Real Old Latest Haunts

REAL OLD LATEST HAUNTS...

My Experience with SIGHTINGS...
BoneYard Behavior
What the Heck is a Globule?

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MY EXPERIENCE WITH SIGHTINGS...

Just as I was about to take my first bite of a dinner I didn't feel like cooking anyway, the phone rang. It figures! I thought as I fought the urge to answer the phone with an off-the-cuff remark. "Mmm Hmmm, hello"? I said politely. The voice replied "Hello, this is Tammy from SIGHTINGS, is Donna Kent available"? This one simple question spoke volumes to me as my mind raced back to the previous week at which time I had sent a copy of my 1997 GHOST CALENDAR-Actual Photos of Spirit Energy to their offices. In that brief moment I also recalled a year earlier when I received a similar phone call in response to a single photograph I had sent them, which caught their interest enough to inquire about but alone was insubstantial material for mention on their show. I answered with trepidation that in fact it was I, Donna, speaking. "Donna, I love your calendar"!! was what she said next and somehow I knew this time, it was gonna work. We talked for an hour and my dinner plate was forgotten...

Reciprocal telephone calls and conversations ensued, while Tammy compiled a proposal to submit to producers for approval. The wait was tough although not lengthy. Soon enough she called again and gave me the good news - a seven minute segment concerning my calendar, photographs, and line of work would begin production the following week (6 days before X-mas)! I was ecstatic! Although I had been on a couple of local TV news clips and in various newspaper articles, I truly never expected to reach this particular goal as suddenly as it had occurred. Everything was happening so fast and the pace was increasing - the SIGHTINGS production season was about to end in 2 short weeks. The producer inquired about me, my work, my equipment, and any current investigations I was involved with. Due to the holiday season approaching, my team and I were on a kind of autonomous hiatus, sticking to local historic sites, foregoing travel to stay close to home. There was one ongoing, benign spirit case although that we had been pursuing on an on-again/off-again basis. SIGHTINGS wanted details...

The first floor of a two-family dwelling was being rented by my friend, Michele and her fiancée' Mike, along with their 15 month old baby, Morgan. I told the producers of the occasional paranormal occurrences Michele had related to me such as candles jumping out of their holders and landing some feet away from where they would have fallen had they been ejected normally and hearing a loud crash of dishes falling in the kitchen and upon inspection nothing being amiss. Hearing her jewelry box open and close without cause. The phone problems that repairmen couldn't ever explain (by the way, Tammy got a taste of this phenomenon when trying to call me from CA and hearing my phone say it was disconnected, trying Michele's and hearing the same message over and over, finally resorting to have the operator try and get through without incident-needless to say my phone has never been disconnected...). I also relayed the fact that Michele and I had each seen ghostly figures ( we saw 2 different things but at the same time). I informed them I and a few different crews had surveyed and probed the site on 3 or more occasions and that most times I had gotten photographic results of a psychic nature. I asked them to refer to the photos from the month of July in the calendar to view examples of this. They were impressed and decided to include (with Michele's permission) an investigation with a highly recommended psychic (also from CT) as part of the episode.

They allotted me 2 days (during a typical nor'easter blizzard, of course) to unearth any facts and info on the house and former owners. Mad at myself for not researching this as I should have earlier in the year, I scrambled and found all that I could from the usual sources; town hall tax assessor's office, the current owners and occupants, etc. No reports of anything unusual were found. Content with my efforts (I assume) they scheduled a 2 day "shoot" for the following week and I still hadn't begun Christmas shopping! During this same time I became enmeshed in acquiring a Website, which due to a munificent benefactor, Mr. Anthony Martini of Digital Entertainment, became a reality and was up and running within 24 hours!! AAAAAGGGHH!!!

No time to think about petty worries like what I would wear or what I should say, I was propelled into gathering photos and more importantly negatives (helluva way to get motivated into organizing thousands of negatives - yeesh) so that SIGHTINGS could have them analyzed by the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. I learned all the nearest FedEx drop points at roadside payphones with minutes to spare ( my best work is done under pressure but this was a bit extreme, even for me)! As if this flurry of laborious effort wasn't enough , the one night I did go Christmas shopping, I met up with a stray beagle puppy and took him home to spare him from a life "on the streets". Ayiyi.

The day arrived to meet the director, video and sound crew to start filming at Michele's house. Brian Ochrym of Mirage Productions (1996 Entrepreneur of the Year for the state of NJ) did all of the video recording and I found him to be helpful, warm, and a pleasure to work with. Adam (no last name) was the sound technician and was also very nice. Kathryn Douglas was a down to earth person and did her best to reassure me that I was "doing great" every time I would go blank (like a deer caught in the headlights..) during filming. They were all very professional in a kind, workable way.

