By Mickey Of Miami

Yvonne Brown does not see, hear or talk to Dead People. She only smells them.

Well lets say ghosts that she says she can smell when they are near her or in a American Indian Spiritual Trance.

Clairalience (smelling) or Clair-Olfaction
In the field of parapsychology, clairalience [presumably from late 17th century French clair (clear) & alience (smelling)] is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person acquires psychic knowledge primarily by means of smelling. This sense is mediated by specialized sensory cells of the nasal cavity of vertebrates, and, by analogy, sensory cells of the antennae of invertebrates. For air-breathing animals, the olfactory system detects volatile or, in the case of the accessory olfactory system, fluid-phase chemicals. For water-dwelling organisms, e.g., fish or crustaceans, the chemicals are present in the surrounding aqueous medium. Olfaction, along with taste, is a form of chemoreception. The chemicals themselves which activate the olfactory system, generally at very low concentrations, are called odors.

Many animals, including most mammals and reptiles, have two distinct and segregated olfactory systems: a main olfactory system, which detects volatile stimuli, and an accessory olfactory system, which detects fluid-phase stimuli. Behavioral evidence suggests that these fluid-phase stimuli often function as pheromones, although pheromones can also be detected by the main olfactory system. In the accessory olfactory system, stimuli are detected by the vomeronasal organ, located in the vomer, between the nose and the mouth. Snakes use it to smell prey, sticking their tongue out and touching it to the organ. Some mammals make a face called flehmen to direct air to this organ.

Olifactional Residual Haunting: A term used to describe a ghost that is trapped in a continuous loop that has a particular smell associated with them. Another theory is that an event left a psychic impression on an area and some people witness a replay of that scene or smell.

Yvonne Brown originally lived in Marshall, Texas when an accidental chemical problem almost took her life. She is now a resident of Miami, Florida. And says she can smell the differences in living or dead people just by their odors. Sometimes they have a foul smell, so yes they can stink. They can be recognized by a smell like none on this earth. I am a real paranormal ghost hunter and spiritualist so I believe in the after life - I have smelt my mothers perfume and my fathers smoke from his pipe and cigar. Brown actually was hurt by muriatic acid, could not speak or smell or taste for 6 years, and then it all came back!!! Because of the accident Brown lost her gall bladder, died on the table during that, and had a heart attack, all because of the muriatic acid... and that's a true story.

I'm just a Medium to odors I guess a person who has a special gift and believe I can act as a bridge between the world of the living and the other side. Sometimes I can stick out my tongue and taste a ghost in the air some say I'm Clairgustance ( Clear - tasting) also. And I can go into a trance like state and smell ghosts that draw near.

In the field of parapsychology, clairgustance is defined as a form of extra-sensory perception that allegedly allows one to taste a substance without putting anything in one's mouth. It is claimed that those who possess this ability are able to perceive the essence of a substance from the spiritual or ethereal realms through taste.

It was in 1998 in the small town of Marshall texas, she was working on a clean out crew for a company, and the guy gave her a unmarked bottle of liquid to clean a shower stall out with and told her it was bleach ( But It wasn't). She was in a small enclosed shower stall on her hands and knees, poured the liquid out, and breathed it, and blood started coming out of her eyes, and nose, and mouth. From that day, until 6 years later, she could not speak.

During that time, the muriatic acid effected her gall bladder, which they had to be taken out, and she died on the operating table. That surgery took 8 hours. Then from the med's they were giving her for her throat (which the acid ate away) she had a heart attack and they had to put a splint in one of her arteries. All during this time, she has had to go in and out of the hospital for them to "scrap " her throat, because the scar tissue from that medicine and the acid keeps coming back. But thank God she can talk now!!!! The girl has not drank since she was in high school (i mean nothing), and the acid effected her liver also.

Brown was diagnosed with Anosmia - lack of ability to smell. Many believed when she said she could smell ghosts they believed she had Phantosmia - "hallucinated smell", often unpleasant in nature. Now a days she is believed to be Hyperosmia - an abnormally acute sense of smell.

Olfaction, taste and trigeminal receptors together contribute to flavor. The human tongue can distinguish only among five distinct qualities of taste, while the nose can distinguish among hundreds of substances, even in minute quantities.

Brown who is half German half American Indian did not know what to do. She used to have this Cherokee indian Chief medicine man friend that lived down on Caddo lake that would come and burn sage over her and chant to try and make her better. The Great Chief grew all his own herbs and special food for her to eat, Also he would only eat stuff that came out of Caddo lake like muscles and Fish. Before he died he told Brown he would cure her. if not when he was alive but after his death. The day he died Brown got her ability to smell back at the exact moment he left this world.

When Brown got the sense of smell back it was a great day to celebrate. But the ghosts began to turn up that very day also.

I think I just can smell Ectoplasm says Brown. You know the residue left behind by ghosts or other paranormal phenomena. Many times ectoplasm is seen as a smoky film in photos. I also can tell you the smell of real Orbs. Orbs the phenomenon in the shape of a floating ball of light, often thought to be souls or spirit energy. Some theories state orbs are the form spirits travel in.

I don't know if you would call what I have, says Yvonne as a Sixth Sense a term used to describe psychic ability. But that's all I can do when it comes to haunting's. I don't even call myself a Psychic or ever consider myself a person who uses empathic feelings to tap into nonphysical forces of what's paranormal. " To me it's just normal ."And I sometimes smell more dead people in day then living ones."

"I feel so alone in this, " says Brown ." I'd Like to meet others with my gift but how do you strike up a conversation and most people in ghost groups just don't take you serious." " If you ever smell the dead coming to visit you , then you know it"

The strange smell of a Trance Medium has always caught Brown off guard. This smell or form of mediumship in which the medium shares his or her energy with a spirit through the use of trance. The persons will not only pick up the ghosts mannerisms but also their smell and it will linger for days she states. A famous Trance medium from Pennsylvania invited her to a Seance once and Brown tells that the ghost that came smelled like a bad bowel movement or fertilizer.

In time Brown learned to understand the smell of the living and those that are dead. The dead she says have combination smells of equal proportions the living have smells also but they have usually one dominate odor compared to several mixed like a ghost.

A freshly dead persons ghosts usually smells like a bad refrigerator or one that has been shut off for a few weeks and left in the hot sun. The smell of a Paranormal Vortex is very different, the tornado-like mass of air, water, or energy that spins around very fast -- creating a vacuum to pull objects into its empty center. In supernatural studies, a vortex is an energy mass that is a temporary opening to the other side, this can be the result of spirit energy in motion. The smell is a cross between rotting shrimp and strong roach or ant pesticides.

Poltergeist: German term which literally translates to “noisy ghost.”but they can be smelly too says Brown. This phenomenon of stinky poltergeist is more often experienced than seen. " They smell like a rotten egg with a hogs fart, and raw sewerage mixed in for good measure says Brown. A poltergeist will often interact with its environment by moving objects, making noises, or making itself known in a variety of other ways and one which is not often spoken of is stinking up a house... Some theories state poltergeists are related to the emotional state of a person living in the environment. I once came a cross a Poltergeist in Texas that smelled like old sneakers and burnt roast.