2 Interesting Books on the Paranormal

Over my summer vacation I read two good books on the paranormal. One was about Earth-bound ghosts and the other was a medium's experiences with spirits (who have crossed over). Both are well-worth picking up.

"THE WORLD'S MOST HAUNTED PLACES" - by Jeff Belanger is a very interesting and informative read. Jeff takes the reader to haunted places all over the world. Recently, I went to Scotland and experienced first hand the "Southbridge Underground Vaults" of Edinburgh, Scotland. Jeff provides a photo of each place, references and interesting stories. The book is subtitled "From the Secret Files of  GhostVillage.com" - and it's worthwhile for anyone interested in the most haunted places on Earth.
-    About the Author:  Jeff Belanger (jeffbelanger.com) is one of the world's most visible and prolific paranormal researchers. Since 1997, the former journalist has interviewed thousands of eyewitnesses to paranormal occurrences. He is the author of a dozen books on the paranormal; the founder of Ghostvillage.com the Web's most popular paranormal destination, according to Google, and a noted speaker and media personality.Belanger is the series writer and researcher for Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel. He's been a guest on more than 200 radio and television programs including: The History Channel, The Travel Channel, PBS, The Maury Show, The CBS News Early Show, National Public Radio, The BBC, Australian Radio Network, and Coast to Coast AM.


"FOREVER WITH YOU" - by Medium Patrick Mathews was a refreshing read. Patrick has written two books and this is his second (I'm going to read his first soon). I totally agree with Patrick's view of "Heaven" as being all around - and not a fixed "place." Spirits come and go all the time, and can see what we're doing and guide us in daily decisions. Patrick also touches on suicides, religion, reincarnation, spirits, ghosts, and much more. He covers a number of topics that I covered in my books (Ghosts and Spirits and Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead). I highly recommend Patrick's book and would love to meet him in person.

About the Author -  As a medium, lecturer, teacher and

author, Patrick Mathews has helped countless people around the world with his gift of communicating with those in spirit. Mathews has appeared on numerous national television and radio shows, including the Ryan Seacrest Show, WGN’s Steve Cochran Show, and has been featured on ABC News and PBS. Patrick has also been the featured medium on the hit television shows Most Haunted and Most Haunted Live!.Visit Mathews online at www.patrickmathews.com.

Announcing a Brand New Paranormal/Fantasy Series: In the Lies of Men by I.R. Harris

 My friend I.R. Harris, author of the "Bound Trilogy' has done it again!  She's issued the first in another great series called "Legion." She'll be appearing with me again this year at the Baltimore Book Festival on Sept. 29th  -so please come out and meet her. You can check out her book on-line and I urge you to pick up a copy. It's another AMAZING story that will take you away, and get you involved in the characters that you'll think you've met them in person.  I can't say enough about her writing! - Rob Gutro

Brand New Paranormal/Fantasy Series: In the Lies of Men by I.R. Harris

The Legion Series Book 1

By I.R. Harris; Clint Hardin (Illustrator)

(Createspace, Paperback, 9781480295414, 632pp.)

Publication Date: June 28, 2013

Description

From the author of The Bound Trilogy comes her next epic fantasy series, The Legion.

Fired from the job she loves, with no money and no prospects, Aidee returns to her hometown of Thorne Bay, Alaska to find her footing. A quiet fishing village with a history of Inuit Elder magick, Aidee's little hamlet attracts tourists from around the world who hold a gruesome intrigue for the massacre that occurred in the town. After years of being away she quickly realizes all too soon that she's been expected to return and that she's not the only one still trying to wash the blood of the past from her hands...
TO PURCHASE THE BOOK ON AMAZON: http://tinyurl.com/otsvomz
OR THROUGH INDIE BOOKS :
http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781480295414

About the Author

I. R. Harris is an Adult Fantasy author who considers Ireland to be her second home. She has recently returned to the mountains of Western North Carolina after receiving her MA in Peace, Conflict and Sustainable Development from the University of Limerick in the Republic of Ireland. Harris is constantly drawing upon those experiences abroad throughout her writing process and her love for the outdoors and for travel has inspired her particular advocacy for the dissemination of knowledge through various creative processes. She is the author of two adult fantasy series, The Bound Trilogy and The Legion Series, and she has participated in the Author’s Tent at the Baltimore Book Festival where her Trilogy debuted and sold out. Harris prides herself on utilizing the amazing artistic talent within her North Carolina community and has partnered with local artist Clint Hardin for her current series, The Legion.

