Queens Park

Communicating with the beyond has been a fascination for many and has existed for a long time. Arguably one might say since the inception of modern consciousness. Just recently I was out at Queens park cemetery with one of my team mates, Ian, well as Rob who is co-founder of west paranormal Research. We arrived around 7:30 to begin our investigation. The sun was high and the temperature was quite nice at the time. Of course nothing generally happens when the sun is that high but it gave us a chance to explore during the day light and get a good lay of the land. Rob has been there many times and gave myself and my team mate a history of the area. The equipment used was a Mel Meter, compass, 2 digital audio recorders, K II, still camera, and video camera. It was the digital recorders that are the stars of this outing.

Unfortunately after reviewing all of my pictures and video I found nothing out of the ordinary. I also listened to my audio recordings and also found nothing of interest. We did a series of three EVP sessions during which we had placed the Mel, the K II, and the EVP recorders down and fixed the video camera on them during the session. During the first session the temperature gauge had gone down very quickly. As the temperature was in fact getting colder there was not much we could read into this as it was nothing out of the ordinary. The Mel had a few small spikes in EMF reading but nothing considerable.

The second session, much like the first in set up, was also unremarkable. No reaction from the equipment nor did we catch anything on the EVP recorders. There was nothing too crazy going on at this stage. There were also still a few stragglers around the area who were walking through the park.  Don’t get me wrong, in that the whole thing was a bust. If nothing else, this cemetery was absolutely beautiful. The stone work on the graves was very impressive. You could not help but feel a sense of sorrow looking at them and the ages of some of those who have passed. It was the younger people who are now deceased that really caught my attention.

 It was when we were getting to the children’s area of the cemetery that we completed our last EVP session. Sadly yes there is a children’s area.  At this location Ian and I were standing in the middle of the grave sites on the playground and Rob was standing just outside of the play area on the grass. I had placed the K II on the ground and Ian filmed it with the video recorder.  I had one EVP recorder in my hand and Rob placed one on the lower part of the playground. I asked a series of questions to which I received no response. There were a few howls of coyotes in the background but we heard nothing out of the ordinary. I specifically asked if someone could, as loud as they could, say anything to let me know they were around. Still I heard nothing. After about 10 minutes of the session we shut it down as the temperature was getting quite cold. The next day I went through all of the stuff Ian and I had collected. Unfortunately I had found absolutely nothing with my collected material.

Later that evening I received a message from Rob which only said I am sending you an audio recording. I checked my email and opened the audio. His email said he caught something but wouldn’t tell me where, that way if I heard the same thing we could at least compare that. In the recording, right where I asked for someone to say something as loud as they could, you can clearly hear what sounds like two shouts. I could not make out what they said but they were distinctly two shouts from a person. It sounded human so there was no confusing it with an animal sound. It was our only capture that evening. It was not much but we still spoke of it to see if it was something to consider. Rob considered it to be someone in the distance from our location that he caught. I had to dismiss that because if it were in fact a person in the area my recorder should have also caught that sound as well as the video camera and we also would have heard it ourselves. Only his recorder recorded anything which tells me that whatever shouted out had done so directly into his recorder.  Ultimately we didn’t get much to work with from that investigation but that one EVP is still worth considering.

How does a spirit come to life?

Energy can not be created or destroyed by ordinary means, it can only transform. We can thank Mr. Albert Einstein for this piece of scientific genius. This statement poses an interesting question regarding spirit anomalies.  A spirit entity is made up of Electro Magnetic Energy. So how did spirits come to be, if they can not be created or destroyed by ordinary means? In other words, how is a ghost created?
A human soul is the essence of who we are, so one can assume that if our soul is trapped after we pass on, that same essence can become spirit energy outside of the body. With no physical form it can move around without interaction of the surrounding environment. There may be the odd bang or creek, but relatively unaffecting.

A violent end can cause such a huge surge of energies that it gets imprinted on the surrounding area and replays as a residual haunt. With no consciousness to drive the cut scene from the spirits life, it is trapped in an unending loop. That consciousness of self can empower spirit energy. Consciousness can give the being focus and in so doing, give it physical capability. The entity can now interact with its environment as well as the people in the environment. This is a scarier notion because now you have a being that can touch you, but you can not touch it. It can see you but you can not always see it. A spirit can hide from all of the human’s basic senses. An exception to the previous rule would be our inner eye abilities; the senses beyond our 5 basics. Though we may not always be able to hear them, see them, touch them, smell them, or some how taste them, we still can some how “sense them.”