After a few preliminaries and errands we were ready to begin and I did my best to film them filming Michele and I during the day. Michele was interviewed regarding her impression of the haunting and she frankly answered that she knew something otherworldly was causing the events in her home but that she had never been afraid that it was a harmful entity. The rain outside did not deter the crew from filming Michele and I re-enacting the shadow ghost incident outside (there goes the hairdo, I thought on take #4). They continued filming inside and out canvassing the layout of the structure.

We waited for Joyce St.Germaine, the psychic, to arrive and about 5:30 p.m. she did accompanied by her friend Paul (no last name) who serves as a channel on occasion for spirits to communicate while he is under hypnosis. I found them both to be immediately likeable and well versed regarding the nature of this paranormal work that they do. Joyce was interviewed on camera and proceeded to mentally scan the house and property. She was extremely accurate in pinpointing hotspots in the home and touched on some of the occurrences that had been going on in the home. At one point when she was harnessing a mass of "stagnant energy" emanating from a doorway in the dining room, I reached my hand into the invisible (to me) mass and felt my fingers tingle and become very warm. She stated that many animals in spirit form were congregating at this site and Michele confirmed that all sorts of living wild animals all seem to find their way to her property, content to stay! She told about where she felt "holes" or openings to other realms were to be found and certain reconstruction of property lines had occurred. As she was proclaiming she felt the phone lines were often manipulated by spirit energies, 2 brand-new $40 bulbs used by the camera man blew out, 2 candles on separate candelabras flickered, the phone rang twice, both times with a strange tone on the other end, and my camera rewound itself causing me to think that I could open the case to reload film, when in fact it really hadn't rewound itself and the film was ruined...all this without apparent, explainable reason. We proceeded to the attic...

While taking snapshots up here earlier in the day, alone, I saw a single blue "ghost-light" up near the ceiling in one of the rooms (still waiting to see what development of photos reveal). Ms. St.Germaine pointed out changes in construction of the attic that she had mentioned earlier on camera and went into a light trance. She claimed there were may beings who felt content to gather at this location in human and animal form, one in particular she said was a long-haired cat (one of my photos taken outside shows a cat face shaped in blue smoky energy form). The film kept rolling and we were asked to repeat much of what we commented on many times leaving me to feel almost robotic and unnatural at this point and the day was growing long. The psychic informed the family that after clearing and closing these "holes" that they would most likely not be bothered by any further unnatural occurrences and any that might occur would be of a positive source. The crew felt that they had enough footage and left the premises shortly after Ms.St.Germaine and her friend.

By the time I arrived home, unwound, and tended to household business, it was very late when I finally retired for the night. The alarm went off and I catapulted myself to vacuum, shower and dress as the crew were expected back at 10:00 a.m. Arrive they did and the set-up of equipment began again, this time it was my living room that was besieged.

The director moved through my house looking for the perfect background spot for my on-camera interview and decided the best setting would be in a chair diagonal to the fireplace. They moved furniture and rearranged pictures to make my space more "homey". As I sat there with the lights and camera trained on me, I felt like everything I said and did was seemingly magnified, making it difficult for me to focus on all the "profound" things I had wanted to communicate through this medium (pun intended). Nervous energy was manifesting in my fingers and I repeatedly tapped them even after the sound guy told me he was picking up the noise. My bracelet was too jingly and had to be removed. Kathryn reiterated the fact that everything could be edited and I was appreciative for that. Forty minutes later and the interview was over (hardest part for me).

We went for a quick bite to eat and proceeded to various haunted locations where I have been gathering mounting psychic photographs. It was 30 degrees outside and after a short while I was shivering with cold (I'm sure that'll look great on film). We worked outside over 2 1/2 hours longer and finally it was a wrap! We exchanged hugs and business cards and I led them to the highway entrance, where we beeped mutual good-byes. I completed the drive home cold , exhausted, and extremely happy to have had such an experience. Promptly, I changed into sweats, ordered Chinese for dinner, and took the phone off the hook.....

Donna Kent

*The segment finally aired in September of 1997 and went on to become included in "The Best of Sightings" show. It has been re-run continually since.

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Boneyard Behavior

There are many different avenues one travels when being involved in paranormal research. One of them is taking pictures in cemeteries. Since the best time to take these photos is between the hours of 9:00 p.m - and 6:00 a.m., it can present a few problems. Most cemeteries are posted with hours and ordinances, having dusk to dawn as the off-limit hours. As long as you stay outside the gate or fence, most of the time, no one bothers you. It's the few "bad apples" who spoil it for the serious researcher.

