The question to you George Noury is should you, or shouldn’t you? Let me give my readers a little background for those of them who don’t know what I’m talking about. You readers being here at this site implies you have an interest in things spiritual, and supernatural. If you ask “who is George Noury,” then you, friend, have been missing out. George hosts a nighttime AM radio show (formerly hosted by Art Bell) which covers such topics as shamanism, ghosts, evps and hauntings, numerology, witchcraft, UFOs, conspiracy theories, and the like.On next Wednesday’s show George will work a Ouija Board. He is surrounding himself with positive energy type people that, he is convinced, will act as a shield from any bad spirits. Lately he has been questioning whether this whole Ouija thing is a good idea or a bad one. He realizes that many of his listeners will bring out their Ouijas to play along with him, and that even though HE feels protected, THEY may be subject to bad experiences.

Here is what I am afraid of. We’ve all heard of the research done with the power of prayer, where it’s been proven that people being prayed for recover from surgeries, and illness better than people who aren’t prayed for. One thing that George and Art Bell often discuss is the power of mass consciousness. In fact, Art did a show where he and his audience prayed for rain for a draught-ridden Texas, and the next thing they knew Texas was being inundated with floods and storm damage.

Well, if the power of mass consciousness can do that, what if thousands of people are using Ouija boards at the same time? Can they unleash a hurricane of demon energy upon the earth? Will they awaken a myriad of sleeping evils that are better left unbothered?

I believe that there is demon energy all around us, but at the same time there is angelic energy as well. There are probably struggles between good and evil all the time, all around us. So while even if the demons are awakened and called forth, I believe there are angels around that will fight for our protection. But I also believe there are some people that are like sponges for evil – such as drug addicts, alcoholics, sex addicts, people abusers, animal abusers, and people like these – that absorb evil more readily.

There is a huge possibility that the unleashing of all these malicious energies can cause people with mental disorders to be more afflicted, and people with bad thoughts to act upon those bad thoughts more readily. There is immense potential here for bringing upon the world more danger, more inhumanity, more fear.

When I first started writing this I was actually in favor of the Ouija board experiment..now I’d have to say I’ve changed my own mind. Don’t do it, George. We have enough trouble in this world.  Let’s focus on the potential of good, and not taunt the demons.  I say, let sleeping malignant energies lie.

I got to go on an interesting ghost hunt a couple of nights ago, to a very scary place. A group of my boyfriend’s college mates invited my boyfriend to go with them to a haunted house, and I asked to tag along. We pulled into the vegetation shrouded driveway at around midnight. An old, faded, partially-hidden-by-trees, huge business sign stood high on our left. It said rather happily, Welcome to Haven Restaurant and Bakery. We were in the right place.

Even though there is a huge iron fence blocking public entrance, there is a secret way in. Once we were inside, an amazing two-story structure loomed before us, about 100 ft up the drive. In the dark (you know that midnight kind of dark), it reminded me of an old cotton plantation mansion. Dilapidated, of course. Like the one in the movie, Fletch Lives, but with broken out windows, and broken down walls. Up the road another 200 ft or so is a house, I am told, where a former owner lived. Also there is a barn on the property. I saw neither the barn nor the house, and to be honest, I didn’t want to that night. I was creeped out enough.

The vegetation skirting the grounds was thick, and jungly. To the right, somewhere inside all the greenery, a rushing brook could be heard.  The sound of croaking frogs was deafening, until they stopped and left an eerie silence – but that was later. To the right of the Bakery are public restrooms, very much like they’d have in a park, or at the beach. It made me think that at one time the Haven Restaurant and Bakery must have been an incredibly beautiful, charming, refreshing place to come for an outdoor or indoor brunch. I imagined outdoor seating, possibly with umbrellas, and cute little bistro tables and chairs. People would sit out there, by the bubbling brook, eating their fresh hot scones, and just-baked-this-morning Danishes, and drink hot chocolate or just-brewed coffee. Kids would be running around in their Sunday best – little girls with Shirley temple curls, and lacy dresses.

We went inside the Bakery and took a look. Interestingly, the old bakery stove is still there, as is an authentic stainless steel bakery rack. I didn’t look closely, but I’ll bet there are lots of telltale signs of a sudden departure, and no one eager to reclaim property from there. I heard tell one girl found a teddy bear there which belonged to the daughter of the previous owner. I also heard rumor that there was a table there with blood on it – never wiped off.  

