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September 2015 Beyond The Grave A Journey Into The unknown A Haunting on 7th Street Colorado Ghosts By: Sharon Marie By: Debra Anderson Benedict Canyon Haunted Mansion Faces from the grave By: Kristi Pottichen By Erica Gregory Water Scrying or Water ITC. Signs A look at an anchient technique with a modern twist. By: Holly L Templin The Devil Tree By Heather Entenmann Twisted Revolutions Twisting Wire & Gemstones In Port St. Lucie lies a large oak into Wearable Art tree with an incredibly evil presence. Nicknamed the Hand Crafted Devil’s Tree Paranormal Protection Jewlery Issue 1

ITC Spirit Communication using water and Steam. By Erica Gregory My name is Erica Gregory, I am a Paranormal This was the beginning for me and from the day 27th Investigator from Manchester, England. My group July I have been amazed at what I have received. In is known as Worsley Paranormal Group. We, as photo 1 Myra herself, was the first I received. These a group have worked with EVP, Electronic Voice came through showing me an image of Myra Hindley. Phenomenon, for 12 years now, and have 100’s of She is what I saw as I videos online showing our work. captured the image. Upon meeting a lady Medium named Tina Laurent, Photo 2 is her is life. whom is well known in the field of ITC and EVP Why would she come phenomena she became a friend of mine. I asked through? Well that her to listen to the EVP’s we had collected over a few is a story that is still years, and she stated they were some of the best she ongoing. I am still on a project of an Old murder case had heard in a long time. here in the U.K. The Moors Murders, we are still to trying to find victims of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Back in 2013 Tina began experiments in ITC in Saddleworth work using photography (Instrumental Trans- Manchester. That communication is contacting the spirit via any is a separate story electronic equipment) , she herself would take and is out there on photographs using steam. It is simple to do by just Facebook if you care boiling a pan of water on a stove, and with a black to look it up. background of a board, she would take photographs and images that came through to her. I was very As I kept going with skeptical at this. How could steam produce such the experiments it clear imagery? I asked her as well as tried it myself started to give me and I received nothing. So I decided to continue clearer Images. with my work in EVP’s and continued to watch others doing the steam experiments. There are many out studying this type of imagery. A group in France called IFRES have amazing captures, also Orion Silverstar, (Geoffrey Green) in 'We are all capable of Australia. As I watched I was finding more on this subject going way back to captures of some very doing this; it takes an open well-known Paranormal and Psychic Mediums. These images can be found by looking this up on the mind and dedication'. internet. Tina came back to me and insisted that I gave this another try, she was adamant that I could do this. 'what we show is She really did keep going at me until I gave in and decided to repeat my own experiment. OK, let’s try important for others this I told her, so In July 2013 I took to using basic equipment, and one thing I did ask before I started and that is why we do was ' If you can come through to me , please do so, but I want images that others will see, clear ones experiments like this'. please, and ones that cannot be matrixing of the steam'.

ITC Spirit Communication using water and Steam. Continued Photos 2, and 3 are just two of the images that came After a while I turned to water and light images. through during the next few months. This again in ITC is not complicated. The face of a young I use a black metal bowl or cup and sometimes I girl, her eye is clearly will use a silver bowl. Just add cold water in the visible and lips so bowl. perfect. I do not use a flash on the camera but try and sit The next is a smiling where there is light that can hit the water. lady, she was in the steam as well and the Sometimes I sit in my doorway to capture the colors are visible also sunlight. I have found that the images come by just adjusting the through also by sitting in my bathroom. contrast. This I feel is because I may have a natural energy line, a ley line of some sort running along the area I use. Natural energy which I do feel helps. There is no adding to The water is moved or rotated to create energy. the photos or photo This helps the images to come forward. shopping. I use my finger or just move the bowl slightly. I The contrast taken cannot explain how this works, but can give what down is the way to I experience. bring out what is within the steam. No one is an expert in the field we are all involved in. We all work differently. What we show however is important for others. Photo 4.. this is a beautiful steam image of a dog. That is why experiments like this and working with EVP in various forms has to continue so we can use our findings to log this. type communication. The more we get, the better it is. 'I feel they choose us, they connect you, and you become a phone line to the other side'.

