Inspired Ghost Tracking Team Photo #1

Inspired Ghost Tracking Core Group

I'm one of the mediums on the Inspired Ghost Tracking Team, and on April 26th we visited the ruins of the Patapsco Female Institute in Maryland for group photos. Here's the first of those.


To read about some of the investigations I went on with Inspired Ghost Tracking, including the "Double Murder Investigation", check out  my book "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead." 
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* Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead by Rob Gutro in paperback and Kindle on AMAZON: http://tinyurl.com/q3bhgdeor to Purchase from the CreateSpace eStore: https://www.createspace.com/3824548
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SUMMARY for LESSONS LEARNED: Follow Rob on a treasure-hunt-style journey in Virginia as he and others try to explain what appear to be random and obscure words, signs and symbols from a spirit, that all wind up being intensely personal to the spirit.Explore the science behind how they communicate. Learn how to receive their messages, where they appear, and important messages in how to live your life. Rob takes you into cemeteries, battlefields, and historic places. You’ll see what happens to victims of suicide and murders, and how infants and animals pass messages to the living. Featuring: Inspired Ghost Tracking and mediums Barb Mallon, Troy Cline and Ruth Larkin.

Famous Photo: Ghost Dog At A Tea Party

Famous Photo:

   In 1916, retired Scotland Yard Inspector Arthur Springer took this picture in Tingewick, Buckingham, England. At the moment he captured the photograph, there was reportedly no dog in the frame at all.  
This photo courtesy of the Huffington Post/Foretean Picture Library

NPR Report: Haunted Dolls Are A Thing, And They're Not Cheap, Either

This is a very interesting story from NPR Radio called "Haunted Dolls Are A Thing, And They're Not Cheap, Either"
Objects can retain energy of people that loved them or valued them. Sometimes ghosts will attach themselves to objects and it takes the emotional energy of a living person to "activate" or power up the ghost. 
 To learn more about ghosts and spirits, check out my book "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead."(see end of story for book summary)

"Haunted Dolls Are A Thing, And They're Not Cheap, Either"
 ARTICLE   SOURCE:   Link to "Haunted Dollls story"
Originally published March 15, 2015

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE STORY: http://www.npr.org/player-Dolls
   Some childhood symbols straddle the line between adorable and terrifying. Like clowns. Or Furbys.
But some dolls fit the category, with spooky eyes that seem to move and the porcelain pallor. They're not all Chucky, but some of them just don't seem quite right.
     Listener Anne McLaughlin grew up with a cabinet full of dolls — a pretty dancer doll, a set of wooden nesting dolls. But one, she says, stood out.
      "One of the dolls in the cabinet was absolutely terrifying," she says. "Very tall, thin doll, and her face was not a doll face. It was a grown woman, so she didn't have big eyes she didn't have a smile. She had tiny little eyes. She always looked like she stepped out of one of those New Orleans ghost stories."
      The lady doll was also a music box, and spun slowly to music when wound. The doll gave Anne the creeps.
So one night, when she was about 10, McLaughlin thought, " 'I'm going to take her out of the cabinet just to prove that I'm not scared of this doll,' even though I was very scared of the doll."
     So she wound her up, left her on the bedside table and walked away. Suddenly there was a crash.
"And right when I turned around, she had just walked to the side of the bedside table, and fallen to the floor with a big crash, " McLaughlin can't even finish her sentence. "I went and slept with my parents."

A screenshot of an eBay listing shows "Claire," a doll that, according to the seller, is haunted by a spirit. The current price: $75.00

 

