Real Life Stories: Clairvoyant Meets Jesus

Leviticus 20:6 "'I will set my face against the person who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute himself by following them, and I will cut him off from his people.



Spirits can easily masquerade as a loved one and in turn lead you in a direction further away from God and His plan for your life. The easiest way to put it is that God created you in His image with a purpose and destiny in Him and His kingdom so God wrote the instruction manual for you and your life so who better to ask for guidance that the designer! If you bought a new Television you wouldn’t want to read a Washing Machine Manual to set it up! The enemy on the other hand will deceive at any opportunity if it means leading a person away from God’s grace,salvation and plan for your life.

The last time I visited a Clairvoyant was January 2004. Why would I remember the exact date? Read on to find out!

I was staying in Tammworth for the Country Music Festival when I stumbled across a Physic Fair. Why not I thought. I paid my money and took my place at a small table across from a man in his 40’s. I was ready to hear what the future had in store for me and was single at the time so keen to hear of the prospect of a new relationship. The man reached across the table and took my hands in his, closed his eyes and breathed in deeply. “Here we go” I was thinking. Already sceptical of what he was going to say.

A minute passed and suddenly the man jolted back in his chair at the same time letting go of my hands. His eyes were wide as dinner plates and the blood drained out of his face. I was feeling pretty shocked and scared at that moment. What on earth had he seen?

His voice quivering he stammered out the words “Jesus is with you”. I remember smiling at him and saying “I know” as a feeling of amazing peace flooded through my entire body. He repeated “No..you don’t understand” “Jesus is REALLY with you”. I shifted uncomfortably in my seat and again smiled and said to him “Yes I know”.

At any moment I thought this guy was going to drop off the chair!

He then said “ No Jesus is standing right next to you! I saw Him!”.

I smiled and said to the guy “ Well I guess thats all I really need to know” and I thanked him and got up and left leaving him sitting as white as a sheet with his mouth open to the floor.. I skipped around all day knowing that Jesus was with me!

Just 3 months after this happened I met a lady who began sharing the Gospel with me. I picked up a bible for the first time in my life (other than short stints of reading in hotels over the years).

My friend had advised me to pray before reading the bible that God would reveal His truth to me. I never forget praying and opening the pages and there staring back at me in red was the following scripture spoken by Jesus. "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." -- John 14:6

As I read each day the words literally jumped off the pages! I discovered that the spiritual hunger I had felt for years, the same hunger which drove me to study many religions and occult practices was now finally being fed. Reading for hours each day I discovered that through the bible God was speaking directly to me and showing me His love for me and the plan he had for my life.

Lee-Ann Kelly

Ghost Hill Road, Bilpin

I stumbled across this article in the Sydney Morning Herald about Ghost Hill Road, Bilpin. The article itself only mentions the haunting briefly before talking about 3 cottages there that offer yoga, spas etc.
The most interesting bit of the article (to me) is the beginning where it says...

It's one of those gruesome historical accounts that could hardly be more different from the present day: according to legend, an Aboriginal woman showed European settlers a previously unknown route from the Hawkesbury to the top of the Blue Mountains but paid dearly for her actions. Branded a traitor by her tribe, the woman was stoned to death and her spirit was left to haunt the region for eternity. The route she showed the settlers became known as Ghost Hill Road.

What a sad tale...

Where is Ghost Hill Road? Click on the picture below to see it enlarged.

Ghost Hunters International Visit Quarantine Station, Manly.

Straight from Brandy Greens facebook page -

"First 4 new upcoming episodes for GHI: Jan. 6th: "Hitler's Ghost" Jan. 13th: "Silver Shadow" Jan. 20th: "Quarantine Station" Jan. 27th: "Port Arthur Penitentiary" Src. syfy.com and go to their "Schedule" " section

So, im pretty excited to see the episode on the 20th! :) I wonder what they found?

Also, check out scifi.com.au's Seven Sinister Sites: World's Most Haunted Places

The Angel Apparition

by Lee-Ann Kelly from CCAPSG.

