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If you like this website... check out my book, just click on the title in the header bar or the link below.  Learn more about this book and see reviews by clicking on the above link or going to the link at the top of the page in the header, titled Never Forever Dead. You can see Laurie on channel Ten's studio show in this clip below, just click on the blue link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdkm63AQ6yg We have throughout the site provided:
Lots of evp links Some photos of anomalies Scroll down this page to find: A photo guide to orb identification. A guide to streamer photos. Latest news of paranormal events in the local areas of Pinellas and Pasco counties, and many Tampabay area cities. Articles on: Ghosts and demons Types of ghosts and spirits The night crusher Signs of a haunting How to stop a hostile haunting What does not work to stop hostile hauntings. What to do if you are being physically attacked, by an entity. A map of the most haunted areas in Pasco and Pinellas counties. Click on the links at the top of the page to find: News and information on The Florida bigfoot. With updates on all Pasco couny reports and our ongoing case investigations,up to the minute. Recent case updates from hostile haunts, including a case with an animal elemental spirit. More recent cases in "Latest case" updates section. Contacting us And more things paranormal related. If you would like to exchange links with us, please write to us at holidayghostteam@yahoo.com If you like this website: We are listed at the Internet's Definitive top ten paranormal sites listings, please go vote to boost us up in the ratings: Use the link below to get there: Just copy this and put it in your browser bar, the site will come up first on the list. |
We are a hostile haunts resolution team, not just research investigators. We can actually help, and have, in about eighty eight percent of our cases, to rid people's homes, of a malevolent spirit or help a lost spirit find it's way home and out of your home. We also work with spirits needing closure, as in haunts by loved ones etc. If you are having a problem with paranormal activity and you need help or would just like to get some advice you can contact us at 727-938-1305 Here at this website or email us at We serve the following cities in Florida: Holiday, Tarpon Springs, Palm Harbor, Dunedin, Oldsmar, Odessa, Clearwater, Seminole, Largo, St. Petersburg, Pinellas Park, Safety Harbor, Tampa, Port Richey, New Port Richey, Hudson, Spring Hill, Brookesville, Land O Lakes, Zephyrhills and will travel further for extreme hostile haunts cases, in desperate need of help, that are in Florida. We speak, English, Spanish and Greek No matter where you are in the USA, after talking with you about your particular case and problem, we can get the right people to help you free of charge right in your area. Even in the UK, we have associates. You will not find a lot of pictures of orbs and anomalies at this site. We only post a few, that we consider to be note worthy. All pictures posted here are our pictures. We do not post others photos. Our focus is more on EVP, and you will find many links throughout the site to EVPS both on this site and a link to our Esnips site where you will find many albums of them. All EVPS posted here or at our esnips site are our evps from our cases. We feel that in this field a picture is not worth a thousand words, but merely a thousand possibilities. The only form of communication we have right now comes from EVP, so that is where we put our strongest efforts. This website is geared to provide information, not so much to entertain like other ghost websites. If you have been the victim of a hostile haunt, please go to the forum and share your story with us. Because we are haunt resolutionists and not ghost hunters, we tend to be very successful at getting evp communication. Communication with an entity is the best way to resolve most hauntings. Not all spirits who seem to be causing a problem are "evil" spirits. Sometimes they just really want to get something across and are frustrated in that effort. We try to resolve the haunt cases that come to us, for both the client, and for the spirit or spirits doing the haunting. In any interactive haunting, there is usually something that started the attempt at communication on the part of the spirit. To resolve a haunting you need to find the "who," and the "why" associated with the haunting. This is the best way to resolve it. Residual hauntings, which are not active, concious spirits, but just the replay of past events that seem to have been somehow imprinted on the ethyr and keep replaying like a phonograph or a movie, can not be resolved as they have no cognizant spirit causing them. Many residential haunts seem to be interactive, more so than residual from our personal experience.
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Pinellas/Pasco/Paranormal Specializing in "Hostile haunts"
We are not ghost hunters. We have been around long before the paranormal craze began, and do not participate in all the hype, and commercialism in this field. We take what we do very seriously, and our main concern is helping to bring resolution to those that are being haunted and having their lives turned upside down by it. We do not run to famous haunts to look for ghosts. We do not solicit places to do investigations. We take real hostile haunt cases, mostly in private residences, as we are a resolution team as much as a research team. Most of our cases are referred to us by word of mouth, or other teams and organizations.
