A Haunting in Beverly – I DO Believe In Ghosts – I DO, I DO!

In the Beverly neighborhood of Chicago's south side, old, massive homes line some of the streets in a spooky Halloween-type setting where tree branches look as if they might reach out to grab unsuspecting motorists and plunge them into depths unknown. One of those homes on one of those streets belonged to my friend, Clare. Read more about this haunted house HERE.

What Do Spirits and Alcohol Have In Common?

You can call it alcohol, beer, wine, or even Happy Juice, but it all comes down to one thing – have enough of it and you will get drunk.

Have you ever thought about what happens to you when you drink too much? Other than getting a little "tipsy" or even slovenly drunk, does anything else happen to your body or to your mind? Maybe something you don't remember?

The article, Spirits and Alcohol, explores the possibility that people who ingest too much alcohol unknowingly invite spirits to enter their bodies and take control. Consider people who experience blackouts. This article explores one possibility to explain why people who drink too much alcohol can't remember what they did, what they said, or even where they were.

Maybe another reason exists to explain why alcohol is sometimes referred to as spirits. Read Spirits and Alcohol and see if you agree.

Who are the REAL monsters?

If I mention Godzilla or Zombies, Frankenstein or Shapeshifters, do you see in your mind the same types of images as you would with monstrosities such as John Wayne Gacy or Ted Bundy? How about Charles Manson?

When kids have nightmares about monsters, are the monsters imaginary or do the monsters stand for somebody real, somebody in the child's life, somebody they substitute for Mom or Dad, Aunt or Uncle, Brother or Sister?

Monsters in Modern Times explores monsters and links you to every imaginable monster ever created, dead or alive. Click the link to read about monsters you may have already heard existed, and maybe even some you never knew roamed the Earth.

If you've had any weird dreams about monsters, I invite you to visit Your Weird Dreams and send your monster dreams to the email address listed in the blog.

The Horror Channel @ Xomba

Have you tuned in to the Horror Channel @ Xomba?

If horror creeps you out, but it also excites you, you'll want to check out the Horror Channel @ Xomba

Read interviews with HORROR author, Brian Keene, HORROR artist, Gary Pullin, and HORROR photographer, Joshua Offine. Have I said HORROR enough?

The Horror Channel @ Xomba covers everything from Dracula and other vampires to zombies (not to be confused with Xombies, to which I belong) and everything in between.

Did you know that Stephen King's Carrie is coming to Blu-ray on September 14th? You would if you tuned in to the Horror Channel @ Xomba. Covering everything from classic horror films to the latest news on upcoming horror flicks, Expert Horror Xombies, John Citrone, Pidde Andersson, Nick Veneris, and Jeremy Nettles take you on a thrill ride of horror with this exciting new online channel.

The Horror Channel @ Xomba is a must-visit if you want to feel that tingle on the back of your neck. (Just don't allow Citrone, Andersson, Veneris, or Nettles to suck your blood dry and leave you a Xombie, I mean a zombie. Actually, being a Xombie isn't all that scary. It's really kind of fun. I'm getting that tingle right now. John, stop, get those teeth out of my neck. Ah ha ha ha ha haaaaaaa…)

Clicking any of the links for the Horror Channel @ Xomba will take you there.

Giovanna, an Italian Woman Impregnated by Aliens

If you haven't heard yet, an Italian woman claims to have been impregnated by aliens. What you see is an alleged photo of the fetus that was aborted from her.

Though I believe in a lot of metaphysical and paranormal ideas, and though the thought of aliens visiting our planet doesn't seem at all alien (forgive the play on words) to me, I have a difficult time believing a woman who claims to have been impregnated by aliens many times.

To find out about what happened to her and all of her pregnancies and to see the amazing video about Giovanna, I invite you to click the link: Giovanna, an Italian Woman Impregnated by Aliens.

Nightmares and the Paranormal

While nightmares don't automatically appear under the category of Paranormal, one dream I had does. I relate the Nightmare While Awake: A True Paranormal Experience in my new blog Your Weird Dreams.

I invite you to click on the links to read about the dream. I would also like to invite you to submit your weird dreams to

weirddreams@mail.com

- they may be edited for space, but if I think they are weird enough (see previous posts for the types of dreams I consider to be weird), they will make the blog.

You don't have to leave your name. You can remain anonymous. People may respond with their own interpretations, or you can leave your own.

Why Don't Paranormal Investigators Use Kirlian Photography?

Kirlian photography is a method of photographing energy, making something typically invisible visible. As emotions between people become charged with different vibrations, the energy between them changes, and Kirlian photographers have caught the change and interchange of energy in Kirlian photographs.

While many skeptics claim that nothing at all can be proved with the Kirlian method, believers say that Kirlian photographs capture the energy emanating from the object being photographed. As I relate in my article, Kirlian Photography Shows Spirit Connections in Close Relationships, I wonder why paranormal investigators don't use Kirlian photography in their attempts to prove the existence of spirits. (In that article I link to another article about Kirlian Photography that discusses how the Kirlian method came about.)

It seems to me that if Kirlian photography showed the existence of spirits, paranormal investigators would include it as part of their investigative tools.

Kirlian photography is a subject that is more paranormal than it is metaphysical, and in my article Paranormal and Metaphysical: What's The Difference, I explain the distinction (or lack of distinction) between the two.

While metaphysics concerns itself with the more spiritual aspects of our existence, the paranormal is more concerned with the afterlife and has a "creepiness" factor that metaphysics doesn't. In other words, if you're thinking "ghost," you're thinking paranormal; if you're thinking "spirit," you're thinking metaphysical.

As I mention in the article posted above, paranormal falls under the umbrella of metaphysical, so Kirlian photography would be an interest both paranormal and metaphysical.  To learn more about Kirlian Photography, I've included a link to a book with the same name.