From: To: Subject: [IGHS] Newsletter, February 29, 2004 Deming, New Mexico Date: Saturday, February 28, 2004 9:15 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 29, 2004 from Deming, New Mexico Dr. Dave’s Notes: The twenty-first century surely is not one of peace and good will as we all hoped it would when it was only the twentieth century. Now we hear reports of missing material from the Oklahoma City Bombing that might shed new light on co-conspirators. Sounds like people being told that that there was a lone gunman in Dallas. Oklahoma City Bombing may prove to be a larger can of worms for those who wish us to remain in the dark. It is sad that we live in a divided time over the issues surrounding marriage. Many are fighting for liberty and justice in marriage. We hear that the courts should not determine what constitutes a marriage, but it is the people who should decide. We are told that the courts are no longer the last word in the interpretation of our constitutional rights. The same logic would suggest that the people should decide about taxes, about when we go to war, or on any issue that affect the American people, but this is not the case. The government says that it is up to the courts to decide those issues, except in an election year when courts are deemed appalling so a constitutional amendment is required. We cannot have it both ways, now can we? The present climate suggest that it is okay to be down on the court system and pro on the majority vote, even if it is contrary to how the court rule. Does this mean that if a man is convicted of a crime, but the people vote that he should be free, that the court ruling is toss out? Sounds like the logic used by hate groups today. Their viewpoint is the only valid consideration, even if it goes against court rulings. We cannot use a religious book to determine civil matters. American were given freedoms that today are being attacked in the name of religion or in the name of family. Religious context defined what constitutes a family, but in America, the land of the free, a land with freedom to believe as one chooses, not as one would be with a State Religion. If that belief is outside the frame work of religion, it is legal in America as one faith cannot determine the outcome of another faith. It seems each faith believes that God will only help their group and damn the rest. This is religious bigotry and racism at its best. The Civil War was fought cover issues of slavery, now we are facing issues of marriage that is dividing our great land. What does liberty and justice for all really mean? The slavery issue was hotly debated and it divided a nation, today Same-Sex marriages is the hot issue with sons against fathers, and brothers against brothers. It is no wonder the dead are restless, the living are in turmoil with each other. We will never find peace when we contend with others because of differences in race, color, creed, or sexual preference. Between writing and researching material for our next book, Sharon and I have been having fun picking up red jasper and carnelian in the Mimbres Valley. This is desert buffet of stones; the stones are plentiful and we simply pick them up from the desert floor. BooBoo loves this time as she gets to explore the desert without a leash. On Friday, BooBoo discovered a jack rabbit and tried to catch it, but the rabbit was far too fast for her. The desert around Deming is a rock hound paradise. We found one spot where much of the stones are in the Chalcedony family that includes carnelian, agate, flint, onyx, sardonyx, chrysoprase, and jasper. The carnelians are beautiful clear quartz stones that come in peach, coral, and orange colors. Honey onyx is an orange stone with a white streak that is breath taking to view. We began the rock tumbling process that over the next four weeks will end up with polished stones that Sharon will use in her jewelry making. When we talk about Etheric voice phenomena, or EVP, we are speaking of any Etheric voices recorded, be they ghost voices or ghostly sounds, such as cries, footsteps, doors opening or other non-verbal sounds. I am getting many reports about possible dimensional shifts or parallel dimensions overlapping into our realm that it is hard to find a demarcation line between ghosts and parallel dimensions. We are in an area where our cell phone doesn’t work, so we are not able to receive calls, but we do have access to email daily so if you need to contact us, drop us an email and we will respond back to you. Northern New Mexico is getting snow, but where we are currently staying, the weather is clear and mild. We will be changing our Mail Forwarding Address from Pensacola, FL to Deming, NM shortly. The weather has been so different this year, as we watch the Weather Channel, we see snow storms continue to drop new levels of snow in places not normally associated with snow, especially the Southeast. We are hearing from people who have experienced seeing a green orb with their eyes. While most digital photos taken by amateurs are filled with airborne dust particles, we are seeing more valid ghost orbs photos coming our way. Most new owners of digital cameras fail to establish a baseline of common everyday anomalies, such as dust and pollen, the photographers who do establish baselines do understand that not all orbs are ghosts, but that does not mean all orbs are dust. Common sense is critical when attempting ghost photography. Our Digital Ghost Photography Handbook is available as a PDF download or as a thermal bound booklet. This booklet will help anyone struggling with understanding the difference between dust orbs and ghost orbs. We posted a new photo on Saturday that shows a car with a broken window on the driver’s side. The interesting aspect is the owner of the vehicle was taking a photo of his car document the broken window. However, instead of seeing an empty front seat, there is a human apparition in the front seat. Check it out. Dr. Sharon’s Notes: How can we apply logic to subjects that seem illogical, natural explanations to supernatural events or try to explain what is paranormal by normal means? We are born into this world learning from infancy what is around us. The environment we grow up in becomes normal to us and we accept knowledge by means of our five senses. We come to know color, smells, textures, hot and cold, soft or scratchy, tastes, sweetness or bitterness, sounds that are comforting or frightening. In the process of learning normal physical things through sensing them, we also automatically react to them. We are hearing more about people being born with a sixth sense and we firmly believe this to be true. In talking with people all across this country and in other countries, we can mentally call upon childhood memories and learn the progression of things. We hear about invisible playmates or at least that is what they were termed. To the children involved, those playmates were very visible and quite real. How the parents dealt with the issue became a turning point for their child. Parents who accepted and indulged the child’s stories of a playmate only vi sible to the child, didn’t impact their child by embarrassing them or berating them for using their imaginations, or what we now realize was most often a sixth sense. A good example of this would be when Dave was a boy; he grew up on a farm