We do take cases at locations such as business buildings etc. even if they are not hostile haunts, but we do not organize ghost walks or ghost hunts so please, do not send emails asking to participate in such activities with us, as we do not organize such things for the general public. We do not believe that a ghost hunt should be an avenue for entertainment or thrill seeking. We believe that everyone should be treated with respect, and that includes those ,who have passed and linger here in spirit.
Our members come from all faiths and different cultural backgrounds. We have members who are Jewish, Christian, Greek Orthodox. We also have team members that speak spanish, so if you have a language barrier please let us know in advance and we will accomadate you. Se Habla espanol? Nosotros tambien. We also have team members that speak Greek.
We do organize paranormal meetings for local groups in Florida and we do lectures and presentations for groups and centers that wish to further education in the paranormal field. If anyone wishes to have us for such an event, you can contact us here.
You can join this website simply by leaving a comment and waiting for the invitation email, that will follow. If you want to join, you simply follow the instructions in the email. Then you will get a note whenever we add some new content to the site.
Note; Photos on this page sometimes take some time to load so please bear with us.
Laurie Champion has a book, that has been published and on hostile haunts. It is a guide to hostile hauntings, and other hauntings, based on her three decades of experience with all kinds of cases. The book is called "Never Forever Dead" For more information on this book, click on the "Never forever dead" link at the top of the home page, on this website. There you can find more on what is actually in the book. To purchase the book go to this link:
See some of our other sites and listen to some of our evps:
EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon We have some evps you can listen to by clicking below
To hear some of PPP's EVPS go to this link; Pinellas/Pascos EVP files
There are several albums of EVPS at the site which links to esnips. To see all the albums, click on the small blue words "holiday ghost team" on the left side of the page that comes up.
There are several clickable links to evps on the "case updates " page as well.
Go to our myspace site to view more photos and read our paranormal blogs like this one:
ARTICLE FOR CONSIDERATION:
How does a ghost become a demon?
You know there is so much hype right now about demons but in reality they are a rare find indeed. Angry, trouble making ghosts on the other hand are quite plentiful. Then there is another class of haunting that is not just a ghost and certainly not a demon. It is a haunting caused by paranormal hysteria. How does a ghost become a demon? At least in the eyes of the people being haunted? This is how...
One person experiences some low scale paranormal activity in the house, and is very afraid of such things. They mention it to their kids. Kids are very impressionable and very fearful normally of such things. So now everyone is thinking about "the ghost". Every shadow and sound becomes suspect, and pretty soon every one of the kids is experiencing activity, whether real or imagined and the adrenalin starts to pump as the fear kicks in with every sound and shadow.
If there is a spirit present, now everyone is feeding the ghost, high octane fuel to produce more activity. As the one person who originally experienced the activity lies in bed, they are thinking about it and waiting for another event.They are now setting up a link on the airway to the ghost. The ghost if it is a predatory oppurtunist picks up on that link and that energy and comes out to play.When this happens the fear kicks in again and the high octane gas is fed to the ghost again. Now the ghost has even more energy to burn to create even more impressive activity.
Pretty soon everyone is scared and sleeping in the same room for safety and comfort. The ghost has brought the family together, how nice. Everyone is thinking about the ghost and waiting nervously for the next sign of activity, now everyone is reinforcing the link to the ghost on the airway.The ghost has even more of a conduit to draw it to the people. So it shows up and does something that instills fear ,now in three people or whatever and gets even more fuel, which is exactly what it thrives on. Now it has a good thing going.
Then the family starts talking about the ghost to people and maybe friends come by to experience the ghost, now the ghost is a celebrity, with more people tuning in and feeding it. Friends come to spend the night to see the ghost, and they feed the ghost their fear. Pretty soon, this ghost is a powerhouse, so it can produce even more impressive activity.
This becomes an endless cycle which strengthens the power of the ghost. Now the one person who first experienced the ghost and some of the other family members are so traumatized, that all they can think or worry about, is the next dreaded night in the house, with the dreaded ghost who, is now doing more and more serious activity, maybe now the ghost is touching them or moving obhects etc.
Just like some living people form a relationship with their physical abusers, maybe someone in the house has now personified and attempted to communicate with the ghost. Now the ghost has it made, as the person is setting up a real line of communication with it, and feeding it even more thought form energy than ever before. Other spirits tune in to the power source and the energy and they show up to feed and add to the melee. Now there are more than one ghost who can pool their energies to create even more impressive displays to scare the pants off everyone.Now you have an infestation. Great!
