Paranormal Investigators: Past & Present: Dr Claude Swanson

Dr Claude V. Swanson PhD.

Dr Swanson is a Princeton University and MIT educated physicist. He has earned fellowships at Princeton, the “National Science Foundation” and “Putnam Fellowships”, and also conducted post-graduate work at Princeton and Cornell Universities where he worked on the design of superconducting plasma containment vessels for fusion energy systems.

Dr Swanson also started his own consulting business that conducted studied in applied physics for commercial companies and government agencies, including The U.S. Army and Navy and the CIA.

For some time now, alongside his “conventional physics” studies, Dr Swanson has also delved into the world of unconventional physics, mainly the unified field theory, or the “Theory of Everything” which aims to explain the universe's existence at its deepest levels. Through this study, Dr Swanson has studied paranormal phenomena's that appear to be real, but stand outside our present understanding of science and consciousness.

Through his studies, he has found evidence that signals can move faster than light, that human consciousness and influence can move backward and forward in time and that levitation and teleportation are a distinct possibility.

He has also collected evidence that proves that out-of-body and Near-death experiences show that alternate realities and dimensions do in fact exist and that human consciousness does indeed outlive the body and continues on.

Dr Swanson has investigated haunted house's, underwater archaeology, Qigong, remote viewing, psychokinesis and other paranormal occurrences, and is developing devices that will help measure the forces behind these phenomena, and hopefully explain how they work.
Dr Swanson has many books available on the different topics he has researched, one of the latest being “Life Force: The Scientific Basis”, a sequel to his earlier book “The Synchronised Universe”, which explores a wide range of human abilities and physical phenomena and how these energies can be utilised by current science to expand our knowledge of how the Universe and our world around us works.
“When many minds act collectively, in unison, it does indeed affect space, time and physics in a surprising and remarkable way.  This effect has been demonstrated in the work of Dr Dean Radin of the Noetic Society, Dr Roger Nelson of Princeton University, and Professor Bierman of the University of Amsterdam. These researchers have discovered that when many minds focus on the same thought, the quantum randomness of the Universe is reduced.” - Dr Claude Swanson

Dr Claude Swanson Quantum Physicist on Tesla Lights

http://youtu.be/g_jOzu1HB8I

Claude Swanson, PhD (Part 1) "Life Force: The Scientific Basis"

http://youtu.be/ZVjtiJOGcPs

Dr Swanson's website:

http://synchronizeduniverse.com/

Allen Tiller ©2013

Stigmata: Natuzza Evolo

The Stigmata of Natuzza Evolo

Studied by doctors, scientists and the Catholic clergy, the stigmata of Natuzza Evolo has fascinated investigators for many years.
 Natuzza not only has stigmata, but her blood and sweat have been seen to deliver another supernatural phenomenon, that of Hemography. Hemography is the belief that the blood, sweat and tears of stigmatic people can create religious symbols and words upon cloth or clothing

Natuzza was born in Paravati, Italy, before she was born her father fled to Argentina, and was never heard of again, Her Mother, Maria, had to take on many different jobs to feed and house her family, and as soon as Natuzza was of age, she too had to work, because of this, she was never schooled and never learnt to read and write.

It is said, even at this early age, Natuzza had visions of Lord Jesus and of Our Lady, The Virgin Mary.

In 1944 she met and married Pasquale Nicole, and together they had five children.

A book has been written about the life of Natuzza by Professor Valerio Marinelli, in the book her early life is recorded, as are her visions, and a lot of interviews are conducted with people who honestly believe they were healed by Natuzza after she prayed for them.

Natuzza became famous after blood coloured images and words appeared on her body around Easter, some of the words were found to be Hebrew and Aramaic, both languages far from the understanding of this humble uneducated Italian woman.

Natuzza felt incredible physical pain when the images and words would appear,  which no drug could relieve either pain. 

For decades after her stigmata were revealed, pilgrims would descend on Calabria, at the southern tip of Italy, and ask her for advice and prayers, offers of hope, and intercession for the souls of their dead relatives.

In May 1987, with permission of Monsignor Domenico Cortese, the Bishop of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea, Natuzza founded an association named "Fondazione Cuore Immacolato di Maria Rifugio Delle Anime" ("Immaculate Heart of Mary, Refuge of Souls Foundation.") The Foundation was later formally approved by the Bishop. 

Natuzza died on Sunday the first of November 2009 of Renal failure, Church Bells rang out at her death (allowed by the Parish Priest) and thousands of Catholics came to pay their respects, from this a cult has risen and it is expected the beatification process will begin very soon.

For a more in-depth look at Natuzza's miracles and the Hemography writings in blood please visit the link below

http://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2012/03/natuzza-evolo-stigmatic-blood-writings.html

© 2013 Allen Tiller

www.eidolonparanormal.com.au

The Stigmata: Father Zlatko Sudac

The Stigmata of Zlatko Sudac

Father Sudac is a Catholic Priest in Yugoslavia from the town of Vrbnik on Krk Island, Croatia. He began studying for the priesthood in 1993 after finishing a term of service, which is mandatory, in the Yugoslavian Army.

