Beyond Parazine Issue 2

Your portal to the amazing world Of the paranormal Ghost

Part 2 of Stephen Renfields series on Uk’s poltergeists.

Communication

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What is pareidolia.

Reviews

Don’t be afraid to do if you see a ghost.

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Welcome to issue 2 of Beyond Parazine We hope you enjoyed our 1st issue last month and are looking forward to more fantastic articles this month.

We have part 2 of Stephen Renfields fascinating look at Englands famous poltergeist stories.

An in depth look at pareidolia accompanied by some incredible photographic examples.

More personal stories and articles contributed by highly respected and experienced paranormal investigators.

Amazing photos from teams and individuals from around the world.

If you would like to get your story, photos, your team or an article in next months issue then please email them to us at beyondparazine@hotmail.com Past Investigations/Beyond parazine would like to state that some articles in this magazine are the views of our contributors and not necessarily ours.

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!

It is looking like there could be help insight for us paranormal investigators.

After an associate team member contacted NCH software.

They have emailed us back about an idea of creating a software package aimed at and for paranormal investigators.

Instead of having to use lots of separate programs for evidence analysis NCH are looking into a package that contains all the various software that we use, we will be involved in the process as advisors on what a paranormal team would need included.

We will keep you informed on the progress of this package.

Pareidolia What is Pareidolia?

Most people have never heard of pareidolia or matrixing.

But nearly everyone has experienced it. Anyone who has looked at the moon and spotted two eyes, a nose and a mouth has felt the pull of pareidolia. "The imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist", according to the World English Dictionary. It is the psychological phenomenon that causes some people to see or hear a vague or random image or sound as something significant is known as pareidolia (par-i-DOH-lee-a).

It is derived from Greek words para, meaning something faulty, wrong, instead of, and the noun eidﾅ考on, meaning image, form or shape. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, which is another term for seeing patterns in random data.

Why Pareidolia happens There are a number of theories as to the cause.

Experts say pareidolia provides a psychological determination for many delusions that involve the senses. They believe pareidolia could be behind numerous sightings of Ufo’s, Elvis and the Loch Ness Monster.

One important issue that many in this field seem to ignore and that is how the human eye works and why we have to be extremely careful with what we call “paranormal.�

The human eye's function is to seek out familiar patterns and details to help us to identify that which we can recognize.

The most identifiable traits the human eye goes by is the features we associate with the human face.

This may be as rudimentary a pattern as three dots, two for eyes and one for a mouth.

Once the eye finds this pattern in any chaotic pattern, it identifies it as being human like.

Leonardo da Vinci wrote about pareidolia as an artistic device. "If you look at any walls spotted with various stains or with a mixture of different kinds of stones, if you are about to invent some scene you will be able to see in it a resemblance to various different landscapes adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys, and various groups of hills," he wrote in a passage in one of his extensive notebooks.

The Rorschach inkblot test uses pareidolia as a way to gain insight into a person's mental state. Since the cards have been designed without any specific image in mind, this is an example of "directed pareidolia."

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One thing for certain is there is plenty of room for interpretation since there are no real established criteria to be found to help those who do capture unusual things in photographs. With no noteworthy criteria to be found, much is left to the eye of the beholder when gazing at photographs and what they present to the naked eye. So how do we give photographs that are legitimate any credibility?

White figure on the left?

Zoomed in, it’s just bricks.

It is be important to bear in mind extenuating circumstances, and supported incidences of paranormal activity in addition to photographs.

Many paranormal Investigators use mediums/ psychics as well to help them decide what is paranormal vs. what is not.

We must be careful relying on what we see in photo’s and hear with our ears.

In 1971, the Latvian writer and intellectual Konstantīns Raudive detailed what he believed was the discovery of electronic voice phenomenon (EVP).

EVP has been described as "auditory pareidolia."

The allegations of hidden messages in popular music have also been described as auditory pareidolia. As well as our eyes wanting to familiarise what we see our ears can work in the same way, our brain interpreting a random sound as words, a noise that could be nothing can easily become spoken words.

Pareidolia, visual or auditory should make us as paranormal investigators ever more vigilant when reviewing our findings, one mans ghost is another mans random pattern, one mans ‘’Get Out!!’’ is another mans leaves rustling.

FUNNY STORY & PICTURES About 10 years ago, I visited the El Capo Santo Cemetery in Old Town San Diego, CA with a friend and her husband. We had made a trip to the San Diego area to visit a few of the most popular haunted sites. I pulled up to the cemetery around 3 a.m. There wasn't a soul in sight. My friends and I got out of the car and stood at the wall in front of the cemetery just looking at the grounds. I went to the left, and my friend and her husband went to the right.

My friend shouted, "Are you feeling anything, Rae?" I replied, "I feel a lot of presences here."

A disembodied male voice right by me commented, "No shit! It's a cemetery!"

I laughed, but I also looked around to see where the voice was coming from. There was no one on the street, and no one around the small cemetery grounds.

We were the only ones there, and it clearly was not the voice of my friend's husband. They were also about 200 ft. away from me at the time and didn't hear what I heard. I wish I had a recorder on at the time!

Still giggling, I told the spirit, "Thanks for that!

You made my night!"

To this day, every time I return to Old Town, I stop by to say, "Hello," to the entity.

Raechele Wilson-Doran

Dont Be Afraid

By Kevin Medium Cohen

Don't be afraid! Don't panic!

It's only an entity from another plane of existence!