By now the ghost who started out as a shadow or a bump in the night, is with a life of it's own that is maintained and fed by the very people who created it. This does happen.
Another alternative is a transient spirit who is looking for a fix stops by and sees the oppurtunity and now they actually do have a problem. There are so many ways that a ghost can be raised up to become a formidable entity akin to a demon by people themselves. I am writing this blog because I have seen these cases and worked these kinds of cases, and there is no resolving them, as the family themselves have to starve out and destroy the thing they have either created, attracted, or fed to the point where it is collossal.
Some food for thought, is what this article is, and here is some good advice for anyone who suspects a spirit haunting their home. DO NOT follow this pattern. Do not tell your kids about the ghost you saw or heard, and put them on the airway too. Do not feed the ghost your fear, and give it rise to celebrity by making it the topic of conversation every day with everyone. Realise that you have to fight spiritual energy with spiritual energy and no matter what your faith, if you take the place described above you are adding to the problem, maybe even creating it. Malevolent hauntings rely on paranormal hysteria, so don't buy into the hysteria.
If you have a ghost that is causing problems get real help from a reputable person. Do not attempt communication yourself, with tape recorders seances, ouija boards, etc. Do not romanticize the ghost by giving it a name and talking to it, and trying to "help" the ghost, it may not need your help just your fuel. Do not spread your fear to your kids, and to others. Don't live for two years with activity mounting and then call someone for help after you have created a monster, that you are actually fostering. You would be surprised how many people call me and then say, "Oh we don't want to get rid of the ghost, just make him stop hurting us, or scaring us." The ghost has become part of their reality to the point where it serves to feed some excitement into their lives, yet they are now having their lives turned upside down by it.
ATTENTION; SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LOCAL PARANORMAL NEWS
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We try to provide up to date information on paranormal happenings in the Tampabay area, and post them here;
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY WAVES
Paranormal activity waves current in local areas, are something we always try to keep tabs on to learn more about these waves of intense activity and what may be the cause of the spikes in certain areas. If an area is listed below in these announcements it is because we have received more than three reports from three separate individuals, and or have already had cases there. For example in the Anclote area listed below we have had 47 reports in the last 20 years and 20 cases in the last ten years. We now consider this to be an active area for paranormal activity and try to keep tracking and logging this information, and the time of year that it seems to spike the most.
Below are the areas we are currently very interested in and continue to monitor, in order to research these activity waves. If you live in any of these areas, and you have reports to add to these please let us know.
Attention Holiday residents: posted Jan. 1st 2010
There have been several claims of an apparition sighted crossing the road on the side street that borders "Slim and Chubbies" bar. This apparition is described as a white male wearing a red and white windbreaker. He has long brown hair and appears solid. He comes up from the side of the road by some newspaper boxes and walks right in front of cars. He vanishes, when he gets right in front of the car. People leaving the bar have usually had a few drinks and so perhaps they could be hallucinating but, if so they are all hallucinating the same apparition in the same clothes. Odd.
Attention; EMBASSY HILLS RESIDENTS IN PORT RICHEY FLORIDA/posted 7/10/2008
If you live in the Embassy Hills sub-division in Port Richey Florida and are experiencing paranormal activity please contact us. We are working there this month with a hostile haunt and have discovered in our research some unsettling facts that may be contributing to the hauntings in the area. This applies especially to those who live on Ledgestone Lane, Stirling, and Cutty Sark drive and the area in between these streets. If you live in this area and are experiencing problems please call us directly at the contact number listed on this page, 727-938-1305.
ATTENTION; ANCLOTE RIVER AND SURROUNDING AREA RESIDENTS/Posted 8/20/2008
We are also seeking any reports of paranormal activity in:
The Anclote area between Tarpon Springs thru to New Port Richey, from Anclote boulevard to Bailey's Bluff. We are currently keeping a running log of paranormal activity in this area. It seems to be one of the most active areas for activity of all kinds. If you are having spirit activity or crypto activity and have sighted anything unusual,please let us know. This applies especially to those who live in Key Vista community, in Gulf view heights near Cemetary road, and on Anclote road near the power plant.
ALSO:
We have had many reports also, of an apparition of a young woman, seen on Anclote road near the power plant. She is described as blond, about 20 years old and wears 80's clothing. She may appear normal or may appear very mangled and with her hair cut short on one side of her head. She usually wears a pink tube like top and jeans, and has been seen by several people over the past ten years. Again contact number is 727-938-1305.
