Psychic Reese Smith said he felt the presence of a spirit or ghosts when this photo was taken at a haunted home in New Orleans. Reese a well known International Medium and Ghost Hunter has hunted many haunted houses over the years. It seems he knows when ghosts are near, so just snap a picture when he feels them close of the area around him during investigations of the paranormal.
People have been amazed for many years by the clairvoyant powers of Reese Smith. The phenomena of capturing ghosts when a medium or psychic is nothing new. Smith is often said to be more then uncanny when it comes to seeing into the future, and talking to and seeing the dead is more then possible when he is around. Smith now a resident of Marion North Carolina has had many new ghost experiences since he has moved to the mountains. Smith has personally investigated and lived in several haunted houses. He says that his present home which is a historical landmark known as the SGT. Danial one of two survivors of the little bighorn.
The Kanipes moved into a house just south of Marion at 238 Rutherford Road. The house still stands in excellent repair. Daniel worked for the Internal Revenue Service, was treasurer of the Mystic Tie Lodge # 237 in Marion for more than 20 years, and served as Captain of the North Carolina Militia Home Guards during World War I. He was active in the Presbyterian Church. On July 18, 1926, at the age of 73, Kanipe died at his farm. He was listed as a retired farmer and soldier. He was survived by his wife, 2 stepsons, 3 sons, J. L., J. Ed., and Leroy, and 5 daughters. Following funeral services as his home, presided over by the McCall Funeral Home, he was laid to rest at the Oak Grove Cemetery in Marion on July 20. In May of 1934, "Annie" Missouri joined him there.

Daniel A. Kanipe, Sergeant in Company C, 7th Cavalry, was born, raised, and died in McDowell County's Marion, near the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. He was one of two soldiers who rode into the Battle of the Little Bighorn with General George Armstrong Custer in June of 1876 and lived to tell the tale. As the legend of "Custer's Last Stand" grew, Kanipe's eyewitness testimony and identification of severely mangled bodies lived on in all historical accounts.
Smith places flowers on his grave and maintains it in the Sgt. memory.

This particular photo is just one of many that is often popping up on the internet with Smith and a ghost in the picture.
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