I lost a cousin to suicide about 12 years ago. Justin was just 21. A few years after his death I was at my Auntie's house (his mum) I was talking about Justin and how much I missed him.
My Auntie was hesitant but asked me to her bathroom to show me something. It was kind of weird. She pointed to a tile over the bathroom tap and said look there and see what you can see. I looked at the tile and it looked like any other tile to me. In my head I thought "nope I dont see anything" I was just about to let those exact words leave my mouth when presto! There on the tile was a perfect apparition of an angel sitting with legs crossed and wearing a t-shirt (you could see the outline of a fitted tshirt and wings were outstretched behind.)
I seriously nearly fell on the floor. My Auntie then took me to their lounge room and showed me a black and white professional photo that Justin had done right before his death. There was a photo of him sitting in the exact position with the exact t-shirt on, the only difference was in the black and white photo he had no wings.

Remember: I saw the tile before I saw the photo and the apparition was a replica of the photo.

Do I believe in apparitions.......??

Absolutely!

Do I know why they appear or from what source?

No.

Unconfirmed photo of an alien in Queensland?

Is this a picture of an alien? Ghost? Is it photoshop? Cardboard cutout or the real deal? There's not a huge amount of information about this photo but for what there is Click here.

It kind of looks human to me in my opinion. But there's something not quite right with this photo, the shadows look wrong or something?

What are your thoughts?

The Paranormal Pastor: 2012 and the Coming Apocalypse

Great article from Pastor Swope - check it out here The Paranormal Pastor: 2012 and the Coming Apocalypse

Experiences With The Paranormal - Personal Experiences From A Friend

When I was eight years old I can remember very clearly waking up and
seeing the spirit of a young girl in the doorway of my bedroom. I was
very frightened and ran into my mother and father and told them I had
seen a ghost but got the whole "you were imagining it" spiel.

She was a figure shaped spirit with a fuzzy type outline.

I can't remember any other occurences until I was 15. I was in my
bedroom and I heard someone calling me out the front of my parents
house. I went to see who it was, saw noone and got scared so I waited
out front until everyone got home.

Then during that same year, I was on the telephone to a friend and we
were mucking about on the telephone and I was saying how funny would
it be if the television fell off it's stand... How much it would annoy
my father. Well, after I got off the telephone and was in the family
room out the front of the house, the television screen, not the whole
telly, just the screen fell off the tv and smashed into pieces.
Needless to say I completely freaked out. Who knows if it was a spirit
or my energy but I never joked about that kind of thing again.

I had a few minor 'sensings' over the years and once told a friend in
a pub the winning keno numbers as they were being called.

Then I went to the Quarantine Station for the first time in 2007. I
felt slightly uncomfortable but kept myself quite closed off. I was in
one of the rooms when I felt someone playing with my hair. It was a
bit spooky but I was completely excited.

I went again a year later and had a lot of feelings. I felt odd in one
of the rooms, very anxious and uncomfortable - someone was there. Then
we moved to another building. My sister saw the matron. Then onto
another building where I felt very wired. I saw a spirit standing at
the back of a hallway. He was like a shadow. Then I really opened
myself up and willed him to show himself. Everyone was exploring where
a few of us had first seen him. I was back in the first room and saw
the spirit poke it's head around the doorway. He was on the verandah.
I said to the medium on the tour, he's on the verandah. He confirmed
this and we saw him standing in the corner.

It was approx another year before we went back. This time on the
spirit investigator tour where we could use equipment to detect the
spirits. This was definitely the weirdest experience I ever had. I
immediately could feel if there was a presence or not and when I felt
the presence, the meters were going of the charts. I got touched on
the hand in the shower blocks. Then when we visited the hospital area
of the quarantine station, I suddenly felt quite ill, almost like
seasickness. I was being pushed and pulled all at once. It was as if
something was attacking me and I was so incredibly petrified. The
mediums took me away from the group. They said I had an attachment and
that it was called a shapeshifter. One of the mediums was detaching
the spirit while the other lady was sitting with me praying. We said
the lords prayer together and I felt stronger and stronger. The medium
had detached the spirit and life since then has improved a million
fold. It was as if a great weight had been lifted off my shoulders and
I was ALIVE again.