Attention all Anclote Off road fourwheelers who frequent the old Anclote ranch to go mudding:
NEW SIGHTINGS OF THIS SPIRIT/ posted January 22nd 2010
We have an update on this spirit. She has been sighted again and again over the last five weeks at a local mud hole where many people go to fourwheel. This is in the same area where she has always been sighted, but now she seems to be running around in the woods there as well. Reports have come in saying that she actually spoke to two girls there, saying that she had been raped in those woods by four men. Some men out four wheeling also saw a naked girl running through the woods that fits her description but as they approached she vanished into thin air. If you see this apparition please let us know.
ATTENTION NEW PORT RICHEY RESIDENTS/Posted 8/20/2008:
If you have seen what can only be described as a spectral black dog in the vicinty of Mike Street or Eilleen Street, or are having paranormal activity in a location near this area, please let us know. We have had many reports of this dog apparition and have investigated a lot of haunting activity in this area, and in the area west of US 19, in the communities back behind the Hooters restaurant near the bridge. If you hve experienced anything in this area, we would like to know so wecan add it to our logs in this research study of activity spikes in the area. 727-938-1305
ATTENTION TARPON SPRINGS RESIDENTS/Posted 8/20/2008
We are also logging activity near the Rose cemetary in Tarpon Springs, so if you live near there and are having problems with spirit activity, please drop us a line and let us know.
ANY AND ALL BIGFOOT SIGHTINGS IN PASCO, PINELLAS, HERNANDO OR HILLSBOROUGH COUNTIES CAN BE REPORTED HERE BY OUR FORMS PROCESSOR IN THE "CONTACT US" PROMPT IN THE HEADER OR BY CALLING OUR PHONE NUMBER, ALSO ABOVE. WE WILL RESPOND TO ALL CRYPTO CASES IN THE TAMPA BAY AREA, OF ALL KINDS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ALIEN OR EXTRATERRESTRIAL REPORTS. WE ONLY HANDLE CRYPTO ZOOLOGICAL REPORTS NOT UFO SIGHTINGS AND RELATED PHENOMENON. FOR UFO REPORTS CALL FLORIDA MUFON.
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The Mysterious orbs that show up in pictures:
There is great controversy in the paranormal field about orbs, we hope to clear it up a bit here.
Many people wonder if they really have a haunting or they are just imagining things. Many things that appear to be paranormal can be explained in a normal way by ordinary conditions that cause false anomalies and sounds etc. Orbs present in photographs do not always constitute a haunting. Orbs are everywhere and show up on photos quite a bt,especially in digital photos. There are all kinds of orbs; dust, humidity, camera malfunction, flash reflection and other natural causes. There are also real orbs that do not fit into any of these categories and seem to give off their own light. The presence of a real orb in a photo, also does not mean there is a ghost haunting your home. Spirit is everywhere all the time and usually causes no harm or disturbances.
Many people wonder about orbs, and which are real, so I am posting these pics to help differentiate between them;
Humidity orbs and just one real orb, can you tell which one is not humidity?
The above picture shows almost all humidity orbs, except for one. the one goping threough the window of the mobile home. Note the difference between them and the fact that it is passing literally through the glass.
The elusive real orb. I got this at a golf course that was being haunted, when I asked out loud for the spirit to show me his light on film. It stands alone and is brighter than humidity orbs, with a bluish tint.
This one is real.
These orbs in the picture below are not real.
These orbs in the upper left and on the boy and the fireplace tile are the result of dust on the camera lens and dust in the room.
The photo below is a real orb. See caption below the photo.
This orb was captured against a dull brick wall where there is nothing to reflect the light, It gave off it's own light. Notice the bluish tint in the orb. Some really bright orbs display this bluish effect indoors. This pic was taken during a dance class in the late afternoon in a well lit building. This building is very old and has a long history before it became a recreation center. There have been spirits in this building for years. I can only assume that this one really likes the energy and the music during this class. We have captured many orbs in this location and frequent orbs have ruined photo sessions there, when the dance company tries to take publicity photos.
What are the real signs of a possible haunting?
Signs of a possible haunt are;
1. Voices in the home that have no explanation. Especially those that call out your name or the name of another in the household.
