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Weston haunted. Engaging paranormal occupants unseen. Happy Halloween!

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception." - Aldous Huxley, Quotes.


OddsnEnds - 
  • He says possession is rare - but real. And he's the 'go-to guy for Exorcists'. - CNN
  • Kansas City Haunts - Real Trauma, Real Ghosts in and near KC. Visit KC
  • Game time = Men in Black + Ghostbusters. MovieWeb

KC Haunts -
As part of a paranormal group, I visited one business in Lenexa a few years ago that sold and has since remained vacant. Actively haunted. The owner decided to sell after multiple attempts by various groups failed to calm the place. Concerned about the chaos and for her [at the time] teenage daughter working alone in the building.

Noted: ongoing encounters with ghosts. Visitors, including children, reported sightings of  a young child standing near the checkout counter. Some reported being touched.

Verna Kowertz, Owner,
Main Street Galleria, Weston, Missouri

Ghost Tales of Weston had an unexpected highlight this year.

Two visitors came up for the day and happened to capture a very unique photo of something standing near a window of a vacant room in the Saint George Hotel. The photo soon went viral and was reported on a local TV station.

Only after the two stopped in for lunch across the street at Main Street Galleria did they discover the haunted history of the hotel.

A staple on the annual ghost tour, stories about the hotel include the past history and current ghost encounters.

Curious? Book room 308, 306 or 302 
and then consider the ghosts inhabit the entire building.
One of the most chilling present day encounters involved a local high school student who had just started working at the hotel when she tried to change a burned out light bulb.

Standing on a ladder, she witnessed the bulb turn - by itself - in the socket. And then it shattered.

She immediately resigned and wanted nothing else to do with the building. I know the long-time news reporter who relayed that story. The girl was a friend of his daughter.

I sat across from Chris Williams at the Ghost Tales event last year and heard him talk about his experience in a Saint George hotel bathroom. He posted part of that story on this site.

The last few sentences sum it up. "My heart was racing, and my BP was elevated. The whispers subsided the minute she (his wife) came for me, and as soon as I was calmed down enough, I exited through the back door. I didn’t want to be alone, for fear that I drop dead. There is a lot more to the story, but it’s a lot to type right now. This made me a true believer, and it truly scared me, almost to death."

Scents and spooky ambiance on the Weston Ghost Tour.
Weston visitors have the luxury of opting whether to believe.

Residents and those who work in local businesses are confronted with a different reality when they discover that the encounters have nothing to do with belief.

Denial won't make a ghost go away.

Weston is a hot spot for paranormal activity. Fair warning - much of the town is haunted.

One very active location at this time is the Weston Bend Candle Company. Results are expected in the next week or two from the recent investigation by a paranormal group. Looking forward to sharing the details. They did offer a hint as they left the building. Something to the effect that it was, "...a very active night".


Halloween Treat (and trick) - Ghostwatch, a British reality–horror/mockumentary television movie, first broadcast on BBC1 on 31 October (Halloween), 1992. Subsequently banned from British TV (for being unreal). Part 1 on Vimeo. You'll find Part 2 there as well.

Related Links - 
Ghostwatch.net tracking real ghosts and true stories
Parapsychology Foundation - YouTube Schedule and Listings
UK - Society for Psychical Research

Thank you for listening!
Stay curious.

Weston Ghosts and the nearly attached ... Dinner with spirits

“Never invite any kind of spirit to enter either your home or your person. This is an extremely important point to remember. To do so always risks to unwittingly invite evil spirits in, instead. Good spirits never need to be invited in.” The New Homeowner's Guide to House Spirits, Alexei Maxim Russell, Amazon


Year number 13 for Dining with Ghosts in Weston, Mo. Always interesting. I have made some wonderful connections in Weston and through the guests who have been kind enough to share their stories with me. [An Atheist in Heaven, The Cat who turned White, Mind Control ability lost due to an Accident.]

My participation in this event started in 2010. Each year is unique.

Main Street Galleria, Weston, Mo.
Dining with Ghosts
One can expect an overview of the historical highlights outlining the more famous tales but the town is alive with hauntings and new stories are added with each passing year.

As I experience an amplified energy in the space and at the event, I usually prepare myself in advance. This year was no exception but it was different, that amplification had a kicker.

Other elements to factor: weather, crowd and spirit presence. While preparing for the event, I had a prompt from my spirit guides to, "Stay focused." Not quite sure what that referenced, I asked for clarification.

My guides suggested I needed to pay closer attention to the attendees for that evening and told me I would be "tagged". Asking for a definition of "tagged" - I got nothing. They suggested I would be shown and that would be my answer. Obviously. (Severus Snape picture in my mind now.)

Guides have a sense of humor. Each time they put me through something like this, the chuckles are to be anticipated in the epilogue. Always. 

