Ghost Hunting Theories

I thought I was the only one getting excited about HAARP’s capabilities, but it appears that lots of other folks are looking to the program to explain all sorts of phenomenon. The one that most are focusing on is “can we control weather?”

Recent strange rings found on the radar in Australia along with a convenient low pressure system pushing a cyclone to a drought-ridden area made many wonder. Colin Andrews (famous crop circle researcher) has the best research on this newest finding in Australia here.

With the recent rains here in Arizona and California, where we’ve been drought ridden for over a decade, I wondered momentarily how convenient it was. Then, I checked out NOAA’s weather and they reported a strengthening El Nino. We certainly know what that can do for our weather.

My thought is this—you can’t do this kind of covert research without leaving traces. Area-51 is a prime example. The flights in and out of planes gives it away. Should HAARP be used for weather control, it would leave evidence behind that would be rather obvious. They would perhaps create drought in the Middle East oil-bearing countries to force them to need our resources in leverage. They would certainly give regularly healthy rains to Africa, thus providing more resources for them and less American money spent on feeding them and digging wells. The president’s own residence in D.C. is having a “snowmageddon” right now. I know that town—grew up right beside it in Fairfax. It’s not used to big snows. In fact, I remember as a kid getting off school for 3-5 inches of snow! I don’t think he’d be asking HAARP to please make his city snow-bound.

So, for now, I’m not seeing it. If we can control the weather, we must be in the early stages, kind of like the 6-year-old on a joy ride in daddy's truck. We know the gas pedal and the steering wheel, we just haven't figured out how to master them enough to handle a straight roadway, let alone a steep incline or black ice.

I’d love to hear your opinions.

(Above: In case you're missing Zak Baggy Pants and the Scooby Douche team, see Friday's listing in this post--a must see!)

TUESDAY

"Past Life" Fox Channel. Begins a new series with a psychologist and ex-NYPD detective who delve into people who claim they are haunted by past lives.

“Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal” on A&E tonight with an episode about a 14-year-old boy who claims to see the spirits of people and animals, and to help him understand his gift, he is introduced to siblings close to his age who supposedly have paranormal gifts.

“Paranormal State” (or I like to call it “Paranoid State”) on A&E tonight with an episode I’ll actually sit through because they’re going to the Pine Barrens in NJ in search of Mothman—much better than inciting fear in a family home.

“Paranormal Cop” on A&E tonight with an episode of goes to a haunted firehouse to help firefighters.

WEDNESDAY

“Ghost Hunters International” SyFy channel Wednesday night goes to Costa Rica’s San Lucas Prison.

“MonsterQuest” on History Channel Wednesday night investigates Mothman. As well, before and after that episode, they are showing more older episodes of Monsterquest.

FRIDAY

“Ghost Adventures” on Travel Channel is a repeat, but I think one of the best episodes they ever did. Bobby Mackey’s Music World or as Zak Baggy Pants likes to call it “the portal to hell!”

In honor of the upcoming Valentine’s Day Celebrations, I thought I’d get you in the mood with the horror side of love. Here’s some great flicks to put you – not in the mood. I personally liked “Valentine”—for a modern-day usual-scenario horror movie, it was inventive and creepy. "Harper's Island" is my favorite miniseries of all time. There's a little something here for everyone from hardcore slasher to stalker to comedy/drama.

“My Bloody Valentine” 1981. There's a big valentine-party planned in the little coal mining town of Valentine Bluffs, Nova Scotia. It is the first Valentine's Day party in 20 years, because then there was an accident in the mine, and the accident happened because the men responsible for the security was at the party. The sole surviving miner, named Harry Warden, later killed them, and told the town NEVER to arrange a Valentine's Day party again. The party begins, and so does the killing... There was a 2009 remake of this, but the original is still the best.

“Valentine” 2001. Denise Richards. David Boreanaz. It is the late 1980's. At a high school dance, young nerdish-looking Jeremy Melton is spurned & insulted by every girl he asks to dance, except one named Dorothy. Later they start making out under the bleachers until a group of bullies discover them, and Dorothy says Jeremy attacked her. The boys further humiliate Jeremy by violently assaulting him & pulling off his clothes. About 12 years later, those same girls are in their twenties and enjoying the dating scene. But Jeremy has mysteriously disappeared. And the girls, one by one, are showing up dead. Who is it? Is it Jeremy?

“He Knows You’re Alone” 1980. (I believe this was Tom Hanks first film). A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt him down before it is too late. Meanwhile, the bride has to figure out if it is all in her imagination or not, aided by her ex-boyfriend.

“Unlawful Entry” 1992. Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta, Madeline Stowe. A young professional couple are befriended and looked after by one very kindly uniformed police officer, who at first merely answers a burglary call at their home, but in the course of time his ever-increasing attentions are focused on the wife—and getting rid of hubby.

