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Elemental spirits are believed to be spirits of things that inhabit nature. In the era of ancient religions where the belief of animism was common in many societies the belief in the existence of elemental spirits was almost universal. Animism is the belief that trees, mountains, rivers and other natural formations possess a spirit that can bring them to animation.
Today in most occultists and Neo-pagan witches the belief that all things possess life is prevalent. The elemental spirits are thought to possess supernatural powers that render them invisible to humans except if the human has psychic ability.
Along with the nature spirits are the elves who live in the woods and household spirits such as goblins and brownies are included in the classification of elementals. Sometimes fairies and mannikins are included in this classification. Mannikins are male fairies that have the same characteristics as gnomes and elves. There is a controversy among many different writers on the subject of whether elementals are friendly nice little creatures of nature or whether they are evil or mischievous little creatures that cause confusion and pain to humans. Some have classified them as between angel and man and can come in animal or human form.
There are many beliefs as to exactly where the elemental spirit originated. Some believe that the elemental spirit such as elves and the like resulted from Lilith’s conception. Lilith was believed to be the original succubi and was the personification of female lust. Some believe that she mated with Adam before Eve. Some say she seduced Adam while others believe that she conceived from his nocturnal emissions. These elementals that resulted from Lilith’s conception are believed to inhabit secret parts of the earth. The writers that believe the elementals to be benevolent creatures and they are believed to maintain the natural harmony. These writers also believe that these spirits are ruled or governed over by a higher spirit such as archangels.
Some groups of people believe that elementals lack a soul and that they roam the world seeking to have a sexual union with humans in order for this to happen. This is done through means of an incubus or a succubus as the case may be. Since these spirits are capable of having sex and bearing children so their offspring would carry the elemental stigma to show that they are not truly human.
Many folklore stories contain tales of such offspring of a human and an elemental such as Hercules, Alexander the great, Julius Caesar and more. Some believe that many of these human-elemental unions existed in the royal houses of France and England also.
While some elementals are deceitful and hateful and love to cause problems and tragedies to humans, these entities are associated with a ritual black magic and are sent on their attacks by the practitioners. These spirits are summoned up during the ritual and attach themselves to the victim’s aura. In this way they can drain energy from their victim through the aura. This can cause a whole gambit of problems for the intended victim unless the elemental is properly removed.
Thought-forms are elemental spirits that are created artificially. Since they are considered a non-physical entity they only exist in a mental plane, but they can be seen and felt by intuitive people such as psychics. Many folklore and religions from around the world believe in elementals. In Japan the Shinto religion worship nature and its forces and spirits. While the Romans and Greeks believed that spirits inhabit every thing in nature including the air. The Native North American Tribes believed in water babies that inhabited every bodies of water. To the Native American these spirits were not malicious but at times they could be play tricks on humans so they feared them.
Still other areas of the world believe that these little people had in fact special powers and could bestow these on humans.
The Chupacabra is a creature that has been sighted all over the world but the most sightings have been in South America and Puerto Rico. It is somewhat human in appearance, has fangs and has spines along its back. It has wings that are said to be seven feet wide. The Chupacabra or goat sucker is four feet tall and is tailless. It has two long arms that end in claws. There are varied descriptions of it resembling something that is crossed between an ape, human and bird. It has the fangs and stomach of a vampire and is as agile and strong as a panther.
No one is sure where it came from but it has been responsible for many deaths of goats and other animals. Just like vampires, the Chupacabra drinks the animal's blood. Animal carcasses have been found completely drained from their blood. There are many reports of seeing something resembling the description of the Chupacabra just before the dead animals were found. Many authorities believe that the Chupacabra might be a very large species of bat, but eye witnesses do not believe this. There are bats that do drink the blood from animals, such as cows, but they are not as large as the reported sightings of the Chupacabra.
It is reported that these creatures live in underground caves and only come out at night. Lately there have been a few reports of a similar creature attacking animals in the Miami area of Florida.
Lycanthropy comes from the Greek word lukos meaning wolf and the Greek word anthropos meaning man and translates into wolfman. So lycanthropy is the transformation of a human into a wolf. Usually it is a man but occasionally it can be a woman or a child.
There are two kinds of lycanthropy one exhibited as a mania in which the person believes himself to be a wolf and roams the country side to feed his craving for blood by killing and eating its victims.