Reassuring me that this situation is not intended to present a harm to anyone, they indicate there will be plenty of warning and cues to the presence of the "tag" in that I would have a sensation of the issue and I would know who and what it was about when it happened. Conveniently vague.

My biggest challenge with this information is to avoid overthinking or projecting an expectation or outcome onto whatever issue I am supposed to address. That's how each new adventure starts. Short on description. Long on connecting invisible dots. Charades.

The only hints the guides offered were that the source was male and one who was not apt to blend into the crowd. Even small clues are helpful. Turns out I didn't have to look too hard to find the guy. But they knew that. Insert chuckle.

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Verna Kowertz - Main Street Galleria Host
and Keeper of the Ghost Tales of Weston.
Andy (husband) helps to give me perspective when I need it. He knows what I have been advised and keeps watch for anything out of the ordinary.

When we first arrived, I wondered if there might be any sort of preview of what might be in store. In a glimpse, might I identify the person I was warned about?

No luck. Uncertain as to what I am looking for anyway, the night passes without incident.

About the time I have pretty much forgotten the warning, I start to feel something odd, a tightening sensation in the left side of my chest.

As it progresses, from my heart down, across the rib cage, into my solar plexus, I wonder what is happening. This makes no sense. I don't say anything but the tension is building, my jaw is tightening and I am thinking I might need to shift position and stand up for a minute. Starting to become a bit concerned. Do I need to leave?

Redirect. Focus. Ground. Then I catch a few words of the conversation in progress, directly across the table from me. It begins to filter in. Curious, I detach from the discomfort and start to listen. The guy is talking about his experience at the haunted hotel across the street.

In the middle of describing a sensation that frightened him the most, he details the part of the story where he was alone in a hotel bathroom and was unexpectedly assaulted with
Locals have some interesting 
stories. Curious? Book a room.
a pain in his chest - a stabbing pain - that paralyzed him and made him unable to leave the stall.

The sensation left when his girlfriend arrived to open the door. In hearing his story, the odd tightness in my chest dissolved.

Understanding very clearly how I felt and sensed a shift in my being with this encounter, I can better define the term "tagging" as something that happens when an entity/ghost/thought-form attempts to attach to another energy source.

(Not the first time I've been through something like this. Advance warning from my guides is helpful.)

Entities can attach to anything, living or simply a material form. A store down the street from the Galleria is home to a haunted doll. The windows ice up when she is displayed at the store front. In this case, the entity appeared to prefer a living being, me.

When the guy was calm and in a relaxed state, the entity dislodged to seek out a different host. As soon as he reminisced and relived his frightening encounter, he became animated and excited in the act of relating the dynamic of that bold physical contact. The entity then reattached to him and refueled.

He had been seated directly across from me all along but I hadn't sensed anything unusual until there was a lull in the activity at the table. That is when I begin to feel odd sensations and changes in my physical body.

The entity created an intense shift in my physical body when it siphoned energy from me, giving me a reminder and an immediate awareness of the potential drain these types of beings can create when one is in their presence - even if the person afflicted has no awareness or belief in such anomalies.

Thhe need to engage psychic self-defense and energetic clearing is helpful as a regular practice and even more so when going to places that are known (and often famous) for active hauntings.

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The very short encounter I describe created enough of a drain on my energy system that I spent the next 24 hours recuperating. I had also been warned, intentionally, to underscore the lesson.

Interesting what our guides know and
how much or little they are at liberty to disclose.

Indications from my spirit guides and from physical sources who are aware of the individual involved in this incident regarding the situation and the "tag" scenario are that any release I might offer would be unwelcome and/or rejected by one who is enamored with the attachment or caught up in the excitement of the drama.

As long as there remains a desire and an interest or invitation from the human host involved for those types of encounters, the potential for psychic [PK] chaos remains and provides a fuel source for various entities. Those who come into contact with such a person can expect the unexpected.

However, there is no need to be afraid or discouraged in situations where this type of activity is more prevalent. Do expand your PSI tools and broaden your awareness to understand the scenarios and individuals who (knowingly and not) feed these entities.

Epilogue: Only afterward did the guides inform me that the "tag" would not stick because we were incompatible. They explain it as a matter of frequency and vibration. We are not a match. I don't offer enough fuel to feed the entity. That is a tiny compliment - and they find it amusing. Translation: I am dull in a bright way. Funny.

- - -

When the 'Energy' first presented a case for these beings in Talking to Nightlights, I didn't have enough PSI awareness to appreciate or understand the potential for a symbiotic attachment and how that might work.

2 decades later. I have had time to process and engage, through personal contact, a wide variety of these non-physical beings in a more direct manner and find it apparent that entities such as these can create havoc in ways we have yet to account for or openly acknowledge. While that fact might be unspoken outside metaphysical circles, it isn't any big secret.