ITC Spirit Communication using water and Steam. Continued Photos 5, 6, 7 and 8 are a few from water and light. I do prefer the physical side of this all. I have many experiences that others may see as fantastic, . or fantasy; and from the “it just cannot happen skeptics”. I set out as an investigator back in 2004 after my Dad passed, and things were happening around us that we could not explain as a family. I began the work I do to see just what I could find, and help others along the way which myself and my group have done many times. I continue to show this. Am I a medium? Maybe I am. A medium is a person who can link to the other side to bring that message for somebody here. We are all capable of doing this. It takes an open mind and dedication. I feel they choose us, they connect with you, and you become a phone line to the other side. I show it as it is. I would never make anything up, what is the point of that? What is naturally around us can be contacted, if we just listen for it more. 'I do not feel threatened by this in any way and never have'.

ITC Spirit Communication using water and Steam. Continued Do I do anything special before I to do this? The Erica Gregory answer is no. I do not pray. I am not religious. I do not say you should not, that is up to each individual. I do not feel threatened by this in any way and never have had in 12 years any problems. We do have some quite scary sounding EVPs. However, I never again had any problems in any of the places we have investigated. I hope you like the photographs and I will continue to show these as I do the experiments. One day I will receive that very special photo of a famous person. You Can Visit Erica By Clicking on the links below. after 12 years, I have recieved one of my Dad. Photo 9, That is to me is proof there is another place Facebook: somewhere we go to. Facebook Group: Google + Book: The Secret Key to the Moors Murders by Erica Tina Laurent passed away in December 2013 Gregory (ISBN: 9781491880722) and never got to see a lot of the ITC I now do. One day maybe she will come through herself, YouTube: which would be an extra special moment for me. You can find Tina's work is available on the internet. I have many more to show on YouTube on video on my channel Worsley Paranormal.

Colorado Ghosts By: Debra Anderson Lake City – Pat Smith or rather, Pat McAbley Telluride- John B. Frasher and his wife, hover near of Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland died their graves in Lone Tree Cemetery. in October of 1883 at the American House of unknown illness. He was thirty seven and was Frasher tumbled into a deep depression when his wife laid to rest in City Cemetery. Soon after, a ghost in 1896. He had been the postmaster in the 1880’s of a mysterious golden haired woman began and served as county clerk from 1894 to 1900. to appear at his grave. No one knew who the On July 20, 1903, Frasher walked into the cemetery wraith was but the mystery was soon solved and put a bullet into his brain. when a Pinkerton detective sidled into town looking for a Pat McAbley. In his pocket, the caretaker found a letter he had written to his grown children to be good to each other. His wife was desperately seeking him, wanting to see him before she died, but he was already dead The cemetery caretaker was the first to see John and and she passed soon after. his wife arm in arm at her grave. Initially, he mistook them for a living couple, recognizing them only when The ghost at Pat’s grave was his faithful wife, he drew near and saw the smiling countenance of the separated by time and the dirt heaped on Pat. man he had buried only months before. Other lovers in City Cemetery at least had each other, like Jessie Landers and Louis Estep, united in death. Jessie was a dance-hall girl working in Lake City’s tenderloin, and on June 10, 1896, she came out of her room in a storm and shot at Frank McDonald who had been abusing her. The bullet missed its mark, hitting Louis Estep. Louis and Jessie were engaged, their wedding date was already set, but he died instantly. The aftermath drove her outside where she turned the gun on herself. Jessie recovered from the wound, but not from a broken heart and she was sentenced to prison for voluntary manslaughter. She served only part of her term, returning to Lake City due to illness in 1900 where she died in May. Jessie found peace in death at least, running into the arms of her young lover, their tragic spirits reunited in an embrace beneath the tall pine trees.

