Developing Your Subtle Senses in Preparation for Laying Ghosts

The most important capabilities in laying ghosts are whatever best facilitate communication with spirits to better understand the causes of their obsession. Cultivating competency in the ability to perceive, see, hear, or receive spirits' emotive impressions are all pertinent to resolving a sciomantic investigation. People can be too ready to believe that these skills must be entirely innate or revealed due to the advent of extreme circumstances, such as loss or trauma. The truth is that while in some people an aptitude or talent may be inherent, it is possible for anyone to develop a working efficiency through the diligent and continuous practice of certain simple exercises. HearingThe ...

Ways to Receive Intuitive Messages

There is no magic involved when it comes to intuition or intuitive gifts. The magic is what we are able to discover when we pay attention to our ESP, or extrasensory perception. We don't always ask for it. In fact, most of the time, we don't set out to use it! However, it shows up in a variety of ways to help us. Some of the most common metaphysical gifts are clairsentience, clairvoyance, clairaudience, claircognizance, clairolfaction, and clairgustance. ClairsentienceThat gut feeling you have when your intuition is trying to get your attention is generally one of the most common forms of intuitive awareness, and it's called clairsentience, or clear feeling. Generally referred to as your ...

Six Ways Victorian Séances Were Not Like the Movies

If you watch a lot of supernatural horror or read many gothic novels, you've probably encountered your fair share of séance scenes. In modern stories about supernatural terrors or paranormal adventures, a scene with a séance often marks a crucial turning point in the narrative. The séance might result in a terrifying possession, reveal a long-held secret, or unleash an undead evil into the realm of the living. We inherited séances from the Victorians, who, despite their reputation for rigidity and prudishness, also had a voracious appetite for melodrama, mysticism, and the gothic. The Victorians founded modern spiritualism, collected reports of ...

The Horrors of the House of Wills

Hello! For those of you who do not know me, my name is Daryl Marston; I'm the former co-lead investigator of the A&E network TV series Ghost Hunters, and the author of The Horrors of the House of Wills. In almost every interview I have done over the years, I was always asked what my most chilling paranormal investigation was; my answer was always The House of Wills in Cleveland, Ohio. For years, I was also asked to write a book about this location and investigation. I have investigated over 400 locations in the almost twenty years that I have been investigating the paranormal, but nothing has come close to being as dark of a location as The House of Wills. When people ask me what it ...