On the 29^th of June 1998, Sudac was ordained as a Catholic Priest. Father Sudac currently involves himself in religious seminars and retreats in his home country, which bring in large crowds due to his Stigmata. Father Sudac's stigmata appear on his hands, side and feet, as one would expect, but also as a cross on his forehead.

It is said as he paints, his fingertips bleed, as does his Stigmata.

There has been a growing cult around Father Sudac, with one Clergyman claiming “ There isn’t a Church in the World that can hold Sudac”, meaning that large numbers of parishioners are coming to see the miracle of the stigmata for themselves, and hope to be blessed by the young priest.

With great fame also comes great scrutiny, and Sudac is finding that many people, sceptical people, are not believing his stigmata is real, so at the same time as thousands flocking to see him, a small number, of louder voiced, opinionated people, are there to mock and prove him to be a fake.

Interestingly, Sudac often does not appear with the Stigmata whilst delivering Mass, this, of course, adds more weight in the mind of the sceptics, but for the true believers, they have faith that this priest is telling the truth, that Jesus himself has bestowed this gift upon him, and for them, seeing isn’t believing, faith for them is enough.

Sudac is still alive and well in Croatia. He still delivers Mass as required by duty, and attracts large throngs of worshippers who come to witness his Stigmata and other holy gifts. In time we could well witness him become a Saint.

For more information on Father Sudac, the following links are provided

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/trends/columns/cityside/5990/

http://www.velecasnisudac.com/ - in Croation but can be translated into English

© 2013 Allen Tiller

www.eidolonparanormal.com.au

The Hanging of Two Innocent Aboriginal Men in Victoria.

Bob & Jack

In 1842 two Aboriginal men said to be from Tasmania, were found guilty of killing two white whalers in Cape Patterson, Victoria.

The two men, known as Bob and Jack, were not allowed to give evidence in their own defence, or to call forward Aboriginal witness's, they were consequently found guilty by the white settlers jury, and sentenced to be hung at Gallows Hill.

Gallows Hill, stood outside the Old Melbourne Gaol, the gallows were two large wooden poles buried in the ground with a plank between them, and two pieces of wood, attached to the poles with hinges, for the prisoners to stand on, under the other unhinged end of the planks stood a pile of rubble, which kicked over, would release the planks and hang the prisoners.

On this occasion, the rubble did not fall far enough, and the two men hung, choking until an onlooker realised the problem and kicked the rest of the rubble out of the way, allowing the men to die.

Bob and Jack were removed from the gallows and their bodies were taken to the Melbourne cemetery, they were not allowed proper Aboriginal Rites nor Burial. The two men were buried in the northernmost section of the cemetery.

Today, Queen Victoria Market sits atop the old cemetery where it is believed hundreds, possibly thousands of people had been buried, Bob and Jack have been seen upon occasion in the Market and also are known to cause all kinds of mischief, no doubt they are restless due to not receiving their proper burial rites and the possibility of a miscarriage of justice from the white men jury.

© 2013 Allen Tiller

www.eidolonparanormal.com.au

Stigmata: Therese Neumann

The Stigmata of Therese Neumann

Born in the village of Konnersreuth, Bavaria, Germany, Therese Neumann was a Catholic Mystic who led an extraordinary life, with claims to have not eaten from 1922, and not drank water from 1926, other than the Holy Eucharist, until her death in 1962

In 1918, Therese was at her Uncles farm when the barn caught fire, trying to help extinguish the flames, she fell and became partially blind, this led to her having many more falls in the period after, due to her lack of sight, these falls would eventually blind her completely.

She became bedridden and developed terrible bed sores that would often expose her bones they were that severe.

On the day Therese of Lisieux was beatified in Rome, in 1923, Therese Neumann had been praying her Novenas, and was cured of her blindness, then, two years later, on May 17th 1925, Therese of Lisieux was fully canonised and became recognised as a Saint. Therese Neumann said that the new Saint called upon her and cured her of her illness and sores, and she was free to leave her bed.

This did not last too long though as later that year Therese suffered appendicitis, doctors came for her and prepared her for surgery. Therese began to convulse as the Doctors prepared her, she looked at the ceiling, staring, she said aloud “Yes!”, then asked her family to take her to Church and pray. Once they had done so, she stood before them and announced her appendicitis was fully cured.

On March 5th, 1926, Therese would show the first signs of the Stigmata, on the first Friday of Lent a wound appeared above her heart (which she kept secret) and she spoke of a vision of Jesus at Mount Olivet with three Apostles.
A few days later on the 12th of March, Therese had another vision of Christ at Mt Olivet, with a Crown of Thorns. Another week later, her wound appeared again, and she saw another vision, this time Jesus bearing his cross, and bloodied wound on his hand, a similar wound appeared on her hand, which she could not hide, so Therese decided to speak to her sister about it.