The second type is accomplished through the use of ointments or charms, which have the magical power to turn a human into a werewolf. The term werewolf comes from the old English word wer or man plus wolf, which becomes manwolf.
There are many theories as to how a person becomes a werewolf. One is that the person controls the animal with his mind and makes the animal do what he commands. Another is that a person can deliberately transforms himself into the animal, as a sorcerer would do so as to do evil or kill his enemies. Not only can sorcerers change into wolfs but other animals as well, but also prefer the wolf the best as it is the most feared of any animal.
Throughout the world there has been many a belief in lycanthropy, the Navajo Indians believed that witches could turn themselves into the animals by just wearing the skin of the animal on their back. In medieval times the European countries were in fear of werewolves and they thought that these werewolves were servants of the devil.
Throughout centuries there have been many stories of werewolf and cannibalism in the courts. Many men were convicted of killing and eating their victims. Even in modern day there have been cases of men believing that they are werewolves. These modern day werewolves are thought to be possessed by the spirit of a wolf rather than being bitten by a werewolf as portrayed in Hollywood movies.
Everyone has seen at least one horror movie that has a person in the bathroom. The mirror is all fogged up and they turn away and when they turn back there is a message on the mirror. Mirrors are believed to be the windows to other realities. There are many portals in our homes that open and close all the time, mirrors are thought to be just one of these portals.
The entity uses the mirror to communicate with a person, this can be done on a fogged up mirror either through a message written in words or by drawing a picture. Unlike a person writing on a fogged up mirror one letter at a time, these messages manifest immediately in their entirety.
Mirrors have longed been used to receive messages from beyond. They enable one to see the past, present and future. This is called mirror scrying. Mirrors can also be used to communicate with a sprit by means of a psycomanthium. In a psycomanthium, a person is seated before a large mirror, the room is dark and a candle is placed behind them, the person then commands a spirit to come forth in the mirror which is then visible. This spirit can then answer questions of the person. This is very dangerous.
Many people report out of body experiences or OOBE as they are commonly called. An OOBE is when it is believed that your astral body or soul travels either with your conscious effort or without. Quite a few people learn to control this OOBE as a way of tuning in to their psychic self. Many other people are unwitting travelers that have this experience because of stress in their lives. Still others seem to have this experience as a forewarning of coming events either paranormal or the norm. Also OOBE should not be confused with sleep walking.
We have had many people report of OOBE here are just a few. One woman after a very trying day laid down on the couch in her living room, well in view of her husband and two kids. A few miles away her sister was just getting out of the shower and walked into her room to find her sister lying on her side in the bed. The sister was shocked and as she went to say something her sister disappeared. She called her sister and woke her up to find that she had indeed been sleeping and had not left her house. The woman did not remember her travels either.
Another story of OOBE was reported to us by a man who was watching TV in the living room of his home. His wife was not feeling well and decided to go to bed early. About an hour after she fell asleep the man looked up and saw his wife walk into the room and over to his chair and touch his arm at that she disappeared. The man jumped up and ran to his bedroom and found his wife asleep. Upon waking her up she had no recollection of walking in her sleep or of dreaming of walking in her sleep.
Another young mother reported to us that she had been having OOBE since she was in her teens. She had actually felt herself being pulled down the sheets of the bed by her ankles and out of the bed and into the room. One time she woke up in this state and was able to look down on her bed and tops of her dresser. This frightened her and she woke up in her bed. Another time during one of these experiences she was pulled out of bed in the same manner and she began to go down a tunnel, similar to the near death experiences. Once again she became frightened and returned to her bed.
This happened many times to her and once she realized that she could stop it by being frightened she decided to make a conscious effort to see what happened if she would continue on her trip. The next time it happened she allowed her self to go down the tunnel. At the end she found a bright light in front of her and to her left was what resembled a prison. It was dark in there and there were many dark skin men talking in a strange language.
To her right was what resembled an office, there was a partition so you could not see inside but there was a lot of light coming from that direction. As soon as she saw this she woke up back in her bed and was never to have anymore OOBE again.
