"Seeing Fairies, Elementals"

 Welcome!

In last month's blog post on July 20, 2026, entitled "Seeing Spirits," I told about our indoor cat, Mitzi, seeing tiny fairies and elementals in our house that come around at night.

After I had published that post, my husband, Greg, said that he thought that when our outdoor cat, Kit-Cat, was looking out into the night (for an hour or two most nights!) from her little house (that Greg made for her)-

Kit-Cat

she might not be necessarily looking at another cat or a wild animal passing by, but it might be the same things that Mitzi sees inside our house at night, fairies and elementals! That sounds very plausible to me since our little nearby pond (which I mentioned last month in my blog post) attracts fairies and elementals which no doubt come out into the yard from the pond to play and to entertain Kit-Cat!

I just also know that in the past, Greg and I have looked ourselves to see if we could see what Kit-Cat sees, but we hardly ever have seen anything. If it were another animal, we would surely have seen one every once in a while, so it has to be something supernatural!

"Here is a strange."- ( As the great Paul Harvey used to say.)

Food for thought-

Greg's mother, our sister-in-law's mother, my mother, and my grandmother were all born under the zodiacal sign of Cancer. They are all moon children. The three mothers were born in July, and my grandmother was born in the latter part of June. (As an aside, our psychic volunteered the information that Greg's mother and my grandmother were together in the spirit world! That's funny because I'd always thought after Greg and I had met that they reminded me of each other!)

As this weren't enough, my first cousin, another first cousin's wife, and our nephew were all born on the same day in November (but not the same year).

Also, our same nephew (mentioned above) and his wife got married coincidentally on the same day as my mother's birthday.

Was all of this just a coincidence? A Divine plan? What do you think?

I researched this some, and AI thought it was all mathematical, but others said that it was about past lives, etc. You might want want to research this for yourselves. Very interesting!

Also, please check out my paranormal book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind" which is on Amazon Kindle.

And, my new book, "Life in the Southern Appalachians, The Mountain Culture, Sayings, Traditions, People," a paperback, has finally been published, and it is now for sale on Amazon-

There is a paranormal chapter in the book entitled "Haunted Appalachia" that you might find interesting. In fact, if you are at all interested in Southern Appalachia, I believe that you'd enjoy this book.

Thanks for visiting! Until around Saturday, September 19, 2026, Becky

"Seeing Spirits!"

 Welcome!

My blog post last month on June 21, 2026 was "Hearing Voices!," and this month, my post is entitled "Seeing Spirits!" And, the setting for both, is our house.

This post is entitled "Seeing Spirits" because one of our cats and I have seen spirits recently!

Greg has seen spirits or ghosts a couple of times in his life, but I had never seen one until a few weeks ago- Greg and I were in the kitchen when I noticed, out of the corner of my eye, what I thought was Mitzi, around Greg's legs, when he was standing near the dining room. Then, less than a minute later, I saw Mitzi (who's our only indoor cat) coming from a different direction! I asked Greg about Mitzi being near him a couple of minutes earlier, and he said that she had not been near him. So, I decided that I had apparently seen the spirit of our beloved Kallie!

Also, over two years ago, Greg said he saw Kallie in the kitchen shortly after she had passed away!

I haven't asked our psychic (whom I'll call Ariel) about this latest incident yet, but I don't believe I need to! Although that was the first spirit I had ever seen, it wasn't scary. It was actually comforting. I'm planning to order a book about spirit cats soon. I saw several books online that tell about the lives of cats after they pass away. (There are also books about spirit dogs, etc., as well.)

Ariel has said before that Mitzi sees Kallie pretty often when she comes around, which is a few times a week, to watch over us all-

Kallie

 But, that's not all Mitzi sees!

The last time I talked with Ariel, I asked her what Mitzi was seeing at night, since she stares into space, down near the floor, first one way, and then another, as though she's watching something. Ariel, without missing a beat, told me that she sees tiny elementals and fairies that come around at night. They watch over her, and play with her!

Mitzi, Intensely Staring

I did some research on elementals and fairies since I knew very little about them, and I found out that fairies, especially, are attracted to beauty, like flowers, gazing globes, and water.

Here is a view, right outside our kitchen, of Greg's beautiful garden. (Many of the things were here when we bought our house, but Greg perfected it. He has a definite green thumb, which I do not possess!)-

It has, as you can see, flowers, a gazing globe, and water!-

And, even a fairy decoration!

Are these elements in our garden attracting fairies and elementals that even come into our house which is only a few feet away? Could be!

Fairies and elementals, etc. are hard for me to grasp as being real, since I always thought they were the stuff of fairy tales, but who knows? Why else would Mitzi be intensely watching something down low besides Kallie? 

For more true stories about the paranormal, you might want to check out the widget above which leads you to my Kindle book on Amazon, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind."

Also, my new book about Appalachia, which will be published soon, has a chapter entitled "Haunted Appalachia."

Thanks for visiting! Until around Sunday, August 15, 2026, Becky

 

"Hearing Voices!"

 Welcome!

And, welcome summer!

My brother, Nick, emailed us, and told us about the Druids conducting a summer solstice celebration at Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, today, the first day of summer. Thousands of people were there at dawn to watch the sun rise. Their ceremony is on YouTube if you'd like to check it out. It's very interesting!

I consulted our psychic a few weeks ago about noises that Greg heard during the night after he got up and went to the bathroom which is upstairs. He also heard a light switch and other noises downstairs, like someone moving, and a voice or two. The psychic said that there were two women who were sisters, and a man, who were all spirits, and that they didn't have any bad intentions. They weren't even aware of our house, etc. They weren't earthbound. Were they in a time warp?

