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But Something Different Was About to Take ANY OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY OUR WRITERS ARE NOT NECCESARILY THOSE OF LIVING PARANORMAL MAGAZINE First of all, I’d like to thank LIVING PARANORMAL MAGAZINE for having me and inviting me to write a regular column reviewing the paranormal world in each issue. For those that don’t know me, my name is Lee Roberts, I’ve been a Paranormal Investigator for over 26 years to date and have investigated most locations in the UK. I was the first person in the world to broadcast a LIVE Ghost Hunt Broadcast via Facebook LIVE back in 2015 (yes, it is all my fault) and recently I have appeared on TV shows such as Katie Price My Crazy Life on Quest Red and Paranormal Captured on Pick as one of the main investigators. I think the obvious starting point is the changing of the guard so to speak, the end of one show and the re birth of another. Really TV have announced that they will not be renewing any contracts with Most Haunted, music to the ears of many but the show still has a huge fan base. I think Most Haunted was the starting block for most paranormal investigators and also some TV Shows but as time has gone by I think the Paranormal Genre and also viewer has moved on, learned more about the subject and has a higher threshold as to what is real and what is not. Unfortunately, I personally don’t think the show in general moved with the time, choosing to stick with its “back to basics” format, Karl and Stuart the only ones ever to be affected, and Yvette scared to death even though she has over 18-years TV experience hunting down the spooks. Time for a change? Well the channel thought so. Now onto the new, well when I say new I mean the rebirth of an old classic, Ghost Hunters, TAPS is one show I am very fond of, it was the show that opened my eyes into how other people investigate over the pond, not a psychic or odd looking demonologist in site, Ghost hunters in back, Grant Wilson returns to the helm but not alone, not with the original cast though, this time he has brought along a brand new modern, younger cast to bring the paranormal kicking and screaming into 2019. Our very own Daryl Marston Joins the team along with Kristen Luman, Brandon Alvis, Mustafa Gatollari, Brian Murray and Richel Strutton. The show joins the team investigating the paranormal at some amazing locations with some scary back stories. It looks fresh, bright and modern, I wish them and the show all the very best. In other TV news, Ghost Nation is a brand new show set to air very soon featuring some of the older cast members of Ghost Hunters including Jason Hawes, Paranormal Captured featuring Jayne Harris, MJ Dickson, Dany Moss and myself as well as others is set to appear on TV screens internationally after its impressive response in the UK, also talks of a second series are ongoing. Help! My House is Haunted returns to UK TV screens in November for its second series, Barri Ghai, Chris Flemming return to the show but are join this time round by Jayne Harris. Facebook LIVE is growing faster than ever now as more and more people, groups and teams are using it as a way to show how they investigate but also to try and grow their own popularity. I have seen crazy videos; with someone claiming to see Nun running through abandoned buildings, another team claimed to of unearthed human remains, not of which are in any way believable BUT they get views. Last month a team hit media headlines as they claimed to be investigating the ghost of Myra Hindley, the team (Ghosts of Britain) were all over the news and others were slagging them off for doing this publicity stunt. When the live investigation happened, most of those that were slagging it off tuned in. Growing the audience and giving the team more of a platform. Did I agree with what they were doing? In a way yes, I did, if someone was in trouble and needed help, yes if you think you can help them then do it, but why it needed to be on a Facebook; I don’t know. As I sit here writing this, hundreds, thousands, possibly millions are gathering outside Area 51 for a raid, will it happen? With they get anywhere near it? If so what will they find? I won’t go on any more about it and will come back to this in the next issue as no matter what I write by the time you read this it will be over, who knows, maybe they can rescue ET!! Halloween is around the corner and activity is supposed to heighten, which brings me onto activity. I wanted to bring you some stories that have been around recently of really good evidence, something that made me go WOW! But disappointingly I couldn’t find any, not any that I believed or questioned anyway, is this because activity is few and far between? Is it because I am a little too cynical in what I am looking for? or is it that I am looking in all the wrong areas? If you have been on an investigation recently PLEASE let us see any cool pictures, videos or anything that you honestly think is paranormal, I’ll review on here and give it my honest opinion, so get sending them in. Lastly, I’d like to talk locations in future articles also, what is making waves in the paranormal community in terms of a cool location, maybe myself and the LPM pop over and take a look, join you on a ghost hunt or share your stories from the location in question. There are hundreds of locations up and down the UK as well as more in the USA and beyond, each month we will focus on just one get to know why it’s so popular. That’s it from me this time round, short and sweet to start with but with you help we will grow this article with more reviews and content. Stay Safe, stay out of trouble and happy hunting. T. @MrLeeRoberts F. @Officialleeroberts I. @MrLeeRoberts A while ago was invited to the Haunted Antiques Paranormal Research Centre in Hinckley, for a private investigation, my first time at a location which focused on objects and energies. The centre contains various items from different sources, and time periods, which have been collected for a number of reasons including individuals being drawn to them, and more recently items which have been donated for whatever reason, some with stories some not. The main difference regarding this location, to others, is the fact that the items have never been called haunted by the proprietor Neil Packer, and if any knowledge is gained from the items, it is logged and compared to the information others have obtained. A medium who worked at the centre, Jane Rowley, also makes notes of what she picks up, and sometimes draws portraits of the spirits that she is shown from the items. After all, it is what it says on the can so to speak, a paranormal research centre. The centre hadn’t been open too long when they received a red wax covered Dybbuk box, and less than a week after that it was my first investigation there. I’m not one to watch numerous television shows, as I tended to try and find evidence of the afterlife with friends I have met in the field, and on small events, and I wasn’t quite aware of what a Dybbuk box was but straight away it intrigued me after watching a live feed on which it featured For those of you who have not heard what a Dybbuk box is, it is said to be a box which contains a malicious spirit, which is sealed inside, and in this case has a red wax covering. If the spirit is released all hell could apparently break loose. Would you dare open one? Like most things in the paranormal world, there are now loads of them around flooding the usual online shops with zero proof of anything. About this time though, they were less known, but made more famous by a US TV show. On arriving at the centre, I was drawn to the item straight away, it was certainly something I had not encountered before, and ordinarily never would. It had been placed in a small room on a table full of energy, surrounded by mirrors, named the Chamber of Fear. It was a dimly lit room, lit only by a red bulb, with space for one person to sit in for a lone vigil or two very good friends, a great little room ideal for lone vigils, and where a scream would bounce around the mirrors and echo for eternity. The box could be held in one hand, and was a small hexagonal box, fully covered in a thick red patterned wax. It sat on the table emitting a strange clicking sound. There was no other source of the sound, which was confirmed on picking the item up and placing it against my ear. Certainly, a strange occurrence, something which I have not encountered, on any of my investigations since. After the initial vigil in the small dimly lit room holding the item, more vigils were carried out throughout the night, in various places, and with different objects in the centre, and as the night came to a close, I was drawn once again to hold the Dybbuk box.
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