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Posted 05-30-22:  Walk-ins

Posted 04-19-2022:  Black-eyed Children: The Urban Legend

Posted 04-06-2022:  History of the Ouija Board

Posted 04-04-2022:  Shadow People



Paranormal:


Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. Wikipedia




Date posted:  05-30-22

Walk-ins


A walk-in is a new-age concept of a person whose original soul has departed his or her body and has been replaced with a new soul, either temporarily or permanently.

Do you ever feel you are not from this planet, timeline, or dimension? Do you feel that your soul came here to live out certain experiences, then something life-changing happened and you became another person, more evolved, with a mission to heal and help humanity? Such is the journey of the walk-in.

Interest in the walk-in phenomenon was initially stimulated in the 1970s by the popular "Seth Speaks" series of occult books written by channel Jane Roberts, as reputedly authored by her various spirit-world benefactors.

In 1979, author Ruth Montgomery contributed to the fascination with "Strangers Among Us", a collection of accounts of walk-ins. She included prominent historical figures among her subjects, such as Thomas Jefferson as having hosted walk-in spirits who actually wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Subsequently, a belief system grew up around the walk-in. It included new-age attributes: such as the concept of ascending into higher frequencies of evolution, a variety of psi-powers, traditional predictions regarding Earth changes (first cited in the Bible, Book of Daniel and Book of Revelation), but popularized by Edgar Cayce, as well as predictions of dire fates for those whose vibrational levels remain in lower frequency.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s a channeling team known as Savizar and Silarra (Extraterrestrial Earth Mission), emphasized their walk-in status, claiming successive walk-in experiences together with corresponding name changes.

The new-age walk-in belief system now includes a number of variant experiences, such as channeling, telepathic contact with extraterrestrial intelligences, and soul merging, where the original soul is said to remain present, coexisting or integrating with the new one.

For the most part, walk-ins are higher frequency aspects of someone's soul, here to heal and help during this time of transition. Once they allegedly enter a person, often after a traumatic experience, serious illness, or New Death Experience, the person's grid consciousness is forever changed, always going from negative to positive.

Walk-ins were featured on the June 4, 1999 segment of the Unsolved Mysteries television series. According to information presented on this program, there are walk-in conventions, one of them drawing approximately 500 people.

Souls experience themselves in many grid realities simultaneously. As of 2011, there is an increasing number of people claiming some type of walk-in experience, which has to do with souls in different realities merging back into One, as the consciousness hologram of our experience ends.

Walk-in within Culture

Walk-in is an ancient concept first described in Hinduism, whose modern name originated in the Spiritualist faith and was popularized by the related but not identical new-age movements and beliefs. A walk-in is thought to be a person whose original soul has departed his or her body and been replaced with a new soul.

Walk-ins first appear in Hindu sacred literature. In Hindu belief, each person is comprised of several bodies, including the physical, astral, mental, refined, and so on. The only essence that is not a body, and therefore not transferable, is the Atman. So according to this belief system, a walk-in, as described in the book "Merging with Siva" by Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, can take one or many of these bodies.

The most famous Hindu story of a walk-in is that of the missionary Saint Tirumular. Legend has it that he voluntarily left his body in order to reanimate a young cowherd who had just died. His own body was subsequently taken up to heaven by the god Siva, leaving him to spend the remainder of his life on earth in the body of the cowherd. He was able to access the dead man's knowledge, including his ability to speak Tamil.

In modern times true or sincere walk-ins might be a rare but possibly real medical or mental health phenomenon. A typical walk-in report involves an individual (frequently, but not always, female) who is badly injured, falls ill, is in some way incapacitated, or seems to die on the operating table during surgery, perhaps later reporting a near-death experience. Others claim that deep emotional trauma and suicidal desires alone may set the stage for a walk-in experience.

After resuscitation, the person may behave in a manner completely at odds with earlier established behavior patterns. She or he may speak in an unknown language and identify by a different name. They may be very frightened and confused, or abnormally calm. While the experience cannot be determined to have any objective reality, subjectively it is deeply and importantly real for the affected individual.