On good Friday, Therese claims, in a vision, she saw the entire Passion of Christ in a vision. Her wounds were now full stigmata, with the wound in her side, and her feet and hands, but also blood began to pour from her eyes.

Her bleeding became so bad at one point that her local Priest, Father Josef Naber read her the Last Rites, but 4pm the same day, her condition had drastically improved.
On Easter Sunday, again Therese had a vision of Christ, this time the Lord's Resurrection, for several Fridays following Therese suffered the Passions of Christ and all the pain and suffering that went with it. Her worst days of suffering and bleeding were always Good Friday from that point on.
Therese also suffered nine wounds on her head as well as wounds on her back and shoulders, sources say the wounds would never heal, but never become infected, and indeed they were documented by coroners upon her death

Another interesting fact about Therese, is during the reign of the Third Reich, the Nazi's started a defamation and ridicule policy aimed at her, defaming her wherever they could, because they feared her dissenting views and her growing popularity amongst Catholics in Germany, The Gestapo was ordered to watch her.
In 1929, a medium named Reinhard Lorenz claimed to have received a direct message about Therese, from Almighty God himself. The message was published in a periodical in Germany known as “Das Wort”.

In the message, God is to have stated that the phenomenon associated with Therese Neumann cannot be argued away by Science, that it cannot be explained away, that every man should look into his heart for understanding and this will create various useful thoughts to understand the signs of the times.
In September 1962 Therese Neumann died from cardiac arrest.

To this day the Roman Catholic Church has neither approved nor denied the Stigmata, and the Inedia suffered by Therese.

A cult formed supporting the canonisation of Neumann, and 40, 000 people signed a petition asking for her beatification.
In 2005, The Bishop of Regensburg formally began proceedings for her beatification.
Therese Neumann died from cardiac arrest, after having suffered from Angina pectoris for some time.
The Roman Catholic Church has neither confirmed nor denied the inedia (from which she suffered according to her critics), nor her stigmata. The "Resl", as she is colloquially known, nonetheless attained a place in popular piety — a petition asking for her beatification was signed by 40,000 people. In 2005, Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Bishop of Regensburg, formally opened the Vatican proceedings for her beatification.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtmRDGzflJw

http://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2009/12/therese-neumann-mystic-victim-soul.html

© 2013 Allen Tiller
www.eidolonparanormal.com.au

The Stigmata: St Faustina

The Stigmata of Saint Faustina

Born into this world on August 25th, 1905 in Glogoweic, Poland, Maria Faustyna Kowalska was a Catholic Polish nun, mystic and visionary, known as the Apostle of Divine Mercy.

Sister Faustina had grown up in a poor family in Poland, that struggled to survive, they could barely afford food let alone an education, and because of this young Maria only received about 3 years of schooling, enough to learn to read and write, but not much more.

At the age of 20, she joined a convent in Warsaw and was soon moved to Plock and then to Vilnius. In Vilnius, she met Father Michael Sopocko, who would become her confessor.

Faustina reported an umber of visions throughout her lifetime, but suffered most of them silently, with only the Mother superior and her confessor knowing the facts, it wasn’t until much later that the other sisters who she lived with finding out about her incredible visions of Jesus and other supernatural gifts.

In February 1931, on the 22nd, Jesus appeared to Sister Faustina to bring to her a wonderful message of mercy for all men. She wrote this in her diary about the experience:

"In the evening, when I was in my cell, I became aware of the Lord

Jesus clothed in a white garment. One hand was raised in blessing,

the other was touching the garment at the breast. From the opening

of the garment at the breast there came forth two large rays, one

red and the other pale. In silence I gazed intently at the Lord;

my soul was overwhelmed with fear, but also with great joy. After

a while Jesus said to me, 'paint an image according to the pattern

you see, with the inscription: Jesus, I trust in You.'

The Lord spoke to her again sometime later and said:

"The pale ray stands for the Water which makes souls righteous;

the red ray stands for the Blood which is the life of souls. These

two rays issued forth from the depths of My most tender Mercy at

that time when My agonising Heart was opened by a lance on the

Cros....Fortunate is the one who will dwell in their shelter, for

the just hand of God shall not lay hold of him."

Faustina's writings later became a book called “Diary: Divine Mercy In My Soul”

Faustina had entered the convent in 1925, and for the next 13 year,s she was graced with extraordinary gifts, including Bio location, visions, Stigmata, revelations, the reading of souls, prophecy and many more.

Despite all these gifts, Faustina knew that they did not constitute sanctity, and in her diary wrote of them

Pope John Paul II at the shrine of Divine Mercy
 in Krakow on June 7, 1997, in front of the tomb of
 Sister Faustina and the image of the Merciful Jesus

"Neither graces, nor revelations, nor raptures, nor gifts granted to a soul make it perfect, but rather the intimate union of the soul with God. These gifts are merely ornaments of the soul, but constitute neither its essence nor its perfection. My sanctity and perfection consist in the close union of my will with the will of God"

Later Faustina and Father Sopocko hired an artist and through Faustina's visions, the artist painted the first “Divine Mercy Image” which was completed in 1934 and was shown at the first Mass on the first Sunday after Easter, which would later become known as Divine Mercy Sunday.