We have found out that OOBE can be used to "stalk" people too. One woman that suffered under an African curse would wake to see the perpetrator standing over her bed at night. Sometimes she would see her as she showered or sat in the living room. It seemed that no matter where she went this woman would astral project her image to her. She felt that this was used to keep an eye on her.
There is a myth that waking someone who is in the process of astral projection can cause him or her great harm or even death. We know of no such cases but feel that OOBE can be dangerous especially if you don't understand what you are doing.
Ever drive down a dark road at night and feel like you are not alone? There could be a reason for this; you could have picked up a spirit hitchhiker or phantom traveler along the way. These spirit travelers are ghosts of human and even animals that haunt the many roads in the world today. There have been reported sightings of these entities in vehicles or places of transportation such as train stations, airports and way stations along the way.
They appear to haunt specific locations and types of transportation due to a tragedy associated with them.
There have been many reports of these travelers that date from the 1600s in Europe and Russia to the present.
All these reports have one thing in common these phantom travelers appear from nowhere and can just as suddenly disappear.
In New England there is a report of a man, a young girl and a coach seen traveling the roads between Connecticut and Boston. Many travelers from the early 1800s to the present have witness this apparition, all report seeing the same man and daughter and coach that seemed chased by clouds. Few people have reported that the coach and passengers do occasionally stop to ask directions to Boston and all report that the man drives the coach off in the opposite direction from where he is told to head. There is a record of a man and his daughter starting out for Boston and not heeding a warning about an approaching storm, the two were never see again.
There are many reports of ghosts on trains in the world, from the mysterious woman in black who cradles her husbands decapitated head in her lap on a British train, to a spectral hobo that rides the rails in Southern Georgia and many more stories all have the same thing in common all have met with some mishap while on a train and seem to be forever doomed to travel the same route.
There are reports of travelers that haunt airports and airplanes too. In London’s Heathrow airport there is a report of a ghost that haunts a run way there. The story is that this person died on this runway in the late 1940s. The plane crash killed all 22 people on board. Almost immediately after the crash rescue workers reported seeing this man dressed in a dark suit and bowler hat, where he walked up to them and asked them if they had found his briefcase. He has been reported quite a lot especially on foggy London nights.
Another apparition around the airport haunts the VIP lounges this is a different ghost and not much is known about this visitor that wears a light gray suit.
Not all phantom travelers have the luxury of riding either planes or trains; many of these visitors have to result to hitch hiking to make their way from one point to another. Most of the reported phantom hitchhiker stories have to do with a woman or young girl ghost that is most often seen by male drivers. These sightings seem to be of a damsel in distress, it is late at night, a remote stretch of the road, they usually appear in the headlights of the approaching car, dressed in white and most often are wet even if it’s not raining or there is no body of water around.
The same story permeates through out, the driver stops asks if she needs a ride, he notices she is cold and wet and offers her his jacket, she gets in the back, tells him where she is going, sometimes telling him her name. He takes her to the address looking occasionally in his rear view mirror to see how beautiful she is.
Upon reaching at the address she gave him he turns and notices she is gone, his jacket is on the seat where she was sitting, the seat is damp as is the jacket. Depending on the story she may leave something behind a scarf or a book.
The startled driver goes to the door of the address, usually a woman or man answers the door, tells him that this usually happens and it’s usually around the anniversary of their daughter’s death.
She was murdered or died in an accident near the location of where he picked her up. They eventually show him a picture of the girl to make him believe. One last thing if the phantom hitchhiker disappears wearing the driver’s jacket upon visiting the ghost grave he finds his jacket draped over the headstone.
One of the most famous phantom hitchhikers is that of Resurrection Mary who haunts a suburb of Chicago. It is believed that Mary was killed in a car accident around 1934 after she was dancing at the O. Henry Ballroom; there are reports of her spirit appearing around 1939. The tales tell of the spirit of Mary asking to be taken to the Ballroom where she dances all night long. At closing time she asks to be taken to Archer Road back towards the Resurrection Cemetery. As the car nears or passes the cemetery Mary disappears, during the renovation of the cemetery in the 1970s there were a lot of reports of Mary, some passersby would see her standing inside the large iron gates and thinking someone was locked inside would call for help in getting her out, but no matter how much they checked there would be no one in side the cemetery late at night.