Here's what do to if you see a ghost..........

Have you ever thought about what you would do if you ever really came face-to-face with a ghost? Or what you should do? Here are 8 things you should do if you see a ghost: DON'T FREAK OUT. As much as many of us think we know how we'd react if we saw a genuine apparition, we don't really know until it happens to us. Perhaps you like to think you would be brave, but you might just freak out. And that is not unusual. It's our instinctive fight-or-flight response in the face of the unknown kicking in. We have seen experienced ghost hunters scream and run out of a room at the slightest noise or movement.

Whether you are on a ghost hunt seeking spirits or you spontaneously encounter an apparition (how it most often happens), fight the urge to panic and flee.

After all, this might be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Not many people have this privilege. Although your heart might be pounding and you mind racing, try to remain calm and still. Ghosts, for the most part, are completely harmless.

TRY TO COMMUNICATE. Yes, you might be able to communicate with the spirit, if this is an intelligent haunting.

If this is a residual haunting - a kind of recording on the environment - then you probably will not be able to communicate with it.

The ghost will not even notice you.

That would be like trying to communicate with a video recording; no interaction is possible. If this is an intelligent haunting, however - a true spirit of a once-living person - you might be able to get a reaction. The spirit might look at you, possibly as intrigued by you as you are of it.

Calmly talk to the spirit, just as if you are talking to a person you just met. Introduce yourself. Ask its name. Be calm and respectful. There is no guarantee that you will get a response, audible or otherwise, but it's worth a try.

TAKE PICTURES. If you have a camera in hand, by all means try to discreetly photograph the spirit. Even if it's just your cell phone camera, get some shots.

But use the best camera you have available. Do not use the flash. The flash might wash out the figure of the spirit or cause unwanted reflections and glare.

Without the flash, this will mean that you will have to hold the camera as perfectly still as you can as you snap the picture, especially in low-light situations, to avoid blurring. Yes, your hands might be shaking, but do your very best. Take as many shots as you can while the apparition is visible. Also take some shots after the ghost and disappeared for comparison purposes.

If you have a video recorder, either a camcorder or as a function of your cell phone, that's even better.

Getting movement and sound would be great evidence!

RECORD SOME AUDIO. If you don't have video, at least try to get some audio. If you have a voice recorder, turn it on. Many cell phones also have a recording function or app that you can switch on.

There are two reasons for doing this: You want to document your attempted communication with the spirit. You might at least get an EVP (electronic voice phenomena) from it. Even though you might not hear anything at the time of the recording, you might hear something on the recording when you review it later.

CALL OTHERS IN. If you are alone but there are others nearby, in an adjacent room perhaps, calmly call them in. This will help confirm what you are experiencing.

. More witnesses to an event this extraordinary are better than one. Again, be calm. Don't shout. And prepare them for what they will (hopefully) see; you don't want them freaking out and getting all hysterical. Keep them all calm and respectful. You want this to be a special, even reverent experience for all involved. Having more people as personal witnesses will also mean that they can additionally document the experience with their cameras and recorders. The more documentation, the better.

WAIT IT OUT. Simply see what happens.

The spirit might be visible for just a few seconds or, if you're lucky, for a minute or more. Do not leave while the apparition is still visible - not even to fetch someone else.

Watch it. Take note of what it does and how it reacts. Even if it disappears, wait around for a little while. Perhaps it will return.

DOCUMENT IT. I cannot stress enough the importance of documenting this remarkable experience. Even if you have taken pictures, captured video and recorded audio, you should also make a written account. It will be important and interesting to see how your personal experience differs from the recorded experience.

Your written notes should include: Where it happened (as specific as possible) When it happened date and time Environmental factors - What was the weather, even if you were inside, The duration of the event, What the apparition looked like, again being as specific as possible, without embellishment, Male or female, Estimated age, Height and Posture - Standing?

Sitting? Race, colour of hair and other personal attributes, if discernable, Type and colour of clothes, Facial expressions, Fullbodied or partial apparition, Other elements - Did it have a cane?

Umbrella? Pipe? for example, Its movements - Was it stationary or did

it move about? Where did it go? Did it simply vanish or did it move out of the room? Did it appear to walk or simply float? Did it try to communicate?

What did it say? Or what were the impressions or feelings you got from it? Be as detailed as you can with your descriptions, and be completely honest.

Encourage any other witnesses to do the same so that you can compare notes.

RETURN. It has been noted that ghost phenomena - whether they are residual or intelligent hauntings tend to recur. So return to the spot where you encountered the ghost.

Try to make it the same time of day and under similar circumstances. Perhaps you'll get lucky a second time. This time, however, you can be more prepared with your cameras and other equipment.

There is no guarantee, of course, that the spirit will re-appear. These phenomena seem to happen where and when they want to. But now at least you'll know what to do if you see a ghost.

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AJ Paranormal Research was established by Annie Tarpley and Jarrod Walters who believe wholeheartedly in paranormal unity . They have worked with many other teams and groups in helping to resolve mysteries for clients whether it be in a large public facility or private residence.

Mostly, however, their team consists in working with Denise Berberick Reed and Michael Reed (MoPRS) along with Lisa Sennish ( STOP).

Collectively, the team has many years of experience in the field of paranormal research. They have a unique style and gear their investigations to the needs of their clients.

Pictured are kneeling Annie Tarpley. Standing l-r Lisa Sennish , Denise Berberick Reed, Michael Reed.

At Resaca, Georgia .

