Entries from October 2009 ↓

by Cate Cavanagh

As a student of history I have always found the origins of traditions very interesting.  The origins of Halloween is among the most interesting as it finds its origin in the old Celtic belief system known today as Wicca.  Halloween falls on the Wiccan New Year called Samhaim (called So-wen) which in essence observes the end of summer  and observes oncoming winter as integral to life regeneration in the spring.  Since the old Celtic religions, like other earth based belief systems, focused on nature and its cycles for survival Samhaim is both an ending and beginning, similar to death and rebirth most religions today preach.  As a celebration of nature’s never ending renewal of the life that feeds and supports people and the earth, Samhaim celebrated impending darkness after the light and harvest of summer after which life would reemerge again in the spring.  With this in mind, Samhaim was a religious time of fasting, reflection, meditation and prayer as well as a time for casting spells to end hardship, pain, illness and hunger.  It was believed the worlds of the living and the dead merged on this day and it was in order to maintain peace between the two worlds that most of our Halloween traditions evolved such as trick or treat. Continue reading →

‘Twas Hallowe’en eve and the whole ‘Global’ team
Weren’t tricking, but treating, or so it would seem
The psychics were psyching with cards, stones and such
Keeping the people and spirits in touch
Danielle had them busy, so busy in fact,
Deb, Phil and Owen hadn’t notice that Matt
Had gone off somewhere for a healing, I guess
And somehow the party became quite a mess
Ghosts came to visit, all haunt-y and float-y
But angels came, too, and were seen there by Jody
Anthony informed us about our past lives
And told us that Christopher had had thousands of wives!
I don’t know.  Is that true?  Maybe Rhonda can tell us
But she says that Cherie has had lots of fellas
Oh, this party is beginning to get out of hand!
I’m lost here, I tell you and just don’t understand
There’s Robert, and Kara and Lisa and Sharon
They’re talking to spirits who are messing with Karen
Telling her things that could never be true
But Michael insists, he has seen this thing, too
What ‘thing’, you might ask me.  I know Laura knows
And I heard Anatara say she once saw it glow
They say there are goblins that feast in the night
Eating your innards.  Now That is a Fright!
Then in runs Teresa, ’cause this is her cue,
Screaming and yelling, “Oh what will we do?
The goblins are coming.  They’re coming for you!
We’ll need a ghost hunter before we are through!”
But then we all look and the only thing there
Is the figure of someone not wishing to scare
This figure is smiling.  Yes, smiling I say.
“It’s Hallowe’en, psychics.  I just came to play!”
“I knew that!” they cried out, because, let’s be honest
They’re psychics.  They knew it.  That’s why they hid in the closet!  ©
 
11:57 pm 10/27/09 Teresa Z Crane

Spirits are all around us… and sometimes they take up residence where we would prefer they wouldn’t.  If they make you uncomfortable, you an send them away. And don’t invite them in by playing around with Ouija Boards! Continue reading →

by Paul Dale Roberts, HPI General Manager, Paranormal Investigator & Ghostwriter

HPI Paranormal Investigator Chantal Apodoca told me that she once feels she met a zombie in San Francisco. It was a Wintery night and Chantal went into a Mystic/Metaphysical type of shop and started browsing around. The store clerk came out to greet her and asked if he could help her. Chantal immediately thought the clerk looked bizarre. His eyes were glassy and his movements were somewhat robotic. When he wasn’t helping customers, he was reading a book about Voodoo. Chantal also noticed that on his cloth belt, there was attached 3 small brown primitive looking dolls. Chantal asked the clerk what the dolls represented. The clerk looked at her with his foggy drippy eyes and said they are ‘good dolls’. He would not elaborate further. As Chantal left the store, the strange looking clerk blew a powder substance in the air and mumbled something under his breath that sounded like chanting. Chantal felt uneasy and left the store quickly. To this day, she wonders if the clerk of this store was some type of zombie or if he practiced the Voodoo arts. Continue reading →

By Paul Dale Roberts, HPI General Manager/Ghostwriter

I have been to many old haunted hotels in my lifetime, but I must say that the Historic National Hotel in Jamestown takes the proverbial cake.  Mysterious Realms Investigative Team heads over to Jamestown to discover what supernatural forces are at work in this old hotel. Continue reading →