in a very small community north of Portland, Oregon. Neighbors were distant as were children his age. Dave had a playmate he kept company with frequently. His friend was a little Indian boy who was very real to Dave. He recalls they would sit on a log that hung out over a canyon, just chatting. Dave’s Mother clearly remembers that Dave talked at length about his friend, though she never saw the little Indian boy herself. The imaginary playmate was a normal part of Dave’s childhood and rather than dispute the Indian boy existed, Dave’s Mother would give Dave a cookie and another one for his friend. Dave outgrew his friend but remembered the times they spent together. Dave’s parents never tried to make Dave believe it was only his imagination and the Indian boy was not real, nor was he trained away from the sixth sense he had. Eventually Dave outgrew the ability to see the spirit of the Indian boy. Dave was not told he was bad, silly or lying about the presence of an Indian boy, nor was he told he was nuts for having a playmate that no one else could see. Something that Dave and I found very interesting during our research of the area where he grew up was that the entire area was once home to Indian villages. He recalled that when his Dad would plow the fields, he would unearth artifacts, such as arrowheads. Not far from the site of their farm, a nuclear plant was built and it was rumored to have been situated on sacred Indian burial ground. In adulthood, he verified that his Indian friend could actually have been the spirit of an Indian child that once lived there. Dave realized that the farmhouse they lived in while he was growing up was quite haunted. The nightly sounds of someone walking down the stairs, turning on the water faucet in the kitchen, turning it off and retracing the steps back up the stairs was such a common occurrence, he never gave it much thought. The family just accepted the events taking place, never giving them much thought. The children were not filled with talk of devils or demons in the house or fear of ghosts. I grew up in Southern California about thirty miles south of the metropolis of Los Angeles. My friends were across the street or right next door. My world was a lot different from the world Dave knew, and a lot busier. My Sisters and I were being molded into perfect little ladies in a city setting. Children were seen and not heard, and the idea of us having imaginary friends would have been instantly dismissed. We were smothered in the sanctity of religion and the Holy Spirit was the only ghost allowed in our lives. Anything else was nonsense or rubbish. Life was different in a strict religious upbringing. Anything outside of the ordinary was dealt with harshly and unacceptable. That does not mean for a child it was any less real, but paranormal events were buried, not discussed. Ghosts were demonic, period. The minds of my parents were closed to any other possibilities, meaning that if we did have imaginary friends, we did not talk about them. In talking with people as we travel, we have learned there are people who have seen spirits and had paranormal experiences since childhood. Their parents accepted their “gift” and never discouraged them or punished them for telling lies or tall tales. They have retained their abilities, their sixth sense. Their experiences are very real, even as adults and they relate those experiences without a demonic connotation. People recall being berated or laughed at by their families when talking about invisible playmates or paranormal experiences, lost their sixth sense, never to regain it. The point of remembrance was not the “gift” but the embarrassment in reaction to it not being acceptable to their elders. The majority of us have been trained away from our God-given sixth sense. Religious beliefs have played a major role in the non-acceptance of paranormal events, though the existence of the supernatural is found throughout the Bible. Whether accepting of it or not, there are strange occurrences that take place all over the world, all the time that we cannot explain away with logic. We try to apply what has been normal to us from the onset of life, to paranormal events, usually without success. For the lack of knowledge and understanding, it is termed evil or demonic. If that is the explanation, it is no wonder people prefer to retreat in fear, dismissing anything more than what they have learned with their five physical senses. If they do not see it, hear it, smell it, taste it or touch it, it does not exist. We have always said that a skeptic remains a skeptic until they have an experience of their own. Only then do they realize there is more to this life than we realize. Something that exists just beyond the five senses that we have used and developed since birth. Something that stirs the adrenaline in us as we listen to stories or entertains and amuses us as we dress in costume once a year for an annual Halloween party. Something that has been discussed and documented throughout this history of mankind. Not new conjecture by a few with vivid imaginations, but actual events that only now are we documenting as ongoing occurrences, just outside of what we call normal or natural. We try to apply human logic and rationale to something that has been considered illogical, paranormal and outside of what we accept as being natural. Possibly, had humanity taken a closer look and accepted what our sixth sense in our youth was allowing us to experience we could view it today as being, normal rather than abnormal. Miracles are accepted and viewed with awe yet; magic is not accepted as it is seen as something dark, mysterious, and evil. Often it is the label given to subjects rather than the subjects they in reality. There are no shades of gray in a world seen as black and white. We accept pets into our lives and train them in our ways. They know good from bad or right from wrong and live devoted and obedient to their masters. Yet, we can watch them as they see into another realm, react to things we cannot see, unrestricted by our training, our beliefs, and our judgments. They may refuse to enter a room or a place that gives them discomfort. They may chase something or play with someone beyond our visual range. They alert us to whatever lies beyond our senses and understanding, beyond our beliefs. In looking closely at the reality of things, it seems to be those who are innocent and unrestricted by strict guidelines and belief systems that retain the sixth sense and experience a realm outside of what we term as normal. Along the path of exploration into understanding the paranormal, we have found that there is far more to this life than just what we see, hear, taste, small and touch. There is too much evidence available to give us a deeper knowledge of things we know so little about, if we just take the time to open our minds. San Antonio Ghost Conference: We are preparing for our 2004 Annual Ghost Conference that will be held in San Antonio, Texas on June 19 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. 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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 June 2004 San Antonio Ghost Conference -- June 19, 2004 -- San Antonio, Texas http://www.ghostweb.com/alamo1.html Dave Oester, Ph.D., DD. 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