Sunday, May 15, 2011

Spiritual / Paranormal Activity News: Llanelli Entity Investigation, House Blessings, Urban Legends and More


Llanelli, South Wales Entity Investigation - Spirit Rescue International

In the audio/video is an amazing 50 sec. clip of the whistling episode from this location on May 11th. There are a few whistles in the beginning (then some chatter was edited) then a long sustained whistle. It is again repeated with some of the commentary from the client, Irene, Karen and myself (Karen and I could actually hear it through Skype).

Karen and JD were conversing on Skype while Irene and the others went to another part of the house. During their conversation, the 'oh no' occurred.

During the investigation, I was perceiving someone saying "aith-wen" and 'seeing' a script monogrammed capital 'E'. Eiddwen is a Welsh name for a girl...Karen found a list of names and this one fits best (I think) as far as pronunciation. Irene will run it by Lorna who speaks Welsh.

BTW...I was also perceiving something that sounded like 'kevel'...of which I told Irene and Lorna at the time. Later that night, Irene told me that she and Lorna had heard a horse and horse related sounds. The Welsh word 'Ceffyl' means 'horse'. We'll need to run that by Lorna as well.


Click for Entity Investigation - Llanelli, South Wales - May 11, 2011 video/audio

Listen to the audio on this video clip (nevermind the poor video...interested in the audio). Irene and Lorna are on-site and the client is using her personal video camera. Karen and I are on Skype. There is a bit of whistling and a long deep sigh.


Click for Llanelli, South Wales Haunting - Audio - 5/11/2011 audio

This image was captured as well...does not resemble anyone who was present that evening. Look closely....


Now...look again


NOTE: Spirit Rescue International has been working this case since mid-March. The entire case log (as well as all case logs) is available at the Astral Perceptions forum. We will be conducting another remote viewing session on Monday (May 16th) in order to get a handle on the recent activity...hopefully enough to clear the location and to keep it entity-free. As always we will provided continued consultation and support to the client and family. Any update will be posted on the Astral Perceptions forum...Lon

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Urban Legend or Real: The Killer in the Backseat

“A woman leaves her work late, realising that she has nothing for breakfast in the morning she stops off at a garage on the way home to pick up some supplies before heading home. The job that the woman does sometimes calls for her to put in long hours of overtime and by the time she leaves work the road is pretty deserted. After a stretch of encountering no cars on the road, a car comes up quite fast behind her. It shines its indicator before starting to pull out from behind her, looking as if it is going to overtake before hitting the breaks and swerving back in behind her.

The driver of the other car starts to flash its lights crazily behind her, dazzling her vision somewhat. In a panic, she starts to speed up. Desperately, she reaches for her phone, but at the speed she’s going she’s scared that she won’t be able to handle the car if she tries to make the call.

The driver behind starts to become more erratic, flashing their lights even more and driving right up behind her. He even ends up bumping her from behind several times, which causes her to lose her phone. She speeds home, jumping every red light, which the car behind does to. Finally reaching her house she springs out of her car and runs for the front door just as the other car come careening into the drive behind her. Just as she puts her key into the door the driver of the other car screams.

‘For God’s sake, lock the car door!’

Without thinking, she does it. Just as the electronic lock clicks, she sees the face of a man materialise at the window of the back seat, staring intently at her and banging lightly on the window.”

This tale easily deserves its place as one of the scariest of the Urban Legends. It has led countless people to check their backseats every time they drive at night (including me). The interesting moral to the story is that it isn’t always the most obvious source of fear that actually presents you with danger.

There is another common variant that sees a creepy looking petrol station attendant trying to coax the driver out of the car. It is a tale designed to make people re-evaluate their prejudiced and preconceptions, as the attendant that causes so much fear is actually the individual trying to save the driver in an incredibly delicate and volatile situation.

The basic bottom line is the hidden fear. You feel safe locked in your car and the danger always lies outside. As long as you lock yourself in, you are safe from any threats. This flips this common conception on its head, seeing the victim locking themselves in with the danger.

