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Vortex: The gateway to the Spirit World?

 Vortex: The Gateway to the spirit world?
This article features: The Warehouse on the Canal in Canal Fulton which is the home of Ohio's Edgar Allan Poe Theater and is considered the Center for Ohio's Paranormal, Supernatural and the Macabre.
By definition, a vortex is a spinning, often turbulent, flow of fluid. But, we are not talking about this type of vortex. In the paranormal when you talk about a vortex you are referring to an area of concentrated energy that can act as a portal for spirits traveling between the spirit world and this world.  When one encounters a vortex they may feel a range of sensations from a slight tingling on the exposed skin, to a vibration emanating from the ground, a sense of swaying, light headed, a feeling of being sucked into the ground among other sensations.  Mediums and others who are sensitive often get headaches and are unable to stay even in the area around the vortex itself.
At the Warehouse we have a very strong vortex that we discovered by accident. We noticed that a number of people were feeling light headed and a little dizzy around a certain area located in the basement that was a mortuary from 1916- 1936. Mediums and others who were sensitive did not feel comfortable within this particular area as they developed severe headaches as they sensed and felt the concentrated energy flow. To identify the center of the vortex I drew a line to match up the points that people felt the strongest.
The following are a few of the actual accounts of the experiences in the Warehouse vortex:
One person who repeatedly stepped into the vortex had their glasses immediately fogged up, and, when they stepped out their glasses immediately cleared up.
One person in a motorized wheelchair went into the vortex and the wheelchair stopped working. She along with her wheelchair had to be physically lifted out of the vortex where her wheelchair immediately then began to work again
One of my most memorable was when a pregnant woman refused to go anywhere near the vortex. Her husband kept urging her on, but, she was adamant. When I asked her why she did not want to go she replied, “This is going to sound crazy, but, it is though her baby did not want her to go as he was kicking her like mad”.
Channel 5 TV had placed a “ghost cam” looking down on the vortex that did not identify what it was that gave their viewers a chance to watch on the internet with the opportunity to comment on anything that they may have seen. In 9 years of doing the ghost cam they had never received the number of comments as they did from our vortex area where people saw faces and bodies coming up out of the vortex area.
So; if you have a portal how do you keep out undesirable spirits? It looks like that we have help from the other side. Lester is the dominant spirit in the building and is the guardian of the doorway. According to Helen the medium we work with, she sees it like this;
All ghosts can tell when there are people around them with a negative or positive attitude towards them. If Lester were to find some negative spirit that was attempting to come through the vortex, he would tell it was not welcome and would make sure it would not come out of the vortex. If that negative energy were somehow stronger than Lester, then Lester would ask those around him to come to the vortex to help him keep the negative spirit out.
 It would be like the shoot out at the OK corral-the good guys against the bad guys.
 Spirits have morals just as we do and those morals go on with us to the other side. If you were a fair and honorable person in life, then you will be the same on the other side. If you were nasty and dishonorable a come back, then you will be a dishonest spirit.
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The Society for Psychical Research (SPR)

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  1. SagittarianMe3 September 2013 at 11:02

    I was standing outside last night, smoking a cigarette. I noticed the smoke behaving strangely. So I looked more closesly, and each time I blew out smoke it started spiralling, like it was sucked into a black hole or something.
    Could this have been a paranormal vortex? Or, if not, what kind of natural phenomenon could do this?

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