Thinking that the incident with whatever negative energy that was in the house was over, Gafyn and Angela brought the kids back home. A few days later, the youngest child was doing a craft while watching T.V. when suddenly the sellotape went missing. The family searched all over the living room, only for the tape to mysteriously turn up in the refrigerator hours later.
As if this wasn’t weird enough, other more disconcerting things started to occur. Money went missing and items were constantly found broken or knocked to the floor. When the family started arguing over these events, Gafyn responded that “It” wanted them to turn against each other. A small ornament whizzed through the air missing his head by a millimeter.
Rattled, they called their friends again. They decided to do an investigation and a house cleansing to get whatever this was out of the house. Doors were constantly opening on their own. Something was banging around in the attic. It was done playing its cruel game of hide and seek. This thing wanted them to know it was there and that it wasn’t leaving.
The investigation took place while the kids were in school. Gafyn and his friends went into the back room. Gafyn’s friend, Colin, began by saying, “Whatever you are, you will eventually have to leave.” Right after he said this, some invisible force picked him up and threw him aside. Even though they were terrified, the group knew that they still had to confront this negative force. Whatever it was, left the bedroom and proceeded to follow them about the house. The extreme rage and negativity emanating from this being only subsided enough to give it a chance to replenish its energy.
It was clear that they weren’t going to be able to stay there, so Angela started packing while Gafyn and their friends continued the investigation. The phone rang. When Angela went to answer it, there was a high-pitched ringing so that neither her or the caller could hear each other. It turned out that it was her mother calling to tell them to leave the house and to come and stay with her until they could find another place to live.
Suddenly, Gafyn felt like he was about to have a headache. He remembered being held up by his friends, his partner crying and shouting, “Leave him alone!” but she wasn’t actually yelling at him. Afterward, he was told that he started growling at Angela and his friends to “Get out.”
The next thing Gafyn knew, they were at Angela’s mother’s house. He didn’t remember what had happened after his head had started to hurt and his friends had grabbed him by the arms. They decided to move out of that house as fast as possible. The children never went back. They stayed with Angela’s mom while Gafyn, Angela, and their friends got the rest of their belongings. Even then, the entity kept up its presence, half opening and closing the doors to make sure they knew that it didn’t want them there. Gafyn said his view of the paranormal changed drastically after this experience.
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Gafyn is an experienced Medium. At the time this story took place, he had been working in the paranormal field for many years. The trouble started when Gafyn and his partner, Angela, rented this big, beautiful house. It was everything that they had ever wanted. Gafyn was most interested in the garden and the garage, so he didn’t spend much time in the house before deciding to rent it. Later, when they were unpacking, Gafyn kept getting the feeling that he was being watched. Gafyn dismissed this because it didn’t feel particularly menacing and he felt that he would be better able to tune into whatever it was after they were finished settling in.
Ten days passed before the presence decided to make contact. One night, after the kids were in bed, Gafyn and Angela were sitting on the couch talking and enjoying their new home. As they turned to kiss, one of the ornaments suddenly fell off the T.V. and broke. Despite the event, the atmosphere in the room didn’t feel foreboding. They cleaned up the mess and sat back down, only to hear the pictures shifting. When they turned back around, all the pictures that lined the staircase were slanted. These were the first signs of activity.
At around 3:20am that night, Angela woke up screaming from a horrible nightmare. As Gafyn was trying to comfort her, he heard one of the kid’s bedroom doors close. The door was not slammed, but it was loud enough to make him decide to go check on the kids. He looked in on them, only to find that everyone was still sleeping. Afterward, he went back to bed. Both he and Angela agreed that while strange things kept happening in the house, neither of them could sense anything.
The next day, Gafyn asked his friends for advice. They set up a meeting time for 6:30pm that night. He and his partner made sure that the kids were out of the house for this. As they entered the house, they were met with a blast of negative energy that made the place feel unnaturally cold. Whatever had been hiding before was definitely making its presence known now. Despite their best efforts to warm things up, the place remained ice cold.
As Gafyn was trying to get his thoughts together for what lay ahead, Angela pointed out the window into the garden, and said that she just saw someone in their garage. Sure enough, their garage door was open, even though Gafyn had locked it earlier. Leaving Angela safe in the house as a lookout, Gafyn went to go check out the situation in the garden. As he approached, he heard what sounded like someone picking up one of his big gardening tools. Before the person could come out, Gafyn kicked the door shut and locked them in. The lock had not been cut or damaged at all despite someone managing to get inside the garage. Then he told Angela to call the police.