The next morning, she crept back into her room and placed the doll back inside the cabinet.
"I was really sure to put her in the cabinet facing away from me ... so that she couldn't watch me," she remembers.
Many listeners have their own haunted-doll memories. That's not surprising, considering that haunted dolls are big business on sites like eBay and Etsy.
   Jak Hutchcraft, who wrote about the phenomenon for Vice.com, says he stumbled upon the trade one night when he was surfing around the "Everything Else" section of eBay.
   "There was an advert for something which was a sadistic, perverted, haunted doll," Hutchcraft says. "It was this little, menacing-looking sort of troll."
Intrigued, he noted that the bids kept going up, with 10 people in the running. That doll that looked like a possessed little troll sold for more than $1,400.
Hutchcraft did some reporting to find out why anyone would want a haunted doll — let alone pay for one.
   "Some people want to connect solely with the spirit," he explains. "Some people buy them just for the doll because they're doll collectors and the spirited aspect of it is just a secondary thing. I thought it was baffling, really, because I can look past the ghost as long as it's a cute doll."
Hutchcraft met with a woman who is a major player in the world of haunted dolls, and he found to his surprise that he kind of liked her. He started out as a skeptic, but ultimately came to appreciate this seemingly bizarre subculture.
But when it comes to owning a haunted doll?
    "I thought about it," he says. "But the thing is, the more it went on, the more it took over my life for about a year really ... and then I started to think, 'Will my brain trick me into thinking it is haunted? Or something will happen when I get it. And to be honest, I didn't have the money to fork out — and I was a little bit scared!"
    Many years after McLaughlin's scary doll "walked" off the table, she got the courage to take the doll out of the cabinet again. She found, upon closer examination, that the music box was off balance — probably the reason the doll fell to the floor.
   But I gotta admit, I liked the story better when the doll was possessed.

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SUMMARY for LESSONS LEARNED: Follow Rob on a treasure-hunt-style journey in Virginia as he and others try to explain what appear to be random and obscure words, signs and symbols from a spirit, that all wind up being intensely personal to the spirit.Explore the science behind how they communicate. Learn how to receive their messages, where they appear, and important messages in how to live your life. Rob takes you into cemeteries, battlefields, and historic places. You’ll see what happens to victims of suicide and murders, and how infants and animals pass messages to the living. Featuring: Inspired Ghost Tracking and mediums Barb Mallon, Troy Cline and Ruth Larkin.
Amazon Author Page: amazon.com/author/robgutro

A Review I Like: "Pets and the Afterlife"

 The reason I wrote "Pets and the Afterlife" is to help others understand what happens when our pets pass and how they communicate from the other side. I also explain how living pets can see and hear ghosts and spirits. I really appreciate receiving emails from people who have read the book and have received comfort from it. Here's an excerpt from an email I received this month. - Rob Gutro

Apr 4th, 4:56pm

Hi Mr. Gutro I lost my best friend on 3/6. He had cancer but lived longer than was expected I think due to me changing his diet and doing all I could for him which led me to your book "Pets and the Afterlife". It really helped me to not feel so sad and guilty. Out of all the books I've read, it helped the most.

G.V.P. 

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 BOOK SYNOPSIS: "Pets and the Afterlife"

The loss of a pet is like to loss of a child to pet owners. The love we share with our pets never dies, and in a new book called "Pets and the Afterlife" by Rob Gutro, the author provides proof that our pets do communicate with us from the other side.

"I wrote this book to bring comfort to people who lost a pet and explain how our dogs and cats give us messages from the other side," Gutro said. "I'm a dog dad who lost two of my own beloved dogs and both have communicated with me, just as your pets are trying to get messages to you."

Rob Gutro is a dog owner, dog rescue volunteer, medium/paranormal investigator for Inspired Ghost Tracking of Md. and scientist. In Rob's third book, "Pets and the Afterlife," readers will learn how dogs, cats, horses and some birds have the intelligence and ability to send signs to the living after they pass. They will take comfort in knowing our pets are around us from time to time in spirit and recognize the signs they give us.

In addition, readers will learn about the different levels of intelligence that a pet develops and how they are used to communicate signs to the living after the pet passes away. Rob shares scientific studies that prove our pets emotions and personalities. Read the science behind why living pets can sense entities. The author even takes the readers on a paranormal investigation where one of his dogs helps solve a mysterious canine mystery. Learn how our pets in spirit wait for us when it’s our time, what a pet’s ashes can do, the difference between ghosts and spirits and the science behind the energy they use to communicate with us.

"The book also features my dog Buzz who was killed in an accident as a puppy, and became the world's greatest canine communicator in the afterlife," Gutro said. Rob's childhood dogs recently also made an appearance as his mother passed away.

