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Jessica Brazier is from Ohio EDITORS NOTE and resides in Kentucky. A graduate from the Univer- KESTER DLEE sity of Cincinnati with a BS in Criminal Justice and a BUMP background in corrections and security. A current AMERICAS FIRST GHOST HUNTER student at the University of Massachussets URSULA KEMPE Lowell pursuing her ARCHIVE ECHO certificate in Graphic Design. She has always had MEDIUMSHIP IN PARANORMAL INVESTI- a passion for art and photography and the GATIONS paranormal. She has worked in many different mediums. Collaberating with Antonio Gumm, Jessica GEORGE PEARIS CEMETERY has been able to put some of her old and newly aquired skills to the test, and very much enjoys working on TONY ALMARAZ IPI. In her free time she spends it with her family and GRIFFINS BLIND TIGER friends and three large dogs. ANGEL NUMBERS

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Estephanie Mendoza is a THE MAKISHI DANCERS Wisconsin native who has THE MYSTERIOUS MARLEY WOODS OF pursued her dreams of being an artist since a MISSOURI young age. Estephanie graduated from Alverno CATHOLIC HOUSE BLESSING College with a Degree in Art Therapy and dedicated THE DEMON OF CREVE COEUR LAKE 10 years to working with the geriatric PHOTOGRAPHY AND GHOST HUNTING population. In 2017 MOVIE REVIEW Estephanie returned to school to continue her art BOOK REVIEW education and will be graduating in 2020 with an additional Bachelor’s de- URBEX gree in Illustration. Estephanie has explored various art mediums including both digital art and traditional art. THE MONROE HOUSE Estephanie’s passion for the paranormal and unexplained inspire her work on a daily basis. Instagram: @Mendozart21 Editor’s Note

“Priest Performs Ancient Rite for Casting would like to welcome everyone- I Out Demons, Devils” back to our third issue. In this issue, Wausau Daily Herald Oct 17, 1972 we will attempt to tackle a subject that many are sensitive to and have MILWAUKEE (AP) - There's something very strong opinions on. Since this moving through the halls and tromping the is a Para-Unity publication, there are stairs of a suburban Waukesha County home. many thoughts and beliefs, and re- It may be the spirit of a former occupant. A ligious viewpoints about Angels and Roman Catholic priest called it a demon and Demons. I invite you to read with an performed part of an ancient rite used for open mind and come to your conclu- casting out demons and devils. It may just sion. I do however hope that your be the sounds of an old house feeling its age. beliefs come from your mind and are Whatever it is, the Priest conducted what he not a by-product of being forced into termed an "informal exercise" to get rid of it. a certain belief or thought process. But the family that lives in the house, and So, let’s go ahead and get started. I has for seven years, says it still has a visitor would like to invite you to read this in the night. short account from the Wausau Dai- Warning. It began nearly seven years ago, ly Herald in Wisconsin back on Oct when the family's frightened 4-year old 17, 1972. Then we will discuss some daughter snuggled up to her sleeping par- points and questions that arise from ents. “A man was standing by my bed and he the article. hit me on the head," she told them. She said the man also hit her sister and two brothers.

6 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no They had been ing around up there all right," Archdiocese. A spokesman warned. says her father. "But it must be there said there hasn't been The fami- the house settling." But, the a request for one in the 12 ly rented the wife said, the family has kind years he has been there. "One- 60-70-year-old of gotten used to it. One day, fourth of the ministry of Jesus house when a though, she told her story to Christ was devoted to casting young couple The Rev. Richard Korzinek, the out devils," said Father Kor- moved out after Catholic priest, who heads the zinek. "Why should that have living there a priestly order of St. Camillis in changed for the priesthood of month, claim- the United States; He termed it today?" "I didn't have to return ing the building "a demon out of hell." to the house," he said. "The was haunted. "I Ancient Rite evil spirit was gone.'' But one laughed when Father Korzinek said he son said he heard the footsteps they told me performed what he called an two weeks ago "going up and that," the wife informal exorcism, by enter- down the steps." -- Wausau said. But the ing the house one day and Daily Herald Oct 17, 1972 noises started, intoning the words of a fourth and the laugh- century prayer of exorcism. Now, let’s read the same story ing stopped. At Exorcism, or the casting out of as reported in Fate Magazine in first "we paid no demons, is an ancient rite of the April 1973 issue, on page 30 attention to the the Catholic Church. As such, and 32. strange sounds it is regulated by the church, like someone THE FRIENDLY walking," the PHANTOM wife said. The nocturnal visits, too, were ROMAN Catholic largely ignored. rites of exorcism recently were per- Old Denim Jacket formed in a suburban Then, a relative told them home in Waukesha that an uncle, who had lived County, Wis., which in the house for 20 years until its tenants believe is he died about 16 years ago, haunted. The uniden- had the affectionate habit of tified family moved patting children on the head. into the home seven A few days later, the fami- years ago despite a ly found an old denim jacket warning from the hanging in the basement. The previous tenants 4-year-old said: "That's the that the house was jacket the man wore." The wife haunted. At first the checked and found the jacket family paid no atten- and some other items in the tion to the strange basement had be longed to the sounds they heard. uncle. "When we're in bed at They attributed the night. Sometimes I can hear sound of footsteps him walking, then I go under to the settling of the the covers," said the girl, now and permission to perform house — even though it's 60 to 11. “There's something clomp- the rite must come from the 70 years old. Then one night www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 7 the family's four-year-old daughter waked her in the basement had belonged to an old man sleeping parents to inform them that "a man who had lived in the house for 20 years. A rela- was standing by my bed and he hit me on the tive of this man said the clothing had belonged head." The Associated Press reports that the to her uncle who died 16 years ago. She also said man also "hit" her sister and two brothers on her uncle had the habit of affectionately pat- their heads. A few days later the family found ting children on the head. The residents of the an old denim jacket hanging in the basement. house have no feeling that the ghost, if such it The four year- old said, "That's the jacket the is, is malignant. Nonetheless, the Rev. Richard man wore." The father asked some questions Korzinek, a Roman Catholic priest who heads and learned the jacket and some other clothing the order of St. Camillis in the United States,

8 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no performed what he called an case." The family did not con- cles, we found, this was the "informal exorcism." sider it demonic or evil, which only case that was made public After, reading and examin- is illustrated in the Fate mag- of anything dealing with the ing both articles, which are azine article (but was omitted paranormal or “exorcisms.” So, similarly written except a few from the newspaper account). we do not feel he did this to minor points, what are your This "haunting" was only garnish any attention. thoughts? For me as an inves- brought up in casual conver- So, to me, this is just a sim- tigator for numerous years, sation to the Priest, to further ple case of an “Intelligent many questions arise. My first show the lack of urgency on Haunting.” I would venture question is: Was this, in fact, the family's part. out and say it was not a “Re- a true demonic case? Before I Not attacking the priest, but sidual Haunting”, as the spirit answer this, I must state that it was he who claimed it to be did interact with the children. the location of the house and "a demon out of hell." Also, the From what I read in the article; family name is unknown. This Priest performed an “Informal it seems the activity continued is probably due to safety and exorcism”, not a full-blown after the “Informal exorcism” anonymity for the family. So, “Minor Rite of Exorcism.” Most Had this been a case of a real these two articles are the only likely this was just a simple demonic case, the “Informal information that is currently “House Blessing”. This to me exorcism” would have kicked available in this case to my demonstrates a lower-level up the activity and became knowledge. concern of demon infestation more violent, as is done with First, it seems that none of of the property. “Religious Provocation.” the Seven Stages of Spiritual We investigate the Priest's life My point in this article is a Disintegration were illustrat- to see if perhaps this was a simple one. Not all hauntings ed in any of these articles. case of sensationalism. are “Demonic.” Nowadays, The length of time that had The Rev. Richard Korzinek, everything is demonic. TV, elapsed from the occurrences 56, attended St." Joseph's Grade movies, and books are Demon- to the time of the informal School and St. Catherine's ic. The media loves to hype exorcism is not clearly identi- High School. He received a things up for the simple fact fied in the article. However, it bachelor's degree from Mar- that, demons sell. Hollywood seems that there was a con- quette University. He studied and the media know, we loved siderable amount of time that at St. Francis Seminary in to be scared, and we will pay had elapsed in between by the Milwaukee and the Catholic for it. That is the current trend statement “the family had got- University in Washington, DC, in our society right now. ten used to it.” This is import- as well as Quinano in Verona, I urge the readers and in- ant in alleged ‘demonic' cases, Italy, and the Gregorian Uni- vestigators to study any case as often those types of cases versity in Rome, Italy. He was you may be called into to are design to go through the ordained as a priest in Rome investigate and all the facts different stages until ultimate- on May 12, 1953. He is a mem- associated with it. Ensure you ly a possession occurs. ber of the Servants of the Sick have studied all religions and Secondly, the family was not of St. Camillus. He has served methodologies, before labeling too frightened or being sub- as a hospital chaplain, and something “Demonic.” The jected to any kind of oppres- master of novices and has been amount of damage one can sion as is typical in demonic the Provincial Superior of his inflict on to the psychology of cases. Also, not one member order. He's active in the charis- a ‘client’ and the consequences of the family had been singled matic renewal and is spiritual on the field can be vast and out and suffered the most “ac- director of the Spirit of God varied. Plus, not to mention tivity”. Community, a prayer group the loss of credibility in the So, my answer is "this does for 400 people in Milwaukee. field if you label everything a not seem to be a demonic In all the materials and arti- demonic case. www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 9 Kester Dlee from the Ghosts of England With only a small membership, some members having studied ghosts for some 40 years, it is apparent in recent times there is a growing divide between the true history of a haunting and it’s contemporary portray- al. On invitation to Leices- ter to investigate an alleged poltergeist they couldn’t explain why their poltergeist failed to meet the commonly accepted understanding of what a poltergeist is, or why there were no records to its previous existence. Similar- ly, in Manchester, two film makers arrived unexpected- ly. Within days they released a sensationalist video about an ‘incubus demon’. It in no way reflected what the family claimed to have experienced ble according to who, where, when, and nor what happened that evening. In what happened. The objective is then both cases they were actively engaged to evaluate the credibility of those in creating something that was never accounts by means of observation, there. It was because of such unre- photography and audio. The purpose alistic claims that the ‘Ghosts of En- is not only to evaluate those claims of gland’ was established in 2012. The ghosts, but also to encounter ghosts methodology is based in observation. and in turn have those encounters vali- Accounts of ghosts, preferably written, dated through written records. are studied with the aim to then visit The Ghosts of England look forward to the location. Those circumstances in sharing some of those written records which ghosts are said to have been en- here in future publications. countered are emulated as far as possi- Kester Dlee’

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demons and ly, that theology teaches that angels, and God spoke to and interacted miracles. But with humanity differently the church, through the ages and as man by and large, changed so did the way God is reluctant interacted with man. Generally to say much speaking, they do not believe about them, in supernatural workings. and often pas- The second reason you might tors will shy not get a lot of engagement away from the in the question is that others subject and try feel uncomfortable explor- to redirect the ing something that they do conversation not know much about. This to explore dif- subject may not be their fo- ferent subjects cus or maybe something they or options. are struggling to understand It has been themselves. Most ministerial my experience training is very focused on that they do preaching and teaching and Sometimes a bump is not a this for a few reasons. Some all else is secondary to these bump, sometimes it a spirit. denominations and indivual scholastic disciplines. They are Some of you will say well yes churches have theologies that comfortable, knowledgeable of course, and some may say are cessationist that is their (you can look up answers in there are no interactions be- view of Christianity. The God a book), and they are used to tween the spirit world and the of Christianity is that God doing church that way all the physical one. Many Christians used to speak through signs time. Spiritual warfare and and churches are reluctant to and wonders and allowed prayer are a different subject get into conversations about if spiritual interaction with the altogether, and interactions or where these worlds come to- physical, but since Christ came with nonphysical beings... gether. And that, like all areas that time is over and now we well that is just the next level of secrecy/poor communica- are in a time of no miracles or beyond their comfort zone. It tion, is a problem. All through rather no spiritual giftedness can be helpful on your journey the Christian Bible (the 66 to pray for healing or cast out to be aware that your pastor books commonly accepted as demons or even demon posses- or fellow church members and cannon for our purposes in sion or oppression. This is very attenders may not believe in this article), we hear about God common among churches that spirituality the way you do or on the move. We hear about are “dispensational” in their may not feel equipped to pro- his presence in the world of understanding of redemptive vide leadership in that area. the spirit and the physical. history (God’s plan for human- For the second group begin- We are told of principalities ity and the universe). General- ning conversations with low and powers, of mysteries, and

12 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no expectations, i.e. knowing you support each other and hope- supernatural and paranormal most likely will not receive fully go down a path of growth activities. So on this basis, super insightful answers in together knowing you are be- I think conversations about your first conversations, and ing supported and prayed for. the supernatural can build up inviting them into a wider Don’t be surprised if you get our faiths, help us engage the conversation about the super- a few gatekeeping questions, gifts God has called us to, and natural and share your heart ministers like to be sure about deepen our relationship with and what it was that first drew their ministry focus and that it God. As you go forth, I would you to this area of study. Ask is firmly on Christ. encourage you all to read for help that the pastor or fel- So questions about how this second Samuel and the Acts low church member can freely exploration of the paranor- of the Apostles. While doing give you: prayer. Ask that they mal and supernatural is tied this ponder and reflect on the pray for you every time God to your faith and to Christ spiritual happenings and su- brings you to their minds. And being your only hope in life pernatural expression of God’s ask if it is ok if you continue and death should be expected, kingdom and the adversaries. to ‘wonder’ with them about indeed if they are not I would For those who are Christian, the spiritual world of the bible be cautious. Christ and God I will offer one final word in and the spiritual work of the are central, and remembering closing: that I hope to explore church. This is a way to in- that Christ and God and the in another article, we believe vite them into a conversation Holy Spirit are all-knowing, that God has shared his will about the supernatural with- all-powerful, and in all plac- through his word and that his out putting them on the spot es throughout all time is the favor is freely available to all or the need for answers. It also whole point of Christianity. and open in the light. God does helps to avoid them feeling Just as we are called away not lurk in the dark or secret embarrassed when they don’t from sin, we are also called to places seeking to sell powers, know the answer right off the prayer and spiritual warfare abilities or favors. Pay close at- top of their head and this will and to the healing ministries tention to Acts 8 and Acts 19, get you access to their wealth of peace. All these callings secret knowledge and binding of scriptural knowledge and have spiritual components to God by magic or trying to will the tools they have learned them but are often underval- only lead you further from the and developed for handling ued and not explored because light and into darkness. scripture. In this way, you can of the church’s discomfort with www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 13 Americas first Ghost Hunter A glimpse into the man himself. By Alexandra Holzer