St. Faustina was declared the first Saint of the 21st Century, she was canonised in April 2000







© 2013 Allen Tiller
www.eidolonparanormal.com.au

Paranormal Investigators: Past & Present: Michael Thalbourne

South Australian Parapsychologist

Dr Michael Thalbourne

Today we are celebrating the birthday of Adelaide born Parapsychologist, Dr Michael Thalbourne, a person I have found much inspiration from.

Thalbourne was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on March 24th 1955 (His birthday is today), and passed away on the 4th of May 2010. He was educated at the University of Adelaide and the University of Edinburgh.

From 1980 until 1987 Thalbourne was employed at the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research at Washington University in St Louis Missouri, USA.  

 In 1992 found himself back in his hometown of Adelaide where he served as the President of the Australian Institute for Parapsychological Research and was the editor of the Australian Journal of Parapsychology.

Since obtaining his B.A. (Hons) at the University of Adelaide, in 1976, Thalbourne dedicated his career to the study of peoples belief in the paranormal. He spent years trying to make connections between personality and the belief in the paranormal, had some success in doing so with his work into transliminality, which made the connection quite clear through a questionnaire he designed and tested.

Later in his career, he began to work on research conducted into the spiritual energy of Kundalini and its interconnection with the human psyche and the world around us. He also studied the effects of Bipolar and manic-depressive disorders, of which he suffered from himself.

In 1983 sceptic and professional conjurer, James Randi, (who we have covered here recently) perpetrated a hoax on the MacDonnell Laboratory of which Michael Thalbourne was a researcher. The following link will take you to a paper written about the event and the issues it highlighted for the Institution and its experiments and research.

http://www.aiprinc.org/para-c05_Thalbourne_1995.pdf

In 2011 The Parapsychological Association awarded Michael Thalbourne the “Outstanding Contribution Award” posthumously.

University of Adelaide

For a greater in-depth look into Michael Thalbournes career, an Obituary, published by his good friend, Lance Storm is available here:

http://www.parapsych.org/articles/29/123/2011_outstanding_contribution.aspx

Books written by Michael Thalbourne include:

A glossary of terms used in parapsychology (2003),

 The common thread between ESP and PK (2004),

Parapsychology in the Twenty-First Century: Essays on the future of Psychical Research (2005).

http://archived.parapsych.org/members/m_thalbourne.html

http://dailygrail.com/Mind-Mysteries/2010/5/Parapsychologist-Michael-Thalbourne-Passes

http://www.skeptic.org.uk/news/2010/2605

© 2013 Eidolon Paranormal 

written and researched by 

Allen Tiller 

www.eidolonparanormal.com.au 

Stigmata: St Francis of Assisi

The Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi

Saint Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic Friar and preacher, but before he became a man devoted to God, he was the son of a wealthy cloth merchant who was often seen cavorting in the streets with friends as a youth.
Francis was born whilst his Father was away on business, his mother was having a difficult labour and could not push the child out, an old beggar woman knocked on the door of the house and told her she should go to the stable. Once in the stable, miraculously, everything righted itself and the baby was born.

The unnamed baby was soon to baptised “John” in the local church and was given the name Francis, upon his Fathers return. “Francis” meaning “ The Frenchman” in Italian, was given as that was his Mothers birth country.
His upbringing was that of a moderately wealthy Italian family, and Francis himself was known for being flamboyant, often wearing clothing all the colours of the rainbow, with a long red feather protruding from his hat.
One day, an unusual thing happened, a beggar came to town, and upon seeing Francis, removed his dishevelled coat and placed it on the ground in front of Francis.
Francis told the beggar, “I have no money give!”, but the poor beggar did not care for money, he replied, “I do not want any! I do this to honour you, for, you will soon do great things that will be talked about until the end of the world!”

 The beggar's words have indeed proven to be true, with the recent election of Pope Francis, taken his name from St Francis of Assisi.
Francis, a youth of high spirits and energy, was soon to face war, like all youths in Italy in that era, he was sent to fight. Francis was captured and spent a year imprisoned. Upon his return to Assisi, it was noticed the energy and pluck of his youth were long gone, instead of his endless partying, he was now seen to stray into the fields to pray.
He gave away his armour, he gave his horse and gave away many of his other possessions.

Chapel of San Damiano

Whilst praying in the Chapel of San Damiano, a neglected old ruin at the time, Francis heard the Lord Jesus speak to him, Jesus told him to “Rebuild his Church”. Francis took the instruction literally and sought out the old priest in charge of the ruins, and gave him a large bag of gold to get the restoration work underway.
Francis disappeared for a month or more, no-one knew where he went, but when he returned he was dressed in rags like a beggar. His Father had him taken away fearing he had gone mad, but when his Father left on business, Francis Mother gave him money and set him free.