Three of the chapters are written by well-known mediums whose own dogs returned and communicated with them to assure them they were at peace. The book features medium Barb Mallon, Ruthie Larkin the Beantown Medium and Troy Cline. You'll read how Rob's dog Sprite passed and came to all three of these mediums with similar messages and how he revealed his presence to many people in the form of butterfly.

Read an amazing story of how a ghost dog rescued a young girl who grew up to work for dog rescues, and how Rob encountered a tiny ghostly dog in a famous museum in England.

What's in "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead"?

Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead - Available on Rob Gutro's Amazon Author Page: amazon.com/author/robgutro 

 

Video Proof: My Mom's Spirit Visit: Playing with Lights

On Monday, April 6th I was teleworking when my mom's spirit visited our house and made her presence known by manipulating electricity and I had the wherewithal to videotape and try to debunk it in the 30 seconds it was happening.
   We have a nice sun porch where I telework when the temperatures warm enough outside to warm the porch to a comfy 70 degrees Fahrenheit. On Monday, temperatures were higher than that outside (finally!) and the sun porch was the place to work.
  Around 3 p.m. EDT, our three dogs who were sitting on the carpet in the sun porch and on a bed in the kitchen, started barking. I didn't hear anything, but I got a headache in the back of my head, which is always indicative to me of a ghost (earth bound) or spirit (that crossed over). I got up and turned around and went into the kitchen to find the chandelier light over our kitchen table turning bright, and turning dim!  I sensed a woman's spirit in the kitchen. I whipped out my cell phone and videotaped the lights, and then walked over to the switch and tapped on the switch to show they were in the "OFF" position.
   HOW CAN SPIRITS AFFECT ELECTRICITY? - Because they're energy, they have the ability to manipulate electricity, and make lights go dim or bright. 
   WHAT DID I DO? -    I acknowledged the spirit, but because the dogs also saw her and wouldn't stop barking (they knew my mom in the physical sense, and obviously they recognized her because it was a happy bark, not an irritated bark). The barking, however, was distracting so I couldn't hone in on the identity of the spirit. I solved that shortly thereafter.
  SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF THE SPIRIT IDENTITY- Earlier that day I wrote a story about a tropical cyclone and for some reason used the title of a Beatles song from 1969 called "Come Together, Right Now." I don't have Beatles music and never listened to them all that much (don't judge!), but was inspired to use that song title. Keep that in mind, because SPIRITS CAN INFLUENCE OUR THOUGHTS.  About 2 hours later I was driving to a chiropractor appointment and said "Okay, give me a clue to your identity." That's when the Beatles song "Let it Be" came on the radio, and the line "Mother Mary Come to Me" stood out. My mother used to identify with that line (no, her name wasn't Mary)- because Mary was her favorite "saint." That confirmed for me that it was my Mom. She was saying hello for some reason (although she was around again on Easter an influenced me to bake a bunny cake that I hadn't made in over a decade and used to bake for her when I was a teenager living at home). So, Mom is around. I'm listening for another clue to see if she's hanging around for more than a "Hello."
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/_9RH6_SqGgo

Amazon Book Rankings we Like!

On Thursday, April 16th "Pets and the Afterlife" had some great rankings on Amazon.com.  That means more people who lost pets are finding out about the book and learning how to see signs from their pets on their own!  That means more people will find comfort and peace knowing their pets are still around them from the other side. It's very exciting to me, and I've been getting a bunch of emails that reflect that. I'm so happy and honored that this book is helping so many.

