DIARY OF A GHOST HUNTER

I'm spending my morning listening to a very interesting workshop regarding folklore, beliefs, world views and ghosts. Do we, as 'professionals', need to put a name to the entity we encounter for our clients? Or should we just be looking at and recording the behaviors that are being exhibited by these encounters? Some of the names given to such entities have come from cultural beliefs and follkore that is hundreds of years old, like fairies, banshees,djinn, incubus and succu bus, steeped in a history or a time and place far removed from our modern day lives. Is it helpful to put a name to a person's experience? Can it just make things worse, what if we are wrong - are we only speculating? How can we definitively know? If we are dealing with someone who has a very different background and belief system from us should we take that into account when they are talking about their paranormal experiences? How does their belief system impact of their para...

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On their official website the Ghost Club says: "The Ghost Club is the oldest organisation in the world associated with psychical research.  It was founded in 1862 but has its roots in Cambridge University where, in 1855, fellows at Trinity College began to discuss ghosts and psychic phenomena. Past members include Charles Dickens, Siegfried Sassoon, Harry Price, Donald Campbell, Peter Cushing, Peter Underwood, Maurice Grosse, Sir Shane Leslie and Eric Maple.   That's some pretty impressive names on that list -    Charles John Huffam Dickens ( 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period .   During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented popularity, and by the twentieth century he was widely seen as a literary genius by critics and scholars.  Siegfried Loraine ...

'Riddle of how medium knew the fate of ships' - Helen Duncan: http://www.nottinghampost.com/Riddle-medium-knew-fate-ships/story-23049206-detail/story.html  The family of Helen Duncan are still after a posthumous pardon for her being jailed as a witch.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdacxZGlbp0 (a short video about Helen Duncan)

It was my good luck to be able to connect with a spirit energy this weekend that I had worked with before. Eliza was the original owner of a historic building at a small village called Wollombi, outside of Cessnock in NSW, Australia. She has been 'hanging around' her home although she had passed many years earlier. The old owner and the new owner lived happily side by side for a long time with Eliza making herself known to Caroline, the new owner, many times in many subtle ways. But over the last week Caroline has sold the home as she has found it so hard to continue doing all of the work required to keep bringing in the ongoing income needed. I visited the house on the weekend and was invited by Caroline to sit in Eliza's old bedroom and have a chat with her. I decided I would ask Eliza if she was happy with the upcoming change of ownership. I walked in and turned on two K2 meters placing them on the bed to see if they would flash responses to my questions. Eliz...

Ghost hunting began very seriously. A gentleman named Joseph Glanville (1636-80) and was given the very important sounding title of England's Ghost Hunter General". He wrote a number of very successful books about the subject and even went out into the filed to prove some of his theories. Wikipedia tells us that: Joseph Glanvill born in Plymouth Devon, was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman. Not himself a scientist, he has been called "the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi", or in other words the leading propagandist for the approach of the English natural philosophers of the later 17th century . In 1661 he predicted The time will come, when making use of magnetic waves that permeate the ether ,...we shall communicate with [persons on the opposite side of the globe . What a forward thinking man indeed! The Drummer of Tedworth is a report of supernatural activity by Joseph Glanvill in the West Country of England, in his Saducism...

Introducing CATHERINE CROWE - Born in 1790 Catherine Crowe was an English author of dramas, children's books, and novels. She is remembered mainly for her publication, The Night-side of Nature , a collection of stories of the supernatural.   Crowe’s Night Side was one of the publishing sensations of 1848. A two volume exploration of “ghosts and ghost seers,” intermingled with observations on phrenology, Mesmerism and the poltergeist phenomena, the book happily appeared just before the vast explosion of interest in communication with the dead occasioned by the dubious activities of the Fox sisters on the far side of the Atlantic. asIn consequence, Night Side ran through 16 editions in only six years, made its author moderately rich, introduced a large number of well-to-do Victorians to the world of the occult – and had an influence out of all proportion with its present reputation. Indeed, the book “marked the turning point,” Hilary Evans suggests, “in society...