This is all great in theory, alas, it is just a theory. We as of yet, can not prove such things. There are an abundance of theories that can either support or oppose what I have just written. However, one thing seems thus far to be universal. It does appear that we all agree that a spirit is made up of Electro Magnetic Energy. It is just a matter of trying to determine how that energy gets personified.

Still, we have not even taken into account the other types of spirits that exist. This makes it even harder to determine how a ghost comes into being. I only spoke of residual and intelligent spirits. However, we then have things like poltergeists (which theoretically isn’t even a ghost), death omens, faeries, specters, masses, etc. Many different types exist, but do they all have a similar origin?

We may never truly know how this kind of creation even occurs. The genesis of life after life may always be a mystery, but what do you think? How do you think it plays out?

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Inglewood Investigation

We started while the sun was up. It was around 7:45pm. The company was 2 investigators from West Paranormal Research and me. I had met one of the co-founders, Rob in October of 2011 where I had gone to an event held by Calgary Ghost Tours. He was there as a tech expert along with the group organizer Johanna. For anyone interested in Calgary Ghost Tours, I highly recommend them. They are very informative and Johanna is a great entertainer as well. Her level of knowledge regarding locations in Calgary is educational, along with her character makes for a great evening. That night in October was supposed to be just an information session about the locations. The groups are normally large, but on this night it was just Rob, Johanna, me, and my uncle Dennis. Dennis had come along with a bit of interest, but more to indulge my thirst for the study of all things paranormal.

What started off as a normal walk through quickly became more active. The first stop was a back alley behind an old communications group building. This building was empty and unused. There was still power in the building which was evident from the lights. There was a peep hole at the back door for occupants to look out of. That is how we could see the lights. I saw that something had block out the light for a split second. Then there was a tapping on the inside of the door that was very distinct. This was heard by the others with me. The quick back story to this building was that a homeless person was sleeping under the building in a crevice that had opened up. He got trapped inside during the winter apparently. They found his body at some point later one, allegedly he froze to death. The assumption is that the tapping was the man’s attempt at getting someone’s attention for help. What also should be mentioned is that prior to hearing these things, our tour guide did not alert us to anything yet, she let us find out first before telling us what had happened.

Nearby was a partially vacant lot that once housed a pie shop. The owner was a lady who had one practiced her religious beliefs on site.  To reiterate, we were not told of the story until after we had noticed anything. My first alert was that a number of times I could see a figure moving around from point to point. It was a shadow but clearly a human being. I noticed it a few times while there. I said nothing at first and just kept it to myself, it was the tour guide Johanna who noticed my inattention to the group as I was trying to figure out what I saw. She asked me what it was, so I explained. She then informed me of the history of the location and that the owner was a former voodoo practitioner who also did supernatural works within the building. The shadow figures have been reported there for a long time. I was lucky enough to have experienced it for myself. During the walk through in Inglewood, using a piece of equipment known as a K2 meter, which picks up Electro Magnetic Fields and displays it in a LED light system to show strength,  we noticed it was reacting to something in the area. This is later debunked when we return to the main story.

Along this same route there was a house turned into a clinic in an area which had reported sightings of a person who regularly would be seen standing on the top floor balcony. This person was always described as see through. There are also regular reports of poltergeist activity in this location. Through the windows of this clinic, which is always empty at night, there was clear visual evidence of movement in the building. We could all see the shadows moving inside, but no one was there. One of our group members even rapped on the door to see if someone would answer the door, but no one was there. Something was moving around and it was at least the height of a person. It or they were moving around on each level of the building.

There were a couple of places that we went to that were inactive, but the cream of the crop for experiences that night was right along the pathway. Rob and I had been walking ahead of the other 2. Something caught my eye, I looked up and moved closer to try and view it up close. I could see a big black mass that had a solid shape but looked like it was a black cloud. It was clearly there and I had started moving faster to get to it, Rob was right on my tail as he also had seen it. It stayed there for a few seconds while we moved towards it and I could see the movement within its shape. Then as we got within 10 meters of the mass, it vanished in front of us. This is the part of the story that brought us back to the spot.

