Pets and the Afterlife 3 Achieves Amazon #1 Release Status!

 Wow. My new book Pets and the Afterlife 3: Messages from Spirit Dogs, came out yesterday and Amazon gave it a #1 New Release banner (first time ever for one of my books). Thank you so much.

My dogs Franklin and Dolly, who passed in 2020, are on the cover.

I hope this book brings you peace and comfort. If you read it, please review it on Amazon. Please let me know what you think of the cover, too.

Fascinating Paranormal Book: A Walk in the Shadows by Mike Ricksecker

 Shadow people have been a mystery for centuries and no one has put together an analysis of them until now. Mike Ricksecker, my friend and fellow Paranormal investigator, a Ghostorian, and You Tube show host, author and more recently published a new book providing an in-depth look at different types of shadow people! He also presents theories and possible explanations about them whether earthly beings to extra-terrestrials and also discusses dimensional possibilities.  - I'm grateful to Mike for allowing me to share my experience, too. This book is a MUST-READ. - Rob Gutro

About the Book:  

Shadow people are some of the most mysterious entities in the known universe, and Mike Ricksecker has experienced many, starting with a tall, dark humanoid figure that appeared in his room as a child. While examining who or what these dark beings may actually be and sharing the ominous experiences of several others, Ricksecker recounts his interactions with shadows, which also include a black mass that formed in a bedroom where a girl had seen an entity with red eyes, a crawler that crept its way around an abandoned desecrated church, and many more.

A Walk In The Shadows addresses these tantalizing questions:

What are the different types of shadow people and their characteristics?
What's the relationship between shadow people and sleep paralysis?
Are shadow entities interdimensional beings or, perhaps, players in a simulated universe?
Are shadow people evil, or have they been miscast as the darkest of the dark in the supernatural realm?
Are some shadow people actually extraterrestrials?
What does a renowned demonologist with nearly 50 years of experience have to say about shadow entities?

A Walk In The Shadows explores the secrets of the dark while unveiling an enigmatic world feared by many and misunderstood by most.

Review

"Mike Ricksecker has broken new ground with A Walk in the Shadows, illuminating a rather cryptic element of paranormal activity which has endured decades of speculation and skepticism, providing more curiosity than clarity. The author sheds new light on the subject with his erudite commentary and insightful treatment of the anomaly, offering a fresh perspective regarding the existence and origin of shadow people. He will gently guide you through this authentic and enormously valuable contribution to the cause of human enlightenment."
- Andrea Perron, Best-selling author, House Of Darkness House Of Light

About the Author

Award-winning Mike Ricksecker is the author of the historic paranormal books Ghosts of Maryland, Ghosts and Legends of Oklahoma, Campfire Tales: Midwest, Ghostorian Case Files: Volume 1, and the Encounters With The Paranormal series. He has appeared on multiple television shows and programs as a paranormal historian, including Animal Planet's The Haunted, Travel Channel's The Alaska Triangle, Bio Channel's My Ghost Story, and RenTV's (Russia) Mysteries of Mankind, Fox 5 News (Washington DC), Fox 25 News (Oklahoma City), ABC 3 News (Virginia Beach), Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory, and he produces his own Internet shows Ghosts and Legends, Paranormal Roads, and Friday Night Ghost Frights. On Tuesday nights, he hosts The Edge of the Rabbit Hole Livestream Show and Beyond The Shadows on the Haunted Road Media YouTube channel. Haunted Road Media is also his own paranormal and supernatural publishing company representing a number of paranormal authors, winning the award for Excellent Media In The Paranormal Field at the 2019 Shockfest Film Festival. Mike's historic paranormal articles have been published in The Baltimore Sun, Paranormal Underground Magazine, and he wrote an Oklahoma City paranormal column for Examiner.com (2010 - 2014). His work has also been featured in The Oklahoman, The Frederick News Post, Marshall University's The Parthenon, and Louisiana State University's Civil War Book Review. Additionally, Mike is an Amazon best-selling mystery author with two entries to his Chase Michael DeBarlo private detective series, Deadly Heirs and System of the Dead. With nearly 30 years of involvement in the paranormal, Mike serves as a paranormal investigator and "Ghostorian" with Society of the Haunted and regularly travels to speak about the paranormal and writing. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Mike is a father of four and is an avid baseball fan.