There is another tale of a phantom traveler on a bus in Chicago, a young girl boarded a bus that was headed for downtown, at the end of the route the driver approached the young girl to ask for payment, she disappeared right before his eyes.
Just remember the warning that your parents gave you never to pick up hitchhikers, well it may not be an ax murderer you pick up, it may just be a phantom hitchhiker.
What are phone calls from the dead? This is a phenomenon that occurs to an individual from a close relationship of that person. Usually such phone calls occur within a 24-hour occurrence of the death or some have been known to happen up to 2 years of the death. What happens during these phone calls is that the deceased person needs to contact the living and some how uses their supernatural presence to manipulate the phone circuitry so some how make the phone call.
Usually the phones ring is flat and different from a regular call and there is a lot of static on the line. The voice is recognizable to the person and the phone call is ended abruptly by the line going dead. Sometimes if the person is unaware that the caller has died the phone call may go on for quite sometime.
The reasons for these calls maybe that the caller feels that he or she has some much needed information for the person on the other end. Like in the case of Ida Lupino the movie actress. Shortly after her father’s death she received a phone call from him telling her information about certain papers that she would need to settle his estate. Some calls are made to warn of up coming dangers or as a farewell message to the living. Maybe this person died before he got a chance to say good-bye or maybe the person felt that there was a need to warn the living person about some actions that they were involved in that could lead to their death.
Still other phone calls are made in observance of a holiday, birthday or anniversary. Still other calls are made to bring attention to the persons passing. A girl of 18 was sitting home one night watching TV when the phone rang a few times. She picked up the phone, there was no sound from the phone, and it seemed to have a hollow sound to the open line. Then a small sound of a woman talking came over the line, the voice said “ I will always be there for you, and the line went dead. Later she was to find out that her beloved grandmother had passed at the same moment that the phone rang, her grandmother had always promised her that she would always be there for the young woman. Was this a message from her grandmother? Or had the phone call just been crossed wires and the young woman imagined the message?
Many people do not take much stock in these phone calls. They believe that its hallucinations on the part of the receiver or maybe just an over whelming desire to talk to the deceased one last time. Still other callers believe that these are tricks played on humans by evil spirits creating misery for them.
These calls can go in reverse too, a person can make a call to another person unaware that they have passed and talk to them normally and later find out that the recipient is all ready dead at the time of the call. There have been many cases of adult children calling their parents and talking to them in a normal manner and finding out later that these parents have been deceased. One young woman from California had this urgent feeling to call her father who lived alone in Maine. She dialed his number sure that something was wrong with him, but was relieved to find out that he was fine. They carried on a conversation for quite sometime and ended with her father telling her he never felt better in his life. Later that day the state police called to tell her that there had been a terrible ice storm in Maine the night before and her father had slipped and fell and hit his head. The state police told her that he had died immediately upon falling and had lain out in the ice storm for nearly 24 hours until he was found a short while ago by the mail person.
The woman could not believe that because she had only two hours prior talked to her father on the phone, slowly she realized that she must have spoken to her father’s spirit rather than her father.
In the 1940s Thomas Edison attempted to work on a telephone that he hoped might contact the dead, he called it the psychic telephone. He never finished it.
Everyone has seen a movie about vampires, blood sucking creatures of the night that feed off innocent victims draining them of their life essence. Fictional story right? Perhaps, but there are indeed vampires walking amongst us every day, feeding off our own life essence and we don’t even know it.
These vampires are not the blood sucking ones of tales but rather psychic vampires, these are people that feed off of another persons energy. These psychic vampires can either be men or women and can either be young or old, they can be professionals, wealthy or poor, they come from every walk of life.
Everyone has encountered a meeting with a person that has left them totally drained or have awakened at night feeling paralyzed almost as if they are being held down by a dark force, these are examples of psychic vampirism.
Psychic vampires unlike blood sucking vampires are real and not made up of someone’s imagination. The way a psychic vampire attacks it through the solar plexus almost as if the person was having a heart attack, causing the person to wake up frightened. Through the fear that the person gives off the psychic vampire then takes enough energy and leaves the person awakens the next morning slightly tired due to the loss of energy.
These attacks go on nightly as the psychic vampire needs the energy to continue. These attacks can occur between 3 and 5 am all though these vampires can and do attack during the day time as well. A very strong psychic vampire can attack a person great distances as well.
