Rob's Books, Medium Readings, Animal Rescue Fundraisers

BOOKS: Pets and the Afterlife, Pets and the Afterlife 2, Pets and the Afterlife 3, Pets and the Afterlife 4, Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead, Ghosts of England on a Medium's Vacation, Ghosts of the Bird Cage Theatre on a Medium's Vacation, Kindred Spirits: How a Medium Befriended a Spirit, Case Files of Inspired Ghost Tracking and Ghosts and Spirits Explained BEST SELLERS: All of Rob's books have reached "best-seller" status on AMAZON.com in various paranormal categories. PET SPIRIT READINGS: Now offered via email and done on weekends. Reserve a spot thru Paypal. Email me at Rgutro@gmail.com Send 1 Photo of your pet, their name, and any questions.ANIMAL RESCUE FUNDRAISING LECTURES : Rob is a dog dad, volunteers with Dachshund and Weimaraner rescues and does fundraising lectures for dog and cat rescues.

Monday, August 9, 2021

Haunted Trails #7 - Norton Creek Trail, North Carolina

The Travel Channel covered haunted trails in the U.S. and this is the seventh installment!

Norton Creek Trail, North Carolina

While the Appalachian Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains is the most famous, and has its own share of creepy tales, the Norton Creek Trail is more notorious. Two legends are strongly associated with it: The first revolves around a settler killed by American Indians while searching for his lost daughter. On the plus side, he’s considered a benevolent spirit who helps guide lost hikers out of the woods. The other ghost isn’t so friendly. Cherokee legend warns about a witchy spirit aptly named Spearfinger, who lures children into the woods and eats their livers with her razor sharp finger. Oh, and did we mention that there’s a large number of cemeteries near Fontana Lake, which is also along Norton Creek Trail?

Saturday, August 7, 2021

In the news - Entire California ghost town wiped out by the Dixie Fire

 Although not paranormal, investigators often like to visit abandoned towns in the U.S. West, known as Ghost Towns. In the news today, however, one ghost town in California was consumed by fire. Here's the story from the San Francisco Gate news.

(Image: Historic drawing of Rich Bar, California. Archival / Unknown)

Entire California ghost town wiped out by the Dixie Fire

San Francisco Gate News, Aug. 5, 2021

A historic Northern California ghost town in the Sierra foothills has been decimated by the giant, still-raging Dixie Fire.

The state-designated historical landmark has been abandoned now for half a century, and last week the 250,000-acre Dixie Fire left its historic buildings in ashes, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. (SFGATE and the San Francisco Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently of each other).

Among the casualties is the Kellogg House that was lived in until the 1970s. Built in 1852 with lumber from the sawmill at Rich Bar, the property sat above the roaring gold camp in the Feather River Canyon. Gone too is the mining outpost, the remaining homesteads and the historic cemetery.

While the stories told by miners of an actual lake of gold were apocryphal, the town was a hugely successful during its boom in the 1850s. As with so many California gold towns, along with the riches came the vice and criminality. The Feather River Bulletin once wrote of the riotous scene there in 1850: "Upon hearing of the new strike at Rich Bar those in the Middle Fork area packed up their shirts, trousers, pans and cups and struggled northwest across the mountains in search of a dream.

"They swarmed over the Sierra mountains by the thousands, every color and nationality, and every sort of character, from low-down, thieving, conniving scallywags; to prim, proper, upstanding citizens."

According to the local museum, the town reportedly pulled $23 million in gold out of the ground and river in its first few decades, before its inevitable decline when the gold ran dry.

Last year, new owners Ivan Coffman and Kurt Brock purchased the 1,200-square-foot Kellogg House and had plans to restore it and even mine again. The fire has left them with an unsure future, and they are still currently under evacuation orders, reports the Chronicle.

