"Seeing Spirits!"

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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

 

"Paranormal Book"

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Greg and I recently went to a local writers fair, and I told another author about my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind." I explained what the book was about since she was really curious and intrigued about Greg's and my ability to take pictures of the paranormal.

I told her that we didn't see spirits before we took pictures, and that most of the time, we don't intend to take paranormal photographs. Instead, the spirits just show up in our photos when we least expect them.

For example, a few days ago, I was taking pictures for a new book that I am writing about the picturesque area in which we live, never intending to get anything paranormal, when I noticed that something paranormal did show up!- 

Notice the large balls of ectoplasm or orbs to the left of the old building. They show up really well against the dark foliage.

This ectoplasm could be the spirits of either people or animals that died recently, or they may have been in this area for many years, or even for centuries! What types of animals, or humans were these? If they were the spirits of people, were they perhaps those of cave men, Native Americans, or pioneers?

What caused this paranormal phenomenon? I can only make an educated guess since I'm good at taking paranormal pictures, but I have no idea how to interpret them.

I leave the interpretation of paranormal phenomena to the experts, genuine psychics who specialize in these things.

In my paranormal book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind Ordinary People, Extraordinary Encounters," I was fortunate enough to have a gifted psychic, Elaine Watson, who is now deceased, to explain most of the (Over 100!) photographs in my book that Greg, my brother, Nick, and I took.

A few of the intriguing chapters in the book are, "Unusual Ectoplasm," "Shadow Ghosts," and "My Childhood Home," as well as others.

The Kindle version of my book is now on Amazon. For more information, please see the widget above for more details.

Thanks for visiting! Until around Saturday, September 21, 2024, Becky

Two Unusual Photographs, One Creepy, One Paranormal

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Last month in my 3/18/23 blog post, entitled "A Psychic Reading, and a Paranormal Update," I said that a talented psychic named Maria (not her real name) had done a reading for me about a couple of Greg's and my paranormal photographs which I wrote about in that post. I also mentioned that I had another (Really creepy!) photograph that I had asked her to interpret, but I said that I would save it for this April blog post.

I also have an additional photograph to share in this post. 

So, today, I have two unusual photographs, one creepy, one paranormal.

The creepy photo is the one that my brother, Nick, sent me that someone had sent him, a picture of woman who had taken a selfie in a famous Southern hotel. When the woman looked at the picture she had taken, she had thought it was a ghost since the place is known to be haunted.

Weird Photo! (I cropped off the woman who took the selfie, for her privacy, but I left the "ghost" part of the photo.)

Nick was confounded by it, and he wanted to know what we thought of it.

Greg and I were as puzzled as Nick was, and we felt that the photo was just weird, very strange, not anything that we normally encountered, even with all of the paranormal photographs we have taken throughout the years.

So, I very briefly described the photo to the psychic (She doesn't even need to look at the pictures that she interprets.), and Maria said that the 'ghost' was a real person, not from the spirit world, and that he has a different aura since his aura has changed. He's weird and off-balance. He's thinking about death. She said that in one to three months there would be an accident.

(At least I got the "weird" part right), but it's also very sad, and strange that the woman who took the photo would capture that man in the photo at the very same time that she took the selfie!

Also, most people think that all paranormal photos are scary, but they don't have to be.

Just recently, Greg and I went out of town, and we ate at a restaurant that was new to us. On the wall there was a neat welcome sign which I got permission to photograph since I collect photos of welcome signs, some of which I put at the beginning of my "The Art of Positive Living" blog posts.

After I'd taken a picture of following unique sign, I noticed a faint orb on the right side of the photo-

I wasn't surprised to see the orb since I had thought before we left on our trip that it would be nice if some of our loved ones in the spirit world would be with us on our trip.

According to the photo above, I believe that they were!

For more paranormal photographs (over 100!) and for more information about the spirit world, please click on the widget above which will lead you to my Amazon Kindle eBook, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind."

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, May 20, 2023, Becky

Strange and Unexplained!

