Maybe it's a mime

So I didn't really get much from my EVP session. Eh. Maybe the ghost is a mime. I would hear noises but unable to determine if they were paranormal or canine made me dismiss them. I have to say, it's been quiet around here. I'm on the fence about that...I like not worrying about slamming face-first into a full bodied entity every time I turn a corner but eh. It's boring.

EVP semi-update and new activity.

I've been listening to the audio I took from my mom's room and (without an editing program) have heard stomping, music, and some voices. As soon as I transfer them to my laptop, I can clean them up a bit and get a more clear idea of what's going on.
So yesterday, my husband came up to me and told me he heard a bang coming from around the kitchen/garage area but didn't investigate. He went into the garage a little bit later and saw a tote upside down in the center of the garage. Our garage has totes and boxes along the two walls and the center is completely empty. The tote was upside down and a doll that was inside was laying on the garage floor. This tote was at least 6 feet from where it sat originally. As I've said before, my husband is a skeptic. I asked him if it could have fallen and he said there's no way. It had to have flown to make it that far alone. It's pretty safe to assume we have a bored ghost on our hands. I wish it would wash some dishes instead of throwing things around.

The new house

Yeah, I'm a total blog slacker. With the move and my munchkin starting to walk, who has the time? However, it's nap time (hers, not mine unfortunately) so I figured an update was in order. So about 3 weeks ago we moved into this house in a nice neighborhood of older homes (I'd say 40-50 years old) and it's beautiful. I saw the picture online and just knew it was the one. The first night here I was home alone with the munchkin while my husband packed up more stuff from the apartment to bring over. It was about 11:30ish and I heard banging and crashing coming from what would be my mom's room but she hadn't moved in yet. In fact, that room was totally empty. I looked inside but it was totally dark. Being an old house, there were actually no lights in the bedrooms. I tried to peer through the darkness but nothing. I chalked it up to an old house and started unpacking the living room. As I was unpacking, I heard footsteps in the attic, then in my mom's room, then about 2 feet away from me. Not being fully moved, I had no equipment. No recorder, no EMF detector, Frank's Box...nada. Having paranormal activity going on right next to you and not having your gear is a scary, helpless feeling. I knew it was there. It knew I knew it was there and yet, I had no real way to find out what it wanted. In the past, I would have engaged it, provoked, if I thought it necessary. But I was alone with a baby. It totally changes the game. So I ignored it and called my mom, the other half of my ghost hunting team. She's an ER nurse and luckily was awake and at work at the time. We talked until my husband got here and I told him what happened. Now, he's a huge skeptic. He doesn't quite get what I do but he accepts it. He decided I was probably jumpy in this big, old house and we went to bed.
Fast forward three weeks. We now know that this house definitely has activity. We have had things fall, candles rolled down our foyer and slammed into the front door, my mom's bed shook her awake, a portable wardrobe crashed to the ground. This one gets me. It was heavy, full of clothes, and it fell sideways. After it fell, I tested it. There are two heavy wheels on each side and one of them would have had to lift off the floor to make it fall. Upon trying to lift it, I couldn't. It was much too heavy. There is no way it just fell over. It had to be picked up. Even my husband admitted it had to have had some help from something strong to fall like that. We see shadow people, lights turn on and off, and the dogs growl and bark at what seems like nothing. The activity appears to be centered in my mom's room so tonight I'm setting up my digital recorder to see if I can catch an EVP. We know it's here. But what does it want? I'll update on my findings...

Moving

So, I'm moving to Plano on Thursday so it's been pretty crazy around here lately. I feel like I'm drowning in a sea of moving totes but at least it's almost over. I haven't blogged much with all the chaos but I feel compelled to because of the strange things happening in my apartment. I've been in this particular apartment for a while now and there has rarely been any paranormal activity to speak of. We had a little upon moving in but it quickly stopped and it's been quiet here ever since. However, once we started packing, we suddenly had a burst of activity. Footsteps down the hallway. Things falling. Things being moved. I can't tell if someone is mad that we're moving or happy that we're getting the hell out. Either way, it has my attention.

I'm calling you out, Zak Bagans.

I recently watched an episode of Paranormal Challenge with host, Zak Bagans. Zak is a ghost hunter that I've always respected and for the most part, still do. However, after watching his new show, I was left with a feeling of, "What.the.hell. did I just watch?" Seriously. Is this what ghost hunting has become? A ridiculous challenge of pitting together two very subpar teams and looking for a "winner". None of these teams should be proud of themselves for making a total mockery of an already questioned science. This is not, in any way, a good use of anyone's ghost hunting skills. And for the record, I'm not sure some of these tools have been ghost hunting for more than 5 minutes. In one episode, a group of ghost hunting women (an already rare find) embarrass themselves, and other female hunters, by calling technical equipment "thingy" and "blinky thing." Really? Really?? Do they not screen these people before allowing them on t.v.? This new show is so beyond ridiculous that I almost don't have the words. Hey, thanks, Zak Bagans, for your aid in sinking any validity ghost hunting gained in the last, oh, hundred years or so. I hope this show bites the dust fast and you can focus on actually ghost hunting instead of being the ringleader in your own paranormal circus.

Haunted objects

Can a ghost attach itself to an object? Can an object record powerful events that happened with or around it and replay that event over and over? I believe, in rare circumstances, that a ghost can be fettered to an object. However, in most cases, an object related haunting is the result of a residual haunting. This is when an object absorbs the bioelectric energy of an intense event and then replays it. This can be replayed either randomly or at a certain time, day, or year. Homes can also absorb energy to be replayed. The most common events to be replayed are emotionally charged or violent acts. This is why most battlefields are thought to be haunted but likely it is not an intelligent haunting but a residual. Residual "ghosts" are stuck in their own time and will play their role in the traumatic event over and over, much like an echo.
There are many materials that will absorb energy and two of those are limestone and quartz. These are very dense stones and the denser the stone, the more bioelectric energy it will absorb. This is why many hotels in mountains (ie: The Stanley Hotel) have so much paranormal activity. They are built on and surrounded by dense stones.
If you have a haunting and it seems to just do the same things as of on repeat, you likely have a residual haunting. They are nothing to be frightened of as they don't even know you exist. You may experience sounds, smells, things being moved, etc. Because this type of haunting is not intelligent, there's really nothing that can be done about it. You can try to find the object associated with it (did you recently buy something from a pawn shop? Flea market?) and sell it. However, I find this type of haunting fascinating and because it can not hurt you, it's probably easier to just let it be.

Ghosts were people too.

Just a quick thought for the night. Ghosts were people at some point and in a sense, still are. They will have retained their living personality and traits. What you have to remember is, just like people, there are good ghosts and bad ghosts. Mischievous ghosts and sarcastic ghosts. There are some that you definitely need to beware of but there are also good ghosts as well. I know it can be scary because the world of the dead is still so unknown but if you just remember that it's still a person, it gets a little less scary. Most ghosts aren't going to come floating down your hallway, blood dripping from a mangled stump, and moaning, "My leg, where is my missing leg?!"
I mean, unless they think it's hilarious.