"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

 

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 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

"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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"An Unexpected Spirit Photograph, and a Trash Dump Update"

 Welcome!

At first, I didn't think that I had a photograph to show in this blog post for this month, but after I carefully looked through my photos on my camera, I notice this one that I took just a few days ago-

View of the Mountains and Field Near Where We Live

I'm fascinated with this view, and I'm planning to include a picture of it in my new book about Southern Appalachia, so I've taken several pictures of it, to try to get the perfect photo. When I took this picture, Greg and I were in the car, and Greg, of course, was driving, slowly, but I still had to quickly snap the camera.

It didn't turn out that well for what I had in mind for the book, but, it was an unexpected spirit photograph that I can use in this blog post! Notice the ectoplasm on, and to the left of the bush in the lower middle part of the photograph. There were no smudges on the windshield, so it couldn't have been from that. The only changes I made to the photograph were that I lightened it some, and I added the watermark.

I can only guess what caused the ectoplasm in this photograph. Although I do have a talent for taking spirit photographs, as I've said before, I have no idea how to interpret them. Since this ectoplasm is near the road, we could speculate that it perhaps has something to do with a death due to an accident. Also, since this is a farm that has cows, it could also have something to do with some of them passing away.

Also, I have a trash dump update- 

A couple of weeks ago, we went to the dump to take our trash, and I took several pictures. Here is one of them-

A pretty view from the dump, but there's nothing paranormal in this one, or in any of the photos that I took that day! 

In last month's blog post, "The Reason Why the Dump Is So Haunted," which was published on May 19, 2025, the psychic named Crystal worked on making it not-haunted. Looks like it may have worked! Time will tell.

Thanks for visiting! Until around Saturday, July 19, 2025, Becky

"The Reason Why the Dump Is So Haunted!"

 Welcome!

In my 2/16/25 blog post, entitled "Two New Spirit Photographs," the second photograph in that post that I feature, shows a cat that lives at a dump. Most of the picture looks washed out, and there is definite ectoplasm to the right of the cat.

Here are two more pictures of the dump, and they also have ectoplasm!-

The first one (above) shows a man adding sticks, onto a large pile of tree limbs, etc. that's already there. Up above where the man is, you can see bits of ectoplasm on the pile.

The second photograph shows the same cat that was in the 2/16/25 blog post. In this photograph, you can easily see the ectoplasm to the left of the cat.

I mentioned in last month's post that I consulted an excellent psychic, that I call Crystal, about some of my spirit photographs that I needed to have interpreted.

 I asked Crystal, why this dump was so haunted, and she said, without pausing, that a body had been placed in the dump in the 1930's or the 1940's! The spirit of the mother was looking for the body of her daughter. Crystal sent the spirit of the daughter to the spirit world so that the mother and daughter could be united.

For more information about true spirit photographs, please check out my book on Amazon Kindle, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind" by Becky Arnott. (Just chick on the widget above.)

Also, if you are interested in UFO's, be sure and check out this festival in Bristol, Virginia on Saturday, June 14, 2025-

https://www.saucersoverappalachia.com

Thanks for visiting! Until around Saturday, June, 21, 2025, Becky

"Unexpected Spirit Guests!"

 Welcome!

A few weeks ago, several of us celebrated my birthday at our house, and we had a wonderful time. All of our positive energy seems to have attracted more guests than we had expected.

My brother Nick took this picture (below) of Greg and me after Greg had brought in my birthday cupcakes. 

This photo shows that we had some unexpected spirit guests! The more, the merrier!

I'm not totally surprised by the orbs and ectoplasm behind me, on the wall, and even in the chair beside me! I can't wait to talk to my psychic so that she can let me know who these spirits are, but I think I have a good idea! I need to talk with her anyway about the photos in the last few blog posts that I've written, and also about some other photos I've taken in just the last few days, one of which is very unusual, totally unexpected!

I'm currently writing a new book about our area which should be published in the next couple of months, and one of the chapters will just pertain to the paranormal aspects of our area

I'll let you know more about my new book later.

My brother, taking this paranormal picture, is no surprise to me since he took his first paranormal picture when he was just a schoolboy. The picture he took was of the outside of famous June Tolliver House in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. When we got the pictures back, we noticed that there was a strange figure in the window. 

If you'd like to know more about this photograph, the haunted June Tolliver House, etc., you might want to check out some interesting videos on YouTube. A few months ago, a team of ghost hunters, the Eastern Ky. Ghost Squad, went to the Tolliver House, and did a paranormal investigation.