Take the case of Union Cemetery in Easton, Connecticut. This is the site where the infamous "White Lady" has been seen and videotaped. Also, most picture takers are well rewarded with excellent psychic photographs. The problem is vandalism. Headstones are knocked over and broken, beer bottles and snack debris are tossed to the ground. This year, more than 1 00 people, most of them teens, have been issued $77.00 fines for trespassing.

When I became interested in this field and began going to Union with other investigators, the police were very nice and never bothered us. We only stayed maybe 15-20 minutes, took our pictures and moved on to the next location. But it wasn't long before we would arrive to find car loads of kids (sometimes 25-35 of them), just hanging out for the night. They would actually follow us around asking questions, but by no means, were they serious researchers. It was all a joke to them, but it was the beginning of the end for us. Now, no one is allowed near the cemetery after dark.

One should always be respectful of the properties involved when taking psychic photographs, whether it is in someone's home or in a cemetery. Remember, it is to your own benefit to act professionally and responsibly. Don't leave any garbage behind (i.e. empty film containers or wrappers), take your photos from outside the fence (or stay on the perimeter, if no fence exists) then leave and finally, remember this is the final RESTING place for many souls, not a place to party with friends on a Friday night. There are still many haunted cemeteries around where great pictures can be taken and you can do so without the worry of police interference. Union Cemetery is a target because of all the publicity it receives and the amount of people it attracts. Hopefully, the interest of the curious will diminish in time, and we will once again be able to visit Union, at night, and resume our search for evidence of life after death.

By Bonnie Tice

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What the Heck is a Globule?!

Supportive Evidence for Globule Photographs not due to Photographic Artifacts or Inclimate Weather and/or Moisture..... (or reflections, refractions, etc. etc. etc.)

In the world of spirit photography, we have found the most commonly captured (on film) energy form is the "globule", or round spherical shape that is often a result of rain, snow, or other atmospheric moisture. But what about the globules that can't be explained away by the above conditions? We've discovered some globules are perfectly circular while others may look like a football, bell, lopsided ball, diamond or square-edged, even shield shaped.

These energy forms can appear in psychic photos alone, in groups of two or three, or clusters of several individual globules. Occasionally they can be found on the outskirts of other types of energy forms, such as the Smokey/cloudy masses and what we've termed the "dryer hose" (these and other energy types will be discussed in upcoming issues of Cosmic Connections). They can be solid-looking, clear, opaque, and different colored (white, gray, pink, yellow, blue, and purple are the colors we've encountered so far - supposedly these colors are indicative of their spiritual level. Another subject to speculate in future issues).

Supportive evidence of a spirit body having a round, spherical shape can be found in many statements made by people who have had out-of-body experiences (OBE) and near-death experiences (NDE) and have been recorded, researched, and documented by many experts in this field including; Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Dr. Raymond Moody, Melvin Morse M.D., Damion Brinkley, and others. I recommend reading any of the above researchers books for examples.

From my own personal library I've found the following references to globule forms from *P.M.H. Atwater's Beyond the Light - what isn't being said about NDE, one woman recounted her hellish NDE in this way; "a small group of circles appeared ahead of me", "the circles were black and white and made a clicking sound" which she went on to say was "mocking, jeering, and tormenting."

From *Michael Newton PhD's Journey of Souls, he asks his clients while under hypnotic regression to a time between lives "How do you see individual's souls?" A commonality of word usage is apparent from the replies of many different people such as; "light dots, I see masses of dots hanging in clumps, as hanging grapes all lit up", "a floating trail of balloons", "clumps of huge translucent bulbs," "giant bunches of transparent bubbles," "dirty snowballs," and "different lights - buzzing around like fireflies."

Many doctors believe the NDE is deep-rooted in the physiology of the inner structures of the brain, others claim it was all hallucinations(!), but the experiences themselves "know" what they have observed is real. They are often profoundly changed after these occurrences even to the point that they no longer fear death. So, with these testimonies and countless others we try to decipher these odd configurations that are imposing themselves on our film.

I don't know how many times I've gotten my pictures back from development and found these odd images of spirit energy and asked "what does this mean?" or "who is this soul?"

And what of these clusters of globules? Is there a spiritual party going on? Are they combining their energies to try and manifest as something recognizable? If so, are they still distinct, individual entities? If not, why are they congregating? What are the spiritual differences between globules and other shapes and forms of ghostly images? If anyone has ideas, comments, or answers to my queries PLEASE write in...........

*Atwater, P.M.H. "Beyond the Light - What Isn't Being Said About Near-Death Experience"
New York: Carol Publishing Group - Birch Lane Press 1994

*Newton, Michael "Journey of Souls", Minnesota : Llewellyn Publications 1995

DONNA Kent

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