This Summer on Virginia Avenue

Our home continues to be a hot spot of activity. There are times both Sean and I just feel the presence of activity around us. Back in June we had a kitchen fire and we wondered how our “house guests” felt about the situation and also about having a cleaning crew around for 3 weeks. Words on the Ghost Radar were: fire, kitchen, floor, new, smoke, stove, clean, work and slow (which describes how fast they worked…). We also had a very active K2 reading outside on the patio a few weeks with the light indicators hitting orange and red for over a 30 minute period. We basically had conversion with an entity and discover he was a male, worker from years ago. We also had the flashlight turn on last Saturday night at the same time when we noticed a lot of activity on Ghost Radar…just letting us know we were not alone.

Holiday Haunting 2012

We have had a very busy week of paranormal activity around our house. Early this week, we had guests staying with us for a few days for the holidays and the subject came up about our ghost hunting activities. And our guests strongly objected to our paranormal activities, and said emphatically that all such activity was from the devil and demonic related and that we were playing with pure evil. I said that we had never felt threatened in any way concerning our paranormal activities-only maybe a little unnerved at times or had us just shaking our heads at the experiences. The guests then stated that they preferred we not do any paranormal activities while they were there…

Later that evening with our guests, while we were all downstairs watching a movie, we heard a loud noise up in the kitchen-which sounded like a shot gun going off. Sean and I raced upstairs to find glass shards all over the kitchen. An empty glass Pyrex casserole dish had literally exploded from its position on the stove top. It did not break; it was shattered into thousands of pieces. The stove was not on, the glass was not hot…and this is the Pyrex that can be put into the oven to heat up to 500 degrees!  At the same time, we had ghost radar running and the words were: Jimmy, Boy, heat, satisfied, go, away….We told our guests that dish fell on the floor and broke…we did not tell them that we think that “Jimmy” was telling us he was displeased with our guests saying our paranormal experiences were demonic in nature and that “Jimmy” wanted them to “go away”….

My boys and a friend (all believers in the paranormal) then came down for the weekend and last night we had some pretty crazy happenings…we got out the K2 meter to see if could get some readings and we immediately picked up activity in our living room and ghost radar picked up the words: Jimmy and play. As we were sitting in the living room and inviting “Jimmy to play/hang out with us”…we distinctly heard 3 words whispered: “get the dogs” (with none of us making a sound) and about that time our dogs come into the room. We then experienced a very strange odor-kind of electrical ozone odor which we then followed around the house which matched the heightened K2 actively. We tried to pinpoint the smell to logical sources (i.e. the oven, fireplaces, heating vents). But the odor moved around the house….as quick as the odor appeared, it suddenly disappeared as did the K2 activity….

Talmage: The Classic Rock Music Listener and Liker of Short Hair

Last Friday evening while waiting for my son Jeff and his buddies (Ben Fletcher and Nick Howell) to arrive from Columbia,  Sean and I mentioned that we had not been on Ghost Radar in a while, so we turned it on and got immediate hits of words like: music, listen, change, attention, trim and hair among many others. While relaxing and having our favorite holiday cocktail (vodka and cranberry ginger ale!) we also turned on one of our favorite satellite music channels (839: flashback/new wave) in the kitchen and out in the living room; the house was festive with music playing,  the tree lit-up and holiday candles burning! Sean went upstairs for minute and I noticed that the music changed in living room to channel 833: classic rock. I just assumed Sean had changed it. But before he got back down to kitchen, I noticed the music was back on 839: flashback/new wave, then it switched back and forth another couple of times. I thought Sean as really messing with me!  When he got back to kitchen I asked him about changing the channel and he said he had not and I just kind of shook my head in amazement (still thinking Sean was messing with me).  As we sipped our drinks, the music changed back to 833: classic rock and this time Sean heard it change. Over the next few minutes we heard it change a couple of times back and forth between channels. Sean and both looked at each other and commented that we “must have visitors tonight!” I then said to Sean I was going to ask “our visitor” to change the music again as I enter the living room and sure enough, the music changed as soon I entered the living room. Over the next few minutes the music would switch channels when Sean or I entered living room. We then asked Ghost Radar who was with us, the word “Talmage” came up. We told Talmage it was cool that they were with us this evening, glad they liked music and also glad they got our attention by switching the music channels!  A few minutes later Jeff, Ben and Nick rolled in….Ghost radar posted “Jeff” just about the time Jeff arrived. As an FYI, the music on the living room receiver has not switched to another station again after we told Talmage it was cool to hang out with us…Update and a footnote to our experiences with Talmage....twice now our beard trimmer has been "reset to a setting of 1" neither Sean nor I use a "1" setting. On Saturday before we were all going to Zoo, I was going to just trim the hair on my temples a little and I thought it was on a 4 setting; without looking I started to trim away and to my horror, it was on a 1 setting. I had to shave my whole head to even it out...everyone says they like it short (the shortest I have had it since Kindergarten!). But we did not think anything about the trimmer and the paranormal until this morning when Sean started to trim his beard and was positive it was "number 4 setting".  But after getting started trimming his beard he quickly noticed that the trimmer was set back at a "1 setting" again...looks like maybe Talmage likes short hair and beards...This is all pretty crazy when you look at the original Ghost Radar words from Friday evening...