At 7 45 pm I met with Rob and Trevor, the other half of West Paranormal. Rob and I had wanted to see if we could figure out what happened back in October. We walked the area in day light to get a lay of the land. This was along the path where we had gotten EMF readings that looked as though we were chasing something. We were able to debunk this because we noticed while the sun was up that the route we followed in October had power lines that followed the same route. It was nothing paranormal at all, just power lines. We could not see them in the dark. It was a moment we could laugh at, which we did. The real reason was to go back and determine what it was that caused the black mass. We tried putting a person in the area to view from a distance. We tried playing with flash lights to see if it was some kind of cast off of a shadow. Nothing could get the same effect. We analysed the way the light cast off the river to see if it could have somehow created the mass, but still nothing. Ultimately we could not recreate the black mass, or mist, that we witnessed that night. We were there for a while trying to get something, but nothing was working. We did not see it again, but we were happy at the fact that Rob and I did see the same thing, and couldn’t recreate how it got there. As we could not debunk it, we knew we saw something unexplainable.

As we were happy enough we decided to call it a night. Walking back down the path to return to our vehicles, I felt a tug on the strap of my camera bag. Hard enough to pull my shoulder down a bit, I turned back to Rob assuming he was trying to get my attention. Oddly enough he was not close enough to grab my shoulder strap. I looked at him and asked if he did that, of course he didn’t. I told him that my shoulder strap got tugged on and showed him how hard. With a smile, all he could say was “It looks like we at least got someone’s attention.”

With all that said, though we did not see the mass again, it is certain that whatever it was, did happen.

The Soul

What is it that makes us who we are?  The very nature of our being summed up into one word. The soul as it is known in some beliefs is a good place to start.  The inner consciousness of our being that will transcend our bodies as we know them.  It is the very essence of who we are.

Every day of our lives we go about our routines that comprise how we live. A summary of how we live in a nutshell: we groom, we eat, we work, we consume, we fornicate, we procreate, and we sleep. 

The philosophers who try to find an explanation to our souls have many times through history, made mention of the fact that the soul is measured.  Our actions determine the weight our souls carry. In other words are we good, or are we bad?

Such little things have such a major impact on whether we are good or not. It isn’t as simple as just be nice and you will be a good person, it isn’t as easy as staying out of trouble.  The reason is because doing nothing is just as negative in some cases. For example consider an individual who sees another person in trouble but does not help them. This individual did nothing wrong but they did not do anything to help. That could be considered bad. On the other hand you could have a group of criminals that are trying to commit a robbery. One of the criminals may have remorse and so when he sees the police coming, he does not alert his accomplices and they get caught. That could be considered good.

The complexity of theories that could determine how our souls are weighted for judgement is so vast. We have no real way of knowing for sure how to ensure that we are doing the right thing. All we can do is be the best person we can be and hope for the best.

So if you believe in the soul, every move you make can have a very fruitful or very detrimental effect on how you are judged.  The pressure could be a lot if you worry about it too much.  Personally I like the idea of just being the best you can be. Just keep in mind that the road to hell was paved with good intentions. It is yet one more thing to confuse us all.

How do you think our actions affect us in the next life? How do you think our souls are judged?  Tweet me @Vijayp1982 or comment below.

                                                                                                                             

Can Demons do some good?

In some religious beliefs, the Demon was once an Angel in Heaven. These Angels sided with Lucifer and refused to bend the knee to humanity. Lucifer’s belief was that the Angels were above humans. He refused to be a servant and was cast to the pits of hell along with his followers.

Being that such an entity as the celestial Angel is a being of light, even though rebellion had Lucifer and his legions cast down, does this mean they still have the ability to reclaim this light?

Demons have lived through a millennium of perversions and distortions; but they were still beings of light at one point. The light is not just any light; it is a light of Heaven. If there was ever a power that could not be extinguished, a person of this faith would have to believe that the light of Heaven was incorruptible.

Looking to other cultures, there are many versions of the same being portrayed in numerous ways.  The Kappa of Japan, for example is a Demon. Japanese culture is of interest because warrior symbols portray such creatures as Demons of protection.  The Demons existence had a specific purpose. To the Japanese the Demon is not just to corrupt and cause harm to humanity, they serve to keep the Samurai safe during battle.

To the contrary, the Hindu faith has multiple deities. One of these deities is Kali, God of Death. Kali is depicted with multiple arms bearing swords. The face is animalistic with fanged teeth and wide eyes and the eyes have an apparently serpent like distinction.  Kali does not look like a protector or creator, but a Demon.  However, Kali is worshiped as a God.

Depending which culture you look at, you may see Demons with God like power, Gods with Demon like power, or you may find them totally distinct and separate.

