Dr. Sean Daley, Paranormal in the classroom. Plus, Odd, Offbeat and Weird never go out of style.

"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature." - Arthur Conan Doyle, Brainy Quote.

OddsnEnds -

• Heave ho to the black furniture Demons. Sighted at the dump. Beware eBay shoppers. Source.
• UFO events are gaining more fans. The organizer for the 8th annual Edinburg UFO festival nails it, says 'people like weird, offbeat topics' and that's why their event keeps growing. Source. 
• This is one I will follow up on in a subsequent post: Arthur Conan-Doyle and the Fairies. Who's fooling who? Mental Floss. Fairy photos were all faked. Broadly.Vice. Or were they?
  The two girls maintain one photo, taken by accident, the Fairy Bower photo, truly captured the fairies. That part of the story never changed. Source.
  “There is nothing scientifically impossible, so far as I can see, in some people seeing things that are invisible to others,” Conan Doyle wrote.
• Cottingley Fairy photos up for sale. The Guardian.
• Real Fairies. An introduction. (Yes, I have seen and heard fairies.)
• Fairies are known to hang out in gardens. Garden story fav: A woman and her Bee. Link.

Wendy's Coffeehouse interview with Prof. Sean Daley - Paranormal Anthropology. One of several classes offered at Johnson County Community College where students can earn credit for learning about Ghosts and their haunts. Perks include optional investigations and tours of haunted locations.

Concluding from results by Daley and his investigation teams, one of the most consistent paranormal performers - in terms of encounters with the unknown and unexplained - is the Sallie House in nearby Atchison, Kansas. This is the video (Link) I mentioned during our interview - the one with the self-activated mini-blinds.

What began with one class has expanded to several. Day classes are in the Spring. Evening classes are scheduled in the Fall (enrollment underway) and the reviews suggest Professor Daley's classes are popular.

Bio: Sean M. Daley, Ph.D., M.A. Professor, Anthropology Director, Center for American Indian Studies Associate Director, American Indian Health Research and Education Alliance Johnson County Community College.

Sean currently teaches "Anthropology of the Paranormal and Supernatural,” “Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Ghosts and Hauntings,” “Demons and Demonology in the Roman Catholic Tradition,” and “The Anthropology of Religion.”

Haunted sites visited include the Sallie House in Atchison, Kansas, Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City and Glore Psychiatric Hospital and Museum in St. Joseph.

Sean says he doesn't really remember the exact trigger for his interest in the Paranormal but the interest has grown. More info about his class activities in the JCCC Campus Ledger. He has also accompanied an Exorcist - and that's another topic entirely. Don't expect to find a listing.  Contacts are made through select sources, eliminating the tire-kickers.
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Regarding Ghost hunting at the Sallie House. Listen to Astonishing Legends Episode 123. Note: The Sallie House is not for the faint of heart. Extremely active. About the Sallie House.

Continuing and forwarding to Episode 126. Professor Daley talks about investigation results at the house and provides evidence his teams have gathered. In this example, captured on video, students are seated in a circle around several objects when two of the objects move.



Living in a haunted house can be exhausting. Clearing the space helps quiet it down but there can be peaks and valleys in the activity. My current house is not haunted but - I do have occasional visitors who might be lost, have opted to take a detour or need assistance. Each encounter is unique.

Example: Image included here. I thought the roll of film had been used up. After the images were developed, there was one I couldn't explain. It correlated with paranormal events happening at that time.

Ghost watch. Unexplained image.
Confession - I got chills when I first discovered it. 

No class course? Ghost touring on your own? Weston, Missouri - just across the river from Atchison, has an abundance of accessible haunted retail sites. That's one of the reasons I participate in the annual Dining with Ghosts Tour. Info.

A recent group of tourists ventured over after a trip to Atchison, disappointed, no ghosts. They entered the store joking and making light of the fact any place could be  haunted.

Ghosts at Main Street Galleria obliged with a twofer: an appearance, rushing past a woman in the hallway and then tugging at the hair of that same woman after she went downstairs.

