Guest Author - Jaide Norman

People for thousands and thousands of years have told stories of being visited by the ghost of a loved one or complete strangers. We have also read for many years about haunted houses and the ghostly resident who just won’t leave their former Earthly home. Let us look at three common theories many people share.

1) Ghosts are deceased people “stuck” here on Earth.

This is perhaps the most commonly held belief about ghostly apparitions. So the most common question we ask is “why is this person visiting me?” Do we believe this theory because of the fear of death? Do we feel that the person visiting us has a message from “the great beyond” for us? Or perhaps there is something the ghost left undone and wishes for us to carry out. I would say that 50% of spirit investigations I get called to do are from people who are being visited by relatives. Sometimes I or people around me can get the message and pass it along. Other times we are asked to help this person pass over to the other side.

2) Energy Imprints

Energy imprint phenomenon occurs when an event happens in a certain place, usually traumatic, and the scene keeps replaying for us on the Earth side. This usually happens on battlefields. I have visited several and have seen for myself soldiers battling and also have felt the energy of tragedy, or heard the sounds of swords clashing and men screaming in rage. Several reasons are behind this phenomenon. Some researchers have concluded that certain people have something in their energy field that set the imprint to begin replaying for only them to see while others have it to set off for everyone in the vicinity to see. I have been with people who haven’t seen the same thing as I or saw nothing at all as I stood witness the scene over and over again.

3) Apparitions occur because of magnetic or electrical fields.

Many ghost hunters use special equipment to detect atmospheric changes around them while investigating a haunted place. Not only is there measuring equipment but also equipment to cause a change in electrical or magnetic currents to see if this is the cause for the apparition or what someone is feeling in the place they believe to be haunted. I have often been asked why so much paranormal activity seems to take place at night. Many people do not know that there are actually scientific explanations for this. The short, simple explanation is at night when the sun isn’t affecting our atmosphere there is less resistance in the atmosphere to electrical and magnetic forces. So scientifically the best time for paranormal activity is between 9 at night and 3 in the morning.

There are many other theories that we can look at. These are the three most common.