With consideration to all beliefs, do you think a Demon is capable of being good? In addition, if you think a Demon is capable of being good, could a Demon earn its way back to Heaven?

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Spirit Attachment

One risk of entering a location known for spirit activity is that a spirit can attach itself to a person. They do have the potential ability to follow you.  It is a risk involved with Ghost Investigators due to the amount of time they spend in active locations, but that could just as easily be a passing by couple who entered such a place.

It is a scary thought in many ways, to think that a paranormal being could just randomly select you and then come into your home.  However, let’s look at this from a more reasonable perspective than to just think that they do as they choose.

If you pay attention to all paranormal TV shows. The common element is that there is an interaction between the person and the entity.  First of all they must open a communication. If you never open a communication, you can not have an attachment. The entities only have the power you give them.  This also means that if they rely on you for that energy, you have full control. What this means is that if you do not want them around, you can tell them to leave.

 This is important because there is a popular misconception that they follow and do not leave without professionals coming in to get rid of them. This leaves a big opening for frauds.  The truth is every person has a personal level of control that they can make it possible to never have an attachment. Exercising this control can come in many forms. Some show it by way of faith in a religion, others in personal objects of security, and some have combinations of rituals that they perform. There are many ways to prevent it, but it all comes down to what empowers you to feel in control. 

My wife is a believer in the paranormal. She also has a very definite rule that I can do what ever investigations I want, but nothing paranormal is EVER permitted to enter our home. I very much agree with her that I don’t want my work following me home. This is no different than a person who works in an office. When the work day is over, they want to clock out and go home. They don’t want to have homework to do when they get to their house.  I have no issue ensuring that nothing will ever enter our home because I know that I will never accept or allow anything to do so. It is my belief in my own ability to control where the communication stops that gives me my control.

Always remember that the control is yours. If you do not want something clinging to you, make it clear.  Tell whatever it is that you are done with your communication and it is not welcome to follow you.  The power is always yours.

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The Truth

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes-


The truth behind the paranormal; knowing the truth is the biggest and most important reason why I follow the research as I do.  I have a passion for finding an explanation to the unexplained. The world is so full of these wonders that we do not need to create them and pass them as truth. The truth is already out there. The truth is intriguing, exciting, terrifying, dangerous, and it is safe. It is everything and more. 

We all know that the truth of the paranormal can harm us but it can also protect us. I believe in the mysteries of the world and know that they are the true adventure that we all look for in one way or another.  Now readers out there may be wondering about why I am saying such things in this writing. I follow the belief that the truth can be proven and needs no embellishment. I want to eliminate the impossible. Then I can see and show that what remains, no matter how off the wall, must be the truth just as the above quote says.

Many stories out there tell of the tale of the isolated tragedy about insanity, depression, murder etc. They tell of such stories where no one is around and this terrible series of events takes place. The events are detailed by the writer of the story. They go into very extensive descriptions. The mother, who goes insane, kills her children, kills herself, and this happened just after she took time to put on her wedding dress. Their bodies were discovered days later. The wails she screamed out after killing her children are still heard in the area today.

How did they know she wailed? How did she know she was insane? If they were alone and were not discovered for days, who was there to detail the events?  So many stories exist and they have no true origin.  Myths and legends have to start somewhere. They have to have an origin. The problem is that many writers of “true events” neglect to tell people why it is true.

There is a history behind it all; there is truth that wants to be revealed. We don’t need to fabricate true events if it is in fact true.  Let us remember that in our search for the truth behind paranormal activity, to keep a healthy dose of skepticism to make sure our feet stay on the ground. The wonders of the world will intrigue us as much as we want if we allow them to give us a chance.

Let me know what you think about the stories that are told today. Tell me if you have an understanding as to why they would be exaggerated. Perhaps it is because people just want them to be noticed.  Maybe it is someone who wants to believe so much in the magic that could happen that they don’t want to wait to experience it.

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Poltergeist

How many of you out there have seen the famous movie? If you have heard the phrase “They’re Heeeeerrreee,” you have just heard a quote from the movie Poltergeist. Contrary to popular belief, a poltergeist is not actually spiritual in nature.  What you hear about them in many cases is correct. The moving objects around the room with bangs and crashes. This is why they are called poltergeist. The name is actually German and it translates to noisy ghost.

