haunting of Stone's Public House by David Retalic
January 23, 2005


Some Musings on White Noise by Lee Prosser
January 12, 2005


India and the Supernatural by Lee Prosser
January 3, 2005




March 16, 2005

Emotions of the Paranormal

By Brian Leffler

You know, this paranormal investigating stuff seems really easy to do. You collect and evaluate evidence, learn and share what you find to be possibly paranorma,l and get the opinions of other people in the field of study. Then clean the spirits from the haunted location and move on to the next haunting to be investigated. What about the emotions that are involved? 

Often times I sit and reflect upon one particular case our group investigated. It was a little rental house in Cohasset, Minnesota where a young couple lived with what we discovered to be five different spirits. It was the site of tragedy at some point in the past. We believe a mother and her two children were brutally murdered in the basement of this house.

We believe that one of the spirits was the womans uncle. He was the bad spirit that killed her and her two children with an axe in the basement. He was accompanied there by who we believed to be his brother, the woman who was in her late twenties or early thirties and her two children, a boy about age twelve and a little girl about age eight.

When we started sifting through all of the collected evidence from the investigation, we found pieces of the spirits of these two children and their mother. We collected electronic voice phenomena (EVP) from the site as well as a few ghostly pictures. The most striking EVP came from the brother, it was the EVP that I have titled bound where I tell the spirits they will be bound to the property and he responds by saying, We are bound, we are not going anywhere. That EVP, although great paranormal evidence, isnt what really gets the emotion going for me, it is all of the EVP that was related to the mother and children that does that. We collected an EVP of the little girl in the dining room where she asked, Mother, can we eat? As we moved outside the house to the outbuildings, we got more of a feeling of dread. We believe that this was the territory of the mean uncle. We didnt collect any EVP from him but we knew that he was there, constantly on top of us while we were out there. He refused to go into the house though; it was always a more warm and comforting feeling although sad in there. Through my reflections, I am thinking that guilt over what he had done while living was too much for him to enter the house. This was our first trip to the house and even though being told there was a bad spirit there, the family couple didnt want to have the spirits removed. That is what prompted the statement of the bound EVP. After about a month or so after our first trip to the house, the couple invited us back to the house for the removal of the spirits. I think that they became emotional about the children and the mother and finally agreed with my thoughts that they should move on to the other side and leave this site of horrible tragedy.

We entered the residence and began to try and collect more evidence before we began our cleaning ritual. We started with the outbuildings, yard, and attic. The attic was very interesting since we had to access it with a ladder from the outside of the house. When we later listened to our tape we caught the little girl saying, Hey, I feel like playing. When I listen to this EVP even now I cant help but wonder what her shortened life was like. 

When the cleaning ritual started we still kept the tape recorder going. We collected on EVP in particular that still shakes me up. We collected the mother telling her son, David, go into the light. It was a strange feeling to hear that for the first time. Not only does it confirm that there is some kind of light involved in crossing over to the other side but there must also be a comfort in it also. I cant believe that a mother would calmly tell her son to go into the light if she werent confident that it was a good thing.

It is sometimes strange when you have had as many ghostly encounters as I have to reflect back on it all. You see, I, as many paranormal investigators do, loose track of the fact that these were once people like you and me. The reason it is strange is because it almost feels surreal at times to think that this voice without a body talked to you, even answered your questions. They show intelligence and cognitive thought. I ask all who read this to be aware when doing investigations that they were people once and they deserve our respect. 

The next time you get out to your favorite haunted spot and start collecting evidence of the paranormal, take a step back and try to remember the life that existed before they were ghosts. 







2014 Haunted New England Wall Calendar by Jeff Belanger photography by Frank Grace
Check out the 2014 Haunted New England wall calendar by Jeff Belanger and photography by Frank Grace!


Paranormal Conferences and Lectures
Don't miss the following events and lectures:

Jeff Belanger and “The Bridgewater Triangle” at Dedham Community Theatre - April 6, 2014 9:00PM

The Spirits of the Mark Twain House - Hartford, Connecticut - April 12, 2014

Paracon Australia - East Maitland, New South Wales, Australia - May 10-12, 2014