Almost invariably, a walk-in will state they either do not know where the original inhabitant of the body has got to, or that the original soul has left it and gone on to heaven, or reincarnated, etc., leaving them in charge. The new individual may claim he or she is an angel, a new version of the former self, an older more experienced soul.  Less often, they claim to be a brand new soul, one who has never incarnated before, or many other variations of their origins.

Many walk-ins claim heightened psychic sensitivity and may take up work as new-age healers or ministers. Others claim inability to accomplish basic tasks of daily living. Clearly, at least for some, claiming a walk-in experience may have a number of secondary gains.

While the new-age belief system about walk-ins claims that these transitions can't occur involuntarily and that no soul walks into another's body without reason, the behavior of some "new" people indicates that it may not always be so.

In classical cases, the change is immediately apparent. However, in cases where the "new soul" has enough information to take up the life of the "previous occupant" seamlessly, it may take weeks or months before a walk-in notices, or comes to believe, that a transition has indeed occurred. Occasionally, the "old self" returns after a period of months or years, and either the "new self" departs, or they coexist and may try to integrate into a single being, or work out a means of cooperation and live as two persons in one body.

This kind of walk-in is very similar to old-time pre-Sybil cases of multiple personalities, such as Mary Reynolds. A period of unconsciousness is followed by the manifestation of a new self. William James studied Reynolds and Ansel Bourne and thought of multiple personality as something natural but not yet understood, rather than a mental disease.

Boris Sidis, in his 1903 book "Multiple Personalities", recorded similar cases involving both men and women.

In 1979, Spiritualist author Ruth Montgomery published "Strangers Among Us", a collection of accounts of walk-ins. She included her own new-age theories and some improbable historical research, naming some renowned figures such as Thomas Jefferson as walk-ins. This, and her follow-up book "Threshold to Tomorrow", brought the concept of walk-ins to the general public.

  • Checklists to determine walk-in status include name changes, career changes, new interest in the study of psychic phenomena, a feeling that one is not really from Earth, or a sudden desire to move to a new environment.
  • Reported physical changes include memory loss and the sudden onset of allergic reactions. Since all of these factors could possibly be attributed to simple life changes, such as adolescence or middle age, it's difficult to determine solely from such a checklist if a true walk-in has occurred.

The most logical method might be to determine if any specific event historically connected with walk-ins, such as anesthesia for surgery, occurred around the time one first started feeling differently. There is, however, no known scientific method to prove whether or not the walk-in experience has any objective reality, let alone how to determine if one has occurred.

The belief system states that all souls come to earth in order to accomplish missions of cosmic significance, and that a walk-in is a highly evolved soul who is here to help raise the vibrational levels of humanity and doesn't want to bother with the tedious process of incarnating in the usual fashion (i.e., birth).

Walk-ins, according to new-age teachers, are not perfect like Ascended Masters, but are invariably more spiritual, compassionate and sympathetic than the original person.

This interpretation is sometimes disputed by the spouses of people who abruptly discontinue marital relations on the grounds that they are not the person whose name appears on the wedding license, or that carnal love is not for those of higher vibrational frequencies. Separation, divorce, and remarriage are very common to the new-age walk-in experience.

Walk-Ins, Otherkin and Multiplicity

The "otherkin" community defines a walk-in by the standard definition, with the caveat that people with multiple personalities may have one or more perceived entities in their body who "walked into" the body of their host, without the host needing to depart. They believe this can happen right after birth, or later in the life of the person concerned. Such a person is described as an "otherkin host", or simply as a host, and the foreign entity residing in them would be a walk-in.

The theorized origins of these souls vary. Some are thought to be human or animal spirits; others, creatures usually considered mythological; or extraterrestrial intelligences. They are thought to share the body space and take turns using the body, usually with permission and awareness.

Unlike the classic or Sybil-like description of multiple personality disorder, these groups of minds usually report getting on rather well and contribute energy and ideas to the host individual's life goals, as well as helping with activities of daily living.

Another phenomenon often confused with the above mentioned and classical walk-in experience is "hosting". A host is a person who believes he voluntarily shares his body with other souls, usually but not necessarily since birth, while retaining his own consciousness and sense of self.

