March 17, 2005
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Dear Ghostvillagers,
As some of you may know, over the last year I’ve been doing extensive research on spirit communication. I’ve been studying the methods and devices people use to try and reach across to the other side and establish contact. The journey has been incredible and has taken me on a path of interviewing scientists, psychics, clergy, skeptics, companies who make these devices, and countless people who incorporate these practices into their own spirituality.
I’m getting ready to release my findings. Please watch this newsletter next month for a very big announcement. I’ll be ready to say more then.
The field of paranormal research is growing at an increasing rate. It’s an exciting time to be a part of all of this. People are searching in new places for answers and are making some great discoveries. I’m learning through my own pursuit for answers how important this quest is. I want to remind all of you that I’m here to help. Ghostvillage.com was built as a place to celebrate all of the great work being done in this field. If you have something to share with your peers, please let us know. We’re here to help spread the word.
Our newsletter is also growing, we have added a new section called “Hot Threads” -- this section highlights some of the great discussions going on in our huge message board community. Enjoy the rest of the newsletter below.
Supernaturally yours,
Jeff Belanger
info@ghostvillage.com
Mayor of Ghostvillage.com
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On to this month's question: This question can be answered by reading a page on Ghostvillage.com. The first person to reply to this email with the correct answer will win this month's prize.
What is Rabbi Gershon Winkler's second favorite day of the book Kabbalah 365?
Once we have a winner, we will announce it on our home page as soon as possible. Good luck! (Only Ghostvillagers who have not won a prize from us in the last year are eligible.)
This month's prize:
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| ATTENTION Paranormal Investigators |
I'd like to involve as many investigators as possible. This is your opportunity to have your work, your name, and your organization's name published in a book that will be on the shelves in 2005. Please email me for more information at: info@ghostvillage.com. There are only two weeks left in this project!
-Jeff Belanger
| Supernatural Calendar |
April 2: History & Hauntings Tours Spring/Summer
April 8: Ghost hunters investigations weekends, Ghost Hunting Seminar @ Jim Thorpe Inn
April 9: Ghost hunters investigations weekends, History & Hauntings Tours Spring/Summer
April 16: "Cape Encounters" Book Signing
April 22: 2005 California Ghost Hunters Conference - Jeff Belanger will be speaking at this event
April 23: History & Hauntings Tours Extended
April 30: NJ Ghost Conference 2005
May 7: History & Hauntings Tours Spring/Summer, Vallisca Ax Murder House
May 13: Haunted Decatur Spooktacular Tour
May 14: History & Hauntings Tours Spring/Summer
| Who's Who in the Town Square? |
>>opterasis<< - member since July 24, 2004What is your name?
Chris Gibbons
How old are you?
22
Where do you live?
Westfield, Massachusetts
What do you do for a living?
I'm on the lower end of the computer repair food chain. I do RMAS, software installs, hardware installs, things that save the big guys some time.
What got you interested in the supernatural?
My own house is what got me interested. We moved in when I was about 12, and at night in the hallway and the living room, I always get a strange feeling, like a feeling of being watched. One night, while getting something to drink, I happened to glance into the living room and saw the shape of a man just standing there, watching me. It's strange, but ever since that happened, it's made me more calm about the possibility of a ghost in my house. Kind of like he's there to just watch over things.
What is the most haunted place you've visited? Did anything happen while you were there?
That would have to be when I was house-sitting for my aunt when I was 13. She has one of the oldest houses in town, which used to be a public meeting house. At night, I could hear voices of an older woman and a child. Sometimes a cabinet with crystal and china in it would randomly rattle for a few seconds, yet when I tried to move it because I had assumed it was from a truck going by, the cabinet wouldn't budge. When I asked her about it, she got a strange look in her eyes, and wouldn't talk about it in front of her kids. When they left the room, she seemed really excited about it, because like me, she didn't feel anything negative or like they meant any harm. One thing she told me that really stuck in my mind is that she was home alone one day, taking a bubblebath while listening to music, and she swears the towels hanging on the door were swaying to the music. I'd love to go back for some EVP someday.
What's your favorite song of all time?
