A Medium's Challenge: it's Sometimes Hard to Distinguish Parent vs. Grandparent

Grandparent vs. parent - which one in spirit?

As a medium, that is, someone who gets messages from the dead, either people or pets, it can be a challenge sometimes to distinguish between a Parent vs. Grandparent.

That's because if the grandparent was so loving and close to the person getting a reading, mediums may see them as parents. Case in point, my husband used to stay at his grandparents' house over the summer months every year as a kid. So, for those months, they were like parents to him. When a medium does a reading and sees an older woman or man coming through for him, they may identify his grandparents as "parents." Why? Because they were actually acting like his parents over the summer months for years.

How mediums wouldn't be confused is if the child didn't live with the grandparents, or of they had a somewhat distant relationship. In my case, one set of my grandparents were not close to me and my brothers. We never stayed over their house, they never cooked for us or took us anywhere. They were older and just wanted to live their lives without grandchildren around (it happens). So a medium like me would definitely identify them as grandparents because they're a step away from my actual parents.

Being a medium and getting messages or trying to figure out the identities of those in spirit is not an easy job. It's not like calling someone on Skype and asking their relationship. Sometimes mediums "See" the person in their minds (as I do) and feel a maternal or grandmaternal sense to identify them. Mediumship is a puzzle we have to put together, and we can only do that with the help from the person who is getting the message.
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Tarot Tuesday: The Death Card: Let Something Go

Here's this week's Tarot lesson from my friend Joy Andreasen: The death card: Let Something Bad Go... 

Today is a day to completely and finally let something or someone go out of your experience. So many times we allow toxic relationships or experiences to last way longer than they should. Every time we live a painful memory over and over in our head we are keeping it alive. Let it go. You know that old saying.. if you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it is yours. Today may be the day to say a final goodbye. Mourn the   loss of what you loved, and set it free and set yourself free.

Joy is a Shamanic healer/practitioner, psychic medium, interfaith minister, intuitive counselor, energy healing practitioner, Reiki Master Teacher, and writer.

Contact her at:  joyandreasen@gmail.com and her web page http://www.WhispersofJoy.net/

Check out her "Whispers of Joy" page at:   https://www.facebook.com/whispersofjoy/

Glen Grant's "Chick'n Skin" Paranormal Show (6 min video)

Last week I told you about Glen Grant from Hawaii's Paranormal community. A great storyteller and paranormal advocate. This is another episode from his 1990s Hawaii broadcast television show called "Chick'n Skin" (as in goosebumps that you experience in the presence of a ghost). Glen passed in 2003, but left these chilling stories behind.
VIDEO: Chicken Skin TV Show with Glen Grant from the 90's (part 3)

Did you know - Glen Grant in the Hawaiian Paranormal Community?

 A friend of mine from Hawaii recently told me about a legendary paranormal storyteller from Hawaii and some of his TV show videos are still on YouTube to enjoy. He was a host of a show called "Chick'n Skin" (like goosebumps experienced when a ghost is near you).
  Glen Grant passed away at 56 in June 2003. According to the Honolulu Star Bulletin newspaper, "He was a Hawaiian who was best known as an expansive storyteller of local supernatural lore -- in print, with his popular obake and chicken skin tales, in person during tours of haunted Oahu locales, and on radio. But Grant was also an avid Hawaiiana historian, a small-businessman and active community member of the Moiliili he so loved. Ryan said he had just been elected to the center's board in January.
Grant, business partner Jill Staas and friends ran the popular "Honolulu Timewalks" and "Ghostbusters" walking tours from offices in the century-old Kamada Building near the corner of University Avenue and South King Street, next door to their bookshop-coffee bar the Haunt."

