BOO! Casting Ghost Story Podcasting

By: Bobbie Grennier, freelance SEO writer

World renown psychic and author Jane Doherty has found herself in a very prominent position on her new reality TV show called “Dead Tenants”, which is hosted by The Learning Channel. I say it’s a prominent position because of the phenomena that separates Jane’s psychic abilities from those of other psychics.

Whenever there are ghosts around Jane, she has an amazing physical reaction to them and handling it is no small feat either. The reaction Jane has is that her stomach area actually enlarges by as much as six inches around within seconds. And, Jane tells us that it’s extremely painful to her when this happens. If you watch Jane while this stomach expansion is happening, you’re going to hear her moaning and see her wincing … and trust me, it’s not dramatics … the woman’s in definite pain.

With regards to her expanding tummy, Jane says, “It feels like a contraction when a woman is in labor, but it doesn’t ever release me until the spirit leaves. Instead, the stomach expands as if I was nine months pregnant.” Jane actually describes it as very intense muscle cramps, where her stomach is physically gripped by the ghost, and if you watch, the belly will actually lift up. Jane continues, “Often I can tell by the grip whether it is a female, male or child spirit. It first happened to me in 1990, when I investigated my first haunted house with a researcher.”

The belly area is associated with the third charka located at the solar plexus, which is the area that dominates the gifts of telepathy, clairvoyance, clairsentience and an awareness of astral entities. It’s interesting that historically the belly area is associated with body’s core of energy sometimes called the “Chi Point” or the “Hara”, both of which translate literally to mean belly. It’s also interesting that historically, psychics felt their gift came from their gut … called “reading with the pit of the stomach” … where today, most psychics describe their gift coming from their third eye charka, between the eyes and centered in the middle of the forehead. With Jane Doherty, it seems to make good sense that the physical phenomena of Jane Doherty’s expanded stomach would be directly related to her psychic gift.

Jane’s devout belief in the power of God comes through in all that she does because she feels strongly that her psychic abilities are a God-given talent. Using her psychic abilities allows Jane to bring comfort to people whose hearts are hurting, and hope to those who need it most. And, that’s her personal goal on Dead Tenants whose families are in desperate need of help and knowledge to deal with their home’s ghosts.

The Dead Tenants TV show follows the journeys of the Preternatural Research Society (PRS) — a team of paranormal investigators — through the attics, basements, living rooms and back yards of some of the most haunted houses in the country. Coming to the aid of families experiencing very unwanted ghosts and unexplainable activity in their homes, Jane Doherty and the PRS team do their best to assist the families. The Dead Tenants show weaves the historical, scientific and psychic into a rich tapestry to help the viewer better understand the hauntings.

“There was never a question of how I would use my gift,” Jane says firmly. “I have taken every possible opportunity to help others.” Jane Doherty is the real deal, on TV and in print. Her words are like the words of her book - so compelling, you won’t be able to put it down.

Jane Doherty’s book, Awakening the Mystic Gift: The Surprising Truth About What It Means to Be Psychic, chronicles Jane’s own psychic awakening and what it truly means to be psychic. For those seeking more information on what it means to be psychic, this book is a very compelling read.

Jane Doherty is a gifted psychic and medium of international acclaim. Many refer to her as the “real deal” because of her accuracy and sincere caring nature. In fact, Hans Holzer, known best for his many books on ghosts and paranormal activities, has named Jane Doherty as “one of the top twenty psychics in the world.” A born teacher, Jane feels part of her own purpose in life is to teach others to open to their own psychic abilities, and for this reason Jane has brought her psychic teachings to an online format through the Herbal-College.com website. Here Jane has established a book club for her readers to explore more about their own psychic abilities with her personally, and Jane will also teach her multi-leveled Psychic Development courses at the Herbal-College.com website.

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About the Author: Bobbie Grennier is a freelance writer and teaches herbalism at Herbal-College.com. She also is the webmaster for HauntedCams.com and offers FREE reprint articles.

Psychic Jane Doherty - for more info visit www.hauntedcams.com and www.janedoherty.com

GHOST HUNTERS Break Ratings Record For SCI FI Channel - Renewed For Next Season

SCI FI was the #1 cable entertainment network Thursday night for P18-49 (1.2 million) and P25-54 (1.2 million) during the 90-minute second season finale of the Channel?s hit reality series GHOST HUNTERS. Bringing in 1.9 million viewers (1.5HH rating), GHOST HUNTERS is SCI FI?s highest rated program in key demos (P18-49, P25-54) since the season finale of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (March 10, 2006).