That weekend I white saged our house as our son had been saying for
some time that he had been seeing either a scary lady or a little
black girl with burnt hands. He said the girl would be in bed next to
him. I told whatever had been in our house that it was not welcome at
all and told it rather sternly to get out, it didn't belong there.
This was our house, not it's house and it should go.

I have seen orbs since then which were purple in colour. Whenever they
appear I'm in a certain room. Our son the other week said that he saw
red lights floating around his room. I have told him if he sees them
again to tell them to go away. I don't mind the good spirits but the
bad ones can go thank you very much!

The Blue Mountains Ghost Tour - My Review

On Saturday night a group of us went on the blue mountains ghost tour. We all met up in Katoomba and hopped on the mini bus. First stop after about 20 minutes or so of driving into the bush was at a cemetery from the 1820's. Im not sure if it was the fact that we were in the middle of nowhere that was unnerving me or all the talk of a negative spirit there but i did NOT like that place. As i walked down the long path to the cemetery my chest felt tight and just very uncomfortable. This happened the whole time we walked around but once we walked back out through the gate I felt fine. Very strange. Whilst in there we were told some of the stories about who were buried there. I was disturbed to hear that aboriginals were not allowed to be buried in there as it was consegrated ground!

Photo courtesy of Moira

There's apparently a negative spirit (who's name escapes me) who likes to strangle people and push people. Another story is there is an "angel light or orb" that is seen floating through the graveyard.
We were asked to be totally silent and turn all our torches off to see if we would see/hear anything. As we stood there a lot of the group pointed out a faint light that was at the opposite end of the graveyard. Three of us couldn't see it and the rest could. Was a shame I couldn't see it but at that moment in time I didn't really want to see anything! People could see I didn't want to be there as normally im all chatty and interested in whats going on but i was pretty subdued and quiet so the pastor and his wife that was with us prayed some protective prayers for me and i felt a little better. We moved on to another grave and one of the group felt their shirt tugged a couple of times. We also had K2 hits in various places in the graveyard. By that point we'd turned all our mobiles off so not sure what caused them.

Apart from a possum making its presence felt (and making us all jump) nothing more happened at that grave yard.


We all hopped back on the bus and went on our merry way.



Next stop (after picking up snacks from the servo) was at a courthouse and jail.



There were reports that a little girl had died in there and one of the previous residents (it was turned into a house at one point) was haunting there. Had zero K2 hits in the courthouse and during the time we were all silent there was no sounds or weird sightings. It was very cool to see the courthouse though.

Next we went next door to the jail. This place was a little more eerie with reports of doors slamming and things being moved. We had a couple of random K2 hits which we couldn't account for except there was a cupboard nearby with a lot of electrics in which could have set it off but the k2 hits weren't consistent. Strange indeed. The jail itself was interesting to see as it had lots of carvings in the wood of the people who were put in there. Worth a see.

Photo courtesy of Moira

Next stop was the hanging tree. This is where supposedly a lot of convicts were hung. They'd build the road and then be hung on this tree. Nothing happened around here accept us disturbing the campers (its in the middle of a campsite).




The last stop on the tour was at The Wells. Now for the life of me i can't remember what this place was except there were unmarked graves and some large wells. Anyway, there were a couple of odd K2 hits. We had the few minutes silence/torches off and nothing really happened except being attacked by a bat. The frogs who were extremely loud became silent a couple of times which was definately eerie but not sure if that was anything paranormal. Apparently other tours have experienced the most paranormal activity there including lights and apparitions. It must have been a quiet night for us though. By that point we were all sleepy and ready to go home. We hopped back on the bus and got dropped back to Katoomba where we went our seperate ways. Overall a good night.

Lots of ghost photos this week!

There's two ghost photos on this weeks news blog on the CCAPSG page... check 'em out and let me know what you think :) click here

Aboriginal witchdoctor joins search for missing policeman

Witchdoctor begins search for missing cop in the outback of Queensland. Click here for news story.

Two photos - one ghost?

Recently i was reading about photos from the Stanley hotel, one from www.phantomsandmonsters.com and the other from a facebook page.
Now i don't know if its just me but does this child that showed up in different photos from different people look similar? Am i going crazy or what? ;)




Photo one taken from here



Photo Two taken from Do You Believe In Ghosts? on facebook. The lady that took the photo is called Sharon Breiner Waltrip. P.S if you can't see the ghost... check out the bottom left corner! :)

Additional info: Here is what Sharon says about her photo:

4th floor of the Stanley Hotel, Estes Park Colorado - hotel where Stephen King was inspired to write the Shining. 4th floor is said to be haunted by children. Photo taken with Nikon Cool Pix, 5:30pm in the evening, children seen in the hallway with their hands out were part of a history tour group we were with. Tour guide had asked these two in the hallway to hold their hands out and asked if any ghost children were present to come forward and to hold their hands. We took photos - my shock to see what showed up in the lower left corner of the photo. ISO 400. No reflective surfaces near the camera. No small children in our group.

Now the skeptical side of me goes "awww come on the bluish photo could be of anything??" but then I see Sharons photo and i thought "hang on a sec, the faces look similar"?

What are your thoughts...?

TWO PHOTOS FROM THE NEWS THIS WEEK

Below are two "ghost" photos i found in the news today. I posted them on the weekly news bit of the www.ccapsg.blogspot.com blog but I thought I would also post them here. I am interested to hear your opinions on these...

Mine is the first is a trick of the light ie matrixing. I think the background (trees maybe) have formed in such a way and with the light shining through the branches it suggests to our mind its a face. Pretty creepy though.

The second photo is interesting but because of the motion blur it is too hard to tell what it is. Maybe if there was a photo of that area that wasn't blurred we might be able to reference which parts of the photo should be there and which aren't. It'd also be interesting to hear if there had been any activity in the house before or not?



Ghost tour stirs up haunting at cleveland cemetery click here for story.


Ghostly image caught by accident on camera click here for the story.

Links to check out this week: 26/10/09

Was the hawkesbury big cat caught on tape. Read the article here.

Don't forget to check out the other blog i contribute to: CCAPSG

Haunted places in Australia

Check out shadowlands list of haunted places in Australia here

7 things that need to change in ghost hunting

There's a new magazine out called Ecto magazine - the first article i read was called 7 things that need to change in ghost hunting. Its a good article and worth checking out. Click here to read.

Links to check out this week:

For research on his book of poetry this guy stayed 10 nights in 10 haunted places around Australia. Click here for news article. And click here for his blog.

The Christian and the Paranormal - interesting article. Click here.

This weeks paranormal news from Christian Cryptozoology and Paranormal Study Group (i help out with this blog too) Click here.

Rain City Paranormal have posted new EVPS on their site this week. Click here.

Has this dude appeared in your dreams? click here

Getting to know your Paranormal Investigators: Interview with Sydney Paranormal Society's founder Holly Butler

Very recently i met a girl through facebook called Holly who's also interested in the paranormal, is also from Sydney and has set up a group called Sydney Paranormal Society.

How long have you been involved with the paranormal?

I have been involved with the paranormal since I was 4 years of age but became serious about investigating after watching The X-Files when I found it on TV in 2000.

What prompted you to start your own paranormal group?

I started SPS because i found that there were over 50 people on a site called meetup.com who were interested in the paranormal and wanted to give them a group to belong to and also because I found that there were a lot of like-minded people who wanted to do some investigating and SPS would give them the chance to.