However, this is actually a misleading statement. A poltergeist is not a ghost at all. The phenomenon of a poltergeist is actually the manifestation of human telekinetic ability. This origin is primarily from adolescent girls going through a strong or traumatic emotional state. It can also be young boys, but the research has shown that the majority of the time it is caused by young women. The activity that occurs is completely subconscious. The person that causes the activity is generally not even aware that they are causing it.

This display of telekinesis is most definitely a testament to the human minds power. Poltergeist activity can be extreme. Not just moving objects and sounds, but the disruption of an entire household. The activity would include such things as doors slamming and books flying off of shelves etc. People have been known to be thrown down or even across a room. The activity has the ability to be extremely powerful and extremely dangerous.

It is amazing to hear some tales of poltergeist activity from witnesses who have experienced it. What is more amazing is the fact that this immense mental display of power is occurring through the subconscious mind of a child.

If the untrained innocent mind of a child is capable of such power and ability, imagine what it would mean for the mature adult who understands the ability they possess. As human beings, as much as we train and strengthen our bodies ultimately we are still quite frail. The telekinetic ability that our subconscious minds are capable shows that we can be much more.

The fact that we are capable of such ability is both an inspiring and terrifying thought. With such ability at our finger tips every one of us is capable of wonderful things, but the other side of the coin is that we are also capable of terrible things. We haven’t begun to tap into the essence of what we are capable of. Saying that our young and inexperienced are capable of such a destructive power with no awareness of it just goes to show that we are not ready to understand what we can really do.

Though the poltergeist phenomenon is not spirit activity it is very much of a paranormal nature as it breaks the confines of what we know to be “normal.”

What do you think about untapped abilities within the human mind? Tweet me @Vijayp1982 or comment below. I would love to hear your thoughts.

Emotions for Activity

Supernatural energies are always among us and they can be created through numerous different methods. Some of the methods we are aware of and some we don’t even know about.  One theory of people drawing spiritual energies to themselves that I would like to discuss is negative emotions.  It seems that provocation can draw increased levels of spirit activity. Well known hunters as the Ghost Adventures crew have made their career by way of provocation methods. Zak Baggins, Nick Groff, and Aaron Goodwin go forth and call them out risking attachments from other worldly beings and potential harm.
This method from what we see on their show is a definite indicator that negative emotion can draw energy. What I wish to discuss about using this method is whether or not using negative emotion can lead to more than harm or attachment.  Seeing that this method draws entities in, are they specifically negative energies and entities? Is it that you will only get bad things from bad behaviour? Is there a possibility that negative emotion just gives more energy for a spirit to draw on? Maybe the good ones can also use this negativity because it could be a much easier energy for them to use?
This is of interest to me because I have yet to see from any show recording the same amount of activity from asking nicely as they get from negative behaviour. What is it about the negative side of an emotion that gives non living entities more power to manifest themselves? 

From my own experiences I have seen that another major emotion which also sides on the negative is sadness. For example the loss of a loved one can be a huge catalyst in drawing spirit activity. Gatherings of people at a wake can greatly increase the effect of a spirit manifestation due to the fact that you have a large number of people together all with the same emotional focus.

I do not want you to misunderstand me though. I do not mean to imply that only negative emotion can draw activity. I am not saying that you have to be jerk to have anything manifest. I very much do believe that positive emotion can also be a catalyst for activity. Positive emotions can also be used for negative entities to draw from. An example of this is the innocence of a child with what we think is an imaginary friend but is actually a negative entity trying to use the child to do what it came to do. A child is innocent and feels that friendship is what they are gaining, but this positive feeling could be manipulated and cause a darker energy to gain more power. This would show that even positive emotions can have a negative effect. 

Ultimately I believe that emotions can be very important both bringing forth and deterring activity. I know that they can cause activity to happen, but I also believe that one’s own emotions can empower them to combat manipulative and dark energies that may do harm to others.  Emotions are a strong tool.  They can cause us trouble, but they also can protect us.

What do you think about the effects of emotions on spiritual activity? Comment below or tweet me @Vijayp1982.

Let’s chat

With so many people out there who have their own stories to share, what do you feel is you’re most intriguing, exciting, or scary moment where you thought it was of supernatural causes?
Were you in a situation that you just couldn’t explain? Maybe it was something that you know happened but it was so fuzzy in your head for unknown reasons?

Some have experiences that were actually very blunt and real. There was no mistake that they were experiencing something supernatural.

I would like to hear from you. Let me know how you feel about your own experiences. Comment below and share an experience with us. Tweet me @Vijayp1982 and let me know about you.