I have posted many updates about the things that have been happening here in our home with our 13-year-old daughter. We have seen shadow figures, full apparitions, orbs, and light energies, we have seen fan light chains pulled, and lights go off and on, as well as felt the chill and touch of something in the hallways and stairway of our home. We have had to burn books, burn sage, chalk each other, and pray with each other to keep us safe from evil entities. It all seems to center around our daughter.
Tonight, I saw a program that I just caught the tail end of a few times before. It was called Psychic Kids, and it was actually a pretty good show, other than the fact that it seems to focus on being scared. The mothers are always very clingy and protective, and it seems like they make the situation way worse than it has to be.
I know that I go down and sit with Sera, but I don’t feed into the fear. I try to sit with her and understand what is going on, and then talk to her about why it might be happening. We have tried to talk to them to find out what it is that they want, and we have tried to tell them to go away when we need rest. For the most part, I think that she has become less afraid, but more frustrated because they don’t seem to want to leave us alone.
A friend of mine suggested that we contact these people, after she read some of our posts. I have thought about it, and maybe it would be a good experience for her to meet other kids that are going through similar things. I know that I would have been happy to meet other kids with my abilities when I was growing up. I had to live and learn through it all alone, my parents did not talk about these things growing up, even though they both experienced similar things. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I found out about it. I guess she is lucky to at least have me.
When I was in elementary school I remember we had a field trip to the Pantages Theater in Hollywood, California. I remember the interior was really quite beautiful, and made me think of a castle, or palace. The Pantages is located at 6233 Hollywood, Blvd, and yes, it is haunted. The theater was originally completed in the 1930’s, and was a stage theater. In 1949, it was purchased by Howard Hughes, and it became part of old RKO Pictures, and it was turned into a movie screen theater. In 1967, it was purchased by Pacific Theaters, and was then turned back into an all stage theater, and the Broadway Touring Company performed there. There is a reason for me giving you all of this information before we talk about the hauntings, and I am getting to that…..lol.
Since 1932, there has been a woman spirit that visits when the theater is dark and quiet. She is believed to be a woman who was a patron, and who also had dreams of becoming a performer, died during one of the performances. They say her singing can be heard, day or night. Once, during a performance in 1994, her voice was picked up during a live performance, and they said she was singing along with the performers.
Howard Hughes, supposedly haunts the second floor in and around what used to be his office, and is now a large conference room. Employees have reported cold spots, and sudden passing of air, like someone walking by. Twice, there have been reports of a tall male entity, walking around the corner to what used to be his office, and sometimes there is even the scent of a smoke.
Alexander Pantages, was a very gentlemanly man, and his ghost is said to have helped an older employee of the theater, after she fell down in the theater when it was dark, and she could not see. Apparently, he took her by the arm and escorted her to the door and when she turned the lights on to thank him, there was no one to be found.
I did not experience any paranormal activity while I was there, but it sure would be fun to go back, and see what I could find now.
As most of you know, I have had to deal with ghosts for most of my life, and have never really had anyone around to help me to understand them. I was never taught that I should not to be afraid, and the fact that I loved scary movies even as a young child did not help my situation. I grew up being scared of ghosts, and even though I knew I should not fear them, somehow I was conditioned that way. I am trying very hard now, to recondition myself, not only for me but for my children. I want them to remain open to them, and to embrace the gifts that they have. I can’t go back and change how I reacted to my past experiences, but I can work toward changing how I react to them now. Lately, I have found that I can take photos of spirit orbs, just by asking for them to show themselves. I am very thankful for this gift, and hope to get some really good pictures to post on this site. I always feel a very positive energy when taking these pictures and it is a really good feeling. The point I am trying to make is that we should not fear them, not even the negative spirits, because we are in control. If we remain calm the negative spirits cannot become stronger by feeding off of our fears. We need to remain in control, and set boundaries and rules for our spiritual friends. When it is late at night and they want to talk, just tell them, “now is not the time” and ask them to leave, and allow you to rest, and if they are negative energies, let them know that they are not welcome and that they must leave now. You must be firm, yet loving, and kind. Trust in your faith that they will follow your directions, and that you are in control. Having negative or positive energies in your home can be very physically and mentally draining. I believe that spirits require lots of energy to present themselves, and they draw upon the energies around them, including your own energy, especially when they wake you up at all hours of the night. I also believe that we will be seeing a lot more spirits, ghosts, and orbs as we get closer to our day of enlightenment (2012). Paranormal activity of all kinds will become more and more common, and how wonderful that we have the Internet and the ability to share our experiences.