14 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no He always corrected people childhood into young adult- word parapsychology was born on how to address him. He hood. I could go on, but will around 1889 by a philosopher was proper and reserved and stop here. named Max Dessoir. J.B. Rhine expected people to extend the Born in Vienna, Austria in in the 1930s made it known same courtesy. 1920, my father developed an as psychical research. He, is Professor Dr. Hans interest in the supernatural Parapsychologists utilize many Holzer, not that Ghost Guy or when his uncle Henry told him approaches for the study of Hans unless you knew him well stories about ghosts and apparent paranormal enough to get away with that. fairies. For him, it was the phenomena. Father ran the He had a great sense of humor beginning of what would be gamut of his physical research albeit dry at times ... served its his destiny and chosen path for who unlike many of his purpose in getting across what his life span. predecessors and those few he was trying to convey. Just 40 plus years earlier, some after him... studied most There was a time to be serious researchers were on the way to paranormal phenomena. and there was a time to hang forming this path father would According to the loose. Hanging loose in the soon travel upon. He studied Parapsychological Association, Holzer Homestead consisted of such languages as Japanese at parapsychologists do not nor a variety type show held in a Columbia University, earning a are they concerned with living rotating museum. Master’s Degree in astrology, UFOs, Bigfoot, Shrunken heads, artifacts from comparative religion and a paganism, vampires, alchemy, around the globe, antiques, doctorate in Parapsychology or witchcraft. symbolic pieces delving into at the London College of Ap- Father did not fully follow this the past and steeped in mean- plied Science.He studied his same thought and did become ing, witches brew ingredients predecessors before him doing a Warlock studying white mag- and on it went! This was my early psychical research as the ic. He went underground from www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 15 Manhattan to California bustling beeping streets to get grasp that natural concept and meeting up with secret to the ‘other side.’ Yes, pun apply it into my daily life. societies learning about their intended. As an academic parapsycholo- rituals and beliefs. I recall the phone ringing and gist, he took his calling ex- This separated him from those he picking it up to answer tremely seriously. Hence where before and after him making saying, “moshi-moshi.” I I think his jokes were a bit dry him a unique, highly thought, “Wow that is the but he insisted he was indeed intelligent, and aware soul to weirdest thing to say when funny. Three “dirty words” in be born into our world. For picking up the phone!” I his vocabulary were: belief, that reason and reason alone, questioned him at the ripe old disbelief and supernatural. he was a bit of everything to age of eight, and he said to me “Belief is the uncritical accep- the world when it came to the peering down over me ... that tance of something you can’t Paranormal and the Occult. he was expecting a call from prove,” he explained. “I work We had many tarot card decks Japan and that is how you start on evidence.” He therefore in our home as well as Zener a telephone call. dismissed the existence of an- cards for telepathic communi- I knew then more and more I gels and regarded the world’s cation which he had on-going was fascinated with his every religions as corporations with clients and friends. Ev- movement in that apartment that make large profits out of erything he did, said, wrote watching and listening into his scaring the “hell” out of their about, experienced was all to conversations and meetings at followers. educate those around him. At hand. The phone rang day and Yes, he was firm in his belief home, I was the one listening. night but on a strict schedule in ghosts (people who do not I was the one who paid close as he would often bark at those realize that they are dead and attention to father. I’ve never calling at the “wrong time.” are therefore “confused as to stopped. My father As a father, he was loving, was the always doting concerned sweetest whether or not I had eaten man who enough and a “what else did I loved the require” attitude. Before I was world and a supernatural twinkle in his nature. His deep, blue greying eyes, he was veganism teaching and speaking foreign spoke languages. He learned as much loudly to all as he could as a courtesy to and his when he traveled abroad for passion to work. He felt it was a must to convert learn one’s culture that others into differed from your own as a under- form of high respect. This was standing one of his many special qual- why that ities when dealing with the lifestyle public. choice... He was the least pretentious was insur- man I ever knew. As a father, mountable he was the most nurturing and unre- man I ever knew. He was the lenting. It one who held my hand as we took me a crossed Manhattan’s busy, long time to 16 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no their real status”), and was that often times was misun- for “Lysistrata” and “Mister convinced that extraterres- derstood. Broadway.” trials are abducting human Moving on towards his inner Seeped in tradition dating beings to learn about life on creative-self, his love for the from 17th Century England, earth. That yields the theories theater led him to become father was the Producer/Di- of the Men In Black (not just a the New York Drama Critic rector of the infamous New film) and half-breeds to name for the London Times in the York City “Kit Kat Club” which just a few. Ghosts were, ac- 1950s. He subsequently be- hosted the Artists and Model cording to him, imprints left in came a member of ASCAP, Ball of the ‘60s. There, he met the environment which could SAG, AFTRA and the Authors my mother. be “picked up” by sensitive Guild. Who else out there Father was comfortable in all people, such as myself. could have such a resume and worlds he explored, having Spirits were intelligent beings still be so in-touch with our appeared on over 250 hun- who could interact with the universal codes and purpose? dred national, local as well as living; while “stay behinds” He would play piano with foreign television and radio were those who found them- lyrics and notes he composed programs. He was a regular on selves earth-bound after for me which in turn got me television talk shows and even death. He also believed in rein- interested in playing the piano. hosted his own show, Ghost carnation and the existence of That brought us much joy over Hunter. He has been credited “levels of consciousness”. the years. It was when mother with creating the term “The Father was full of a life many began playing her folk guitar, Other Side” (already in use, of us simply cannot begin to and very well she played, that however, in nineteenth centu- imagine or comprehend. He the singing kicked in and I left! ry spiritualism) or in full “The was so unique and a bit quirky There was only so much ‘mu- Other Side of Life.” sical Holzer He is also sometimes credited talent’ I with having coined the term could en- “ghost hunter,” which was the dure. title of his first book on the It was at paranormal, published in 1963. this time, I hope many reading this will his first now comprehend the place comedic in history he has had and to play “Hotel dismiss the chicken and egg Excelsior” controversy. However, it would was ap- be made of soy and tofu. pearing off In 1966, after airing a tele- Broadway, vision special, “Eye on New the first York,” which featured father, of many CBS TV affectionately became to follow known as “CBSeance.” The including show garnered the highest “The Way ARB rating(s) ever, for any You Kissed series segment of that time. Last Night” Father was not your ordinary, and “Laugh run-of-the mill persona from It Up.” Lyr- what we have been seeing ics and mu- since the next reality show sical scores surge hit airwaves in the early followed 2000’s. No. He did it all and www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 17 was a man cut from his own self-absorbed into his own od lives on and the ride has cloth that could never be repli- world of the unknown. I am taken off. Keep your hands cated. excited yet at the same time it and feet to the side and do not History gets forgotten and is a paradoxical moment ner- touch anything you do not often times replenished... by vous as to what he has been recognize. It can get ugly out folks such as myself and so teaching and showing me. there but remember and ask many others who are passion- I reintroduce to you Americas yourself, “What is real and ate as well, who are here to first Ghost Hunter among so what is not real? Because a lot stay, make noise, and leave many other of his functions of it is not real. A lot of it is lasting impressions. and purpose. We continue his questionable. And we’ve got to Father works with me from the journey educating not just my- somehow try to separate those other side in any environment self but those assigned to his things.” and it is a wacky, odd-ball next calling. feeling as in life he was very Buckle up, The Holzer Meth-

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In November 2018 I was invited to a contemporary pieces of literature The child recovered except the ghost hunt at The Cage in Saint Os- which I summarised as the law, the child’s hands were turned around. yth. There, they say Ursula Kem- laymen and the liar. Where the backs were, were the pe was held before being hanged The first was a pamphlet printed in palms and where the palms should as a witch in 1582. I would have 1582 as a ‘True and just record’ as be, the backs of the hands were. It thought no more of the place except an examination and confession of is a strange account but one that for a curious moment of gentle tap- all the witches taken at Saint Osyth suggests that Ursula was placing ping coming from the heavy wood- in the country of Essex which in- a spell on the child although it is en door in what is now, a kitchen. cluded, Ursula Kempe. The record never stated. Ursula, it was not- Curious because although Ursula is begins with the premise, ed, later helped in the delivery of said to have been held at the Cage, “Wherein all men may see what a a baby but the baby fell from her she was more likely to have been pestilent people Witches are, and crib and broke her neck. It was held at the local priory where, co- how unworthy to live in a Christian allegedly ‘heard’ that Grey made incidentally, her prosecutor, Brian commonwealth.” it happen after she and the mother Darcy was located but with so little It is written that Ursula Kempe, lost friendship with one another. literary or archaeological evidence also known as Grey, came to the Another woman asked for her help for Ursula being held at the Cage, aid of a sick child. Three times to cure her lameness. Grey agreed I decided to try and find out more she came and took the child by the to do so in return for 12 pence in about her as a witch. What came hand and said, old money. When she did not re- next was a discourse through three “A good child how are you laden.” ceive payment, she was said to have 20 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no made her lame again. Grey’s own cerning Witches and Witchcrafts’ an old woman. He automatically son, Thomas Rabbet, himself testi- published in 1593 addresses those attributes the death of his favou- fied against his mother saying she problems with the legal processes rite hog and six hens to her. He had four spirits called familiars of convicting witches. Although wants help to deal with her and he working with her. Tyffin is like a Ursula Kempe is never men- has two options. There is the help white lamb, Tittey is like a little tioned in the dialogue it almost of a cunning man some twenty grey cat, Pigine is like a toad and certainly describes the injustice miles away who revealed that it Jack is like a big black cat. Law- of her prosecution. The book is was the old woman who killed his rence Kempe, brother of Grey also a discourse between five main hog and hens with her imps. One testified against his sister, taking characters, three of which are imp was like a great cat, another the word of his now deceased most prominent. Like the 1582 a weasel and a mouse. Then there wife who suggested that Grey was pamphlet, the dialogue is a very was a woman some twenty-five the cause of her sickness. The descriptive piece of work. All the miles away by the initials of R.H. odd thing with this ‘true and examples provided suffer from who helped a ten-year old girl just record’ is how descriptive it being subjective reports with little overcome her lameness put upon is. There was no detail of what background details. That makes her by a neighbour. Both were Ursula was said to have done but it difficult to read and one often with a good reputation and he was rather what people said she had becomes confused who is speak- at a loss whom to ask for assis- done. Surely, no rational mind ing but thankfully in the case of tance. This is the kernel for the would accept that Ursula had M.B. and Daniel they come to be debate between M.B. and Daniel. really turned the hands of a child of the same understanding. The Samuel wonders if he is bewitched around or that she was responsible overall opinion of the book is but does not feel any harm in for the death of an infant child summarised in the introduction himself. Daniel begins by saying when there were no witnesses in that, Satan, it says, exists and he isn’t bewitched by any witch. that she was there? Furthermore, his power is brought forward It is the devil that had gotten into why was she held accountable through the practices of conjurors him for seeking the help of dev- for making a woman lame again and witches. Yet, Satan and his ils. He replies that he despises the when the woman was not ques- devils are actually bound in hell devil who never does any good. It tioned for non-payment? As for and restrained from doing harm is here the dialogue takes course her son and brother could anyone in the world. Witches are then, when Samuel invites Daniel to take their testimony to mean any- curiously, only made to believe his home to meet M.B. the Latin thing? Thomas Rabbet it appears that they have any power in order schoolmaster. was never asked to provide any to frighten people. Initially the M.B. begins his narrative saying evidence for the strange creatures reader could be disturbed by witches exist as proved by the he claimed Ursula had and as for the link between the devil and word of God and should be put to Lawrence Kempe what did he have witchcraft but by the end of the death. In his learned understand- to gain for condemning his own book the reader will understand ing of Witches, they follow the sister? The trial of Ursula Kempe that the author cleverly used that devil and have forsaken God; they made no sense. common superstition of the time obey the devil and commit many The pamphlet is not an account in order to prove the innocence of heinous sins and as a learned of crimes but rather a list of witches. man, it is important to note that reasons to justify the hanging of Although the dialogue begins one must be aware of any contra- Ursula. At no point are any laws with Samuel, his discourse comes dictions in any argument. In the mentioned that Ursula is said to mainly at the end of the book. At dialogue one wonders why it is have broken. It left not only the the start of the book he is trou- pointed out so prominently until alleged crimes of Ursula in doubt bled by witches. He hears of the one reads on and discovers that but also the whole legal process harm done by them to kill men the whole superstition surround- involved with her death. John and cattle. He knows of two in his ing contemporary witchcraft was Gifford in his, ‘A Dialogue Con- town who he dislikes, especially rife with contradictions. There www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 21 were those who worked with of wool under her bed. In return begins to consider as a problem, witches and cunning men against for the price of a cockerel the wea- things did not make sense and those witches and cunning men sel agreed to plague a man until contradictions begins to cross his who were in collusion with the death. The witch confessed to this mind. If witches are unwitting devil. While many witches con- and was hanged for her actions. servants, are they guilty of any fessed to working with the devil At this point Daniel challenges the real crime? Daniel gives him a many others denied it. He begins rational of M.B. In the dialogue startling answer to which the with the example of a woman he agrees with Daniel that the reader should find difficult, even in his village suspected of being witch was stirred in anger to send startling. Witches are guilty for a witch. She was taken before the weasel to kill the man and that just dealing with the devil. M.B. the justices and she confessed to the cause for anger was always the ponders on this and suggests having three spirits with her, one devil. This malice in the witch that because witches deal with like a cat called Lightfoot, one like was stirred up by the devil might the devil, God must permit them a toad called Lunch and one like at first seem to be just a part of power in order to tempt people a weasel called Makeshift. Light- the narrative until discrepancies and so if there were no witches the foot she bought for the price of are pointed out in his rationale. power of the devil to meddle with an oven cake some sixteen years If the devil caused her to become the affairs of man would then be previously whereas Lunch and angry, to act with malice then diminished. With that thought Makeshift came and offered their the devil is not a servant of the even asking for the assistance services to her. Lightfoot, would witch nor is the devil likely to of ‘Cunning men’ is equally bad kill any kin, Lunch would bring be resting in a pot of wool under when asking for their assistance diseases to men and Makeshift her bed. Furthermore, what use against witchcraft because they would kill horses. The point of was the cockerel to him? The were not seeking the help of God. this is that it was thought that reply to that from M.B. was as to These cunning men were highly witches had spirits, commonly fool people into called familiars and the more thinking that the familiars a witch had, the greater devil’s services the power the devil had in that were for hire area with the witch even if that when in fact, he power is manifested through the was the one in mundane likeness of cats or wea- command. Any sels! Despite their natural image power that the these spirits were busy in causing devil may have wars, hatred and preventing milk is in turn, ac- from turning into butter as a part cording to M.B, of their mission to destroy the power permitted souls of men. M.B. reiterates that to him from God witches are said to send these spir- above. The ratio- its to harm man and beast daily as nale is, the devil confessed by witches themselves. acts as the ser- As for who is the master or servant and is sent vant, witch or devil, M.B. notes in errands by that in common thought the devil the witch, which is the servant of the witch because the devil has she hires the services of the devil, under his power. as they have confessed. He af- This power is to firms this with the account of the cause temptation witch who had a spirit in the form and lead into of a weasel which she kept in a pot sin. This M.B. 22 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no popular at the time and said to Cunning men. Were there really confessed during a trail that she have an equal power to witches. devils behind their methods? The was a witch and worked with the M.B. proclaimed his belief that concern for M.B. becomes that devil it could not be taken as true their powers were issued by God cunning men like witches, might because at the time it was believed as their works were seen as benefi- not be living by the word of God if that the devil would not want cial. He recounted the time when they too were seeking help in life himself to be revealed. Therefore, a communion cup was stolen from from other sources. M.B. tries to the testimony would not be taken a church and how its retrieval was justify the Cunning men because as true by a jury because the devil sought from thieves. Such power witches work by spirits that are would not reveal himself. If the was derived from looking into a really devils but Cunning men devil was revealed his plans to glass of some unmentioned shape. work by devices such as crystals lead men away from God would This power was not thought to be and class. They cannot be work- be put at risk. On the other hand, from the devil as the devil could ing with devils because they can if the witch confesses her deeds not be everywhere at once and tell of future events and only God her testimony could not or should not know where lost and stolen had such knowledge. The devil not be accepted by a jury since it is things were to which the Cunning knows what is and what was but only the testimony of one person. men were famed for finding. The not what will be. Yet, he quickly The law at the time was, according answer given to him by Daniel contradicts himself. Cunning to the dialogue, if witches have makes him reassess his learned men may indeed work with confessed to have worked with understanding. The devil maybe devils as the devil is very good devils but have not committed in only one place at a time but all at guessing what may happen in murder the law could not put the devils work together wher- the future. That through helping them to death. Yet at that time ever they are. From here M.B. cunning men and women heal innocent witches were being exe- reconsiders his opinion of these sickness he is in fact leading men cuted on such inadmissible proof. away from God, if any of At the end of the discourse M.B. these healings were even acknowledges his misunderstand- real. By now M.B. begins ing of the whole subject. to doubt whether witchcraft Daniel, in his discourse, is of the itself is real at all but rather belief that it is a great sin to dis- just the fanciful imagina- believe in the Providence of God. tions of superstitious peo- From this he believes, witches ple. Out of that raises the ought to be out to death. They question how could witches work for the devil and bewitch be convicted since what men and lead them from God. they have done is either not Like M.B. he agrees that there can prove-able or a trick by the be no contradiction in any sound devil? How could any man understanding yet like M.B. he give evidence that witches discovers some difficult contradic- have raised storms, made tions in his mode of thought. The crops fail or killed man first is in the belief that though or beast when such things men might say they defy the devil, can be attributed to natu- they may unwittingly work with ral events? It was the most him. This is important to Daniel important observation so for two reasons, the first is that far in the dialogue because it is a sin and second there is the it is a great fault to shed coming of the great anti-Christ. innocent blood and inno- Daniel reminds us in his dis- cent blood was being shed. course that there are ‘multitudes Furthermore, if a witch and armies’ of devils. These rulers www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 23 of darkness are of such tyranny his devices which surely, Ursula the woman is arrested, ques- that they reveal themselves as Kempe was not guilty of. Daniel tioned, found guilty and hanged. small animals in order to disguise gives the examples of cunning Before her death she asked for for- their true form and nature. Their men who suggest that they receive giveness. She explained that she Kingdom is in the hearts of blind messages from Moses while gaz- had a yellow brown cat that came ignorant infidels especially in the ing into a crystal, the witch that to her and which she sent to kill hearts of conjurors and witches makes butter come from milk by three hogs and a cow. After she because the witch is the vassal of certain words and the placing of a fell out with the man, she sent the the devil. For Daniel since the hot iron into the milk; God never cat to him so that he would ‘never kingdom of the devil is in the taught any of this to man and so recover’. Samuel asks why is it hearts of ignorant men, the devil such abilities must have come then, that people think the witch is the root cause of anger and from the devil. In the example of is the servant when she is the one strife. Actions that come from an- the church wardens searching for who sends devils in the form of ger are the works of the devil and their church cup, he proposes that familiars to do her ill bidding? He for him, scripture is plain, the devil caused the thief to steal considers the evidence in all these ‘Thou shalt not suffer a witch to the cup, knowing who had it and matters and although not explicit- live.’ where it would be, he informs the ly stated it comes down to super- With M.B. the question of nat- cunning men who so appear to do stition and common imitation. If ural causes is raised. He bases good in the world by helping the one witch confesses to witchcraft his thinking on two points, the church wardens find their proper- then all witches must be guilty of first is on the case of a witch who ty. When the Cunning men finds the same thing, if one jury finds was said to have sent her cat to a witch in a glass or crystal, who guilty evidence of witchcraft then kill a cow and hogs. Daniel finds had betrayed her, could it be the all juries will find evidence of this difficult because cats at the same devil? M.B. protests and witchcraft and they cannot all be time were ‘known to be liars’ and suggests the familiar that works wrong. Towards the end of the the second is because cows and with the witch never leaves her discourse he confesses to have hogs had a habit of just dying on side but Daniel reminds him that been in the jury of witches and people. In a further moment of many devils work together. Either surprised that much of what M.B. rational thought, he asks if the cat way there is insufficient proof of and Daniel have rejected as valid is a devil? Those inclined to be- anything. All they can be sure evidence of witchcraft is being lieve so at the time were thought upon is that the devil desires to used in juries and many of whom to have based their belief ironi- accuse the innocent. have gone to their deaths profess- cally in the testimony of devils. When Samuel returns to the ing their innocence. In a moment Their testimony, however, is not discourse towards the end of the of guilt, he shifts the blame, to be believed. As for Cunning book, he recounts the tale of a “If witnesses come in and swear men, Daniel is equally critical. In man who died. His wife suspect- falsely, the jury proceeding ac- place of familiars they use devilish ed ‘ill dealing’ and so she went to cordingly, their testimony is clear devices. Some have lucky days seek the help of a cunning man. from blame, for they go but by and unlucky days, others read the The cunning man told her that her testimony of sworn men.” entrails of animals whereas others husband died of witchcraft and he The last part is the legacy of look for signs in the movement asked if she knew any culprit. The Matthew Hopkins which is one of animals. Though they held culprit was a woman she did not of evil. He called himself Witch witches and witchcraft in a detest- like. A few days after her husband finder general but the title was able view, they were according to and the old woman fell out over never given to him by parliament Daniel to be the same. Daniel at some dispute he fell ill and subse- and his methods were ruthless. this point in the discourse finally quently died. The cunning man Published in 1647 his, ‘Discovery gives us the clearest definition told her how to make her confess of Witches’ is best described as a of 16th century, witchcraft. It is but those details Samuel never devious work of self-exoneration. all that deals with the devil and recounts. What he does say is that Much can be said about Hopkins 24 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no more like a series of questions and answers than a book. In query 11 he refers to himself as ‘this tortur- ing witch catcher’ before giving an answer to his own question. He admits two points, the first that no confession is valid if it is drawn by violence but he goes on to say Magistrates examine his witches after he has questioned them and found that sleep deprivation and endless walking does no harm, according to him. The second is that a confession by flattery is equally without validity. It is unclear how Hopkins could be accused of flattery of any kind but is just a literary device to tip the reader back into the mindset that one must be harsh when dealing with witches. His methods depended on obvious torture when he engaged in the finding of a witches mark. The witches mark was said to be a part of the body that felt who died before the age of 28. In nights and forced to walk non- no pain and in order to find that his short life he was responsible stop backwards and forwards. A mark Hopkins would have needles for the execution of 300 alleged technique called watching. It was pushed into her body. The obvi- witches in two years; more than the idea that if the witch could rest ous pain would be excused as not all the accused in the previous for a moment her familiars could the intended purpose but neces- 160 years. The point with Hop- come and frighten her guards and sary in order to find that mark kins is that after reading the work Elizabeth was said to have five which felt no pain. The last thing of Gifford, it is clear that he was familiars. They were Holt like he says about interrogation reveals aware that the previous means of a white kitten, Jamara like a fat all one needs to know about his jury against witches was highly spaniel dog but with no legs, Vin- methods. He says putting words dubious and so he found a way egar Tom a greyhound but with in a Witches mouth in not a con- around things. He employed new the head of an ox, a black rabbit fession yet he completely avoids methods of torture. Although called Sack and Sugar, Newes a cat the situation where he makes the torture was prohibited in England and she had Imps called Eleman- life of his victim so bad that she at the time, Hopkins employed zer, Pyewacket, Peckin the Crown, will say anything to make it end. the same kind of reverse logic Grizzel and Greedigut. On the In query 13 Hopkins refers to the that had been disputed by Gifford fourth day, having no food, water earlier opinion that the witch and some 50 years previously. His first nor sleep she confessed to being devil joined have no power but he victim was an old, one legged lady a witch. In query number 11 refutes that position, by the name of Elizabeth Clarke. Hopkins inadvertently reveals “We must needs argue, he is of a Her own mother had been hanged that his methods are torture yet long standing, above 6000 years, herself as a witch some years makes excuses. Like the rest of then he must needs be the best before. Elizabeth was kept awake his book it starts with a query to scholar in all knowledge and arts” for three consecutive days and which he gives an answer. It is With that statement Hopkins did www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 25 two things. The first is to reveal a in the 1593 dialogue. It refutes the dence of the powers of the witch. knowledge of Gifford and hence superstitions of the time, the devil Therefore, based on the dialogue he made every effort to ignore his was not a servant of witches but if one can be confident that there whole work and in turn any ratio- anything, they were the unwitting was no evidence against Ursula nal thinking that came to defend- servants of the devil. Witches and she was hanged unfairly. In ing witches and witchcrafts and not guilty of murder could not that Samuel adds that the jury second through torture Hopkins legally be put to death yet the law is not to blame, it is the fault of thought he could circumnavigate of the land was being consistently those that testify against witches. the problem with confessions and ignored. In the cases of men and Thomas Rabbet, Lawrence Kempe testimony and revitalise the su- beast dying it should be accepted and Matthew Hopkins and their perstitions Gifford worked so hard as a part of the natural world as like are the true villains. They are to destroy. Hopkins was not with- no man can prove the witch nor guilty of the calculated murder of out critics of his time hence his her familiars were at fault. In the innocent women. For what reason small book in which he tried to case of the familiars they found it one might ask? The answer lays answer suspicions raised against incredulous that such great evil in in what they could gain and what him. The question is why did he the mission to cause the downfall they could prevent. One the one do it? The answer is by stirring up of all mankind would be found hand in the case of Thomas and suspicion, accusations and fears sleeping in a pot of wool under a Lawrence they could possible save he was able to earn a huge fortune. bed. This is an interesting part on the keep of their aging family He claimed to have earned twenty of the discourse and possibly the member, even gain her posses- shillings per town. It is a stagger- easiest part to overlook. In the sions. Hopkins himself amassed ingly high figure when the daily discourse they unwittingly un- a huge fortune and throughout wage of the time was just 6 pence. cover the common pattern in the his life seemed to have had a In the end Hopkins has become accusations of witchcraft. A witch deep resentment against woman. a symbol of the persecution of is asked for help, there is a dispute Could it be because as midwives witches; the persecutions were over payment, an angry outburst and herbalists, witches, just like born out of hatred, the desire for from the witch occurs, a sickness Ursula Kempe, were seen to be- power and for wealth. and death are then followed by come too powerful and a threat to In conclusion, through three no- accusations of witchcraft which is the position of men. One should table pieces of historical literature exactly what happened to Ur- be cautious of adding the Church we can finally understand who sula. Ursula was asked for help, here as Gifford himself was a Ursula Kempe was. By the pam- she gave it, payment was never notable preacher and Hopkins was phlet in 1582 we find no specific received and she was blamed for known to flee when local Church- charges against her. She was in deaths. The pattern sees slight es called him out and on his all probability just a midwife and changes between different witch- methods. Rather, it appears that herbalist who helped families with es but the same basic pattern is the cunning men of the time were sick children. In the case of the discernible. At this point is could responsible for the suspicions and lame woman she probably thought be argued that the trial of Ursula accusations against witches. To- it was easier to dispose of Ursula was not to serve the law but to day, however, witchcraft has never rather than pay the fee due. In construct that common pattern of been so popular which brings me the pamphlet like in the dialogue guilt based on testimony. As long back to the Cage. I doubt Ursula and the discovery of witches there as there are witnesses there is guilt was held there or that she would are no words to her defence. As yet M.B. Samuel and Daniel have accept the title of being called a in the dialogue and the discovery cleverly pointed out, the testimony witch but she was still the impetus of witches Ursula, like all other of the devil is not accepted in any of this essay which I hope reveals witches, were not heard to speak jury, the witch cannot profess to something of the injustices done in their own defence but only to have been working with the devil to witches. convict themselves. Those unfair because the devil would not allow trails themselves were put on trial it and no man can provide evi- 26 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 27 This issue’s topic will encompass some of the Archive’s relics that tend to get overlooked in the array of the collection. I picked out three of the items that seem to be speaking to me today. The first item that I noticed was the “Lola Figurine.” I acquired her at a local antique store in Wheel- BY Steve Hummel ing, West Virginia. The first time that I had seen this little statue was not the day that I bought her. I initially left her on the shelf and continued on my way. But that evening and the following morning, the idea of this simple little relic could not escape my mind for the life of me. Her