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On this post, I want to tell you about all of the strange and unexplained things that Greg and I have been experiencing during the past couple of weeks-

We have had things not working-our car, two different parts of our computer, my label maker, and our washing machine, but miraculously, they all started working again!

Another strange thing that happened recently was that I was shopping at our local pet store for cat food, when another woman was there as well, looking for the very same brand of cat food that I was. I wanted to get new two new flavors of the food that I had seen online for our cats to try, and the nice woman helped me look for them, and together, we found them. Normally, both she and I buy our cat food from the same online company. 

I asked her what her name was, and she said that it was Becky, which is my name. She was also born the same month I was, and she lived in an old, over-one hundred-year-old house, and you might have guessed it, Greg and I also live in an old, over-one hundred-year-old house!

She told me that her husband had died five years ago, and that she had a sick friend who was in the hospital, and that she was worried about her, so I told her that I would pray for her friend. She thanked me for that, and I thanked her for helping me find the cat food.

I told Greg about my meeting the woman, and he thought it was strange also.

Then, as if this weren't enough, a couple of weeks ago, I was upstairs, walking through our art room, when I noticed that two of my photo collages were lying face down on top of some arty calendars that I had on display there. 

Calendars on display with two photo collages. 

(This is how they normally look. They have been like this for the past three years, except that every January I put a new calendar on the far wall.)

I wondered how the collages ended up like that. We have two indoor cats, but how a cat could knock them both down without messing up the calendars that are loosely lying there is beyond my understanding. I simply picked up the collages, and put them back where they belonged. 

I got busy with other things, and completely forgot to mention the incident to Greg, when a few days later, Greg told me that he had heard a noise in the art room when he was in the bedroom changing clothes, and that he went to investigate. He then described the very same thing that had happened to me-the collages had fallen over without disturbing the calendars! He couldn't explain this unusual phenomenon either.

Mysterious things do sometimes happen, and I try to make sense of them.

As for the incidents Greg and I have recently experienced, I would interpret them like this-

~ As for the things that tore up and fixed themselves, I would say that it 's God's way of saying that no matter how bad things appear to be, that He is in control, and can fix all things, that we just have to be positive and believe.

~ I think that I was meant to meet the sweet lady in the pet store for a couple of reasons. It was to remind us all that we need to help and support each other, especially during this time of the year, and that kindness matters.

~ Regarding the calendar incident, it could be that some of my artistic family members who have passed on are trying to encourage us to work on our art as well as other things since the collages were photographs of them and us and our artwork.

I haven't consulted my psychic in several months, but I plan to do so soon to see if my interpretations of the strange things that have been happening are correct. I also have some other things that I need to discuss with her. Please stay tuned for more....

If you need a last minute (and inexpensive!) gift for someone or even for yourself, I'd like to recommend my Kindle book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind," which is on Amazon. It's full of paranormal photographs (over 100!) that my husband, brother, and I have taken  For more information, please see the widget above.

Love, Greg and Becky

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, January 21, 2023, Becky

Haunted Gatlinburg, Tennessee

 

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I'd like to show you a couple of paranormal pictures I took in Gatlinburg, Tennessee while we were visiting there a few weeks ago. (On Sunday, November 7, 2021, I wrote about our Gatlinburg visit on my other blog, https://theartofpositiveliving.blogspot.com. The post was entitled, "A Fun Trip to Gatlinburg, Tennessee.")

Here are the two paranormal photographs that I took:

I took these pictures only moments apart. Although they are very similar, notice how different the orbs and ectoplasm are in the two photographs.

I've seen this phenomenon before, orbs, etc. around statues, dolls, mannequins, and other representations of human beings and even animals. Some spirits seem to want to attach to a body similar to what they used to have when they were living.

Knowing this, later in life, I got rid of some really nice dolls that I had when I was growing up. I certainly didn't want to take the chance of having dolls that were haunted especially since I tend to attract spirits! Maybe this was extreme, but we all have to do what we think is right for us.

If you like this blog, you might also enjoy the eBook, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind" by Becky Arnott which is available on Amazon Kindle. Please see the widget above to order this eBook for $2.99.

From the beautiful Southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia-

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, January 15, 2022, Becky