Tool - H. It's just one of those songs that's introduced to you at the perfect point in your life where it just seems to fit everything that's going on, good or bad, and listening to it feels like an amazing release because you know whatever your problems, other people have gone through it, and in the end, everything will be okay.
| Supernatural Library |
This past month's Library additions:
Pregnant Darkness by Monika Wikman
Cape Encounters by Dan Gordon and Gary Joseph
Bushman Shaman by Bradford Keeney
The Arcana of Freemasonry by Albert Churchward
Shiva: The Wild God of Power and Ecstasy by Wolf-Dieter Storl
Buckland's Book of Saxon Witchcraft by Raymond Buckland
Custodians of Truth by Tim Wallace-Murphy and Marilyn Hopkins
Kabbalah 365 by Gershon Winkler [INTERVIEW]
A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year by Ellen Evert Hopman
Mastering Astral Projection by Robert Bruce and Brian Mercer
John Dee: 1527-1608 by Charlotte Fell Smith
Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy by Clark Heinrich
The Magical and Ritual Use of Herbs by Richard Alan Miller
| Recent Encounters |
The Spirit of Mrs. Rogers - Wakefield, England
Conjoining Mist Spirits - Chesterland, Ohio [PIC]
My Family's Clairvoyant Gifts - Region 1, the Philippines
The Queen of Hearts - Irwin, Pennsylvania
"Little Chicken" at Hotel Meade EVP - Bannack, Montana [EVP]
My Two Haunted Houses - Bridgend, Wales, UK
The House Of Ludington Ghost Video - Escanaba, Michigan [VIDEO]
Dad's Ice Cream-Eating Angel - Barboursville, West Virginia
A Phantom Leg Rub - Sheridan, Michigan
The Ghosts of Iverson’s Pits - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Spirits on the Land - Milton, Florida [PIC]
The Ghost Who Doesn't Like Men - Neptune City, New Jersey
The Old Aunt's House - Indiana
| Resources |
New articles/news since our last newsletter:
Connecting Through Reincarnation? by Rick Hayes - March 16, 2005
Chinese Hopping Ghosts by Janice Cottrill - March 4, 2005
| Jeff Belanger's Upcoming Events |
Events Scheduled in 2005 so far:
2005 California Ghost Hunters Conference in San Diego, California - April 22-24
SGRA Summer Paranormal Conference in Stratford, Connecticut - June 17-18
New England Ghost Project's Berkshire Paranormal Conference in North Adams, Massachusetts - July 15-17
Adsagsona Paranormal Society GhostFest '05 in Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee - August 5-7
Ghost Convention International 2005 on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California - September 9-11
| Hot Threads in the Community |
Why are you interested in the paranormal?
http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=7180
Die-hard believers and skeptics alike describe their fascination with ghosts and the unexplained. Why are YOU interested? Share your thoughts here while getting to know your fellow Ghostvillagers.
Things that go bump in the night.
http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=6755
Creepy sounds that often occur while we are sleeping but with a recorder on, we get to hear them.
Is it a paranormal energy or a bug... you decide.
http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=7107
Sometimes we can't really be sure what we capture on film. Take a look and decide for yourself.
What the heck? Why did they do that?
http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=6167
Great discussion about camera usage! Digital or not? Which will capture your images better?
Danvers State Hospital in Danvers, Massachusetts
http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=743
Asylums are well-known for their paranormal activity. Several locations across the country are discussed here. Is there one near you?
Cryptozoological creatures - What's your favorite?
http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=7171
Cryptozoological creatures.
BS or Not?: Dowsing Rods
http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=7180
Throughout history, dowsing rods have been used to detect everything from witchcraft to water to ghosts to.... chocolate! Villagers discuss and scrutinize the legitimacy of this popular paranormal tool and ask the burning question: Do dowsing rods really work as they say?
10 Things About You
http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=3221
Just to get to know our Ghostvillagers.
KatsGod's Drawing Gallery, share your creative works!
http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=3907
Get the creative streak in you.
The Thousand Faces of Bargain Buddy
http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=7081
Are you having trouble ridding your computer of Bargain Buddy or other spyware?
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