The Hauntings of England's Windsor Castle

 There are a lot of haunted places in the United Kingdom and I wrote a book about my experiences with all of the ghosts I met there. You can read about my encounters with the ghosts there in my book "Ghosts of England on a Medium's Vacation," available on Amazon.   GetReadingUK on-line spotlighted a couple of haunted places and this one I did visit.. and there were some weird things going on. Here's the  GetreadingUK story: 

Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle has reopened to visitors (Image: BerkshireLive - Grahame Larter)

If it’s royal ghosts you’re after, then we have something for you too.

Windsor Castle has been home to Kings and Queens for hundreds of years.

King Henry VIII was buried in the grounds of the castle and many say they have seen his ghost pacing around while groaning and members of staff claim they have seen his ghost haunting the deanery cloisters.

The Deanery is also supposedly haunted by a the spirit of a young boy who screams: “I don’t want to go riding today!”, phantom footsteps heard nearby have also been attributed to him.

Members of the Royal family have even acknowledged the existence of Queen Elizabeth I in the Royal Library. Many claim to have heard her high heels on the bare floor boards and seen the figure dressed in black pass through walls.

PODCAST: As I Live and Grieve featuring Messages from our Furry Friends, and MORE, with Rob Gutro

New Podcast: "As I Live and Grieve podcast" features Messages from our Furry Friends, and more with Rob Gutro Listen on Apple Podcasts 

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Summary:

It can often seem more crushing to lose a beloved family pet than we would think. Rob Gutro helps us better understand why the loss of a furry child is so devastating - and, offers us a solution to touch base with them on the other side of what many call the Rainbow Bridge.

Episode Notes:

Rob Gutro is an author, paranormal investigator and medium with Inspired Ghost Tracking of Maryland. He's become known as a pet medium though he communicates with both pets and people who have passed. Since he was a child he could receive messages from ghosts or spirits (who have crossed over). His latest book is ""Pets and the Afterlife 3: Dog Spirit Signs." As a scientist, he also provides some scientific explanations about how energy is the baseline for the afterlife and the medium that entities use to communicate.

 

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My Dad's Spirit Proved He Attended his own Funeral

 TODAY is my Dad's Birthday. He passed in 2008, and during the week of his passing, he helped me PROVE to my mom and brothers that my dad attended his own wake and funeral. The story is just one in my new book: Ghosts and Spirits: Explained: Similarities and Differences.

 Available on Amazon for just $7.99 paper/$3.99 Ebook:  https://tinyurl.com/h9jy82xb 

The United Kingdom's Haunted "Ostrich" Inn

There are a lot of haunted places in the United Kingdom. I also had the pleasure of visiting England and you can read about my encounters with the ghosts there in my book "Ghosts of England on a Medium's Vacation," available on Amazon.   GetReadingUK on-line spotlighted a couple of haunted places I didn't get to, though, and here's one of them:

The Ostrich

The Ostrich Inn

The inn on High Street in Slough was only recently renovated, but the ghoulish history lives on.

The 12th-century inn is regularly attended by drinkers and diners, but they’re not the only ones.

More than 60 people have been reportedly killed in the inn, many of whom were slaughtered in their sleep by former inn keeper Jarman and his wife in the 17th century.

It is said that the murderous couple put trap doors in the floor boards and tipped rich guests into a vat of boiling liquid while they slept.

Jarman and his wife would then steal their money and sell their horses.

The murderous couple were eventually hung for robbery and murder, but that hasn’t stopped them visiting. Employees and visitors have reported sudden temperature drops, strange noises, voices and even sightings of ghostly figures.

Guests have reported numerous sightings of ghostly fingers on the top floor of the inn.

Pet Spirits Influence Things in Nature to send signs - Read Pets and the Afterlife

Spirits of dogs, cats and other domesticated pets can influence things in nature to give you a sign of their presence. Insects and birds can display really odd behavior at certain times (not every time) whenever you may be thinking of a spirit, so check the date. Note the behavior. Learn how that works in Rob Gutro's Pets and the Afterlife books. 