On August 23, 1971, in a small town called Belmez, began one of the most well documented hauntings in the world. Maria Gomez-Pereira noticed an unusual formation on her kitchen floor. She watched each day as the formation became an image, the image of a woman. Maria’s husband decided that he would take a pick axe tore out the cement floor. He then replaced the floor with more cement and they waited. Things returned to normal, and then just over a week later the face almost instantaneously reappeared on the kitchen floor. Soon, Maria and the Faces of Belmez, grabbed the attention of curious people, and paranormal investigators who came to the home to see the faces. Soon, the Belmez city council then became involved and decided that they should dig up Maria’s kitchen and excavate the earth beneath it, in an attempt to find the reason for this strange phenomena. What they would find, would shock the small town of Belmez. Buried almost nine feet under her kitchen were the skeletal remains of not one, but numerous headless bodies in a pile, and some of the remains were determined to have been dated back to the 13th century. They were removed and the kitchen floor was re-cemented, but it did not solve their problem.
The Pereira’s then noticed that the face reappeared, but this time there were also other faces starting to appear. Soon they called in experts to investigate the phenomenon. They were able to take a sample of the floor and examine it, and it was determined that there had been no evidence of paint or dyes. Once they were through with their examination they sealed the kitchen with wax on all windows and doors. The floor was covered with as well, and they made sure that no one could tamper with the evidence. The kitchen went untouched for a period of three months, and then the experts returned to reexamine the room. What they found was that the faces had evolved, and had even moved from their original places. In 2004, a group of investigators took EVP recordings of the room, and found that they had recorded voices crying, and one spoke directly to Maria and said, “I want to leave.”
There has been some reports that the Belmez Faces are a hoax, but it has not been verified. Maria Gomez-Pereira has died since, and the faces remain. Here is a video I found on YouTube, that shows you some of the faces that appeared during the time of the investigation. Watch them and make a decision for yourself. I am not sure that the Belmez City council did not know what they would find when they excavated the ground beneath her floor, maybe they did. Also why would this poor woman and her husband create such a hoax in the first place? Well, you decide. Enjoy!
We have been sharing our 3 bedroom home with an uninvited guest, of the paranormal kind, for well over 3 months now. It’s bad enough to have a living, breathing guest that won’t leave, but worse to have one that comes home at all hours of the day or night, without any regard for your sleep. It has been rough on my family, and I just realized how sleep deprived we have all been, especially my kids. Sera rarely gets a full nights sleep, and is exhausted by the weekend. It’s no wonder we all can get so grumpy at any given moment.
Yesterday, I decided that as soon as we can get the money, we are going to have to move. The kids will never be relaxed here because too much has happened. Every noise that they hear, spirit or no spirit, is always going to be a spirit, because that is the way they have been conditioned. It doesn’t matter how many times I tell them that it is a protective spirit or that it is not here to hurt us, it will never be the same. My two-year-old will always see the monster in the closet, my four-year-old will always want someone to go with here any times she leaves the room, my 11-year-old will always sleep with all the lights on, and my oldest daughter will never get any sleep. We will always hear someone walking up and down the stairs, because that is just the way it is.
Yesterday, my 11-year-old, Jake, was here sitting on the couch with his little sister when they heard something walk down the stairs. Jake usually handles it all pretty well, but this time he was sitting and saw and felt something put a hand on his knee and whatever it was held it there for a while. He was scared but did not panic, just sat there waiting for it to go. He isn’t sure how long it was there, but was pretty excited about it and talked about it for the next few hours. They took a little longer than usual to fall asleep last night again, I think it was about 11:15pm. Definitely not the time school aged kids should be going to sleep.
So, I am not sure when, but we will have to move to see if we can get some peace and quiet. I know that there is a chance we will find more ghosts in a new house, or that these will follow us, but that is a chance we are willing to take. This had definitely not been fun!
