OUT THERE

GHOST INVESTIGATION FROM 2/18/12

More than 20 years ago I ran a mobile dj service, one of my first employees was Doug.  Over the years Doug and I worked together in radio.  Doug has been telling me about the building he lives in along with his room mate Alex.  Doug isn't necessarily convinced that the building is haunted, however Alex seems to have a different opinion.  To the left is a picture of a pretty good sized orb that Alex's girlfriend shot.  Alex showed me many pictures of orbs, some would argue it's dust.  Well, in two of the shots, the orb moved from one rafter to another.  It almost looks like there are a couple of orbs in this picture, I know that doesn't prove anything.  Do you believe in ghosts?  Have you ever had a strange experience?  Have you ever had an object dissappear only to have it reappear?  Have you ever seen an apparition?  Have you ever heard loud pounding noises or heard a rap at the door and no one was there?  Most of us want to see an apparition, most will probably not see that.  However, most of us will miss some of the signs:  Light bulbs blowing, electronic devices failing, cold spots, pounding, dream visitations, your kids talking about invisible friends, animals acting strange.  From what Doug told me I was under the impression that Alex may have a negative spirit harassing him.  My main objective was to make sure that wasn't the case and then it would be up to Alex to decide what to do with his visitors.  First, I contacted Dan Dunlop who has had a fair amount of experience in dealing with what some term negative energies.  Then we set up a time to meet with Alex and do a walk through.  The building we went to has 3 floors and a basement.  Doug and Alex live on the main floor, the top 2 floors need renovation.  When we arrived at the residence Doug was out of town but Alex was kind enough to let us in and show us around.  Alex showed us the many pictures of the orbs.  Some didn't come out as clean when I transferred them from his Facebook site.  I did a brief interview with Alex and Dan using my handy dandy "cheap" cassette (hi-tech?) recorder.  Actually the sound is pretty good on that archaic piece of recording equipment.  Then off we went to the basement.  Dan is pretty good at sensing spirits, so he would walk a bit and try to feel if there were any spirits present.  Initially Dan has said he felt at least 3 sprits before we even walked into the building.  When we made our way toward the front of the building we started asking questions.  Perhaps I could pick up an e.v.p. on my cheap cassette recorder, would that blow away all of those high tech ghost hunting shows?  I can't say that I watch those shows too much, they just don't appear to be real, how can they have spirit activity everywhere they go?  It usually doesn't work that way.  However, when we were in the basement all 3 of us heard someone walking above our heads.  There was no one else in the building.   I think it picked up a little bit on my recorder, you can listen to that part in the show.  Eventually we made our way to the third floor and then back to Alex's living room.  Dan felt there were no dark energies in the building, however he sensed 2 of the spirits were ready to cross over.  After a short meditation he helped them cross, Alex said he felt their energy leave.  In a way he was sad because he had connected with them, and yet he was happy for them to find their way.  Dan said he felt there were 3 more energies in the building and asked Alex if he wanted them out.  These beings would not cross over, they would just be sent packing to some other location.  Alex didn't want them to go, I can only guess that he has a connection with them.  Alex has been alone in this building for quite a while recovering from an ongoing illness, so I can see why he might want to have some company.  Furthermore, the way I look at it, all beings have a right to be and if they're not bothering me I'd probably let them be as well.  Next week I talk to a local farmer who had 2 crop circles in his corn last October.  The weird part, he lives less than a mile from my house!