Annie is co-founder, wearing many hats.

She is lead investigator and historic researcher.

She is the main contact for the group setting up investigations. Although she does not consider herself a psychic, her ability to feel her surroundings has help resolve many unresolved mysteries.

Jarrod is co-founder and brings his unique psychic abilities to the table. He has been "spot on" when documented historic research is completed.

Annie Tarpley and Jarrod Walters co-founders AJ Paranormal Research.

One of the greatest accomplishments of the team was resolving a 150 year old mystery from the Civil War era. Annie is in the process of writing the diary of events which began in Resaca,Georgia ( U. S.)

during an investigation at a Confederate Civil War cemetery culminating in a surprising turn of events at Johnsons Island Confederate POW cemetery in Ohio (U.S.).

Each team member has their own story to tell as to why paranormal research has been a lifelong passion.

Each member of the team is eager to help clients and those who are curious in finding answers to paranormal mysteries.

AJ Paranormal Research never charges for investigations, they are happy to work with other teams supporting paranormal unity and offer a speakers bureau.

AJ Paranormal Research can be found on Facebook or by contacting atarp01@gmail.com Many Thanks To Annie Tarpley for Contributing.

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GETTYSBURG U.S.A This is Lydia Leister's farm house used during the Civil War as General Meade's headquarters in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

I took the photo as my husband was looking in a room used as a kitchen. It was around 3:00 in the afternoon. We didn't see the face until we reviewed the photo upon our return home.

The face is in the right window, lower middle pane.

We also looked into the other window. There was nothing in front of, or hanging in the windows (curtains). There is no public access to the inside of building. This photo was taken in 2008.

We returned to Gettysburg two years ago and took a lot of photos of this building. The face does not appear in the newer photos

Close up of the window pane and a photograph of General Meade.

Is this who has been captured in the window?

This photo was taken days after the battle, notice the dead horses in the front yard and street.

The Battle of Gettysburg took place between 1st & 3rd of July 1863 Thank You to Bev McCoy for the kind use of her photographs and descriptions.

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WHAT DO PARANORMAL RESEARCHERS ACTUALLY DO?

By Nick Evans

Like many, I’ve been asked this question a thousand and one times and like many I’ve only ever given a partial answer....

Simply because we do more than we think and more than they’ll ever know!

After reading last months addition of the magazine, which I must say did exactly what it was intended to do by making me question what I thought I knew, I asked myself exactly the same question, what do I, like so many others, actually do? Are we just Ghost hunters? The resounding answer is a definite NO! We are so much more and then some!

Here are just a few of the things that sprung to mind and are in no way comprehensive. They may be familiar....

For a private investigation, we become an initial point of contact to someone who needs our help; we become in many instances an unofficial counsellor. We reassure and we sympathize, we assess and we formulate the best approach to take.

If it’s a public venue, we become liaison co-ordinators with the site.

W e t h e n b ec o m e h i s t o r i c researchers trawling through official documents and articles looking for possible connections and answers.

We become event facilitators, we go into marketing the event, become logistics managers, unofficial tour guides, risk assessors, site security, fundraisers... the list goes on and all of these hats we wear are before we even start doing the thing we are actually there for....

Ghost hunting!

And here is where it gets interesting! We become photographers; night vision camera operators; audio engineers; scientists working in the realms of thermo dynamics; physicists; structural engineers; surveillance operatives.... once again the list goes on and all of these are done in the dark!

We then come to reviewing evidence, we can pick out the one anomaly in white noise on hours of audio, we scrutinize hundreds of photographs looking for a single picture that may provide evidence, we watch hours of night vision video footage for the 3 seconds of something that catches our eyes, we take personal statements from people there, so we can tie these in with hard evidence, we then ask the world to review our findings and await for the inevitable onslaught of sceptics and people who ‘know’ what we’ve actually found....

So, next time we’re asked the question, “what do you actually do?” Smile and reply, “more than you’ll ever know”.

Take care, be safe and above all, happy hunting.

England’s Haunted......

Poltergeist part 2 By Stephen Renfield

Case 3 THE SOUTH SHIELDS POLTERGIEST This happened over several months in a terraced house in South Shields, a coastal town in north east England.

It started in December 2005 with movement of furniture and objects.

The family here were a young couple, Marc and Marianne, and their three-year old son Robert.

Some typical incidents documented by the couple include the following: We ... found two chairs had been stacked on top of one another on top of the table in the bedroom.

Bed, box and drawers were heard moving in Robert's bedroom.

‘two chairs had been stacked on top of one another on top of the table in the bedroom.’

The chest of drawers from Robert's room was pulled out onto the landing on the top of the stairs and the large box full of stuff was moved from one bedroom to another. While in the bedroom two toys were thrown at Marianne and Marc.

The door leading into the kitchen opened three times on its own..

One particularly convincing incident was a plastic water bottle which one of them saw and photographed balancing diagonally on the table, a quite unnatural position.

It soon became obvious that the entity was trying to frighten the couple. Once they found their child's rocking horse hanging by one its reins from the loft hatch in the ceiling.

In another particular sinister incident, a large toy bunny was found in a chair placed at the top of the stairs, holding a box cutter blade in one of its paws. The poltergeist also took to writing threatening messages on a doodle-board in the child's bedroom, and in the later stages sent text messages to Marianne's mobile phone, such as 'get you bitch' and 'You're Dead'.

As time wore on the phenomena intensified.