There are intentional psychic vampires that are usually evil people who freely choose to feed off of a person in hopes of gaining strength and power from a person. These intentional psychic vampires feed on the energy of a person through manipulation of your energy this is done through leeching into your arua and feeding until they are full from your energy. This helps them to enhance their own psychic abilities. This can cause a person that is under attack from a psychic vampire to feel tired, sick, depressed and the feeling of not being able to cope with life.
There are some signs that a person could indeed be a psychic vampire, they first have some kind of psychic ability, this may cause them to want more and thus look for a person that has a stronger psychic ability and attack them in hopes of becoming stronger themselves. A person that is a psychic vampire could be a very moody and hostile person, their moods change with their energy levels, they tell you about bad things that happen in their lives to make you feel sad and emotional, they tend to loose friends causing them to be loners and they usually hide behind someone that is easy to manipulate.
Once an intentional psychic vampires knows you and has leeched off your energy they will go out of their way to interfere in your life in order to create emotions so that they can feed off of them. They will create fights in relationships, influence you into negative situations, they will create pain, anger, frustrations, hate, sadness and panic.
There is a way to rid one’s self of a psychic vampires. You will need two white candles some incense, sea salt and oil, like holy oil. Place one white candle in the upper right hand corner and the other in the upper left hand corner. In the middle of the two candles place the sea salt in a small cup with boiling warm water the incense in front of you. Take the oil and anoint each item. With the candle start in the middle and rub up and in the middle and go down, while saying " I ward off any and all negativity, in my home, work, school and everyday life. No evil or negativity shall enter here."
After anointing every item picture yourself in a white light, picture a white light all around you, your home, work and school. While doing so repeat the following saying:
Psychic vampires who lurk at night
Psychic vampires who try to destroy my life
Destroy no more of what I have achieved
Destroy no more of what I have received
Negativity is not welcome
Evil as well is not welcome
In me, around me, or around people I love
Say this as many times as you feel it has worked, continue to picture yourself in a white light and let the white candles and incense burn until it goes out by itself.
A shape shifter is a mythical creature that takes the shape of something or someone else in order to carry out its evil deeds. In the Philippines the people there believe that the Aswang roams amongst them. The Aswang is a mythological creature that is a shape shifter and is in the same league as a Vampire. Unlike Vampires though the Aswang eats off of the dead rather than the living. These creatures are known to steal the dead body and to replace it with the likeness of the deceased carved from a trunk of a banana tree. They are also known to steal and eat small children, their favorite body part are the liver and heart.
As in the stories of Vampires the Aswang’s are ordinary people by day in an occupation that is related to butchering meat. They seem to possess an ageless appearance are quiet in nature not wanting to call attention to themselves, they seem to blend in with the background.
There are some distinguishing signs to set them apart from ordinary humans, first they have blood shot eyes, this is due to them staying up all night looking for fresh deceased bodies. Another way to distinguish them from other normal people is that your reflection in their eyes is inverted.
They have been known to shape shift into animals, like a pig, dog or black bird and back to human again. While they are on the look out at night for newly deceased bodies they walk with their feet facing backwards.
The myth says that an Aswang can be revealed and dealt with through Catholic prayers that are prayed over a special oil that is made from coconuts and the coconut plant’s stem. The oil is put in a pot and when the Aswang comes near it begins to boil until it has left the vicinity of the pot.
Like many myth based stories the Aswang is told to children in hopes of keeping them off the streets at night, like Dracula perhaps the myth of the Aswang is indeed based on true accounts of an evil person.
Most people tend to think of the term Soul Mate meaning your one true love the person that you were meant to be with through life, but it can mean many different things. Soul mates are souls that have had experiences in the past and who have worked together through these experiences.
Family members whether they are biological, adopted or in law families are your soul mates. It is felt that souls evolve and reverse roles through past lives. These soul mates are attracted to you because they are on the same frequency as your soul. Many times soul mates come together as in love to bring forth into the world a much needed soul, a child.
Some experts believe that soul mates evolve from past live experiences and that when a person goes looking for his or her soul mates they tend to look for a soul that they were in a past life, for example a man might look for the soul that looks and acts like he did as a woman in a previous life.
