I related the story of my first encounter with the dead in my blog entry about Aunt Viola.  Now I want to tell you about my Grandpa, who was a quiet man while alive, but has turned out to be quite a chatterbox now that he’s deceased. Steve and I got married in March of [...]

One of the most frightening and overtly physical paranormal experiences I had occured when I was about 16 years old.  It was a Sunday morning and I was sitting in bed reading a fiction book.  I used to read a book every Sunday morning, ah, those were the days.  Our house had very creaky floorboards [...]

Question: I think there is more to reality than what science has (or can) describe.  However, if such proof of paranormal occurrences is so pervasive, as they seem to be by your accounts, why are there still skeptics?  Surely some sort of data can be shown to the world that conclusively shows there is something [...]

Question: Can contacts with ghosts be dangerous, or are they only frightening but otherwise mostly harmless? How can one protect oneself against such dangers, if any? – Patrick Answer: I wasn’t sure if I wanted to answer this question or not because I didn’t want to scare anyone.  But the honest answer is that you [...]

I received quite a bit of feedback and a lot of questions about my entry, Astral Projection: My First Encounter so I thought I’d take a step back and answer some questions and explain astral projection a little bit better. What is astral projection? Astral projection occurs when you consciously separate your soul or astral [...]

It was January 7th, 1985.  On that night something amazing, frightening, and most intriguing happened to me.  It was the night I had my first astral projection. To preface this experience you should know that I was a fairly advanced lucid dreamer.  I had learned how to maintain my consciousness while asleep and in a [...]

One of my favorite paranormal stories to relate happened to me when I was 16 years old. One night I laid down to go to sleep with a high fever, it was probably 103 to 104 degrees. Needless to say, I was not in good shape. My mind was racing and ruminating and I just [...]