BIG NEWS! Published Today: My New Book "Pets and the Afterlife 3: Message from Spirit Dogs

I'm so, so, so excited to announce the publication of my newest Pets and the Afterlife book in the series. This one is ALL about signs from dog spirits and my dogs Dolly and Franklin are on the cover. Both passed in 2020 as I was finalizing the book, and both provided amazing signs. **This book also has a special chapter on how to cope with grief, from a friend who is a licensed psychologist. I can't wait for you to read it and Please, please  review it on Amazon. It's available in paperback and e-book.

- Rob Gutro 

New Book "Pets and the Afterlife 3: Message from Spirit Dogs" Follows Amazon Best-Sellers

WASHINGTON -- Best-selling author and pet medium Rob Gutro announced the publication of his eighth book, "Pets and the Afterlife 3: Messages from Spirit Dogs." This is the third book in a successful series that teaches grieving pet parents how pets communicate from the afterlife and focuses exclusively on signs from dogs in afterlife.

According to the 2019-2020 National Pet Owners Survey, sixty-seven percent of U.S. households, or about 85 million families, own a pet. "Coping with pet loss is extremely stressful and is like losing a child to me and many others," Gutro said. "Two of my dogs passed when I was finishing this book, and they provided amazing signs they are still around, as are everyone's dogs."

 

Through illustrative stories of how pets in spirit give signs to either their pet parents directly, or through interpretive readings with Rob, readers will learn how to recognize and interpret signs on their own from their pets who have passed. Also included is a chapter written by Dr. William Charmak, a licensed psychologist whom describes ways of coping with the loss of a beloved pet.

"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. He has learned that when it comes to spirits, there is no such thing as a coincidence. He cautions though that people should not jump to conclusions and think everything is a sign. "There has to be a personal meaning or connection," he said. 

All of Rob's previous 7 books have made Amazon’s best-seller status in the paranormal category. In addition to being a dog parent, who has worked with dog rescues for over a decade, the author is also a medium and paranormal investigator with the Inspired Ghost Tracking of Md.  In 2020, he released "Case Files of Inspired Ghost Tracking," a book about their most interesting and provocative cases.

"I write these books to educate and give people understanding to recognize signs on their own," he said. Beginning in January 2021, Rob can provide short readings of your pet whom passed via email for a small fee through PayPal. Reading information is available on his website.   

Rob maintains a weekly blog, Facebook and Twitter pages, where he writes about paranormal topics, and where people can share their stories or find other resources on the paranormal. The new book and his other books are available in paperback and E-book, on Amazon.com and other outlets at: http://tinyurl.com/hp92st7.  

The author has been featured in the Washington Post, MSNBC, WBZ Newsradio Boston, "Coast to Coast AM" syndicated radio with George Noory, Paranormal TV's "Do You Believe,"  many appearances on Haunted Road Media's programs and U.S., U.K. and Ireland paranormal radio programs such as Unknown Paranormal Radio, Ghost Chronicles Radio, the Haunted Syndicate Pararadio Show and many others. See his website for other appearances and interviews.

For the author's blog and upcoming appearances, visit: 

www.robgutro.com or www.petspirits.com or ghostsandspiritsinsights.blogspot.com/   

www.facebook.com/ghostsandspirits.insightsfromamedium

www.facebook.com/RobGutroAuthorMedium

https://twitter.com/RobGutroAuthor

Amazon Author Page: amazon.com/author/robgutro

YouTube: https://plus.google.com/collection/ok7wh

Rob Gutro, Author, Rgutro@gmail.com

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See Ghost Sketches in New Book, "Case Files of Inspired Ghost Tracking"

A new book called "Case Files of Inspired Ghost Tracking," by best-selling paranormal author Rob Gutro takes readers on paranormal investigations into private and historic homes where ghosts were traumatizing families. Rob, a medium in the Inspired Ghost Tracking paranormal group, announced the release of his seventh paranormal book that brings readers along on investigations and reveals some bizarre and shocking things the group found and how they helped the ghosts and families.     
TO BUY ON AMAZON: https://tinyurl.com/yba6ofbj

"When earthbound ghosts have traumatized families in their own homes, Inspired Ghost Tracking (IGT) of Maryland has gone in to cross them over," Gutro said. "Every case is different, too. Some have had earthbound ghosts that were friendly, others were not. IGT experienced a lot of bad energies that caused people to become physically sick or mentally traumatized. IGT investigators had to figure who, what, when and why things were happening, to finally bring peace to the living and the dead."  