 

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WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RESIDUAL AND INTELLIGENT GHOSTS?

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RESIDUAL AND INTELLIGENT GHOSTS? 
 

Josiah Quincy House in Mass.: Residual Haunting

Residual energy is basically like a thumbprint of emotions left behind from people who lived or dwelled in a place. Think of it this way, if you built a house and walked through it for the first time, your feelings of excitement would leave an "emotional imprint" in it. If you were proposed to in a house, brought your new dog home, or heard you got into the college you wanted, all of those things would leave an imprint of emotional energy. An imprint, however, cannot communicate with you. It's like static electricity.

The Josiah Quincy House in Massachusetts has residual energy. When I visited I saw ghostly images of horse-drawn carriages pulling up in front of the house, as if coming to a big event. Some event that had a lot of emotional energy- enough to leave a "thumbprint" of energy behind. 

Intelligent Haunting - An intelligent haunting is basically the energy of a person, a ghost, lingering in a place that can interact with the living. The ghost can answer questions (on digital recorders), move things, change temperatures in a room when it's trying to manifest, stop a clock, and cause magnetic fields to increase. Ghosts are beings of energy after all.

Rob Makes Cover Story of Bowie Life Magazine: Beyond the Grave

Back in May I was contacted by the publisher of a new magazine called "Bowie Life Magazine" to write an article about my experiences with ghost hunting and the paranormal.  The debut issue came out this week- and features the article and  includes lots of pictures.  It includes the Inspired Ghost Tracking Group and mediums Barb Mallon (www.barbmallon.com) and Ruthie Larkin (beantownmedium.com).
    - I must say that I was shocked that they put me on the cover, and used all the photos...but I'm pleased with it.  In fact, I already heard from a college student that is interested in Inspired Ghost Tracking and I emailed him back.
Here are the pages (starting with the cover) if you'd like to read it.
(You can also check out my books: "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead" and "Ghosts and Spirits: Insights from a Medium" on Amazon.com. - Rob Gutro)

Radio Interview Tonight: Parascience Journal 7-9pm ET

 

Tune in tonight as I guest on Parascience Journal Radio!

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 from 7-9 pm ET - I'll join the show at the 7:26 p.m EDT Break.
- I'll be doing a Skype Interview with Host George Stadalski of Parascience Journal, and you can listen in here: www.kgraradio.com/chatroom
Toll free call-in line for listeners is 1-855 GRA LIVE, or 1-855-472-5483.



WHAT IS THE SHOW ABOUT? 
Parascience Journal is a weekly internet radio show that is focused on the scientific method used in paranormal investigation with your host George Stadalski.
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More Signs from Spirits: Coins and Butterfly!

Sprite: 12-23-96 to 7-8-13

  In last week's blog, I shared an amazing sign of a butterfly that came from our late dog Sprite who passed. This week, I got two more signs of reassurance from someone else that let me know Sprite is okay on the other side.

     On July 8, 2013 at 5:50 p.m. we had to say goodbye to our elder dachshund, Sprite. He was 16 1/2 years old and he was in failing health. For the year before I had to carry him up and downstairs, and the last several months I usually had to pick him up and carry him outside to do his business. Late in the mornings he would find the strength in his legs, but they were very weak. He had a bad heart murmur, kidney failure for over a year, suffered from a bad nosebleed the night before and wound up in the emergency room, and he had pretty much stopped eating for the week before. We knew it was time, although it tore at our hearts.