To see these, go to YouTube and type in "June Tolliver House Ghost." Then scroll down to "Tour and History of the June Tolliver House: Pre-Investigation." This video is really good to set the stage for the other videos that are of the actual investigation. Toward the first of this video, there is a newspaper article from our local "Bristol Herald Courier" that shows a picture of the June Tolliver House with the ghost in the window. I wrote that article about my brother taking the ghost picture.

Later in the video, the tour guide mentions that I wrote a book about the paranormal, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind," which they have for sale in the Tolliver House gift shop. (To buy the Kindle version of my book, it's for sale on Amazon. If you are interested, just click on the widget above.)

The other two videos of the investigation itself are "Paranormal Investigation Pt. 1" and "Paranormal Investigation Pt. 2. Final." 

My book has over 100 paranormal photographs that my brother Nick, my husband Greg, and I have taken throughout the years, mostly in our Southern Appalachian area. Nick and I seemed to have inherited our our ability to take paranormal photographs mostly from our father, and, of course, Greg and I are only related by marriage, but he has the same gift, as well. It must be because we are soulmates! (And, we think at least one of his parents has this same ability.)

Thanks for visiting! Until around Saturday, April 19, 2025, Becky 

"A Haunted Tourist Information Center!"

 Welcome!

I'm working on a new book, so Greg and I recently stopped by a nearby tourist information center in Southwest Virginia to do some research. While there, we decided to take some pictures.

I took a few photographs while we were outside-

Tourist Information Center

I photographed the fall decorations, and I was surprised to later discover ectoplasm in this photograph-

The photo (above) is a detail from a picture I took of  one of the Virginia "Love" signs that are scattered throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. Notice the ectoplasm between the fall figure's leg and the yellow flowers. There appears to be even more ectoplasm on the ground.

(In an earlier blog post that I wrote on Saturday, December 18, 2021, entitled "Haunted Gatlinburg, Tennessee," I wrote about similar cartoon-like figures that had quite a bit of ectoplasm around them. I feel like spirits are attracted to these types of figures because they miss having a body.) 

We finally went into this old house that had the tourist information, as well as nice displays of the area. We talked with the lady that worked there (whose name was Shannon), and got her permission to take pictures inside.

I started to take a picture of one of the rooms, but my camera hesitated, and the image looked blurred through the lens. I turned around and asked Shannon if the house was haunted, and I wasn't at all surprised when she said that it was.

(I finally took a picture of that room, but nothing paranormal showed up-

My camera did malfunction in this room earlier so I know that it is haunted, probably because of all of the old pictures and other objects in there.)

Shannon then began to tell me the things that she had seen, like objects that had been moved around during the night while no one was there. She said that she had heard strange things, as well.

Also, three cats live in the house, and Shannon said that they often act as if they see things that she can't see. (Cats, and other animals, too, as a rule, often see things that are paranormal since they are apparently more psychic than most people are.)

One of the Three Resident Cats

When we were about ready to leave, we decided to take pictures of a couple of old mirrors. While we didn't get anything in one mirror, we did get something in this one-

The white streaks at the top of the photo look like they are part of a paranormal grid which is a pretty common phenomenon in paranormal photography. Greg's photo was very similar to mine.

As we were leaving, we suggested that Shannon try taking some pictures herself to see if she could get anything paranormal like we did, since we believed that she was psychic, too. We told her her that she needed to use the flash if she was hoping to get paranormal images in mirrors.

While Greg and I were there at the tourist info center just to do research for a book, we ended up with more than we had bargained for, an old haunted house, and there are a lot more of those than you could ever imagine!

Thanks for visiting! Until around Saturday, October 19, 2024, Becky

"Paranormal Book"

 Welcome!

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

"Strange, Paranormal, Unexplained"

Welcome!

 In this blog post, I'm going to touch on a few things that are strange, even paranormal.

There are so many things in this world that are unexplained, things that we just don't quite understand.

Here are some unusual things that have come to my attention in just the past few weeks-

~Yesterday, I happened to think about an old mirror that is in our memorabilia room, and I began wondering if it was haunted like the one I wrote about in my last blog post which was published on May 19, 2024 that was entitled, "A Haunted Mirror!"