What paranormal experiences have you had?

I have heard voices and seen full bodied apparitions, shadows and had entities touch me on the hand.


What are your plans for the future of the group?

I plan to make a sub branch of SPS called Sydney International Paranormal Phenomena who would obviously go and do investigations overseas. I also plan to take SPS to the US and UK to conduct some joint investigations with a number of groups over there who have expressed interest in having us come over and join them.

If someone is experiencing paranormal activity - what is your advise for them?

My advice for anyone who thinks they are experiencing paranormal activity is to write down when where and what the activity is ie 'Bedroom 9pm - saw pencil on desk move of its own accord' and keep a log. If it starts getting out of hand ie they start getting violent reactions ie hair pulling, face slapping, being pushed down stairs, doors slammed in face etc, then we are more than happy to come out and do a full investigation at no cost to them.


How can they contact you?

Contact can be made via email: sydneyparanormalsociety@live.co.uk or via our myspace email sydneyparanormalsociety@myspace.com or our facebook site www.facebook.com/HollyButler.

Mike's blog

Even though its not about anything Australian it's still a really interesting read and it'd be rad if you could check out Mike Brodys latest blog the link is here

Please check out the following paranormal pages:

The Real Girls (and guys) guide to paranormal Sh*t - great bunch of people with interesting stories

The Christian Cryptozoology and Paranormal Study Group - bit of self promotion for myself there

Phantoms and Monsters blog - up to date paranormal news

The Paranormal Pastor - amazing stories and knowledge

Mike Brody's blog - funny, knowledgable and informative

Rain City Paranormal - professional investigators with some great evidence

Dead Reckoning Tv - Run by a helpful & informed guy called Scotty

Live Paranormal Live webcam with your favourite Ghost Hunters

Paranormal Australia All things paranormal and Australian ;)

I'll be adding to this so keep checking back - also, if you want your blog mentioned please message me.

Experiences with the Paranormal: My friends ghost

I had a copy of Seeking Spirits - a book by Jay and Grant from TAPS Ghosthunters in my bag and it started a conversation with my friend about ghosts.
She confided in me that a few times now she's woken up and seen an old man standing by her bed and once leaning over the cot where her daughter sleeps. I asked a few questions like was it just a shadow? But she said the man had features and he didnt look very nice. She'd only ever seen it at night and just as she woke up. Could it be she was halucinating/dreaming or sleep deprived? - Yes it totally could be that, being sleep deprived can do funny things to people. But she had seen this figure for up to half an hour at a time!
I told her if it hadn't done anything manevolant she shouldn't be too scared. If anything it appeared to be watching out for her. Maybe it was her guardian angel? Could be a human spirit? or a residual haunting?

Pareidolia

click here for my blog on Pareidolia/Matrixing that i posted on the CCAPSG page.

New blog post from CCAPSG

Please click here for the latest blog from CCAPSG on nephilim.

Q station article.

An article in the Sydney Morning Herald about a visit to the Quarantine Station in Manly.

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/accommodation-reviews/ghost-hunts-and-grand-rooms-20090918-fuya.html

The Dangers of Ghost Hunting

Check out this brilliant blog entry about the dangers of "ghost hunting"

http://ccapsg.blogspot.com/2009/09/dangers-of-paranormal-investigation.html

New blog

Please check out and follow the Christian Cryptozoology and paranormal study group http://www.ccapsg.blogspot.com/

My paranormal experiences

When i was in Australia backpacking we were staying in this little place in the outback, population of 5. but it had a pub and a hostel. i was sharing a room with my mate rich and this other guy called Rob who was on the tour with us (a group of us were on a bus tour from adelaide to alice springs, stopping at places of interest on the way). it was our first night and we were all pretty tired since we'd got up so early that morning. anyway, we got to bed about midnight possibly a bit earlier. I was in the top bunk. At about 4 in the morning i woke up and could hear a voice, it was kind of a loud whisper. it said something like "look at the door", or "there's someone at the door". I looked at the door and there was this dark figure standing there. i couldnt see features or anything, just this mass of black and It was just standing there. Now the door had been shut when we went to sleep because of the mozzys etc. How did it open (no one in the room said they left it open)? and who was stood there? i screamed some expletives and it just dissappeared. My friends didnt hear or see a thing except me screaming my lungs out. I was definately awake and the voice i heard was real.

