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Showing posts with label ghost hunter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ghost hunter. Show all posts
Thursday, 7 April 2016
The April #AtoZChallenge with SpookyMrsGreen
It might get a little quiet over here during April. That’s because I am devoting most of my time to the #AtoZChallenge over on my pagan housewife blog, SpookyMrsGreen. There you will find ghost hunter stories, pagan housewife adventures, family drama, personal epiphanies, and much more. See you later!
Don’t forget to read my brand new contemporary adult fairytale: The Wolf and the Fairy. Available to download now in most digital formats.
Don’t forget to read my brand new contemporary adult fairytale: The Wolf and the Fairy. Available to download now in most digital formats.
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
#AtoZChallenge - Do You Believe in Ghosts?
Well, do you? I most certainly do believe in Ghosts, and I have
seen them on many occasions, both at home and on holiday. I was also a ghost
hunter a few years’ ago, a hobby that
I hope to resume when my children are older. I love the thrill of sitting in a
dark, dusty room in an old, abandoned manor house or business premises, asking
for Spirit to show themselves, and then the exhilaration when we get a response… But enough about me. Where do ghosts fit into the Redcliffe novels? I will tell you.
Right at the very beginning of Love Hurts (A Redcliffe Novel), our
protagonist, Jessica Stone, is experiencing very strange dreams that have a
feeling of being premonitions. As she meets Detective Jack Mason and begins a
very passionate, and dangerous, love affair, her life spirals into chaos as the
world unravels around her. Part of this includes the emergence of her mother,
who died in a car accident when Jessica was five years old. Her mother first visits
Jessica in her dreams, and then gathers her strength and shows herself as a
ghost.
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Now, Jessica did not believe in ghosts before all of this happened. She
was always a fairly practical woman, living in the real world. Of course, the ‘real world’ is never quite
what we think. It differs for everyone depending on their life experiences and
situations. Jessica’s mother was a
witch, and she would have raised her daughter in the Craft if she had lived.
She finds a way to communicate when Jessica’s natural magical
ability is roused by her connection to the vampire and werewolf. Lillian tries
to help her daughter during their brief conversations, but the ghost is weak
and often fades out halfway through. Perhaps she will grow stronger as Jessica
becomes more comfortable in her new life. Time will tell.
If you are interested in seeing other participants for the #AtoZChallenge,
check them out on the official website. We have everything from book
stuff, to cooking, to photography, to travel, and a whole lot more. Happy
April!
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Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Ghost Hunter Diaries: The Watermillock, Bolton, Friday 13th November 2009
This was one amazing night! Let me begin by setting the scene… After a few wrong turns I finally arrived at the Toby Carvery Pub known as The Watermillock. The large building is imposing to look at and has gargoyles above the front door in true Victorian Gothic style. Yet there was something warm about it; the colour of the brick, the large windows with a glimpse into the warm, cosy interior and even a black cat sat in an upstairs window watching people coming and going. So I stepped inside…
Our first vigil was on the first floor and we began using a planchette on the tiled floor of the landing area. The planchette is a divination tool. Quite simply it is a wooden board on wheels, with a hole in the middle through which we push a pen or pencil. We then place the apparatus onto a large piece of paper, each person will rest a fingertip on the edge of the board, and we will ask for a spirit person to come forward and speak with us. The spirit will then use our collective energy to push the board around the paper to either write a message or even just draw a picture or symbol. Sometimes they will simply move the board to answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to questions.
During our walk round I had seen a small boy walk across this area and peer into the room where we were sat and I was hoping he would come and speak to us. He didn't but we soon had a response from a man who identified himself as Herbert, grandfather to John who was in our investigation group. Herbert had been a soldier injured in WW2 and was brought to the Red Cross hospital in this building in the mid 1940s. He was very strong and seemed only to want to reassure John that he was still with him, but he was very private and wouldn't answer any personal questions. He did say there were other spirits in the house but none of them were able to speak to us at the time.
