New Book: Encounters with the Paranormal volume 3 by Mike Ricksecker

I am so excited to receive a copy of my friend Mike Ricksecker's latest book and collection of paranormal stories!   I am also honored to have a story inside, too. Mike's "Encounters with the Paranormal volume 3" is available on Amazon.com in paperback and Ebook. 
   So many great authors included such as Mike himself, Shara Wankel, Michelle Hamilton, Stephanie Bingham, Vanessa Hogle and more!  - Rob

ABOUT THE BOOK:
In this third volume, read about more haunted houses, supernatural creatures, messages from pets from the other side, haunted history, experiences during paranormal investigations, psychic experiences, and more, including a dedicated section to the historic Mineral Springs Hotel. ENCOUNTERS WITH THE PARANORMAL: VOLUME 3 reveals more personal stories of the supernatural and paranormal, continuing to explore the realm beyond the veil through its contributors.

Joy Andreasen's Tarot Tuesday: The Sun

Today's card is the Sun
   Joy Andreasen  provides the interpretation of Tarot cards on these Tarot Tuesdays:
Today is a spectacular day! The sun is shining. The sky is blue. Life is good! New things are on the horizon. If your life has been difficult lately, you are in for a different sort of day! The best way you can assure that you have a wonderful day, week, or life, is to decide to! Decide that your life is wonderful. Decide to create a beautiful life! Be happy! Don't wait for something outside of you to happen to make your life spectacular, create it for yourself!

Joy Andreasen

 ABOUT JOY: Joy Andreasen is an author, shamanic practitioner, psychic medium, spiritual consultant, Reiki Master Teacher and wedding officiant. She has been giving messages from Spirit for almost twenty years. She teaches spiritual development and shamanic classes in Winchester and Herndon Virginia which are always highly acclaimed.  She has compiled some of these messages into a book which is available on her website, www.whispersofjoy.net. Her  goal is to be of service to others in whatever way is most beneficial to their souls.

Photo of the Belmont Manor Portal? What is a Portal?

4 mysterious lights in portal room

On Oct. 27, Inspired Ghost Tracking led 35 people through the historic Belmont Manor for a public paranormal investigation. One of  the rooms is known to have a portal (an energy doorway) that leads to another place on the property. One of the visitors took this photo where the portal is known to be. What do you think? 

FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHER: My Mom and I attended the Oct 27 Belmont investigation.  I took a picture in the "portal room" that has 4 lights on the floor.  Not sure what this is but thought I would send it to you to have a look. Stephanie 

Close up of the mystery lights on the floor of the portal room

MY RESPONSE:  Thank you for the photo. I've darkened the picture to see if those could have been reflections from the light fixtures on the wall, and they don't line up the same way (the light fixtures are horizontal, the 4 mystery lights on the floor are vertical. (like a doorway).  I also don't see anything shiny on the floor that could have acted as a reflector...So, I'm inclined to think that perhaps you may have captured the bottom part of the portal!

Thank you for sharing!

INSPIRED GHOST TRACKING MEASURED THE PORTAL - During one of our investigations, on the floor where we sensed the portal,  we placed a motion activated ball that lights up when touched. The ball lit up every 30 to 60 seconds. That was indicative of a part of the portal rotating and hitting the ball, causing it to light up. 

  I tell people to think of a portal like a hurricane on it's side, rotating. The opening or "eye" of the portal is the doorway in which ghosts cross through to another place. 

Join the Ghosts of Belmont -Inspired Ghost Tracking Facebook page 

https://www.facebook.com/inspiredghosttrackingbelmontghosts/ 

WHAT IS A PORTAL?  A portal is a doorway or energy used by earthbound ghosts or spirits to transport them from one place to another.   

Supernatural Magazine published an article about portals recently. 

Here's their take on portals:  

Some psychics believe that on average most homes contain at least one of these portals. In technical terms a spirit portal is a region of space that has a 4 dimensional vibratory frequency, where this region of 3 dimensional physical plane and the 4 dimensional etheric plane merge into each other through the aid of an energy vortex. In simple terms a spirit portal is a doorway in the physical world that allows free access to and from the spirit world. 

The existence of a portal can rely on a vortex of energy to sustain it. This is an area of mass energy in a high concentration, usually originating from magnetic, spiritual or sometimes unknown sources that create powerful eddies that manifest a spiral of energy which can be positive or negative in nature. Vortexes tend to exist where there are strong concentrations of gravitational anomalies this in turn creates an area that can bend light and cause a considerable distortion in the human energy field. They have also been shown to be associated with ley lines and have been found to be considerably stronger at node points where several ley lines cross.   