2. Electric and electronic disturbances. Lights turning off and on by themselves etc.
3. Objects moving on their own accord. Doors opening and closing, and things moving from one place to another.
4. Knocking or banging on doors, wondows,walls, floors etc. that cannot be attributed to loose floorboards, plumbing pipes, loose fascia, tree branches etc. Scratching sounds usually turn out to be rats 99 percent of the time.
5. A feeling of being chilled to the bone ,out of nowhere when the house is warm, and you walk down a hallway or into a room. If it takes twenty minutes or more to recover from the teeth chattering, shivering cold that has suddenly come upon you, you could have a ghost that you accidently walked into or through.
6. If your dog barks at something invisable or the cat stares at something and then bolts away. your pets could be seeing something in your home that you can't.
7. If you see apparitions in the home, there is a good chance that you have a ghost present. Whether or not it becomes a problem depends on the nature of the ghost and if it is active or residual.
8. If something touches you or physically attacks you, then you obviously have a problem and need to get someone in to check it out.
IF YOU LIVE OUT OF FLORIDA IN ANOTHER STATE AND NEED GOOD HELP WITH A HAUNTING, WRITE TO US AND WE WILL GET YOU THAT HELP FROM ONE OF OUR COLLEAGUES IN YOUR AREA. IF YOU LIVE IN FLORIDA WE MAY BE ABLE TO HELP OR ASSIGN ANOTHER GROUP CLOSER TO YOU, TO HELP WITH YOUR CASE. WE DO NOT GHOST HUNT AND ONLY TRAVEL FAR DISTANCES FOR THE TRULY HOSTILE HAUNTS. WE DO HOWEVER HAVE OTHER TEAMS AFFILIATED WITH PPP THAT CAN GET TO YOU VERY QUICKLY. WE TAKE ALL KINDS OF LOCAL CASES AND THOSE WITHIN A 20 MILE RADIUS, ALL THE TIME. IF SOMETHING HAPPENS WHERE WE ARE UNABLE TO GET THERE FOR ANY REASON WE HAVE A BACK UP GROUP THAT CAN STEP IN, TO GET TO YOU ASAP. WE USUALLY RETURN ALL CALLS WITHIN 48 HOURS, SO IF YOU DO NOT HEAR FROM US, OUR CABLE PHONE MAY BE ACTING UP AGAIN. IN CASES OF SEVERE HOSTILE HAUNTS, OUR EMERGENCY NUMBER IS 727=946-0454. BUT PEASE CALL THE 727-938-1305 NUMBER FIRST. WE CHECK EMAIL AND MYSPACE EMAIL EVERY DAY. PLEASE LEAVE A CONTACT NUMBER WHERE WE CAN CALL YOU BACK, AND A BRIEF DESCRPTION OF WHAT IS HAPPENING AT YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS LOCATION. iF YOU LIVE IN THE UK, WE HAVE TWO VERY GOOD GROUPS THERE TO REFER YOU TO. OUR FIRST REFERENCE WOULD BE MERITA KING, WHOM YOU CAN CONTACT THROUGH MYSPACE BY CHECKING OUR FRIENDS LIST. SHE IS A VERY GOOD INVESTIGATOR, AND SO IS SECOND ENTITY INVETSIGATORS IN THE UK. WE WILL HAVE MORE ON OUR REFERRAL LIST SOON AS SOON AS WE GET IT UP.
How does one stop a haunting that is causing distress to a family in their own home?
There are many kinds of hauntings. What some people might take to be a haunting, may be nothing more than a harmless visitation by a loved one. Other times it may be a genuine haunt by a troubled or disturbed spirit trying to get attention or get a message across. Below is a list of the most common types of ghost and or spirits that we have encountered over the years. The majority of them are just human spirits of the departed. Others can be more serious and cause more problems as they are some kind of non-human interdimensional spirit. The ones listed below are the type that usually cause negative reactions and seem to be threatening to the people experiencing the activity they cause.
1. Angry former resident; This type of ghost is usually being resentful of someone in their space especially if you start redecorating.
2. Fixated Opportunist; this is a spirit who fixates on one member of the household, feeding off that person's fear and energy. Then using it to fuel it's displays of activity, much like a poltergeist.
3. The frustrated deceased friend or relative; they only want attention and maybe to communicate and when they don't get it, they try harder, thereby doing some dramatic things that cause fear to their loved ones.
4. Transient area opportunist ;This is a ghost or spirit who doesn't haunt just one house but maybe several in a given area, getting his kicks by mischievous annoyances and thrives on the reaction and the energy it provides.
