By Paul Dale Roberts,
HPI Ghostwriter
Edited by Shannon "Ms. Macabre"
McCabe
Let's look at my weekend. It's Friday
night - June 15, 2007 and right after
work, I am picking up Jennifer Baca,
fellow HPI paranormal investigator.
We are headed over to Starbucks on
Greenback and Hazel to team up with
HPI Core Group B that consists of
lead paranormal investigator John
Wachter aka Vlawde, Michelle Paykel
and newcomer Chris Grissom. Before
I go on, I want to thank Starbucks
for providing us with free pastries,
I LOVE Starbucks! After a briefing
about the confidential residence from
lead investigator Vlawde, we all convoy
over to the haunted home in Orangevale
where the Female Occupant's brother
was working on sheet rock in the TV
room and saw a ghostly German Shepherd
walk across the room and jump out
the window. The female occupant talked
with her neighbors and the ghostly
dog's name is Bogey. When Bogey makes
his appearances he has upright ears
like a German Shepherd, legs and no
feet. Male occupant has seen the ghostly
dog up to 20 times, he says that the
dog is mostly seen in the daylight.
The occupants have 4 dogs and 4 cats
and sometimes Bogey hangs out by the
doghouses or acts like he is part
of the family's dog pack. The 4 dogs
she owns are 3 Rottweilers and 1 Border
Collie. One Rottweiler named Chardon
appears to be a sensitive and can
sense the presence of Bogey, while
the other dogs don't seem to be tuned
into the paranormal according to the
female occupant.
Before I head over to this residence,
to get me into the mood, I didn't
play any paranormal themed songs,
instead I threw on 'Who Let the Dogs
Out by Baha Men and Atomic Dog by
George Clinton'. Hey...why not? Sometimes
the ghost hunts take a lot out of
me, because after the investigation
things are still fresh in my mind
and I have to get it written out.
I should be getting ready for Saturday,
since I have been invited to Holly
Nicola's swimming party and I also
have a guest coming over to visit
from Natomas afterwards. I need to
clean my house, before my guest arrives,
but no, who has time for that, when
I have an investigation to take care
of? It all comes down to my curiosity.
I want to know if ghosts really exist.
I almost feel like the actor John
Cusack in the upcoming Stephen King
movie 1408, where he has some doubts
about the paranormal, until he stays
in a very haunted room. That room
is Room 1408 of a hotel and all kinds
of horrifying things happen to him.
But what is with this Bogey? Do animal
spirits really exist too? Of course
they do. All living things have an
energy aura, so I would say that animals
spirits are not something to fancifully
dismiss. I have heard about many animal
spirits while in Germany, Switzerland
and Austria. I even heard about some
villagers in Switzerland that claimed
to have seen a mythical half man/half
horse spirit known as a Centaur. How
can that be, when that animal was
a mere myth? Perhaps in the time of
Mu, Atlantis and Lemuria, these great
civilizations with a high degree of
ancient intelligence, that was given
to them by ancient astronauts practiced
DNA manipulation, perhaps they created
the Centaur. For what purpose? Perhaps
the purpose of having an army of half
men/half horse that can travel quickly
and use choice weapons to defeat the
enemy. DNA manipulation is again becoming
a reality. The Science Channel recently
had a program that discussed on how
scientists are confident that they
can make a soldier 10 feet tall, all
muscle and quite agile. They could
even make the soldier's skin green
like the Incredible Hulk. So, I think,
if villagers truly saw the spirit
of a Centaur, then perhaps this was
a creation from a civilization that
was once on Earth, a civilization
of a high caliber of intelligence
and perhaps somehow they destroyed
themselves with their technology and
here we are again, trying to catch
up to this ancient civilization.
But enough about spirits of mythical
creatures, let's talk about the haunting
investigation that is happening this
night. The home is about 55 years
old. It's built next to Cripple Creek.
When I snapped a few pictures of the
creek, I had orbs on some of the photos.
