"A Haunted Mansion, Revisited"

 Welcome!

I'm running a little late this month with my blog post since Greg and I just recently got to revisit a very haunted house, the Octagon Mansion, in Wytheville, Virginia. According to some people, it's supposed to be the scariest place in Virginia!

On May 21, 2022, I wrote another blog post about the mansion which was built in 1870. The post was entitled "Haunted! Tours." At that time it was a history museum, and they occasionally offered special paranormal tours. Greg and I just took pictures of the outside of the house when we went by. You might want to check out that post for yourself. One of the pictures in that post is paranormal!

As far as I know, no one lives in the mansion now. The last person who lived there witnessed a lot of paranormal activity, like doors closing on their own, and objects flying across the room. Also, sometimes he heard voices and even saw ghostly figures.

Apparently, the reason the mansion is so haunted is because that during the Civil War, there was an intense battle when 300 soldiers died, etc. in the area where the mansion is now located. Not only that, but there is a little girl who died during the polio epidemic in the 1950's that also haunts the mansion. As if that weren't enough, there are also spirits from the graveyard that is underneath the property!

Since we couldn't go into the mansion, we just took several pictures of the outside, just as we did in 2022, to see if we could get anything paranormal with our cameras.

After we got home, we looked carefully, but we didn't see anything strange with the photos I took. However, we noticed that there was ectoplasm in one of Greg's photos of the front porch-

This cropped-off picture shows the ectoplasm which is beneath, and to the left of this chair.

I wish we could have gone into the mansion when it was open, since I'm sure we could have gotten several paranormal photographs then. Perhaps one day it will reopen, and we'll be right there with our cameras ready to photograph the paranormal!

I consulted a psychic about this property, and she said that it was a ghost magnet, that spirits congregate there. Some are even from Colonial days. They see themselves in their own time period.

Next month, I'm going to tell about a paranormal photograph that I decided never to put on my blog!

Thanks for visiting! Until around Saturday, April 18, 2026, Becky

"A Supernatural Sunset!"

 Welcome!

I'm running a little later this week since I had to wait until I could talk to an excellent psychic, named Holly, that I know. I finally got in touch with her today. I asked her about three different subjects which I mentioned in my last "Spirit Photographs" blog post last month. It was entitled- "A Paranormal Photograph, as Well as Some Questionable Events During the Past Few Weeks!" It was published on Sunday, January 18, 2026.

In that post I mentioned three unusual things that I was wondering about-

~One of the unusual things, was that someone drove into our driveway for a few minutes, and we had no idea why he was there. He left before Greg could go out and investigate. I had taken a picture of the front of his vehicle through our house window before he left, and I noticed in the picture that there was something like ectoplasm down near the bumper, or I thought it might even be there because of a smudge on the window.

Holly didn't think it was anything supernatural. She said that he was just lost, and that he pulled off of the road to look at a map or his phone. She didn't know what the "ectoplasm"-type of thing was in my picture.

~However, this was supernatural- a sunset in a picture that Greg had taken a few weeks ago-

When Greg showed me the photo, I couldn't believe it!-Not only was there a lot of color in the sky, but there was color on the ground, too! Also, look at the strange sun-like objects in the sky near the white clouds. I've never seen anything quite like this before!

When I asked Holly about Greg's photo, she said that this photo was a gift from God. She also said that Greg and I produce a lot of love, that we appreciate the area, and are close to nature. 

Greg does love to be outside and work. He has a special way with plants. He even brought one plant inside, and has nurtured it through the past few cold months. It's supposed to be an outdoor plant (a tropical one!), but Greg has made it an indoor one until it's warm enough to take it back outside to plant in the ground.

I really enjoy taking pictures of nature, the beautiful area where we live, with its four seasons.

In last month's blog post, I also mentioned a haunted mansion. We decided we'd check it out next month.

Please stay tuned!

Thanks for visiting! Until around Saturday, March 21, 2026, Becky

"A Paranormal Photograph, as Well as Some Questionable Events During the Past Few Weeks!"

 Welcome!

I have a definite paranormal (a spirit) photograph to show you today, along with some unexplained events that have happened during the past few weeks.

When I wrote last month's blog post, "A Paranormal Book on Kindle" on Sunday, December 21, 2025, nothing supernatural had happened the four weeks prior to my writing that post.

However, the weeks between last month's post and today's post, there were several strange or unusual things that occurred.

First, here is the definite paranormal photograph that I took during a snowstorm that we had not long ago-

Do you see the paranormal part in the above photograph?

Here is the close-up of the above photo-

Do you see it? At first you might think it's just snow, but look at how it nearly obscures part of the wire fence. I feel really confident that it is paranormal since the talented psychic I consulted about this barn area said that it was very haunted because of a secret here that very few know about.