 His Father returned, and was angry, he took his son to court to retrieve his money but lost. Next, he took his son to the local Bishop. The bishop questioned Francis extensively, and Francis reply was that he wishes “to serve God”.
The Bishop admonished Francis for stealing his Fathers money, to which Francis reply, was to walk behind the curtain of the Bishops throne, strip naked, and return. He laid the clothing in front of his Father, as well as a small bag of gold and said unto him “Until now I have called Pietro di Bernardone father. I am returning his money and the clothes he has given to me. From now on, I shall not say ‘Father Pietro di Bernardone,’ but ‘Our Father who is in heaven!’”
With that Francis came under the protection of the Church and one of Gods servants.




It wasn't long until Francis lifestyle earned him followers, men and women who were inspired by the wealthy youth, who would give it all up to follow Christ and serve him unconditionally.
One of Francis followers, a young woman named Clare was so inspired she started the Catholic order of Poor Sisters
Frances himself also founded a number of orders, which the Pope at the time, Pope Innocent III authorised in 1210, he also went on to found the Order of Poor Clares, a religious order for women, as well as the Order of Brothers and Sisters of Penance (The Third Order)
It wasn’t until near the end of his life that Francis stigmata appeared. He had a vision of Jesus on a burning cross in the night sky.
Streams of light came from the vision and touched upon Francis body, overcome with the deepest of love for the Lord, Francis fell to the ground, the wounds of Christ displayed upon his body.
It is said Francis found great joy in carrying the wounds of Christ but they had a terrible effect on his body, weakening his health greatly. His stigmata lasted from 1224 until his death in 1226.
Late in his life, Francis received the Stigmata,
as told in this account from the Catholic Encyclopedia:


Early in August 1224, Francis retired with three companions to "that rugged rock 'twixt Tiber and Arno", as Dante called La Verna, there to keep a forty days fast in preparation for Michaelmas. During this retreat the sufferings of Christ became more than ever the burden of his meditations; into few souls, perhaps, had the full meaning of the Passion so deeply entered. It was on or about the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (14 September) while praying on the mountainside, that he beheld the marvellous vision of the seraph, as a sequel of which there appeared on his body the visible marks of the five wounds of the Crucified which, says an early writer, had long since been impressed upon his heart.

Francis died singing to death, his body was carried through Assisi so the people could see the wealthy young youth who would become known as the poor man of Assisi.




Saint Francis of Assisi is the first recorded person to have been gifted the Stigmata.
On July 16th 1228 he was pronounced a Saint by Pope Gregory IX.
He is known as the patron Saint of Animals and the environment and is a patron Saint of Italy (along with Saint Catherine of Siena)
Saint Francis of Assisi is also recognised as the creator of the nativity scene.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=50
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06221a.htm


© 2013 Allen Tiller

www.eidolonparanormal.com.au

An Introduction to the Supernatural Phenomena of Stigmata.

The Stigmata

Stigmata

Greek: Plural, Stigma singular. Στίγμα - meaning to brand, mark or tattoo, used for identification of livestock or slaves. Individuals bearing stigmata are known as a “stigmatic” or a “Stigmatist”.


The Stigmata is an often overlooked phenomena in the paranormal world, that focuses so heavily on ghosts and UFO's, we at Eidolon Paranormal like to do things a little differently than other teams, and research a vast array of different topics, and keep away from recycling the same old stories we so often see on paranormal forums, in what seems to be an endless cycle of trying to “top” another teams work.
Really though, how many times do paranormal fans out there want to read about Amityville (for example), with a slight variation of events, it'd be like watching the same episode of Ghost Adventures in a highlight real again and again with a slight variation to Zak's hair in each episode – you wouldn't want to watch it, we wouldn't want to present it.


So, as we have done before with our look into “Hex house” (http://eidolonparanormal.blogspot.com.au/2012_11_01_archive.html) and Pennsylvania Dutch Hex Signs, we are going to delve into The Stigmata and some short biographies on people who were blessed, or suffered from it, (as the case may be). As per usual with all our topics we present, we will provide links and direction for you to research the subject yourself (if you choose) – there is nothing better than making discoveries on your own, and we would like to encourage you to do so, rather than accepting what we put out as gospel.


So What is the Stigmata?


The Stigmata is used a term used to describe marks upon someone’s body, sores, wounds or pains that correspond with the crucifixion wounds suffered by Jesus Christ, the wounds appear on the feet and hands, a wound on the side, and sometimes many small wounds, or severe pain around ones head usually in conjunction with many marks across ones side and back. (an often overlooked aspect of the Stigmata that is associated with the “scourging” of Jesus with cat-o-nine tail type whips)

The main wounds are where the nails were driven into Jesus' feet and hands. Where the crown of thorns placed upon his head, and where Roman soldier, Longinus drove a spear into Jesus' side.
Many blessed Saints have become famous for the stigmata appearing upon their bodies, St. Francis of Assisi and Saint Padre Pio, being amongst them, but everyday, ordinary people have also borne the wounds of Christ and, as you are going to see with the coming Stigmata posts, it is not only men who the wounds appear on, women have also had stigmata.


