PINK as well as myself are featured in Karen Laven's latest book, "Cincinnati Ghosts." You can pick up
a copy at any regional Border's, Barnes And Noble or on Amazon.com.
Percy Seymour's book is a highly technical read on yet unproven Physics theories that
point to the existence of a third dimension, which we call the paranormal, as it
relates to human death, time and space.
Cincinnati Cemetaries is a nice coffee book style account of Cincinnati's oldest and most historically relevant cemetaries. It
covers Spring Grove Cemetary in an in-depth fashion and is a great reference if you live in the area. Highly recommended.
Please watch the episode below, ecspecially if you are an investigator. It’s a exorcism case.
Some thoughts:
1. I tend to believe Wes (the client) is a troubled man recovering from severe physical and emotional trauma, coming close to death via a heart attack and having his arm severed in a steel mill accident. He apparently had some trouble, in the past, maintaining his relationship with the mother of his two children, whom he has now married and moved into a home with - it is in the home where the “trouble” started, regarding his depression and suicidal thoughts - there were homicidal thoughts as well.
2. He mentioned that he goes to church, and they convinced him that his “evil tattoo” (which is of Necropolis - gateway to hell) was a “gateway” to Satan/demons. He seems to be influenced by this statement.
3. Wes’s combination of some mental illness (depression, addiction) and trauma, as well his newly found sober lifestyle and need for religion to keep “straight,” may be a bad combination, if not addressed or handled properly. There wasn’t a lot of “evidence” regarding paranormal activity, if any, and I tend to believe Wes himself was externalizing these things - there are many documented cases in the field of parapsychology, of people in highly stressful/traumatic situations, who leave living “imprints” on their environment (ESP, telekinesis etc..,). Then again, none of those things they talked about were captured or experienced while the PRS team was there, or Coffey, other than a “knock” during their “dead time” ceremony of sorts.
4. Regarding the “talking gadget” (Ovilus) they used (that converts temperature, EMF and ELF readings into a number, that corresponds to a “word” - how or why this would be remotely possible to work in theory, let alone be accurate, is beyond me), it could be Wes’s own subconscious “imprint,” his own mind, telegraphing what he believes is the problem, via Telikinesis, ESP etc.., (which he is unaware of consciously).
Why would a “demon” tell the investigators what they need to hear, to get rid of it? But wouldn’t Wes do that? Demon or not I find it fascinating how the mind could possibly “haunt” a location under certain circumstances, with little control over the external behaviors. Somehow their consciousness has become disembodied, like a spirit’s, and acts in similar ways. Does this happen more often than we really know?
5. If the exorcism helped him convince himself that he is free, because it seems to be introduced by going to church in the first place, and possibly his religious upbringing in a working class family, then so be it. That would be the quickest antidote for him. HE believes it, that’s all that matters, and that’s all that should matter when dealing with clients - we shouldn’t judge - just help. His vomiting and tears could very well be a simple physical result of how strongly he believes in religion now, and how upset the ritual made him, as he struggled with his commitment to sobreity and the church after years of probably doing the exact opposite, and almost dying twice. I should also mention that losing a limb, even a finger, is extremely traumatic for most people, it changes their lives permanently and causes a change in behavior and lifestyle many times. Not that I’m an expert of any kind, just know one or two people growing up who lost limbs.
I wanted to quickly state that PINK evidence, as well as the evidence posted here, is always cleared with client, they are made aware of a file or files being posted, and we would certainly remove any of them upon their request. Typically the private cases are ones where friends and family are aware of the situation as well. We’re careful about it, and make sure not to post any identifying shots of the outside of the home or property, or large, bright video of the interior of the home. We’ve never had an issue.
This came up on Paranexus’ blog talk radio show tonight, with Brian founder of the Ohio Paranormal Investigation Network. He’s very knowledgeable and I generally agree with this views. He said he had teams he worked closely with who did this, but were also careful about it, but said too many groups are posting files that may expose a client. Our policy above of sorts, explains where we/I stand.
I did not necessarily agree with the Paranexus’ line that video evidence or recording is virtualy “useless.” I will just never agree with that, and it takes some trust and good presentation to make it worthwhile. There is obviously something occuring in the lower range of the IR spectrum, that we cannot see with our own eyes. It’s important to include that. I have had too many experiences with this to believe otherwise, it’s real and it’s a common occurence in active spaces. I DO agree with Paranexus’ stance on photo evidence, which IS essentially useless.