Portals and vortexes exist more abundantly than we are aware of. We rarely see them with the naked eye but we can measure their effects with scientific and divination tools such as digital thermometers and pendulums. We can also feel or sense their effects by the energy vibrations, direction of flow and the subsequent entities that use them. 

FULL ARTICLE: http://supernaturalmagazine.com/articles/spirit-portals-and-energy-vortexes

A Dog's Spirit Leads Mom to a Talk

Yesterday I gave a talk about pets and the afterlife and mentioned how our pets in spirit can influence
to do things that are good for us, or go places to hear certain things that remind someone of their pet. That's exactly what happened when I gave my talk at the Tysons-Pimmitt Library in Falls Church, Virginia.
   At the end of the talk one of the people in the audience told me that she didn't realize why she had come until I was talking. She said her dog "Bonnie" (different name) passed 11 years ago, and she wasn't thinking of her dog when she saw the lecture. She said she was inspired to come and listen.
She told me that she was hit with the realization that November 4th would have been Bonnie's birthday!  (remember, birthdays, anniversaries and holidays are times spirit show themselves). -
  I told her that Bonnie inspired her to come and hear my "Pets and the Afterlife" talk so she would know that Bonnie is still very much around her, even 11 years after Bonnie passed.
***********************************

To learn other ways pets communicate from the afterlife check out my books
"Pets and the Afterlife" and "Pets and the Afterlife 2" on Amazon.com in paperback and E-book by Rob Gutro

Q&A About Urns and Ashes

Today's blog is a question and answer session from emails that I've received about ashes and urns.

Q: When my Aunt spread my grandfather ashes, 3 minutes later I notice white smoke coming from the ground that was a foot away from the spreading of the ashes...... Could that have be his spirit???

A:  It could be a number of things. 1) moisture on the ground scattered as a result of dropping something on it 2) dust stirred up from dropping something on it. 3) OR it could have been your grandfather's spirit coming back to visit to thank her for scattering his ashes as he requested.

Q: My mother's dog is afraid of my father's urn but I don't know why.

 

A: From time to time, your father's spirit may visit, as spirits often do. Usually around birthdays, anniversaries and holidays, so that could be part of the issue. If there is anything shiny on the urn, like a silver or gold, that tends to frighten dogs.

Q: Mom died six weeks ago, and we had her cremated. We have her urn in the living room. We haven't sensed her presence yet, but I'm trying to keep an open mind about it. If she is inclined to visit, but Dad and I move to another house, would she be able to find us if we put the urn in the new house? Or would she only be able to look for us in the house she'd lived in?

 

A:  Yes she can find you wherever you go, since she's crossed over. . Your mom's energy is connected to you so she'll find you. Only earth-bound ghosts are fixed to a location  - your mom is a spirit and has crossed over!

************************************

For more information about urns and ashes, ghosts and spirits, check out: "Ghosts and Spirits" or "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead" by Rob Gutro on Amazon.com

Video: Mike Ricksecker's Friday Night Ghost Frights: Haunted Houses in Illinois

In this special edition of Mike Ricksecker's  Friday Night Ghost Frights, you can find details of creepy ghost stories of haunted houses lost to time if you know where to look.  Mike and Shana tell you where they found paranormal stories of a historic house in this Mike's Morning Mug video that I present as a Friday Night Ghost Fright. A quick "how to" over coffee and a book!
Video: https://youtu.be/lCaRl-7jOtg

Podcast! Rob Talks Pets and the Afterlife on Beyond Midnight

The Paranormal podcast  Beyond Midnight program had Rob Gutro, Author / Medium as a guest this
week to talk about Pets and the Afterlife. Hosts J.P. and A.J. covered a lot of ground with Rob in this 39 minute podcast!

LISTEN: https://soundcloud.com/beyondmidnight/episode-12-rob-gutro-author-medium-paranormal-investigator


*********************************************************************************

If you want to know more how spirits communicate - I've written several  books, available on Amazon.com : "Pets and the Afterlife. Pets and the Afterlife 2; Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead; & Ghosts and Spirits. You can find them here:
 http://www.amazon.com/Rob-Gutro/e/B003UNTASW/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1456078180&sr=1-1
 Blog: http://ghostsandspiritsinsights.blogspot.com/
Facebook Pages:  https://www.facebook.com/ghostsandspirits.insightsfromamedium
https://www.facebook.com/RobGutroAuthorMedium
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GhostMediumBook

YouTube*: *http://tinyurl.com/gtnnkak

Google + https://plus.google.com/collection/ok7wh
Pinterest:  http://tinyurl.com/h7hzs7n
Amazon Author Page: amazon.com/author/robgutro