Big red welts appeared suddenly on Marc's body and vanished equally mysteriously, in front of several witnesses.

Investigators watched cupboard doors swinging open, light-shades swinging, and the quilt on the bed moving. The couple were seriously frightened when the child himself was moved.

On the first occasion they found him lying on the floor tightly wrapped in his bed quilt, with a plastic table on top of him. The child himself seemed to be asleep, but his eyes were wide open, as if he was in a trance.

Another time the child appeared to have vanished altogether, and was eventually found in a closet, tightly cocooned in a blanket.

In fact no real harm seems to have ever been done, but the couple were terrified, and it was felt that the poltergeist was trying to create fear in order to generate emotion that it could feed from.

What to make of it all?

The case fits a classic pattern in many ways, and reads like a very detailed account of what we are long familiar with from other accounts.

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Case 4 HAUNTING AT BORLEY RECTORY Borley, near Sudbury, in Essex is not the sort of place you would normally think to associate with Poltergeists, yet the area has a sinister reputation known throughout the country. Borley was the site the infamous Borley Rectory, reputedly the "Most Haunted House in England" Borley Rectory was built in 1863 for the Revd Henry Bull. It was erected on the site of an ancient monastery and the ghost of a sorrowful nun who strolled along the so called "Nun's Walk" was already well known in the villagers at that time.

An old story claimed that she was a wayward sister from the nearby nunnery at Bures who had fallen in love with a monk from the Borley Monastery.

The two had tried to elope together but had been tracked down. The monk was executed and the nun bricked up in the cellars of the monastic buildings. Revd Bull had a summer-house put up overlooking the Nun's walk so that he could watch the manifestations. However, the lady soon became something of nuisance, she often startled guests by peering at them through the windows of the new rectory. Servants rarely stayed long.

‘she often startled guests by peering at them through the windows of the new rectory.’

The Reverend's four daughters even saw the lady gliding across the lawn in broad daylight.

The hauntings increased during the incumbency of Henry Bull's son, Harry. Apparitions now included a ghostly coach and horses seen racing up the rectory drive1927 saw the death of the last of the Bulls, and the Revd Eric Smith and his wife arrived at the rectory.

They had been warned of the building's reputation and took the precaution of inviting the well-known psychic researcher, Harry Price, to visit.

Mr. Price's arrival appears to have set in motion an outburst of inexplicable poltergeist activity.

Objects were smashed and stones hurled at the investigator by unseen forces. It was all too much for the Smiths and they left after only two years.

The rectory now became the home of Revd Lionel Foyster and his family, and the ghostly phenomena immediately took a turn for the worse.

The resident phantom appears to have taken a liking to the rector's young wife, Marianne.

She often had objects thrown at her, but even more strange were the messages addressed to Marianne which began to appear scrawled on the walls of the house - even while witnesses watched!

However, despite attempts at communication, most remained unintelligible.

Though one certainly read, "Marianne, please help get" and another, "Pleas for help and prayers".

Marianne Foyster

The Revd Foyster had Borley Rectory exorcised.

The result was positive at first and the manifestations stopped.

However, it was not long before they reappeared in a new form. Strange music would be heard from the nearby Church, communion wine would unaccountably turn into ink, the servants bells in the house rang of their own accord and the Foyster's child was attacked by "something horrible". The rector had had enough.

The family left and all successive incumbents refused to live in the house.

Intrigued by the further reports of psychic activity at Borley, Harry Price returned in 1937 and rented the building himself.

He advertised in The Times for trustworthy assistants and, in a prolonged psychic investigation, he attempted to get to the bottom of the hauntings.

With a team of forty-eight observers he logged an extraordinary number of psychic phenomena.

The most bizarre was perhaps the results of a sĂŠance held on 27th March 1938.

A ghostly communicant from beyond the grave claimed that the rectory would catch fire in the hallway that night and burn down.

A nun's body would be discovered amongst the ruins.

An extraordinary assertion, particularly as nothing happened.

Harry Price's lease ran out later that year, and the building was taken on by one Captain Gregson. He too was subjected to continuing mysterious happenings, including the disappearance of his two dogs.

Then, exactly eleven months to the day after the curious ghostly warning, an oil lamp unaccountably fell over in the hall and Borley Rectory burnt to the ground.

‘ghostly figures roaming around and through the flames’

Witnesses claimed to have seen ghostly figures roaming around and through the flames, while a nun's face peered down from an upper window.

Harry Price returned again in 1943. Digging in the cellars, he discovered the jawbone of a young woman.

Convinced that it was part of the body of the spectral nun, he attempted to end the hauntings by giving the bone a Christian burial.

It does not seem to have worked.

Supernatural happenings are still reported from the site of the rectory and the nearby churchyard.

The Borley Rectory site today

And Borley has an eerie air about the place that visitors cannot help but remark upon.

The building itself was finally demolished in 1944.

However, its legacy still continues today and it retains its reputation as one of the world's most famous haunted houses!

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Case 5 THE THORNTON HEATH POLTERGEIST In the 1970s, in Thornton Heath, England, a family was tormented by poltergeist phenomena that started one August night when they were woken in the middle of the night by a blaring bedside radio that had somehow turned itself on - tuned to a foreign-language station.

This was the beginning of a string of events that lasted nearly four years.

A lampshade repeatedly was knocked to the floor by unaided hands. During the Christmas season of 1972, an ornament was hurled across the room, smashing into the husband's forehead. "As he flopped into an armchair," reports Haunted Croydon, "the Christmas tree began to shake violently. "As he flopped into an armchair," reports Haunted Croydon, "the Christmas tree began to shake violently.

