When faced with the unknown, it’s easy to believe in Hollywood stereotypes. While there could be an occasional exception, I don’t believe we should fear the spirit world based on the movies and television shows we’ve viewed. Common misperceptions regarding ghosts: All ghosts are evil. If ghosts are the souls of people who’ve passed away, [...]
The day after I wrote “Why are some people wildlife magnets?,” I sat on our back porch enjoying the sunshine when I noticed a light brown clump, about the size of a tennis ball, in our grass. I walked over to discover it was a sick, young sparrow that had fluffed up to stay warm. [...]
Some of my favorite historic buildings are churches. Not the grandiose, gilded ones that I view more as art museums, but the more spartan ones that were built through the passionate faith of their artisans. Recently, I met two caretakers who confided in me that spirits visit their rural parish and, while at first it [...]
God orchestrates everything in our lives. Last fall, I encountered yet another instance: one that defied all logic. A charming woman (I’ll call her Ada), very well-known among Western U.S. ghost hunters, was recovering in a rehabilitation center from a bad fall. About to be released to her rural home, she sank into depression, worrying [...]
The first spring-like Saturday this year, Ken and I traversed dirt roads to an old mining district northeast of Reno called Nightingale. Not many buildings remain here: the concrete foundations of the mill and one tenuous wooden building. The excavated landscape is pocked with mine tunnels, deep ominous shafts and huge manmade caves where tungsten [...]
Thank you to Sharon Leong for writing this post. Sharon, who teaches each year at the Nevada Ghost and Paranormal Series, is a talented paranormal investigator based out of San Francisco. One of my most memorable spiritual encounters happened about twenty years ago, shortly after my purchase of an antique mission mirror. I had just [...]
When grief grips us, we can be desperate to receive a signal from our loved ones who’ve crossed over. We may think that if we don’t sense anything, they are nowhere around us. But this isn’t necessarily so. A main reason we may be unaware of our dear ones is that they know their presence [...]
The other day, a regular blog reader emailed me a link to a Las Vegas television station’s news item on the Goldfield Hotel. This feature was part of an ongoing series the station was doing to celebrate Nevada’s 150th anniversary of its statehood. The story disappointed me. The gist of the piece was this: Evil [...]
A while back, I posted this photo on Facebook. What do you think it is? If you guessed a bird landing and taking off in the freshly fallen snow, you’re correct. I posted this photo because I thought it was cool. However, the conversation the picture generated surprised [...]
“I wonder if the spirit here is a child. The owner said that the ghost tugs at people’s clothing,” says our lead investigator, Sharon Leong. Our group is participating in the Nevada Ghost Series, Historic Truckee Ghost Hunt Field Trip class. The Leong sisters, Anne and Sharon, are the most creative ghost hunters I know [...]