Are you grieving after the loss of your dog or cat?  These books can help you work through your grief by showing you how their spirits are still very much around. 

The love we share with our pets never dies, and there's proof that our pets do communicate with us from the other side, just as people do who pass. I'm a scientist, medium, author and paranormal investigator who has had many experiences with ghosts and spirits, both pets and people, who have communicated messages that helped prove their identity. I've written Pets and the Afterlife and Pets and the Afterlife 2 to teach people how to recognize the signs from their pets in spirit. 

Pet parents like me think about and mourn the loss of their pets often. Sometimes the grief feels inconsolable. One way to work through that grief is to understand that our pets are around us in spirit from time to time and visit us. You just need to be able to recognize those signs. In my two books I explain many of the ways that pets communicate with the living, to convey their presence. 
   
I've received emails from people around the world who have confirmed signs from their pets and have received comfort knowing their pets are very much around in spirit from time to time. 

Both are available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.: https://tinyurl.com/y8l6alq4 

The Haunted George Hotel in Pangbourne, United Kingdom

There are a lot of haunted places in the United Kingdom and I wrote a book about my experiences with all of the ghosts I met there.You can read about my encounters with the ghosts there in my book "Ghosts of England on a Medium's Vacation," available on Amazon.    GetReadingUK on-line spotlighted a couple of haunted places I didn't get to, though, and here's one of them:

 

The George Hotel in Pangbourne

This spooky location can be found in The Square, Pangbourne. The hotel used to be a coaching inn, back in the 12 th century. Now it is believed to be haunted by a ghostly witch named Betty Price.

It’s believed that Betty used to hide in the cellars, which used to flood regularly, because they were so close to the water. One day, when the cellar was filling with water, Betty failed to escape and placed a curse on the building before she eventually drowned.

It’s said that she is still roaming the corridors of the hotel to this day, looking for her captors.

TONIGHT at 8pm ET LIVE INTERVIEW - Rob Talks Spirit Pets w/ Jeremy Scott, Host of Into The Parabnormal

Tonight! Tune into this LIVE INTERVIEW - Oct. 31, Sun. 8 pm EDT(30 mins) - Rob Talks Pets and the Afterlife and Ghosts and Spirits Explained with Jeremy Scott, Host of Into The Parabnormal 

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Happy Halloween! Learn about the U.S. Capitol’s ‘Demon Cat’

The city of Washington, DC is a very haunted place. I know personally because I'm a medium, and I live close enough to it, that I've visited the city many times and run into some ghosts. But I haven't run into the ghost cat at the U.S. Capitol.

(Image: paw prints in the concrete in the U.S. Capitol. Credit: Chad Pergram on Twitter) 

Why the U.S. Capitol’s ‘Demon Cat’ Legend Is So Persistent A lot of it has to do with paw prints.

BY ERIC GRUNDHAUSERAtlas Obscura 

OVER THE LAST TWO CENTURIES, the U.S. Capitol Building, with its underground passages and echoing side chambers, has amassed its fair share of ghost stories. Whether it’s the specter of a lost Civil War soldier from the building’s brief stint as a wartime hospital, or the ghost of John Quincy Adams shouting his final words in the Speaker’s Lobby, the Capitol Building is a ghost hunter’s dream. But few such stories have captured the public’s imagination like that of the Demon Cat.

“It’s probably the most common of all the ghost stories in the capitol. Partly because of the physical evidence,” says Steve Livengood, the chief tour guide of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society.

Tales of a spectral feline known as the “Demon Cat” (initials “D.C.,” get it?!) date back to at least the 19th century. Since joining the USCHS in 1973, Livengood has become an expert on the tale. 

 

“The story probably goes back to the post–Civil War era. The main thing is that the people who would see it particularly were the night watchmen,” says Livengood. The most common version of the legend goes that a guard was on patrol one night when he saw a black cat approaching. In those days, cats were not an uncommon sight in the building, introduced to control the rodent population. However as the cat came closer, it grew in size until it was as large as a tiger. The monster cat pounced on the guard, who fell down and tried to protect himself, but the creature vanished in mid-air.