The police arrived, only to check out the garage to find it empty. Once back inside, the officers asked, “Who is upstairs?” When Gafyn replied that he and his partner were the only ones that were home, the police responded that they had seen the upstairs light go on when they were in the garden, so they went to check the back bedroom. They came back down a few minutes later, commenting on the frigid temperature in the house. After making sure that everything was secure, the officers took their leave as Gafyn’s friends arrived. The cops agreed that there was something off about the house and were glad that the group was going to discuss what could be done.
The friends sat down to tea and talked over what was going on in the house. During this time, the atmosphere became pleasant again and stayed that way for the next couple of days. One of their neighbors came over and told them about the history of the home. The prior residents had not had any issues. However, the man who lived there before them had ended up in a psychiatry ward after jumping out one of the back windows.
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This past summer, my husband and I won two tickets for a public ghost tour of Pennhurst State School and Hospital from the Pennhurst Paranormal Association. Timothy Smith runs Pennhurst Paranormal Association and maintains Pennhurst, conducting ghost tours and teaching visitors about the asylum’s tragic history. Tim and the staff of Pennhurst Paranormal Association are experienced, professional paranormal investigators. Everyone was kind and patient in answering both my questions and those of other tour members. The tour was focused on finding evidence of hauntings through the use of ghost hunting equipment, which they also showed us how to use. Pennhurst Paranormal Association hosts both public and private ghost tours of Pennhurst State School and Hospital.
The drive through the picturesque historical town soon ended, bringing George and me to a stop on a dark, country road next to a water tower. Thankfully, Tim sent one of his team to come and find us because we might have never found the place in time for the tour. Pennhurst Asylum was designed to be an isolated location, which undoubtedly helped in keeping the truth behind it a secret for many years. We had to drive down a winding path through the woods just to make it onto the campus, and it was already after dark.
I felt a shift in the atmosphere from the second I saw the dimly lit structures of the buildings looming above. I was thankful that there was a large touring group that night. After having done some preliminary research online, I was anxious about going. Before now, everything that I had done with ghosts had been low-key or happenstance. This was my first time being with a professional group of paranormal investigators that had ghost hunting equipment. We toured two buildings that night, Mayflower Hall and Devon Hall.
In the first building, we went into a kind of common hall where patients used to congregate. Paint was peeling off the walls and water pooled on the floor in some areas from recent rain. Members of the Pennhurst Paranormal Association told us background history about Pennhurst. The place was known for “womb to tomb care.” Many of the occupants spent their whole lives in Pennhurst, whether they needed to be there or not. Family members were encouraged to drop their children and relatives off and told not to look back as return visits might only upset the patient and disrupt the treatment.
Images of people being abandoned by their families, helpless to stop any ill treatment that might befall them filled me with unspeakable horror. I asked why these spirits were still here. Why hadn’t they moved on after so many years? Pennhurst was officially closed down in 1987. This prompted a discussion about hauntings and whether the spirits see the place as we do now.
Without proper funding, Pennhurst was understaffed, poorly managed, and incredibly overcrowded. This allowed for the medical staff to abuse their patients and for patients to accidentally harm themselves or each other. Severe punishments even included surgically removing the patient’s teeth so that they could not bite in defense. This was done without anesthetics. The mentally disabled were not seen as equals and it was easy for the staff to disregard them.
One story that was told to me was about a telephone lineman who was working on repairing the phone system when a patient came up to him and started swaying. After a few minutes, the patient began banging his head into the doorframe. The lineman hailed a nurse who was passing by for help, but she said that she didn’t have time to take care of the patient because she was so overwhelmed with work already. Meanwhile, the patient that she refused to help had blood pouring from the self-inflicted gash on his head.
We had been in the common room for a few minutes when I felt someone take my hand. Thinking it was my husband, I turned around to see that he was standing a few feet away from me. There was no one standing either next to or behind me. I jumped, pulling my hand back. When I brought this up to the tour guides, they said that people often reported being touched or having someone grab their hand in that room. They said that teenage boys used to be here in this section and that was their way of showing affection. We also got some cold spots in that room.