Today, I took a picture of the old mirror in the memorabilia room...

but Greg and I can't say for sure that it is haunted. There is no paranormal grid like in the mirror in last month's blog post, but the white streaks, etc.in the mirror in the above photograph could be ectoplasm, or they could even be caused by the camera flash. I have found that in order to capture anything paranormal in a mirror, the flash needs to be on. 

If this mirror were haunted by some negative entity, it would be unfortunate since the mirror is on a cabinet that is attached to the wall. That would make it difficult to remove the mirror. Of course, as an alternative, we could just say a prayer and do a ritual to hopefully get rid of any bad spirits. So far, though, we haven't noticed anything negative because of this mirror, thank goodness! 

A really strange thing happened just a few days ago when I was looking in the kitchen for something to show Greg. When I opened one of the doors of our island, which I don't open very often, I couldn't believe it when I found a box of prescription medicine on top of some old cookbooks that I had stored in there.

The medicine was not ours since we don't take medicine anymore. It had belonged to the previous owner of our house, and in the five years that we have lived here, we have never even seen this box of medicine before. How did it suddenly end up on top of my old cookbook collection?

(The owner's name, etc. is on the other side of this box, but for privacy's sake, I, of course, can't show it.)

This is very strange!  This is something to ask our favorite psychic about whenever I talk with her again! Her comments about it should be very interesting!

Also, here is an interesting tidbit- Not long ago, on "Coast to Coast AM," there was a story about Hulk Hogan, the wrestling great, who said that his rival had sent him a voicemail two days after he had died!

For lots more about the paranormal, be sure and check out my Kindle book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind." Please see the widget above for more information.

Thanks for visiting! Until around July 20, 2024, Becky

"Our Beloved Spirit Cat" (Part 1)

 Welcome!

Two weeks ago, we lost our beloved cat, Kallie, to an illness. She meant so much to Greg and me. We had her for almost 17 years, and for Greg, Mitzi (our other indoor cat), and me, our loss has been great.

A few days ago, I contacted a wonderful psychic, Crystal (not her real name), who helped Greg and me overcome much of our pain. Crystal is very accurate, and she is compassionate, as well.

When I mentioned that Kallie had passed away, she expressed her sympathy and concern, but right away, she said that Kallie was happy, healthy, and frisky, and that her tail was in the air. She looks like she's one to two years old. She said that Kallie really loves us, that she hangs out here, and she wants to be with us. She feels very grateful. She got to be herself in our happy home. She loved the way our house felt; it's a lot better than when we first moved in. She didn't like the old energy. (Greg and I have really worked on our house. We have made it our own.)

 She said that Kallie really loved our fireplace.

Crystal emphasized that Kallie was very energy sensitive. I knew that she was sensitive since Greg and I are, too. We are psychic in our own ways. We couldn't give a psychic reading if we had to, but our psychic abilities manifest in other ways.

For instance, When Crystal said that Kallie was happy, with her tail in the air, that was no surprise to Greg, since a couple of days after Kallie had passed on, he actually saw the back of Kallie's tail in the air as she went around the corner of our kitchen island. 

Not only that, but during the next few days, we heard Kallie meow three different times, and I heard Kallie's paws (because of her toenails) hitting the wooden floor upstairs.

We both had several dreams about Kallie. I saw her as a kitten, and I hugged her. Greg said he had dreamed that he had seen Kallie, Mitzi, and our outdoor cat, Kit-Cat, on the deck together. (Which they never were in real life.) In another dream, Greg said that Kallie had her paw on his shoulder, probably because he had tried to help Kallie heal with reiki. (Crystal said that the reiki had made Kallie feel better, for which she was really grateful. Crystal said that Greg was a natural healer, that he didn't need any formal training since he wasn't doing it professionally.)

A couple of days after Kallie had passed, I was shopping in a store, feeling sad, and as I walked down an aisle, I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with a large heart on it. The heart was outlined in a fake leopard spots design. (A leopard is a big cat, of course.) About a minute later, I saw a magazine that was about cats. I believe I saw these things because of Kallie's recent death. 

(The same thing happened to me after Mama had passed away. For a few days, I'd see things when I was out, that pertained to Mama. There were just too many things to make them merely coincidences. I believe it was Mama communicating with me from beyond. And, I also believe it was the same thing with Kallie.)

I have much more to tell about our beloved spirit cat in next month's February blog post, which will include two intriguing photographs.

Please stay tuned for "Our Beloved Spirit Cat" (Part 2).

