From: To: Subject: [IGHS] Newsletter, February 8, 2004 Deming, New Mexico Date: Sunday, February 08, 2004 1:13 PM ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Remove Link To Unsubscribe from Newsletter: Click on Reply To or send email to ighs-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com for an automatic removal from this newsletter. Mission Statement: The Ghostweb is the official Web Site of the International Ghost Hunters Society. Membership in the IGHS is always FREE. The IGHS is dedicated and committed to the research, documentation, education, and investigation of ghostly phenomena recorded through EVP, digital, film and video photography. The IGHS is a society of ghost believers, ghost hunters, and ghost researchers with over 14,000 members in 87 countries worldwide. Travel Along with Dave & Sharon: Join us as we start our fourth year of RV traveling as we explore America's Most Haunted Sites. We had a dream and now we are living that dream of traveling across this great land in our little house on wheels with our Welsh Pembroke Corgi dog named BooBoo. We are currently investigating haunted sites in New Mexico. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ International Ghost Hunters Society Newsletter February 8, 2004 from Deming, New Mexico Dr. Dave’s Notes: Our time is running out for registration for the Albuquerque Old Town Seminar coming up next weekend. We are putting on the final touches for that event. Plan on attending our June 19th Ghost Conference in beautiful and haunted San Antonio in the heart of Texas. We have chosen the haunted Menger Hotel to host our Conference. Manager Ernesto Malacara will share the ghost tales of this 1859 hotel. Come and listen to the stories about the many ghosts that still walk the hallways of the haunted Menger Hotel. Other speakers will speak such on such topics as the local haunts in and around the Menger Hotel or watch a ghost video of the shadow people captured at a New Orleans theater. Learn about orbs and why most orbs are not paranormal! Learn how to record ethereal ghost voices and how to evaluate these ghost voices with software downloaded off the Internet for $15. This will be a hands on conference, after the sessions, we will be holding on-site investigations where the knowledge gained from our speakers can be applied immediately. Plan now to join Dave and Sharon on June 19th in San Antonio. Check out the links to the web page on this conference found at http://www.ghostweb.com/alamo1.html. We have limited seating due to the size of our conference room so do not delay registering early. Come early and enjoy the beautiful River Walk and the legendary Alamo. When we held our seminar in San Antonio in 1999, two of our members got the experience of a life time. One member was a skeptic, who came with someone who believed in ghosts. After we had finished our investigation at the legendary Railroad Tracks where supposedly a bus load of children was hit by train, we departed for one of the old Spanish Missions. The two members arrived first and waited in their car for the rest of us to arrive. Suddenly, a large green orb appeared at the window on the driver side where the skeptic sat. The skeptic saw the large green org and then the orb move up and over the car and appeared at the window on the passenger side. The skeptic quickly became a believer in the paranormal. The large green orb observed by these two members seems to be the same color that Brad Steiger observed as a young man of 17 when he saw his first green orb. While Sharon and I have only observed white orbs with our eyes, we continue to hear of green orbs reported by people. Our two-hour radio program with the Guru of Talk Radio, Jeff Rense on this past Friday night was great. We share ghost voices from two prehistoric Indian ruins, one that dated back to AD 900, and the other that dated from AD 1250. In both of these sites, we recorded ghost voices speaking in a language that we could not understand. We will be conducting more investigations at other prehistoric Indian sites throughout the Southwest in the coming months. So far, the weather in our area has been clear and nice. While the temperatures have been dropping into the mid-twenties at night, the days are in the mid-fifties, which allow us to continue conducting our investigations. In between our investigations, we are working on our next book that will be out in the Fall of 2005. Most of the photos sent to us for evaluation are of ordinary dust particles captured with a digital camera. The only exception has been the photo of a ghost hag standing next to a young Asian. This ghost hag is a hoax that has been floating around the Internet for about five years now. The original hoaxed photo showed this ghost hag floating above the floor either in a hallway or in an alleyway. Remember, if it looks too good to be true, it is probably a hoax. The full body apparitions we have photographed or that other researchers have photographed do not appear ghoulish, but as the apparition appeared in life. The ghoulish apparitions are the figments of Hollywood scriptwriter's imagination. We believe that the voices that we capture with our digital recorders to be those of spirits who are alive and will and not from energy patterns imprinted into the environment. While psychics proclaim this theory, there has not been any documented evidence to support their theory. The ghost voices are often interactive with the living and cannot be imprints. Sometimes we record voices, as if we are eavesdropping on them without their knowledge as in the case of recordings from prehistoric Indian ruins. However, it has been our personal experience that most of the time, the voices are responding to statements that either Sharon or I have made. Their ghostly response is directly related to our comments. There is no way their comments