01:05 / 05:56 Like most ghost stories, tales of the Demon Cat have a number of variations. Later sightings are said to have scared people to death. The cat’s appearances have also been linked to national tragedies and presidential transitions.

What’s kept the legend alive all this time? A couple of features in the Capitol Building are said to be evidence of the Demon Cat’s existence. The most famous of these is a group of shallow paw prints in the concrete of the Small Senate Rotunda. In 1898, the Capitol Building was damaged by a gas explosion, and according to Livengood, in some spots the original stone was replaced by concrete. “It’s quite possible that a cat walked across the wet concrete,” he says. “Just enough to leave some impressions. It’s as you come out of the Old Supreme Court Chamber. There may be six or eight pretty clear ones.” In another part of the building, Livengood also notes that the letters “DC” have been scratched into the concrete. “Everyone says, ‘That’s the Demon Cat putting its initials there!’”

As much fun as it is to believe that there’s a monster cat prowling the midnight halls of the U.S. Capitol, Livengood isn’t having it. “I can put enough pieces together to know where the legend came from,” he says. “The night watchmen were not professionals. They would often be some senator’s ne’er-do-well brother-in-law that had a drinking problem.”

Livengood’s theory is these early Capitol guards would often get so drunk they’d fall down, so when one of the building’s cats came and licked their face, they assumed it must have been monster-sized. But when the guard in question reported their ravings to a superior, the boss couldn’t really discipline him for drinking because of his high-powered connections, so the guard would simply have been sent home to recover. “Then the other guards realize that if they see the cat and get attacked, then they get a day off. And that’s how history gets written,” says Livengood.

Livengood says that while he regularly gets asked about the Demon Cat, or sees visitors using their cell phones to illuminate the faint paw prints in the Small Senate Rotunda, he’s never heard of a modern sighting of the creature. “I’ve never had anyone who felt they had an experience like that,” he says.

Still, Livengood sees ghost stories as an important part of the building’s history. “They humanize the building,” he says. “One of the things I try to get across to people as I’m giving a tour is that the spirit of the people who built the building and the people who have acted out history in it are still there. And you can feel it.”

A Fun Halloween Lecture at the Strathmore Mansion

On October 27, I returned to the historic Strathmore Mansion in Bethesda, Maryland to give my annual Halloween lecture. This is my fourth year, and every year I come up with a different paranormal topic. As a medium, author of 8 books, and a paranormal investigator, there's a lot to talk about.  If you haven't experienced this and you live in the Washington, DC Metro area, sign up for it in 2022 to get "in the Spirit." Here's the story:

(Photo: Rob Gutro's books displayed in the mansion for the event. Credit: RG)

The Strathmore has a wonderful English tea with small sandwiches and desserts and is staffed by wonderful volunteers. The event opens with music by local artists. This year, there was a flutist and a pianist and they played many spooky favorites, including the theme from the Addams Family Television show and films. I highly recommend their English Tea events!

 This year, I cited stories from my new book, Ghosts and Spirits: Explained. I told the story of how after my dad passed away, he helped me prove to my mom and brothers that his spirit was at his own services!  I also told the story of when I wound up living in a haunted house in the 1990s... 

(Photo: A peek into the event room at the Strathmore! Credit: RG)

The room was filled and there were a lot of great questions. In addition to the interactions with the crowd, some highlights included my friends Lynn and Janet in attendance and seeing my friend Mary who manages the Strathmore. 

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Now on YouTube! Journey Thru the Gate talks w/Rob about spirit pets, Investigations, Spirits vs ghosts, Haunted England and more

 If you missed the amazing, engaging discussion I had as a guest on Sysco Murdoch's YouTube show, Journey Through the Gate, you can see it here!  Sysco talks w/Rob about spirit pets, Paranormal Investigations, Spirits vs ghosts, Haunted England and more!!  It was 2 hours of Everything Paranormal!! 

WATCH/LISTEN: https://youtube.com/channel/UClIXOoXYqgvOvQDeZrR5Aeg