Another thing i've experienced is when i baby sit for a mate i always think i see a kid from the corner of my eye down the corridor so i think one of them is up. they never are. i also always hear footsteps upstairs but theyre always in bed... i dont feel particularly scared though. I never told her because i didn't want to freak her out.


photo by Ricky Foyle
Once when i was at School we went on a tour of an old theatre called the theatre royal in Portsmouth. There is a HUGE painting above the stage and at one point i saw the eyes of this evil pumpkin looking thing moving...scared me a lot!


www.ghosttours.com.au
I went on a ghost tour in The Rocks in Sydney. In one part we were underground in this ruined cottage and we were all taking photos and stuff and i kept hearing this scream. I thought it was someones phone or something and dismissed it. After we came out the tour guide and asked if we'd heard anything. i said i'd heard screaming and others had heard it too. It wasn't anyones phone and the sound from the street didnt really carry down to where we are.


Of course all these experiences could be debunked and i have no evidence to prove them but something weird was going on in these instances. Also all these little things added up to get me interested in the paranormal.

The Quarantine Station Spirit Investigator Tour

A few months late and a rubbish memory I will attempt to write up what happened on the above mentioned tour. It's a brilliant tour and I highly recommend it especially if you are interested in going on a more serious ghost tour where they dont have people jumping out at you but provide scientific equipment in order to detect ghostly activity.

The tour took us around various buildings and told us a bit of the history and showed us how to use the equipment they'd given us.

This is called a K2 meter, it detects EMF's which stands for electro magnetic fields. This is used to detect whether homes/businesses have high emfs which can result in people feeling ill, being paranoid etc. It can also be used to detect ghosts. The theory is a ghost uses EMF's to manifest so if you get a hit on the K2 meter somewhere where there shouldnt be EMFs then it could be something paranormal!




Another peice of equipment they gave us to use was a laser thermometer which we used to detect cold or hot spots in the air which can be a sign of a ghost - the theory for this is the "ghost" will use energy from the air to manifest making the air around it cold (i think that is right - please someone correct me if im wrong)




We got hits on the K2 Meter though which was really cool. At one point i asked a question and the light flashed on the metre as though it was in reply to my question. It was really cool because we'd try and find out if it was something normal making the k2's flash but we couldn't work it out! No one saw any shadows or heard any disembodied voices which was a bit disappointing but i guess ghosts don't perform on command!;)

One of the tour guides who tagged along was clairvoyant told us he could feel different presences around the buildings including what they call a BYOG (bring your own ghost).



One of the ladies (i wont mention names because im not sure she would want everyone knowing) i was with on the tour asked if it was her that had the ghost! And the tour guide said yes. A few of us had our k2 meters infront of her and they all started flashing - it was crazy! Then she felt really ill and looked like she was going to faint. The tour guides had to take her to one side and I think in the end they helped her get rid of this ghost that had tagged along with her and had been frightening her son at home. That was a crazy experience and not one i'd want to repeat because it was pretty scary for her.




Overall it was a good night and a lot of fun! It would have been better for me personally if the group wasn't so big so that if someone did hear or see something it would be easier to say whether it was normal or paranormal - with so many people investigating you can't tell what sound is coming from where...good fun though.



Sydney Opera House - view from the ferry over to Manly.





The only ghost we caught on film! ;)




The Shower block




The Hospital


When my friend took this photo she said she felt a presence and this is what appeared in the photo. So, is it a strange mist or glare from the light? You decide.


Here is a link to the Q Station website for anyone that interested in going.Q Station Ghost Tours