A person who believes he's sharing his body with otherkin walk-in spirits can said to be hosting; but according to reports by people who experience hosting, not all hosted spirits are walk-ins, nor are they necessarily otherkin.

Some hosts claim that the presences they experience as residing in their body are simply the spirits of deceased relatives, or friends, or lovers from past lives. This is very similar to the description given by old-time Spiritualist mediums who believed they could allow a departed loved one or a spirit guide to take up residence in their body temporarily, or permanently.

These mediums were the first to have the term "multiple personalities" applied to them. They experience a sharing of space and body time with the perceived spirit, usually with mutual respect and caring uncharacteristic of stereotyped MPD behavior as reported by psychiatrists.

The concept of voluntary possession or sharing of the body by more than one spirit is well known in many indigenous cultures. One of the central practices of Voodoo is to allow gods and saints to take temporary possession of human bodies, to give advice and help to all the people.

Folk healing on the island of Bali can involve ceremonies in which departed ancestors take over a living body for the same purpose. For the ceremony called Sanghyang Dedari (external link), two little girls are specially trained to become temporary vessels for a pair of angels, Tunjung Biru and Dewi Supraba, who come to remove bad luck and sickness from the village at the end of the monsoons.

In some Gulf Coast Indian tribes, leaders and healers are chosen from "those who have the most spirits living inside them."

Generally, hosts say they are able to change body control between the persons residing in their bodies at will. In such situations, they feel that the main or host-self (in most cases, this is the soul of the original inhabitant) simply "takes a step back" and lets another entity "come forward" to control the body.

People who find themselves in a hosting or walk-in situation are also in a larger category, generally referred to simply as "multiples" by the other-kin community. Some other-kin multiples, and other people in walk-in hosting situations, stress that it is important to make a distinction between themselves and people who experience DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder).

On numerous websites and internet forums, where a certain amount of anonymity is possible, these people report being aware of the "others" and able to communicate and cooperate with them, again in contrast to standard popular and psychiatric conceptions of MPD or DID.

Such people often prefer to use internally-referential terms such as "people" or "selves" over the popular "personality" or psychological term "alter", which are considered misleading through the implication that each perceived internal entity is not a person in his or her own right.


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Date Posted:  04-19-2022

Black-eyed Children:  The Urban Legend

  • Black-eyed children or black-eyed kids are an American contemporary legend of paranormal creatures that resemble children between ages 6 and 16, with pale skin and black eyes, who are reportedly seen hitchhiking or begging, or are encountered on doorsteps of residential homes.... Wikepedia



They might knock on your door on a late wintry night. You may see them approaching your car while you are waiting at the stop light or a gas station. It might seem like they need help, or they might just stand still and stare in your direction for no reason.

These children do not look threatening. But they want to get into your house or your car. They will be persistent. Suddenly, you will notice something is not right about these children. Their eyes, pure black, from lid-to-lid, dead black orbs devoid of sclera or iris will send a chill up your spine. You have finally come across the black-eyed children.

Black-eyed children, or black-eyed kids, is an urban legend of paranormal creatures that resemble children between the ages of six and sixteen. These creatures, with pale skin and black eyes, have reportedly been seen hitchhiking, panhandling, or at the doorsteps of residential homes.

A dozen stories keep circulating, all following a very similar pattern. Kids with eyes completely blacked out appear at people's homes, or standing beside their vehicle. They knock on the door, and then they insist upon getting inside. Anyone who has encountered them has almost immediately felt an overwhelming sense of dread.

Besides blacked-out eyes, these children typically appear normal. Sometimes their attire seems outdated. In extremely unusual instances, people have reported encountering creatures with talon-like feet.

No one knows where or how these creatures pop up. Conspiracy theorists believe that Black-eyed children are aliens trying to reach out to "Earth".  Demonologists believe they are children of the devil himself and if you let them in, you are allowing the devil to enter your life. Their excuse for contact:  they want to enter your home to call their parents.  However, upon making eye contact, it seems like there is a much sinister plot to the story.