“The War of the Roses” 1989. Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito. The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far.

“Harper’s Island” (miniseries) 2009. An engaged couple brings their wedding party to an island off the coast of Washington to join in their joy, only a killer loose on the island has other plans and love becomes a rather twisted evil thing. Very addictive and hot!

(above: witness account by a man who witnessed Yowie (Australian Bigfoot))

I was watching a Bigfoot documentary the other day when something struck me: The people who stumbled upon a Bigfoot encounter seemed much more believable than those who are hunting Bigfoot and reported seeing him.

This thought took me back to the Patterson-Gimlin famous film footage of a supposed Bigfoot. They went into the woods with camera looking for Bigfoot and managed to film one. Over the decades since, people have debated the film and its authenticity a great deal, especially in the context of their expedition. Now, had they been weekend campers who happened upon Bigfoot and filmed it, would they have been less criticized?

Actually, the accounts by people who happened upon Bigfoot without intention of finding him give descriptions that are emotionally gripping, clearly burned into their minds in a moment of fight-of-flight, and not something they like to repeatedly discuss. However, Bigfoot hunters often grab any camera crew available to talk about their hunt, no doubt making the story a big bigger and larger than life with each telling.

When people go looking for something, does that make them less sincere as witnesses?

I’m a ghost hunter. This concept applies to my industry, as well. When a team enters a supposedly haunted place, they know the history, the stories of what’s happened there to present-day tenants and they hope to get proof of ghosts. Anything that happens could be explained in that context as a haunting. However, a family moving into a home and renovating and faced with weird occurrences almost always uses logic as long as they can to explain strange sounds and weird feelings. The last thing they want to think is “ghost,” but ghost hunters’ first thoughts are “ghosts.”

What is the lesson in all of this? Perhaps that those seeking the phenomenon are likely to overexaggerate and those who were not looking for it are likely to understate it. It doesn’t make one source or the other more reliable, but it makes it damn hard for those in the “business” of hunting to be taken seriously.

The message from all of this is that scientists don’t become rock stars and they shouldn’t. You have to doubt their test findings when they’re funded by drug companies and others with an interest in the results. So is the same with hunting paranormal phenomenon. Should a team like TAPS be funded by a channel like SyFy, their findings take a huge plummet in believability. To be a real hunter is to be anonymous, to share the findings, but to not profit on the findings because then the findings become a “product” and their power to influence change in the industry takes a nosedive.

If you don’t believe me, think of the last time you heard a song you liked being used for a commercial? Did you ever want to hear it again? Did your opinion of the singer plummet? Did you wonder how much cash exchanged hands to give over use of a song that was once associated with sunshine and happiness and is now associated with Japanese cars?

If You Liked the lush settings and romance in “Twilight”
Try… “Blood and Chocolate,” “The Covenant,” “Half Light,” “Brotherhood of the Wolf,” “Sleepy Hollow”

If you liked the creepy cave locations of “The Descent”
Try…“Catacombs,” “The Cave,” “Creep,” “Deathwatch”

If you liked the cold isolation of “The Thing (From Another World)”
“30 Days of Night,” “The Shining,” “Frostbiten,” “Cold Prey”

If you liked the trapped in the middle of backwoods nowhere feel of “Wrong Turn”
Try… “The Hills Have Eyes,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “Silent Hill,” “Tourist Trap”

If you liked the lost in the woods feel of “The Blair Witch Project”
Try…”Prophecy” (starring Talia Shire), “The Final Terror,” “Sauna.”

If you liked the “is this person crazy?” psychological suspense of “Skeleton Key”
Try…,” “Stir of Echoes,” “Let’s Scare Jessica to Death,” “Something Evil,” “And Soon the Darkness,” “Beneath,” “Gothika,” “In Dreams” “The Return”

If you liked the real-haunted house feeling of “Paranormal Activity”
Try… “The Legend of Hell House,” “The Haunting,” “Amityville Horror,” “Knocking on Death’s Door,” “The Changeling,” “The Legacy of Hilltop Drive.”

If you liked the predator and prey in natural setting theme of “Jaws”
Try… “Lake Placid,” “Sasquatch,” “Anaconda,” “Jurassic Park,” “Day of the Animals,” “Tremors,” “Predator.”

If you liked the creepy clown doll scene from “Poltergeist,”
Try… “Tourist Trap,” “Dead Silence,” “Amusement,” “Funhouse,” “Clownhouse,” “Magic.”

If you liked the deadly killer stalking feel of “Halloween”
Try .. “Terror Train,” “Prom Night,” “When a Stranger Calls,” “American Psycho.”

If you liked the this-town-is-off feel of “Stepford Wives,”
Try… “Bay Coven,” “Wicker Man,” “The Dark Secret of Harvest Home,” “Eye of the Devil,” “Rosemary’s Disciples,” "The People."

