GHOSTS AND GHOST SENSITIVES PART 1

Embracing another reality

These stories were written for an as yet unpublished book co-written by Pete and I titled ‘ We’re still not Alone’.

Wikipedia defines a ghost as the apparition of a deceased person, frequently similar in appearance to that person, and usually encountered in places she or he frequented, or in association with the person’s former belongings. The word ’ghost’ may also refer to spirit or soul of a deceased person. Ghosts are often associated with hauntings…

Ghosts are controversial anomalous phenomena. According to a poll conducted in 2005 by the Gallup Organisation, about 32% of Americans believe in the existence of ghosts…

In many historical accounts, ghosts were thought to be deceased people looking for vengeance, or imprisoned on earth for bad things they did during life.

Critics of ‘eyewitness ghost sightings’ suggest that limitations of human perception and ordinary physical explanations can account for such sightings, for example, air pressure changes in a home causing doors to slam, or lights from a passing car reflected through a window at night.

Bryan, whom we first met in our book So You Think We’re Alone? has a very interesting talent. He sees negative, ghost-like energies as dark brown or black clouds attached to domestic objects such as curtains, furniture, animals or people. These energies, which seem to Clive to be thought forms, can be disturbing, debilitating and depressing to people living in houses infested with these things. People are affected by them, but do not necessarily see them. If those affected are fortunate to be able to attract Bryan’s ghost-busting services, then the negative energies will be cleared using a very simple process.

His intuition told him to use salt, or salty water, to cleanse the negative energies. By washing objects, humans or animals, the energies are dissipated. Bryan particularly recommends washing in the sea. Yet again, the salt connection comes to our attention.

On one occasion during his ghost busting, Bryan saw many of these repulsive forms attached into the back of the home’s old dog. The way that these things attach themselves is by hooking the energies to objects in the material world. He says that they feed on fear, so another way of clearing these energies is to laugh. Now, this seems like good advice in general to raise our spirits, (so to speak).

Clive reinforces Bryan’s view that negative energies attach themselves to physical objects, particularly dirty or neglected items. Matthew, Clive’s son, asked his dad to perform a clearing ritual in his pub and restaurant. Matthew, although not interested much in the spiritual world, nevertheless recognises the value of an alternative perspective on physical energies. Matthew had become increasingly unhappy with the feel in his establishment. He was of the view that the thoughts and actions of certain members of staff and customers were lowering the atmosphere of the place.

 Clive did as he was asked and performed a clearing ceremony. There were some abandoned rooms above the premises which contained old clothes, rubbish and peeling décor. The atmosphere there was awful, Clive sensed. After the ceremony was over, Clive appealed to Matthew to clear out the upstairs rooms, for it was clear that negative energies were attached to the things dumped there and were contributing to the general unease that Matthew was feeling about his pub. The pub has become a pub-restaurant and is a thriving business.

Bryan has contact with another ghost buster, a woman with wild hair and a broad Bristol- Gloucestershire accent. This woman must have quite a reputation. She was called by the Ministry of Defence and invited to do some ghost busting in an old aircraft hanger. She replied, ‘That’s fine old dear. It will cost you foive ‘undred pounds.’ The MoD accepted the quotation.

 The deal done, Wild Hair went to the underground hanger. Security personnel, and other staff, were terrified to enter due to the constant banging of doors, including banging on the hangar doors. This was often when no live person was around. There was also a constant, cold, spooky atmosphere.

Once in the hanger, Wild Hair waved away the security officers ‘Off you go me dears. I don’ need ye, go on clear off.’ She was pretty bossy also. As she entered she had ascertained immediately what the problem was. Up in one high corner of the hanger, psychically she saw hundreds of ghosts. It transpired later that they were the spectres of dead people.

So, true to personality, she stood facing them, hands on hips. ‘Right me dears, I want yew to go. Go on now, off yew go now. Yew are not welcome here.’ And off they duly went, the whole pack of them. The last sight she had of the assembled spirits was them flying away towards the spiritual light. The hanger became quiet and subdued. The MoD staff could relax and Wild Hair pocketed her ‘foive ‘undred pounds’ for a minute’s work. Everybody was happy.

 As she left, Wild Hair was told that the hangar had been used as a temporary store for body bags containing US servicemen killed in Vietnam. They were flown in from Asia, stored and then transferred to the United States.

Pete also has a talent related to discarnate entities. He sees ghosts of people all the time. In the street, in buildings, in his own home, he sees hundreds of them. In his world, the number of ghosts that are visible is huge. One time he was sitting in a café, through the window he idly watched the world go by. He saw a man crossing the road accompanied by a dog.

Mmm… he thought. That dog looks like a ghost to me. I wonder if that chap knows he has a dog walking by his side? No sooner had the thought formed, when both man and dog disappeared. So Pete had been half right, both had been ghosts.