THE ARCHIVE ECHO energy was that strong and had made a lasting impression upon me. 28 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no confusion are what is reported in the presence of this haunted relic. The third and final item I will discuss is the West- ern Congo Funeral Mask. The Mask was discovered and submitted into the Archive by one of my best friends, fellow paranormal investigators and most trusted haunted relic advisor for the Archive, Anto- nio Gumm. The Congo Death Mask was collected from Jason Love in Scotland, whom reported that was used in a funeral ritual, but never disposed of properly. Thus it retains the soul of the deceased. It was reported that the mask was the source poltergeist activity and had caused great unrest within Love’s case location. Many of the Archive’s guest report the feeling of uneasiness and even fear when posed face to face with the mask. These three items can be viewed on the Archive’s website under the page entitled “Archived Ar- tifacts.” So feel free to visit the website at www. archive-afterlife.weebly.com. We always welcome everyone to come visit The Archive in person, but we understand distance can be an issue for some. The following day I went back to the store and So we are in the process of starting an online based purchased the piece. Interestingly enough, as I exhibit for those of you whom cannot make it here. approached the cashier she mentioned, “Oh so you In closing, thanks for sharing your day with me decided to get her after all.” I was kind of taken here and always seek truth! back due to me never expressing my interest in the piece with her. She then said, “Well you almost missed out on her because someone, earlier today, decided not to buy her.” So, to me, it was apparent that she was meant to be in the museum. Furthermore, many of the Archive’s guests have mentioned a strange aura about the figurine. The second item that I will discuss is the Haunted Dr. Suess “Foot Book”. This humble relic, ordinary as it seems, is linked to four very tragic and untimely deaths. This little book was collected by fellow paranormal investigator and friend, Shane Burgy, from one of his case investigations here in Moundsville, West Virginia. Through its own research he able to pinpoint the origin of the energy attached to the small children’s book. Shane discovered that it was during the murders of three adults and one child that the energy was imprinted upon the book. Sadly, it has been confirmed that the discoloration on the cover is indeed bloodstains. Added, from investigation attempts within the keep of the Archive we have made contact with the child thus far. Sadness and www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 29 MEDIUMSHIP IN PAR ANOR MAL

INVESTIGATIONS

By Phillip R. Wyatt

The use of mediumship can be an essential part of an investigation. In simpler terms, we are dealing with two types of spirits: ghosts or entities. One being of high vibration, which is the meaning for the light or love, and the other is of lower vibration, meaning angry, sad, or intending harm emotionally or physically. We encounter one or the other, or sometimes both during an investigation. Both are equally as important for communication if you are searching for the truth and/or the resolution, for the situation at hand. My method for protection while dealing with lower vibration entities is to ask my “Guides” and other Spirit Team Members to allow the entity to come close, but only as they safely stand guard. There have been times I have needed to be taught a lesson, and they have allowed me to learn the hard way through physical contact. It taught me a valuable lesson in the whole situation. People who are sensitive to spirit energy may have various physical reactions. Personally, when I am experiencing a strong contact with spirit energy, I may become extremely hot, regardless of the ambient temperature. Another physical reaction

30 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no is to suddenly be covered in goosebumps or cold vibrations and frequencies to transmit informa- chills. Residual energy may also cause you to tion. When the correct recipient receives this have other physical symptoms, such as a feeling energy they are somehow able to translate it as if a heavyweight is sitting on your chest or into information, much like cell phone signals. trouble taking a deep breath. You could also When one cell phone sends out a signal, the experience “feelings” of deep sadness, pain, correct corresponding cell phone receives the depression or dread. The juxtaposition is per- signal, which is then translated into recogniz- haps joy and happiness and an overall feeling of able information.Spirit communication through comfort and peace. So it is important to dis- Mediumship is definitely fascinating. It can tinguish if your reactions are from the energy most definitely bring peace to those in need, of an “Active Haunting” or “Residual” energies both living and in spirit. imprinted into the environment. An example Rescue Mediumship is much like a Spirit Coun- of the Physiological shifts in energy the feeling selor. When diagnosing why an Earthbound you experience when, for example, you are at a Spirit has not “crossed over” there can be many fun party and someone walks in that you do not reasons. Then carefully taking the steps needed like, and immediately the vibe and the festive to guide them to the Light, sometimes with the feeling of the party are brought down. How help of others from across the veil. For those of does that make you “feel”? you who have been fortunate enough to expe- Now imagine someone walking in that you re- rience a “crossing”, it can be a beautiful and ally like and is full of joy and makes you “feel” emotional occurrence. good just by being near them. Emotions are The bottom line is that the use of Mediumship energy and we are bioenergetic beings. We emit is for gathering information given by Spirit to energy, vibrations, and frequencies that contain give a healing message and bring peace to the information. I believe spirits use their energy souls it is intended for.

www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 31 George Pearis Cemetary By Fife Paranormal

I was sitting on my computer him was “What is the name running wild at the ceme- editing photos from a cem- of the cemetery?” His re- tery. etery I had recently visited sponse confused me: “It’s the To provide some historical when I received a message George Pearis Cemetery.” context about the cemetery from a friend of mine. They I thanked him for the in- we have to go back to the told me that they had a formation, and I turned off 1700s to another famous cemetery that would top all my photo editing software haunted location. At pres- the others. I was intrigued because I had something ent-day Lake Shawnee, the and as he went on explaining new to focus on. I knew Mitchell Clay family was the history and claims of the something was not right, he massacred by Shawnee war- cemetery, I realized I knew could not have been talking riors and their bodies were the cemetery he had been about the same cemetery I brought back to Virginia, talking about, but I had nev- had been to a few times with about half a mile from where er heard his claims or stories my uncle to visit some of my the cemetery is today. There before. He told me of a ceme- ancestors. I knew a little bit was a farm about a mile from tery that was full of soldiers, about the cemetery, but I do the cemetery that was at- locals, and pure evil. not remember reading about tacked many times by Na- I asked him to give me a call demonic entities, satanic tive Americans. In addition, and the first thing I asked rituals, or elemental entities several men followed Captain

32 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no George Pearis (who happens this place, and in November growl. This had never hap- to be related to me) to North of 2018, I went there with pened to me before, and I Carolina in 1779 to join the my equipment. It was a cool knew I was getting close to Continental Army to fight evening and the trail leading figuring out the truth about the British at the Battle of up to the cemetery is a part what was going on at the Guilford Courthouse. When of the Appalachian Trail, cemetery. Pearis died, he was buried which is associated with bad The feeling I had felt was on a small hill overlooking energy itself. As soon as I like, I was enclosed in a his former land. He was the stepped foot into the cem- dome of intense energy that first one buried at the ceme- etery I could feel this warm was slowly collapsing around tery that would one day bear air sting my neck. That was me, inching closer and clos- his name. It is said that over not a good sign, and I had a er. I then asked a question 300 people are buried in the feeling of something large that would lead to an answer cemetery, but only about 50 creeping around. I didn’t want. “Who am I tombstones are visible now, I had planned to conduct talking to?” A short pause, due to the wilderness slowly three spirit box sessions, and and then a creepy voice re- reclaiming the land that was I would film every one of sponded with “Guardian.” once full of trees and thick- them for my team’s YouTube Whatever evil entity had ets. channel. The first session attacked that paranormal Working with this knowledge was at the grave of George group was now making it- of the accepted fact, I start- Pearis, and nothing hap- self known to me. While this ed looking for local legends pened at all. Same thing with was happening, I could see about the cemetery and ask- the second session, but I did little forms dashing behind ing people what they knew see some shadowy figures tombstones around me, I about the place. While doing out of the corner of my eye. could hear footsteps in the this, I discovered something The third session started just leaves behind me, but I knew startling. My dad’s father as the sun set below disclosed to me that he was the ridgeline and a also familiar with the cem- cool breeze enveloped etery. He told me about a the cemetery. Within a satanic group that had many few minutes, I started ritual sites in southern West getting voices respond- Virginia and Virginia and ing to my questions. George Pearis was one of Then I started to get their headquarters. It was this heavy feeling in rumored they sacrificed an- my chest, a feeling I imals, took blood oaths, and always get whenever a tried to summon the Devil demonic entity is near. himself among the tomb- I decided to press for stones. answers about the Sa- Over the course of the tanic group. next week, I gathered sto- The first question was, ries about demonic entities “Were rituals conduct- chasing people out of the ed here?”, to which I cemetery, a guardian entity received a very clear attacking a local paranormal “Yes” from a deep, group that unsuccessfully metallic voice. I then tried to use Holy Water to heard a voice over banish the foe. my spirit box yell out I knew I had to investigate “Die!” followed by a www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 33 34 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no I couldn’t run. Whether stupid including an EVP that sound- keep people away? Who should or brave, I kept pressing about ed like chanting, and I estab- I believe, the living, or the the Satanic history of the lished that there was a nega- dead? grounds. tive force at the cemetery, but It has been several months I never did get clear answers, then something strange had since that investigation and I but I started to hear a voice occurred. still do not have a clear an- in my head, a positive feel- Over the course of the next swer. I do know that there is ing voice, tell me to leave the month, I would get emails and an evil force that holds the cemetery. I took this as a sign messages from people telling other spirits, including some from my spirit guide and so me that the stories of dev- of my ancestors, hostage. I went to leave, but as I left I il-worshipping up there was a The lesson here is that no saw a large dark shape move lie and that the local historical matter what you hear about a in the woods by the path. I society kept a close eye on the location, always be thorough felt trapped in the cemetery, grounds and they never heard in your research. However, so I told whatever it was, that of anything of that sort going do not be afraid to trust your I was not afraid and that I on. gut and any spiritual evidence would be back. So what is the truth about over “accepted facts.” Evil will I waited a minute, and then I George Pearis Cemetery? Were try to hide in plain sight but it went down the narrow path there Satanic rituals con- is the responsibility of inves- back to my car. I had recorded ducted on the grounds, and a tigators to pull that curtain over 15 clear spirit box clips, guardian entity summoned to back and reveal the truth.