SCI FI Channel will be bringing GHOST HUNTERS back for 13 new episodes slated to premiere in October 2006, it was announced by Mark Stern, SCI FI Channel?s EVP, Original Programming. Six new episodes will premiere in October with the remaining seven airing in early 2007. Season three of GHOST HUNTERS will hit the road, investigating claims of the paranormal here in the United States and abroad.

Thursday night?s finale episode featured an investigation at Colorado?s legendary Stanley Hotel. Stephen King took up residence at the Stanley while writing his novel THE SHINING and the spooky goings on at the hotel served as the inspiration for the best-selling book.

Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson are plumbers by day, GHOST HUNTERS by night! These self-proclaimed skeptics have managed to expose some of the most frighteningly compelling evidence of paranormal phenomenon ever seen on television. Being scared has never been so much fun! Produced in association with Craig Piligian’s Pilgrim Films and Television (AMERICAN CHOPPER, DIRTY JOBS), GHOST HUNTERS leaves no stone unturned in its search for the truth - or the truly bizarre.

Everyday people with genuine stories to share are being documented personally by Paranormal Hostess Scorpiona of Michigan in her inter-dimensional house.

Allen Park, Michigan (PRWEB via PR Web Direct) May 10, 2006 — Everyday people with genuine stories to share are being documented personally by Paranormal Hostess Scorpiona of Michigan in her inter-dimensional house. Her home has been the site of spirit visitations and voices, including Native Americans, a Medicine Man, deceased relatives and resident ghost dog. Registered visitors will be given overnight privileges in the home to hopefully photograph entities, or record “white noise” (sounds from the so-called dead).

Participating house guests will be filmed there on the first day of their visit during a ghost storytelling discussion. On the second day Scorpiona will guide them on a lantern tour to local places reputed for haunted activity.

Scorpiona’s lifetime of spiritual encounters was published in the “X” Chronicles worldwide parapsychology newspaper, and she airs periodically on the “X” Zone radio show syndicated out of Canada. She is developer of “Predict Me” (r), an entertainment card deck of 111 animal/nature drawings.

“My research indicates that there are similar life after death stories surfacing, no matter what race or culture,” says Scorpiona. “That tells me that we all come from the same source or creator. I feel that energy never dies but merely changes form, and that includes animals and birds. The dimensions may be moving closer together, the reason for so much communication lately from the other side of life.”

Scorpiona accommodates small groups all year long. Reservation details for her two-day Ghostly Getaways are on www.earthtoscorpiona.com.

By: By Tom Yancey/Staff Writer
Source: The Greeneville Sun

Stacey Allen McGee, a self-described “certified ghost hunter” who operates a company he calls Appalachian Ghostwalks, visited the Dickson-Williams Mansion Thursday night.

By the time he gathered his gear and left several hours later, McGee claimed to have found considerable evidence that the almost-190-year-old mansion is . . . haunted.

For two years now, McGee has conducted what he calls “hauntingly historic” guided, lantern-lit walking tours, or “ghost walks,” that now include historic Jonesborough and Erwin, Buffalo Mountain and the campus of East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, and Abingdon, Va.

He is in the process of developing a similar walk in Greeneville, and hopes to start June 1, he said.

That “ghost walk,” he says, will be called “Haunted Historic Greeneville.” The cost of a walking tour will be $7 per person in groups of five or more.

Appalachian Ghostwalks, based in the small community of Unicoi, a few miles from Erwin, is a member of the Unicoi County Chamber of Commerce and the Northeast Tennessee Tourism Association (NETTA).

The business has a great deal of information, much of it historical in nature, on its Internet site, www.appalachianGhostWalks.com.

Limestone Native

McGee, a Limestone native who has spent most of his adult life in the hospitality industry, said in an interview that he believes “ghost walks” can be an important tourism draw for the entire East Tennessee region, based on responses to the tours his group has conducted so far.

Sarah Webster, chairman of the Dickson-Williams Historical Association, said that when McGee approached that organization about conducting “scientific sweeps” of the historic house museum, the association was willing to cooperate.

Webster, along with Nancy McNeese, director of Main Street: Greeneville, and McNeese’s daughter-in-law, Anna Jeffers, who has experience with walking tours in historic Charleston, S.C., helped McGee conduct five “sweeps” of the building Thursday evening.

As a gesture of good faith, McGee presented the mansion association with an electronic page-scanned copy of Tennessee: A History, written by Dr. Philip Hamer, former chairman of the University of Tennessee’s department of history.

Webster said the copy would be placed in the T. Elmer Cox Historical and Genealogical Library, where the public can have access to it.