In this collection of IGT cases, you’ll read about the "Burned Ghost," ghosts of two different time periods in one home, dark things that Ouija boards brought into homes, a very haunted Maryland mansion, many ghosts of Baltimore’s Federal Hill, a ghostly attachment, a Steelworker’s ghost, poltergeist activity, the famous IGT “Double Murder Ghost Investigation” and many more.

You'll find answers to questions like why ghosts choose to stay in a place, the differences and similarities between ghosts and spirits, why energy is the key to the paranormal and much more.

Although Rob has become known as a "Pet Medium" through the success of his best-selling books "Pets and the Afterlife" and "Pets and the Afterlife 2," he also connects with human earthbound ghosts and spirits.

Gutro is the first in the paranormal field to make the distinction between earthbound ghosts and spirits who have crossed over. Rob has three books about his experience with human ghosts and spirits, called "Ghosts and Spirits," "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead," and "Ghosts of England on a Medium's Vacation," and most recently, "Kindred Spirits: How a Medium Befriended a Spirit."   

Rob Gutro has been featured in the Washington Post and nationally syndicated radio programs like "Coast to Coast AM." Rob is a volunteer with Dachshund and Weimaraner rescues and gives fundraising lectures for animal rescues around the U.S., teaching grieving pet parents how pets communicate from the afterlife.   

Website: www.robgutro.com, www.petspirits.com

Facebook pages: www.facebook.com/ghostsandspirits.insightsfromamedium

www.facebook.com/RobGutroAuthorMedium

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobGutroAuthor

Amazon Author Page: amazon.com/author/robgutro

YouTube:   https://tinyurl.com/wcvhqbt

Coming in January; Pets and the Afterlife 3: Messages from Spirit Dogs!

Later this month, I plan to release my 3rd book in the Pets and the Afterlife series, because pets are so incredibly communicative from spirit, and you need to learn how to recognize the signs!  This book is about messages from spirit dogs, AND it includes a special chapter from a friend of mine who is licensed medical professional that offers you ways to work through your grief and sense of loss. 

 Pets and the Afterlife 3: Signs from Spirit Dogs will be out sometime in January in paperback and E-book on Amazon.com 

Paranormal Q and A During a paranormal investigation does your team always agree on what seems to be occurring?

Each week, I'll answer a question about the paranormal, whether a general question, or one about human or animal ghosts (Earthbound) or spirits (crossed over). Here's this week's question:

QUESTION: During a paranormal investigation does your team always agree on what seems to be occurring? 

ANSWER: No. Each team member comes at events from a different perspective and we work together to try and figure things out. For example, poltergeist activity is caused usually by an hormonal teenager under emotional stress. Their mental energy can actually simulate what it's like to have an intelligent haunt or interactive ghost.

Sometimes we disagree on whether a haunting is from a ghost or is poltergeist activity - until we ask questions about children in the house. 

Of course, there are other examples, like whether all of us agree that a photo is of an orb or not.

 For Rob Gutro's 7 books on the paranormal, visit: www.amazon.com. All of Rob's books were written to help explain the paranormal, and teach readers how to find signs from spirit. 

 

Coming Later in January; Pets and the Afterlife 3: Messages from Spirit Dogs!

In January, I plan to release my 3rd book in the Pets and the Afterlife series, because pets are so incredibly communicative from spirit, and you need to learn how to recognize the signs!  This book is about messages from spirit dogs, AND it includes a special chapter from a friend of mine who is licensed medical professional that offers you ways to work through your grief and sense of loss. 

 Pets and the Afterlife 3: Signs from Spirit Dogs will be out sometime in January in paperback and E-book on Amazon.com 

Paranormal Q and A: What type of selectivity do we have for calling spirits? What if a spirit doesn’t want to come?

Each week, I'll answer a question about the paranormal, whether a general question, or one about human or animal ghosts (Earthbound) or spirits (crossed over). Here's this week's question: 

QUESTION: What type of selectivity do we have for calling spirits? What if a spirit doesn’t want to come?