For those who don't know,  Amazon has over 4 million books in its catalog, and to get anywhere in the top million is decent. To get within 100,000 is pretty cool... and in Kindle, Pets has gone as high as in the top 10 in the Supernatural category. I love receiving your emails, questions or stories. I take comfort in knowing that the book has helped many find peace.  - Rob Gutro

AMAZON 
PAPERBACK: Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #182,622 in Books 
KINDLE: Amazon Best Sellers Rank:  #80,676 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

 

• • #46 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Religion & Spirituality > Occult > Supernatural
  • #92 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Supernatural & Paranormal > Supernatural
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Book Review and Giveaway! "Love Never Dies by Dr. Jamie Turndorf"

I've just finished reading Dr.Turndorf's "Love Never Dies" and the author and publisher is giving me the honor of allowing one of my readers of this blog to win a copy through my FACEBOOK page, https://www.facebook.com/ghostsandspirits.insightsfromamedium or https://www.facebook.com/RobGutroAuthorMedium. 
  Tell me why you feel this book could help you. The publisher will pick a winner and mail a copy directly.

Here are my thoughts on "Love Never Dies by Dr. Jamie Turndorf"
     I found the book very helpful in guiding people to learn how to tune into spirit messages, and particularly liked Dr. Turndorf's guidance through meditations. In Parts two and three, Dr. Turndorf covered so many of the ways that spirits convey messages and this book will be a great help for people trying to get in touch with their loved ones.
    Part 1 was her story of losing the love of her life. The intense grief and agony she experienced and conveyed after losing Jean Pin would really benefit people who had recently lost a loved one and were going through the same intensity of grief. Reading about the pain and agony she experienced and SO MANY people experience, will be healing to know that others experience the same emotions after the passing of a loved one.  I think the first part could be a book on it's own merit because it is so beneficial to people dealing with the same intensity of grief.
   As a scientist myself, I was glad to read that she didn't focus on a religion. As a medium, I have come to know that "god" not of a religion, but is the consciousness of all living things. Like Dr. Turndorf I've learned that all people are equal and all creatures part of all existence (and with "souls.").
   I particularly enjoyed reading how she used her talent/mediumship to help people overcome their grief. Readers will get a lot out of this book and know that their loved ones are always connected. - Rob Gutro

BOOK SUMMARY: "LOVE NEVER DIES"  Famed relationship therapist, author, and media personality Dr. Jamie Turndorf shares the amazing true story of her spiritual reconnection with her beloved deceased husband, internationally renowned former Jesuit priest Emile Jean Pin. Discovering for herself that relationships don’t end in death, Dr. Turndorf has created a groundbreaking new grief therapy method that combines her acclaimed conflict-resolution techniques with after-death communication.

The result: an unprecedented method that enables the bereaved to reconnect, heal unfinished business, and make peace with the deceased.

Find out more at: AskDrLove.com

 OTHER REVIEWS:   “Love Never Dies is guaranteed to give immense hope to those grieving the perceived loss of a loved one. Dr. Jamie Turndorf provides stunning evidence of the continuity of love and life, along with the tools to help anyone connect with those in the unseen world.” — Suzanne Giesemann, author of Messages of Hope

"Love Never Dies is an astonishing and refreshing story of survival of consciousness…I could hardly put the book down, and I have read many of these types of books. This is a great read for those who have lost a loved one and are looking for answers to the ways spirit makes contact with us, and also how we can contact spirit to make peace. I highly recommend this book."— Dave Campbell, Certified Windbridge Research Medium (WCRM)

Cemetery Vandalism - Emotionally Damaging to a Family and Friends

  The highest insult and hurt you can cause people who lost a loved one is to desecrate a grave. It's bad enough that families and friends have lost a loved one. Vandalism to a grave is emotionally damaging to family and friends. I bring this up, because there was an incident in the news that was apparently politically motivated.
  By the way, whenever people commit vandalism in cemeteries the dead are watching, and karma will catch up to them.
  Often, young adults have been found to "hang out" in cemeteries and even party, destroying grounds, gravestones and destroying historic markers. 
   This week, the desecration of a gravesite was done on purpose by someone

who opposes a political candidate. Regardless of your political leanings, a person's family graves are off-limits. These are respectful places for the remains of those who passed and places where the living can go to grieve, talk to the spirits and find peace. 

ARTICLE: Gravestone Of Hillary Clinton's Father Toppled In Possible Act Of Vandalism 

Police are looking into whether vandals knocked over the headstone on the grave of Hillary Clinton's father, the Scranton Times-Tribune reported Wednesday.  Scranton Police Chief Carl Graziano told the newspaper that the the department received a report that Hugh Rodham's headstone had been toppled Tuesday morning in Washburn Street Cemetery. He suggested that vandals may have tipped it over. 

