Afterlife, Mind, Matter, Spooky Ouija, and True Haunts

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.” – Ray Bradbury

One in five Brits insist their house is haunted. One in 20 believe there is a ghostly presence in their workplace, according to a new study. Source.

Ouija: who done it? As Told By L. (Paraphrased)

Sounds like the perfect horror script. It could be.

Parents gone. Group of 13 year old girls decide to play a game called ‘Murder’. Someone is designated the killer. Lights out. One person is targeted. “You’re dead.” Lights on. Who did it?

This was a familiar game, but something odd happened that hadn’t happened before. At one point, it seemed there were two victims. One of them asked the designated murderer, “Why did you choke me?” The girl said she didn’t choke anyone. She tapped her victim on the shoulder.

A short time later, three girls from that group decided to have a Ouija session to see if they could find out what happened. After some initial interaction, they asked the question. Who choked their friend?

The Ouija Board, Norman Rockwell painting
from cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
Published May 1, 1920.

Letters were selected. Words started to form. L. said she kept the paper with the words for quite some time before she finally lost it. It had effectively scared the three girls off the board. The final sentence. “Stop asking now before it is too late.”

L. told me she now collects Ouija boards but that was the last time she ever used one for divination. Nor does she intend to use it again.

Museum of Talking Boards. Link.

My husband has had his own negative experience with a Ouija entity when a situation created by family members – got out of hand. They opened a portal and he shut it down. That happened when he was a teenager.

My experience was benign. We don’t use any talking boards.

John Dover – of the Paranormal Rangers offers advice on Ouija in this presentation. Also refers to it as a portal and suggests avoiding them. Link.

Archived .. 1995 prime time. “Real Ghosts” – Ghost at K-State. “At the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity House on this campus, a ghost of a former fraternity brother named Duncan is believed to linger here after he died during a hazing accident.” The show includes a Ouija session to contact “Duncan”. YouTube.

Divine assist

“It began when as a young parish priest I tried to assuage my curiosity about ghosts, and in no time at all found myself enjoying the company of these people from the world of yesteryear. I even found myself acting as counselor/social worker to many of them. I just can’t understand anyone being afraid of ghosts.” – Holy Ghostbuster: A Parson’s Encounters with the Paranormal, Reverend Joe Aelwyn Roberts

Customer Review. Amazon. 5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating book
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2018

“I read the trade copy in l996 and ran across it again today as I was going through a box of books. I immediately down-loaded it to Kindle for 99 cents and started to read it again. I remember that it was fascinating and well-written. Of course, many years have passed, so I feel as though I am reading it for the first time. I recommend this book. If you can’t trust a Pastor to write ghost stories then who can you trust?”

True Haunts

“I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.” – Ghostbusters, Ray Parker Jr.

Terry lives in one of the most haunted houses in Weston, Missouri. Ghosts don’t play dead – Wendy’s Coffeehouse 2018 [updated] interview with Terry McKenzie – Link.

Because of the unique history behind the house (descendants of Daniel Boone), the story behind the sale and how the McKenzie’s acquired it was newsworthy. Lawrence Journal World.

Terry McKenzie says he first began to wonder when he heard heavy footsteps in the room above him while he was alone in the house.

A bigger impression involved multiple witnesses who were gathered in the basement after an event. Very clearly, the sound of a man laughing could be heard coming from the stairway. Two of the witnesses were spooked enough to gather their things and vacate the house. ASAP. 

And then there’s an incident that is completely off the chart for paranormal photography.

Terry needed to document some of the furnishings for insurance purposes and took a photo of an antique dresser with a mirror in an empty room. When the picture was developed, clearly reflected in the mirror, were the images of two people, a man and a woman – dressed in period clothing. Holy grail for a ghost hunter. Difficult to explain or to deny. That image is incredible. I’ve seen it.

Interviewed in 2018. (13 years in the house) Terry says some friends might joke and deny that the house is haunted but he and his wife don’t have the luxury of disbelief. The Ghosts seem to be friendly… or at least… not too scary. And there was one curious encounter/sighting that made him question whether he saw the ghost of Daniel Boone.

According to Terry, the time of day is key. He says the house takes on a different energy at night.

The Halloween Ghost Walk, an outside tour of several houses, usually includes the home. It was featured on the 2018 Weston Christmas Homes Tour. The 2023 Christmas Homes Tour list of homes is posted on Facebook. Link.

Paranormal potluck

Still mulling this one over. Asleep for a couple of hours, the dog woke me as she left the room in search of a late night snack. I felt a sharp tap on the very top of my head. It would compare to being hit with an acorn falling from a tree, hitting you on the head and then bouncing off.

In that very same instant, I heard a spoken word and saw an image flash. Bold, block (black) letters across a yellow background with jagged edges. Reminiscent of the Batman TV series cartoon captions.

The word I heard matched the lettered image: Gotcha!

What? How incredibly odd. And interesting. The tap on my head felt physical. The discarnate voice was audible. Fully awake, I wondered who or what might be trying to get my attention and for what purpose.

As with the red and green lighted UFO I caught hovering in the corner of the room, it goes in the Contact category. News headlines of the day offered a clue. Top story was the first known case of COVID in our area.

Alien. Terrestrial. Interdimensional. PSI? Anomalies are pointless in losing sleep over when the possibilities number to infinity. *Date: 3/9/20, Full Moon.

Sci-Fi playground

“Imagine you’re a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never up out of the water. If someone were standing beside the pond, watching you, you’d have no idea they were there. To you, that little pond is an entire universe. Now imagine that someone reaches down and lifts you out of the pond. You see that what you thought was the entire world is only a small pool. You see other ponds. Trees. The sky above. You realize you’re a part of a much larger and more mysterious reality than you had ever dreamed of.” – Blake Crouch, Dark Matter: A Novel, Amazon

“Crouch takes a sharp sci-fi premise and infuses it with love…A gripping page-turner [that is] concerned above all with the heart, and what we do to it—or let happen to it—over time. Dark Matter is It’s A Wonderful Life for the 21st century” – AVClub.com

October 25, 2023 Reader Review: Mind Blown. This book had me feeling every kind of feeling! I loved every second of it! This was a book I had to really think about in the best way! WOW!!

Insight out

“As we explore inward into the true nature of reality, the reality becomes less and less dense and more and more thought responsive.” – William Buhlman

OBE Expert William Buhlman proposes that the purpose of this reality is that it is the slowed down training ground for consciousness. And that would make such things as haunted houses the perfect playground to practice expanded awareness. William Buhlman presentation: “Entering Into The Spirit World” / YouTube.

YouTube Comment: “Wonderful, insightful, truthful, honest, creative, bold… Remember 2 things when developing OBEs… protect yourself with a bright white shell of light around yourself first… & clean your emotions of strong emotions like anger, sadness, fear and addictions. William says that he purges his belief system every few days or so… this is actually crucially important.”

Our Interview [2020]: Adventures Beyond the Physical. Link.