‘an ornament was hurled across the room, smashing into the husband's forehead’

Come the New Year and there were footsteps in the bedroom when there was no one there, and one night the couple's son awoke to find a man in old fashioned dress staring threateningly at him.

The family's fear grew when, as they entertained friends one night, there was a loud knocking at the front door, the living room door was then flung open and all the house's lights came on."

Having the house blessed failed to rid the house of the phenomena. "Objects flew through the air, loud noises were heard and the family would sometimes hear a noise which suggested some large piece of furniture had crashed to floor. When they went to investigate, nothing would be disturbed."

A medium who was consulted told the family that the house was haunted by a farmer of the name Chatterton, who considered the family trespassers on his property.

‘Objects flew through the air, loud noises were heard and the family would sometimes hear a noise which suggested some large piece of furniture had crashed to floor.’

An investigation bore out the fact that had indeed lived in the house in the mid-18th century.

"Chatterton's wife now joined in causing mayhem, and often the tenant's wife would be followed up the stairs at night by an elderly grey-haired woman wearing a pinafore and with her hair tied back in a bun. If looked at, she would disappear back into the shadows. The family even reported seeing the farmer appear on their television screens, wearing a black jacket with wide, pointed lapels, high-necked shirt and black cravat."

After the family moved out of the house, the poltergeist activity ceased, and none have been reported by subsequent residents.

Whatever you feel about Poltergeist activity, there seems to be more and more cases being reported today. Whether it is because there are many more paranormal groups out there to lend a hand or if it is because people are more accepting of such cases. In my studies, I came across so many reported cases, I just picked out a few. I hope you enjoyed them. If you have had or investigated any reported Poltergeist activity, please contact the editor, you never know you may even find your story published here.

Stephen Renfield

PHOTO’S

This was taken at an old vicarage at Biscathorpe, England. There was only 2 people present, none of who were smoking, moisture 62% and 11degrees C, taken with outstretched arm over worktop.

This was taken at Skidbrooke Church, England. It shows what appears to be hazy figures in the doorway.

Photos used with the kind permission of L.A.D Paranormal Investigation Team

Sony HDR-CX730E review It comes with HD filming, with a Carl Zeiss lens and balanced optical steady shot, which means as the cam is moved around the lens moves also, this gives a more smooth and stable film experience, very handy when your moving around in an unstable haunted location.

Along side the night shot option there is a separate front light, which when powered makes recording seem almost daylight. This is superb as sometimes the night shot does struggle in complete darkness, or at a distance. I have not come across this before, as you usually have to provide a separate external light.

There is also a 24.1 megapixel still shot camera; this could almost do away with the need for a separate shooter.

What is also impressive is the 5.1 surround sound microphone, which gives clear audio and has picked up EVP’s that were not herd at the time.

Whether or not you would use this in conjunction with, or instead of a digital voice recorder is your call.

Battery life is good to say we are using it with the LCD viewfinder and the IR night vision. It will last about 3 hours, and we always carry a spare one, which can be bought from Ebay for around ÂŁ10.

I do find it strange though that you do need a SD card to be able to operate the cam as it has no onboard memory, indeed the first time I took it out I left it in the car as I did not have a card on me! Use a 32GB card and this will give you plenty of space on a vigil, then simply transfer the data onto your laptop via the built in USB cable, wipe and your good to go, or have 2 SD cards and inter change.

The Sony also comes with the option to add a separate microphone and earphones, which is handy if you want to capture EVP in real time, and can save in the amount of equipment you carry as it it possible to use it for your EVP sessions.

So in short if you have around 1K to spend and your willing to invest in a high-end camcorder the Sony HDRCX730E is well worth a look, is easy to use, has amazing night shot and light features, good battery life and is reliable, what more could you want?

By; Mark Matthews, Midlands Paranormal Group.

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Film & book reviews Ash By James Herbert Sadly the last book English author James Herbert wrote before his death on March 20th 2013 and strangely the end of the story about Paranormal Investigator David Ash, we first encountered him in Haunted and then again in The Ghosts of Sleath.

Ash is a great finale for the Herberts character, the book is typical James Herbert in the way it builds up the suspense and blends unspeakable horror with romance and humour.

The setting for the story is focused in a remote castle in Scotland, perched high above the sea.

It is a secret place where for

the right price some of the most elite people are able to disappear from the public eye. Ash is called in to investigate several apparently paranormal occurrences at the castle which have the residents scared for their safety, and the owners for their income. The book nicely interweaves Royal mysteries, insane inmates and war criminals along with political intrigue and conspiracy theories.

Definitely one to keep you turning the pages as you get deeper into the mysteries and paranormal occurrences at Comraich Castle, this one really gets you thinking and wondering………

What If…….

‘the eyeball popped as though sucked out and dropped against his upper cheek, held there only by thin bloody tendrils…’

Equipment Review A review on an excellent little digital voice recorder available from ebay, we have several of these in our team and have found it to be perfect for paranormal investigations. They come with earbuds and extension mic and are very well priced. The quality of sound recorded is excellent and very easy drag & drop to transfer to pc.

The ability to listen live during an EVP session using the earbuds is a great feature. An 8gig memory gives you plenty of storage, all in all we would recommend this great little piece of equipment.

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This months famous photo

A small selection of comments from Facebook Very odd isn't it!