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My name is Tony Almaraz and this is my story: I grew up in Venice, California in the ‘70s. The house I grew up in was built in 1937 located within walking distance from Ven- ice Beach. I lived with my father, mother, older sister and younger brother. It all started with noises in the house when I was around 10 years old. We started to see shadows along with objects moving around on their own. Whatever it was, it started calm and slowly, but surely started getting out of control It didn’t help that my cousins brought over an Ouija Board and talked my sister into playing with it. I remember that day like it was yesterday. My parents were next door visiting my grandparents. My cousins decided to play the Ouija Board in one of the scariest rooms in our house. The door itself to this room was an old Venetian wood slat door that you can see on the other side. The handle was broken so when you turned the knob it just turned and turned. The door jamb was missing the molding inside the frame to stop the door from opening all the way through. The only way to lock this door was with a little metal latch. This door had not locked since I was a child.

36 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no My cousins and my sister through the living room into behind her. My sister looked started to play the Ouija the hallway and into my par- surprised at us and called out Board. I was there with them ents’ bedroom closing the for mom again but no reply. only because my sister had to door behind him. My mother My sister then walked to my watch me while my parents grabbed my 7-year-old broth- parents’ bedroom and knocked were out of the house. I re- er and me and ran out of the on the door but got no answer member my cousins asking the house. At that time my father so she started to open the door Ouija Board several questions was coming home from work when suddenly my mother and the last questions asked and my mother told him what came into the house from the was “If anybody is here, please had just occurred and he told back door carrying a basket of let us know?” At that time the us to wait outside and he ran clothes asking my sister if she planchette all of a sudden flew inside the house. My father got the VHS working. We all out from underneath my two searched the entire house and froze and stared at each other cousins and sister’s fingers. found no one. and then told our mother what The door to the room then Another incident then oc- we had seen. slammed shut! We all ran to curred during summer break: Another incident that the door and tried to push it My mother was doing laundry occurred: We were sitting in open and I remember holding outside our backyard and told the living room, my mother on to my sister and crying. my sister to put a movie on was sitting across from my We pushed and pushed on the for us. My sister couldn’t get father and me reading a book. door trying to get out but it the VHS player working. She My father was helping me with just got very cold and we start- called out to mom because she Math homework and reading ed to hear a growl and other couldn’t get it to work. As she a newspaper. We had a huge weird noises. The curtains called out to mom, we watch heavy wood picture frame opposite us on the other side our mother come in from the that was hanging above my of the room started to sway as dining room and go into her father and I. Two picture frame someone had turned on a large bedroom and closed the door hooks had to be screwed into fan. We noticed a red blurry light on the curtains that started growing and growing. The curtains started to sway more violently as everyone screamed and I remember turning to the door and putting my fingers through the wood slacks thinking I was going to see someone holding the door shut but no one was there. We all held on to each other tighter and without touching the door, it slowly opened up by itself and we all ran out. That is when everything escalated in our house. We would see full-body appa- ritions: One day we were sitting in the living room and saw a man walk from the dining room www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 37 stopped them from coming over. So we would go play with them at their house. For years the paranormal activity went on and that is exactly what got me curious and intrigued into the paranormal. I had so many questions that no one could answer. In my teenage years was when I started investigating the paranormal. Thirty-plus years later, and now The Los Angeles Paranormal Research Society, I have seen and experienced so many paranormal occurrences. My goal as a paranormal investigator is to educate, help others and seek the truth

the wood studs of this picture (it was that heavy). For some reason, something caught my mother’s attention and she looked up to see the picture frame rise a few inches and she yelled to my father to “watch out!” The picture frame came crashing down behind our heads as my father pushed my head forward just in time. The heavy hooks were still screwed into the wall and the thick heavy wire was still tacked on the picture frame. My father is a very smart knowledgeable man. He use to work for McDonnell Douglas & Hughes Aircraft building sat- ellites for the military, so he always had a logical explanation for everything, but couldn’t figure out what was going on in our house. The older we got, friends started coming over to spend the day, but what they would experience in our house

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42 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no The newest location to hit the map as paranormal hot spot in Hartford City, Indiana, Griffin’s Blind Tiger. Brockton Miller, owner recently opened the location up to historical enthusiast and paranormal investigators. Originally known as the Interurban Saloon and during the prohi- bition fronting as the Interurban Cigar Shop, this haunted nationally registered historic land- mark bar with rich, busy history: beginning in 1905 upon completion of construction the bar took form as the Interur- ban Saloon but was also known later as a cigar shop, lunch room, a billiard hall, café, and tav- ern. Although Hartford City was known to have a multitude of saloons within the small knit community; each location, as with any small bar had their own club house like environment. find the door closed behind them! If that’s not The Griffin Building has four floors; attic for enough, a secret room has been discovered in storage, second floor where typically the saloon recent years while doing electrical work, finding owners at would occupy as their living quar- a clip board and pencil sharpener still attached ters, first floor where the saloon/cigar shop/ to the wall along with a desk after cutting a billiard hall/café operated from and the base- hole in a wall. ment where all beer and liquor deliveries were Once played on the juke box, although it is no made. The basement remains fairly original. longer there, intermittently favorite songs from The entrance to the basement from the alley years past play throughout the day and night. at first glance is somewhat reminiscent an old Like the juke box, the pool tables have been mine entrance. Walking through the tunneled removed as well. However, this doesn’t put a pathway, while having to duck most of the way, screeching halt to the good times that were ex- many have experienced an uneasy feeling of perienced by the many that walked through the someone watching them from behind. Don’t door to see a familiar face. Don’t be surprised if get caught in the walk-in cooler by yourself, as you hear the pool balls rack up waiting to hus- former employees have mentioned running in tle the next game! Many former employees have to grab a few cases of beer only to tur around to www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 43 reported seeing shadows linger at closing time former bartender, these instances are only one seen in the mirror by the register, some think of many! Bartenders are more like underpaid they are the spirit of a former owner and there psychiatrists listening to every walk of life’s are those that feel they may be the spirit of a sorrows and excitement, watching those drink customer heading home. away their sorrows and power drink because of The Saloon once shared a common wall with an achievement, and hearing the dirty secrets Citizen’s State bank which has since been tore thought to be heard only by the intended. The down and turned into a parking lot in 1974. saying if walls could talk… These walls at Grif- The notorious Sheriff Ira Barton was convict- fin’s Blind Tiger in Hartford City, Indiana seem ed of assisting with the robbery of Citizen’s to hold stories from those that once deemed it State Bank, which occurred in 1931. The door their “club house”… And they are eager to com- that connected the two businesses can still be municate! seen bricked over from the outside. This would All I can say is this… This was a place full of definitely lead one to wonder if access was given memories, some with love, anger, sadness, to the bank through the saloon at the time?! happiness, loss or numbness. EVP’s will tell you Maybe these are the footsteps we here in the stories they either forgot to tell or want retold. basement! What memories do you think you would leave When we think of bars, most think of gather- behind at your favorite hangout?!? ing with friends in celebration. However, as a

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www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 45 46 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no ber or several numbers a day. If they keep repeating it’s urgent that you look them up, to see which message they can reveal to you. Angel We are all meant to live our lives in love and light, we’re supposed to live in the present, to exist in this very moment. The Numbers angels want to remind us, that this is the case. They want us to keep a positive mind and they want us to stop focusing on nega- Have you ever noticed that certain num- tive things. bers keep reappearing? Numbers, like 1111, 2222, 1111,1212? It seems like, it’s all We live in a world now, that keeps waking by coincidence. They can appear on your up. For people sensitive to energy, it’s easy phone, your tv, in your car or even on re- to feel which areas of the world are more ceipts. In the strangest situations you en- open and contain more light than other counter, numbers keep following you. Then parts. Some countries, like Norway – de- maybe, your angels are trying to communi- spite being a cold and dark country, is in cate with you. fact a country that lives more in the light than many other countries. Norway and The angels can be considered higher its habitants have started to open-up more beings of light, beings that want to help to the universe and to the light. We keep us along our way. They’re constantly sur- going back to our roots, back into nature – rounding us, and they want us to receive claiming our right to live in the moment, information that can help us in our current like we’re supposed to. situations. All angel numbers have a special meaning. We have started to discard old superstitions and we have started to ignore re- When you keep seeing 1111, this signifies ligions, that tries to hold us back. Many that energy doorways have been opened. religions keep holding us back, the people You will soon experience a shift in your practicing it has intentions about robbing life energy when you turn your thoughts us of our free will, they want to control us. into reality. Your angels want you to The angels want us to wake up, they want know that you should choose the kind of to remind us that we all have a free will thoughts that you put in your head. They and the ability to think for ourselves. should reflect what you truly desire. Don’t focus on the things that scare you or keep So, the next time you keep seeing repeat- you from reaching your full potential. You ing numbers, look it up, and discover what can end up making those fears a reality. the angels need you to know, today! The next time you see the angel number 1111, make a wish! Send your deepest desires to the universe and watch how your angel numbers will work for you. (Source: Jane Hurum, https://trustedpsychicmediums.com) Team leader & Founder of Paranormal Energy Norway Whenever you’re in the flow, and in tune with the universe, you will notice all the messages the angels are trying to send to you. You might experience the same num- www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 47 Back In Time Paranormal Investigators.

'The Spirits Are Calling...'

We are from many counties in Ireland brought together by our love of the Paranormal. We were established in 2015 as individual investigators for many years and the team gradually grew to the 8 members we have now. We play by the rules of old school investigations, using trigger objects, music, re-enactments, and seance. We like to design our experiments based on the location in which they would be used. We have both true believers and open-minded skeptics on board that bring a great balance. Within that mix, we have sensitives, empaths, scientific and level headed debunkers. We welcome all the ideas the team can come up with. Our team name came from what we to do, stepping ‘back in time’ to when the spirits lived. Our tag line, ‘The Spirits Are Calling...’ is our outlook.

48 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no Leap Castle, Co. Offaly. O’Carrolls. They held a lot seance one night, she Ireland of power and once again this summoned up the led to the death of another Elemental. Filled with a Allegedly built on a Pagan set of brothers. One of the negative force this half-man, site in the 14th century, Leap brothers, a priest, was half-beast with rotten flesh Castle, as it stands today, saying mass for the family announces itself with a smell consists of 3 main rooms and in what is now known as the of sulfur and rotten meat. more than 20 ghosts. As the Bloody Chapel. The other Children also roam the floors Legend goes, The Castle brother entered the of this Castle and two, in got its name for the chapel and stabbed his particular, are Charlotte and O’Bannon Brothers. Before brother in the back with his Emily accompanied by their the castle was built, the sword. He fell to his knees governess. Emily was said to brothers fought for the lead- with his blood flowing fast have fallen to her death from ership of the Clan. A display upon the floor. During the the top of the battlements of bravery was the only way reign of the O’Carrolls, they and both children have been to settle this matter so the invited a clan of mercenar- seen by the current owners, two brothers took a ‘leap’ off ies from Sligo to the Castle. the Ryan family. Sean Ryan, the rocky outcrop that the Their drinks were laced with tells of many spirits that Castle was to be built upon. poison and all 39 of them roam this beautiful Castle. The survivor would become were murdered in the Bloody Our stay in Leap Castle the chieftain. Before it was Chapel. started on a beautiful built, blood and death lay on Another name associated summer day. Upon arrival, the foundation that is now with Leap Castle is that of the team entered the castle Leap Castle. Another Clan to Mildred Darby. Mildred used with excitement and inhabit Leap Castle was the the black arts and during a positivity. www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 49 We always start our nights Each member of our team the long seat off with a chat. This helps has a vital role to play. No with an empty space beside us absorb the atmosphere one is just an investigator. her. As part of Mary’s gift and acclimatize ourselves We proceeded to the upper as a sensitive, she has the to the location. This allows hall. Before we settled in, ability to allow spirits to en- the spirits to get to know we played with a bounc- ter her and she can see and us a bit better too. We like ing ball with a light inside hear what they can see to keep the energy positive and placed dolls around the and hear. We believe that both within the team and in room. This room is known the governess of the little the location. to have girls entered her. She sat We bring ourselves ‘back in the little girls and governess taller and her facial features time’ and try to visualize that we spoke about earlier. turned sterner. She watched past events in each room. We then silently sat around and listened to our chat What books might have been the long table, fingers as we discussed the event read by the fire? What mu- touching. It was still very occurring. There was now sic would have been played bright outside. We took in a breeze between Mary and at parties? Love and heart- the atmosphere, the sounds, Michelle who was sitting at ache, births and deaths. the smells, the heat, the en- the top of the table and a We try to be aware of what ergy. Mary, one of our sensi- space between them. At the energies may be held within tives, immediately felt cold. far end of the table, the fabric of the building. She was sitting at the end of Suzanne who would be an 50 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no open-minded skeptic had the sound of furniture mov- hidden in the thick stone her hair played with, the ing in the room were wit- walls. It was fairly quiet but cobweb feeling. She was nessed by all the team. We atmospheric. However, one agitated by it as it would not had an EVP recorder run- dark corner got our go away. ning for the entire night in attention. The darkness it Rosemary who was sitting this room so we were happy held did not come from the beside her was also affect- to know that this would or lack of light, instead from ed. She felt the cold too and should be picked up by it as the sorrow and hurt that there was a breeze going they were loud. radiated from it. Each of the across the top of her hands. We moved on up the Bloody girls took turns standing A white shadow was wit- Chapel. Again, it was a in this corner, some were nessed by 2 members of the warm evening and still overtaken with emotion and team as it walked behind bright. There was not a pain. Of the 3 men on the Mary, Rosemary, and breeze to be felt in this team, only 1 witnessed the Suzanne. Equipment used room considering there is no cold that it held. A strong in this session included our glass in the large windows. smell of whiskey was picked k2s. One, in particular, kept As the Castle is situated in up on at the entrance to the hitting. We had placed a the heart of the countryside, Bloody Chapel with it clay pipe resting on it. We the only noise from outside traveling away towards the swapped over to a different was the cows and sheep other end of the chapel. k2 and placed the pipe on grazing in the rich green Stuart who was standing in it. Again we got a hit so we fields or the occasional a doorway at the other end moved the position of both car driving past. We began spoke of a strong smell of and again it hit. with some music, chanting whiskey wafting past him. The pipe was attracting monks. We hoped this would No alcohol was consumed something to it. Bangs and bring to life some memories by any of our team before or

www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 51 while on location. sensed we were not alone. but someone else telling We retreated down to the The air was still and our us this was wrong. She was main hall to take a short candles remained lit and now freezing cold. Yvette break before commencing steady. Kevin took the who was standing in front back up to the Bloody position as a priest at the of Michelle holding the Chapel for an experiment we top of the chapel and read cross kept moving forward have wanted to try in there from a bible. The girls took and felt like she was being since our 1st ever visit. We it, in turn, to hold a cross pushed over. We weren’t set up the room with laser in front of him. Stuart and getting enough back from light and candles in one Joe both followed this theme the spirits through this of the windows and on the but we got no reaction from experiment and felt it was floor where we guessed an the Spirits. It was only time to stop. They did not alter might be. Again we when Michelle took the bible want the girls to say mass used the chanting monks to and began reading that we and we respected that. Joe, get the energy flowing and got our reaction. Mary Stuart, and Suzanne Mary said a prayer in Latin, immediately shook her decided to leave the chapel repeating it over and over. finger and saying no. We to do a lone vigil. Michelle, The atmosphere changed know it wasn’t Mary Mary, Yvette, Rosemary, and immediately and we all giving us this instruction Kevin remained. The girls 52 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no formed a circle around the minutes Stuart and Joe the SLS camera to see if we cross and joined him to help bring could pickup on anything. candles, held hands and down the equipment. They Nothing showed on the SLS called out. Kevin was were all standing well back as Stuart our technician recording this session. We from the lit candles at the watched the screen for the asked for the candles to be entrance and Kevin called entire session. The rods blown out. We could feel it a night. Just as the 3 of attempted at moving, but someone walking around them began walking over to nothing to talk of. We had the circle and the candles the candles, a very strong a tennis ball and a sensor individually flickered as breeze went in front of all 3 light on the balcony above they walked past. One of the of them and blew 3 of the 4 us. This balcony holds a candles went out but came candles out. The lone candle double bed with room for back within a second. Again left burning was their only absolutely nothing else. The there was no breeze coming light in the now very dark sensor light was triggered in the window. Bloody Chapel. twice. It was a very calm night. We We once again retreated Again we were treated to all headed out of the Bloody down to the upper hall. As bumps in the night but this Chapel leaving Kevin to take we all sat at the long table turned out to be the quietest photos. After about 10 we used dowsing rods and session. www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 53 We finished the night with a Q&A from some members of our team. When we returned home to put together our Q&A for facebook, a clear voice is heard off-camera. We were all accounted for and none of us heard this voice during filming. Again we thought the EVP will have picked that up. However, upon listening back to the EVP, we found it to contain nothing of the night’s events. It was blank. The light was on recording the sessions as they were checked throughout the night and the EVP works fine as it was checked before and after the night. To conclude we found this night to be very interesting. We had the bumps and moans & sensor lights being triggered. We didn’t bump into the Elemental or Mildred Darby but we did connect to some spirits that were hidden in the shadows. We cant wait to return.

The Spirits Are Calling...