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, February 17, 2024, Becky

Two Unusual Photographs, One Creepy, One Paranormal

 Welcome!

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!

 Welcome!

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

Paranormal Bays Mountain Park!

 Welcome!

A few weeks ago, Greg and I visited Bays Mountain Park in Kingsport, which is in East Tennessee. We hadn't been there in several years so we really enjoyed our visit. The park is really beautiful, so we took a lot of pictures, but a few of the photographs showed more than just the park's natural beauty!

Here is one of them-

Greg took the photo above. See if you notice anything unusual, like something paranormal.

This close-up photo should help-

This dead-looking tree (above) appears to be glowing! Psychic Elaine Watson, who helped me interpret the many paranormal photographs in my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind," (See the widget above.) told me that anytime you see something glowing in a photograph, you can be certain that it is paranormal. (Why is this tree glowing? If Elaine were still with us, I would ask her. Now, we'll just have to use our imaginations to come up with an answer for that one until I can ask another psychic the next time I have a reading with her. Stay tuned!)

As we were leaving the park, I looked over and saw the Appalachian GhostWalks vehicle.

I couldn't imagine why they would be at Bays Mountain Park. Later, when we got back home, I called the park, and asked them if Bays Mountain was haunted since I saw the GhostWalks vehicle there. The woman who answered said that they were there conducting a Cherokee Bigfoot adventure tour in which the participants search for Bigfoot at Bays Mountain Park. I told the woman on the phone that I thought that sounded exciting, and that I would check it out. 

Several years ago, Greg and I, along with my mother and brother, all took one of the Appalachian GhostWalks tours in Jonesborough, Tennessee which we all really enjoyed. We were looking for ghosts then, of course, instead of Bigfoot.

FYI- www.appalachianghostwalks.com

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, September 17, 2022, Becky

Haunted Cemeteries Revisited!

 Welcome!

I'm running a day late on my blog post this month since I didn't get to consult with a psychic until this afternoon. I wanted to get her idea about the glowing outlined gravestone that I photographed a few weeks ago.

Last month, I wrote on this blog about the eerie-looking photo below-

(For the full story about this photograph, please see my Sunday, January 16, 2022 blog post entitled "Weird, Scary Photo!")

Anyway, the psychic said that there were spirits in this old cemetery.* The spirits were mainly those that had loved ones buried there. The glowing grave marker in the foreground of this photo is that of a grief-struck woman that had lost someone who was very close to her. She couldn't let the grief go, so her energy got stuck there.

We went back to this cemetery in East Tennessee a few days ago, hoping to get some more paranormal photos, 

but it was not to be. Greg and I were very tired after getting ready for a birthday party, then celebrating and visiting with people, which we enjoyed, but we spread ourselves too thin. In other words, we had no energy left to take pictures that were paranormal! I mentioned this to the psychic, and she said that yes, in order to do any type of intuitive work that you needed to be well-rested.

However, she marveled about Greg's and my ability to take psychic photographs, that it was something she couldn't even do. (There are, of course, different types of psychic abilities.)

Greg and I have most of the paranormal photographs that we have taken in my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind" by Becky Arnott which is on Amazon in the Kindle format. See the widget above for more information, and how to order.

The same day that Greg and I took the glowing, grave-marker photo, we went to another old cemetery to lay flowers on the graves. It was Greg's family cemetery, the Reynold's Cemetery.

There is a large orb in the above photo which shows up better in the close-up below-

This large tombstone is that of Greg's great-grandparents. The psychic said that the orb was not from them, however, but it was from other family members who were attached to and friendly to us; they were supporting us.

It's nice and comforting to know that there are spirits around who are supportive and caring to those of us here on Earth.

Stay tuned until next month for more adventures into the unknown!

*The Bent Creek Cemetery is old. It goes back to the days of the Revolutionary War. Greg's great, great, great, great grandfather was buried there, along with several other men who fought in that war.

Greg at the John Arnot Gravesite

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, March 19, 2022, Becky

Moving Orbs!

 Welcome!

This "Spirit Photographs" blog post is quite unusual in that I'm featuring for the first time a paranormal video that someone sent me.

A few weeks ago, I found a message on my phone. The message wasn't very clear, so I didn't quite know what to expect when I returned the call. It was from a longtime friend, Mary, that I hadn't heard from in a while. She said that since Greg and I were experienced in ghostly matters, and since I had written the book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind," * she thought that we could help her and her husband, John, to understand what was going on in their barn.