It was actually easier then to manipulate photographs, long exposure times and processing gave anyone inclined to alter an image ample time to do it. Not saying that's what happened with this one, but it's a possibility.

Fake! Would be amazing if it was real Fake, it was disproven a while ago fake, was proven to be faked....but even without it being proved to be faked, the fact its staring straight at the camera is dodgy....

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Conjuring Ed and Lorraine Warren are prominent figures in the Paranormal World. They became famous for one of the most controversial Possession case in history, the Amytiville case.

The movie trailer advertised this movie as the scariest case they ever investigated. Needless to say this triggered my curiosity.

The Film starts after Ed and Lorraine's reputation is already set up and we get to know the characters through an investigation then through a lecture they are giving at a university.

Classic in its form, but efficient way of presenting the characters, it also serves as an appetizer to the tension to follow.

‘the scariest case they ever investigated’

The case of the Demonic Doll provides an introduction to general Demonic Possession which takes full effect in the Warren's next case. The movie also refers to the potential danger of keeping inanimate objects ( The victims in the first case of the Demonic Doll followed by the Warrens themselves. ) Paranormal fans will see a connection to shows such as ' Haunted Collector ' .

The Warrens are contacted

by Carolyn Perron, a woman desperate for help as she claims her house is plagued by an entity, and at her insistence, agreed to do a preliminary visit to verify the claim.

This leads the Warrens to their scariest investigation.

Despite his young age, the Director is far from being a Newbie in the Genre. At only 36, he already has under his belt the First ' Saw ' movie, and Insidious, to mention just these two.

Director James Wan The First ' Saw ' Movie, directed by Wan, launched one of the most successful Horror Movie Franchise in the past few decades, and was not only a pearl of Suspense and Tension, refreshingly original but also the only one worth watching in the Franchise. Wan clearly displayed some of the key elements of the craftsmanship of Horror Movie Making, competing with the best Master of the Genre. I would not be surprised if he would become the ' New ' Wes Craven. The script itself is pretty well done, delivering at small dose information all throughout the film.

Instead of being given all of the information at once, we do learn at the same pace as the Warrens.

It does not revolutionize the Genre but is clearly effective, managing to create quite a few jumping moments for the Audience.

However, it is definitely Wan's talents that elevate the film to what it is. His approach?

To forget the useless CGI, never to show a laughable monster or create a predicted scary effect.

Wan, thanks to his experience with low budget movie (Saw, Insidious,...), is selecting every camera angles for a specific purpose, never making them unnecessary.

The sequencing of the shots combined with the music and sounds effects are done in such a way you do not pay attention to it, yet, it contrives to make you feel on edge.

It is a return to the proper way of making an horror movie, used mostly in the 1970's and 1980's before Directors thought that CGI was the best thing ever invented to scare people. They could only rely on their script and camera work.

‘contrives to make you feel on edge’

It is a return to the proper way of making an horror movie, used mostly in the 1970's and 1980's before Directors thought that CGI was the best thing ever invented to scare people. They could only rely on their script and camera work. The result ?

A constant, gripping tension that keeps you on the edge of your seat, your fingers piercing into the arm of your chair.

The acting is right in par with the rest of the puzzle. Patrick Wilson, clearly at ease with collaborating with Wan (as he will collaborate with him again on Insidious) seems effortless in the portraying of Ed, almost to the point of making us think he is under acting it but it is in fact the opposite.

He completely understands the character, knowing how to nuance it and it shows in the second part of the movie. Vera Farmiga brings enough life and emotion to her character with never overemphasizing the power of Lorraine Warren that Wilson and her appear as deeply human.

They are weak, sensitive as any human being. They are not the typical ghost hunters you usually see in movie, powerful and limitless

The Perron family sets a picture perfect assemble of a Helpless loving family, with a special mention to the children. Livingston and Taylor are believable as the parents ready to do anything to save their children, with a rollercoaster wide range of emotions. What is also worth noticing is the fact that for once, the female characters are at the centre of the movie: Farmiga is the one with the Sensitivity and Taylor is the victim of the Possession, the two being the strongest characters of the movie.

The character of Livingston, though empathetic and extremely caring for his family, could have used a little more thickness. However, Livingston's performance fills some of this gap.

The decision to make the apparitions visible only to some of the characters is another of Wan's tricks to control the oppression rampant on so many levels in the movie. The Set, the music, the acting...

Wan speaks through his camera and what he has to say is powerful: yes the idea of Possession and Exorcism is not new in the Horror movie genre but sometimes sticking to the old recipe can give you the best dish.

As a horror movie Fan, The Conjuring is probably the best horror movie of 2013 and I cannot wait to review 'Insidious ' next week.

As a Ghost Investigator, It is an interesting insight into a case of Possession.

As a movie director, I wish I was James Wan.' Review written and kindly contributed by Jeremie Buchberger Pandemonium Paranormal

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Ghost Communication: Using Radio Sweep Technology Michael Hobert Edwards

Speaking to the Dead with Radios I will tell you is not just another fish story to reel in readers for momentary mind entertainment. Communicating with the dead using a radio with recorder is achievable and any person can do it.

You do not need to be a psychic, a medium or have any paranormal gifts to make contact with the dead using these devices. Radio Sweep (Ghost Box) EVP is believed by many to be messages from the dead that show up in the noise or raw audio of the radio scanning or sweeping stations. These words which can be male, female, young or old sounding, animated or even electronic sounding are somehow assembled by the dead from the radio traffic into intelligible messages often in one or more words, short phrases or longer sentences.