The Devil Tree In Port St. Lucie Florida lies a large oak tree with Hainline Bonadies had vanished in 1969 in Ft. an incredibly evil presence. Nicknamed the Devil’s Lauderdale after leaving a note for her husband Tree, this old oak is located in Oak Hammock Park, saying she was making a trip to Miami. (Schaefer a place commonly used by local fishermen to use was never charged in connection with her case.) the boat launching facilities. A little-known legend Also among the items was a purse identified as belies the innocent exterior of this tree- and only a belonging to Susan Place. Place's mother later few have ever heard of it. identified Schaefer as being the man she last saw with her daughter and Jessup. On January 8, 1973, a serial killer molested, then murdered two teenage girls, and then hung them Schaefer was charged with the murders of Place from the oak tree. He then buried his two victims and Jessup. In October 1973, he was found guilty in a shallow grave beneath the oak. The serial and given two life sentences. Authorities soon killer was Gerard John Schaefer, who was an ex- stated that he was linked to around 30 missing policeman in Broward County, Florida. Though women and girls. convicted of the two murders, he is believed to be responsible for at least thirty more. A creepy and Two 14-year-old girls named Mary Briscolina sadistic man by nature, Schaefer would lure young and Elsie Farmer vanished while hitchhiking on women off the roads with the help of his badge to October 23, 1972: just a few weeks after Place rape, torture, mutilate and murder. and Jessup were killed. Their bodies were later recovered, and jewelry belonging to one of the girls In April 1973, over six months since they vanished, was later found in Schaefer's home. He also raped the decomposing, butchered remains of Susan Place and killed two girls and hung them from what is and Georgia Jessup were found. The girls had been now known as the 'Devil's Tree' in Port Saint Lucie. tied to a tree at some point and had vanished while hitch-hiking, and these similarities to Schaefer's Several people attempted to cut the oak down, treatment of the girls who had gotten away led but it seems that chain saws and axes refused to police to obtain a search warrant for the home he work when near the tree. Some witnesses claim and his wife shared with Schaefer's (now divorced) that the women’s rest room at Oak Hammock Park mother. is haunted by the dead girls. Strange, horrifying screams have been heard coming out of the In Schaefer's bedroom, police found lurid stories restrooms, in addition to the doors slamming he had written that were full of descriptions of without provocation. In fact, there were so many the torture, rape and murder of women, whom reports about paranormal activity going on around Schaefer routinely referred to as 'whores' and the Devil’s Tree that in 1992, a priest performed an 'sluts'. More damningly, the authorities found exorcism and placed a cross at the base of the oak. personal possessions such as jewelry, diaries — In 1995, and in one case, teeth — from at least eight young women and girls who had gone missing in recent Gerard John Schaefer was stabbed to death in years. Some of the jewelry was from Leigh Hainline prison. But the ghastly spirits of the two poor girls Bonadies, who had lived next door to Schaefer he murdered haunts the Devil’s Tree still today. when they were teenagers.

A Haunting on 7th Street By: Sharon Marie This is a story about my family and the paranormal activities that took place in these houses built in 1890. My family and I lived in both house over a 12 year time frame. My very first experience was when I was 10 years old. On one night both my brother and I was sent to bed. I fell asleep to be awaken hours later. As I lay there something put its hand on my head and started petting and touching my hair by then my eyes were opened it honestly felt like a human hand. but the room was pitch black I couldn't see anything I laid there completely in fear , I wanted to scream for my parents but I just couldn't I just laid there completely frozen.. At one point I could feel the long finger nails on my scalp... I just kept saying please go away please go away. Then it just stopped I closed my eyes and I just tried to forget about the events that happened that night. I knew that in my mind that it couldn't of been my parents or my brother because my bed was up against the wall In the corner of the room there was no way that someone could put their hand at the head of my bed unless they push my bed away from the walls and my bed was too low to the floor for my brother to fit under without waking me up first. As the days went on my brother came to me and told me that something was messing with him at night shaking his bed and trying to pull the covers off his bed when he was a sleep. I asked him what he thought it could have been... He said “I really don't know”. On another night it was very silent and dark... I heard A Big Bang and the lights went on in my brother’s room, he came running out of his room yelling mom. Come to find out my brother took a knife out of the kitchen and went to bed with it thinking that whatever was shaking his bed and trying to pull his covers off his bed he would kill it with a kitchen knife, that is what the Big Bang was, the kitchen knife hitting the wall as my brother threw it at what was ever pull this covers off his bed. These events went on for a long time and kind of got used to the paranormal activities in the house. The sound of something throwing marbles down the wooden stairs, someone pacing the room which I honestly thought someone was in the house because it scared me half to death I ended up one night getting on my hand and knees and crawling into my brother room to wake him up to check the house.. As we searched we found nothing and I know what I heard falling down the stairs sounded like a bag of marbles but there was nothing. Continued on Next page.