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Earlier this year we received a The paranormal phenom- grandmother then discovered request from a client, to ena started to occur when that the lid on the glass jar was conduct a paranormal the twins moved into their missing, and several corks had investigation. The client stated father's apartment, around 3 been removed. there were strange months ago. Almost immedi- The father and grandmother occurrences, in which a mas- ately, in fact within the same began trying to debunk the sive number of physical phe- week activity started to oc- events and even went as far nomena was occurring. The cur. Items such as soda caps as to find out if the kids were family at the center of this would fly across the room and somehow behind it. Unable to phenomenon was from South then would reappear, all from debunk the events, they had Africa. The family had moved thin air. The soda caps even to finally give up. They could to Norway a few years ago. The would travel from one room not come up with any logical father and grandma had left to another. The grandmother explanations as to what was their home country first, and began to gather all the soda happening in their apartment. after they settled in, they had caps, and then placed them At that point, everyone in the the opportunity to bring their in a glass jar with a lid on and household had become petri- children and grandchildren. hid it in her room. The next fied over all that events that Among the group of children, day over 12 caps appeared all had been occurring. Upon including a set of twins around over the house, all which again reaching this point, they de- the age of 15. appeared from thin air. The cided things had to change. So, 56 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no on the third day of the events quickly escalated. A soda cap wall where it hit. Third, a tele- occurring, the family decided went missing from the aunt's vision got knocked down from to act. They decided to move soda flask downstairs, in the its table stand. This occurred the twins over to their aunt's kitchen. The soda cap reap- not once, but twice. Fourth, house, who also was here in peared in the bathroom, where glasses that were placed in Norway. the twin girl had just entered the dishwasher, was launched In the car heading over to the room. and flew and broke all over the the aunt's house, a series of The family decided to take floor with great force. Finally, a strange occurrences happened. a break and schedule a boat photo frame fell from the wall One of them being a soda cap cruise for a couple of days. The right in front of our client's hit the driver hard in the neck. day before the cruise, a series son. Poltergeist activity Another was a massive load of of events occurred. One, a shoe Our client which had previous- glitter stones, poured all over flew from the hallway and end- ly been married to the father's the driver and passenger. All ed up at the clothes rack in the sister, and felt he had to assist this occurred with no passen- living room. Two, a computer the family in any way he could. gers in the backseat! went flying from the living That's when he decided to When the twins finally arrived room table, in fact, it was so reach out to us for assistance. at their aunt's house, things hard that it made a mark in the He was slightly hesitant in reaching out to us, as he had been turned down several times by others. Others had turned him down since this case seemed too outland- ish to be true. Although, skeptical myself, I was very intrigued. I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. I quickly tuned into the energies and felt the urge to research African rituals for kids. I felt like the twin kids were supposed to do something back in their home country. After this, I started to investigate the possibilities for this being a poltergeist case. This was due to several occurrences that would classify this as your classic poltergeist type of case. With the help of www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 57 our client, I managed to zero poltergeist. The girl was under gone quiet and no more para- in on which family member great stress and had not tran- normal phenomena occurred. was the focus of the phenom- sitioned smoothly in the move So, I concluded very easy that ena that were occurring. After to Norway. She had difficulty whatever this was, it seemed to the events from when the fam- in grasping the Norwegian follow the twins. ily went on their boat cruise, language. She seemed very I consulted my team members it was an easy conclusion to closed in and introverted. She and other mediums, many of make. seemed very stressed and was which did not believe this to be The several events that oc- lashing out in anger more fre- a poltergeist case, but rather a curred during the boat trip had quently. The move had caused curse or an evil spirit. Person- occured to the twin's sister. quite a bit of stress from all the ally, I don't believe in curses or The types of events that oc- changes. demons and decided to have an curred were items that went Now her brother, he was not open mind regarding this case. flying and they heard knocking stressed at all. He already When the angels communicate on the door and walls. With spoke good Norwegian and At the time of this case, we this final piece of the story, it was very extroverted and had had just started to decorate demonstrated to me that the integrated smoothly into the our new team office. I decided twin girl was the focus of all Norwegian culture. He had to look for haunted or creepy the events. I already had sus- adjusted quite easily to the items that would fit into our pected that this could be the changes. After the twins left new office. As I scrolled and case. their father's apartment and searched through the hun- This had all the classical moved into their aunt's house, dreds of items I located, one symptoms and behavior of a the father's apartment had stood out! It was a marionette

58 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no with 4 legs, 4 arms, and 4 eyes, investigation. Quite frankly no tigation, we only received a a Ganesh / Shiva puppet. At one really wanted to go, even small amount of communica- the time I did not think of the though we had been excited tion, through the use of ITC relevance regarding the case about the case for weeks prior equipment. we had at that moment, due to to this day. After a quick interview, the our case was South African. The day was not going father relayed to us that the Later that weekend, Antonio smoothly at all. We struggled twins had moved back into his arrived from the United States. to find our client's house and apartment after the boat trip. We had decided to try and find we ended up being over an Only a few occurrences had more objects for the office. hour late. While looking for occurred after this. The father We had stumbled upon a great the location, we all at some still concerned had decided find. We found a lot, contain- point felt and agreed that we to call someone in their home ing 24 Makishi Dancers from were unwanted or even that it country, about the events. Zambia. So, we decided to go was pointless, to go. He did not want to tell us any and look at them the following When we arrived at the fa- details about this, but by the Monday. However, before look- ther's house, he brought along sounds of it, this could have ing at them we had to conduct the twins as we felt the im- been an African shaman. The our suspected poltergeist case portance of meeting them. Shaman had told the father to investigation. We quickly concluded that do a couple of things and after It was Saturday and time for the apartment was empty. We this, their apartment had been our investigation! We all felt could not find any abnormal quiet. uncomfortable going to this readings. During the inves- During our ITC communication, I could sense a female spirit coming through and she relayed to me that there were several rituals that she and the rest of the ancestors wanted the twins to perform. When asked about this, no one in the family wanted to admit or elaborate on what these rituals were, but they www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 59 our client's case from the weekend. Once again, it was a struggle, to find the seller's house. Google had sent us 30 minutes past the location. One hour later past what we had planned, we finally found it! We joined the seller inside his private home, and displayed a complete set, with some of the dancers, that previously were displayed in the Livingstone House Muse- um in Zambia. "The Livingstone Muse- um is the largest and the oldest museum in Zam- bia, established in 1934, as the David Livingstone Memorial Museum. In 1960 the museum rec- reated villages from five ethnic groups to give visitors a sense of traditional tribal life and to present the "way of life during the bronze and all agreed that they did not should happen again. iron age." want any part in performing We all left somewhat perplexed We were curious about the any of them. With this piece and curious about why the details, that the seller gave us of information, I decided to family did not want to talk to on how he had acquired these communicate with the female us about their traditions and old amazing dolls had come to spirit present and emphasize these rituals, but we respected his possession. The seller had how important it is that every- their decision not to. recently bought a cabin locat- body has their own free will. The Answers ed about a half-hour from his That nobody can be forced into A few days later (Monday), home. The cabin was recently doing rituals that they want our date to view the dolls had sold by a family member of a nothing to do with. As the arrived. Antonio and I headed deceased taxidermist. female spirit calmed down and up the valley here in Norway. These African Makishi dancers decided to cease her communi- Our destination was a remote had been a part of the many cation with us, the apartment location about an hour from items they left behind. Our once again grew quiet. I then where we live, to view and seller found them boxed up take this opportunity to close possibly collect the 24 Maki- and marked with writing in our investigation. I relayed to shi Dancing dolls. Still, at this Norwegian "Afrikanske duk- our clients to contact us if any point we did not realize that ker". This translated means more paranormal occurrences, they might hold the answers to African dolls. Our seller had no 60 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no desire to keep these items and decided to sell them on the open market. The seller had the items listed for sale for almost two months, without anyone being interested. I had done several searches on the same sales page but had never come across them. The first time I had seen them was the week before our investigation when they inadvertently came up in my search. Coincidence? We can only assume that our taxidermist at some point worked for, or somehow ended up at the Livingstone Museum in Zambia. Which we believe he either purchased or was given the collection of dolls. The collection of dolls included paperwork, which reveals they were purchased for several thousands of dollars. The pa- trigued and intimidated audi- during this period of transi- perwork reveals the dolls and ences for centuries. The mak- tion. With a tense yet festive other items were purchased ishi are shrouded in secrecy air, the makishi travel from straight from the Livingstone and it is taboo to ask who hides village to village to announce Museum. behind the mask. The makishi that the mukanda is near. So, at some point, our danc- are spirits that represent the Food and katsasu (millet beer) ers ended up here in Norway, ancestors and they command is prepared the night before where they waited at least over the utmost respect. The mak- the mukanda and the follow- a decade for its new own- ishi normally appear during ing day the boys eat their last er, Antonio W. Gumm, team the mukanda (circumcision meal as the makishi roam the member of Paranormal Energy ceremony), then return to their village. Lisako, a compound of Norway, Chief Editor of IPI graves immediately afterward. protective medicine and clay Magazine and ‘haunted' item Their appearance creates an is rubbed onto the boys by the collector. eerie but fascinating atmo- Nganga Mukanda (medicine So, could they have been a sphere. man) and the boys are then es- part of the museum's "way of The mukanda takes place corted to katateveje, the "place life during the bronze and iron during the dry season from of death." age" exhibit? We cannot be May to October and lasts Several makishi remain in truly certain until we contact between three to five months. the village to keep the moth- the Livingstone museum and The mukanda is a rite of pas- ers at bay while the African verify the claim. Ironically, sage for boys entering man- drums beat loudly to drown we did not start to read about hood. out the screams of the boys the Makishi Dancers until we The makishi return to the land as the chikenzi performs the brought them home. of the living to guide and pro- circumcision. The boys are "Makishi dancers have in- tect the boys and their village then taken to an area not far www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 61 from the village where they will remain for several months." (Source: https://www.victori- afalls-guide.net/zimbabwe-customs.html) So, we are left pondering some questions. The biggest question is, could this have been one of the rituals our client's ancestors wanted the twins to partake in? One can only speculate, and we may never know. I must note that Af- rican rituals like these are rarely performed today. The ancestors might not agree to the family's decision about distancing themselves from the ancient traditions like "The Mukanda". Dancers. This is only just the beginning, as our We all must make up our own minds upon how little tribe of Makishi Dancers, might bring us big a part our belief should play in our own some exciting communication with spirits from lives. I certainly believe that we all are connect- another time and space. ed to a higher purpose and that the universe sends us the things and the answers we need to Jane Hurum accomplish this. The answers are clear only if Team leader & Founder of Paranormal Energy we listen carefully enough. Norway So, this is the story upon how IPI's chief editor came into the possession of 24 Makishi 62 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 63 64 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 65 THE MYSTERIOUS MARLEY WOODS OF MISSOURI Michael Huntington (August 2019)

Michael Huntington is a Paranormal Travel Writer, Blogger and UFO Re- searcher from Cape Girardeau, Missou- ri who has investigated the Unusual since the late 70s. He has travelled to hundreds of places in the U.S. with his family documenting strange places and lost lore. He has been a guest on dozens of Paranormal and UFO-related radios programs, has appeared on television discussing UFOs, and has been inter- viewed for several documentaries - including the new cryptid feature “MoMo: The Missouri Monster.” Michael’s work can be found on all social media, the Strange Travels blog, and in the soon- to-be-released Strange Travel Book series.

66 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no Missouri’s Skinwalker Ranch for a “secret” central location nomena at play. where field investigations In late 90s Phillips organized Across the globe, and have been conducted to ex- a select team, under the ban- throughout the entirety of plore the varied anomalies ner of his Center for Physical human experience, tales have found in a larger region of Trace Research (CPTR) orga- been told of strange places southern Missouri that has nization, called the Special In- that defy conventional under- a reputed history of high vestigations Unit (SIU), whose standing - localities replete strangeness. But we shall use purpose was to document and with an abundance of weird the Marley moniker here to gather evidence of the re- stories of encounters with a give account of all the bizarre ported anomalies. He kept his variety of bizarre anomalous happenings in the area as we research site confidential and and paranormal phenomena, explore the tales from the devised the “Marley Woods” so constant and so frequent, Mysterious Marley Woods - label so as to maintain the in- to wit such places become the Missouri’s Own Skinwalker tegrity of his particular study “haunted realms” of folklore Ranch. site and to preserve the pri- and urban legend. Those who vacy of the property owners research the anomalous are Ted Phillips and the Special who were allowing the use of familiar with these “hotspots” Investigations Unit their lands on which to con- of unusual localized activity, duct observations. While the where people, over the span of The Marley Woods is an area chief investigator was team time, claim encounters with of localized anomalous ac- leader Ted Phillips, who lived UFOs, ghostly beings, glow- tivity in Missouri first inves- not too far from the Woods, ing orbs, unknown cryptid tigated, and named as such, other noted Missouri Investi- creatures, mutilated livestock, by noted Missouri UFO trace gators participated in the SIU unexplainable vortexes, and evidence investigator Ted field observations over the inexplicable time slips. All Phillips beginning in the late decade-or-so when the area countries and cultures have 1990s. Phillips, a protege of was being studied, including: such places. In the U.S., most the late-great Ufologist Dr. Debbie Ziegelmeyer (a MUFON are familiar with the leg- J. Allen Hynek (Phillips was Board Member and State Di- endary “Skinwalker Ranch” also a research associate for rector), Chuck Zukowski (aka in Utah, where a myriad of Hynek’s Center for UFO Stud- The UFO Nut), Adam John- likewise phenomena is re- ies) had an esteemed reputa- son, Josh Johnson, and Mark puted to occur. But there are tion as being one of the top Ferrario (and, undoubtedly, other places in America, like field investigators of UFOs other infrequent participants). Skinwalker, where weirdness (having personally investigat- Zeigelmeyer and Zukowski, abounds. One such place ed over 3,000 trace cases for incidentally, are brother and is the so-called mysterious over three decades) leading up sister investigators who have “Marley Woods” of south-cen- to his involvement in inves- been active in MUFON inves- tral Missouri - a Midwest tigating the strange happen- tigations in the state for years realm where a plethora of the ings in the Marley Woods. and developed - undoubtedly paranormal has allegedly been After hearing accounts of the influenced by their investi- on display for decades. And frequent anomalous weird- gations at Marley - the 37th where investigators have been ness (UFOs, lights, mutilated Parallel line of paranormal actively documenting and cattle, landing traces, etc.) activity pattern theory which studying its secrets to try to taking place on several ad- was explored in Ben Mezrich’s understand them. joining farms and ranches in 2016 book “37th Parallel” and south-central Missouri, Phil- is the basis for the new “Alien It should first be noted that lips began a formal investiga- Highway” television pro- the “Marley Woods” is not a tion to try to document and gram on Travel Channel. The “real” place, but a pseudonym better understand the phe- Marley Woods region is to be www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 67 relay a been shared during speaking variety of lectures) that show, mostly, observed nocturnal balls of light that (and doc- readily defy convention expla- umented) nations. (It should be noted anomalous that attempts were made to occurrenc- include this proprietary evi- es: actual dence in this article, as well “silvery” as comment, but it looks as if craft of the SIU team is planning some unknown sort of film about the Woods, origin fly- so they are keeping use of ing in the their findings to themselves sky, a pre- for the time being). ponderance The intriguing visual evidence of spook- and documentation of the un- light-type usual events experienced by phenomena Phillips’ Special Unit during and orbs the study, as mentioned be- (balls of fore, are a follow-up to even white and stranger activity leading up amber to the field investigation. light about Farmers and ranchers living the size of near the study site also claim basketballs landings, landing traces by found along this theoretical seen to flit physical objects of consid- line of high strangeness activ- about the night sky), inex- erable weight/pressure (one ity. plicable “beams of light” and farm had numerous holes left So, what did the SIU discover strange “glows” coming from from an object of some sort), while in the Woods? Plenty nowhere, luminous objects unusual cattle deaths near from all available accounts. appearing to “blink in and ground traces, and - although While there has yet to have out” as if entering/leaving via less explored, explained or been produced a study report a portal-like gateway, unusual substantiated - alleged sight- or paper, largely due to the synchronicities in the form ings of unknown cryptids and investigation coming to a halt of equipment malfunctions shadowy animals. Strange as a result of Phillips report- during phenomenological accounts of poltergeist activ- edly being sidelined by declin- activity, unexplainable power/ ity (items moving or being ing health, much of what is battery drainages, time slips moved by some unknown known about the SIU investi- and effects on times percep- force, unaccounted for noises, gation comes from the various tion, frenzied livestock re- and glowing mist-like phe- speaking lectures that the actions to anomalous events nomena) were also alleged team gave in the late 2000s (before and during), and by the ranchers and farmers (MUFON and UPARS), various seemingly “intelligent” pol- in their homes and on their guest appearances by Phillips tergeist-like pranking amidst properties. on several radio shows and encounters (Phillips had his All and all the SIU team did podcasts (including Coast to keys disappear/misplaced on experience enough, and gath- Coast AM and Conundrums), occasion). Videos and photo- ered enough evidence of ac- and bits of investigatory piec- graphs of numerous “objects” tivity, to support the conten- es found online in posts, chats were captured on camera tion that there can be found and websites. These accounts by team members (and have localized areas of frequent