The often they occur and can be heard real time where they are loud enough that the person engaging the recording session can hear the message and respond back with an answer real time. For me, like skeptics and the scientific community, I was at first a nonbeliever in this concept that is until I tested it myself.

One day late 2007 while browsing the paranormal section at Barnes and Noble®, I stumbled upon a book written by a respected occult writer, Konstantinos. The title of the book, “Speak with the Dead” intrigued me so that I bought it with one purpose in mind which was to try and learn how to make contact with my late father, Hobert Collin Edwards.

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Using the guidance from “Speak with the Dead”, I tested the concept with my old worldwide Panasonic® AM/FM/SW manual sweep radio, and an old Sony® micro cassette tape recorder achieving some Radio Sweep (Ghost Box) EVP, but not with my father. Frustrated with having to continuously turn the manual radio dial to get results, I gave up, but later learned that there were other radios, digital scan radios that can sweep stations continuously by the click of a button, radios that could be altered by design and used to make contact with the dead.

In February 2008, while watching an airing of Paranormal State (PRS) ®, CASE FILE: 2007.11.43F - "The Asylum", my life changed forever! PRS® had invited Christopher Moon, a paranormal researcher who had been testing the controversial “Frank’s Box”, a ghost box known by many within the paranormal community as the “telephone to the dead”. A “Frank’s Box” a name coined by Christopher Moon himself, is a Radio Sweep (Ghost Box) EVP device built by a gifted man named Frank Sumption. Frank has built over 100 Radio Sweep (Ghost Box) EVP devices, selling several to friends and peers within the paranormal community to use and test.

A Frank's Box is designed to scan or sweep AM and FM stations continuously un-muted. According to Frank Sumption as well as others, spirit entities need something that contains elements of human speech which is believed to be raw audio, and a source of raw audio is being broadcast

everyday by radio stations around the world.

A "Frank’s Box" sweeps across these radio broadcasts producing an endless stream of bits of human speech, music, and white noise with white noise being less important. It is believed that the spirit entities somehow use this raw audio to communicate with us in the form of voices.

For example, when you play the game of scrabble, you use letters from the board game to form words, and with Radio Sweep (Ghost Box) EVP it is believed the dead somehow use raw audio to assemble words often in the form of one or more words, short phrases or longer sentences to communicate with the living. When using these Radio Sweep (Ghost Box) EVP devices, real time spirit communication (RTSC) with the dead can and does happen, meaning you can ask a question and get an answer to that question real time during some sessions. Frank Sumption crafted his first Radio Sweep (Ghost Box) EVP device in 2000 from spare radio and computer parts.

After watching the show, thoughts raced through my mind of getting one of Frank Sumption’s radios, so I could try and contact my father. Through the show’s web-site, I contacted Frank Sumption to inquire how I could get a radio like his. Frank informed me that I could either build a Ghost Box radio from the bottom up like he did, and he would gladly give me a copy of his design plans, or that I could simply buy a $25.00 radio and alter its design to scan stations un-muted. Having no electronics background, I opted for what has become known as the Shack Hack 12-469 digital scan radio which can be seen at http:// www.keyportparanormal.com/ hackableradiosghostbox.html, or you can Google® the words Shack Hack 12-469.

In addition to the radio, I also purchased an Olympus® digital recorder, and an external speaker to hook up to the radio which by design has an internal speaker enabling the radio to be used with

headphones or ear buds only. The external speaker is necessary to project the raw audio noise when scanning stations un-muted. After I was set up with my equipment, Frank Sumption invited me to join his EVP Yahoo® web discussion group at http:// tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/EVP-ITC/, so I could engage dialog with other members to learn how to use the Radio Sweep (Ghost Box) EVP device

Home testing the hacked Radio Shack model 12-469 radio Early one morning in February 2008, shortly after I turned on my hacked Radio Shack model 12-469 radio for the first time, I got the surprise of my life when I heard real time and quite loudly a British sounding male voice that said “Mike Edwards”, and when I asked “who are you that said Mike Edwards?”

I recorded a response of “Christian”. https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Gf-aHg49UNot hearing the response of Christian, I continued to ask who it was and received another response of “hello Michael”. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ujsGCwH6Wm0

Upon hearing these real time voices that said my first and last name, and later said my first name all in the same session made me realize everything I had read about the scientific community’s conclusion that ghost box communication is not real, is not true.

They obviously missed something in their testing.

Wanting to hear more, I held up a carved wooden dolphin and asked the dead in my room to name it, and I recorded real time messages of “Fish, Fish, Dolphin, and Dolphin”. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=hLEksaxD1so What I realized from this experience is someone, some entity or spirit in my room could see and hear me, but I could not see and hear them. For the rest of the day, I continued my testing holding up various items asking the spirits in my room to name the item and they did. Out from this experience in recording with the dead, I realized these devices could be used as tools to help get information. After learning how to better record and listen to Radio Sweep (Ghost Box) EVP,

I began to record paranormal messages with deceased missing children to try and help assist missing person advocates working with police. Using my hacked Radio Shack model 12-469 radio and a digital recorder, I teamed with a Chicago area Medium, Juli Velazquez, to help record for any information concerning a missing teen. For this particular case, Juli using her remote viewing skill pinpointed a location near where the teen was last seen, and I began recording for any EVP messages from the believed to be deceased teen.