In exchange, McGee was loaned a copy of Greeneville: 100 Year Portrait, 1775-1875, by the late local historian Richard H. Doughty, the driving force in the restoration of the 1820s-era brick mansion at the corner of N. Irish and W. Church streets.

The structure was the showplace residence of Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Williams from the early 1820s until after the Civil War. Famed Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan spent the last night of his life as a guest in the house in September 1864.

Later used as an inn, and even a factory, it was converted to use as the major part of the former Greeneville Hospital during most of the last century.

McGee said historical information from Doughty’s book will be invaluable in preparing the “script” for the “ghost walk” tour.

Webster said people visit historic sites like the Dickson-Williams mansion for a variety of reasons, some of them very speculative, such as stories about unsolved mysteries.

She said the association is hopeful that people who learn about the house-museum from taking a “ghost walk” will be intrigued enough to want to take a separate tour of the mansion itself, and perhaps visit other historic sites in and around Greeneville as well.

Methods Explained

McGee explained the methods he uses to a Greeneville Sun reporter early Thursday evening, but he was unwilling to have the reporter present while the sweeps through the mansion were made.

The sweeps, he said, “are difficult to do when you also have to think about your public image.”

The first sweep, he said, involved taking numerous digital photographs, using four different cameras.

The second sweep, he said, involved taking infrared photos. Infrared photos are expensive, he said, and thus are used sparingly.

For the third sweep he used a hand-held meter that indicates the presence of high electro-magnetic interference, which he said “we find typically in haunted locations.”

Electromagnetic interference usually does not mean very much when it’s in a wall, McGee said, but when it’s in the middle of a room, and is stationary, “We call it, for lack of a better word, a vortex.”

In this context, he maintained, a vortex indicates where “people from other times” may be able to enter the present.

27 Ghosts Or Spirits

McGee carefully avoids using words such as “dead” or “dead people.”

But he was willing to state after visiting the mansion that his “sweeps” found evidence of “27 different ghosts or spirits that haunt there on a regular basis.”

McGee said he intentionally did not investigate the history of the mansion in depth before Thursday evening’s “sweeps,” in order to be able to approach the site with an open mind.

He said a scan by him of the house museum’s exterior during a preliminary tour of historic structures in Greeneville showed considerable supernatural activity at the Dickson-Williams mansion.

He emphasized that he did not trespass to make the initial observation, but also said that he is willing to perform the same type of “sweeps” at no charge in any historic home or structure in Greeneville or nearby.

McNeese said McGee was not surprised when told that the mansion was for many years part of a hospital. He told her that hospitals are often haunted.

The same is true of some college campuses, he added.

Peculiar Happenings?

The fourth sweep he conducted was an audio recording, which will later be subjected to acoustic analysis, McGee said.

During this sweep, McNeese and Webster said everyone present heard what sounded like footsteps on an upper floor, although no one was present there.

At another point, after McGee invited ghosts to “make themselves known,” McNeese said window blinds on an upper floor began to rattle as if the window were open, though an investigation showed it was not, and no wind could be felt.

The fifth sweep, and the one that McGee said he believes is the most indicative of the presence of ghosts, is “dowsing,” a very old method typically used to find underground water, but also used to find any number of other buried objects.

About Dowsing

Dowsing has both its advocates and its skeptics, as a quick Internet search will reveal.

Dowsing is a method, at least several thousand years old, in which a dowsing rod, dowsing stick or even a forked tree limb is used by the “dowser” holding it to try to locate an object.

McGee uses two narrow, metal, L-shaped rods to ask a series of yes-or-no questions, mostly about ghosts.

“Dowsing is not necessarily scientific,” McGee acknowledged. But he also stated that between 85 and 90 percent of the ghost presences he says he has been able to identify in the region using that method have been verified from what history also says about structures where the method has been used.

McGee also said the University of Tennessee forensic medicine unit “employs dowsing to locate lost gravesites,” with similar success.

McNeese said that, although the sweeps took several hours and the process was tiring, “It was an experience I won’t forget, and I’m really glad I got to be a part of it.”

Webster had similar comments. “This was not somewhere I normally go, but it was very interesting,” she said in an interview Friday.

She said that McGee “found interesting activity that needs further study, and he will let us know how he interprets what we did.”

Webster also said McGee wants to come back to the Dickson-Williams Mansion to finish “sweeping” the uppermost floor, and also wants to visit the historic stone “Greene County Gaol”: a onetime county jail whose earliest section dates from 1882 but which uses some materials from a still-earlier jail located at the same site.

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