are energy imprints. We believe that the theory of energy imprints is a myth and nothing more. We do not need white noise, or a psychic to understand what the ghost voice is saying. In most cases, the ghostly voices we have recorded are clear and precise. Sometime the voice is a whisper, other times, the voice is speaking in its normal level. Listeners can discern if the voice is male, female, or a child. The voice will not be in King's English, but will reflect slang or in the regional dialect that the spirit spoke in life. We have been teaching about the techniques that we have found to be most successful. Our approach follows the scientific protocols we have established. We do not use psychics, but digital recorders to document the existence of ethereal phantoms. We invite our readers to experience the wonders and joy of recording the ethereal voices from beyond the grave. We do not ask you to accept what we say, but to prove it for yourselves. We are all students when it comes to understanding the great beyond. For the beginner, when you hear your first ghost voice, you may fell a tingle run up you spine, or you may get goosebumps, but I assure each of you that the time will come that instead of getting goosebumps, you will simply say, “Wow!” The ghost voices are as normal to us today as any spoken voices we hear on the streets. We have seen full body apparitions and heard the voices of ghosts and each time, we simply say, “Wow!” Ghost researchers will graduate from goosebumps to appreciation when they experience the phantoms who haunt our world from beyond the grave. Dr. Sharon Gill: “All houses in which men have lived and died are haunted houses: through the open doors, the harmless phantoms on their errands glide, with feet that make no sound upon the floors.” By Henry Wordsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Throughout history, people have been aware of ghosts and they have discussed and documented them in many ways. Ghosts are nothing new to us; we have merely reached an age of technology that allows us to document the existence of ghosts, in all of their various manifestations. Generally speaking, we have all grown up hearing the tales of ghosts. Today, there are hundreds if not thousands of people out taking pictures and recording for EVP (Ethereal Voice Phenomena). In fact, over the last six years while holding conferences in Gettysburg, we noticed more and more that the nights were filled with flashes from cameras all over the battlefields, even when it was misting. We hear folks saying all the time how they are tired of getting “orbs” and want to move on to ectoplasm and the full body apparition. But, “orbs” have become a big topic of question and skepticism as they are showing up everywhere. The problem being that there are so many out taking pictures these days, untrained as to the authenticity of the “orbs” they have captured. Therefore, anything that appears round on a digital camera or 35MM film is immediately deemed spirit energy. For years, a photographs have been circulating that were said to be either an Angel or Jesus. These hoaxed photos have been sent to us many times over they years. The person who took the photograph is always dead and there is no negative to be found, but the person who took the picture was an honest and credible person. After receiving several copies of the same photograph from various people around the country, we discovered that the photograph was used years ago as a promotional gift for donations given to certain churches. Every person who sent us the photograph, insisted that it was a real picture of a religious figure that was captured on film. Unfortunately, we found that not to be the case at all, yet people wanted to believe in its validity. We seek answers and assurances of something more than this physical existence. Human nature has always been this way. Not only do we want evidence, we want absolute proof. A picture is worth a thousand words and a photo of a full-bodied apparition is always more believable and more widely accepted than an orb of light, ectoplasmic vapor and vortices combined. We can identify with a human figure while the other manifestations are beyond common knowledge and may not conform to our ideals of what a real ghost should be. We cannot identify with a glowing orb of light outside of the normal headlights on a car, streetlights, or similar objects that bring light to the dark of night. Research has been done for years on the human soul and what occurs at death. Not only has there been documented evidence of weight differentiations, doctors, nurses and even family members present at the death of a patient or loved one, describe seeing a burst of light in orb-like form, leaving the body in the darkened room at death. Yes, the appearance of an orb of light that is seen in an instant, with the human eye. I would suspect that if a person were standing next to the body at death, they would also feel the energy from the instant that the spirit left the body. Form fits the function in this world and has also been said of alien life forms and why there are differences. In nature, we see definite differences in species. An eagle, for example, is a far larger type of bird than a tiny hummingbird, yet their form is suited for their function. An eagle, being a bird of prey, requires the size and strength it has for hunting and capturing food. A hummingbird, with tiny little porous bones and an extended beak, seeks the nectar in flowers for sustenance. It darts around at lightning speed, part of which is for survival from larger predators. In life, when a body becomes aged, weakened, diseased to the point of not being able to heal and strengthen, it dies. When the physical body cannot sustain the spirit of life within, it dies. The spirit energy moves into a realm of higher vibration where no heavy, physical body