I tell more about this in my upcoming book on Appalachia since I have one chapter entitled "Haunted Appalachia." In that chapter, I have another paranormal photograph of this same area that involves animals.

Greg and I experienced a couple of strange things recently-

~Greg took pictures of a sunset, and they didn't turn out quite the way we expected they would!

~One afternoon, an older man (or a woman) in a black SUV pulled into our driveway for a few minutes, and then quickly left after I took a picture of the vehicle. The picture I took might have been paranormal.

Also, there is a nearby haunted mansion that I hope to investigate soon.

Please stay tuned for next month's blog post, as well as for other posts, for more information about the mysterious events above, etc. I should know a lot more after I consult our psychic!

Thanks for visiting! Until around Saturday, February 21, 2026, Becky

"A Paranormal Book on Kindle"

 Welcome!

Here is an idea for a last-minute, inexpensive Christmas gift to give to someone, or you could even give it to yourself- a paranormal book on Amazon Kindle! It's for those who enjoy real-life paranormal stories, and photographs!

The name of this e-book is "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind" by Becky Arnott. The subtitle is "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Encounters."

It features paranormal stories and photographs that I, my husband, Greg, and my brother, Nick, have taken throughout the years. There are over 100 paranormal photographs in this book!

Here is a photograph that I took that is not in the book, but it is similar to a few of those featured in the book-

This is a picture of a paranormal grid that showed up in a mirror at Greg's father's house. In the chapter of the book, entitled "Greg's Boyhood Home," I have several photographs that show different grids in other rooms, along with the stories that accompany them. 

Once, while visiting his father, Greg even saw the glowing spirit of his mother at the bottom of the stairs out of the corner of his eye, and then he heard a swishing sound as she passed by the upstairs room he had just entered. 

Just a little unnerving, to say the least! Greg has seen spirits a couple of times, but thankfully, I never have! I take photos of spirits, but I never see them before I photograph them. I really love to take pictures, and sometimes strange things just show up in them.

Here are a few more titles of the chapters in this book-

~"Unusual Ectoplasm"

~"Moving Orbs"

~"Netherland Inn Road"

~"Spirit Encounters Abroad"

~"Ghost Stories of Others"

And many more!

Here are some comments from readers about my paranormal book-

~"...We would recommend this to even a casual reader of spirit and ghost stories and also to the more advanced readers of the afterlife." -Adam & Amber Mabry, "Natural Genesis"

~"Awesome!" -Elaine Watson, Professional Psychic

~"...Arnott clearly has a gift for capturing the spirit world on film. With distinctive ectoplasmic shapes, patterns in mirrors, and ghostly reflections in window panes, readers, even skeptical ones, will be left with no doubt that there is a sharp connection between physical and spiritual realms." -Karen Darlington Aldridge, Director, Living Writers Collective, Multi-published freelance writer & copyeditor

For more information about this Amazon Kindle book, please see the widget above. A few paperback versions are available in shops in Southwest Virginia and in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Thanks for visiting! Until around Saturday, January 17, 2026!, Becky

"A Large Cross with Ectoplasm!"

 Welcome!

A few months ago, Greg and I were on a local shopping trip, and we drove by a church with a nearby large white cross. I took a picture of the cross. I've taken a picture of that cross several times before, since I'm trying to get a really good one for a book that I'm writing.

When I got home, I put the picture with the cross on our computer, to study it. It didn't take me long to notice the unmistakable ectoplasm on the left side of the cross-

It was a rather cloudy day, but that is not a cloud on the arm of the cross. It is ectoplasm, but it is not white or black ectoplasm. I would call it gray ectoplasm since it's a combination of  black and white.

 Ectoplasm is the essence of a spirit, and the shades of black, gray, and white have different meanings for the different types of spirits. Generally, black means negative, evil, and powerful. White is positive, spiritual. 

Gray, like the gray ectoplasm in the photo, might mean sadness or low energy.

Even after all of the years of my taking paranormal photographs, I'm still surprised when something paranormal shows up in the pictures I've taken, because I never see anything paranormal before I take the pictures. I very rarely take pictures just to try to capture something paranormal.

The same is true for my husband, Greg, and my brother, Nick, in the photographs that they take, since they both have the gift of spirit photography, the same as I do. It's really no surprise about my brother, since we are related, but I believe Greg also has the same talent that I do since several psychics have told me that we are soulmates.

Be sure and check out my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind," which is on Amazon Kindle, for the paranormal photographs that Nick, Greg, and I have taken throughout the years. There are over 100 of them in this Kindle book!

So, finally, I believe that the ectoplasm in the photograph above means that the ghostly entity is sad or needs help, and is looking for the spiritual, the cross, to save it.