An interesting article had me thinking about EMF and its affects on the human body. We hear a great deal about it in ghost hunting as we run around in the dark with EMF meters to measure electromagnetic fields, but the truth is it does cause sensations in the human body. The greater question is, what else happens to our bodies when they come in contact with all the increasing EMF in the atmosphere today?

Sam Milham, M.D. (epidemiologist) has been studying for 30 years the potential hazards of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) — the radiation that surrounds all electrical appliances and devices, power lines, and home wiring and is emitted by communications devices, including cell phones and radio, TV, and WiFi transmitters. He’s come to a controversial conclusion: The "electrosmog" that first began developing with the rollout of the electrical grid a century ago and now envelops every inhabitant of Earth is responsible for many of the diseases that impair — or kill — us.

Electrical hypersensitivity (EHS) is becoming more widespread. Symptoms of EHS, a recently identified condition, include fatigue, facial irritation (resembling rosacea), tinnitus, dizziness, and digestive disturbances, which occur after exposure to visual display units, mobile phones, WiFi equipment, and commonplace appliances. Experts say up to 3% of all people are clinically hypersensitive, as many as one-third of us to a lesser degree.

Two of the worst creators of transient radiation: light dimmer switches and compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs). Transients are created when current is repeatedly interrupted. A CFL, for instance, saves energy by turning itself on and off repeatedly, as many as 100,000 times per second.

So how does the human body respond to this pulsing radiation? "Think of a magnet," explains Dave Stetzer, an electrical engineer and power supply expert in Blair, WI. "Opposite charges attract, and like charges repel. When a transient is going positive, the negatively charged electrons in your body move toward that positive charge. When the transient flips to negative, the body's electrons are pushed back. Remember, these positive-negative shifts are occurring many thousands of times per second, so the electrons in your body are oscillating to that tune. Your body becomes charged up because you're basically coupled to the transient's electric field." Remember, every cell in your body handles communications through your own electrical system and now there’s an outside source affecting the cells.

What do experts suggest? Doing a few things to lower your exposure: Don't expose yourself unnecessarily to EMF hazards. Don't buy a home next to a WiFi tower. Get a corded telephone instead of a cordless one. Don't let your teenager sleep with a cell phone under her pillow. Don't use your laptop computer in your lap. Treat your EMF-emitting devices with the same cautious respect you do other invaluable modern devices, like your car, which is also dangerous — and can kill. You don't drive in an unnecessarily risky fashion — at high speed or while talking on a cell phone (right?).

So, knowing all of these electrical impulses are whizzing around us, does that mean we're more haunted nowadays? It shouldn't affect the haunting rate, but it could very well affect either our ability to percieve it or its ability to show itself. Long before electricity, there were hauntings. It's not necessary to have EMF, but I will admit that some of the better findings I've come across occurred in buildings with a baseline reading averaging above 1 and no places in the building showing below 1. So, it's not just affecting our world, it's possible it's affecting theirs too. I have yet to learn more about those nights with geomagnetic activity, especially electron fluxes and how that might tie in with high electrical activity and its effects on electrons in the human body and perhaps even in the spirit world. I'm hardly a scientist, but I am a dog with a bone and a stubborn Southern gal who won't let anything go, so expect to hear more in the future.

"13 Hrs" Waiting to be released. A full moon hangs in the night sky and lightning streaks across dark storm clouds. Sarah Tyler returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visit. As the storm rages on, Sarah, her family and friends shore up for the night, cut off from the outside world. But something comes out of the driving rain and darkness. Something that holds a dark secret so devastating that, in one night, it could wipe out the entire family.Trapped, Sarah and her brothers and friends must use their heads as well as their physical strength to survive not only the thing that is hunting them down one by one - but their own entrapment as the besieged group turns in on itself. Can they survive the horror stalking them? Or is their enemy already amongst them and has it always been? Can they survive for 13 hours?

"House of the Wolf Man" To DVD 2010. Five strangers are invited to a castle under the pretense that one may inherit it. Little do they know what dangers await at the House of the Wolfman.

"The Wolfman" (I predict this will be my favorite werewolf movie ever)) Release date February 12, 2010. Lawrence Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate. As he pieces together the gory puzzle, he hears of an ancient curse that turns the afflicted into werewolves when the moon is full. Now, if he has any chance at ending the slaughter and protecting the woman he has grown to love, Talbot must destroy the vicious creature in the woods surrounding Blackmoor. But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, a simple man with a tortured past will uncover a primal side to himself-one he never imagined existed.

I've always been more of a werewolf girl than vampire girl, myself, but I think it has more to do with werewolves being in the woods and you know that Autumnforest loves the woods!