What remains to be done with the entity who tagged me? It's complicated. Telling it to move on or clearing the space are among the options but not a topic I will address here.

The greater point being: Our thoughts and emotions unchecked are creating a great deal of surplus source fuel for entities running amuk. (Not to mention the corporeal delinquents having a field day.) When we clean up our thoughts to embrace, transmute and integrate our emotions, some of those mischievous entities, with nothing left to stir the pot, will finally be motivated to move on.

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Note: Weston is listed on various sites as one of the most haunted cities in Missouri. Haunted sites don't measure activity by calendar dates. Ghosts are present 24/7. If you desire an encounter, visit. No guarantees.

Order Ghost Tales of Weston or the Cookbook.
A recent report [10/17] involved a tourist who said she and her friends saw no ghosts in nearby Atchison. She then encountered a ghost at the Galleria, not once, but twice.

She told Verna (Owner of Main Street Galleria) she saw a woman - who wasn't there -walk briskly by her in a hallway.

The tourist had a second incident downstairs. She told the employee someone (unseen) pulled her hair, and promptly vacated.

Her ghost-hunting friends, excited about the possibility of interaction, remained and pulled out their cell phones to explore, hoping to capture images or sounds. No results.

Belief in the supernatural or ghosts is not required. However, once one has had an encounter, disbelief is harder to hang onto. Don't be surprised if your friendships change.

Visitors are welcome at Main Street Galleria and invited to shop or dine during business hours throughout the year. https://www.westongalleria.com/

Supporting Information:
Journey of Souls, Michael Newton
Far Journeys, Robert Monroe
Spirit Rescue, Tick Gaudreau, Dave Darrow
Psychic Self Defense, Dion Fortune
Ena Twigg - Medium, PsychicTruth.info
Ingo Swann - Psychic, Ingo Swann.com
Very much alive - Uri Geller - Psychic: http://www.urigeller.com/
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May your eyes always be open.
May your hearts overflow.
That which enchants will also protect -
May this you will always know.
 ~ Ted Andrews: Intercession of Spirits, Working with Animals, Angel and Ancestors

Weston Missouri Ghosts score a Supermoon - 2016 Ambiance

Supermoon over Price-Loyles house in Weston, Mo
aka Daniel Boone house

“Oh, very good,' interrupted Snape, his lip curling.

'Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter.

'Ghosts are transparent.”

- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince



Couldn't have asked for better timing this year. Center stage in October: Ghosts, Orbs and a Full Supermoon. If you missed it, more Supermoons are on the way for 2016. CBS.com and Weather.com


Weston's 2016 Dining with Ghosts and Walking Ghost Tour kicked off the
first of three SOLD OUT nights with perfect fall weather.



Several Main Street shops host ghosts.
Top floor of this
building is now storage
- Basketballs can be heard on the old court.

Crisp and warm night air, light breezes
and the sound of an occasional walnut dropping. The highlight of the night: an Owl serenade.

Perennial favorite, Weston Cafe has been the scene
of some of the town's darker history. 

More recent sightings of the unexplained include
a guest from the 2015 Ghost Tour apologizing
for almost running into the woman volunteer 
who was working back in the kitchen. 

There were no volunteers working in the kitchen. 


To add a bit of background - 
tour volunteers have said the Cafe location
has a different feel to it and at least one who is said to have had a sighting chooses not to return.

Others simply prefer not to go any further than the front of the cafe. The 2015 guest had requested to use the restroom and met the kitchen "volunteer" in passing on her way out.

A new site earning a stop on the tour this year is the Weston Bend Candle Company. Stepping into the store, one is immediately immersed in a world of wonderful aromas.

The back story: Now occupying a corner, the candle store had been located in the middle of the same block. The old location still retains a very pleasant aroma hinting of its former retail incarnation.

No paranormal activity had been experienced at the prior location. Might have been due to that location being converted from an alley when the space for stores was at a premium. Different story now.

Unusual activity began shortly after the owners began moving in. While working to get the store up and running, the owner thought he saw a shadow, similar to a person crossing the room in the unoccupied front area of the store.


The movement was subtle enough he wasn't quite sure what it was he saw, except he knew whatever it was, it was an odd thing to witness in an unoccupied space. The experiences are varied and the activity continues. An eventful tour.

Weston Ghost Walk Ambiance

Great news if you missed the SOLD OUT events this year
and/or if Weston is too far for a visit,
Verna Kowertz, keeper and chronicler of all things
Weston ghost related, now has a book
detailing the haunted history of Weston, Missouri.

Order one from Weston Main Street Galleria.




Thank you to the Volunteer Ghost Tour Guides/Weston Community Theater
More info about the *Daniel Boone house: History Nut of Missouri Blog
More Missouri Haunts: Show Me Scary
Main Street Galleria on Facebook 
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