68 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no activity where unusual phe- that many were, understand- sites providing detailed maps nomena can be observed and ably, curious to know more to specific events and obser- experienced. The SIU investi- about. During the formal SIU vation points. Likewise, we gation demonstrated that, at study period (roughly 1999 to will not go into detail about least, SOMETHING scientif- 2009), Phillips and team were specific farms and ranches ically anomalous, and as yet highly protective of their site (out of respect for Phillips, explained, does occur in the (and the integrity of their in- his proprietary research, and Marley Woods and is, indeed, vestigation), to the point that privacy), but the information worthy of further, and contin- even the state in which the is out there, and retrievable ued, scientific investigation Woods were to be found was from others. The Missouri and inquiry. not revealed. In the decade- Investigators Group (MIG) or-so since Phillips’ Investi- website (ufomig.yolasite.com) The Marley Woods Revealed gation, info has trickled out does provide more detailed online, and in conversations, info for those who seek de- So where exactly are/is the as to where the Woods were tails about the Marley Woods secret “Marley Woods” locat- and what was going on there. proper that was a part of this ed? The stories - and rumors Largely, out of respect for the investigation. - coming from the Marley esteemed and admired Phil- The location reveal has be- Woods have intrigued Ufolo- lips, the locale has not been come an issue in the research gists and Paranormal Investi- “officially” revealed, or ex- field, as little movement has gators for nearly two decades ploited, by other investigators. occurred over the past de- now. The Woods have become But the Marley Woods loca- cade, with questions being an enigma in itself in that the tion is now an “open secret,” considered as to whether an location was a “secret” spot with several online research anomalous site can remain

www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 69 of UFO encounters are found to be spread all across maps of the area. The towns of West Plains and Alton have had considerable, and credible, reports of UFO activity over the years. Nor- wood, too, has had its share of lights in the sky and even a few dozen cases of mutilated cattle (and mysterious black helicop- ters). Mountain View, north of secret and go uninvestigated. Marley Woods is, generally, a the Woods, was Can (and should) the Marley triangular area found between the home (and the encounter Woods remain hidden until the towns of Willow Springs location) of 1950s-era Fly- exploited by SIU while op- in the northwest, Winona in ing Saucer “Contactee” Buck portunities are been missed the northeast, and Thayer due Nelson, who held an annual for long-term, further study south. The northern border “Spaceship Convention” for by those willing and able is, roughly, Highway 60, the several years, where he told to take up the investigative western border is Highway 63, stories of aliens visiting his torch that has been dry for a and Missouri 19 serves to de- home and his trips to Venus decade? Valid considerations. note the eastern limits of the - all the while sitting next to But, luckily, while these ques- anomalous region. The SIU his “extraterrestrial” canine. tions and considerations are research sites can be found, Tales of Bigfoot encounters warranted, the Marley Woods approximately, in the center of can also be found to come is not just comprised of one this “Missouri Triangle.” The from the forested parks in the specific site - the Woods is a region is spotted with sever- Marley domain, along with larger anomalous region, be- al small towns, a multitude accounts of “Monster Wolves” yond a handful of farms, with of farms and ranches, and a that were killing various a history of bizarre encoun- number of wooded parks and livestock (Seymour is one ters with unusual phenomena. wildlife refuges. such place) decades ago. And, And there are researchers and of course, nearly all of these investigators exploring these A Paranormal Hotspot towns have their old haunted mysteries currently. abodes and spooklight “lov- Suffice it to say that the Mar- The region in question ers lanes” that have become ley Woods, primarily, en- abounds with tales and lore the stuff of small town, rural compasses Oregon County in and accounts that span the legend. Just to the west of this Missouri. The region of the decades. Reports of a variety triangular region, inciden-

70 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no tally, occurred the famous 1973 UFO Flap around Brushy Creek in which hundreds of encounters with UFOs were reported over a short span of time - some encounters being mass sightings of physical craft. The area is, indeed, replete with an assortment, and abundance, of tales of weirdness that can be found through research. But, is this area really unique in its preponderance of strange activity? There is, currently, a debate in the Paranormal/Ufolog- be the underlying component ical research communities Unraveling the Secrets of the causes or influences. as to whether or not such Marley Woods Along the lines of other stud- “hotspots” (localized areas of ies into similar localized phe- anomalous activity - “LALA So, if the Marley Woods is, nomenological spots - such as Lands”) actually exist, or if indeed, a hotspot of paranor- with the long-term study in such paranormal events are to mal/anomalous/UFO activity, Hessdalen, Norway - theories be found everywhere - if one what accounts for its phenom- are being derived suggesting looks long enough. Or, per- enological localization? Why that the answers may involve haps, it is a blending of these this place and why such plac- the unique geological condi- different approaches? While es? And how can the research tions of the areas in question. statistics demonstrate that community derive answers to Some have speculated that, anomalous events do, indeed, these questions? perhaps, the encountered phe- occur everywhere, statistics While the long-term research nomena have, at least, some also tend to dismiss local tra- ball has been dropped in kind of a “natural causation” ditions of activity and folklore studying the SIU investiga- that may involve “Earthlight from such equations. When tion sites, there are others out Phenomena” or some form the entirety, and the history, there who have taken it upon of an unknown “bouyant of localized phenomena is tak- themselves to explore these plasma” that is connected to en into consideration, we do mysteries. There are several high electromagnetic fields see that some locales do tend folks currently engaged in emanated by the planet. to be more anomalous than instrumented field observa- Some suggest that our per- others. Whether or not such tions in the Marley Area (and ceptions may be affected in inclusions of local folklore are elsewhere) that are gathering such mind-altering electro- of benefit to this question is evidentiary data and develop- magnetic environs. Others, part of the current debate. ing theories as to what may taking this a step further (and www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 71 perhaps borrowing a bit from to manifest under the right overwhelmed me with any John Keel or Jacques Vallee), conditions. Many researchers phenomena worth noting. But theorize that such geological/ also theorize that the geo- I have discovered some anom- electromagnetic environ- logical component may also alous things in photos and ments may allow for dimen- be tied to underground water video that I have taken (un- sional boundaries between flows which contribute to con- identified “objects” and weird space, time and reality to ditions in which the Phenom- lighting effects) that compel cross, intersect or be blurred. ena is allowed (Phillips’ Mar- me to seek further answers Such unique areas may op- ley Woods fits, in this respect, and plan future excursions erate as “doorways” to other in that there is an active into those Mysterious Woods. places that can be traversed spring at the site). At any rate, Something strange is, un- by Intelligences or Beings (or the question does still remain doubtedly, going on in the Beasts) from Elsewhere. yet to be answered: why here? Marley Woods - something Veteran Researcher Gary Hart, What makes these “hotspots” fascinating and important. who has explored and inves- so hot for anomalies? Further Hopefully, a concerted effort tigated the Marley Woods for exploration, study and (evi- can be made to help unravel a number of years - and who dence-based) theorization is, these mysteries of this para- contends that the Woods are certainly, needed. normal hotspot for the bene- still active with a buffet of The Marley Woods remain fit of Mankind’s Science and anomalies, many of which a mystery and an intrigu- quench the thirst of those of have been experienced by ing place filled with wonder us who seeks some answers to him personally - is one such and wonders. My own trips the questions brought forth individual who leans towards to, and through, the Woods from this mysterious place. the the varied phenomena (including stops at the key Until then, the mystery re- being connected to its geolo- investigation sites) have not mains. gy and “dimensional intersections” created by unique geological properties. Hart believes that there can be found “a single enabling (physical) mechanism that can, and should, be sci- entifically studied.” After years of investigation locations that “exhibit the strongest activity over the lon- gest periods of time,” Hart is convinced that it can be demonstrated that localized phenomenological “activity cycles” can be tied to “seismic stress build up” that, perhaps, allows for some form of quantum-connected intersections

72 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 73 Catholic House Blessing Adapted from Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers Bishop’s Committee on the Liturgy National Conference of Catholic Bishops © 1988, pp. 297-301

Gather as a family (roommates, friends, rel- Virgin Mary, he made his home with us. Let atives) in any room you desire, with a cruci- us now pray that he will enter this home and fix present if possible. Yes, you can--and are bless it with his presence. May he always be encouraged to--bless your own home/apart- here among us; may he nurture our love for ment/condo/dorm room even if a priest isn’t each other, share in our joys, comfort us in available! our sorrows. Inspired by his teachings and example, let us seek to make our home before All make the sign of the cross. all else a dwelling place of love, diffusing far and wide the goodness of Christ. (The leader, which the Bishops encourage to be a layperson, begins) (Then the Scripture is read by another family Peace be with this house and with all who live member) here. Blessed be the name of the Lord. A reading from the letter of Paul to the Colos- sians All respond: Amen. You are God’s chosen race, his saints; He loves (The leader may use these or similar words to you, and you should be clothed in sincere com- introduce the house blessing) passion, in kindness and humility, gentleness When Christ took flesh through the Blessed and patience. Bear with one another; forgive each other as soon O God, protect our going out and our coming in; as a quarrel begins. The Lord has forgiven you; Let us share the hospitality of this home now you must do the same. with all who visit us, that those who enter here Over all these clothes, to keep them together and may know your love and peace. complete them, put on love. Grant this through Christ our Lord. And may the peace of Christ reign in your hearts, Amen. because it is for this that you were called together In the living room: as parts of one body. Always be thankful. O God, give your blessings to all who share this Let the message of Christ, in all its richness, find room, that we may be knit together in compan- a home with you. Teach each other, and advise ionship. each other, in all wisdom. With gratitude in your Grant this through Christ our Lord. hearts sing psalms and hymns and inspired songs Amen. to God; In the kitchen: And never say or do anything except in the name O God, you fill the hungry with good things. of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Fa- Send your blessing on us, as we work in this ther through him. kitchen, and make us ever thankful for our daily The word of the Lord. bread. Grant this through Christ our Lord. All Respond: Thanks be to God. Amen. In the dining room: (Alternate readings may be selected) Blessed are you, Lord of heaven and earth, for you give us food and drink to sustain our lives After the scripture reading, all go from room to and make our hearts glad. Help us to be grateful room, offering prayers of intercession and sprin- for all your mercies, and mindful of the needs of kling holy water, if desired. Some of the following others. prayers may be used. Grant this through Christ our Lord. At the entrance: Amen. www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 75 In the bedrooms: The Leader speaks the prayer of blessing: Protect us, Lord, as we stay awake; watch over Be our shelter, Lord, when we are at home, our us as we sleep, that awake we may keep watch companion when we are away, with Christ, and asleep, we may rest in his and our welcome guest when we return. and at peace. last receive us into the dwelling place Grant this through Christ our Lord. you have prepared for us in your Father’s house, Amen. where you live for ever and ever. Amen. In the bathroom: Blessed are you, Lord of heaven and earth. You All make the sign of the cross as the leader formed us in wisdom and love. Refresh us in concludes: body and in spirit, and keep us in good health May the peace of Christ rule in our hearts, and that we might serve you. may the word of Christ in all its richness Grant this through Christ our Lord dwell in us, so that whatever we do in word and Amen. in work, we will do in the name of the Lord. All return to the starting place. A cross or icon Amen. is kissed by each person, and then put in a per- manent place of honor. A candle may be lighted The blessing may conclude with a song such as before it. “Now Thank We All Our God.” All recite the Lord’s Prayer.

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www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 77 78 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 79 THE DEMON OF CREVE COEUR LAKE

“Twenty miles to the west of the Future Great basin, its bed grown over with pond-lily stems not as the pigeon flies, but as the Missouri Pa- and its peaceful surface dotted everywhere with cific flyers make the run lies Creve Coeur Lake, these beautiful water queens holding their pure in Bonhomme Township, and draining the white petals toward the sun and resting amid north half of the township toward the turbu- clusters of great green leaves, which float lazi- lent Missouri River. The lake lies in a beautiful ly upon the mirror-like bosom of the sheet of basin three miles in length. and protected by water. There is no connection or outlet leading high surrounding hills, so that scarcely a ripple from the large lake into the smaller one, unless disturbs its peaceful surface. The water is clear it be underground, and each maintains its own as crystal, and myriads of fish can be seen dart- peaceful tenor regardless of the other.” ing to and fro on their nameless errands. The average width of the lake is half a mile and the A DEMON THERE mean depth 12 feet. The water from the great There is a demon in Creve Coeur Lake, a devil. water-shed north of the divide finds its way into Dozens of people have seen It but, none have Creve Coeur Creek and thence into the lake. A ever ventured to describe it. It Is not a demon of narrow outlet drains the lake into the Missouri mischief. but, on the contrary a seems to be of River a mile further to the north, but the outlet a doleful disposition, ekes out its miserable ex- is marshy and deep, and the current moves on istence in the most secluded spots in the lake. Its course toward the Gulf without so much as a When the merry laughter of the summer girl ripple to disturb its tranquility. One mile to the or the song of a passing boating party breaks west lies Upper Creve Coeur Lake, in a marshy the stillness of the place this demon seeks to

80 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no hide itself in the marshy outlet where the water from side to side, lashing the smooth waters starts on its circuitous course toward the river. into foam, diving and rolling and beating the But in thus seeking seclusion the demon has foam into waves with its huge tail. While the often been seen by sojourners at the lake who, spell Is on the demon, at all other times mel- being devoid of sentiment, have pursued it to ancholy and secluded, becomes a demon of ire its darkest haunts in order to obtain a better and nothing is safe within its reach. When it view. It is related of this demon that it has a has spent its fury, it retires again to the marsh, decided penchant for eavesdropping. Let a pair which It only leaves when hunger compels it to of lovers sit by the side of the lake and whisper go forth in search of food. words of fondness into each other's ears and the dark spirit is all attention. Noiselessly and slow CALEB JACKSON'S EXPERIENCE the demon glides front its innermost haunts Old Caleb Jackson, a colored farm hand em- and finds its way to the edge of the lake at ployed somewhere near the, lake, has seen the the very feet of the pair, there to remain until demon. He saw it moving about the north end their love tale has been told and the homeward of the lake on Sunday, and a little over a year journey begun before it seeks the seclusion of ago, one cloudy night. He saw it in its fury the marsh. Back in its own domain it meditates moaning and tossing and causing the water of on what it has heard and be the lover false its the lake to fairly boil as it sped from one end wrath knows no bounds. At midnight, when. to the other, beating the surface with its tail. all is quiet, the demon sallies forth. It charges He fled in terror, and for weeks remained away back and forth from end to end of the lake then from the place, but finally overcome by morbid www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 81 curiosity, sought the lakeside in hopes of the AN INDIAN MAIDEN'S LOVE queer monster. Day by day he watched for it, and finally his vigil was rewarded. When he saw Old Caleb's story was long and roundabout, but it again, he was no longer frightened, but rather the reporter understood. In brief it was a tale of was fascinated, and he remained to watch its a beautiful Indian maiden who lived many years movements. He could not see the whole outline ago sometime after the sturdy La Salle explored of the demon, at one time owing to the peculiar the Mississippi Valley. She was a Princess and opaqueness of the water surrounding it, but its the only daughter of the Chief of the warlike size seemed to him something incredible. Af- Ozarks, who roamed at will over what is now terwards he watched it and learned something the site of St. Louis and made their camp on of its habits, but he has guarded his secret well, the edge of Crave Coeur Lake. The legend does and very few of his neighbors know that he not give the name of the lake previous to the knows of the demon’s presence, in the lake. sad event from which it took its present name, nor of the heartless father of the win- some maid. One day when the tribe was camped on the bluff on the east side of the, lake a young and handsome Spaniard, the son of the then Governor of the Louisiana territory, rode into camp with his father and members of his staff. The party was banqueted by the Chief, and his band of braves, and the feast lasted for many days. Mean- while the charming Princess had become enamored of the handsome pale face; but the son of the Governor of Louisiana disdained the love of one so lowly, and departed soon after for New Orleans, where he married a Spanish woman of his own rank. When the beautiful Princess learned of this, she leaped from the bluff into the lake and was seen no more. She died of a broken heart and by her own act. From this the French named the lake Crave Coeur, or When questioned by a reporter about it yester- broken heart. A literal, translation of the words day, old Caleb’s eyes became as large as after means deep sorrow or affliction, but the free dinner coffee saucers and could easily have translation of broken heart is the accepted one, been knocked off with a stick. He retired behind and after more than 100 years have elapsed the an old barn, where he could be heard muttering lake, bears the name which indicates the tragic something in a monotone for some time. Pres- fate of the Princess. Here the legend stops and ently he came back and said he might speak of Old Caleb's voice became softer and scarcely the demon, but only in an undertone. audible as he proceeded with the narrative.