John has a new workshop in the barn, so they have a doorbell camera there to help protect the tools that he has in there. They started noticing unexplained balls of light moving around which the camera had recorded in the dark after he closes the door and leaves. Some of these balls of light were brighter than others, but they all move quickly. In the summer, they had thought that the balls were perhaps flying insects.

They sent me a still photo that John had taken of a video that their camera had recorded-

Notice the orb in the lower right of the photo. It's oval-shaped, and not very bright. The bright spots are just reflections.

Here's the intriguing video that they sent us-

This was really exciting for us since we've never before seen anything like this except on some of the paranormal TV shows. Greg and I both have the gift of taking paranormal still photos, but we've never tried taking videos. Maybe that's something we ought to investigate, to get into.

Also, as I've said before, we take ghostly photographs, but we need a psychic to interpret them for us.

So, I called Hawley, a gifted psychic, so I could let Mary and John know what was going on in their barn. She said that the orbs were good, harmless, and very positive which was great news! The orbs had very high, concentrated energy, and in fact, they were happy and protective, something like sprites or fairies. Boy, we should all be lucky enough to have energy like that around us! These fairies typically help animals and plants, although Mary said that there were no animals in the barn.

Mary seemed satisfied with the psychic's reading. I told her that the psychic had said that they could just ask the spirits to leave if they didn't want them there, but Mary said that they had already told them not to leave, that they liked them.  

Anyway, it was good to hear from my friend, and I appreciate her and her husband letting me share their experience with my blog readers, and to let everyone know that not all paranormal activity is scary or evil, and that many times, spirits are just trying to help us out here on Earth.

While I had Hawley on the phone, I asked her about the ghostly story and the photo that I mentioned on my 10/16/21 blog post last month, entitled "A Ghostly Sighting, and More!"

Of the ghostly sighting that my relative, whom I'll call Jenny, told me about, Hawley said that the couple she saw didn't even see Jenny. They were in their own time period which was probably in the 1800's or 1900's. They lived in that area, and they were attending a funeral. A very sweet child in the family had died, and the child had held the family together. The couple was traumatized by the death. She said that Jenny was psychic, and that Jenny's sighting was really unusual and interesting. I'd like to thank Jenny for sharing her paranormal experience with me and the world!

I also asked Hawley about the photo I took of a park in Virginia. She said that spirits like to show themselves to me. She told me that the spirits in the photo were benign, not human, that they were fairies or wood nymphs.

Another strange thing about the park photo is that a few days after I'd talked with the psychic, I saw anther photo that another psychic photographer had on social media, and it looked very similar to mine! I couldn't believe it! It even had a large violet orb at the bottom of the photo like mine.

This is a very strange world!

*The Kindle version of "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind" by Becky Arnott can be purchased on Amazon for $2.99. Please see the widget above.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, December 18, 2021, Becky

 

A Ghostly Sighting, and More!

 Welcome!

I'll start my post today with a rather scary, true ghost story that one of my relatives recently emailed me about. Since she explained it so well, I'll quote her exact words. 

Here is her ghostly sighting: "One night about 3:00 am, (which is a primetime for ghost sightings-B. A.) I saw 2 ghosts looking down at me in bed. The first was a sandy haired man with blue eyes and a nice smile. I blinked my eyes and he was still there so I layed back down. I looked up again and there was a woman all in black with a black veil over her head. I looked up and asked, What do you want? She never answered and then disappeared. No one believes me saying what I saw was a dream-IT WAS NOT!"

Wow! This is a rare occurrence. Not many get to witness what she saw. She explained that this sighting might have had something to do with the fact that she's been having issues with one of her eyes that caused her to experience this paranormal event. 

I've never seen spirits myself. That's a good thing since I'd probably faint if something like this happened to me. How she remained as calm as she did is amazing to me. I told her that she must have nerves of steel.

In a few weeks I plan to consult a psychic about what my relative saw, and also I need to ask her about the following picture that I took while visiting a park: 

(I'm psychically gifted at taking spirit photos, but I don't know how to interpret what's in those photos, so for that I rely on other psychics. People with psychic abilities all have their areas of expertise.)

I took the above eerie-looking photo a few days ago at Hungry Mother Park near Marion, Virginia. As you can see, there is a large lavender-tinged orb at the bottom of the photo and perhaps ectoplasm and smaller orbs above. This could just be lens flare, or it might be an actual psychic photo.