The Dixie Fire began July 13, likely due to a tree falling on PG&E power lines near the town of Paradise (which was destroyed in 2018 in the Camp Fire, also ignited by a faulty PG&E transmission line). It has burned 274,139 acres and is currently 35% contained, according to Cal Fire.

Friday, August 6, 2021

Paranormal Question of the day: What Percentage of Ghosts You Met were Troublesome?

Here's today's Paranormal question from Chris. 

Q: Of the ghosts you have encountered is there any estimate of the percentage that become troublesome relative to ghosts in a location?
A: Of the ghosts I've encountered, only a few have been troublesome and showed their bad human nature. In the Cockeysville Tavern in Maryland, one ghost was heard on a digital recorder saying plainly, "kill Rob." - I would guess less than 1 percent of all ghosts I've encountered were troublesome. .. OH, and that ghost is spending the rest of his miserable afterlife stuck in that Tavern. 
 
For More Questions and answers about ghosts and spirits, check out my book: Lessons Learned from Talking to the DeadIt's a paranormal reference guide, written to answer all of your questions on the paranormal with examples from my experiences. Available on Amazon.



Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Paranormal Q&A Is The IGT Team surprised when they make contact?

One of the questions I was asked is whether the Inspired Ghost Tracking (IGT) team of paranormal investigators (of which I belong) are surprised whenever we make contact with a ghost. The answer in today's blog, and you can read about many cases of IGT in my book "Case Files of Inspired Ghost Tracking." 

Here's the Q&A : 

 QUESTION:  Does the team get surprised when they make contact? 

ANSWER:  
No. Once we sense that there's someone in a place, we aren't surprised when someone connects with us. We do however, understand that some ghosts are more shy than others because ghosts maintain their personalities. So if they were shy in life, they'll be shy in death. If they were sociable in life, they'll be sociable in death. 
  The tricky part about communicating with ghosts is that we have to earn their trust in order to get them to communicate. It's the same with meeting new living people. You have to gain their trust and find things in common to converse. 
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Case Files of Inspired Ghost Tracking 


ABOUT THE BOOK:
When earth bound ghosts have traumatized families in their own homes, Inspired Ghost Tracking (IGT) of Maryland has gone in to cross them over. In this collection of IGT cases, you’ll read about a very haunted Maryland mansion, many ghosts of Baltimore’s Federal Hill, the Burned Ghost, ghosts of two different time periods in one building, the dark things Ouija boards brought into homes, a ghostly attachment, a Steelworker’s ghost, poltergeist activity, the famous IGT “Double Murder Ghost Investigation” and many more. You’ll also learn about ghosts vs. spirits, energy and lots of Q&A. So, come along with us on these IGT investigations and learn that the paranormal is quite active!   CLICK TO ORDER


Monday, August 2, 2021

Recent Reviews for My Pet Spirit Readings !

I've been doing spirit pet readings for many years, and recently because of demand, I finally established a service for them. Below you can find a link to how you can get a reading. Here are some of the responses from people for whom I gave readings recently:


1) Sun, Jul 25, 2021 Thank you so much for contacting my sweet boy Salem! Everything you said was spot on. I would like to share two quick details with you. ... What a gift! Sincerely, Tanya R

2) Sun, Jul 11, 2021 My Dear Mr. Gutro No sir you are the one with a kind and caring heart. It jumps out of your writing. Again sir you have filled me with a sense of calm. What a gift you posses . You are spot on. Sincerely, Dorian M.

3) Sun, Jul 11, 2021 Wow. That’s my baby. I miss him so much. You were spot on. I got him when he was 8 weeks old and he loved until he was 14... Thank you very much for your beautiful gift and service. Warm Regards, Kerry W.