The second vigil was a whole new experience for me as a ghost hunter and I will never forget it! We moved into the cellar and into a disused room that Lorraine (the medium) had felt very uncomfortable in during our walk-round earlier in the evening. At the time I hadn't felt anything unusual, which in itself confused me because I generally feel very anxious in cellars and enclosed spaces. But as I walked down the stairs from the ground floor I had a sudden strong feeling that someone would try and push me down even though there was nobody behind me. Then when I turned the lights off for us to begin our vigil I had a strong urge to run back upstairs to safety, I did not want to enter this room!
We moved in and sat down around the table but each of us huddled into our chair and was very nervous of the unknown energies. I even had to ensure I sat on a high backed chair rather than a stool because it felt safer. We used a glass in this room because it seemed appropriate. By ‘using the glass’ I mean it as a method of divination to communicate with spirits. We ask questions and the glass is moved around the table to indicate either ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in answer. The energy is raised by each person in the seance circle placing a fingertip very lightly on the edge of the upturned glass, so that the spirit person can ‘push’ it. We very quickly got a response in here.
Through questioning we met 17-year-old Gertrude, who was very strong when moving the glass. She seemed to attach to Maggie in our group because she felt safe with her. Gertrude told us that she was alone in the cellar and that she had been brought to the hospital in 1943 having been fatally injured by a trusted male friend. He had apparently proposed marriage to her and when she rejected him he became angry and hurt her. Then he took her to the hospital where she died on 10th December. At this point the glass was moving very forcefully around the table as Gertrude demonstrated her loneliness and isolation, and Maggie started crying almost to the point of hysterics as she became involved with the spirit. We then asked Gertrude if she needed our help and she said yes, The glass was almost flying in circles around the table.
I went upstairs and asked Lorraine if she could come and help us and she knew instantly that it was a young girl that we were communicating with. She came into the cellar with me and proceeded to help Gertrude move into the Light (a mysterious other realm that I am not familiar with), where she was reunited with her long lost brother. The emotions and the energy I felt during this particular seance was so intense I was left exhausted, as were the other members of our group, but we felt so much better once we knew Gertrude was in a safe place.
Lorraine suggested we move into the next large room in the cellar, which is used as a staff room. The atmosphere in here was much lighter and there was no sense of oppression. We then attempted table tipping with almost instantaneous results! It was a square table, which had a small brass goblet on top. The table tipped almost vertical and the cup never moved until I commented on it to ask if it was stuck in place. Then the table was lowered, paused and tipped again and this time the cup fell off. Lorraine laughed and told us it was a young boy who was playing with us and we did feel very jolly and happy.
Finally we came to our third vigil, by which time we had had quite enough strong energy and were ready to relax a little. We sat in the large ground floor restaurant area towards the rear of the building, and it felt very homely and strangely comforting. A few of us commented that we could quite happily curl up on the floor and fall asleep knowing that we were safe and protected. I had a vision of the room filled with warm candlelight and people laughing and chattering together while a huge fire roared in the grate. Lorraine felt that this part of the house would have been separate to the hospital and that the family life was very happy and comfortable. While I was sat at a table on my own I became aware of my Yorkshire Terrier dog, Toby, who had passed away 18 months ago. He padded towards me as he used to during life, and I felt him jump up and put his front paws on my knee while he asked for a fuss. At the same time I felt a strong cold draft across my knee even though the room and the rest of my body was warm. I was greatly comforted with this and was aware of Toby lying by my foot relaxing.
I was very surprised to learn that ours was the only group who experienced any strong activity during our investigations. The whole house seems alive to me and I cannot wait to return and see who else we can speak to! It is wonderful to know that we leave a little of ourselves behind when we pass over, because to communicate with Spirit is to have history come alive and to know that there is always something more, something beyond our physical Earth realm, just waiting to be explored when the time is right. And this is exactly what I felt in The Watermillock; history from its past inhabitants, families, patients, doctors and any number of other people with stories to tell and memories to share.
Our first vigil was on the first floor and we began using a planchette on the tiled floor of the landing area. The planchette is a divination tool. Quite simply it is a wooden board on wheels, with a hole in the middle through which we push a pen or pencil. We then place the apparatus onto a large piece of paper, each person will rest a fingertip on the edge of the board, and we will ask for a spirit person to come forward and speak with us. The spirit will then use our collective energy to push the board around the paper to either write a message or even just draw a picture or symbol. Sometimes they will simply move the board to answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to questions.