is needed. The form changes, the vibration rate changes and the energy patterns change to fit the function. In 1939, Edgar Cayce made this declaration: “When there is the same interest or study given to things or phases of mental and spiritual phenomenon as has been and is given to the materialized and material phenomena, then it will become just as practical, as measurable, as meterable, as any other phase of human experience.” We continue to make new discoveries about our physical world. Science gains ground and make breakthrough discoveries all the time. They prove and disprove old theories; with the age of technology, tremendous discoveries are being made. On the same note, we have entered an age of discovery of the non-material world as well. There are more photographs of ghosts in various forms captured on still camera and video cameras now than ever before. There are far more recordings of voices from the past, recorded on units more sensitive to different sound levels than ever before. We are learning, through the research and investigations that there is far more to this world than just the physical. This is, in part, what Edgar Cayce meant and what he, himself had tapped into. With his wonderful gift, he knew there was far more to this life than just what we could see with our eyes and hear with our ears. Ghosts of Old Town Plaza Seminar: Time is running out to register for the February 14 ghost seminar in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We love New Mexico and what better weekend for a special get away then at Old Town Plaza, known as the City of the Dead because there is an unwritten saga that suggests that the dead were buried in the floors and walls of the adobe homes within this community. We will devote the afternoon to hands on investigations of various haunts in Old Town. This is not one of those stuffy, stand offish type seminars, but one where you roll up your sleeves and apply what you're learning, side by side with Dave & Sharon. Check out our seminar page at http://www.ghostweb.com/oldtown.html. We limit the size of the seminar group to allow more time for personal instructions on a one to one basis. San Antonio Ghost Conference on June 19th: We are preparing for our 2004 Annual Ghost Conference that will be held in San Antonio, Texas on June 19, which is a change from the June 12th date due to a scheduling conflict at the Menger Hotel. The Conference for the third Saturday in June will focus on the ghosts of the Alamo, the Menger Hotel, and San Antonio, ghost photography, EVP recordings, and EVP evaluations. No psychics or mediums will be speaking, as we are a scientific based organization focusing on using scientific tools for recording and documenting the existence of ghosts. There will be a special investigation on Friday night for Inner Circle members. All events are within walking distance of your haunted hotel and meeting place. Special room rates of $95 at the Menger, just ask for the International Ghost Hunters Special, as long as rooms are available. We will have limited seating due to the meeting room limitations, so do not delay registering with Dave & Sharon. Check out http://www.ghostweb.com/alamo1.html. Digital Ghost Photography Handbook: Confused about orbs? What are dust orbs and how do they relate to real ghost orbs? Read our 20 page thermal bound book or download the PDF book and discover how digital photography is the wave of the future. We have been using digital since 1994 and we share with the reader, which are the best digital cameras on the market today. We also share what to look for when purchasing a digital camera and provide some protocols to avoid falling into the dust orb trap. Check it out at http://www.ghostweb.com/booklet2.html. How to Record and Analyze Ghost Voices: Susan Olson of Riverside, California writes, "I LOVE your new EVP booklet! For a long time now, I have experimented with digital recording to no avail. The information in your booklet helped me to get better recordings without background static! Thanks so much and keep up the good work!" Our book, How to Record and Analyze Ghost Voices is the best definitive publication on this subject and we have shipped this book around the world. This twenty-one page book will provide step by step detailed instructions on how to use our secret techniques for successful recording and analyzing of ghostly voices. This new thermal bound book is an easy to read size of 8.5x11 inch bound with a clear plastic cover and a white plastic back cover. The book is USD$10 plus Priority Mail shipping of $4 for a total of USD$14. We will ship this book to Canada by International Air Mail and to Europe by International Ground Mail for the same price. The book can also be downloaded as a PDF file for $10. Upon payment of the $10, we will send an email with the address and password to download the file. The download saves time and saves the postage for shipping the book. Traditional techniques for recording ghost voices are outdated and far less successful. Sharon and I have an accumulated 28 years of experience in ghost research and in evaluating ghost tools for field investigations. Along the way, we have discovered many hidden techniques that enable us to be tremendously successful in recording the voices of the dead. No special equipment is required as all equipment that we recommend is off-of-the-shelf products purchased at any Radio Shack store. Our new book will disclose our time tested techniques in a step by step procedure that is easy to understand and to apply. The book, available via PayPal or through our Online Secure Order Form, will become a resourceful guide to understanding how to perform the investigation and how to operate the software for evaluating the ghostly voices. Check out the book at http://www.ghostweb.com/booklet.html. We ship via Priority Mail through the