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Retro Paranormal: Seeing Ghosts - November 1931

We don't mean to frighten you, but ghosts aren't imaginary. They're quite real, just not in the way you think they are. Here, we explained that ghosts are merely enhanced optical illusions. Want to creep yourself out? Stare at the ghost on this page for a minute, blink, and look at the wall -- hello, scary face. It's an optical illusion phenomenon known as "afterimage," or, more appropriately for this story, "ghost image": a sort of burn-in on the retina that can sometimes revert color.

At the time, psychologists posited that the retina could retain these images for several hours after they'd initially faded away. Seeing a ghost in a graveyard probably came from staring at someone in a lighted doorway earlier. The same goes for sinister figures you see by your bed after waking up in the middle of the night. This also explains why people tend to see while carrying candle lamps. By placing the light directly in your face, you increase the chances of manipulating the sensitivity of your retina. Read the full story in "Seeing Ghosts Now Explained By Simple Experiments"

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The 'Bless This House' Market

boston - Inside the white Colonial with its flaking whitewashed fence and debris-flecked yard, there’s the shrill clanging of a bell; the intense aroma of incense; the flashing of a sword.

Enrobed in black and swathed in jewelry, standing in the kitchen of a foreclosed Peabody house, Salem witch and self-described psychic Lori Bruno feels a heaviness, a constriction, and she scatters salt, wafts incense, splashes holy water, and clangs bells in an attempt to expunge it.

“Energy goes into things, and it soaks up,’’ the 71-year-old explains after performing a short blessing on the property, in a cluster of homes on a Peabody side street. “You clear that energy.’’

With the real estate pendulum seemingly suspended midswing — experts predicting foreclosures to rise this year, a continually cluttered inventory, home values in many cases dramatically low, and a national home vacancy rate above 10 percent — some are seeking metaphysical intervention.

To clear away bad vibes caused by the swirl of anxiety, desperation, and loss encircling the market, local buyers, sellers, and agents have been turning to witches, psychics, intuits, mediums, feng shui consultants, and 2,000-year-old saints — among others — to perform house clearings and blessings, and to provide direction and a divine cloak of protection.

“Because I don’t know the history of the house, I don’t want whatever happened there to follow me,’’ explained Nicole Palmer, who, with her husband, Richard, has a contract on a foreclosed Peabody home that Bruno blessed, and which the couple plans to have blessed a second time by a Native American relative.

“These are very, very uncertain times, and many people come to me, and people like me, in search of some guidance,’’ said Kyri Spencer of Billerica, who identifies herself as a clairvoyant psychic adviser and medium.

Ultimately, blessings and clearings are believed to remove remnants of negative energy stagnating after arguments, physical or mental pain, sickness, and other hardships.

And, practitioners cite drastic results, including foreclosures or other houses that have sat idly on the market for months suddenly attracting multiple offers.

But before all that, “you can hear the anger, it gets into your bones,’’ said Bruno, who does blessings for free — except for a promise that the recipients will make a donation to charity.

Houses are a lot like people, agreed Natalia Kaylin, a feng shui consultant based in Westford: Some feel joyful, others feel neglected.

“They absorb human emotions,’’ she said.

That’s something Palmer picked up on while house-hunting.

A lot of the homes “felt very sad, and like a lot of things occurred there,’’ she said. But she recalled stepping inside houses blessed in previous years by her stepfather, who is partly Native American, and noting a lighter, newer feeling.

With her future house (which has a tentative closing date next month), meanwhile, Palmer said, she didn’t feel any particular sadness or “heavy feeling,’’ but the blessings will make her feel more secure.

Palmer said that she and her husband want a “new beginning, our own adventure.’’

However, Bruno stressed, it isn’t just a one-way benefit.

“You want to bless it for the people who will be going there,’’ she said, “but also the people who had to leave.’’