During our walk round I had seen a small boy walk across this area and peer into the room where we were sat and I was hoping he would come and speak to us. He didn't but we soon had a response from a man who identified himself as Herbert, grandfather to John who was in our investigation group. Herbert had been a soldier injured in WW2 and was brought to the Red Cross hospital in this building in the mid 1940s. He was very strong and seemed only to want to reassure John that he was still with him, but he was very private and wouldn't answer any personal questions. He did say there were other spirits in the house but none of them were able to speak to us at the time.
The second vigil was a whole new experience for me as a ghost hunter and I will never forget it! We moved into the cellar and into a disused room that Lorraine (the medium) had felt very uncomfortable in during our walk-round earlier in the evening. At the time I hadn't felt anything unusual, which in itself confused me because I generally feel very anxious in cellars and enclosed spaces. But as I walked down the stairs from the ground floor I had a sudden strong feeling that someone would try and push me down even though there was nobody behind me. Then when I turned the lights off for us to begin our vigil I had a strong urge to run back upstairs to safety, I did not want to enter this room!
We moved in and sat down around the table but each of us huddled into our chair and was very nervous of the unknown energies. I even had to ensure I sat on a high backed chair rather than a stool because it felt safer. We used a glass in this room because it seemed appropriate. By ‘using the glass’ I mean it as a method of divination to communicate with spirits. We ask questions and the glass is moved around the table to indicate either ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in answer. The energy is raised by each person in the seance circle placing a fingertip very lightly on the edge of the upturned glass, so that the spirit person can ‘push’ it. We very quickly got a response in here.
Through questioning we met 17-year-old Gertrude, who was very strong when moving the glass. She seemed to attach to Maggie in our group because she felt safe with her. Gertrude told us that she was alone in the cellar and that she had been brought to the hospital in 1943 having been fatally injured by a trusted male friend. He had apparently proposed marriage to her and when she rejected him he became angry and hurt her. Then he took her to the hospital where she died on 10th December. At this point the glass was moving very forcefully around the table as Gertrude demonstrated her loneliness and isolation, and Maggie started crying almost to the point of hysterics as she became involved with the spirit. We then asked Gertrude if she needed our help and she said yes, The glass was almost flying in circles around the table.
I went upstairs and asked Lorraine if she could come and help us and she knew instantly that it was a young girl that we were communicating with. She came into the cellar with me and proceeded to help Gertrude move into the Light (a mysterious other realm that I am not familiar with), where she was reunited with her long lost brother. The emotions and the energy I felt during this particular seance was so intense I was left exhausted, as were the other members of our group, but we felt so much better once we knew Gertrude was in a safe place.
Lorraine suggested we move into the next large room in the cellar, which is used as a staff room. The atmosphere in here was much lighter and there was no sense of oppression. We then attempted table tipping with almost instantaneous results! It was a square table, which had a small brass goblet on top. The table tipped almost vertical and the cup never moved until I commented on it to ask if it was stuck in place. Then the table was lowered, paused and tipped again and this time the cup fell off. Lorraine laughed and told us it was a young boy who was playing with us and we did feel very jolly and happy.
Finally we came to our third vigil, by which time we had had quite enough strong energy and were ready to relax a little. We sat in the large ground floor restaurant area towards the rear of the building, and it felt very homely and strangely comforting. A few of us commented that we could quite happily curl up on the floor and fall asleep knowing that we were safe and protected. I had a vision of the room filled with warm candlelight and people laughing and chattering together while a huge fire roared in the grate. Lorraine felt that this part of the house would have been separate to the hospital and that the family life was very happy and comfortable. While I was sat at a table on my own I became aware of my Yorkshire Terrier dog, Toby, who had passed away 18 months ago. He padded towards me as he used to during life, and I felt him jump up and put his front paws on my knee while he asked for a fuss. At the same time I felt a strong cold draft across my knee even though the room and the rest of my body was warm. I was greatly comforted with this and was aware of Toby lying by my foot relaxing.