ANSWER: I don't have any control over who comes through. Since we maintain our personalities in death as they were in life, the boldest or most vocal spirit will come through first. For example, I'd love to talk with my dad in spirit more, but since my mother passed, she does all the talking in spirit as she did in life! It's really up to the spirit if they want to talk or not.

For Rob Gutro's 7 books on the paranormal, visit: www.amazon.com. All of Rob's books were written to help explain the paranormal, and teach readers how to find signs from spirit. 

Happy New Year- Start 2021 with a GREAT PODCAST: Bob Heske brings Mediums Ruthie Larkin and Rob Gutro back for "Negative Energy"

 It's the perfect way to start 2021, with an interesting podcast discussion who Bob Heske, host of "Afraid of Nothing" podcasts. In this BRAND NEW episode, he welcomed back Ruthie Larkin, the Beantown Medium (rated 1 of America's TOP 100 medium/psychics) and medium/author Rob Gutro to talk about Negative Energy and how to dispel it.  

LISTEN: https://afraidofnothingpodcast.buzzsprout.com/828433/7049647-afraid-of-all-this-negative-energy?fbclid=IwAR0l7yP88_T0QhZTji_2HZqGHLd0CcT-kyOzDbj44gf6kILGrlH7sY5DN14

We close out 2020 with an episode on ... what else? ... negativity.

Here to help cleanse our chakras and smudge our minds are two of our most popular guests from the past year: Author/Paranormal Investigator/Pet Medium Rob Gutro and Spiritual Healer and Medium Ruthie Larkin.

ABOUT ROB GUTRO

Meteorologist by day, Rob Gutro moonlights as an author, medium and ghost hunter in his spare time. Rob has written many books about his experiences and to teach people how spirits of loved ones send them signs from the afterlife. Also known as a Pet Medium, Rob's episode "Afraid of Connecting to Your Pet on the Other Side" was by far the most popular episode in 2020.

Rob's website/blog is here and you can find him on Amazon (and buy his books) here. Look for Rob's new book coming in late January: "Pets and the Afterlife 3".

You can also message Rob on Facebook.

ABOUT RUTHIE LARKIN

Ruthie Larkin has had psychic and healing abilities since childhood. She used them for the benefit of her family and close friends until 2007... when she decided to embrace her calling. She now has a substantial following around the country. Ruthie is frequently asked to do house clearings when families feel that their home has negative energy. She also gives complimentary readings to parents who have lost a child through death. Her long-term goal is to found a non-profit organization of psychics to help parents and law enforcement agencies locate missing children.

Visit Ruthie's website for more information.

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Haunted and Deadly Lake: A Georgia lake's dark and deadly history has some people seeing ghosts

Here's a story about a lake in Northern Georgia that was manmade and has been responsible for hundreds of deaths and very odd, seemingly paranormal activity. The lake was formed over unmarked graves. Here's the story from CNN (It appeared on Halloween): 

A Georgia lake's dark and deadly history has some people seeing ghosts

By Faith Karimi, CNN

Updated 4:03 AM ET, Sat October 31, 2020

(CNN)Legend has it the ghost of a long-dead woman roams this lake in a flowing blue dress. Mysterious arms reach out for swimmers from the watery depths. Angry spirits call people home to submerged graves.

These and other spooky tales have haunted Lake Lanier, in the foothills of the northern Georgia mountains, for decades.

To many Georgians the large, serpentine lake northeast of Atlanta is a recreational hotspot, popular for boating and water sports. But supernatural lore and urban legends about the lake have found a receptive audience on social media, where they've found legions of believers.

The lake was created in the 1950s by flooding valley communities that contained a cemetery, fueling beliefs that it's cursed. Historians say some unmarked graves and other structures were swallowed up by its waters.

More than 200 people have died in swimming and boating accidents on the lake since 1994, adding to its dark history. And the Netflix drama "Ozark," which has its own high body count, films scenes at the lake.

The stories about mysterious underwater sightings are eerie -- especially at Halloween. But the true backstory of Lake Lanier, built over an underwater ghost town, is just as interesting.

The lake was mired in controversy from the start

The controversy surrounding the lake, as described by author and historian Lisa Russell, started long before its construction.