They believe that the person’s ideal partner is who they were in that physical body. These experts tend to believe that we are always looking for ways to experience ourselves.
There are many definition of spirit guides, one is that spirit guides are entities that have chosen you to help you on your path through life. These entities can guide you on your path to a higher consciousness. Some believe that spirit guides are the part of your soul that which remains on the other side. Some people with psychic abilities call on spirit guides to help them communicate or channel the spirit realm.
The spirit guides speak to a person on many levels, you might hear them as a little voice in your head, in a dream state, through meditations or some times they can manifest themselves through ectoplasm, in photos or in human form.
Many times spirit guides help bring forth deceased loved ones for closure and other emotional reasons. These spirit guides can be with you for your life or for a short time depending on your needs. Spirit guides vary in number but we all have at least one spirit guide that is with us from birth. More guides can come for specific purposes in our lives.
Guides are attracted by your energy field and may stay with you indefinitely or can come and go, but you may choose to tell a spirit guide to leave if you want.
Meeting your spirit guides is a form of channeling and is not for everyone and must be done with great care. You never know what if coming forth through channeling, if you feel that you have connected with a negative spirit or are bringing forth negative messages stop channeling and trying to meet your spirit guides.
On the first day ask only yes or no questions do this for the first few days and only ask the question once. Make sure that you sit in a quiet place and relax, you can keep your eyes open or closed and just listen to your thoughts.
Ask your question and allow the answer to come naturally, keep asking with a few more yes or no answers which are not of a personal nature, this is the way you are training your mind to hear the messages that your spirit guides are sending you.
On day two this is when you will get to know your spirit guides again practice asking non personal yes or no answers, pause with each question and listen with your mind. Say hello you should sense a greeting back to you. Ask your spirit guide its name listen hard, at first it may be hard to understand the name but keep listening then ask if it is all right if you call the spirit guide by the name you have heard.
Once you have heard them name and have felt that it is all right to call the spirit guide by that name ask if the spirit guide is ready for more questions, wait for the answer.
The next set of questions should pertain to the spirit guide perhaps about their place in your life, why they are connected to you, how they will help you what is the function and what is your mission.
For the next four days ask your spirit guide questions that interest you pertaining to past lives the universe and other dimensions, do not ask personal questions as of yet. Get to know your spirit guides and the way they communicate through these question times. Over these four days you will get to know your guide and to feel comfortable with it.
On the sixth day you may begin to ask personal questions, but not ones that pertain to your love life or job. Continue with the yes or no questions, like are you my only spirit guide etc. Do not ask for long detailed explanations ask the questions that only require short brief explanations.
At this time you might ask for other spirit guides to speak with you also.
On the seventh day you can begin to ask your spirit guides about your family once again this is not in reference to your love life or marriage or family of your adult life. Your questions might be about your biological family from past lives and their relationship to you. You might want to ask if the soul of a deceased family member is indeed the soul of a new family member perhaps a new born infant.
On the eighth day you can begin to ask questions about your career and job always asking the question as a yes or no answer. Then on day nine you may begin to ask yes and no question concerning your love life.
Over the next couple of days you may begin to ask more detailed questions about your love life goals that you must meet in your life and your job.
Working with your spirit guides is rewarding and can take time and patience to conceive a good working relationship.
As in all work with spirits care must be taken to make sure that you are not channeling or connecting with any negative entities.
The beginning of the religion Spiritualism can be traced back to 1848 when two sisters Catherine and Margaretta Fox began to communicate with a spirit in their family home in Hydesville, New York just south of Rochester.
One night as the family sat around there was a sound of tapping noises, Mr. Fox could find no apparent cause for these noises and having confided in neighbors was told that previous owners of his house had reported strange noises too.
Soon the girls began to communicate with the spirit; Kate (Catherine) was the first one to find out that she could communicate with Mr. Splitfoot, a common name for the devil at that time, by making a code of a serious of rapping and knockings.
Through this code the sisters were able to determine that their house was being haunted by the spirit of a peddler that was murdered in their house, all though no record of a missing peddler was found and no human remains were found in the basement, still may believed that one of the former owners was responsible for the murder, but no charges were ever filed.