My dad dropped this penny for me

On the day we brought our dog Sprite to the vet to say our final goodbye, I asked three spirits to come into the room and help Sprite cross over. One of them was my dad who died on August 2, 2008. When I was in the room I did feel my dad and the other two spirits (who I will write about in a long story later). All three took Sprite into the light and crossed him over that evening.

  On July 15, one week later, I received a confirmation from my dad that Sprite was happy, healthy and with him and the others. I was getting out of my car at Dunkin' Donuts to get a morning coffee and sitting on the ground right outside of the driver's side door was a shiny penny. I mentioned last week that coins are one sign that spirits use to let you know they're around and with you.

Sprite's butterfly goes to Jill

  One surefire way to know which spirit it is who sent you the message is to check the year on the penny. If it has a significance with a spirit, that's who it belongs to. The year on this shiny penny was "2008." The year my dad passed away. As soon as I picked up the penny, I heard my dad say "Sprite is here with me, and he's happy. You don't have to worry about him."

CONFIRMATION FROM OUR FRIEND JILL - On July 22, we received this email from our friend Jill. She also got a visit from Sprite's spirit in the form of the same kind of buttlerfly that Sprite communicated with us. Jill wrote: "Just had to tell you that I was sitting out back on a lounge chair on Saturday. Not 5 minutes after reading your blog on Sprite, a yellow and black butterfly rested on my abdomen. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize what it was at first and I moved, sending it away.  But, I have seen it multiple times between our yard our neighbors yard over the weekend!

Signs from Loved Ones: Butterflies

Sprite's butterfly

Recently I was watching "Long Island Medium," (which I enjoy and think that Theresa Caputo is a really talented and amazing medium) and heard a woman say that two butterflies had been following her that week.
  It turned out that the woman had lost both her husband and her son and Theresa mentioned that they were trying to get her a message through those butterflies.
  I've spoken to several people myself who have encountered the same thing. They've seen butterflies after someone passed, or perhaps on the anniversary of their passing, or the late person's birthday. 
  This month, I experienced it first hand.
On July 8, 2013 at 5:50 p.m. we had to say goodbye to our elder dachshund, Sprite. He was 16 1/2 years old and he was in failing health. For the year before I had to carry him up and downstairs, and the last several months I usually had to pick him up and carry him outside to do his business. Late in the mornings he would find the strength in his legs, but they were very weak. He had a bad heart murmur, kidney failure for over a year, suffered from a bad nosebleed the night before and wound up in the emergency room, and he had pretty much stopped eating for the week before. We knew it was time, although it tore at our hearts.

Sprite's butterfly

   The day after he passed and the second day after he passed, he came to three mediums I know, who are friends of mine, but they don't know each other. In fact, a couple of them didn't even know Sprite, but they received similar messages that confirmed each other. They also each had special messages that Sprite gave to help prove it was him. I'll share those in a later post.
   This post focuses on the use of butterflies to convey that a spirit is trying to get us a message that they're around and they're fine. 
   When my partner and I were walking our dogs three days after Sprite passed we got a sign from him. Toward the end of the walk (of our other two dachshunds and our weimaraner) a yellow and black butterfly flew right near all three dogs.

Sprite 12-23-96 to 7-8-13

   First, it's unusual for a butterfly to fly near dogs. Secondly, the dogs didn't go after it. They just watched it. It was as if they heard Sprite telling them "I'm here." Our three dogs and we just watched that butterfly and I took several pictures of it. The butterfly just stayed there on the grass. It was a message from Sprite that he is fine and regained 100% health as a spirit. We were all happy to see this wonderful sign from Sprite.
   Because my grief was blocking messages from Sprite he found another way to get through to me. If you recently lost someone or lost them awhile ago and are still grieving, grief will block out their signs. However, some spirits are very strong and persistent, like Sprite, and will give visible signs they're okay. 

   Sometimes spirits will use butterflies, birds, feathers, flowers, pennies or other signs to convey that they're around us and thinking of us.

You can learn more in my books "Pets and the Afterlife," "Pets and the Afterlife 2" and "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead" (the latter about human spirits). All are available on Amazon.com by author Rob Gutro.

 

Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead