That’s what Ann White of Beaufort, also known as Running Deer, says when people ask her about her psychic ability. She prefers to be called a Cherokee medicine woman, rather than a psychic. Whatever the title, she says that people have come to her when they cross over. One was a woman named Tera Dianne Tracy, who was beaten and stabbed to death while working at a convenience store across the street from her house.
Tracy told White the details of her death, gave a description of her killer, and revealed that a Winnie the Pooh bear had been placed inside her casket. A statue of a horse was placed on top of her grave, due to the fact that she had loved horses. White couldn’t have known any of the personal details of the burial because she lived 30 miles away from Tracy and her family.
White met one of Tracy’s family members by chance when she went to a chiropractor. The family was so impressed with White’s testimony that they asked her to contact the sheriff’s office to help them solve this 8 year-old case. White was able to identify the killer, based on a drawing she had made from Tracy’s description, and urged the authorities to post a nationwide bulletin with his photo.
Ignoring the female narrator, who sounds more like that medium on Poltergeist (with a cold), this is a great documentary about a haunted house in Villisca Iowa. The axe-murder of Josiah Moore and his entire family in 1912 is considered one of the worst mass murders in US history. Since then, the house has had a series of renters and owners. Darwin Linn is the current owner, who hired paranormal investigator Dave Christensen of Paranormal Investigations, Inc. to check out the cold spots and creepy goings-on in that old house.
I listened to a former resident describe how she felt chilled when she saw a picture of the victims with an unknown drifter, and how the sight of his face sent a chill through her. Then I listened to the investigators describe an icy draft that makes visitors feel uneasy. Finally, I listened to Villisca Axe Murder House - EVPs. Put all this together, and it makes me wonder if this unknown stranger was the killer, as the former resident suggested. The killer was never caught, but he may still be lurking in that house, waiting for his victims to fall asleep.
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Jennifer Robins researches the supernatural and paranormal she writes about in her novels. After meeting a convincing psychic, she became interested in the supernatural and paranormal so much, that it became one of her favorite things to study. She now shares with Paranormal Palace listeners her own experiences with the paranormal and what led her to her deep interest in the paranormal so much, that she wrote novels about it.
“I have had visits from deceased loved ones.” Jennifer Robins says of just part of what she would like to share with listeners.
“Ghostly Antiques” and it’s sequel “Ghostly Antiques ll” are about Psychometry. “Psychometry is a psychic power which enables one to divine when holding or touching certain items. Visions of the past, present and sometimes the future unfold for them.” Jennifer explains.
Join them on Wednesday, April 30th at 8:00 PM Central Time as Royce Holleman interviews her and finds out more about the very interesting subject of Psychometry.
The phone lines will be open for questions from the audience. The call in number is: (646) 915-9605.
Eleven years, three convictions, two deportations, ten thousand pints, six barring orders and a legion of leather-clad groupies later, Dave Walsh, Barry Kavanagh and Damien DeBarra (the cheap tarts that brought you Blather.net) bring you their latest labour of love: A Load of Blather: Unreal Reports from Ireland and Beyond, the first book that anyone has been nuts enough to let them publish. Shamelessly re-working articles which have been online for years anyway, this magnificent tome is a veritable smorgasboard of smut; bursting out of its trousers with a great heaving cavalcade of paranormal events, superstitions, mysterious happenings, conspiracy theories, hordes of rampaging kangaroos in the Dublin hills, and the previously untold story of General Michael Collins’ forays into outer space. There’s even a bit about talking cows in there. If the lawyers haven’t cut it out. There’s guest articles too, from the likes of Sue Walsh, Oliver Bayliss and Dr. Stewart Roberts.
Judging by the Table of Contents, this book promises to be entertaining, if not outrageously hilarious. The book is scheduled for release on May 12, 2008.