Some people claim that these children have existed since the 1980s. However, most sources say that the legend originated in 1996 in posts written by a Texas reporter named Brian Bethel, where he wrote about two alleged encounters with the black-eyed children.

He said that he encountered two children in Abilene, Texas, with pale skin and black eyes. In 2012, Bethel retold his story on the TV show Monsters and Mysteries in America.  He then wrote an article for the Abilene Reporter-News where he described his experience again.

  • One of the stories goes like this:  

In the snowy town, within the middle of nowhere of Vermont, an elderly couple heard the sound of three loud knocks on their door. They opened the door and saw two children, a boy and a girl. "Parents will be here soon, may we come in?", they asked. The children did not make eye contact and just stood there in the doorway. The elderly couple were hesitant, but after a while, they let the boy and girl inside.

The kids settled on the couch while the wife made some hot cocoa and the husband asked them questions that went unanswered. The wife returned and noticed that her cat was scared and angry with the children. "May we please use the restroom?", they asked.

The wife looked at the kids, and she finally saw them. The children's eyes were as black as a starless universe. She directed them to the bathroom and returned to her husband, who was covering his face with his hand. "Did you see their eyes?", she asked. Her husband then showed her his hand full of blood from a nosebleed.

The power suddenly went out, and the house turned as dark as the kids' eyes. The wife headed to the bathroom and was confronted by the voices of the kids at the end of the hall uttering, "Our parents are here." The kids then exited the house leaving the door wide open. The wife noticed that there were two men at the end of the driveway. The men were very tall and slender. The wife waved, but she did not receive the same friendly gesture in return. The two men and children then drove away together in one car.

A little later, after the kids had left, the power came back on. Throughout the next week, weird things happened in the house. Three out of four cats went missing, and the fourth was found dead in a pool of its own blood. The husband continued to have nosebleeds and finally went to the doctor, where he was diagnosed with very aggressive skin cancer.

This legend even crossed bodies of water and landed in the great land of the UK, where in 2014 the Daily Star wrote three front-page stories about sightings of the black-eyed children in the haunted pub in Staffordshire. Ghost hunters who believed that the black-eyed children were extra-terrestrials, vampires, or ghosts took these alleged sightings very seriously.

Nowadays, people still claim to see the black-eyed children when driving late at night down an empty road, or outside of their windows during the night, or even lurking in the shadows of their room. Many people have reported seeing the black-eyed children standing in the corner of their room during their episodes of sleep paralysis, or even waking up in the middle of the night because they sensed someone was watching them, and in the shadows were these children.


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author:  Maria Mohsin

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Date Posted:  04-06-2022

History of the Ouija Board


You and your friends are sitting around sharing spooky stories. The lights are dimmed and a soft creak down the hall gives everyone a start. And then it happens: someone pulls out a familiar looking box containing an object of wonder and dread -- the Ouija Board! One friend gasps in horror; another jumps back, sending their chair crashing to the ground. A few lean in and are excited to try it out; someone is already unboxing the planchette and examining it closely. The host hesitates and anxiously looks around the room to gauge the mood... Will you join in?

Many of us have had a similar experience. Whether at a Halloween party hosted by friends or neighbours, exploring an abandoned building with your cousins, or attending a séance guided by a medium, you have likely had an encounter with a Ouija Board. Some people are immediately terrified of the cardboard print and plastic planchette, while others mock the items and dismiss the game as pure rubbish. However, most of us fall somewhere in between: fascinated, intrigued and probably a bit cautious (just in case).

But few people who play with Ouija Boards know very much about their origins. Are these spirit boards the work of Satan? Or, are they a simple parlour game invented for entertainment? As we will see, the truth is not exactly clear…

The Victorian Age


The Ouija Board that we know and love (or dread!) today has been around since the 1890s. However, “talking boards” were part of historic civilizations around the world for centuries. A board was once used in ancient Rome to predict the next king. Across the globe, spirit writing was a common method for communicating with the dead in China before it was outlawed nearly a century ago. It’s clear that people have been trying to use boards to contact the other side for a very long time.