THE GREAT LAKES TRIANGLE

Ah, home sweet home.  If you look at the picture most of you will recognize the Great Lakes.  Some of you will see Lower and Upper Michigan on the map unless you were napping in geography.  Obviously the lower looks like a mitten and anyone from there will usually point to their hand to tell you where they are from.  Those of us from the U.P. will turn our left hand sideways (at least I do) to show our location.  As you look at the map, almost in the center you will see part of Wisconsin that creates a bay, that is called the Bay of Green Bay.  If you look at the very tip of that peninsula (the Door County Peninsula in Wisconsin) you will see a little island.  (Washington Island)  Almost due west of there across the bay is where I broadcast from, Escanaba Michigan.  Population: 13,000.  I am fortunate to live here, somewhat remote and surrounded by forests, rivers, inland lakes, the Great Lakes and the paranormal.  When I first heard about the Great Lakes Triangle it was many years ago with Leonard Nimoy on his program In Search Of.  For many years I have pesonally heard of strange tales on both land and sea.  Just doing this program has made me aware of other unexplained events that would have just slipped away into history.  I think there is no denying it, we see a lot of ufo's up here.  We see them on land and over the lakes.  We see them go in and out of the the lakes.  So, as far as I'm concerned, it's nothing new.  As for strange weather phenomena, I personally have not talked to anyone who has witnessed extremely strange weather on the Great Lakes.  My father in law sailed the lakes, he loved it.  I have friends who fish the lakes, who boat on the lakes, from time to time I go fishing and kayaking on Lake Michigan.  No vortex has ever swallowed me up that I know of.  As I was researching this weeks show I found it odd that a woman filed a story in 1978 dealing with a strange fog that surrounded her sailboat and two others near their vessel.  Strange things happened within this fog.  It reminded me of Bruce Gernon's experience with what he termed an electronic fog in one of my previous interviews.  If you're not familiar Bruce is one of the few who has experienced this fog, but that was in the Bermuda Triangle.  In 1978 Kathy Doore left Chicago on board a sailboat and had a unique experience that few have had.  What was it?  Also you will hear some audio (courtesy of you tube) of Jay Gourley who authored The Great Lakes Triangle.  Gourley believed a lot of the incidents took place around the Agonic Line, or the line in which magnetic north and true north are precisely the same direction.  Everything from the freakish story of Flight 389 from New York to Chicago, to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.  Also I threw in some audio of an interview with an eyewitness who shot a pretty clean video of a ufo on Lake Erie.  Of course the tv station out of Cleveland had to poke fun at the story, they always do.  So, is there something mysterious going on in the Great Lakes?  Can this be compared to the Bermuda Triangle?  Isn't strange weather to be expected near large bodies of water?  Did  a former co-workers husband disappear under this phenomena?

INTERACTING WITH THE PAST

Many years ago I heard that the past, present, and future were happening at once.  I didn't understand that statement then and I don't understand it now.  How can that work?  I've heard that there are multidimensions that are right next to us that are playing out all kinds of possibilities regarding our lives.  I guess that makes sense.  Some have claimed that they've traveled through time, I guess anything is possible.  I've always thought if you could travel through time wouldn't you affect the outcome of the future?  I don't have any answers to those questions, yet I believe all things are possible. A few months back I found a site that was promoting some of my shows.  The author of the site is Mark Rainer, who hails from northwest England.  Mark hosts a site that deals with Numerology and Astrology.  That is not what this interview is about, through emails Mark told me of what he felt was a multidimensional experience he had.   A couple of years ago my guest had his first ghost experience, where he was on a ghost hunt and he was the only one in the group to physically see this woman dressed in period clothes.  About a year ago Mark had a really strange experience regarding time travel, or at least seeming to be connecting with other time periods.  Sound strange?  Were they ghosts?  Mark doesn't think so.  It's almost as if he was able to enter end even communicate with others in different time periods.  Is it all connected?  Again, it seems like as more awareness comes to the planet we are finding more people tapping into unusual experiences.  Mark has only been experiencing these things for a couple of years so it's still a mystery to him. Mark's website:  www.willowtreepublications.com This was my first show using Skype.

