Ghost Stories

En“light”ened ghosts of St. Mary’s Arts Center, Virginia City

St. Mary’s Arts Center, the former hospital and orphanage for the 1870s’ silver boom town of Virginia City,  Nevada, isn’t the most haunted place I’ve visited, but it’s still quite active. A passerby may mistake this three-story, red brick building as a large, stately mansion with its long driveway lined by parched, thin trees. A [...]

By |2020-06-16T14:19:07-07:00February 6th, 2013|Ghost Hunting, Ghost Stories, Nevada, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Something supernatural lurking in your home? Perhaps it’s a jinn.

During the Nevada Ghost and Paranormal Series’ Religion and the Paranormal Discussion, the Northern Nevada Muslim Community President Sherif A. Elfas shared his belief in jinn. Jinn are not ghosts; they’re equivalent to us. Muslims believe God created three types of sentient beings: angels (created from light), humans (created from clay) and jinn (created from [...]

You’ve considered the spirit’s presence in your home: now what?

See my previous post, “Before you cast out that spirit, ask yourself a few questions.” After ruminating on the questions I posed last week, you should now have a better idea of what kind of action you want to take in regard to the haunting of your house. You have control over the entity. This [...]

Creative paranormal investigating reaps benefits

During the séance I attended that pivotal night in the Goldfield Hotel, a woman sitting beside me said the ethereal entities around us found us entertaining. She saw a mental picture of our investigative team on a stage and the spirits in the audience, happy. In a time where some paranormal investigators make constant demands [...]

By |2020-06-16T14:19:07-07:00November 28th, 2012|Ghost Hunting, Ghost Stories, Uncategorized|6 Comments

What I’ve learned through exploring my own psychic abilities

We are all psychic: Many of us just need to shake off the dust and hone our skills. Awareness remains key to honing your sixth sense. So much of intuition gets ignored merely because we won’t pay attention to it. Heed the nagging suspicion in your mind and the strange thought that pops into your [...]

Not all ghosts have a sense of humor

Happy Halloween! In honor of this day, I thought I’d share a real-life ghost story that I witnessed just four weeks ago. Our investigative team wanders the third floor of the Millionaire’s Club, a once exclusive establishment in the late 1800s in Virginia City, Nevada. Housed on the two floors above the Old Washoe Club, [...]

By |2020-06-16T14:19:38-07:00October 31st, 2012|Ghost Hunting, Ghost Stories, Nevada, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Ghost, sprite or sylph: What is that spirit?

When Pride Hansen, owner of Metaphysical Learning Center in Reno, approached me about teaching a spirit identification class for the ghost series I manage, I admit I’d never given much thought to the idea of diverse entities in the spirit world. Here's what I learned. Angels Years ago, I’d thought angels only existed in the Bible [...]

Dancing with the ghosts

Recently, I participated in my second investigation of the Old Washoe Club/Millionaire’s Club in Virginia City, Nevada. Read my post “Inside Moon” about my 2008 visit there. In the late 1800’s, the upper stories of the Washoe housed the exclusive Millionaire’s Club—a bastion of the Comstock Lode’s rich and influential—where power deals had been forged [...]

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