People of the Victorian era were no exception and they were especially fascinated by ghosts and the supernatural. Many individuals followed a movement called “spiritualism”: the belief that the spirits of the dead are present all around us and, when prompted, can communicate with the living. The spread of spiritualism across North America and throughout Europe was accompanied by a rise in consumer goods and new inventions. Products that promised to prove the existence of spirits and offered an opportunity to commune with deceased loved ones were being marketed all of the time. While many people genuinely believed in spiritual communication from an invisible realm, some business people looking to take advantage of the trend swiftly cashed in.

The Ouija Board is Born


The modern Ouija Board that we’ve become familiar with was patented by Elijah Bond. The business venture of making and selling the boards in the United States was signed over to Kennard Novelty Company in 1891 (and the International Novelty Company in Canada in the same year). People adhering to the spiritualist movement of the Victorian era were already using talking boards but Bond’s “Ouija Board” was the first widespread commercial attempt to make money on the idea. A combination of good timing and smart marketing ensured the Ouija Board would become a resounding success.

Decades after it was invented, the Ouija Board’s popularity reached its height. In the 1920s, after the devastation of the First World War, spiritualism surged in popularity once again. After losing so many loved ones in the conflict and facing a changing world following the most destructive years in human history, people were looking for guidance. Many individuals, including celebrities and politicians, turned to the spirit world for answers. Along with talking boards, people once again became interested in séances and mediums. Even Canada’s Prime Minister at the time, William Lyon Mackenzie King, actively participated in spiritualism in an effort to contact deceased loved ones and mentors.

It’s of little surprise that the popularity of the Ouija Board also exploded in the early 1920s. Marketing campaigns not only sold the board as a game for the entire family but also as a “magic” talking board for communicating with spirits. The board even entered American folklore after Norman Rockwell created an illustration of its use.




Shortly after witnessing his invention reach new heights, Elijah Bond passed away. His obituary made no mention of his iconic creation and instead focused on the family members and law career he was leaving behind.

A Gateway to Hell?


The Ouija Board continued to enjoy fluctuating popularity through the mid 20th century. But everything changed in 1973 and the use of the ever-popular game came to a screeching halt with the release of the popular horror movie, The Exorcist.

The film was loosely based on the true story of Roland Doe’s long exorcism in the 1940s, but many elements were added for dramatic effect. Although it’s unlikely that the Ouija Board was ever involved in Roland Doe’s real life story, the board took a prominent place in the 1973 film. Even the writer of the novel who inspired the film was convinced that Ouija Boards were connected with evil. When the main character was possessed for supposedly playing with a Ouija Board alone, mass perception of the “simple parlour game” was altered forever.

Soon Ouija Boards, and many other practices of spiritualism, were swept up in a mass panic. People were suddenly terrified of the beloved game and almost overnight it became associated with Satan. Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, more books and movies flooded the market that warned of the Ouija Boards’ dangers and played upon new fears of contacting evil spirits. A decade after The Exorcist was released, this pervasive fear of spiritualism and practices associated with contacting the dead eventually culminated in a widespread fear that devil worshippers were performing horrific rituals across North America. After spiritualism became associated with contacting the devil, the reputation of the Ouija Board was forever intertwined with evil.

Resurgence


Despite its unwarranted negative publicity through the latter decades of the 20th century, the Ouija Board is being rediscovered and some people are becoming more comfortable with its presence. Its appearance in popular television shows and movies, not as an object to conjure evil, but as a fascinating game to play with friends, has helped repair some damage. There have even been competitions for who has the biggest Ouija Board. Still, even with popular appearances on the rise, many people still refuse to be in the same room with them.

Part of this resurgence of the Ouija Board is a new grave marker in a Baltimore cemetery. For years, the grave of Elijah Bond was unmarked and almost lost to history. A dedicated group of paranormal enthusiasts, cemetery staff and volunteers eventually located the grave and arranged for a new stone commemorating the inventor. The unique headstone at his grave attests to Bond’s famous life work by taking the form of a Ouija Board. It’s unclear if anyone has ever tried to use a planchette on the granite marker to try and contact his spirit





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Date Posted:  04-04-2022

Shadow People

  • A shadow person is the perception of a patch of shadow as a living, humanoid figure, and interpreted as the presence of a spirit or other entity by believers in the paranormal or supernatural. Wikipedia



The shadowy figures you see from the corner of your eye may be more than just your imagination...