I was very surprised to learn that ours was the only group who experienced any strong activity during our investigations. The whole house seems alive to me and I cannot wait to return and see who else we can speak to! It is wonderful to know that we leave a little of ourselves behind when we pass over, because to communicate with Spirit is to have history come alive and to know that there is always something more, something beyond our physical Earth realm, just waiting to be explored when the time is right. And this is exactly what I felt in The Watermillock; history from its past inhabitants, families, patients, doctors and any number of other people with stories to tell and memories to share.
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
#Halloween Haunted Open House Giveaway Blog Hop #ReadMe
Happy Halloween my spooky supporters, or for my pagan
friends, merry times for All Hallows' Eve! I have always loved this time of the
year, when the weather is crisp and fresh, we start to snuggle up in our big
jumpers and winter boots, and our tastes turn toward hot chocolate and toffee
apples. Here in the UK we have never really been encouraged to celebrate
Halloween, although the pubs and nightclubs usually host fabulous fancy dress
parties. One popular pastime of recent years is ghost hunting. For those of you
unfamiliar with this hobby, it is basically a group of people who spend the
night in a reputedly haunted building, and they participate in séances in order to
communicate with any ghosts or spirits that might want to speak with them.
I am a ghost hunter. In fact, I have had the pleasure and
excitement of participating in ghost hunts on All Hallow’s Eve. The traditional
belief here is that the veil between the world of the living and the world of
the dead is at its thinnest on this night. Therefore we can more easily
communicate with our departed loved ones. Now, I know there are sceptics out
there. But I also know what I have experienced so far in my lifetime, and what
I continue to experience in daily life. I know that ghosts and spirits exist. I
have seen them, I have spoken to them, and I have even chased them! If you are
interested to read my Ghost Hunter Diaries, take a look at my personal blog,
SpookyMrsGreen.
My last Halloween ghost hunt was actually at Carnfield Hall
in Alfreton, Derbyshire, UK on 29th October 2011. I attended with my
younger sister and fellow ghost hunter, and in the spirit of the season, all
guests were invited to dress up. We chose our favourite ‘goddess gowns’ and
teamed them with fairy wings and wands for the occasion. At the time we were
enjoying a spiritual connection with our faery kin, and while we still feel it
now, we do find ourselves distracted by other pursuits. The ghost hunt was
great fun, and you can read a full account over on my SpookyMrsGreen blog.
Back to the Haunted Open House giveaway blog hop. I am here
today sharing news of my recently published Victorian vampire romance novel The Darkness of Love. Here are the details:
Lord Gregory Stockton is a powerful and
respected businessman embracing the modern era of the Victorian industrial
revolution. He has a grand and beautiful manor house complete with a repertoire
of servants, and his young wife is charming, attractive, and the perfect lady
to his gentleman. The only thing they lack is an heir to the family estate.
Lord Gregory knows he can never produce a child, for he is a vampire, although
his wife and servants know nothing of his secrets. There are other ways to
provide heirs for his estate, however, and Lord Gregory has noticed the romantic
attraction between his wife and the young stable hand Marcus Scott. He hatches
a plan to bring the would-be lovers together, and then cruelly tear them apart
as he continues to build his empire and secure his power base in the south of
England. The humans are pawns in the vampire’s game of lust, love and control.
You can find
the novel for sale in all the usual places online, and links are on the
dedicated page accessed at the top of this blog. If you would like to win a
free eBook copy of The Darkness of Love, enter my competition. My question is
this: What was your most exciting Halloween experience to date, and why? I will
choose a winner during the first week of November and will contact you via
email. Please leave your contact email address at the bottom of your comment.
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Live Author Interview for Halloween
Exciting news! I have been invited to do a live radio interview on a special Halloween show at 6 Towns Radio. The station is based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent and covers the Potteries area of the UK. This is my home city, a place where I grew up, fell in love, got my first jobs and lots of other life experiences.
Listen live at 11:00am GMT (6:00am EST) and you can hear about my paranormal romance Redcliffe novels, my experiences as a ghost hunter, and all sorts of weird and wonderful, spooky and supernatural tales and titbits...
http://www.6towns.co.uk/
Listen live at 11:00am GMT (6:00am EST) and you can hear about my paranormal romance Redcliffe novels, my experiences as a ghost hunter, and all sorts of weird and wonderful, spooky and supernatural tales and titbits...
http://www.6towns.co.uk/
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