There happened to be present another ghost-seeking group at the same time we were there. One of their bunch, a pleasant young man came to share with us of another nearby haunt. He seemed well-versed on the goings on in the area, so I asked him what the story was about The Haven Bakery and Restaurant.

He told us that a former owner had lived there with his small daughter. They ran the restaurant, a busy establishment, and were happy as jays. One day the owner had to go out of town for business. He left his daughter in the care of one of his employees. Unfortunately, while dad was gone, young daughter went down into the basement and somehow, I think accidentally, ended up hanging herself, and dying. When dad came home and heard about his dead child he went insane with grief, and rage. He went into the restaurant and killed several employees and customers. Then he stacked the bodies in the same restrooms I mentioned a few moments earlier. He then went into his house, and hung himself dead. It is said that the hook he hung from is still exactly where it was – in the living room I believe.

I don’t know if it’s true. I intend on going to the local area library and finding out if such a massacre really took place in that out-in-the-country community. I did feel the place was eerie and probably haunted. One of the guys we were with said his friend had felt someone touch him on the back while going up the stairs…and another girl had fallen into the basement – was pushed is more like it – and immediately was attacked by a wire that started wrapping itself around her legs…I have read that the hanging girl’s apparition can be seen in the basement. As well as the father, and other figures hanging around the place.

Me, myself? While standing in one of the rooms (which struck me right off as being one of the creepiest) I was suddenly covered with gooseflesh, while a chill ran up my spine. At that exact moment the frogs stopped croaking and someone said, ”It’s not a good sign when the frogs go quiet like that.”

We didn’t stay long, about an hour, but I would love to go back and do photos, and recordings. After I visit the library though. Regardless, I feel something IS there. That’s all for now.

Till later – happy hauntings!

Gina  

I have two gripes. Major issues that really irritate me these days.

1) Menu Foods. Ring a bell? They’re the F-ing company poisoning our beloved little pussNboots and fido-pets. Have you read their press release Dog Food Recall? http://www.menufoods.com/recall/Press_Recall_03162007.pdf

It really bites the big one. They call it a “precautionary” recall, even though 16 ( and they expect more) cats and dogs have died of kidney failure due to the RAT POISON found in their canned pet foods. In this Precautionary Recall, they mention that they pretty much decided to do the recall since their largest consumer (probably walmart) initiated their own recall of the Menu Foods products, AND furthermore put future orders from Menu Foods on hold. Bravo, Walmart – or whoever you are “largest consumer”!

I haven’t heard of any heartfelt apologies coming from the Menu Foods camp, have you? On the other hand, they seem rather cold, and reluctant to take responsibility. Well, duh. You ARE, Menu Foods, responsible for the suffering of AT LEAST 16 pets’s families. Have the decency to show some compassion. You suck and I ban you.

Click on link to their website for the list of recalled labels, (everything from Walmart’s OlRoy to Eukanuba, to IAMS, Etc):  http://www.menufoods.com/recall/product_dog.html

2) Sci-Fi. What’s up with no longer showing Ghost Hunters? I know they’re coming back, but I have had to suffer since…well, was it Halloween or thereabouts when their last new episode aired. They keep showing these rerun marathons, but it’s not the same. I’ve had to go through massive Jason and Grant withdrawals. Sci-Fi is really sucking, too. Wake up Sci-Fi, they’re the best thing going on your boring channel. AARghhh. AND Bring back DARK SHADOWS, it’s the least you can do.

Got to go. Thanks for listening to me rant.

Luv, Gina

Ghost Hunters Renewed

Ghost Hunters, SCI FI Channel’s popular reality series, returns with all-new episodes in its fourth season next year, the channel announced at its upfront press event in New York on March 21. Paranormal plumbers Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson will deliver 13 episodes of their investigations, exploring a range of bizarre occurrences that will challenge the most hard-boiled of skeptics.

Ghost Hunters will round out its third season with six extra episodes set to premiere this spring and an additional six slated for debut in the fall.

The 2006 season of Ghost Hunters ranked as the highest-rated and most-watched season in household ratings and all key demographics.

The one-hour weekly reality series follows a group of real-life “ghostbusters” as they investigate haunted houses and establishments throughout the country. Ghost Hunters has featured speaking entities, mysteriously moving furniture, ghostly visages and a healthy dose of squabbling among the investigators.

Ghost Hunters is produced in association with Craig Piligian’s Pilgrim Films and Television. Piligian and Thomas Thayer serve as executive producers.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=2&id=40680