Have you ever been reading or watching TV when suddenly, in the periphery of your vision, you catch a glimpse of what appears to be a shadowy figure in the room with you? Dark, shadowy, humanoid figures like these are commonly known as shadow people, and they can be extremely scary and unsettling to the people who experience seeing them. But defining exactly what shadow people are (and if they’re actually paranormal) is up for debate.

Descriptions of shadowy, human-like figures have appeared in folklore and religious texts throughout history and cultures. Some examples include the supernatural creatures known as Jinn of ancient Islamic theology, the shadowy beings known as Nalusa Chito of the Native American Choctaw tribe’s mythology. The modernly-used term “shadow people” was apparently coined by paranormal researcher and book author Heidi Hollis, who claims that shadow people have been around since the beginning of time and usually appear as dark human-shaped silhouettes in our peripheral vision.

The fear of the dark (and all of its shadows) is a common one, probably because our eyes tend to play tricks on us when the lights are low. A jacket hanging on the door can easily morph into a silhouette, and a pile of blankets could suddenly look like someone lurking in your bed. But could shadow people be more than that? Here’s what you need to know about shadow people and what it means if you see one.

What Are Shadow People?


“Shadow people are a bit of an enigma in the paranormal community,” professional witch and psychic Renée Watt tells Bustle. “They are often thought of as ghosts or a collection of negative energy, but as is true with most paranormal phenomena, there is no finite answer.” According to Watt, shadow people can appear in different forms and may even indicate that someone is under a psychic attack. Many paranormal experts also theorize that there may be a connection between shadow people and extra-terrestrial life and that these beings could be other-worldly in origin or have a correlation with alleged alien abduction experiences.

While the exact supernatural origin of these shadow-like beings is debated among paranormal experts, there is one thing that most agree upon, which is that the presence of shadow people is wholly unsettling. “These shadowy, human-like entities have a bit of a murky reputation, as most people who report seeing them state that they feel uncomfortable, scared, and in some extreme cases, even paralyzed with fear,” Watt says. Most reports on shadow people are overwhelmingly negative and are accompanied by a feeling of dread.

Do Shadow People Have A Scientific Explanation?


Skeptics note that seeing shadow people could simply be chalked up to sleep paralysis, which is a medical phenomenon that takes place when someone is in between a sleeping and wakeful state. During sleep paralysis, a person feels fully conscious, but they’re unable to move or speak and may experience a feeling of intense dread, the sensation of being suffocated, or even hallucinations of shadowy figures. Other potential explanations include experiencing heightened emotional states, sleep deprivation, or substance use.

It’s also important to consider that most shadow people sightings appear in our peripheral vision, which is designed to detect motion and movement, not detail. That said, it would be easier to mistake something in the corner of our eye for something it isn’t than it would be if we were to see something head-on.

What To Do If You See A Shadow Person


It’s normal to feel fearful if you see something as inexplicable as a shadow person, but according to experts, it’s best to focus on staying grounded and not letting yourself be overwhelmed by the discomfort of what you’re experiencing. “If you encounter a shadow person, the worst thing you can do is give it your fear, as entities with negative intent thrive on their ability to make us feel unsafe or uncomfortable,” Watt says. “The best thing you can do is call in spiritual protection, pray, or simply stand your ground by firmly telling the shadow person to leave you alone.”

A one-off encounter with a shadow being can be creepy, but if your visions of these entities are ongoing, it might indicate that it’s time to do some spiritual cleansing of your energy field and your living space. “If you're having multiple experiences with shadow people, you may want to consider doing a major energetic house cleansing or hiring a professional energy worker to do one for you,” Watt says. You can spiritually cleanse your home (and hopefully keep shadow people at bay) by performing a protection ritual, putting out cleansing crystals in your home, or burning purifying herbs.


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