In my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind,"* the psychic that I consulted for my photos in the book told me that spirits can come in on sunbeams. (Sadly, talented psychic Elaine Watson has since passed away.)

I'll let you know more about the two mysteries above in a future blog post after I consult a psychic that I often call now about such matters.

Have I got a haunted house for you! This month, it's double haunted!

The Nickerson Snead House in Glade Spring, Virginia is open as a Haunted Mansion for the Halloween season with many scary spine-tingling special effects. However, the scariest thing about this house is probably the fact that it really is haunted with several ghosts! No wonder!-It was used as a Civil War hospital, and the cellar was used as a morgue!

FYI: www.thenickersonsneadhouse.com

Also, for more Halloween fun, check out the following poster we saw when we visited North Carolina:

Happy Halloween!

*For more information about my book, please see the widget above.

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, November 20, 2021, Becky

Shadow Ghost

 Welcome!

In this blog post, I have an interesting photo of regular ectoplasm, and dark ectoplasm that is referred to as a shadow ghost.

Photo of a Shadow Ghost

I took the above photograph while I was sitting on the bottom step of our deck while grounding, with my feet in the grass.* I always try to have my camera handy while I'm outside since you never know what interesting subject you might encounter. I was really pleased that I got this picture of our neighbor's guinea since guineas are usually hard to photograph, as are most animals and birds!

As I looked at the photo a little closer, I noticed the dark ectoplasm at the trunk of the tree. I immediately noted that it was a shadow ghost. A shadow ghost is a type of ectoplasm that is darker than regular ectoplasm. There is somewhat of a debate among paranormal experts about shadow ghosts. There are some that say that shadow ghosts are evil, but others believe that the dark ones are no different than the lighter types. Greg noticed the lighter ectoplasm in the upper part of the photo that seems to reach down to the shadow ghost although it's actually in the foreground.

I was somewhat taken aback when I saw the shadow ghost in my photo since none have shown up in my photographs in a long time. I'm not certain why that is, but I believe that grounding, which I started doing only a few weeks ago, has helped me to once again become more psychic.

Speaking of being psychic, I recently called one of my favorite psychics a few days ago about some concern I had, and then I happened to remember my shadow ghost photograph, so I asked her what she thought about it.** She immediately said that this shadow ghost was the energy of dead soldiers stuck in the Civil War. Apparently, our land was part of a battlefield during that horrific war, and some of the soldiers that fought in this area were traumatized when their buddies were killed, and they didn't want to leave their friends' bodies. 

I told the psychic that she was correct, that we had heard that our 1901 house was built in an area where Civil War soldiers passed through. I asked her if I should smudge the area, and she said I could if I wanted to, but that the spirits were benign. She said that she didn't believe that shadow ghosts were evil.

This afternoon, I decided I'd just go ahead and cleanse that area, and to do as the psychic suggested, to tell the stuck spirits that it was for the best that they move into the light, to go home. Greg worked with me as we cleansed the area, and I encouraged the spirits to move on. We don't need that type of energy here, and I felt so much better to think that we had freed the troubled spirits to move on to a better life.

There is a chapter in my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind," about shadow ghosts, with several photographs of the shadow ghosts that I have taken. Please see the widget above for more information about my book on Amazon.

*I wrote a blog post about grounding earlier this month on Sunday, September 5, 2021. The post ("Grounding- Positively Life-changing!") is on my "The Art of Positive Living" blog. For more details, see https://theartofpositiveliving.blogspot.com . 

**I have a gift for taking photographs of spirits, but I don't know how to interpret the photos, and that's where talented psychics that I contact come in. They give their psychic impressions of my paranormal photos.

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, October 16, 2021, Becky

Old Paranormal Photos and More!

 

Welcome!

Recently, I've been looking through old memorabilia, trying to organize it. It's been a really big job because we have so much stuff, especially photographs. We have around 70 photo albums, and we could have more, but I just don't have all of our photos in our new albums yet.* Not long ago, we had a visitor who asked if there were photos in all of the albums on our shelves because he just couldn't believe what he saw.

A few of our albums have only paranormal photographs, but some of our paranormal photos are scattered about in our older albums since at the time we didn't realize that they were paranormal. A few others are just loose in boxes.