Still, Spencer noted, she and others like her don’t have the power to protect people who have exercised bad judgment or who have been persuaded to enter into ultimately disastrous financial arrangements.

“I can only ask that any entities or intelligences that may have any influence upon the course of events to look favorably upon those who are in need of assistance,’’ she said, and to also help them see their choices, options, and consequences more clearly.

In such cases, “even if they don’t get to keep their home, it will probably get them someplace better,’’ Pamela Landenburg of Wakefield, who describes herself as a psychic medium, asserted of house clearings.

At that precise moment, she stood barefoot, abalone shell in hand, in a green duplex on a busy Dracut street. Her goal: To provide good tidings for the owner, who isn’t facing foreclosure, but who hopes to soon move on to a new home.

Over the next roughly 20 minutes, Landenburg moved in clockwise circles around the perimeter of each room — three bedrooms and upstairs bathroom, living room, kitchen and downstairs bathroom — waving the shell with its smoking frankincense and white sage, clapping in each corner, shaking a rattle, squirting holy water from a spray bottle, scattering kosher salt in doorways.

The owner “feels that things aren’t going right for her,’’ she explained. “We’re hoping this will get her flow of energy going.’’

Which is also a core principle in Kaylin’s work; with feng shui, she does compass measurements and gauges the flow of energy as part of her calculations, and employs more conventional methods as well, such as altering colors, rearranging furniture and decorations, or adding plants.

The placement of the “for sale’’ sign is also crucial, she said.

“What I’m trying to do is find the reason the house isn’t selling. If there’s a negative aspect, how can I minimize it?’’ she said. “I do see a house as something alive. I feel it, work with it, get to know it, learn its story.’’

The ultimate goal is to create a lure for a buyer, she said, so “it’s like certain harmony lands on them when they enter the property.’’

But when energy or the spirits aren’t called upon? The saints are.

Specifically, St. Joseph, husband to the Virgin Mary and patron saint of carpenters. Sellers looking for help will bury a small statue of St. Joseph upside-down near their realty sign.

“Some people perceive this as a good-luck charm; others see it as something much more divine,’’ said Phil Cates, founder of St. Joseph Statue LLC, which sells kits with 4-inch and 8-inch statues.

Ultimately, Cates said, “it’s about protecting people against bad real estate decisions. I think he’s more of a protector than a home-seller.’’

Testimonials might say different, though; as Cates noted, people have reported receiving multiple offers just after burial of the statue, and even interest the moment they place an online order for a kit.

All told, the Calif.-based company has seen business “starting to really pick up’’ over the last year, Cates said, although interest overall tends to be cyclical.

Bruno, for her part, has experienced a similar demand: These days she performs an average of two house blessings a week.

“In the past four months, it’s gone crazy,’’ Janet Howcroft, a broker with Five Star Realty Group, with whom Bruno principally works, said from the driver’s seat of an SUV darting through the Peabody streets on a recent drizzly weekday.

Minutes later, Bruno’s voice reverberates off the pale yellow walls of an empty Peabody foreclosure, a renovated 1840 Colonial.

A figure dressed in black with an array of chains, bracelets, and dozens of earrings running up and down each lobe, and multiple rings encircling every finger, Bruno traces the house’s first floor in several swift arcs.

First, with flicks of kosher salt from a plastic tub.

“To those who come to this house anew, may their dreams come true!’’

Then, wafting incense; then holding a Michael the Archangel candle aloft.

“Joy, joy, prosperity be!’’

Splashing holy water from a bowl.

“By the element of water, I bless every quarter!’’

Motioning crosses and stars at each window and the front door with a steel blade.

“I seal the window with steel most powerful!’’

Finally a clanging bell sharply punctuating her words.

“Send all negativity away!’’

In about 10 minutes, it’s all over; Bruno quickly clears out and shuts the door, in hopes that the lingering energy will follow.

Then, pausing on the front lawn, she nods at the clearing clouds and budding roses, and makes a prediction: “This house will have joy.’’

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