What Does Being Dead Smell Like?

Many people have have had paranormal encounters through out the generations of this world where a ghost or it's presences is noted by a odor. Most recently Haunted America Tours even featured an article about A ghost hunter Yvonne Brown.

Some people claim to smell perfume or flowers or cigar smoke, things like that, when a real ghost is near. In the Photo above Yvonne Brown tells fellow Ghost Hunter Raul John Gonzalez to sniff the air for the presence of a ghost that she can smell.

Brown a Florida Resident who can smell when ghosts where around her. This phenomena has been reported by many who search for the lost souls of the dead in the paranormal zone. In Browns view ghosts have various odors associated with them and no to specters or spooks smell the same. In interviewing Brown she went on to tell me that ghostly smells and scents or lIke fingerprints (no two or the same). Yvonne Brown asked me did I find others that had her ability and what could I share with her. Can you smell a real ghost ... too? This question makes me wonder to myself what Qualities in person or a ghost causes the actions of this very real paranormal phenomena to happen.

 

 

The smells of ghost differ very strongly tells Brown. In the article I Smell Dead People... I mean Ghosts!

To Brown ghosts exhibit strange mixtures of scents. She has smelled ghosts that odors defy explanation. she tells me that the odors or very clear and one odor might be more prominent. she often likes the smells as the taste of what a ghosts personal life or qualities were. Odor combinations are at the root she states. "I recently smelled a ghost that smelled like rubbing alcohol, Cabbage and Ben Gay". " I also have investigated a ghost that smelled like cow manure, new plastic and fresh cut grass." Brown has also told me that a fellow Ghost Hunter Raul John Gonzalez she met in Little Havana, that smells ghosts also. And that could only smell the cabbage smell. This leads me to believe that some only smell ghost in degrees.

I asked Brown and Gonzales do all ghost have such putrefied smells? In most cases Brown said yes to her at least. Possibly because I am just me and that's how I smell them. She also believes that animals such as dogs and snakes can smell a ghosts presence.

Gonzalez who says he has been detecting the presence of spirits since he was 8 or 9 years old believes the same. In my Cuban culture says Gonzalez Many odors are associated with locations and our voodoo spirits. He believes if a person in life lived or worked in an area where specific odors were present then that's what clings to the ghosts. " I think life is a stink we can't get away from even in death!" says Gonzalez, " When all matter breaks down it lets off gases that smell." " I think these things cling to a real ghosts, And it something that makes them visible to us using one sences that we all have."

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. Pleasant or not the smell is that of what most claim is a real ghosts showing it is presence

Famous Smelly Ghosts

Many famous ghosts have been known for their fragrances associated with their hauntings. Perfumes, food smells, or unnatural these odors are often encountered at the sites where they haunt. A group in California, The Ghost Hunter of Para- Haunt research recently went hunting for Marilyn Monroe's ghost. They said they encountered the smell of roses and disinfectant. Their group psychic medium Mary Simmons said that ghosts she has encountered recently are more fragrant when their more famous. In her opinion the ghosts that smell the best are the most sought after. She also told me that when hunting for the ghost of james dean she could smell a sexy manly smell of men's cologne. And when searching for the ghost of John Belushi she encountered the heavy odor of almonds and chewing gum.

Why? Simmons says she does not really know. Her explanation is that this is what the particular spirits that haunted the location wanted her to experience.

Dylan Merchant a ghost hunter from the UK tells me that the ghost of Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) King of England, smells like burning parchment paper, and wax and his wives each have distinctively different smells.

But his mistress Elizabeth Blount (usually referred to as Bessie) and Mary Boleyn (Anne's sister). Elizabeth Blount gave birth to Henry's illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy. The young boy was made Duke of Richmond in June 1525 in what some thought was one step on the path to legitimatizing him. In 1533, he married Mary Howard, Anne Boleyn's first cousin, but died only three years later without any successors. At the time of FitzRoy's death, the king was trying to get a law passed that would allow his otherwise illegitimate son to become king.

Mary Boleyn was the sister of Anne Boleyn. She is thought to have been his mistress at some point between 1519 and 1526. Historians have speculated that Mary Boleyn's two children, Catherine and Henry were fathered by Henry, but this has never been proven and the King never acknowledged them as he did Henry Fitzroy. "Bolysyn's Ghostly smell is burning parchment just like the kings and lilacs." Says Merchant, "Threre are different mediums that I have found have all confirmed this to me and my group. "Anne of Cleves smells like a dark damp cellar, Jane Seymour smells lie a glorious summer morning in spring," states Merchant.

"I'm sure when other paranormal groups get a few more Clairalience (smelling) or Clair-Olfacte members more evidence to the fact that lf real ghosts give off an odor will become more recognized" states Merchant.

Paranormal encounters of the 5th kind!

From my current research I am finding that paranormal encounters have more to do with the five senses then I originally believed. Senses are the physiological methods of perception. The senses and their operation, classification, and theory are overlapping topics studied by a variety of fields, most notably neuroscience, cognitive psychology (or cognitive science), and philosophy of perception. The nervous system has a specific sensory system, or organ, dedicated to each sense.

Each of them I believe now can show you what a ghosts or the experience is all about if you note it in your report as you encounter the spirit.