Is it real?

This is truly a fascinating subject that needs exploring further. There are so many unanswered questions. Why do the wounds not get infected?
Why do some wounds smell like roses?
Is it a psychological physical manifestation and not Holy and of God?
Why are some Stigmata wounds in the wrist and not the hand?

Hopefully, some of these questions will be answered along the way, others you will find in our summary at the end of this series that will appear on our blog and our website simultaneously, links will also be put on our facebook page to the main story of the day.

© 2013 Allen Tiller
www.eidolonparanormal.com.au

A Haunting at Fremantle Arts Centre

Fremantle Arts Centre

   Work first started on the site where the Fremantle Arts Centre now stands back in 1863, with convict labour used to clear the six acres of land. In 1964, the foundation stone was laid for what was to become the Convict Establishment Fremantle Lunatic Asylum and Invalid Depot.
  The Asylum operated much like a prison and was bound by the same State and National laws as local gaols. It was used to house many types of people afflicted with social disorders and other problems and housed alcoholics, prostitutes, the elderly, the infirm, and the insane.

  In 1900 the asylum housed 219 patients, often with 20 people in a single room. It was at this time that a scandal broke out when Mrs Clifford was violently killed by another patient. All eyes were on the Asylum, and its practices. Staff and patients came under government and political scrutiny.
The scandal saw the Government force the Asylum to take on a medical superintendent and a trained mental health nurse.

From 1909, the Asylum's role in the community changed, now housing women only. It went from Asylum status to what is colloquially known as a “poor house” and was known as The Women’s Home.
  One year later, after the onslaught of an epidemic in Western Australia, the Women’s Home also became the training centre for maternity nurses, which in 1916 would move to the King Edward Hospital for Women.

  From 1909 until 1941 the Asylum was home to poor, divorced, and elderly women. The home faced many problems in this era, including young women escaping and men digging holes through the limestone walls to see their ladies. There were young women admitted suffering severe venereal diseases, these young ladies were under lock and key on the top floor of the building.

 In 1941 protests about the conditions of the patients, and the condition of the buildings saw the government close the Women’s Home.

 In 1942, during World War II, American soldiers were given the old asylum and its grounds for lodging. Other soldiers were soon to find lodgings there, with 22 new buildings erected to cater for 139 enlisted men and 21 officers.
From 1946 the Asylum took on a new role, that of school, with the Fremantle Technical School opening. At this time it also saw students from Princess May Girls School and Fremantle Boys School attend lessons on its grounds in prefabricated classrooms, but by 1958, the old building had started to fall into a state of disrepair.
 Sir Frederick Samson, Mayor of Fremantle, stepped in when threats were made to demolish the old Asylum in 1958. He envisaged a museum and arts centre being housed in the buildings. In 1970, some 12 years later, the museum part of the building was completed, and in 1973, the Arts Centre was completed and opened and is still operating today.

So is it Haunted?

Reports of doors opening and closing by themselves are very common within the building, but these events alone do not amount to a ghostly presence, however, people also report “cold spots”, strange lights in the building and, most peculiarly, extra people noticed standing in photographs who weren't present when the photo was first taken, also, people report the feeling of physical phenomena such as being hugged or kissed by unseen people.
Another common report in the Arts Centre is that of the apparition of an old lady who walks the corridors searching for her abducted child. It is thought she is an ex-asylum patient who jumped from an upstairs window, killing herself from grief...


For more information on this possible haunted location please follow the links below:

http://www.fac.org.au/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremantle_Arts_Centre

© 2013 Allen Tiller 

www.eidolonparanormal.com.au 

Paranormal Investigators: Past & Present: Kellie Ann Wirtz

Kellie Ann Wirtz

Hailing from Fond du lac Wisconsin, U.S.A. Today we meet Kellie Ann, co-founder of Wisconsin Team Paranormal Investigation and Research Society.
Kellie Ann first became interested in the paranormal in her early teens, She enjoys researching and reading about all things paranormal, and solving mysteries. Her passion for helping people is what has driven her to take her interest further and start to dig deeper into mysteries, and thus, become a paranormal investigator.

Before Co-founding PIRS, Kelly honed her skills with another team, Kettle Moraine Paranormal Investigation.
Besides being Co-founder of PIRS, Kelli Ann is also a lead investigator and the team's blog writer. You can find the team blog here:  http://pirs.blog.com/ - the PIRS blog also features interviews and profiles from across the globe highlighting paranormal investigators!

