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Was It Haunted or Just Creepy?

November 4, 2012 by Cynthia Leave a Comment
Was It Haunted or Just Creepy?

Once upon a time, I used to travel a lot for work. I would stay in all sorts of hotels due to their proximity to the conference or event I was attending.

A short time ago, I took a business trip out to LA and had the opportunity to stay at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. This hotel’s haunted history, as legend has it, is the last place the Black Dahlia (aka Elizabeth Short) was seen in 1947 before her dismembered body was discovered in a weedy patch south of town. I completely blanked on this fact until I was mentioning to my fiance that I hated passing one of the staircases near my room. I always felt like there was someone standing on the floor above watching me as I walked past it. He reminded me of where I was and that it had a long history.

It was at that point that I started to think about other locations that I stayed in that were creepy and wondered if they too had shady pasts that could have left either residual energies behind.

There was one location in NYC that I stayed in. It was a small boutique hotel not to far from where my conference was being held. From the moment I saw it I had an uneasy feeling about it, but I attributed it to the fact that it was under construction and in an unfamiliar part of the city and it was getting dark. I checked in and went up to my room on the third floor. The elevator was small and smelled a little funny. The worst was when I stepped off of the elevator onto my floor. I was met with something that made me feel so uncomfortable, I ran to my room.

Mind you this, was years before I learned how to set boundaries with entities and how to protect myself and my space. I went to the evening conference event and returned around 11:00 because I had an early start the next day. Again, I reached my floor and was met with the uneasy feeling I had as I got off of the elevator. As a light sleeper, I could hear footsteps pacing up and down the hall. However, I never found anyone in the halls when I would look out my door. The next two nights, I had similar experiences.

Back then, I didn’t have the nerve to ask the hotel staff what it may have been for fear of being ridiculed so to this day, I still don’t know if the hotel was haunted or just creepy.

Filed Under: Paranormal Experiences, The Paranormal Tagged With: Encounter, Ghost, Haunted Hotel, Haunted Location, Haunting, Phantom Footsteps, Residual, The Paranormal

What Class EVP Is It?

June 2, 2012 by Cynthia Leave a Comment

Over the years, I have captured more EVPs than any other type of evidence of the paranormal. Some are faint whispers barely audible to the human ear and others are crystal clear and loud. Many people don’t realize that the clarity and audibility can place an EVP into different categories or classifications. It’s is a grading system and is subject to what the person hears and how they interpret it. Here are general guidelines I use for EVP classifications along with examples of EVPs I have captured over the years.

Class A EVP

A “Class A EVP” is clear and distinct. It is loud enough that you can make out what is being said and usually does not require headphones.

Below are two examples of what I consider to be a “Class A EVP”.

The first was captured at Fort Mifflin in 2011 in the Torpedo Room.

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The second was captured in 2012 at a church in New Jersey.

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Class B EVP

A “Class B EVP” is distinct and loud however not everything is completely audible. It may require some amplification or filtering and use of headphones.

Captured in 2010 at the Union Cemetery, this “Class B EVP” is of a child-like voice behind myself and my fellow investigator, Dave. I classified it as a “Class B EVP” because although you can clearly hear someone, you can’t absolutely understand what it is being said.

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This “Class B EVP” was captured in 2010 at Merchant & Drovers Tavern Museum.

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Class C EVP

A “Class C EVP” is undecipherable or unintelligible. It is clear that the EVP is not created by a living person but you can not make out what is being said even with amplifying or filtering the message. Below is an example of what I consider to be a “Class C EVP”.

This EVP was captured Mansfield Cemetery in 2011. Note: This audio clip has been enhanced so that you can hear it.

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Filed Under: Learning, Paranormal Evidence, The Paranormal Tagged With: classification, Electronic Voice Phenomenon, evidence, EVP, EVPs, Ghost, Haunting, Intelligent, Investigation, Residual, The Paranormal

What Classification Of Haunting Is It?

January 21, 2011 by Cynthia 3 Comments
What Classification Of Haunting Is It?

So if you are like I am, you watch several of the paranormal shows on TV and spend time researching the paranormal. I always wonder why most people only really talk about two types of haunting – residual or intelligent. There are at least six different types of haunting I have come across.

Residual Haunting

A residual haunting is when an entity replays a specific activity or time period over and over like video or audio loop. These phenomena are attributed to a traumatic event, life-altering event, or a routine event of a person or place. The entity doesn’t show signs of awareness of the living world, nor do they interact with or respond to it.

Intelligent Haunting

An intelligent Haunting is when an entity appears to be aware of the living world and interacts with or responds to it. These entities are able to communicate with the living by talking, moving inanimate objects or making noises.

Demonic

A demonic haunting is especially frightening because the spirit that does the haunting was not human and has malicious or evil intent. These haunting start with small paranormal events, but they will escalate over time. Some studies of demonic hauntings have concluded that these types of spirits like to attack individuals that are experiencing weaknesses on a psychological and emotional level.

Poltergeist

Most poltergeist activity has nothing to do with ghosts or spirits. Most of the activity is centered around an individual who has experienced emotional, psychological or physical stress (even going through puberty). The subconscious mind of that individual can manifest these events. Phenomena can be displayed as unexplained noises, objects moving or manipulation of lights or electrical appliances.

Shadow People

Shadow people  are supernatural shadow-like figures of both modern folklore and paranormal popular culture that believers describe as dark humanoid forms or evasive spectators that are seen mostly in the peripheral vision. They are commonly regarded as malicious or evil spirits.

Doppelgängers

A doppelgänger is said to be a person’s double. It describes the sensation of having glimpsed oneself in peripheral vision, in a position where there is no chance that it could have been a reflection. Doppelgängers are often perceived as a sinister form of bilocation and generally regarded as harbingers of bad luck. In one legend, a doppelgänger seen by a person’s friends or relatives is an omen of ill will, while seeing one’s own doppelgänger is an omen of death.

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