Next, they brought us to Emily’s room. Emily is the spirit of a sweet, thirteen-year-old girl who has the mental capabilities of a five-year-old. There were various dolls and stuffed animals on her bed. We communicated with her via an EMF (Electromagnetic Field) reader which spiked every time she got excited or came near us. She seemed to prefer females and enjoyed when the female tour guides and I took turns singing nursery rhymes to her.
While I was standing in that room, I suddenly saw a small, green orb. I followed it into the darkness down the hallway into another room, but it disappeared. I came back to Emily’s room. At that point, we said goodbye to Emily and went back outside to join other group members who were planning on visiting Devon Hall. Devon Hall is known for having great EVPs (Electronic Voice Phenomena). Tim, the association’s leader, took us there.
At one point, I remarked that I kept hearing what I thought to be footsteps following behind us. Tim said that while that was possible, it was more likely that I was hearing the steady dripping of water down the wall. He was accustomed to hearing these noises, so he could debunk them. He even showed me where the water was coming from so that I could see for myself. While we had sufficient light to see by, this was mostly provided by flashlights that we carried along with us during the tour.
First, we went upstairs to inspect some bathrooms in Devon Hall where they had gotten great EVPs in the past. I sometimes get mental flashes of spirits when I enter rooms. It kind of reminds me of taking a picture because I only see the ghost for a second or two before they vanish. When we entered the bathroom, I saw an image of a little boy sitting in the bathtub. I grabbed George as he went to lean against it.
“Don’t sit there!” I hissed. He had no idea what I had seen until I told him later. I didn’t want him to upset the spirit.
Tim showed us how EVPs were made. He had a recorder that would only record when someone was speaking. He would ask a question, wait twenty seconds, and then ask the next question. Later, when he would play the recording back to the group, the ghostly voices would show up in between Tim’s questions. Since the recorder only records when someone is speaking, in theory, there should have been no gap between Tim’s questions during the playback.
The bathroom was a horrible place. Tim asked if the ghosts were repentant of what they had done during their lives, but they seemed to be proud of how they molested and raped young boys. They staked out claims on stalls and threatened to harm Tim if he entered them. Clutching my St. Michael pendant for protection, I envisioned a circle of white light around our group. Thankfully, I had managed to convince George to carry a protective talisman as well. The creepiest thing about this whole situation was that while I didn’t hear anything while I was standing there, Tim’s EVP recordings showed that there was someone in the bathroom with us. This someone was getting angrier at what they took as an intrusion of their territory.
We trudged down to the basement. At this point, I was looking at the cracked plaster and broken sinks and thinking to myself that I should have brought a face mask since I am super sensitive to dust. We entered another bathroom. Apparently, they are a great source for EVPs. We had a brief discussion about whether this was because the water is a good source of energy for spirits. Then we started another EVP session.
Tim made contact with another spirit who obliged us by reading the writing that was on people’s shirts to show that he was there. Then Tim asked if he would go and see if he could get Dr. Fear for us. That was actually the man’s name, although it would have been an appropriate nickname for him as well since he instilled fear in his patients. His soul apparently came here after his passing. I wondered how this was an appropriate punishment for his evil deeds since he seemed to be able to lord over the suffering souls that were still trapped here.
Moments after Tim called for Dr. Fear, I got a flash image of a spectacled man in a lab coat walking over to our group. In my vision, he came over and placed his hands on both a young woman’s and my husband’s shoulder as if he was peering over a group of medical interns. Just then George and the young woman complained of feeling a cold spot right where I had seen Dr. Fear appear.
Tim began asking Dr. Fear questions. Dr. Fear stated that while he remembered who Tim was, he didn’t really care about his presence one way or the other. One of the female tour guides asked if he was a real doctor. The ghost half chuckled into the EVP recorder. Of course, he was a real doctor. The way that he said it made it seem as if he thought she had asked a stupid question. She had been trying to insult him, but he had dismissed it.
One of the things we had discussed were the missing bodies of patients. Patients had died or gone missing and their bodies had never been accounted for. It was thought that they might have been buried somewhere on the campus in unmarked graves. Tim asked Dr. Fear what happened to the bodies.
“I burnt them,” crackled over the recorder, followed by low, eerie laughter.