5. Sustained, artificial thought form entity: This is an artificial intelligence that was created by the phantasms of a living person and has been raised up to have a seemingly real life of it's own by being fed energy by the creator and those who experience it in the surroundings. And yes it can happen and does in many cases.
6. Malevolent predatory entity; This is a truly bad spirit who preys on children, people in a weak emotional state or people who are open and susceptible because they are sensitive. This is bad news, for all concerned.
7. Mischievous elemental spirit or human show off ghost: This is the ghost that really does no actual harm but likes to make big shows of activity for the sheer kick of it all.
8. Unknown interdimensional spirit, not a deceased human ghost at all...These are usually very strong and often appear as solid black shadows. They are not shy, do not disappear upon being noticed, but usually are just watchers, rather than the spirits that haunt and make noise, they just observe, sometimes too close for comfort. These are what people sometimes refer to as a "Shadow Man."
Notice I have not used the words, demon, or poltergeist. This is because A.] Any ghost can be a noisy ghost, without children or a young person present to create activity, as far as poltergeists go. B.] We do not even know if there are demons, this is a religious term from the dark ages. I have never seen one that I know of and although I have heard of some extreme cases, no one knows for sure at this point. Why assume the worse possibility, in assuming that something is a demon?
OK, now that we have identified the usual culprits for a negative haunt, how do we put a stop to it?
This is a complex question. We have to consider many things before we can proceed to a solution. Most haunting require just that ,a "Solution" not an excorcism or a banishing. As a rule if a ghost is trying to communicate, whether it be in a negative or positive way, it wants to get a message across or is unhappy about some unresolved issue. I have found that most of the time communication with the spirit and learning as much as you can about whatever that issue may be ,can be very helpful in resolving the haunt. You can mediate with the living and you can mediate with the living in the next world as well, a lot of the time. Now when it comes to getting rid of the ghost, that is another matter'
You see stories on TV from true haunt cases ,where the clergy fails to get rid of the ghost with a house blessing or a banishing prayer. This happens more than you know. Why? Because first of all there is a fine line between what is truly evil and what is just an upset spirit. Most banishing rituals center on ridding evil spirits. An angry or troubled ghost may not be in that category, so they fly right under the wire of that banishing. Second of course is the possibility that we, are living incarnates on this plane have no control over spirits on the next, as we do not in reality, really know that they are lost, or trapped or need to go to any other place but where they are. This is an assumption we make born of our religious beliefs. Now we come to the third possibility, which is the truly evil ghost or spirit that we do indeed need to try and banish for our own safety. There are many ways to attempt this and the bare truth is..."Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't"
When they don't you may be faced with no other choice but to move from the premises. Even then if the spirit is attached to you or someone else in the home and not the home itself, the problem can go with you. I know this is not encouraging but I believe in being truthful with people. A spirit attachment is very hard to get rid of, but it can be done eventually, with persistence and an open mind to new solutions to try. Some people, especially children and very lonely people actually form a sort of bond with a spirit and become "ghost anchors" unknowingly tethering the spirit to them. The scenarios are endless and this field is in it's infancy.
We have been sucessful with stopping bad activity and getting some spirits to move on, but there are others that we could not budge. I would say for every ten you can get rid of there is one that sticks like glue, or just moves on to haunting the guy next door to the previous haunt location. Some haunt several homes on the same street. Some follow us home and then we have to deal with them. We have experienced all of these situations over the years.
Things that ,contrary to popular belief or superstition, do not deter a ghost at all.
People will tell you that white candles deter a ghost from coming around. False, ghosts love candles, period!
They say that burning sage will get rid of a ghost, and althought it can help to dispell negative energy from the area, it does not stop a ghost hellbent on haunting you. So this depends on the type of spirit and it's strength in the first place.
Hanging rosary beads up everywhere. I have never seen them stop a ghost, I have one in my home on the wall and I have a resident ghost in my home as well. Same applies for crucifixes and other religious artifacts.
Salting the house? The only thing salt appears to be able to do, is act as a neutralizer to a ghost's energy. For example if you put salt in a bowl and place a statue in the bowl, the ghost can not move that statue anymore. The salt has some chemical property that prevents the ghost's energy from passing through it. However, when you put it on the floor, what is to stop the ghost from floating over it? Seriously! Pouring it around your home might trap the ghjost inside if it really stops a spirit from advancing past it right? We do not advise this as a viable remedy at all.
Olive oil on the door and window sills? Well I have not seen it work yet.
