My apologies for the interruption in my regular posting schedule, but my husband had major surgery and I’ve been a bit busy. But while he was recovering, our kids came to stay for overlapping periods of time to help out, and on one random day, my oldest son queried, “Did you know that there are apps for finding ghosts?”
WHAT?
No, I did not.
But I do now.
A quick search led me to a surprising number of apps that promise to “locate ghosts” and “measure paranormal activity” and “analyze energy readings looking for unusual patterns” and I could not resist downloading a bunch and checking them out. I focused my research on free apps with the highest ratings, and avoided those apps that were deliberate pranks, such as the one that will add a ghost to any photo. I have a new ghost in my house who really wants my help, so he agreed to be my test subject, ostensibly to butter me up. His name is Joe.
Not that everyone wants to attract a ghost…..but…..there are things that do make one house more inviting to a ghost than other houses and things that make one person more attractive to a ghost than others. It may not be obvious to the wider world whether you and/or your house are dead-sexy to the dead, but I can tell you some things that ghosts find very appealing:
I arrived on the front stoop via remote viewing, ready to bust the ghost inside. The ghost, however, had other plans for me, and even with the permission of Lee, the homeowner and co-winner of my Most Haunted House Contest, I couldn’t get in. I asked Lee to physically open the front door, to break any seal the ghost had put on the house, but even that didn’t do it. We went to a side door, the back door, an upstairs window, to no avail. I landed on the back porch and could see inside, even though I couldn’t get inside. I saw brown cabinets. Lee said theirs were white. I cursed under my breath, pretty sure that the ghost had bounced me to the neighbor’s house.
I saw from the picture of the house (not the haunted hotel pictured here) that I was in for a challenge, and I must say that I wasn’t disappointed in that regard. The owner of the house, a wonderful woman named Claudia, was one of two winners in my Most Haunted House Contest, and last week I set about ridding her house of a ghostly nuisance named Mary. But right from the start, Mary was a pesky lot of trouble.
We have a winner! Actually, we have two winners in my Most Haunted House Contest! Congratulations to Claudia Freeman and Lee Wright — both of you have houses that are most definitely haunted!
It all started with a knock on the bathroom door. Occupied at the time, the man within hollered, “I’ll be out in a minute,” and heard footsteps heading away, down the hallway. When he finished his business and emerged, no one was there, so he rejoined the gathering in the living room and announced that the bathroom was free, for anyone who needed it. No one needed it. No one had needed it. No one had been anywhere near the bathroom, and most definitely, no one had knocked on the bathroom door.
Apparently, I scared everyone off with the picture and description of my 
I have written before about how, during psychic readings, the spirits of the dead show me things using visuals, more often than they tell me things using words. I am a very visual person, so this suits me just fine. A problem arises, tho, when a big concept is presented with a simple visual, and I am left struggling to translate it back into words, so I can convey its message and meaning to the person I am doing the reading for.
About five years ago, I did a reading for an unmarried couple who had been a couple for a long time, living together in a harmonious, monogamous, committed relationship. Both in their 40’s, Suzanne was diagnosed with a type of leukemia just a few years into their relationship, and so their lives revolved around her cancer treatments and the emotional roller coaster of the leukemia moving in and out of remission. She and Michael faced her diagnosis and prognosis realistically, but focused their life on enjoying their time together.