I felt cold all over after that. Tim offered to keep taking us around the buildings. The next stop would have been back to the Mayflower building. There was the ghost of a nurse on one of the upper floors who was reported to administer ghostly shots to people. George and I decided to leave. We still had a three-hour drive back home and I felt emotionally and spiritually sapped after that encounter in the basement.
I was exhausted for days following this visit, even with my spiritual cleansings. Tim later told me that was one of their strongest EVP sessions. While I don’t consider myself a Medium per say, I do feel like spirits tend to manifest strongly when I’m around. This was easily the most terrifying ghostly encounter that I have ever had. There is nothing like being in a silent, near pitch dark room and having someone who you cannot see answer you.
Emily’s Room – Mayflower Hall
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Michelle comes from a psychically gifted family that is of French, Native American, and Irish descent. She lives in a house in the countryside in Lorain County, Ohio. While the house is relatively new, she believes that the ground might be cursed because of the swirling energy vortex at the bottom of the house and the high levels of spirit activity in the area. Older buildings and farmhouses surround Michelle’s home. There is a cornfield and creek nearby the house, as well as an old church on the corner.
Odd things have happened in Michelle’s house. Her phone continuously malfunctions for brief periods of time. She has had the phone inspected, but has not been able to find a reason for the strange reoccurrence. At times, a growling can be heard coming from under the family table when there is no dog or other animal present.
Two apparitions have also been seen. The first one is of a little blonde-haired boy from the early 1900s. Locals believe that he is the ghost of a young boy who died mysteriously somewhere on the property. There is also the figure of a woman wearing a dress from the 1920s who first appears to be waving, but then a look of shock comes upon her face. Some think that these two ghosts share a connection of some sort, although the exact story is unknown.
Within a mile of the family’s house is an intersection of highways that are the cause of many accidents. People have seen various ghosts and entities along this road. There have been reports of Native American spirits, shadow people the color of translucent smoke, orbs, and gremlin-like creatures. This strip of highway is thought to be a portal that spirits use to cross over into our world.
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Tami and her family moved into their first home off a military base in June 2010. Built on a man-made island in the 1980s, the house was a three-story structure with three bedrooms and a two and a half bath. One of the walls in the living room was made of two sliding glass doors that reflected the lagoon that was located behind the building.
Strange things started happening soon after they settled in. Tami’s then two-year old son, Timmy, started talking to and playing with ghost children that showed up in his bedroom. Then he told his mother about an entity whom he called “Red.” Timmy was terrified of whatever it was. Tami noticed strange scratches appearing on her son’s body in areas that he couldn’t have possibly reached on his own.
Distressed, she called her friend, Destiny, to come over and do a cleansing. Tami filled her in on the frightening things that were occurring in the house. Objects got moved around. Oppressive energy lurked in the darkest corners, making one feel on edge, as if something was going to jump out at you. While she was there, Destiny mentioned that she glimpsed a pair of red eyes reflected in the mirrors that overlooked the lagoon. Tami figured that this must have been what was scaring her son. The house was completely surrounded by water, but instead of being cozy, there was often this unnerving feeling of being watched.
Unfortunately, the cleansing didn’t completely banish the negative entity. It came back after a few weeks, only now it was much worse than before. Tami felt helpless in keeping the thing away from her son. For some reason, the malevolent spirit’s presence seemed to grow stronger whenever her husband was away serving overseas. Maybe it was afraid of him. Tami describes her husband as a no-nonsense sailor. He was probably oblivious of it and that fearlessness helped keep it at bay.
Tami called her landlady to try to find out more about the house, but the woman didn’t offer any helpful information. Either she really didn’t know anything or she was being evasive. Tami wondered if the building of the man-made island had disturbed the spirit. Perhaps the trees and the shrubs had been transplanted from sacred ground. Whatever it was, Tami never found out. They lived there for a year and half before they were finally able to move again. Everyone was glad to leave the house and the angry ghost behind.
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Growing up with Wiccan high priestess, Lady Rhea, for a mother made for an interesting time. Aside from glittering Enchanted Candles, crafting perfumes, and giving clients psychic advice, my mother occasionally performed banishing rituals to remove negative energies from close friends’ houses. This was much different from the spiritual cleansings that she did to purify a space. These spells involved deeper, older magick. For those of you who don’t know, Wiccans and Pagans often spell magick with a “k” to differentiate from the stage “magic” that magicians use as entertainment.