While recording with the teen, I recorded messages of the word “Receipts� that were repeated several times in different recordings. When a private search team went into the area associated with the recording session, a bag of receipts was found by the search focal, and these receipts belonged to the victim. A subsequent search of the area also revealed other evidence.

Understanding the real value in using a ghost box as a tool, I developed an exceptional recording and transcription process which is outlined in my book “Speaking to the Dead with Radios”, available at Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/ Speaking-Dead My process grew out from my analysis of a variety of You Tube® ghost box videos ghost boxers had posted. I realized those who posted the videos tended to focus their listener’s attention to the real time messages that sounded in the recording. In doing so, they ignored a lot of information, spirit messages that occurred before and after the real time messages in their videos. The process outlined in my book teaches the reader how to isolate every recorded spirit message in that audio file saving each into their own wave file in the order in which they were recorded.

It is an exceptional process one in which can be used to extract usable information from the dead for a variety of applications,

for example, recording messages from deceased loved ones, recording with deceased crime victims to help solve cases, recording with deceased soldiers to help locate enemy bunkers and hideouts relaying these locations back to the recorder, recording with deceased FBI agents, Police Detectives, etc to request assistance in solving cases, recording with deceased archaeologists to learn the answers to age old questions, the list goes on.What is important for the scientific community and skeptics alike to know about ghost box communication, is testing should not dictate that every person part of the scientific testing must hear the same thing. We live in a world in which not every person will understand what another person says or is saying even if they are speaking the same language. For this reason, the testing should focus on the information received.

Knowing the dead can see and hear everything, I would love to see my process tested out with deceased soldiers to ask them to help find enemy locations and report that location back to the recorder.

Knowing the dead can see and hear everything, test my process to get information from deceased crime victims, or to get deceased detectives to help investigate and report case information back.

What we have here is a tool, and not just a weekend device to record voices at paranormal investigations. We have a tool that can help change the world, a tool that needs a second look by those who negate it.

A couple had just moved into their new house and were unpacking, the husband needed to go to the shop for some milk so they could have a break and a coffee.

He had only been gone a minute or two when the phone rang, ‘’Hello’’ she said as she answered it ‘’Hello deary, you don’t know me but my name is Sally Smith, I was the previous owner of your house and wondered if you could do me a favour?’’ replied the caller. ‘’Oh hi Sally, yes of course I can, what is it?’’ ‘’I think I left something in the cupboard in the front bedroom, it was on the top shelve, would you be good enough to find it for me and forward it on to me, ‘’ ‘’No problem, what address do I forward it to?’’ ‘’If you drop it into the solicitors that dealt with the house sale they will know, this is so kind of you, thank you’’ The woman replaced the receiver and went upstairs to find Sallys forgotten item.

She opened the cupboard and reached up to the shelve, there was a envelope there, it was very dusty and old looking.

As she was coming back down stairs her husband came home with the milk and saw her coming down with a puzzled look on her face. ‘’You OK? You look confused, what that’s you have?’’ he asked ‘’I’m not sure, a woman named Sally, the previous owner called, asked me to find it and forward it to her’’ replied the woman. ‘’Why didn't she wait for it instead of asking you to forward it to her?’’ he asked ‘’No she didn't call round she phoned about five minutes ago’’ It was the husbands turn to look confused now, ‘’What do you mean she phoned, how can she have the phones don’t get connected until tomorrow?’’ ‘’They must have done it early because it rang and I spoke to her’’ she said as she went over to the phone and picked up the receiver, ‘’Its dead’’ she said jiggling the receiver ‘’Its not even plugged in look’’ replied her husband holding up the end of the phone cable.

‘’What the hell is going on?’’ she said as she looked even more confused at the envelope she held in her shaking hand. ‘’Here let me take a look’’ her husband said as he took the envelope from her and opened it. ‘’What the……’’ he said as his eyes widened and he looked at his wife, ‘’What is it?’’ she asked ‘’It’s.. It’s...erm.. It’s a death certificate for Sally Smith dated 75 years ago!!’’ he stammered Sean, Past Investigations.

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ITC or (Instrumental TransCommunication) is a way to communicate with Spirits/Ghosts like no other. It is a modern form of "Scrying" and can be very useful during investigations but takes a LOT of time.

There are two ways you can perform the ITC experiment and that is water or video-feedback.

Basically what the ITC experiment does, it helps spirits use the water or video feedback to embed their image into the chosen type of communication.

How to do the ITC experiment: (Water Version ) 1: Get a pan (any size but preferably large, also it is recommended that you use a dark colored pan) fill it to about half way with water and let it settle.

2: As you are waiting for the water to settle ask the spirits to kindly communicate with you and tell them your intentions, in this case capturing their images in the water.

3: You begin by video taping either with a camera or your phone, but there needs to be flash involved to create the reflection (Anywhere between 5-20 seconds is enough per video) 4: You then stir the pot either with a spoon or your finger lightly just enough to create ripples in the water.

5: When you are done filming thank the spirits for letting you record their images and go through the video frame by frame. This can be a very long process, I recorded a 10 second video and went through it at around 1000fps and I ended up watching a 9 minute video!

Bare in mind that you won’t get full faces all of the time, some may come as eyes, nose, mouth or even hands, some may present themselves as half a face or a full face.

Also keep in mind that you can experience trick of the mind, especially when the images seem “cartoon” like, so only look for images that look “real” Below and on previous pages are some of the interesting images I have captured using this method.

Article and photographs kindly contributed by Kelly Paragirl

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