I WASN'T MYSELF

Has this ever happened to you?  I don't know why I did it, I wasn't myself, I normally would never do that.  Maybe you were right.  I am a big believer in self accountability and not making excuses, but is it possible that much of what goes on down here is influenced by energies, or formless beings.  Even a cold?  I had a cold for 30 days, I never have a cold for 30 days.  I wasn't myself.  Then I remembered what my buddy Big Dan said, "Even colds or flus are an energy gripping onto you."  Makes some sense, because doesn't everything that exists in the universe have to have some kind of energy for it to exist, even a cold.  What is that holds all of this together?  It seems like it's our collective thoughts, or God's thoughts.  What is it that gives meaning to anything?  Our collective thoughts that we believe it to be real.  Is this all an illusion?  Well, I can take away that science shows we are energy in our purist form, and after we die, our energy leaves.  Where does it go?  A lot to think about.  What I did find out is that my cold totally disappeared the very next day after trying something.  How could that be, it lasted for 30 days?  Perhaps even a cold is a form of energy that globs onto us as my friend Dan would say.  Dan will also go on to say things like "That person is controlled by the spirit of arrogance, or the spirit of greed, etc."  He was taught by his native understanding that there is a spirit, or energy, for anything that alters us from being unconditional loving beings.  I can see that making a bit of sense now.  Are we helpless from these energies?  No, far from that.  Do you ever say bless you?  Did you know that was originally said to try to protect people after they sneezed because others feared there was a spirit, or energy, trying to attack or drain someone's body?  If you go back and listen to an interview I did with Debbie Tibbles, she felt there was a really dark energy that took over her sons body when he was dying from cancer.  Is that possible?  I could definitely see that happening, at least some of the time.  Whether it is true or not, I believe it is all part of this process we go through down here and it is not to be feared.  Perhaps it is to be conquered? This week I was going to talk to Mark Rainer through Skype but the recording didn't take very well, the audio was fuzzy.  Mark is from northern England and has a few interesting stories to tell.  Perhaps next week I will figure out how to get the Skype recorder working so we can have a clean interview.

HEATLH SCARES AND ALTERNATIVE HEALTH OPTIONS

David Foreman used to be a pharmacist roughly 17 years ago, then he had a change of heart and careers.  He now calls himself an herbal pharmacist.  David has become one of a growing number that are beginning to realize that there are many natural products that can aid us greatly in healing and staying healthy.  Also, I think many are seeing the dangers of potential side effects caused by certain drugs when many herbs or supplements can offer a healthy alternative without side effects.  What I did like about David's website www.herbalpharmacist.com is that David offers a lot of alternative answers to many diseases.  It has been my experience that when someone chooses to go against the mainstreem way of thinking they have to be very carefull as to how they word things.  Why?  I think they know that there are those who see alternative health as competition and will do everything to shut them up.  "They" have a lot of money and power, "they", in my opinion, have the medical profession in their back pocket.  Sound cynical?  Perhaps.  I guess I've formed this opinion from my own and others experiences.  Now, I don't believe all modern medicine is horrible, and there are great achievements in medicine.  But there seems to be an underlying manipulation from certain drug companies to doctors and the American public.  With that said it surprised me that David spoke so candidly and told me that there are many who may not like him since he switched sides.  You have to ask, why would someone give up a lucrative carreer to be a pharmacist and go in the natural health field where there isn't anywhere close to the money?  Furthermore, why does the medical community continue to ignore an alternative approach especially when others are getting well?  This is surely not always the case, as years ago I spoke to a woman in Vancouver who said the hospital where she was working was combining natural and modern medicine.  Maybe that will be the case one day, I hope. Are Antibiotics losing their potency?  Are we overabusing them?  Is the flu vaccine a big scare?  Aren't there many many strains that come out each year and this will only protect us from one virus?  Can you get sick from the flu shot?  Would my guest get a flu shot?  Are we being manipulated through fear?  Can we regain our power by improving our own immune system?  How do we go about doing that? This week an interesting chat with an entertaining David Foreman out of Tampa Florida.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN POINT PLEASANT WEST VIRGINIA 1966

In 2002 I was really intrigued to see the movie Mothman Prophecies starring Richard Gere.  The movie claimed to be based on some facts.  A lot of movies claim that, usually they are far from the truth.  Like many, I enjoyed the movie and didn't think too much about it until a few years ago.  A pretty good friend who would come into the radio station to produce commercials for her business told me of an unusual sighting, something she was afraid to tell in public.  I asked her to come on my show at the time but she refused, which I understood.  A couple of years ago I was casually talking to Frank Feshino and asking him about if he had any other weird experiences to share outside of his investigative work regarding the Flatwoods Monster, he did.  The story he told me was connected to a man Frank met in West Virginia who had a frightening encounter with a winged creature. What you will hear this week was taken from You Tube, perhaps you have heard the documentary before, it is about the Mothman and what really took place in Point Pleasant West Virginia starting on November 15th.  I never realized there were so many eyewitnesses.  I didn't know ufo sightings were connected to the story and other strange phenomena as well.  John Keel investigated the sightings in 1966 and returned many times within a year to hear more reports.  John would go on to write The Mothman Prophecies.  Whatever these people saw it was reported on for a whole year, the local press and law enforement were all over it, however the national press seemed to ignore it.  Interesting?  Where have I heard that before? At the end of I will share a couple of short stories that I have heard regarding this subject.