1 Sight
2 Hearing
3 Taste
4 Smell
5 Touch

Smell or olfaction is the other "chemical" sense. Unlike taste, there are hundreds of olfactory receptors, each binding to a particular molecular feature. Odor molecules possess a variety of features and thus excite specific receptors more or less strongly. This combination of excitatory signals from different receptors makes up what we perceive as the molecule's smell. In the brain, olfaction is processed by the olfactory system. Olfactory receptor neurons in the nose differ from most other neurons in that they die and regenerate on a regular basis. The inability to smell is called anosmia.

Among non-human species, dogs have a much keener sense of smell than humans, although the mechanism is similar. Insects have olfactory receptors on their antennae.

Vision
Cats have the ability to see in the dark due to muscles surrounding their irises to contract and expand pupils as well as the tapetum lucidum, a reflective membrane that optimizes the image. Pitvipers, pythons and some boas have organs that allow them to detect infrared light, such that these snakes are able to sense the body heat of their prey. The common vampire bat may also have an infrared sensor on its nose. Infrared senses are, however, just sight in a different light frequency range. It has been found that birds and some other animals are tetrachromats and have the ability to see in the ultraviolet down to 300 nanometers. Bees are also able to see in the ultraviolet.

Not analogous to human senses
In addition, some animals have senses that humans do not, including the following:

Electroception (or "electroreception"), the most significant of the non-human senses, is the ability to detect electric fields. Several species of fish, sharks and rays have the capacity to sense changes in electric fields in their immediate vicinity. Some fish passively sense changing nearby electric fields; some generate their own weak electric fields, and sense the pattern of field potentials over their body surface; and some use these electric field generating and sensing capacities for social communication. The mechanisms by which electroceptive fish construct a spatial representation from very small differences in field potentials involve comparisons of spike latencies from different parts of the fish's body.

The only order of mammals that is known to demonstrate electroception is the monotreme order. Among these mammals, the platypus has the most acute sense of electroception.

Body modification enthusiasts have experimented with magnetic implants to attempt to replicate this sense, however in general humans (and probably other mammals) can detect electric fields only indirectly by detecting the effect they have on hairs. An electrically charged balloon, for instance, will exert a force on human arm hairs, which can be felt through tactition and identified as coming from a static charge (and not from wind or the like). This is however not electroception as it is a post-sensory cognitive action.

Echolocation is the ability to determine orientation to other objects through interpretation of reflected sound (like sonar). Bats and cetaceans are noted for this ability, though some other animals use it, as well. It is most often used to navigate through poor lighting conditions or to identify and track prey. There is currently an uncertainty whether this is simply an extremely developed post-sensory interpretation of auditory perceptions or it actually constitutes a separate sense. Resolution of the issue will require brain scans of animals while they actually perform echolocation, a task that has proven difficult in practice. Blind people report they are able to navigate by interpreting reflected sounds (esp. their own footsteps), a phenomenon which is known as Human echolocation.

Magnetoception (or "magnetoreception") is the ability to detect fluctuations in magnetic fields and is most commonly observed in birds, though it has also been observed in insects such as bees. Although there is no dispute that this sense exists in many avians (it is essential to the navigational abilities of migratory birds), it is not a well-understood phenomenon. There is experimental and physical evidence to suggest this sense exists in a weak form in humans.

Magnetotactic bacteria build miniature magnets inside themselves and use them to determine their orientation relative to the Earth's magnetic field.

Pressure detection uses the lateral line, which is a pressure-sensing system of hairs found in fish and some aquatic amphibians. It is used primarily for navigation, hunting, and schooling. Humans have a basic relative-pressure detection ability when eustachian tube(s) are blocked, as demonstrated in the ear's response to changes in altitude.

Polarized light direction / detection is used by bees to orient themselves, especially on cloudy days. Cuttlefish can also perceive the polarization of light.

I believe this is why so many Ghost hunting groups in California and the north east have taken to brining pets along with them.

A Texan Ghost hunter Cheryl Edmond (Stanley Sniffs Out Oatman Hotel Ghosts!) even trains her dog and those of others to hunt for real ghost. She has documented many encounters with dead and research into ghost hunting dogs and cats. Also see: How To Train Your Dog To Be A Professional Ghost Hunter.

 

Ghost Dog Can Smell a ghost a mile away Golden Retriever

HAUNTED HOUSES

Haunted houses all have different odors because of what is in the house the location and the condition that prevails over it. But when a ghost shows up and makes it known that it is their foreign smells will fill the location. Many encounter Colognes or the smells of foods cooking that are not on the locations site. sometimes odors manifest and can only be detected by ones own nose. Or by a entire group.

 

ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOMENON

Many have said to me in my research that they often smell a ghost before they hear them.

EXORCISM

During exorcisms many demonologist and religious groups often tell of evil spirits have different odors.

POLTERGEIST

Not only is a poltergeist attack problem but in all honesty these pesky spooks stink!

PHANTOM GHOST ODORS

If being alive is to smell the world an all that is in it. The ghosts by my asumption must certainly do!

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LISA LEE HARP WAUGH, Founder Of The Ghost Hunters Of America is a America necromancer in the 21st century. She is by what may call a real conduit to the world of the dead. She dressers in ceremonial white robes, draws magical circle and triangles s on the floor and commands spirits from Heaven, Hell and all places in between to appear before her and communicate with the living. As a teenager growing up in Marshall, Texas she studied heavily The Black Arts by Richard Cavendish and The Grand Grimoire, the Malleus Maleficarum and anything she could get her hands on by the great by Eliphas Levi, John Dee and the great beast, Aleister Crowley.

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