I have a gift for taking spirit photographs, but I can only guess what the spirits in the photographs mean. I leave that that to the professional psychics. The next time I call one, I'll ask her about this photograph, as well as a few others.

What do you think the ectoplasm in this photograph means?

Wishing you a very happy Thanksgiving!

Thanks for visiting! Until around Saturday, December 20, 2025, Becky

"An Old Haunted House!"

 Welcome!

I honestly didn't think I had any paranormal photographs to share with you for this month on this blog until I found a photograph in my paranormal picture folder that I had never before used.

And here it is-

This is not a very good photograph. That is probably why I never used it. I barely remember taking it, but I can understand why I kept it-because it is paranormal.

Here's the background for this photograph-

I always carry my small camera in my pocketbook, so when we are out, and I see something interesting, I can take a picture. I don't know exactly why I took the picture to begin with, except that I really like old houses. We are usually in a hurry when we go out, so I apparently took the picture from the car window while Greg was driving slowly. Neither Greg nor I can remember much about it, and we have no idea where this house is located.

However, I am glad I took the picture, even though it is not good photographically. You can't tell much about it in the above photograph, so in order to show the paranormal part, I had to edit it which is something I really don't like to do when it comes to paranormal photos.

Here it is after I cropped it and lightened it quiet a bit so that the ectoplasm would show up better-

There's lots of ectoplasm on the house-on the roof, the chimney, near the flag, on the front and side of the house, and there is even ectoplasm almost surrounding the nearby tree.

It reminds me so much of our house in Kingsport, Tennessee where we used to live, not the way it looks, but the fact that this house is apparently very haunted, just like ours was. I tell about it in my paranormal book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind," which is on Amazon Kindle. So many old houses are haunted.

I'm happy that I decided to use this picture, now, so that I could share it with you.

Happy Halloween!

The Halloween picture above looks paranormal, but it's not. I took this picture quickly while we were in our car, through our dirty windshield, which gives it a paranormal look.

Thanks for visiting! Until around Saturday, November 15, 2025, Becky 

"Totally Unexpected Paranormal Photographs!"

 Welcome!

After so many years of taking paranormal photographs, it looks like that I would suspect that occasionally, sometimes the picture I'm taking might be paranormal, but very rarely do I try to take a picture to see if I can get something paranormal.

Just a few days ago, Greg and I were out shopping, and as we were leaving the parking lot, I looked out the car window, and I noticed beautiful goldenrod blooming in a nearby field. I felt compelled to take a picture of it, especially since I'm writing about our Southern Appalachian Mountain area, and I'm including a lot of pictures that are appropriate for my book. I thought that a goldenrod picture would be a great addition to it.

Greg parked out of the way of the traffic, and I got out of the car, and started taking pictures. I took several pictures, and I was satisfied that they were fine, but when we got home. and I saw them on the computer, I couldn't believe it. My pictures of the beautiful goldenrod were ruined!-

In the above photograph, the flowers and the green foliage in the background were not at all clear, and the photograph below was even worse-

 It was very blurred! It looks as though I moved the camera, which I did not. Besides, at the bottom of both pictures, especially the last one, there is unmistakable ectoplasm!

Therefore, I had to conclude that these pictures were paranormal! My other two pictures of  the goldenrod were very similar to these two.

I reminded myself of previous pictures that I had taken that are a lot like the pictures above..

For example, I remembered the blog post I published on Saturday, May 15, 2021, which was entitled, "The (Haunted) Tavern," in which I described how haunted The Tavern in Abingdon, Virginia was. One of the interior shots that I took there was very blurred!

Another good example of blurring is a Saturday, May 16, 2020 "Spirit Photographs" blog post entitled, "A Haunted Cabin."

The pictures I took a few days ago were totally unexpected paranormal photographs, as most of my paranormal ones are. 

I'm actually glad that my photos turned out the way they did, now, because good has come of the whole experience because-

-After I discovered that the photographs were paranormal, I decided that I would put them in this "Spirit Photographs" blog post since I happened to remember that I had nothing else for this post today.

-Also, I decided to research goldenrod. I discovered that it has some good qualities, of which, no doubt, most people are unaware. Goldenrod symbolizes good luck and prosperity. It's also supposed to be healing, positive, and encouraging. No wonder I was attracted to it! It's apparently a good omen!

Since I don't know exactly why some of my photographs are paranormal, I can only guess why they are. Usually, areas that are paranormal are the result of a person or an animal that has died there, especially if a lot of trauma was involved. The energy of the spirit remains in that area.

The next time that I contact my psychic, I'll ask her about it. Often, she can help the spirit move on to the light.

For more true, intriguing paranormal photographs (Over 100 of them!), please check out my Kindle book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind," by Becky Arnott. For more information, just click the widget above.

Thanks for visiting! Until around Saturday, October 18, 2025, Becky

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