My birthday gift to Rob this year was to join an organized paranormal investigation aka 'ghost hunt'. It was held at an old farm house over in Euclid. It was the first time the place has been investigated and was a fundraiser for the local historical society, organized by the Haunted Housewives group.
This was our first time to do this with other people. Usually our experiences are spontaneous, so we were both curious to see what would happen. There were 6 investigators leading 3 groups of attendees. It was a smallish group-about 22 people so each group was 7 or so people. I found it a bit hard to concentrate with so many people in one room. Its funny that now I recognize that kind of busy energy around me. Living in a busy small city like SF, its not wonder I had to shut down that awareness! Anyway, We got to explore three different areas-the main house, an ancient barn (the oldest building) and a small bungalow. I could feel a lot of 'busy' energy in the house. But that could all be residual from the large family and the amount of renovation going on. I kept feeling like someone was saying 'maid', then Cathi from The Haunted Housewives said the matriarch of the family was Maude-very similar sounding so maybe I did pick up on something?
Our group was led by two men-I only talked to the leader Chris, the other man was very quiet. We also had mostly men in our group and sadly no one introduced themselves. I think there were 5 men and 3 women. We started with the bungalow. It seemed to be really quiet. I went up to the attic and could immediately feel energy. It was "leave me alone" energy. I told our leader about it and he said he had heard a growl when he was checking out the place before we got there. We did an EVP session but got nothing. Chris and a couple others went to the attic and I got the feeling that whoever was there did NOT like him being up there. So I told him so, they all came down and then he went back up to try and get something. He got a bit of the growl on the EVP, but did feel the energy sort of calm down while he was up there. We moved on to the house-again I couldn't get a good feel on anything being present. We went down to the basement, which normally always gives me the heebie jeebies and it was ok. I even stayed in a small dark back room without light and didn't freak out. That alone is a HUGE deal for me.
When I came, I felt like no matter what happened or might happen, our group was in some kind of white light bubble. So, I asked the group if any of them had done some kind of self protection. Everyone said they hadn't-which is kinda bad LOL. I think they all thought I was hippy dippy woo woo, but I said "If none of you have, than one of you have a spirit guide, guardian angel or protector that has us all in a bubble of light" protecting us all. Then I turned to one of the guys in our group and said "Aaron, right?" he shook his head yes. Now, the weird thing is- I had NO idea what his name was since none of us had introduced ourselves so I shocked myself there!! Anyway, I told him I felt he was the one with the spirit who was guarding us all. He said he did have 'something' that was following him and agreed it was probably protecting him. VALIDATION!!! LOL That was kinda weird and kinda fun to find out. I wonder if anyone else has had this kind of experience-that one person in the group had the entire group surrounded by white light?? It's one of those things I hope to be able to find someone to ask about! After that, we went up to the attic and while I felt old energy I couldn't get anything active. Chris and I both felt something touch our legs, about dog height and a bit of a cold spot but no EVP. I think it would have been different if we hadn't had so many people in the group milling about. Too many people scattering energy everywhere.
I got to talk to some of the people after everyone had taken their turn. It seems like they all come to these things since they all knew each other. Most hadn't gotten anything but a couple of small EVP's or light touches. It was interesting to see they had all gone to the previous event the weekend before and were all talking about various places they had gone too. I chatted but was a bit reserved since it seemed to be a close knit group of regulars. I didn't get anyone's contact info, but I'm hoping to do another one of these events at a more 'hot' spot. At first I felt a bit disappointed that we hadn't had anything really big happen. I had hoped that Rob would get a good EVP or something since it was his birthday gift. Come on Ghosties!! LOL. I also felt disappointed that I wasn't more 'on', and questioned that maybe I was wasting my time exploring this part of my life. Looking back I know it was a good experience and exercise for me. We are thinking about doing it on our own someplace here and see what we can come up with.
Even though I enjoyed getting out and doing something, standing and walking for 4 hours in the cold put my fibro into high gear. I was in pain and could barely walk or move my legs on Saturday. Note to self: limit time spent in cold when doing one of these things!