I CAME BACK

I've believed in reincarnation for a very long time, perhaps as young as 5 or 6 years old.  I don't know why, it just made sense.  I kind of thought God kept sending us back down here until we got it right, how could we possibly learn everything in one time around?  The stories I'm going to share with you are actually taken from the internet, You Tube audio.  James Leininger at a very young age started recalling moments from another person's life, a pilot who died during World War Two.  The voices you will hear are those of his parents, Bruce and Andrea Leininger, trying to make sense of what was going on.  James would have nightmares, draw war pictures, and even know things about this pilot that he shouldn't have.  How can this be?  Cameron McCaulay is a young boy who lives near Glasgow Scotland, yet he also at a very young age was relaying infomation to all who would listen about his life on an island called Barra, some 200 miles from Scotland.  Barra, is part of the Brittish Isles.  Now as you listen to this audio you may find the Scottish accent a wee bit hard to understand at times, but as I watched the video of a boy who looked no more than 4 years old it became quite clear that he was convinced that he lived in Barra.  Again, you can find out more if you want to Google it.  Frankly, I wouldn't have thought about Googling this myself had it not been for a friend telling me about it.  What is neat about both these stories is that the families decided to listen to the boys and see what they could learn.  In James case they were able to track down a pilot (through interaction with remaining family) who they believe could have been James from another lifetime.   They even resembled each other.  They even had the same first name.  James knew he had died in a plane crash.  In Cameron's case his mother finally took  him to Barra and he found what was believed to be his old house that he once lived in, unfortunately no one was alive to confirm his existence and there were no records or photos as well, yet he knew the exact layout of the house and the view of the ocean. So what can it be?  Do we come back?  Why would we come back?  Is there another explanation?  Is it possible to pick up on another person's thoughts, even after they passed, and therefore you might think  you've lived before?  Is it all imagination?  I'm sure you know what I think, what do you think?

Angelic Encounters

This week I take a break and run Debby's show: Angelic Encounters.  This show deals with suicide and abuse, something that I think most families deal with.  And while those are subjects that are downers, the show is not a downer.  It all got started quite a while back when Debby was telling me that she was getting contact from the other side by some who had committed suicide.  They wanted to get their story out, perhaps help others heal and understand why.  Okay.  Why not talk about that, we seem to avoid that subject in our society.  And why not hear what those who actually did it have to say?  (if that is indeed possible)  Also, Reverend Debby opens up about some abuses she's faced in her life, physical and verbal.  Someone once said, "Don't we all face some sort of abuse, how we choose to respond is what matters."  And that's what this show is about.  Forgiving and showing compassion.  Can we forgive those who seemed selfish and took their lives?  Do they go on?  Is there something we can gain from this tragedy?  Also, can we forgive our abusers?   Is it possible they taught us a valuable lesson? This show is not to make light for those who have suffered, for I do not know of their experience.  It is done out of compassion and love, as is always the case when working with Reverend Debby.  As I've stated before, with Debby you get the real person, she doesn't hold back.  I look at all of these indivuals in the spotlight and how they wish to be percieved and I think, "Why don't you just be yourself."  See more shows at  WWW.ANGELICENCOUNTERS.PODBEAN.COM