82 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no THE CHIEFS CURSE met, and it was a case of love at first sight. The maiden was wooed, and won, and the consent "On the day after the suicide of his daughter." of the astute old chief of her tribe reluctantly he said, "the old Chief assembled the whole gave the hand of his daughter to the amorous tribe on the banks of the lake and asked each young redskin in marriage. But on that day and every one if he had witnessed his daugh- the two tribes were attacked by a savage band ter's rash act. Upon being answered in the affir- of hostiles, and many of the braves on both mative he bade his braves bring a boat and pad- sides were killed. The scattered remnants of dle him out into the middle of the water. There the Peorias were reunited and reinforced under he pronounced a curse upon his daughter's soul the leadership of the young chieftain, and the and sent up a prayer to the 'Great Spirit' not to hostiles soon suffered a crushing defeat. This allow her soul to find a resting place within his great victory so flushed the youthful leader that realm. The medicine men chanted their weird he made war on the fierce Chawanons and de- songs, and the prayer was answered. Instead feated them. He put to death the old chief and of entering the realms of the "Great Spirit" her attempted to carry off the Princess, she having spirit was turned into a demon to remain for- in the meantime renounced her love for him on ever in the lake and to warn young maidens of account of the massacre of her father. She made faithless lovers in the ages to come. Melancholy her escape and soon had an army in the field and sad the demon will forever remain always against the Peorias. A bloody battle followed in shunning the presence of pleasure loving mor- which few besides the leaders escaped. tals and remaining in seclusion in the marshy After the respective armies of the erst- end of the lake whenever its presence is likely to while lovers had been scattered, they be detected if It moves about." sought hills the only place they could Old Caleb finished his tale in a whisper, and as hope to escape death, even at the hands soon as he could get his hat and coat hurriedly of their own tribes, who were chagrined departed for his cabin across the fields. Others at the repulse. In their wanderings one have seen the demon, but as none can describe bright summer day youth and maiden met it they are looked upon as superstitious and by chance on the border of the wood-skirt- their stories are not credited. ed, lake. The spell which has always hov- ered about the place turned their - hatred A BATTLE AND THE SPELL IT CAUSED back tq . love, and they rushed into each other's arms. The wedding ceremony soon Another legend which probably came down followed. and the scattered remnants of from a far more remote period of antiquity the two tribes were summoned to the great was told in the reporter’s presence by a man feast. There was rejoicing, and on the of the world who has never before been known banks of the lake the young chieftain pro- to succumb to the sentimentalities common claimed eternal peace and blessed the plac- to most natures. As the story goes, a young id water. The spell has never since been chieftain of the Peorias visited the lake with a broken. and to this day contentious lovers band of his, warriors. While at the lakeside he are reunited by a visit to the lake. met the pretty princess of the Chawanons, the women of which race are, beautiful of form and face and exceedingly swift of foot. It was at the – St. Louis Globe-Democrat (15 August 1892) semi- annual feast of the Chawanons that they www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 83 Photography and Ghosthunting By: Kent Sorsdahl ful. In the search for a better photo too! A photo taken in this You may remember, I finished technique, he collaborated time period had a lot less expo- my last article talking about with another guy named Louis sure time than 8 hours, but still EVP's. In this article, I will try Daguerre in 1829. This led to had some longer time than what to cover photography. As this is the oldest form of photogra- is normal today. Which leads a pretty complex subject, I will phy. Since then, technology and us to a common skeptic conclu- concentrate on what different techniques have changed rather sion; Double Exposure. kinds of equipment ghost-hunt- dramatically, and it took some This is a plate that is exposed ers around the world are using. time before the world was pre- to different objects with differ- The first successful picture that sented with pictures that really ent lengths of time and bal- was produced, was as early as showed abnormalities. ancing this, can produce this 1826 by a French gentleman by This famous picture of the type of picture. Let's say the the named of Nicéphore Niépce. "Brown Lady" taken in England staircase is exposed in a rather This picture had 8 hours of in 1936 at Raynham Hall is con- dark environment with long exposure time and was there- sidered by many to be a genuine exposure time. It must be dark, fore very hard to diffuse, and picture of a ghost caught on otherwise, the plate would be it's hard to even call it success- a film, and it is a really good over-exposed, and the result 84 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no would be a very bright staircase. However, a stored picture can As you can clearly see in the In order to capture the ghost, be manipulated in all sorts of picture above, this is a classic a person could shoot on the ways on a computer; and believe shot taken in the darkness at a same plate with shorter expo- me, I have seen tons of faked cemetery. You can see all of the sure time. However, this would and photoshopped pictures! In transparent balls contaminating also result in a much distinct fact, I have seen so many that I the picture, this is what we call humanly shape and forms, but consider all photo "evidence" to orbs. But what is an orb? The somewhat transparent. This will be faked. The only photo I truly technical explanation for an orb make this picture an interest- trust is photos taken by some- is a tiny particle out of focus ing, and very hard to debunk body I trust, or by myself. and lit up by a light source rel- photo because there is no clear Another common way of ma- ative to the main image. Huh? human form! Some might say it nipulating photos is by using What does that actually mean, is smoke, but the smoke would different lenses and filters. Not you ask? Well check this out: create a very different pattern necessarily for faking a picture, As you can see in the illustra- on a photo. So, let's face it, "who but rather to manipulate the tion above, the main focus is would go to all that trouble to look of the whole picture. I will the man and the demon. As the fake a picture in 1936?" I really not dig further into this subject picture is shot, the flash lit up doubt that the person that took of faking photos in this article, the tiny particles that are very this picture, even realized that as there are so many ways to close to the lens. Since the cam- it could possibly be done! manipulate pictures. Howev- era has locked its focus on the As the years have gone by and er, I do want to focus more on main subject (the man), these colors came around, the way pictures with the most common particles are out of focus. When we take pictures day to day has misinterpretation of ghosts shutter fires they are but still become very different than the taken today, that is not manip- lit up and are captured as small good old days. Double exposure ulated. Which this leads us to balls on the picture. The inten- with today's cameras is near Orbs!! sity and size of the orbs vary impossible (unless done intention- Photography and Ghosthunting ally). The way today's cameras are built up makes By: Kent Sorsdahl it near impossible due to the pho- tosensitive chip. The chip captures the light that is exposed and processes it even further and then stores it. Experi- menting with long exposure time will result in a blurry and over- exposed picture that would be easily discarded as any kind of evidence, by today's ghost-hunters. www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 85 depending on the size and what normal orbs as a concentrated can be mistaken for mosqui- the particles are the distance ball of energy, able to produce toes, moths, (night butterflies), from the lens, and illumination. its own light source. It will also, or other flying bugs. If you can Indoor, these particles are because of this (ball of energy), eliminate those possibilities, mostly without any question register on an EMF meter. Its and it contains the other prop- dust particles! There are no light can have different types of erties mentioned, then it may places indoor except special intensity and color, and it can very well be a genuine orb! laboratories that are dust-free, vary when it first appears. Orbs are hard to explain natu- so, therefore, orbs are very Another distinct point is that rally. It is very rare and difficult common. Due to the intensity a real orb can move in erratic to capture a real orb on a pic- of the light, the flash produces, directions and speed and can ture. As a picture is just a snap- it will light up the dust particles suddenly appear and disappear. shot of time. There is no way to very easily. When the flash is A natural orb moves in different trace direction, assess intensity not used, it will not appear that directions also, however orbs or shape, on a photograph. frequently. have an almost always have a Therefore, a video camera "So, are there no such things as constant speed unless someone would be much more suited for a paranormal orbs?" Yes, I think passes by or there is a draft or capturing a real orb. This what there is, but it is very different wind blowing when the picture I will cover in my next article. than a natural orb. So, allow me is shot. Until then, Keep bustin' and be to expand on that statement. The third thing is that a real safe! First: All genuine orbs have orb often shape-shifts while their own light source! Para- appearing. This means that it 86 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no CONSTANTINE - DEFEATING THE MINIONS OF HELL By Jeanett Kristiansen

Title: Constantine Genre: Action, Fantasy Director: Francis Lawrence Nationality: American Released: 2005 Based on the DC/Vertigo Comic Hellblazer Meet, John Constantine (Keanu Reeves), a brooding, cigarette smoking demon hunter that has been trying to buy his way into God’s grace by sending half-breed demons back to the fiery hell they belong in since he tried com- mitting suicide as a teenager. Suicide is considered an unforgivable sin, so Constantine, that was declared dead for a couple of minutes is now condemned to spend his eternity in Satan’s burning bosom. The movie starts off with some form of exorcism that just doesn’t feel right to Constantine, and he realizes that demons are trying to come on to the human plane. By chance he meets Angela Dodson (Rachel Weitz), a police officer, investigating her twin sister’s death. We become entangled into a world of half-breed angels and demons, Constantine’s strange looking partners in tone between them is very flat, and the small crime, Hennesey, an alcoholic clairvoyant, and attempt to hint at a romance between them is Beeman, the supplier of all the supernatural quite unsuccessful. Keanu portraits Constan- weapons Constantine might need. Not to for- tine well, with few facial expressions and even get his very annoying assistant Chase (Shia less humor. Peter Stormare, as the devil was LeBoeuf). We are also introduced to the Angel enjoyable to watch. When it comes to the visual Gabriel (Tilda Swanson) and the Demon Baltha- aspects of this film, I think it holds up. They zar, the latter likes to play with coins. A bit into have managed to make it dark, Goth-like, and the movie Constantine needs to find proof that the special effects are pretty good. Musically Angela’s sister is in Hell. 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92 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 93 The Monroe House

Deep in the heart of Indiana, lies the small, sleepy town of Hartford City. This small historical town is surrounded by many picturesque farms and beautiful scenery. Hartford City, whose history can be traced back to the early 1800’s, fills the mind as your typical small town in America image.

However, do not be fooled into a false sense of security, as this town possesses one of Indiana’s most haunted locations. This location may seem harmless and innocent when first viewed, but with some research you will discover it has a dark and sorrowful past. The history is filled with fires, deaths and occult rituals. This location has the reputation to be so frightening that it has made many paranormal teams flee in terror.

IPI (International Paranormal Inquisitor) and Paranormal Energy Norway, was fortunate enough to of had the opportunity to visit and investigate this famous haunted location. Before our investigation, owner Eddie Norris gave IPI a tour and allowed us to ask some questions about this location. You can go to Paranormal Energy Norway Facebook page to see the video of the tour. 94 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no Eddie Norris: How is everybody the hallway. I don't like this because I found a dead cat doing? I am Eddie Norris. I hallway, I apologize. On a here when we first bought the am the owner of the Monroe side note, I thought I've seen place. It was trapped in the House. I'm going take you all something. I think my brain house. And it was mummified. on a quick tour and answer any glitched, and I'm going to So, I don't want that to happen questions you may have. say that up front. But it sure again. People have showed looked like it was a person in me the photos, and people say IPI: Thank you, we can begin here, and I genuinely thought they see a cat in here. I don't with the Living Room. it was a break in. I might have know on that, but it is bizarre overreacted. I thank God there to me. Eddie Norris: This is the first wasn't cameras rolling when I room we decided to refurbish saw that. I really beat myself Eddie Norris: So, now that we first (The Living Room). A lot up getting out of thee, because are stepping into this other of people have said it was to I was carrying stuff. So well room, which I am trying to make it a home base for para- come down here. turn it into a theatre room. normal investigations. That I don't know what you want is partially true, but the truth Eddie Norris: Sorry about the to call this, but it’s a previ- is we started here because the plastic, were doing renova- ous small living room. It used front door is here. I know it tions. We're trying to control to be connected to another sounds corny, but when you're the dust; we’ll step in here. room which is more famous working in a place like this, Again, recently, it seems like to the house. I've locked it off, and you don't quite understand that little hall there, some because that's the original the paranormal field. Well, people have thought they way. It did not have this entry let’s just say when something seen something in the corner. way. Lately people, have been occurs like a sound or you There's one good still shot reporting sounds voices, and think you've seen somebody, that's not out just yet, that chatter and stuff, occurring well I want out and quick, I somebody took. It does look in here. Which in the past, I know some of you all will go like there is something stand- thought it was kind of quiet, in, but, that's the truth about ing in the hallway. but lately people are talking why this was started first. about this room too, so no Eddie Norris: This was I guess clue. We are going to the room IPI: Can we head to the kitch- at one time, a real small en- that is problematic, and it still en? tryway and, the rumors are is. that somebody did lose their Eddie Norris: This is the kitch- life in here. Now, I don't have IPI: What kind of things are en. It's odd, because some solid evidence of that, but I you saying that people are tell- places, and again I'm not into have heard enough to where ing you, happened? all of this, so I don't know, but I can say it's probable. I do what I've heard is some areas believe that. We must remem- I will tell you one thing which have hot spots. In some plac- ber that it was not uncommon again, this is me saying it, it es we can say the bedroom for people just to pass away, in doesn't really mean anything. or this and that. This place a house that is this old. Also, It was twice, that I came in is very odd, it seems to move there's reports of seeing an here and I found like, they around. Recently, it's been in animal, like a cat. And I saw were doing something. We here. They've been hearing the the photos and some of you let some people in here, and I chatter and different sounds, have probably seen it. I believe didn't know him personally. I and things like that. that's a real cat. However, I know that sounds improper, could not catch it, and I never and I should really know the Eddie Norris: If we walk down have seen it. I put food out, people first. Well it looked like www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 95 they had some kind of, what's wrong grossly wrong in that. the word I want to use... A rit- It's unnatural and I don't like ual, layed out. We didn't think it. Then, I'm up late at night, much of it. They had the salts trying to get a bead, to make across the doorways and stuff. sure it wasn't my brain. I don't know what had occurred. It seemed like, and it’s IPI: So, you bought the house, maybe coincidence, but it hap- just to flip it? Not in a para- pened again, maybe two, three normal way to rent it out to months later. I don't know people and things like that? what they were doing, but they picked this room, same similar Eddie Norris: I look for title's! kind of deal. Then the noise I check titles to see if they started, the chatter started are free and clear. I check the picking up. Yeah, I don't know structure of the house and if that has anything to do with how much money it's going to it, but it gave me the creeps. take, and if it's good, we buy One set up, no joke, looked like it. I have never checked a his- they did get up and leave. They tory on any of my own homes, were usually very good about and my wife and I have never the house being left clean, but had a problem till this one. it did have the illusion like they left in a hurry. That's just, IPI: What's your worst experi- I guess, because he just left ence in this house? everything. So, I don't know if that's something, if you believe Eddie Norris: They are all in that, some of you can, you bad to me, because they know chew on that. don't make sense. You just see something when you're funny at all! I seen something IPI: What kind of vibes does by yourself in the house, or to at the end of the hallway, and the house give you? Are you hear something very distinct. it looked like a person, but creeped out by it? Do you feel Not creaking and popping, but there's nobody there. I'm not comfortable? rather there's somebody walk- going back down that hallway ing with heavy, heavy feet. to get out of the house, so I Eddie Norris: I want to say This is a huge issue with me. crawled out the window and I am creeped out, because Or you come in the doors are everybody thought it was a long story short, I bought the set up, like they are, you just hilarious. No, I was scared, house, 11 years ago. Sorry, I walk back through and they're so bad. I'm trying to keep my must apologize for my look- all rearranged. It doesn't work language. ing around. I'll just put it out for me in I find it unnatural... there. I'm not a ghost guy. I be- In terrifying. IPI: Have you gone into the lieve in science. The first time house alone at night? I thought I saw somebody, and IPI: Have you ever spent the I'm not talking out of the cor- night in the house here, at all? Eddie Norris: Never! Never, ner of my eyes. It looked like a never alone at night. Day time person, and that doesn't work Eddie Norris: Never! Everybody I already have issues with. for me. I know everybody finds thinks it's funny because I that fun and exciting, I don't, crawled out the upstairs win- Eddie Norris: Yes, the win- I don't know, that something's dow to get out. I don't think it's dows are covered, because we 96 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no damage? I noticed some of grave, which is kind of com- the windows were broken. mon around here and which are most likely that they are Eddie Norris: That was done Native American burials. You a long time. are required to contact certain authorities about the discov- Eddie Norris: This is the ery. That's why with the yard, room (across from the base- I must be careful with what I ment), where they have been do, and before I do anything getting a lot of really weird I have to go through the right stuff. The activity is more channels. I didn't dig anybody historical, for the house, I up and I didn't build the base- guess. Real quick. I apologize ment. That might have been for this; this was a prop and done at the time to put the somebody had turned that basement in, and that stuff around. Yes, that's for a Hal- might have been thrown in the loween. My wife's family used crawl space. But yeah, I don't to want to have Halloween want to dig around for some- parties in here and used to body, so let me clarify that. bring the props and stuff and The stuff in the crawl space, you'll see some of that in the that's not the occult, or voo- closet. It didn't work out, so doo stuff, that’s just old. There we stopped doing that. were some rumors that it was new, and tied with the group IPI: People want to know that was upstairs, it is not. about, allegedly dead bodies That stuff is over 100 years being found in the house. Is old. this true? had people calling the police, IPI: So, basically, you’re saying or calling me that there's a Eddie Norris: I think what we it could be a Native American break-in, or somebody is in have. Maybe it's not, I don't Indian mound and it could the house. There's never been know. I do know that we have be ancient. So, that's why the a break-in. There's never been targets in the yard, and we police don't want you to dig anybody in-house. I think it's have bones in the basement. I anything up. There's no cover psychological. People think think those are probably just up. they see somebody moving old graves that might have in the house. So, just to keep been dug up, as far as I know Eddie Norris: No, there's no peace I blocked the windows. there's no murder or nothing cover up! Police are great! This Everybody says that Eddie did like that. really isn't their thing, it's a that for the Ghost hunters. DNR (Department of Natural That's not true, I really done IPI: Can you elaborate briefly Resources) thing. It is unfor- that just to keep people from about you being told, that they tunately pretty common in seeing in. I know they are don't want you to disturb any- the State of Indiana. Some- just helping me, because they thing else?. times you'll dig up and uncover thought there was somebody somebody. Ninety-Nine per- in the house. I don't know what Eddie Norris: There are cer- cent of the times, it is Native they're seeing... tain laws in the state for stuff American. This place is just lit- like that. If you uncover a tered with, sorry not littered, IPI: So, you never had any www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 97 but has a lot of grave sites. construction to begin. I think had looked at it, and I'm not it was 1867. Not to be mean, an expert being said. It ap- IPI: I have looked at satellite but I think he was a shady pears they were not conjuring imagery, and I have spotted character, which is my feeling anything. It could have just six Native American Indian from the written the histo- meant that they were scared mounds within a close vicinity ry. So, but that was common, of something, but the bones of here. I suppose back then. But he of that person is long dead. might have housed some peo- So, that’s my interpretation, Eddie Norris: There's more, a ple in here. Probably no harden but I wanted to protect some lot of them got bulldozed and criminals, probably drunk or of those wooden figures and leveled. We are technically something. stuff. Some of it got destroyed on the hillside, that once was and some others taken in sou- part of the swamp lake. This Eddie Norris: That is the crawl venirs, unfortunately... That's was unfortunate for me, prime space, which I got blocked off. okay, that's okay… grounds for discovering things The reason being is, I had it like this. open at one time. There were Eddie Norris: You can talk some artifacts in there, well to the people that were here IPI: So, you're stating for the they didn't mean any harm. years ago, the amount of bones record. That the police a great. It seems a couple of different found in there, were heavy. There's no cover up, they just groups had crawled around in Now granted, I did throw some don't want you to disturb the crawl space, which is huge. away because I didn't know, ancient graves as required by Well they crawled around and you know, know what I had. law? damaged them (artifacts) and People were getting scared destroyed one of them com- and I thought they were seeing Eddie Norris: Exactly, if I do, I pletely. Oh man, I just said, it that, but the rest was taken. will contact the proper author- was my fault. As, I said as souvenirs, which ities, and if it does happen, it is okay, but I'd rather you know was purely accidental. IPI: So, when you say artifacts, keep the rest. There is a well what kind of artifacts do you also. Back then they would Eddie Norris: If you guys will mean? notice the floors a little damp. We have had a lot of rain, but Eddie Norris: Bones, during drought season it stays that were deteriorat- wet. I've got a natural spring ed. Some people had under the house and some- looked at them, and times it will choose a location. they were shocked, This one's causing me a little because I was told by bit of problem in trying to them, that large bones reroute the water flow. So, I don't deteriorate, apologize for that. One quick these did. They are note on the basement. We really old, and when believe this might have been they rolled over the part of the sale (points to a jail one, ahh it's a shame door). You guys were just at it was destroyed. Now the Old Blackford County Jail, I'm just saying this, remember John Saxon? He was it looks like voodoo the first sheriff, that actually type stuff, that used to lived in the jail. He also resid- hang on the beams in ed here, while waiting for the the back. Some people 98 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no build homes over wells. Unfor- when he captures something Eddie Norris: It just wasn't tunately, this one's collapsing, in the corner right behind you really my thing. I love the so I have to deal with that... guys, on his camera! I've got scary shows for entertainment. That's the other reason I had one of the original pictures, he But like what you guys do and to close that down. said he's never had his camer- stuff, I was never, never done as malfunction before, so that that. IPI: Any stories about the really got him interested. basement from anybody? IPI: So, have you ever heard a IPI: Do you love or dislike the female presence in the house? Eddie Norris: This one is really, house? Smelled her perfume or any- neat. And really quick. A few thing? years ago, a Star Press a local Eddie Harris: I really don't like newspaper wanted to do an this place. I know some people Eddie Norris: Yes, the smell is article. I think it was for Hal- really enjoy it, but that's enjoy- awkward, and I shouldn't say loween, and the photographer able to me. awkward, but odd. You know that showed up was on assign- you walk in, and it's every- ment. He had to hit different IPI: So, you basically just get thing I'm telling you it's rare. jobs, and the writer was al- bad vibes and you don't want I don't live here, I'm only here ready here, putting the story to be in here? two or three hours at a time together. So, when he shows for doing a job. With that being up, I find out he was not a Eddie Harris: Yeah, and that said, I walk in many, many Ghost guy at all. He just want- could be psychological. In the times and it’s fine and then ed to do shots for the paper beginning I was fine, which I bam! A scent. that’s all, and to move on. Well do other homes, no problem. he ended up staying all night It's just all of sudden you, IPI: What kind of scent are you because he was debunking think it's a person in the house smelling? other people's photos because playing around. Then you go he's a trained expert. He was running in there, this is day- Eddie Norris: A flower type explaining what happened, time, and they're not there. perfume. Others have de- Then all of sudden scribed it as similar, but they you think you saw had more, in their vocabulary somebody. Again, it's on a sense of what it was bet- an animate object ter than mine. I have no clue. in the dark. Mov- Another smell of like, I don't ing, what the hell! want to use the word Sulphur, So yeah, it could be but a real odd acid smell. I go psychological. Every that route because people take time I come in here, Sulphur and say demons. Yeah, I'm on guard and it's a real odd smell again, a I don't want to see real strong smell anything. IPI: So, I said perfume because IPI: Have you ever Mary was part of a high elite had any negative society back in the day. With experiences in the her husband, owning the glass paranormal, while factory, she was of a higher growing up or any- economic status, so she was thing? known for having perfume parties. These were which put www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 99 in the papers, listing her little Eddie Norris: Yeah, yeah, ev- just rebuilt; it could have been, social gatherings and such. erybody says talk to it, I can't and they used the foundation do that, is it? I can't see it, I and built new. It's possible but Eddie Norris: So, you think it can't. It's not repeatable, I can't I don't have any documenta- could be related? test it, it shouldn't be either, tion. I do know there was a but it's there. Huge problem. fire. IPI: Yes, when she pops up in here, she's letting you know IPI: So, you consider yourself IPI: What are your plans with she's here. Mary does not mean more of a scientific guy versus the house? you any harm, so you don't spiritual, is that correct? have to be afraid of Mary. Eddie Norris: Good question. Eddie Norris: Yeah and no I'll never rent it out! I'm into Eddie Norris: I'll tell you guys disrespect, I love and respect science and museums. I grew the truth, I don't care how, if all the religions. I'm just bound up on it. I know this sounds re- it's a cute little child that runs by rules of science. However, I ally geeky, but I'm going to try past the doorway, I'm done, I'm am of the mind tis open. I re- to make this a very, very nice done. Mary I'm sorry, no disre- ally am on the fence. I believe museum. I'm trying to get the spect, but this is so unnatural, there's phenomenon, but I for me, and to get those smells. have no clue what is causing them. So, yes, I am open to IPI: So, here's the big question anything. that everybody wants to know. Your house is billed or known IPI: One more thing before as the demon house. Do you moving on. I had mentioned believe there is a demon in this to you that our resident place? medium, Jane connected with the lady here which was Eddie Norris: I'll be honest Mary, last week. She stated with everybody out there. I Mary kept saying burn, burn don’t know what a ghost is, or it down, burn it down. What the definitions true meaning, was your thought to her say- or a demon. I don't know. I ing that? don't like the aspect of all the problems that occur. Not say- Eddie Norris: I have been ing there are demons, I don't wanting to burn the place even know if I even believe in down, for the last 12 years. that stuff at all. I just don't like Really, that is neat in how the amount of problems con- you brought that up. It did centrated on one spot. With have a fire; it had a lot of that being said, I don't know damage. It’s had fires going what's here. Again, I don't even way back. know the terminology, I describe it as unnatural. To me, it IPI: So, did the House totally kind of breaks laws of physics burn down in 1850. at times. Eddie Norris: Yes, that's IPI: So, do you get negative possible. However, based on vibes? what I see, and this is me, I'm saying probably not. It was 100 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no real artifacts in. Let me make Now, they were having issues it very clear, there are some ar- Eddie Norris: We will try to on this property and then tifacts that are coming in that get the originals. I will do the towards the end, they thought might upset people. So, we will history of them, and every- I had somebody in here. They do it in a tasteful way. I am thing. Seances to the occult. wanted clarification on who it trying to build museum cases One room will be dedicated to was. It was nobody occupying to display items. No, I don't the district poltergeist, and the place. I guess they thought worship Satan! However, there what it might be. This is just they seen somebody. are some artifacts coming in for everybody that's interested that's related to that and that's in this field. IPI: The museum idea is great! just if you want do research. It Will you still let paranormal will be here and if you want to IPI: Basically, when people rent teams come in here? Also, if see it. the place out, you take that they want to come in with Oui- money and you continue to ja boards and haunted items, IPI: So, what type of items are rehab the place with it? can they? going to put out, something like Ouija boards and such? Eddie Norris: I'm glad you Eddie Norris: Yes, I will. I’ve asked! As a matter been told that's a mistake, of fact, yes. There's which I've been ripped up a real quick story to for, and some other stuff that tell here. I We spent a has happened in here, I don’t small fortune on that know. back roof. I didn't want to change the IPI: Why would they tell you integrity of the Mon- that it was a mistake? roe House. I'm taking it back to the 1800’s, Eddie Norris: It was others that and the ceilings are said it, like about what I was going back. With telling you about in the back- that being said, the room. I'll be honest, it looked workers, were having like they were having some huge issues. No joke, type of seance, of some kind. a short and small job, Then I'm being accused of turned into a big job! letting them bring stuff in and It started by people run free. If they were going getting hurt. I didn't tell me what they're going to want to get into the do, I wouldn't be sure I would discussion about understand. If an experiment ghosts with the works for you, yeah try it... workers. I just didn’t. Later, I find out all they were That's just bad pol- conjuring stuff up. How would itics. Their accident I know? I don't stay with any- rate was starting to body. That gives you peace and go up, and the own- you can focus. I heard some ers thought that they owners stay, for me, that kind were screwballs, even of would bother me. I would though they never want to focus. Plus, I don't acted like this before. want to entertain somebody, www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 101 102 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 103 At the time, they loved it. They thought it was neat. They would look at the windows at night trying to catch something, which I hated when I had company.