How to get a Pet Spirit Reading: CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS




Sunday, August 1, 2021

Watch- Now on YouTube: "The Angel Rock With Lorilei Potvin" talks with Rob about Pets and the Afterlife

 Because I've written 8 books (and am working on one now), I do a lot of interviews about them. If you missed one from last week, here's the link and the show. It was called "The Angel Rock With Lorilei Potvin" and she's really wonderful. She's got a number of gifts herself (including being a medium, herself) and is the host of this wonderful show.  It was a long (2 hour) interview about pets and the afterlife, based on my three books of the same name, and it was full of information!  Here's the link: https://youtu.be/FPbBzglv7xE 





Friday, July 30, 2021

What is Paredolia? Am I Seeing Something Paranormal?

One part of paranormal investigating is debunking things. One aspect of debunking is about disproving something that someone sees in a design or background. We do that when others do not see the image and / or there are no temperature changes, electrical discharges, or a medium doesn't sense anything.  There has to be some back up. What's interesting is that when you look at something, and someone tells you what they've seen, you can also envision the object there. Does that mean it's there? No.  It's likely  Paredolia. Today's blog provides insight into that. 

 
man on horseback?

What's Paredolia? It's a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists.

Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, the "man in the moon", the "moon rabbit", and hidden messages within recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds.


My friend Scott in Ohio found an article and photo of a graveyard, where a person said he sees a man on a horse. I didn't see it until I read the headline, and then I could "kind of" see it. I was making out an outline of what I think a man on a horse looks like in my mind while looking at the photo. So, no, I don't think there was a ghost in the photo. (Link to the story: http://news.yahoo.com/ghost-on-horseback-captured-in-chilling-graveyard-104358862.html?nf=1)
 
Seeing a face in a bathtub

However, that doesn't mean that ghosts don't appear in photos. We have lots of proof that they do- both in visible pictures and infrared pictures.

So, next time you look up in the sky and you see an "elephant" in the clouds, it's not the ghost of an elephant, but paredolia. Just use discretion! 
To learn more about paranormal investigating, check out Rob Gutro's books on Amazon.com

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Paranormal Question of the day: What percentage of People Choose to be a Ghost?

Today's Paranormal question comes from Chris.

 1.Given your experience, is there any way to estimate a percentage of folks that don’t become spirits and remain as ghosts?

Answer:    I can only estimate that the percentage of people who decide to stay earthbound is pretty low. Most people when they pass, sense the peace and love on the other side and want to cross over. Others, who are either more stubborn or fearful, choose to stay behind. I would guess that it's only between 2-4% and that's likely really high!  

For More Questions and answers about ghosts and spirits, check out my book: Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead. It's a paranormal reference guide, written to answer all of your questions on the paranormal with examples from my experiences. Available on Amazon.



Monday, July 26, 2021

Live tonight at 9pm EDT! Rob joins Angel Rock on YouTube to discuss Pets and the Afterlife

 DON'T miss "The Angel Rock With Lorilei Potvin"

TONIGHT, Monday, July 26th/2021 from 8pm-10pm CST/9pm-11pm EST
When I have My very Special Guest, Rob Gutro on Tonight, LIVE!
Rob Gutro is an author, paranormal investigator and medium with Inspired Ghost Tracking of Maryland. He's become known as a pet medium, although he communicates with pets and people who have passed. We’re going to be discussing Rob’s work, as well as his experiences as a Pet Medium as well as all his FANTASTIC Books & MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!

Haunted Trails #5 - Ghost House Trail, Tennessee

The Travel channel did a feature about Haunted Trails, and this is the fifth installment. 

Ghost House Trail, Tennessee

This part of the remote Appalachians in Big Ridge State Park is known for a witch hanging and a American Indian scalping. The former may or may not have happened, but there’s a plaque commemorating the latter along nearby Indian Rock Trail. However, the 1.2-mile Ghost House Trail is even spookier and earned its name for the onetime house of the Hutchinson family, where daughter Mary died of tuberculosis in the 1800s. Neighbors reported hearing cries and seeing ghosts in the house even after the family no longer lived there. While Mary doesn’t show up on the trail today, her dog does, and many people have reported hearing a phantom dog running and panting.