UPPER MICHIGAN SASQUATCH

I wonder how many people believe in Bigfoot?  I would think that a majority of people probably believe in ghosts.  I heard not that long ago that about half of Americans believe in ufo's.  So how many believe in what I would consider 3rd on the list of unknowns, Sasquatch?  I think most will accept and even get excited when you talk about ghosts.  My experience has been that many will listen when you talk about ufo's.  However, when the subject of sasquatch, or other unknowns, comes up most that I've talked to will look for a reason to leave the conversation.  Why is that?  I think we only go as far as our awareness will take us.  When we continue to expose ourselve to more and more, our awareness expands and seems to open the door to other possibilities.  It may actually be a conscious shift in the brain.  I only say this because it has been my experience.  There are things I thought people were making up a few years ago before this show, now it just seems easier to accept the possibility that many many things could exist.  Perhaps it is ego? This show has been great for my growth, in the last few years I have talked to several people who have had sasquatch experiences, many have taken place all over Upper Michigan.  Even though as a kid I believed that these things existed, if I would have thought they could have been in my backyard, well, I don't think I would have ever been outside after dark!  Yikes!  From what I've been able to gather there are many up here that have witnessed these beings, whatever they may be.  Are they physical or spirit?  Do they have special abilities that allow them to go undeteched?  Are they just a form or man/ape that hasn't been discovered yet?  Can you call them to you?  What, are you nuts? About a month ago a friend told me of a sighting by 3 men in an area some 20 miles from here, this in turn helped me decide to approach the subject this week.  It's really weird because one of the men is getting married and I just met his fiance at a bridal show about a month and half ago.  Strange coincidence?  Are there no coincidences? At the beginning of this interview is audio from Allan Berry, a journalist who recorded some strange sounds back in 1972.  This was taken from another interview.  The stories I tell take place all over Upper Michigan.  One is as close as a few miles from where I presently live.  Yikes!  My feeling is if these things do exist, ard they are here, then they are everywhere where it is wooded.  Sleep well tonight...

AN ATTEMPT TO CONTACT HAROLD OLSON

Finally.  I finally was able to get a show to upload after trying the last couple of days.  We finally were all able to get together, Reverend Debby, Anita Carlson, and Judy Papineau to talk about Harold Olson.  I've come to learn that the universe doesn't use a clock.  It lines things up on it's own time, when the time is right.  If you are not familiar with Harold Olson's story here is a brief refresher:  He came to believe he was the kidnapped Lindbergh baby.  He had birthmarks that were identical to the Lindbergh baby, 3 of them on one of his arms.  According to records, the dead baby they actually found was not even a male child, and was a few inches longer than it was supposed to be.  Some believe Al Capone was either involved in the kidnapping or the relocating of the Lindbergh baby.  If true, then Harold was kidnapped, held in a house in New Jersey, then brought to Chicago and eventually flown into upper Michigan.  Harold was then taken in by a family here in Upper Michgan.  Sound crazy?  Maybe.  When Harold was in his early twenties he was going to fight in the Korean war and a couple of cousins met him in Chicago.  They felt they had to tell him, since he may not come back, that he was adopted and that his father may be one of two famous figures.  After the war, Harold's real journey began.  As for upper Michigan's connection to Al Capone, it is well known that Al had a home in Escanaba, it's actually just a few blocks from our studios.  This was one of his stopping points along the way to Chicago and who knows where.  There is a hotel in this town where many say Al used to stay.  If you go back in my archives you will find a few interviews with Anita and Judy.  Anita Carlson was a cousin to Harold though his adoptive family.  Judy Papineau read a book called In Search Of The Lindbergh Baby, in turn she wrote a screenplay out of it.  Just within the last year Judy met Anita, even though they both have lived in Escanaba for many years.  Both have been trying to find a way to promote Harold's story.  Our goal was to bring in an intuitive/sensitive/psychic and see what we might be able to learn from the other side, if anything.  So I thought my sista (as I call her) Reverend Debby Bergeon would be a good fit.  So what happened in this show?  Did we make contact with Harold Olson.  Yes, we did.  But we also had some other surprises that took place.  Were we able to confirm anything?  Is Harold the Lindbergh baby?  Has he made contact with the Lindbergh's on the other side?  How does he feel about Anita and Judy persuing this quest?  This show is really interesting.  Thanks to Anita and Judy but especially Reverend Debby for taking the time to help these two gals out.  Awesome!