Post Office, not the slow boat to China known as Media Mail that takes several weeks to arrive at an address. CD Version Home Study Courses: We offer two CD versions, one with the Home Study Course in PDF format that can be read by any hardware or software with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, version 4 or higher. This option is for those using the Mac Operating system or PC computer with an operating system that is not Windows based. We also offer the second version on the CD as the HTM version for PC computers using Wins95, Wins98, WindowsMe, and WindowsXP. The added features of this CD version, includes color photographs of spiritual orbs, spirit energy ectoplasm, a full body apparition and samples of ordinary airborne dust particles we call dust orbs that fool so many people. The separate Photo Analysis CD is now a part of the CD version. In addition, a printed copy can be made from CD, as in the printed version. We have also added ghostly EVP voices captured by us during our travels, such as the Confederate rebel commenting about the 20th Maine boys at Little Round Top or the Peyton Place Gossip found in a 1753 Cemetery about Mary is a Peach. Listen to an old miner recorded at a mining camp in Nevada or the ghostly morbid whine of a ghost dog, perhaps standing over the body of his murdered master captured in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon where a 1900s rancher and his family was murdered. The CD version is “HTM” based, this is not a “PDF” version, but a true “HTM” version that opens and functions as a web page. We have updated the material and even included a message from Dr. Dave Oester. Buyers from around the world have purchased the new CD version. We pay the shipping charges for Priority Mail in the USA, International Air Mail to Canada and for ten dollars more, we ship it by Global Priority Mail to Europe and Asia. More information is available at http://www.ghostweb.com/cgh.html. IGHS Printed Home Study Courses Since 1998: We offer the premier Home Study Course program on the Internet. We offer the best and most comprehensive ghost hunting and paranormal curriculum available. We have trained more students in this field than any other paranormal organization. We set the standards and the protocols for field investigations that followed by the ghost hunting community. We offer the premier Home Study Course, sharing all of our experiences and knowledge gained over the last dozen years. Read more about our premier Home Study Course Program at http://www.ghostweb.com/mainhsc.html. Fulfill your dreams: Magic Dimensions We all have dreams that we wished that could be our reality, but we do not know how to make that wish come true for us. In our book, we teach about the magic of having your dreams fulfilled. We show the reader how to open a doorway for a new reality where your dream will come true. Many claim this process is a miracle, but Quantum Mechanics teaches us that our miracles are simply an application of this weird science. Out book can show you how to create that miracle! We share with the reader the magical techniques that create the miracle we seek after in life. Magic Dimensions may be one of the most important books that will change people’s lives. Visit our web site at http://www.ghostweb.com/magic1.html for more info on ordering the book. The ISBN number is 0-595-22032-0 and can be ordered from any bookstore or online at major dot.com bookstores. The online e-book can be downloaded immediately. IGHS T-shirts Available: We are pleased to announce that we have our new IGHS light blue 50/50 screen printed T-shirts available. The two sided printing has a large full size on the back and a smaller size image on the front, over the left pocket area. Limited sizes are available ranging from XL to 2XL. Check them out at http://www.ghostweb.com/tshirt1.html. Life Time IGHS Member Certificate: Instead of renewing every year, IGHS members can now purchase a Life Time Membership for $60 or a Life Time Membership and Life Time Clip ID Badge for $75. This is available through PayPal and through our online Secure Order Form. IGHS ID Badges for Investigations: We have received many requests for some kind of Identification Badge to wear while conducting field investigations. We have created a laminated ID Badge with a metal clip that snaps onto your shirt or other piece of clothing. It says that you are a Registered Ghost Hunter/Paranormal Investigator in good standing with the International Ghost Hunters Society and it has our signatures and web address. Order the ID Badge at http://www.ghostweb.com/id_badge.html. Password Memberships: We offer a special membership in our Ghostweb Ghost Galleries. Due to the size of these ghost galleries, we have to limit the number of people because of the bandwidth consumed by downloading the photos, spirit voices, and ghost videos in this area. If you want to view over 9,000 ghost photos, EVPs, and videos, check out our membership program at http://www.ghostweb.com/pass.html. IGHS Membership Certificates: The IGHS offers a beautiful Membership Certificate. The membership certificate is valid for one year Check it out at http://www.ghostweb.com/memcert.html for more information. Kind regards, Dave, Sharon & BooBoo International Ghost Hunters Society Copyrighted 2004 by Dr. Dave Oester All Rights Reserved. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our next book is spooky! American Hauntings Investigated, due out in Spring 2004 Old Town Plaza Ghost Seminar -- Valentine Day, 2004 http://www.ghostweb.com/oldtown.html San Antonio Ghost Conference -- June 12, 2004 -- San Antonio, Texas http://www.ghostweb.com/alamo1.html Dave Oester, Ph.D., DD. Sharon Gill, Ph.D., International Ghost Hunters Society Web URL: http://www.ghostweb.com Email: MagicDimensions@aol.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~