When I was a teenager, a close family friend of ours, started experiencing a lot of problems. Anne had a big house with several people living there. Over a few months, her family experienced a slew of bad luck with illnesses, financial setbacks, and a rise in heated arguments. While various circumstances could lead to this happening, Anne felt that something in the house was “off,” so she asked for my mother to give her a reading to see what was going on.
Mom shuffled her cards and turned them over. Taking a final drag of her cigarette, she shook her head. “Oh, no…This is not good.”
“What is it?” asked Anne.
Mom turned over more cards. “What I’m going to say might sound ridiculous, but I need you to listen to me.” Anne nodded. My mom paused before continuing, “The cards indicate that there is something inside of the house that is causing the problem. It’s a negative entity of some sort.”
Anne’s adult son, Peter, who was also seated at the table turned his head at this news. He said that he had recently woke up and saw an apparition of a bat-like creature with a human face hovering over his bed. He hadn’t mentioned it before because he thought it was just a nightmare. Mom looked back at the card reading. She turned to Anne’s son.
“Can I see your room?”
He nodded. Even I tagged along upstairs. After hearing Peter’s story, I didn’t want to be left alone. Mom entered the room. After a minute or two, she nodded. “Yes. Whatever it is, it’s upstairs and it generally stays in this room.”
We went back downstairs.
“What can we do?” asked Anne as she made more coffee.
“You can light some white candles and incense to help cleanse the space, but ultimately, I’ll have to do a banishing spell for you,” said my mother.
I almost choked on my soda. Mom always prescribed candles, prayers, incense, that sort of thing. She only spoke about conducting rituals for serious problems.
“Great,” said Peter. “I’m staying downstairs on the couch until this thing is gone.”
After Peter went to hang out with some friends, Mom asked Anne about the history of the house. A large, three-story, white, Victorian house, it was the kind that you see iced with snow on picturesque Christmas cards. The house had been remodeled in the years following an older relative’s death. Mom asked if there were any strange events that had happened in the house. Anne said that there was one.
The last owner of the house had met a tragic end. Two hours before his daughter’s wedding, he had excused himself saying that he would be right back. While everyone was in the house getting ready, he left the car engine running and sealed himself inside the vehicle with the windows shut. Without any warning to his friends or family, he had committed suicide on the day that his daughter was to be married.
“Why’d you even buy the house?” I asked, after Anne was done telling the story. I was about fifteen then.
“TARA!” Mom glared at me.
Anne laughed. “It’s okay, Rhea,” she said. “We didn’t find out until years after we bought the house. Some neighbors told us.”
Later on, I shivered as we got into the car. Even though I had been over Anne’s house hundreds of times, I was afraid that the ghost of the dead man was going to jump out at us in the driveway.
“Could Anne’s neighbors have made up that story?” I asked.
“Perhaps,” said Mom, “But I don’t think so. That negative spirit has caused trouble before.”
“What are we going to do?”
“It’s okay,” said Mom. “We’re going to get rid of it.”
“How?”
“You’ll see.”
The first thing Mom did was call our coven members. She told them that she needed their help doing a special favor for a dear friend of hers. They all knew about Anne and were happy to help. I had already been initiated and since we needed as many people as possible, Mom decided to bring me along.
A few days later, our coven met at Anne’s house. We went upstairs to the second floor where all of the bedrooms were located. My mother turned off the lights and then lit some candles. She and her partner cast circle to help protect us during the ritual. Then we all started running clockwise to create a cone of power while chanting a Wiccan banishing spell that is sacred to my mother’s coven. As we did this, we were running past the bedroom doors which were all standing wide open.
At one point as I was running past Peter’s room, I saw a pale face glaring back at us from the dark. The apparition was about three or four feet off of the floor. The face glowed white and had three dark spaces where the eyes and mouth should be. I didn’t dare break the chain and by the time that I had come around again, the thing was gone. After the ritual was done, I mentioned the incident to my mother. One of my older friends who was also in the coven turned to me.
“You saw it too?”
In addition to the banishing spell, we also said prayers that night to help the previous owner’s spirit move on to the light. After the ritual, everyone was much more at peace in the house and Anne’s family life returned to normal.
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