Bogey is rumored to lay in a coffin
somewhere in the backyard, but I think
there is another entity in the house.
Male occupant claims that sometimes
his tools are moved around, sometimes
they even disappear. The tools are
moved around in the garage and in
a room called the Cat Room. At times
there is a sweet smell of flowery
perfume that emanates throughout the
rooms. One of their neighbors lives
in a home, that has music sometimes
coming out of their attic, or they
may hear a child crying and when they
investigate, there is nothing there.
The house that we are investigating,
the male occupant says that his bolts
were moved into a neat pile and this
was done on its own. Once the occupants
saw a face in the kitchen window.
They also smell sweet smells, the
smells are always different. I asked
was the face in the kitchen window
female or male and they were unsure
what the gender was. Female Occupant
thinks she may be a sensitive and
that she may be attracting these spirits.
She was once involved in seances and
used to accurately predict events
before they happened. She even tried
out the Ouija Board and after having
a bad experience, she never played
it again. Female occupant is quite
fascinating, she was telling me that
she knew a priest that performed the
actual exorcism on the little boy,
that inspired the character Father
Damien Karras of the movie The Exorcist
(by William Peter Blatty) starring
Linda Blair. The real exorcism happened
on a little boy, but they changed
it where it happened to a little girl
and that little girl was Linda Blair.
It appears the Female Occupant has
lead an interesting life that gravitated
towards the paranormal. And now I
can only wonder if the digital recorders
that were placed around the home,
would pick up any EVPs? Would we hear
the ghostly dog say "woof"?
As the investigators checked for EVPs
and used their digital cameras and
video cameras throughout the house
and near Cripple Creek, I went ahead
and talked with the male occupant.
He told me of other paranormal events
of his life. He said that once he
stayed at a Best Western motel in
Room 213. The bed started vibrating,
and not from a coin operated machine.
The next morning when he talked with
some of the motel staff, they seemed
to know that Room 213 was haunted.
He says that his first home in North
Highlands, his young daughter was
aware of a ghost in the house and
nicknamed the ghost "Ghostie".
When he moved into the Antelope area,
the ghost or ghosts followed him.
So, I wondered, could it be that the
female occupant was attracted to the
male occupant, because they are both
'sensitives' or perhaps energy of
their own auras beckon ghostly entities
of the spirit world?
I now look forward to our findings,
to see if we captured some EVPs and
take our time to analyze our digital
photographs of various orbs. It is
rumored that the homes are built over
land occupied by early Indian settlers.
This is quite possible, because
when I lived in Monterey, CA, my father
built a rock wall around the home
and we kept on digging up Indian arrowheads,
we even dug up the full skeleton of
a cow that was still wearing its cow
bell. So, anything is possible, perhaps
the Indians liked this location because
it was close to the creek that provided
them with fish. There is so much to
investigate in this one home that
is supposingly haunted with so little
time. Too bad we don't have the government
backing that a paranormal investigation
team like the O.S.I.R. (Office of
Scientific Investigations and Research)
gets. Just think, the O.S.I.R. has
been around since the 40s! But, who
knows...maybe one day. For right now,
I can only hope that we will find
solid definite proof that there is
an afterlife. But, if we don't...I
still have my paranormal themed movies
to watch and after this article, I
am going to kick back with a glass
of red wine and watch Blood &
Chocolate (vampire movie based in
Romania), Nicholas Cage in Marvel's
Ghostrider and finally Primeval which
is inspired by a true story about
a legendary 25 foot man eating crocodile!
Ahhhh...my kind of movies!
Testimonial from Lupe Angeles:
"Interesting......I too had a
German Shepard that was my companion
for 15 yrs. I felt like I lost a part
of me when he passed. At night I could
always hear a loud thud when he plopped
himself down on the cool kitchen floor.
He would wake me up by breathing in
my face when he needed to be let out.
I continued to feel his presence for
about two yrs. after he passed. I
feel that he stayed with me until
I was emotionally ready to let him
go."
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