She ran out of the store, refused to come back in, and stood outside to wait for her friends. - As per Verna Kowertz. Owner of Main Street Galleria 

If a Weston overnight is on the agenda, try the Hatchery B&B or the Benner House (now operated as part of the Saint George). Each has documented ghost sightings and encounters. Day trips should include the Weston Café, Weston Bend Candle Company and Main Street Galleria. With prior arrangement, there might also be an opportunity for an on site investigation.

You don't have to believe in Ghosts to experience one. They exist. Whether you believe after an experience? That is entirely up to you.

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John Nelson (Author of The Magic Mirror) The Miracle of Anna and a few thoughts on Scrying.

“A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card.” - Edgar A. Shoaff (1904–1993), Writer, Satirist, Humorist


OddsnEnds - 

• What happened just after the Big Bang? This telescope will tell us. Alien UFO Sightings.
• Mysteries Unsolved - Booms. Luke Air Force Base confirmed that their exercises produced sonic booms in the area on the same day, the times at which the base reported those booms occurred did not correspond with the times of the noises reported by residents. Mysterious Universe.
• UK UFO. Orange lights unidentified and decent video to demonstrate. Link.
• Ghost or no? Is it the Black Monk said to haunt this sight. Source. Even more interesting is the story behind the photo. The NDEr says paranormal things happen more frequently. He is unsure if what he saw was a ghost. It's simply unexplained.
• Fantastic service and wonderful timing! Drone finds lost dog. The story of Socks could have had a very sad ending if not for the drone. Hit by a car, injured, he made a nest and would have been difficult to track on foot. That's where the drone is a game changer. BBC.

Wendy's Coffeehouse 2/17/19 Interview with prolific Writer/Author John Nelson. Site.

Also an editor, one of his clients is a recognized name in Kansas City: “John’s uncanny ability to take an elusive, creative idea and create a solid direction of coherent storytelling is often incomprehensible to me in its clarity. And after each session with him, the direction was so clear and focused that my channel effortlessly opened and created. It was nothing short of magical.” - Dee Wallace from her book Bright Light: Spiritual Lessons from a Life in Acting, O-Books, Spring 2011

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Off air, I was comparing Scrying to Dr. Raymond Moody's Psychomanteum technique used to connect with deceased loved ones. Link: How to facilitate and induce After Death Communication (ADC) and more information on Dr. Moody's Psychomanteum Research. Read a testimonial from one person who was initially skeptical and later included her experience in a book: Carla Wills-Brandon at White Crow Books. [John has also worked with Dr. Moody.]

John's Amazon book list continues to expand. He focuses on spiritually motivating content. In our previous conversation we talked about Energy work and his book, A Guide to Energetic Healing. Initially, I reconnected to talk about Scrying, featured in his book The Magic Mirror. However, the newest book has just debut to a chorus of good reviews, so we start there.

John posted a link for the promo video on Facebook. The Miracle of Anna, an Awakened Child. How complicated might it be to raise a spiritually advanced child who challenges the current view of the manifest plane, a child born illuminated? As complicated as you might imagine.


Comic relief. I saw the film before it chalked up all the awards: Alternative Math. This Teacher can't catch a break. Beaten but not quite down for the count... she's got one trick up her sleeve.



5,114,206 views - and counting. IMDb for credits and reviews.


I teased this class during our interview.  

Where can you take a class on Anthropology of the Paranormal? In Kansas City? College credit? Try JCCC.

Interview coming up in April. Anthropology Professor Sean Daley shares my preference for meeting people who might need help regarding an issue of supernatural origin in a local coffeehouse. [A neutral location.]

Reading the online reviews from students who have taken his classes, feedback is  positive. In this interview for the online publication, The Campus Ledger, Daley says, "There’s a movement where things that would be considered occult are becoming very mainstream," Daley said. "The paranormal, particularly the darker side of it, is becoming a part of pop culture."

I know I would have loved to have had an opportunity to explore that field of study if it had been available when I was in college. Glad to see classes on the topic are an option now.

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