Before the land was buried in water, it was lush and fertile, with rabbits and squirrels scampering around. Communities thrived, with fancy names like Castleberry Bottom, Russell said.

Then came the US Army Corps of Engineers, which wanted to create a lake to provide Atlanta and surrounding counties with power and water.

The government offered locals money for their farmland. Most of it had been in families for generations, making it almost impossible to put a price tag on it, said Russell, a writing instructor at Georgia Northwestern Technical College and author of several books on the lost towns of North Georgia.

"At first, the government assured land owners that they were being paid for the true value of the land and buildings, but residents found it hard to price generations of memories, hard work and deep roots," Russell wrote in her book, "Underwater Ghost Towns of North Georgia." "A host of emotions accompanied the talk of relocation: anger, resentment, fear, anxiety, bewilderment and apprehension. To them, their land was priceless."

Eventually, some 700 families sold a total of 56,000 acres to the government, which built a dam on the Chattahoochee River to form the lake.

As their land filled with water in 1956, locals jammed roads and bridges to watch as history vanished before their eyes. Whatever they had abandoned was covered by the the rising waters.

Even the lake's naming was contentious, Russell said. Some local officials wanted to name it after Georgia politicians. Others sought to name it after a legendary football coach. Eventually they decided to name it after Sidney Lanier, an 18th-century Georgia poet who wrote "Song of the Chattahoochee."

Some families later regretted their decision once they realized they couldn't survive on what the government offered, Russell told CNN.

But the lake brought multiple benefits, including flood protection from the Chattahoochee, which flows west of Atlanta. Today Lake Lanier has about 625 billion gallons of water -- the equivalent of 950,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

And they yield mysterious stories.

What lies beneath

To prepare the land to be filled with water, the Army Corps of Engineers demolished or moved anything they considered dangerous. They uprooted trees and hauled them away. Barns and wooden structures that could float and endanger watercraft were moved. Major infrastructure such as bridges and water intakes were relocated.

But ... the community had a cemetery. While the Corps identified and moved marked graves, it's likely that some unmarked ones were inadvertently left behind, said Cesar Yabor, a spokesman for the US Army Corps of Engineers.

"The technological capability to identify and verify unmarked burial sites through subsurface scanning or other means was far less robust 70 years ago," Yabor told CNN.

"While the Corps made every effort at the time to locate unmarked burials," he added, "the limited capabilities of the time make it probable that unanticipated finds of human remains are possible, whether from the antebellum and Civil War periods or of Native American origin from pre-colonial and ancient times."

An old auto-racing track near Gainesville was also left behind. It remains at the lake bottom, although the Corps removed its bleachers so they wouldn't float to the surface and cause a hazard for boats, Yabor said.

The concrete block foundations of some small buildings also were submerged, Yabor said.

Some people have claimed to hear church bells from a sunken church. But Yabor told CNN that's not possible.

"No such structure was known to be left behind due to the height issue -- if it had a steeple -- as well as the floating wood issue," he said.

Over the decades, when the lake's water levels dropped during drought, submerged roads, tire parts and other artifacts have been exposed, said Russell, the historian.

Russell believes unmarked graves also were left behind because they were not easily identified and there was no family to claim them.

 

Watery sightings and the Lady of the Lake

Over the years, divers have reported creepy sightings beneath the murky waters. Some tell stories of freaky catfish as big as a Volkswagen. YouTube is filled with divers showing videos of sunken houseboats and piles of debris.

Between 1994 and October this year, 203 people have died in drownings and boating incidents at Lake Lanier, according to Mark McKinnon of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

In 2017, longtime diver Buck Buchannon told local media that he sometimes felt body parts in the lake during his many excursions. "You reach out into the dark and you feel an arm or a leg and it doesn't move," he said.

But that has not affected the lake's popularity. With about 12 million visitors last year, Lake Lanier was one of the most-visited Corps-built lakes in the nation, said Yabor of the Army Corps of Engineers, which operates 464 lakes in 43 states.

One of Lake Lanier's most popular urban legends involves a car wreck. According to the story, a Ford sedan carrying two women careened off a bridge in April 1958 and tumbled into the lake. Some say the ghost of one of the women, dubbed the "Lady of the Lake," wanders the bridge at night in a blue dress, lost and restless.