This caused quite a sensation in the area, finally proof of life after death and a way to communicate with spirits. Soon crowds of people were descending on the village and the Foxes house to hear these sounds for themselves, distraught by the onslaught the parents sent the two sisters to live with a brother and a sister, the sounds stopped at the house in Hydesville but soon started up where the sisters were living in their brother and sisters house.
Kate began to hold sittings or gatherings so that people could witness the sounds themselves while her sister Margaret (Margaretta) held spirit circles, which became known as séances.
Soon Margaret received a spirit message that she must hold a large public demonstration of the tapings so she rented an auditorium where people paid one dollar a peace to see and hear the spirits. During this time another Fox sister, Leah became aware that she too could communicate with these spirits.
No one could detect any fraud on the sister’s part, soon with Leah as their manager the two Fox sisters began to tour the United States. Soon many people were converted to this new belief called “Spiritualism”.
During their life time the sisters held séances for many famous people, one of these famous people was Mary Todd Lincoln who wanted Kate to contact her late husband, President Abraham Lincoln, unfortunately there is no proof that the contact was ever made. Some of Margaret’s famous clients were, James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
All though a few Christian believed that the Foxes demonstrations validated their Christian beliefs of a resurrection and life eternal, many though looked on these sisters works as that of the devil.
All though there are reports that both sisters were fraudulent in reporting that they could indeed converse with spirits, spiritualist refused to believe that they were duped.
All thought both sisters eventually confessed to trying to scare their mother and then being afraid of being punished for doing that concocted a way of making those sounds seem like they were from spirits, then later they both recanted their confession and returned to the séance table.
The three Fox sisters never enjoyed the great success that they had before their confession, Leah Fox died in 1890, Kate Fox died in 1892 and Margaret Fox died in poverty in 1893.
The Fox’s home was moved from Hydesville to a spiritualist retreat of Lily Dale, NY. In 1915, unfortunately the home was destroyed in a fire in 1950. The camp is still there today and a very popular place, for spiritualist and people interested in the paranormal and spirit communication.
Spontaneous human combustion is the bodies ability to ignite, spoke or blister in the absence of any external source of ignition. The body burns itself completely, sometimes leaving a limb as evidence that there was a body, but not igniting the surrounding area, these fires come from within the body.
There have been many reports over the years of spontaneous human combustion, at least 200 known cases have been reported. The first known recorded person to die of spontaneous human combustion was a wife of a Frenchman in the year 1673, only her skull and finger bones were left, the straw of her mattress was only slightly damaged by the flames.
And in 1744 in England a woman found her father consumed by spontaneous human combustion on the floor of his bedroom, none of his nearby clothing had been touched.
Spontaneous human combustion has happened in modern times as well, a report in 1951 of a woman that was found in her apartment completely reduced to a pile of ashes with only her skull and a left foot untouched.
The phenomenon associated with spontaneous human combustion is that the heat required to reduce a body to ashes is 3,000 degrees and at this temperature the whole area around the bodies should have been reduced to ashes also, but they are not.
Not everyone though dies from spontaneous human combustion. In 1944 a man survived the experience he reported that there was no feeling of heat nor did he saw flames, he just saw smoke and felt no pain.
There have been a few witnessed incidents they describe that the person seems to explode into flames and that there is no possible source of ignition. The flames seem to erupt directly from the person’s skin. Other times the witnesses do not see any flames just smoke. Witness who are nearby report never hearing any cries of pain or for help nothing that would alert them to anything going on in the other room.
Some victims do exhibit burns on their bodies which start a small marks but grow larger and more painful and even some persons do have odd occurrences of smoke coming from their bodies.
There are many theories of what causes some people to spontaneous combust while others do not. Some experts believe that alcohol has a lot to do with it while others believe that many of the victims had been overweight and the body had deposits of flammable fat. Still others believed that it was a sign of God as a form of punishment for evil ways. Still other so called experts felt that it was a built up of static electricity that caused these spontaneous combustion events. Still others believed that a persons poor diet could cause a build up of explosive chemicals in ones digestive system. And lastly spontaneous human combustion has been blamed on the body being able to shot circuited somehow causing it to ignite on its own.
Spontaneous human combustion is still an unsolved mystery as no satisfactory explanation has ever been given nor has any conclusive explanation been reported.
hat is an urban legend? Well an urban legend is a strange story that is passed from one person to another and usually has not basis of truth to it. But all the things in an urban legend can happen but is unlikely to ever have happened.
