I used to be into ghost hunting, seeking the paranormal, more ... before I became Christian. Then I read in the Bible that we shouldn't talk with the dead. That's actually hard for me, because I have the ability to do that rather easily.
I watch . . . The Dead Files . . . though most ghost hunting shows strike me as being foolish because, who wants to go into a den of demons just to try to prove they're there? No thank you! Not my thing! Most of these ghost hunters do not even have psychic abilities developed, and are just looking for thrills and answers for their own questions about the afterlife. Ever heard that curiosity killed the cat?
I started wondering what it was about The Dead Files that I liked so much. I'm a bit distressed by some of Amy Allan's solutions and attitudes. I do understand the need some have for her services. I've lived in a haunted location so I know this stuff happens.
What I learned was that a lot of my interest in the show was the research Steve DiSchiavi does in finding out what happened in and around those places in the past. I've always had an interest in local history, no matter what community I lived in. My interest is never rooted in a specific community so much as that it is something that travels with me, no matter what community I live in. (I've moved around a lot during my lifetime.) The fact that Steve's research is matched by Amy's impressions, does fascinate me.
What happened to me ... back around 1980 we moved our 1957 park model 40' trailer to
a mobile home park near Kerman, California. (link is to Google map) During the time I lived there two paranormal things happened. First, the sliding pocket door between our bedroom and the bathroom started shaking. What was strange was that the heavy wood door was broken and it took extra effort to lift it at the same time as moving it. There was no reason for the door to be suddenly shaking back and forth with nobody touching it.
The second incident, my husband was not there; I was living there with the children and he was far away in the San Francisco Bay Area. One night I heard the water in the bathroom turn on, then off again. I got up and noticed the sink was wet. Then I went into the other room to see which of my children was awake - but they were all soundly sleeping.
The next day I visited a neighbor who had lived there a long time. He told me the mobile home park was built on top of a cemetery! There had been a cemetery next to a church (This was on Church Ave. and it was probably the church the street was named for) and long ago, maybe in the 1930's the church had burned down. Supposedly, according to my neighbor, the graves in the cemetery had been moved (I don't believe that for a minute) and a school had been built there. Then years later, the school was demolished, and the trailer park is there now.
I went to the manager about this and she said yes, there was a cemetery, but only in the field behind my trailer. I didn't believe it was only in the field because I'd noticed weird long indentations in the hard packed dirt of the mobile home park, and wondered about that long before all this happened. The spirit never did anything that I noticed again, and I moved away as soon as I could.
I strive to live in places that are not haunted. I can easily pick up on the presence of a resident spirit, and would move my van to get away from one! I will not be seeking haunted locations. I don't mind walking through pioneer cemeteries in the daylight but am not going to seek them out. You can keep all your haunted tours. I have my own ideas of what's going on in the afterlife . . .