Here's a short video from his Chick'n Skin TV show that will definitely give you "chicken skin."
Video: https://youtu.be/J2IW0Th5V9g

In the News: Rob Lowe Signed Up for a Ghost-Hunting Reality Show to Stay Close With His Sons

Rob Lowe, extreme dad. Photo: Rich Polk/Getty Images

If you haven't heard about this new paranormal-themed show... 
Rob Lowe Signed Up for a Ghost-Hunting Reality Show to Stay Close With His Sons

By Jackson McHenry, Huffington Post

Here comes A and E to ruin your childhood with a reality TV Ghostbusters starring Rob Lowe and his two 20-something sons. The network announced today that it green-lit The Lowe Files, a nine-episode series that will take Rob, Matthew, and John Owen Lowe on a tour of the spookiest parts of the U.S. Did you know that Rob Lowe believes in ghosts? Because according to A&E’s press release, he’s obsessed:

Since I was a kid I’ve loved unexplained legends, strange phenomena and the scary, supernatural stories told around campfires. When I became a father I shared those tales with my two sons. Together we bonded over Bigfoot, UFO’s, and every creepy and bizarre story we could find, passionately debating if they were real…or not. And we swore that someday the three of us would go on our own adventure to find out. That day has come.

See, The Lowe Files isn’t really about ghosts; it’s about fatherhood. Per A&E’s Elaine Frontain Bryant, “Their explorations will certainly lead them to dynamic and exciting places, but a nostalgic journey for a father and his sons is what’s at the heart of the series’ underlying mission.” Most parents just guilt their kids into coming home for the holidays to stave off empty-nest syndrome, but sure, a reality show also works.

Rescheduled to May 10 - Rob's Interview about Haunted Locations on Paranormal Graveyard Radio

Author Rob Gutro

Read about some Haunts in Rob's Ghosts and Spirits Book

UPDATE: This has been rescheduled for Wednesday, May 10th.


Tonight!  April 26, at 8 p.m. ET Radio Interview on Paranormal Graveyard Radio about "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead" and several haunts. with hosts; Christina Corsetti:
WHAT YOU'LL HEAR TONIGHT: 
1) 14 important lessons I've learned from Talking to the Dead;
 2) The Haunting of Ford's Theatre, Washington, DC; 
3) The Haunted Book Escape store in Baltimore, MD; 
4) Montpelier Mansion's Ghosts, Laurel, MD - 
LISTEN/Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Paranormal-Graveyard-Radio-580704242087692/?pnref=lhc

Roger and Christina - Co-hosts of Paranormal Graveyard Radio

Tarot Tuesday: 3 of Cups: Get together with friends and celebrate

Here's this week's Tarot lesson from my friend Joy Andreasen. 
  
 Today might be a day to get together with friends and celebrate or perhaps just blow off some steam. There is never a bad time to find your tribe and just be together. In today's society sometimes we have a tendency to isolate ourselves from human contact. Our biggest communications sometime tend to be done electronically, through texting or social media. There is much to be said for actual face time, spent in the company of others. Perhaps a social gathering is in order. Even a meal spent together brings a sense of community and intimacy. Today find some to get together with people you love.

Joy Andreasen

Joy is a Shamanic healer/practitioner, psychic medium, interfaith minister, intuitive counselor, energy healing practitioner, Reiki Master Teacher, and writer.

Contact her at:  joyandreasen@gmail.com and her web page http://www.WhispersofJoy.net/

Check out her "Whispers of Joy" page at:   https://www.facebook.com/whispersofjoy/

Description: The Three of Cups represents groups coming together to focus on a common emotional goal. People reach out emotionally to one another. It speaks of a sense of community, and can indicate the time to get more involved by helping. An inner passion for caring may be discovered, and energy put forth toward a goal will be positive and nurturing. It can also signal that this is the time to reach out if things have been particularly rough in the past. This card stands for all forms of support including formal organizations such as counseling or other social services. It's important that when the need for support is recognized that action is taken. This is the best time to do that. Reversed, the Three of Cups suggests that isolation from others is occurring. It is the time to take charge of the situation and to get out into the community. Consider joining a group or organization, and if the need for support is present, seek out the necessary resources.