Certain symbols when traced in ashes on the doors and on the thresholds do seem to work half of the time. These are, the cross, the six point star in a circle, and the outward spiral. But they too fail here and there. They are usually more effective to ward off spirits that have not entered yet. Or provide a barrier of sorts to certain areas. The best ashes to use are sage ashes and remember they wear away quickly unless they are rubbed into raw wood, such as on wooden stairs or a wood floor, and sprayed with a sealer of some kind.
One thing I have noticed is spirits seem to hate flashbulbs and camera flashes. However if the spirit is nasty enough he or she may get really mad about your flashing the lights at them and take revenge later on, so this is a temporary deterrent at best.
The best defense against spiritual energy is spiritual energy, your own energy. The best way to harness your energy is to fight the fear factor. Fear gives a ghost high octane fuel to use to produce even more intimidating activity. The more scared you are the more the ghost retains the upper hand in the situation. It is much like the school bully when you were a kid. The more he knows you fear him, the more he will try to push you around.
What to do if the ghost is physically attacking you or your family members.
In the above scenario, "Get the Hell out of the house!" Get someone with experience to come in and try to alleviate the situation. In certain cases they may require your presence later on for whatever measures they decide to try and take to solve the problem, but until then stay safe! Where children are involved in this type of scenario, this advice goes triple for them. get them to a safer place until you can resolve the situation. Spirits prey on children and it leaves the children with lasting traumas. Believe me as I was one of those children once.
You would not keep your kids around a vicious or unpredictable dog would you? Or in a place with a child molester, or around a person who is mentally ill and unpredicatable as to their actions, so why keep them in a place with a hostile spirit? What you can't see can hurt them in many ways.
What are streamers in photographs?
Many times little rays of light show up streaming across the frame of photographs, especially digital photos. Most of this is caused by lights that the camera captures at high speeds and repeats across the frame such as in the pictures below;
Notice the repitition in this anomaly, this is not a real streamer but probably a street or other light that the camera caught and repeated on night vision high speed setting.
These are street lights blurred by the digital camera.
Bugs also cause strange anomalies on film like this one;
Notice the moth in the picture and the dotted lone nearby, which is another flying insect reflecting the flash while in flight,leaving a trail through the frame.
Most street lights whow up as yellow or orange streaks across the frame and most bugs look like white dotted lines or yellow dotted lines. But what of these photos to follow:
The orange streak in this photo is not a street light, not a bug, not a reflection. You can see it go out the door and continue outside the porch. It is two straight undotted lines and was taken on regular camera setting, after a noise in the porch prompted us to take the picture. This is a streamer. We do not know for sure what they are but they are some kind of energy anaomaly. They can be any color, we have them from this orange hue to dark blue, pink, green and others.
And what on earth is this? It was way too cold for bugs to be out on the night this was taken as it was dead of winter and one of the ngiths when the temperature fell to 38 degrees. It was in a wooded field with no lights of any kind nearby. It does not repeat across the frame. It looks almost like something is drawing an image in thin air that resembles a thunderbird or an angel. This one puzzles us. This we believe is another kind of streamer photo with some unknown energy source creating the anomaly.
Then there is this one. yeah I know, I know, looks like a swarm of bugs but again, too cold for bugs and this is accompanied by red ectoplasm. Again no lights anywhere nearby either. The jury is still out on this one.
Haunted people rather than haunted houses ...
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STUPID GHOST TRICK OF THE MONTH...
This is a new feature we have added to the site. We are going to post the latest stupid ghost trick here in this section. All of these have come from our actual cases and experiences and many are quite amusing.
For this month May 2009 the winner is: the "Baby block throwing ghost." Our ghostchaser and I were bombarded with small, wooden, baby blocks thrown at our legs and feet, at a case where we were performing a house cleansing. We were not hurt but felt the ghost failed miserably at scaring us with this lame action.
For the month of February2009 the winner is: The insulting ghost who gave us the following evps, insulting us at random. He called Alexis and Danielle "Damned Hookers" and he called Sean and I "pigs"
For the month of September2008 the winner is: "Singing Ghost EVP"
Ghost that sings this song,"Come to the day of the dead" to our investigators at cemetary, this EVP can be found on the case updates page. It is the last link in the Sept./2008 section. We found this very amusing indeed,and can only take it as an invitation to come back on Halloween" the day of the dead."
For the month of June 2008 the winner is;
"GHOST SLAMS DOOR 18 TIMES "
This is an absolutely true story from a case we took on last week. I had to post this as it for some reason just strikes me as very amusing. We went to a case last week where we found five spirits . We got evps from all five. One is believed to be the former owner of the house who has been causing some trouble with the last two subsequent owners of the house. While we were there, every time I would start an evp session the front door would open and slam shut, this happened 18 times in three hours in front of seven people. We were sitting jst about 15 feet from the door at the time. You could hear the latch turn the door creak open and then watch it slam shut. On the tape during three of the door slams there is a very low evp that says..."Fucking people!" and "These fucking people!" I still am not sure if he was trying to tell us where the door was and wanted us to leave or he was frustrated and trying to scare us off. either way ,it failed and we are going back to cleanse the home this coming week. I just find it amusing that he kept at it for so long. This will make my next blog for stupid ghost tricks for sure. We have some awesome evps from this case that I will post later in the month
For the month of July the winner is..."Mountain Dew" ghost
While at an investigation at a coffee shop, a ghost says very loudly, "Mountain Dew" this was said over the voice of a woman who was talking about drinking coffee at the coffee house. What the point of this was...we do not know, but he spoke directly into the microphone as the mic. was four feet from the live woman talking in the room and he as so loud he drowned her out completely with his interjecting remark. Perhaps he was putting in his order? LOL
"The Night Crusher" syndrome
For many years there have been stories of some kind of entity that comes in the night and terrorizes people. Some call it "The Old Hag" syndrome but I do not think that quite covers it. This experience tends to vary from person to person. Some people do claim to see an old hag sitting on their chest. Others claim it is a black form, and others see nothing but feel as if something or someone climbs onto the bed and holds them down , and they can't move, scream or sometimes even breathe during this experience. It usually lasts for a few seconds that seem like forever and leaves the person very shaken up or cold when it is over. Now I have heard stories from folks who say they were asleep and were woken up by it, others who say they were awake and still others who say they were in the in between stages of sleep and wakefullness.
Everyone agress on one thing...something climbed onto the bed and accosted them. Strangely enough the majority of what I call "night Crusher" incidents have occured in a home where there was already a certain amount of paranormal activity of other kinds, that would point to the possibility of a ghost being in the home. Scientists attribute this experience to a waking dream and sleep paralysis, which makes the person unable to move or scream. Most of the people who have had this experience say they were laying on their backs. I find this curious as on one's back is also the same position in which a person is most likely to trance out, mediatate or attempt to astral travel. Is it possible ,that these folks went down to some altered state that allowed contact with this entity? How many people claim they were almost aslepp when they heard someone call their name? Is this also a coincidence? Now I have never experienced this thank goodness and do not hope to. I sleep on my side not my back.
I have heard night crusher stories from all kinds of people from all walks of life over the years. And in one of my cases, four different people were night crushed in the home, some of them guests who knew nothing about the experiences of the residents there. Now can this case be chalked up to sleep paralysis? Mass hallucination? I find it difficult to accept that in cases like the one I just mentioned that this strange experience can be dismissed as coincidence. One of the crusher victims in this particular home was a 235 pound man who was wide awake lying in the bed when it happened. It would take a lot of power to hold down that man, wouldn't you think? We later discovered that the ghost in the home was a relative who lived there for a long time and she just wanted to be close to her family members again, scaring the living daylights out of them in the process. So now what? What deos this tell us about the night crusher events? Maybe not all are intentionally malevolent or predatory after all.
There was another case of a teenage boy who was accosted by a similar crushing entity in the early morning in a new home that his family had just moved into. He managed to fight it off before it could really get a grip and said it never happened again. People with bad hearts are the ones who suffer the worst with a night crusher experience. I had one case where the victim of this repeated attack had a bad heart and actually went to stay somewhere else until the activity was reduced in the home.
We are interested in hearing about night crusher experiences that have a different aspect from any of the usual ones listed above, so if you have experienced something of this nature with some different elements please send us an email and tell us about it.
The Haunted Zones:
Do you live in a haunted zone? The maps below show the most haunted areas in Pinellas and Pasco counties. There can be activity in other areas, but these have shown to be notorious for paranormal activity, judging from what we have seen over the past 20 years or so. The Anclote area in Holiday and the area along the Hudson, Port Richey line seem to be very active, as is Hudson and Spring Hill. Dade city is another very active city for paranormal activity.
See the areas highlighted in purple below, for Pasco county.
See the areas highlighted in purple below for Pinellas county.