Kellie Ann has investigated some impressive locations, listing the Old City Hall building in West Bend Wisconsin, Washington County Historical Society Old Jailhouse and Courthouse and Villisca Ax Murder house as three that have impressed her. Kellie states that the history of the locations fascinates her, but the help and support of these locations owner/caretakers is what has impressed her most. Kellie Ann also tells me that Villisca Ax Murder house has offered up the best evidence so far.
Despite being impressed with these locations, Kellie Ann still lists peoples private homes as her favourite locations to investigate, as helping people on a personal level is her main priority.

Kellie Ann has had some interesting events happen during her investigations, most notable for her was when her team was trying to contact a 4-year-old boy on the other side. Kellie Ann was communicating with the boy, who she says appeared to be frightened by them, calming him down and making him aware they were not there to harm him.
As Kellie Ann left the room, she felt something wrap around her legs, almost knocking her over, but nothing was there, was the boy's spirit offering her a hug for her kind words and efforts to help him?
Becoming a paranormal investigator is often very rewarding when you are doing it for the right reasons, and it can be life changing for some, Kellie Ann has told me that it changed her life for the better, it has opened her mind and heart, and the people she has met have touched her soul. Other investigators have taught her a lot, and that she has seen great acts of compassion and kindness.
There is much good in the paranormal community, and it is good to see connections being made, people learning, inspiring and making positive energy flow.



Everyone loves to hear a good investigation story, so I asked Kellie Ann if she has any stories I can share with you, constant reader.
Kellie Ann:

“While in Villisca, my best friend Char and I performed an experiment. Char had been there the week before our group. She left a message in the attic for me by telling whoever will be there what her favourite colour was. I didn't know the answer to it. So when my group and another group was there I asked the question. What is Char's favourite colour? When we met up in September for a convention we shared our EVP's. Mine came back with "Colour blue" but then it also said "Purple"  Hers said "Please tell Kellie my favourite colour is Blue" but, at the end of it you hear her son say "But Mum I thought your favourite colour was purple?"  So we got both answers on record. We are going back next may together this time and will conduct more experiments. I am truly looking forward to it.”

Kellie Ann and PIRS have appeared on a few blog talk radio shows, including “Night Haunts” & “Sunday Night Dead” but as of yet have not been approached for any television or newspaper articles

You can find more about the team on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pirswisconsin 

and on the blog at  http://pirs.blog.com/

http://paranormalinvestigationandresearchsociety.webs.com/

We wish Kellie Ann and the Paranormal Investigation and Research Society team all the best with their future investigations and endeavours, their compassion and enthusiasm will drive this group to many rewarding adventures...

© 2013 Eidolon Paranormal

written and researched by

Allen Tiller

www.eidolonparanormal.com.au

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Paranormal Investigators: Past & Present: Karen Sherry

Karen SherryAustralian Paranormal Investigators

Karen was born in Glasgow Scotland, about eight years ago she moved here, to sunny Adelaide, and lived here for about two years before to moving to Brisbane, Queensland, where she now resides and is an investigator for the Australian Paranormal Investigators team.

Karen cannot remember a specific point in time where her interest in the paranormal sprung from, but living in the United Kingdom, with all the historic buildings, castles and homes, many of which are hundreds of years old, it wasn't hard for her to develop an interest in the history, nor the paranormal, as ghost stories are rife throughout the United Kingdom
 Although Karen doesn't have a specific time period she became interested in the paranormal she does have a memory of something unusual, when she was about 6 years old, Karen can remember sitting, playing with a deck of cards. She distinctly remembers deciding to give herself a “reading”, making a rule for every number and colour pattern on the cards, she set about doing her reading. It wasn't until much later in life that Karen discovered her Gran and her sister were card readers, but they had never told her, nor done any readings in her presence, so there was no way she could have known about their interest.

Australian Paranormal Investigators

 At the beginning of Karen's journey to become a paranormal investigator, she would take ghost tours and stay overnight in haunted hotels, hoping to experience phenomena, but wasn't enough, she wanted to know and learn more. It wasn't until her move to Australia that she decided to make the change from enthusiast to an investigator, her only regret is she didn't take the opportunity to follow the path in the United Kingdom, with all those historic buildings and locations
  Making the change from enthusiast to investigator has changed Karen's life, Karen had this to say about the change.


“Its made it busier at times for sure, like most of us tying it in with a full time career.   It’s a strange one really, in one hand its opened my eyes to more possibilities for sure, but in the other hand its also made me more sceptical as well.  Its human nature, the more you do, the more you experience, the more frequent things happen….the more you can find patterns or alternative reasoning… then resulting in becoming hungry for a ‘ paranormal experience’  that a logical reason cant be applied.  I'm definitely more passionate nowadays that I ever was and more into history, researching than at the start when it was all about just ‘experience’s’ now its ‘ trying to match those to truthful events I guess.”