Next Door Neighbor’s Apparition and Mail

Our neighbor to north of us on Virginia Avenue, passed away a year ago in the summer-right before we purchased the empty lot (between our house and the neighbor’s house) from he and his wife. She recently moved to a retirement facility and we still pick up the yard and look after the house for her. Two weekends ago, Sean and I were mulching/doing yard work in our front yard/side yard and Sean went over to pick up newspaper circulars on their front porch and check the mail box.  At the same time, sometime caught my attention out of the corner of eye-I noticed what looked to be our deceased neighbor standing in their front yard, looking over at me working. As I turned to look closer, the apparition disappeared and cold shiver went down my spine. When Sean walked back, I mentioned to him about seeing our neighbor’s apparition. Then Sean looked at mail he had picked up and there was personal letter addressed to our deceased neighbor…15 months after his death….

Private Residence-South St. Louis County Investigation

Saturday, October 6, 2012

We were attending a fall party/bonfire at a friend’s house in South St. Louis County last Saturday night when the subject came up about strange occurrences in the house: shadows, strange noises, cold spots, and pictures being turned over. So we decided to do a quick investigation using Ghost Radar.  We immediately got hits and words on the radar as we moved from room to room upstairs. Words included: distant, quiet, sensitive, whisper, Indian, Mexican, and Spanish (the area was first settled by the French and Spanish), wife, bed, secluded, further, deception, photograph. As we moved from room to room, my phone being used for Ghost Radar stopped working/froze-up. When I powered back up, the date/time now displayed January 5-5:04 pm. I powered down and back up again and now the date/time was now August 24 8:07 pm. As I proceeded to power down and back up the dates displayed on my phone were only: January 5 and August 24 (not the correct date/time of October 6, 11:15pm.). With my phone now completely frozen, we concluded our investigation and began to talk with the owners of home-which revealed some very interesting information which we did not know before we started our investigation. The owners (our friends) shared that the 2 dates that my phone was frozen on were important to their relationship: January 5 was when they were introduced a few years ago and August 24 was when the husband had found out about his previous wife’s infidelity. Also the pictures that were being turned over were only of his new wife….It was not until we got home, that my phone would power down (not be frozen on a date/time of January 5) and the correct date/time (now October 7, 1:12 am) was restored. Also the record of the spoken/recorded words on Ghost Radar had been wiped clean-as if our investigation had never occurred….

DeMenil Mansion-St. Louis

DeMenil Mansion-St. Louis

We had the pleasure of attending a wedding at the DeMenil Mansion (which is right next to the Lemp Mansion) a few weekends ago. The DeMenil Mansion pre-dates the Civil War and has a very interesting history as does the area in which stands. The DeMenil Mansion sets atop of the Cherokee Cave, though there is no open entrance to the cave today. The Mansion its self is said to be very haunted and a lot of strange and unusual paranormal things have gone on there over the years.

While we were on the grounds of the DeMenil Mansion for the wedding, ghost radar was very active that night, words spoken: Indian, Mississippi (you can see the river from the grounds), cave, music (2 bands played at the wedding and dance), moon (beautiful moon that night), flame, beer (the Mansion is next the Lemp Brewery complex). It was a very enchanting evening until the stars/moon and surrounded by all the history and paranormal activity!

Using Ghost Radar

We have been doing a lot of Ghost Radar lately.Ghost Radar seems to follow our every move for example:

·         Making homemade ice cream and the words were: ice and salt; at work the word police came up when a police car was sitting outside and the craziest of all...the word snake came up right before we discovered a snake in my  office at work....

·         At 1000 Hills State Park: water, lake, paint, rock and Indian (we had just looked at the 2000 year old Petroglyphs); also: nice dogs (we had our 3 dogs with us)

·         Last night: rain, storm, strong, light (just as a thunderstorm hit)

·         When we were outside finishing our brick planter: flower, pretty, old  brick (it was made of 100 year old city brick)

·         We also have been hearing  “pinging noises” in the evening while downstairs in the family room; the words tha pop up are: ping, notice, attention, fast, home, noise

·         Today when I was posting pics on Facebook about going to STL BeerFest yesterday: camera, picture, Germany, beer, fair

And just as I was finshing this blog the word "write" came up....