Then my parents thought that it would have been a good idea to move to the house next door because of cheaper rent which was owned by the same person. Honestly that house was worse than the other house. I remember one time my mom had to be some places at 5:30 in the morning so she got all of us kids ready and she told us to stay up stair so she could go down stair and turn on some lights on so we could see. As my mom got to the kitchen off from the upstairs bedrooms. She all of a sudden came running up the stair yelling at us to run to her room, she got to her room and turned around and locked the door and got on the phone and called the police. She was looking and waiting for the police to get there. When they final arrived she unlocked the bedroom door and told us to stay there. She let the police into the house. The police started to check all the rooms in the house. I overheard my mom tell the officer that she seen a figure of what looked to be a man walking across the big picture window that was in the living room she said that she came down stairs to turn the kitchen light on and that’s then she seen someone walked a crossed the picture window not really knowing if it was on the house or outside. She said it looked like someone was in the house. The police looked every place in that house and couldn't find nothing. No forced entry or windows what so ever. The officer said that it was all clear, the police end up leaving because they couldn't find anything wrong or anyone. But I honestly have never ever seen fear in my mom’s face like I seen that early morning. Everyone could read this story and think all of this stuff could be explained however I remember these events that took place in both these house. To this day if you asked me if these house was haunted I would still say yes. As time went on both the house was sold to a new owner and we end up moving to a different house up the street. Now that I'm older I always wonder if the families that end up living in both houses over the years ever had experience like we did. I can tell you in one of the houses there have been 19 families since 1890 to 2015. House as it appears Today - Google Earth Photo

Benedict Canyon By 1937 Harlow was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. Ironically, Harlow and Gable were Haunted Mansion once again teamed up to be in the movie Saratoga, but on May 29 during the middle of shooting Harlow collapsed on the set and was sent home Harlow was born Jean Harlow Carpenter in Kansas in her doctor's care to recuperate but sadly her City Missouri in 1911. When she was 11 her condition did not improve, It got much worse her parents divorced and her mother, hoping to get kidneys were failing in a time before dialysis, the into show business moved to Hollywood in 1923. disease quickly proved fatal and on June 7, 1937 Jean Harlow joined her husband Paul in death, she Harlow's first role was portraying a minor character was only 26 years old. in the 1928 movie, Honor Bound. The part was so small that her name did not even appear in the Many claim that Paul Bern still roams the Mansion movies credits. But the camera loved her and soon in Benedict Canyon. she became a sex symbol, simply referred to as the Platinum Blonde. In 1966 actress Sharon Tate was staying at the Benedict Canyon Mansion, now owned by her In 1929 18-year-old Jean Harlow signed to Howard friend. Hairdresser to the stars Jay Sebring. Hughes productions to appear in his first talking While trying to sleep in the master bedroom, film called Hells Angels. On the set the young Sharon claimed she witnessed a 'creepy little Harlow met Paul Bern, the powerful Hollywood man' rummaging through the dresser and then producer who was 22 years her senior. They fell in he continued to roam the room looking for love and Bern convinced Irving Thalberg, Owner of something, she was so frightened that she she MGM to buy out Jean's contract. Jean was thrilled jumped out of bed ran to join MGM, then known as the studio with more stars than heaven. down the stairwell. There was something sitting hunched over at the foot of the carpeted stairs. She On July 2, 1932 Jean and Bern married.in the living couldn't take her eyes off the unmoving huddled room of her mother's home on Clubview Drive in shape she lunged past the object and into the Los Angeles. The newlyweds moved into a beautiful center of the landing on the first floor, she turned mansion in Benedict Canyon. her head to peek at the mass, now in front of her. To her horror she saw the terrifying image of a Sadly only four months after their marriage, on woman's lifeless body. September 5 while Harlow was filming Red Dust with Clark Gable. Burn was found naked, dead Sharon Tate who, in 1969 at age 26, fell victim to from a gunshot wound to the head in the master the infamous Charles Manson's bloody, murder bedroom of their Benedict Canyon mansion on spree, just blocks from the Harlow / Bern mansion. Eastern Drive. Police officially ruled it suicide but It is said that there are some who feel the 'vision' several things did seem suspicious. Two hours had Ms. Tate experienced was a premonition of her passed between the time the body was discovered own murder! and when police were called. When the police had arrived several top MGM executives were already Sources: Haunted Hollywood by Tom Ogden on the scene. There were persistent rumors that GlobePequot.com 2009 p. 41, 45. the site may have been tampered with and that Bern may have actually been murdered. Whether Biography Channel: Biography Jean Harlow. A&E or not Harlow knew anything more than the Productions. circumstances reported by the police she never said anything. That night she stayed with her mother. She was distraught and overwhelmed and there were rumors that she attempted to commit suicide the next day.