Karen has been very lucky with investigations due to the fact she has been able to travel abroad to soe of the worlds better known haunted locations. Here are a few of places Karen has visited and her descriptions of events, in her own words:
Karen:
On the Queen Mary, Long Beach, CA
“I have been lucky enough to do 4-weekend investigations in the past few years and never disappointed.  RMS Queen Mary was built in my home town of Glasgow, a luxury cruise liner in the 30/40s, then a war ship transporting POWs, then a cruise liner again after that… the amount of reports on this ship is amazing and more than any other place I know.. good odds of having an experience or capturing EVP etc, it's my definite No.1 because paranormal aside the history and feeling of that ship is a real step back in time and spending the weekend on board you actually feel like your back there… amazing experience hunting or not!

The Queen Mary

I have developed a really good relationship with some researchers in the US that has allowed me access to places where the normal public don’t go, so that has probably heightened my experience on the Queen Mary I have to say.”

I asked Karen to name three locations that impressed her, of course, with her impressive list of places she has visited, three became a hard choice!



Karen's top three:
 "The Edinburgh Vaults, Scotland:  Firstly because its just an amazing historic location.  Investigated 3 times now and never disappointed with personal experiences, EVP and temperature/ EMF fluctuations hard to explain.  Genuine feeling of energy at times down there and just an impressive place to have had the chance to investigate.
Airth Castle, Scotland: again, amazing historic location.  Large wooden doors closing unaided, evp and unexplainable readings.  Impressive location whether paranormal or not.. the experience is worth it

Thirdly id say my home ( or at least my home when we first moved in and started renovating) certainly not as an impressive location as the others but some things experienced there was the primary reason and catapult for me getting involved in API.  This was not just personal experiences either as other visitors to the house would wonder why certain things were happening.  I do have to say after a year it all calmed down very nicely and I now kinda miss my old visitors.  Its now just back to a normal home!

Id tag on the ' Hotel Del Coronado' to my 4th, the location alone is just amazing, with the mountainous reports 3 of us spent a weekend there tracing steps of previous reports as well as spending 2 over nights in the notorious rooms, spending time in this historic hotel was a real step back in time and we are so glad we had the opportunity to investigate a location like this , paranormal aside because of its grandeur and notoriety it was one of my favourites.

I would like to state that we have had some interesting locations within Australia of course, but with our top hot spots overseas there's just nothing as yet that has been able to knock any of them off my list...YET"

I asked Karen if she could share with us a story of any unusual experiences she had had whilst investigating, or in general.

Karen: “A rather nice ‘ possible’ experience was at Bungunyah Manor, QLD where one of the  tales is of the lady who used to own the building.  Shes been frequently seen and one report stands out where she knocked on a room door of 3 ladies in middle of a blackout and asking the ladies in the room if they would like a cup of tea,  at that point they thought it was the owner, to only then see her turn and walk through a wall.  I found that story rather funny and cute.  One of the times we investigated in ‘the room in question’  at 2am,  my kettle started boiling.  I checked the switch and its an old flick switch i.e not easy to put on or off by accident.. so only a possible ‘ paranormal’ but a cute one on the chance that the nice little lady wanted to make me a cuppa also.”

Karen has told me that her favourite piece of equipment is her trusty voice recorder, she uses it without other ITC devices, and gets good clean EVPS, I also asked Karen what her best or favourite piece of paranormal related evidence is:

Karen “For definite,  EVP from the Queen Mary, its most definitely residual but its so prominent and beats anything else we have.  I love it because how do you logically explain 40 minutes at 1am of  creaking and groaning noises like an old ship, old clock ‘ ticking’  when there was an old art deco clock in the room that hasn’t worked for years, keys jangling when it’s a card swipe and most predominantly footsteps on wooden floor when everything’s carpeted.  It really sounds like a little snippet of time gone by and only 40 minutes out of 4 hrs recording an a complete fluke as all I did was leave a camcorder running in my stateroom whilst I was investigating elsewhere on the ship.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HuHNbPhcCo 

Karen and Australian Paranormal Investigators have so far not been approached for much in the way of media-related enquiries, and in fact, have shied away from it, but they did partake in one interview for “Coast to Country NSW” magazine, who published a spread on the team investigating a historical homestead in New South Wales.

You can find API online at:

http://www.australianparanormalinvestigators.com/

Or on Facebook at:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-Paranormal-Investigators/136880836334385?fref=ts

If you have a case you would like API to investigate, please forward enquiries to:

Karen Sherry

Case Manager

Australian Paranormal Investigators

enquiries@australianparanormalinvestigators.com

Please give API a “like” on Facebook and show your support for another fantastic Australian team who are down to earth, and doing what they love best.

© 2013 Eidolon Paranormal

written and researched by

Allen Tiller

www.eidolonparanormal.com.au

All content on the “Eidolon Paranormal Blog” site, blog and corresponding media pages (eg Facebook, twitter etc) is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any means or process without the written permission of the author. © 2012

All photos remain the property of their respective copyright owners and are displayed here for the purpose of education, research and review under the copyright act "fair usage" clause.