IPI: So, basically, the town is behind you, and they support you in all your efforts?

Eddie Norris: They're great!

IPI: I ask because we had some odd an occult or satanic people people in the town, lived in this house or the serial come late at night, killer. I don't have proof, oth- and I tell us to stay er than some of the stuff we away from here. did find looked fishy. Plus, a person reached out to me, said Eddie Norris: They yeah, they were big into that. say that because of So, based on that, yes, some- the history of the thing happened. So, we did property. The town find leads to the yes possibly is kind of tight nit something screwy, happened type of town. A long here. But I'm going to say "No", story short, this till I get hard evidence. The house has a kind of, stuff in the basement, is real, maybe a little bit of that artifacts, voodoo, or the either. So that's what we try to the negative con- occult. Whatever it is, it's old. do. nation. Probably due to some And that person's long gone. of some of this and that hap- IPI: What does the town feel pened, and they were tragic. I Eddie Norris: Recently, I've about the house and about do see what they're saying, be- seen the cat up here too. I’ve you restoring the house. Then cause when I was in the base- only seen the foot of it. It was opening it to teams to come in. ment saying, it seems like a pit a real cat to me, but others of problems. Also, because you have spotted it up here lately. Eddie Norris: The town is guys have heard of the serial Then there's rumors of another great! They are really qui- killer, possibly was here, and fatality and will go into that et. They just leave the house the occult group. Yeah some of next. alone. I lost all the regional the artifacts which I did men- neighbors that were around, tion found really was bizarre. IPI: So, this is a former kitchen and they're taking more out. Really, there is no proof that area, correct? 104 INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR www.penteam.no short hall, I seen something, down that hall. I'll take you that was a few years ago Yeah guys in this back room. This is that has been a problem. a little bedroom here. They're starting to get stuff in here, IPI: So, what did you see like a now. This is where I thought shadow basically? I seen whatever was just kind of come around the corner and Eddie Norris: I thought my just walked in here. Of course, brother had come in and I you can see how small the didn't see my brother, he just room is? At that time, nobody used to come in. I lost track of walked in, there was no place time, and I had a flood light to hide. Side note, the Goo- and a radio blaring. I had just gle Earth. You guys seen that come out of the hallway. I was photo taken by Google Earth working on the bathroom, of the house? I was told that there was a fire that punched a I put those figures up in the hole in a column clean through window. How the heck would I the house. I was worried that know when Google Earth was if a kid broke in, he would fall going to do a drive-by? That in the dark. We were on an- was 12 years ago, when that other job, but we shifted in photo was taken. Eddie Norris: It was originally here just to close that floor up. built as one structure. I be- I wanted to finish the tiling IPI: What kind of room did this lieve, this is just me guessing. and I was just sitting there. used to be? I think this is converted in Radio blaring, I glanced down early 1900s. It might have been the hall and maybe it caught Eddie Norris: In this room, of later, when they split it into a my eye, but I looked, and he course you can see that dolls duplex, and it stayed that way. walked into that little room in are brought in. I think that was a second a half second later. done because they thought IPI: So, this would be a possi- I get up and kind of jog down that this room was related to ble point you would see a cat, again. “Hey idiot what are you a child. So, investigators then because being a kitchen, that's doing?” You know what, that's started gravitating to the dolls, where most people feed their when I realize, how dark it and it turned into something cats. had gotten because I've had a different. Some of these dolls flood light beside me, all that have stories, they were rejects Eddie Norris: I did think of it time. I went in there and it was from people. I didn't want any like that. Everybody thinks moon lit on all four corners of more because of the problems, that it's cute, I don't find any of the wall, he wasn't in there. I they would say. This room that cute. I don't understand ran back and killed the radio. has probably more negative why they are seeing the things Right then I knew something activities from what I'm told, they are, up here. Let me put was off. I saw somebody going and I don't know why, but I this out here, a lot of sightings to that room and I sat there can tell you this. It was five or whatever you want to call for a few minutes. That's the or six years ago, please don't it up here. I can promise you I first time. So, I climbed out the hold me to that time, but I have seen twice up here. Not, bathroom window, and again heard something and thought I out of the corner of my eye, so like I told you guys earlier, ev- seen a shadow or something. I this is a real problem with me. erybody thinks that it's funny. didn't see anything, but it was One was done at the end of the No, I had to get out, I had to daytime, and it appeared like hall and again, down that little get out. No, I'm not going back it went past these windows. I www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 105 wonderful stories at some of the dolls that were wrapped up. Even had instructions with them. I being the idiot, that I am, thinking there's nothing wrong with these dolls. So, I just sat them up there. So, I apologize because now I wish I could remember what stories were with, what dolls. Not all of them. There's three or four of them that are really rough based on the stories. But I just don't remember which ones. didn't have these then (shades), tell people, it must have been a IPI: You want to tell them and it was a sunny day. It rare a acoustical anomaly with about contacting you to rent sounded like they were hitting birds outside. I'm trying my the place? that wall, and then I heard a best, at explaining something weird shrill. I then seen some- really bizarre but never Eddie Norris:Yeah, they can thing break the light, like it just try the Facebook page. I was in the room and taking IPI: So, how do you know about have certain time frames, as I off. Almost like I scared it, some of the stories on here? Do shut it down for construction that didn't work with me. That people email you? season. So contact us to make took me a long time to kind your appointment at The Mys- of slowly come back in here. I Eddie Norris: Yeah. They were terious Monroe House.

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By Anthony Brazier

cartoon of old that has the I believe that when the occa- Every one in the world be- angel on one shoulder and the sions arise, we are influence lieves in good and evil, either devil on the other shoulder by what is around us. it is angels and demons or evil pulling you to make the right What is around us? As men- or good spirits or light and decision or the wrong one. tioned before, I believe that dark energies. And no one is This could be your conscience at all times in our lives we wrong in what they believe. but I think the actual decision are surrounded by energy, be The truth is whatever you be- is made with influence. Now it demonic, dark, evil or be lieve in, its all around us. I don’t think with every de- it angelic, light, and good. You hear a lot in the para- cision that we make its influ- These energies have been with normal world of something enced but the ones that test us since birth and have helped having a demonic properties our individual morality are. create our individual morals. or something having dark Think about a situation where The more you take from the energy. You rarely hear the you are forced to make deci- light energies the brighter you latter of them, the angelic sion to act as it relates to a are and the same for the dark or the light energy. Truth negative or positive action. energy the more you take the of the mater is you can not What drives someone to make darker you are. Every person have one without the other. the final decision? Some say has taken from both light and You only hear about the bad that it is based off a person’s dark and this is what makes parts because to some it is morals, but again I am talking everyone individuals. more entertaining and will get about the situations that test It has been mentioned before you some cool stories to tell. your morality. For example, that demons and dark spirits When someone talks about seeing a person drop a large cannot take corporeal forms being touched by an angel or sum of money and not notice; because it is too draining on have bright light save them it do you pick it up and pocket their energy, it is also the is not as significant. The two the money they dropped or same for the light spirits and do exist on the same level and do you make sure it makes it the angels. So, what better are equally as important. back to the person. Or acts way to conduct their work I believe that we walk around of violence against someone then to be influencers of hu- daily and every second of our and you are witness. Do you manity. In the movie lives are spent with good and interject somehow or ignore CONSTANTINE the main evil beings. To put it very it? These types of situations character makes a reference mildly I compare it to a kids test our personal morals and to this by saying that there www.penteam.no INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INQUISITOR 107 are angels and demons walk- has given in to the darkness aspect of a person that makes ing the earth in human form an unthinkable act ensues. them good or bad. The nature fighting for the souls of hu- Now the flip side of what we aspect being the energies and manity. I think this is more see in the news, we always choices around us. The influ- truthful then fiction but hear about the protagonist in ence we listen to and accept. not to the extent of walking the story. There is always at Myself as a person has taken around in human form. least one person that has risen in dark energy and made some We see evidence of this on a to the fight and attempted to poor decisions or choices in daily basis in the news, you stop an unthinkable action my life, but I have also made see either someone commit- or has saved others with out some great decision in my life ting a terrible act of violence. regards to their own safety as well listening to the light And when friends or fami- or life. The protagonist in the energy. This has made me ly are questioned about the story might not be the bright- the person that I am today. person its always said that est moral beacon, they might It is not always bad to take there were no signs that it was have a dark history. But they in the dark energies because going to happen or the per- might have had just enough sometimes you need to see the son was a really good person. of influence from the light darkness before you see the I believe that the person that energies to rise to the aid of light. The same goes for tak- committed the terrible act has others. There is always light ing the light energy, too much been influenced. In Demonol- when there is dark and dark and a person will be blinded ogy it suggests that the pur- when there is light you can to others. pose of a demon is to corrupt not have day with out night. It I believe evil and good are man and lead them away from is who you become as a person around us and in all of us, it the light. A person that has and which path you take that is what we let in that shapes been influenced by dark spirits makes you who you are. us. I believe everyone is in- over a period of time and has I don’t feel that people are herently evil and I believe become susceptible the dark born good or bad, I believe every one is inherently good. energies gives in and loses partially in the nurturing a It’s the decision we make by control of their own morality. person gets as they are raised. the energies we side with that At this point when the person I believe largely in the nature define us.

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