Signs By: Holly L Templin Many times in life you hear someone say: my Guardian Angel was looking over me today. We have all had these moments that we feel something greater has intervened . How many times have any of you started to walk out the door only to discover you can't find your car keys? Keys that you put in the same place everyday? I have spent hours looking for keys, paperwork, cell phone you name it. Finally becoming so frustrated that I now was going to be late. After I searched through my purse 3 times I decided I would sit here and look one last time. I dump the purse out all over my bed looking one last time only to find the keys! . where the heck did they come from? Its like they magically appeared???? This has happened more times than I want to admit always slowing me down on departing on time to my destination. And many of those times on my way I come upon a horrible accident on the same route that seam to of happened about the time I would have been on the road on time if things went smoothly. Coincidence? How can something happen so often and not have something more that just luck? So many times in my life a split second delay has kept me from harms way. Or it has caused me to end up waiting somewhere unplanned and meeting just the person I needed to meet at that time.. Do we really have guardian Angels or is it a family member looking over us? . Do we really get signs from the spirits of our loved ones? I have had thousands of instances, strange , odd and unexplainable, and many times the most uplifting emotional feeling that says we are not alone in this vast universe. I am going to share my most memorable experience, My Mother passed away from an illness, a few years ago . She loved the paranormal and was investigating as far back as the1960’s we discussed in detail about life after death and she promised to give me signs when she crossed over. After my mothers passing my oldest daughter had been getting signs like crazy, undisputable signs for instance; cars in traffic with my moms first name and birthday ruth618 and babygirl 624 my moms childhood nickname and the day she passed on license plates on random places as she drove to and from work. Continued on page 12

Continued from page 11 I was happy for my daughter but it upset me that my mother had not given me anything (or so I thought). I spent a lot of time crying, mom, you promised why nothing??? For years I always had a huge Christmas Eve party in my home and everyone brought different foods, we cooked up a storm, and the house was decorated. It was an amazingly magical time. By my front porch I had this odd little bulb that grew and bloomed one big beautiful red flower the week before and during the Christmas Eve party.. it bloomed once in December and then died and only grew again the following December. My mother would stop every year as she walked up the steps and would stop point and say, that’s a Christmas amaryllis ! . ( she loved plants and flowers) She loved that little bulb with the red flower and that brief moment was something I remembered fondly..... my mother passed June 24 in Texas and when I returned home to California after her passing , I was pretty sad and a bit confused because I really expected the heavens or seas to part with a huge sign from my mother.. I was very distraught over this and looked and searched and spoke to my mom asking why she didn’t keep her promise.. A Month passed ,It was late July and a very hot day that had finally cooled a bit so I went to sit outside on the stoop of the porch when out of the corner of my eye I saw it!! the Christmas Amaryllis !! It was growing with a long beautiful stalk ( taller than usual) and not just the one bright red bloom but 4 big red flowers and buds forming with more! I couldn’t believe my eyes for 10 years that I lived in the house the bulb only grew and bloomed in December and always just one red flower it then quickly died gone for another year. After first seeing the Amaryllis in first bloom in July, It continued blooming over and over for a full month, I would rush to see the flower every day, I laughed and said all right Mom you got me ..The bulb finally died In September but that was it that was the last year it ever bloomed . .. I believe my Mother gave me the sign, not the one I thought I was going to get, it was even more than I expected, what a beautiful moment I would of not noticed if I had not sat down and to just enjoy the lazy summer day. We don’t have answers, that’s why we are in this field we want proof and its very difficult but those personal experiences are amazing . Yes, I believe We do get signs and the old saying stop and smell the roses means so much more to me now.

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