No other headstones in the cemetery were reported to have been knocked over, police told local TV station WNEP. The stone was put back in place Tuesday afternoon, according to the Scranton Times-Tribune.

Article source: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/hillary-clinton-father-gravestone-toppled 

You can find an article about cemetery vandalism here: http://www.cemeterydepot.com/Cemetery-Vandalism-information.php 

PODCAST! Rob Gutro Talks ghosts, pet spirits, more on Spaced Out Radio (2 hr. podcast)

Missed my interview early Saturday morning, April 11th on SPACED OUT RADIO?  


 LISTEN TO THE  PODCAST AT THE LINK BELOW! 
Rob Gutro Talks ghosts, pet spirits, more on Spaced Out Radio (2 hr. podcast)  
CLICK TO HEAR PODCAST: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/spacedoutradio/2015/04/11/april-10-2015-10pm-pdt-pets-and-the-afterlife-with-rob-gutro

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For home page of  "Spaced Out Radio"   http://www.blogtalkradio.com/spacedoutradio 


To learn more about signs that spirits send us, check out my book "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead."

* Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead for $8.99 paperback and $2.99 E-book on AMAZON: http://tinyurl.com/q3bhgdeor to Purchase from the CreateSpace eStore: https://www.createspace.com/3824548
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SUMMARY for LESSONS LEARNED: Follow Rob on a treasure-hunt-style journey in Virginia as he and others try to explain what appear to be random and obscure words, signs and symbols from a spirit, that all wind up being intensely personal to the spirit.Explore the science behind how they communicate. Learn how to receive their messages, where they appear, and important messages in how to live your life. Rob takes you into cemeteries, battlefields, and historic places. You’ll see what happens to victims of suicide and murders, and how infants and animals pass messages to the living. Featuring: Inspired Ghost Tracking and mediums Barb Mallon, Troy Cline and Ruth Larkin. 

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 BOOK SYNOPSIS: "Pets and the Afterlife"

The loss of a pet is like to loss of a child to pet owners. The love we share with our pets never dies, and in a new book called "Pets and the Afterlife" by Rob Gutro, the author provides proof that our pets do communicate with us from the other side.

"I wrote this book to bring comfort to people who lost a pet and explain how our dogs and cats give us messages from the other side," Gutro said. "I'm a dog dad who lost two of my own beloved dogs and both have communicated with me, just as your pets are trying to get messages to you."

Rob Gutro is a dog owner, dog rescue volunteer, medium/paranormal investigator for Inspired Ghost Tracking of Md. and scientist. In Rob's third book, "Pets and the Afterlife," readers will learn how dogs, cats, horses and some birds have the intelligence and ability to send signs to the living after they pass. They will take comfort in knowing our pets are around us from time to time in spirit and recognize the signs they give us.  In addition, readers will learn about the different levels of intelligence that a pet develops and how they are used to communicate signs to the living after the pet passes away. Rob shares scientific studies that prove our pets emotions and personalities. Read the science behind why living pets can sense entities. The author even takes the readers on a paranormal investigation where one of his dogs helps solve a mysterious canine mystery. Learn how our pets in spirit wait for us when it’s our time, what a pet’s ashes can do, the difference between ghosts and spirits and the science behind the energy they use to communicate with us.

"The book also features my dog Buzz who was killed in an accident as a puppy, and became the world's greatest canine communicator in the afterlife," Gutro said. Rob's childhood dogs recently also made an appearance as his mother passed away.

Three of the chapters are written by well-known mediums whose own dogs returned and communicated with them to assure them they were at peace. The book features medium Barb Mallon, Ruthie Larkin the Beantown Medium and Troy Cline. You'll read how Rob's dog Sprite passed and came to all three of these mediums with similar messages and how he revealed his presence to many people in the form of butterfly.   Read an amazing story of how a ghost dog rescued a young girl who grew up to work for dog rescues, and how Rob encountered a tiny ghostly dog in a famous museum in England.