They are usually told around campfires late at night and in college dorms and of course on computers. Everyone has heard an urban legend at one time or another and is passed from generation to generation. One of the oldest best-known urban legends is that of the “Man with the Hook Arm”. This story takes place in many areas of the country but always has the same format. A young couple is warned about parking in secluded areas because of a man that is terrorizing couples with his hook arm. In the story the girl hears a sound and the boyfriend drives away and later finds a hook hanging from the door handle of the car. Or in some stories the boyfriend gets out to investigates and is killed by the hookman. Of course there is no truth to any of this as there are no newspaper reports or police department reports to confirm this story.
There are many stories that are circulated through out college campuses about murders that prowl about looking for their next victim. One such is of that of two college roommates that have a signal about over night guests. They tie a scarf on the door to signal to the other one to sleep on the couch that night. One night one roommate comes home and is so tired that even though the scarf is on the door she goes in and climbs right into her bed. She does hear a lot of rustling and moaning coming from the other bed but she crashed sound asleep. In the morning she finds the room full of blood and her roommate murdered and a note on her lamp that read “ aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the light?”. Once again there are no police reports to confirm that this actually took place.
Still another much repeated story is of the kidney removal story. That too varies from area to area and from person to person. Sometimes it’s a traveling salesman that is looking for some comfort from a prostitute and wakes up in a tub full of ice and blood with a note telling him to call 911 to save his life. Later at the hospital he is told that his kidney has been cut from his body while he slept. The National Kidney foundation has set up a special hot line to report anyone stealing a kidney in this manner to date no one has called that number.
Urban legends can involve all sorts of people, places, things and events but the original source is almost impossible to track down. As the stories are passed down from generation to generation or person to person things are added and changed to suit the teller’s interest. Many urban legends have more than one version and most disappear as fast as they get started but some do stay around for generations.
Vampire is defined as a corpse that can return to life at night to suck people's blood by biting them on the neck. A Vampire must do this to keep its strength. The victim eventually losses all strength and will soon die and become vampires also.
But are vampires real? There are many stories about these creatures from all over the world. Even today there are many superstitions surrounding vampires in European countries. In these countries people believe that if a person dies violently, by suicide or is condemned by their church these pour souls will become vampires.
The characteristics of a vampire are pale skin and a violent reaction to sunlight. Graves have been dug up to see if the suspected deceased is one of the undead. Signs of a corpse having a swollen appearance, lack of rigor mortis, and no signs of decay many years after burial was often a sign that the deceased was indeed a vampire and the only way to stop its feeding was to drive a wooden stake into its heart.
Europe is not the only place that Vampires were thought to reside; The United States had many outbreaks of Vampirism in the New England area in 1854, 1888, and 1890. One family in particular experienced a large amount of deaths among their 14 children. After the sixth child had passed a deceased daughter appeared to the woman in her dreams. Fearing that possibly this child was possessed by a vampire the family did the gruesome task of exhuming all their children's bodies. Each body, except the daughter's that appeared in the wife's dream, was decomposed, the daughter was preserved. The parents and towns people began the task of taking each dead child's heart and burning it in a fire before they reburied the body.
In the year 1854 in Connecticut a family came down with tuberculosis and the dreaded disease took the father and two sons' another became ill. In the year 1800s tuberculosis had no known cause or cure, superstitious family members began to believe that the deceased were indeed vampires. So once again they dug up the bodies and burned them before burying them once again.
During the next years there were many reported outbreaks of tuberculosis through out Vermont, Rhode Island and other New England states. Many townspeople looking for way to stop the disease exhumed the deceased and burned the hearts before reburying them.
In the late 1970s a sub-culture among the youth has grown up around vampire and is called Goth. Goth idolizes the vampire in many ways. Many vampire groups and clubs have surfaced around this sub-culture. There are many people that have even taken on the vampire way of life, by sleeping in coffins, sleeping during the day and only going out at night. Blood sucking has also been incorporated into their way of life, either drinking their own blood or a willing partner. Some vampires have even gotten fangs implanted over their own teeth to make their mouth more authentic looking.
Once thought to be stuff of horror movies, stories and superstitions some people today are living the vampire lifestyle.