(She said that Greg and I are spiritual, and that we attract stuff.)

This was a snapshot in time, from the 1950's. They were around 50-60 years old. They were unaware of Greg being in Virginia. They actually thought they were in the plains.

Also, she saw someone who had lived in our 1901 house-

She was wearing a long dress and had her hair in a bun.

My new book about Southern Appalachia is still in the process of being published. If you like Southern Appalachia, you should enjoy this book, especially since one chapter is entitled, "Haunted Appalachia." In addition to the paranormal things that I tell about in that chapter, I also have a list of other Southern  Appalachian authors that have written paranormal books.

In the meantime, you might enjoy my Kindle eBook, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind" by Becky Arnott. For more information, please see the widget above.

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

"Message from the Spirit World"

 

Welcome!

This blog post will be shorter than usual since I'm working on my book about Appalachia which I need to give to the publisher soon. 

I have something pretty interesting to share with you today, though. At least one strange thing seems to show up at least once a month for Greg or me, either in our photos, or something else paranormal will manifest.

This post is about something paranormal manifesting a few weeks ago.

Here's what happened-

As I was walking through our memorabilia room upstairs-

several of the objects which are in this photograph simply fell over on their own. I hadn't jarred the floor, and I hadn't even been close to the display table. I felt terrified, and I started to leave the room, but then I turned and said in a loud voice that I would not be intimidated, so I bravely and carefully put all of the fallen objects back into place, and then I quickly left the room.

Later, I wondered if it could be family members that were trying to communicate with me since this table held memorabilia from my side of the family. Also, I happened to remember something very similar happened in this same room that I wrote about in another "Spirit Photographs" blog post on Friday, December 27, 2024, entitled, "A Christmastime Paranormal Incident." If you haven't seen it, you might want to check it out.

I talked to a psychic about this latest incident, and she said that it was just Daddy saying "Hi!" from the spirit world. Also, he sent a big hug, and said that he was really happy for Greg and me, because our marriage is so good, and that he really likes Greg. Daddy's brother was with him. She described him as tall and thin, and that he was laughing at my reaction in the memorabilia room. She said that he was a cut-up. She said that they liked to hang out together. 

I felt really good after her reading, to know the truth of what happened that day. I can understand why they were attracted to our memorabilia room with all of the things that are in there. 

In the photo above, there's a photograph of Daddy when he was a boy, and also his plans for the backdrop for "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" outdoor drama, along with other souvenirs, etc. from the drama.

Next month, I'll briefly tell about my new book about Appalachia. One of the chapters in my book is entitled "Haunted Appalachia."

In the meantime, you might want to check out my Kindle eBook, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind." For more information, please see the widget above.

Thanks for visiting! Until around Saturday, June 20, 2026, Becky

 

A Weird Photograph!

 Welcome!

At the end of my last blog post, entitled "A Haunted Mansion, Revisited," which I published on March 28, 2026, I mentioned that there was a paranormal photograph the I would never put on my blog. I will tell you about that photograph in this blog post.

Most of the time, at least for me, spirits show up in my photographs when I least expect them, like a couple of weeks before we visited the haunted mansion in Wytheville, Virginia, Greg and I were in our car. Greg was driving, and I decided to take a picture through the car windshield of a pretty tree on a hill. I didn't have time to use the telephoto, so I took more of the area than I had planned. Also, my shot was right toward the bright sun, which I, of course, did not look at as I was taking the picture.

The reulting photo was that I did get a picture of the tree and part of the road. There was a bright streak of light coming from the sun which went down to the road. At the end of the streak was sort of an abstract human figure with two slots for eyes.

It was somewhat like Edvard Munch's painting, "The Scream," except that the face had no features, and there were no arms and legs.

We thought it was kind of scary. Neither Greg nor I liked what we saw, therefore, I just decided to delete the picture in my camera, as well as the one I put on the computer since it seemed evil to me, and I don't hsve anything to do with evil!

Greg and I called our psychic, and she gave her impression of the photograph that I described to her as I remembered it. At first, she said that it was a male in the photo, but then she also felt a female. She finally decided that there was a female standing behind the male. They were husband and wife..They were attached to the land, and they deeply cared about the tree, and they guarded it. We had felt weird and frightened when we saw the picture because of the stern attitude they had for the tree. They want to keep people from harming it. They are suspicious of people who come near it, so they act scary to keep people away from it. 

Originally, I was attracted to the tree several weeks ago, when I decided to take a picture of it. I thought it would make a nice photograph, a graceful tree on a sloping hill. The psychic said there was a lot of love toward the tree from people that pass by it. It's a beautiful, very old tree that is well-protected by the spirits that also love it..

Most of the time, I still take pictures when we drive by that tree which is about once a week. I've gotten some ectoplasm in all of the pictures that I've taken there the past few weeks, but the most recent picture I took was a coulpe of days ago. I took it toward the sun, but again, I did not look at the sun, of course, just like when I took the other picture that I described earlier. This photograph was also weird, but in different, more elaborate ways.

Notice the large, colorful orbs and the ectoplasm! The beloved tree is the smaller one on the left.

However, I assume that the psychic would would say sometwhat the same thing about the above photo as she did about the one that I described for her. However, if she says anything different about this picture, I'll let you know in a future blog post.

It's a weird world! Please stay tuned!

Thanks for visiting! Until around Saturday, May 16, 2026, Becky

  

"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