We do get caught up in focusing on evidence too much (”we” being people in this field of sorts) I suppose, but I think you can do both - help people and look at the human side of things as well. Evidence is part validation for the client, something they can reference that they can show others or convince themselves with, as well as something that furthers our understanding of the paranormal. But it’s obviously important to have good people skills, ask the right questions, be a good interviewer, which I do daily for a living, and try to use that when I can, with clients.
I’ve always thought it was important to get good evidence out in the public, it gives us mainstream validation and credibility that otherwise is severely lacking still. And yes, that’s needed in order for this to evolve. It’s a bigger issue than the egos of some investigators who want to sit back and criticize, or who want to profit from it and as a result, trash the credibility of others. I am not saying Paranexus or Brian do this, Paranexus does charge for various things, but I have no problem with the way they do it, and they aren’t overly critical, but supportive. I do not agree with some of their opinions so while I respect/appreciate them, I don’t want to be certified in their course or affiliated too much, but listen and keep up whenever the subject there covers this particular area (spirit phenonmenon).
A lot of the junk that is out there now, hurts as much as good evidence helps. I don’t think we just abandon it and dismiss everything as a result. It takes some guts to do what I/we do, because people are going to scrutinize and criticize you, no matter what direction you go. I stand by everything here, and defend it, will explain it etc…,
Finally I think it would do some good for those with a parapsychologist focus, to maybe learn more or consider the scientific (theoritical physics) side of this. Parallel dimensions and space/time/gravitational theories could one day explain all of this quite well, just don’t know yet, but a lot of it seems to be on target.
The photo below was taken by a family visiting Graceland (Elvis Presely’s home which is now a museum) recently, and had e-mailed this to P.I.N.K. for opinions. They are adamant about the fact that no one was in the hall way or in the camera’s view when they took this, and that no additional photos had similar images in them.
It’s a photo, there’s no way to ultimately prove it’s authentic or a fake. I just thought it was interesting regardless, and would be fun to post. The reason it’s “interesting” is that the male figure is transparent and blurred, and both figures, the woman walking away down the hall and the male figure in the foreground, look to be wearing fairly vintage/authentic clothes from the 60’s or 70’s.
I have no idea when this gold record hall was built, the clothes/figures do look older in terms of fashion, than when he died in the late 70’s (the woman in particular). But there’s no way to verify it, and if it is real, only the takers of the photo know.
I’d like to discuss this at some point soon, but these videos of well-known paranormal investigator/celebrities, provide a good overview of advice. Chris is very articulate about it and offers a lot of good thoughts in particular (see 3rd/bottom file).
This is a personal video of mine, in my active home (see other videos here).
Here I was lying on the couch with the IR camera in front of me, a buddy of mine was sleeping after a few beers, and didn’t want to drive home. I knew the spirits here weren’t used to other people staying over, let alone sleeping in this room. So I thought I’d lie down, be quiet, film, and see if anything would happen.
After about 20 min’s into filming, and me nodding off, you can hear my docking station for the camcorder slide across my desk and slam into the vent running along the wall below it. I woke up (my buddy doesn’t - totally passed out and is a deep sleeper I guess). I can’t find any reason for this happening. If the object was teetering on the edge of the desk, it would’ve fallen off long ago. But again I sat there for 20 min’s without moving. I can’t explain this. I didn’t move for a minute or so after it happened, am used to weird stuff happening here, as I wanted to see if anything else would occur and of course it also confused me for a bit.
The first, short part of the video just shows a small ball of light flying down the door, in the upper righthand side of the frame.
I’ve been very busy working on PINK’s web site lately and have hardly had time for my blog here. I’ve been stressing a bit about how cluttered and bunched up it’s become.
In any case, we have a private investigation this Saturday at an interesting, rural location in Cynthiana, KY. See PINK’s site for the update after the fact, and I’ll post here to let you know when the case
has been uploaded. I’ll post anything here that’s appropriate as well.
Thanks for stopping by and hang in there with me, I certainly intend to take the next step here this summer, regarding the web site design and content.
This web site does not represent P.I.N.K. or it's views necessarily, and not all of the evidence
here is approved by the group. This is just a personal blog/diary of mine, as I wanted an outlet to show what
I've recorded and experienced.
In any case, I welcome questions and constructive criticism of anything here.