One such photograph is below-

This is a photo of me when I was little, in the side yard at our house. It was taken by my father who was an avid photographer. Of course, this was taken with a film camera, and whenever we got a photo back like this one with streaks, etc., we'd just say that there was something wrong with the film. However, I know better now, that this photograph and others like it actually had ectoplasm in them!

In my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind," I have a whole chapter with paranormal photographs from my childhood. For more information about my paranormal book that is for sale on Amazon, please see the widget above.

It's really strange that I'd never realized until the other day that I'd never even thought about where my ability to take paranormal photographs had come from until I was looking at Daddy's photo (above). It then finally dawned on me where I had gotten my paranormal gift. This gift was passed on to my brother, as well. Some of his photos are even featured in my book.

As I further studied our photos, I noticed that my mother had also taken several of the photographs that had ectoplasm, etc. in them. Our family certainly was blessed with this ability!

Although Greg is not related to me except by marriage, of course, strangely enough, he has this same ability. (Maybe it's because Greg and I are soulmates!) I believe that he'd have as many paranormal photos as I if he just took more pictures.

More people than you'd think have this ability, but they don't realize it. Start analyzing your own photographs. You just might surprise yourself!

*Note: In the first paragraph above, I paused for a few minutes where you see the asterisk so I could take a break and get a snack before I went further. I just needed a little tide-me-over-until-my-next-meal snack, so I didn't get much to eat. The snack consisted of only a dried fig and a date which would serve the purpose just fine. 

I put the saucer with a fork and my snack down on the countertop so I could go and do something else, and when I got back, the fork was moving up and down on the saucer that it was on. I thought to myself that it was like a seesaw or some sort of perpetual motion machine. I was fascinated, and I wondered how long it would continue to go up and down on its own. After a couple of minutes, I started to really wonder about when it would stop moving, but it just kept going, so I quickly got my camera and started taking pictures to document this phenomenon. (I never thought about using the video feature of my camera until it was too late since I very seldom use it.) I finally began to think that this must be something other-worldly!

I decided to run outside and tell Greg about it. He came in and couldn't believe that it had been going like that for around five minutes. He's very scientific, but he had no idea as to how it could have been going that long on its own. When it finally stopped, I estimated that it had continued that same movement for about seven or eight minutes!

There's only one explanation for what had happened-It was clearly something paranormal! 

It's like the ghost-hunting shows you see on television with the flashlights fixed so that the spirits can easily turn them on or off. The fork was lightly resting on the edge of the saucer so a spirit could easily keep the momentum going at will.

The last psychic I consulted emphatically told me that our house was not haunted by ghosts. However, spirits can be anywhere, anytime and can sometimes manipulate things in the environment.

Apparently, the spirit who moved the fork on the saucer while I was in the process of writing my blog post must have thought that this would be something interesting to add to my post, and I guess it is! Thank you, spirit, whoever you might be!

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, August 21, 2021, Becky 

  

Haunted? Cabin in the Snow

 

Welcome!

Here we are in the throes of winter, as evidenced by this photograph that I recently took of our little cabin in the snow-

Is This Cabin Haunted?

As a mentioned on my last blog post on 12/19/2020, "Answers from the Psychic," I said that I would tell what the psychic I consulted said about our nearby cabin.

When I mentioned the word "cabin" to the psychic, she said "slaves." I then told her that our neighbor had said that there was a slave graveyard near our house, probably either behind our house on a hill which is about 500 feet away or around another neighbor's workshop which is about 200 feet away. The psychic then said that our cabin was actually on top of the slave graveyard! Wow, that's certainly not anything that I wanted to hear!

I was speechless after she said that, and after the reading, I discussed what she said about the cabin with Greg. We decided that it wasn't really anything to be alarmed about. It had been several weeks since we had heard any noises coming from inside the cabin, and I hadn't recently gotten any paranormal photographs either inside or outside the cabin.

We currently use the unfinished cabin to store our yard sale items. If we decide to finish it sometime in the future, to turn it into either a guest house or a rental house, I can get out my smudge stick and do a ritual to get rid of any entities that might be haunting the place. (Some people, though, might actually want to stay in a haunted cabin which is something to consider!)

Right now, we feel pretty good about the lack of anything paranormal on our property, and we hope it stays that way! However, the paranormal is pretty unpredictable, and you just never know!

I'll still have plenty of things to write about elsewhere as the world is full of the supernatural, especially around the old towns near us! Stay tuned!

For more information about our cabin, please see my previous "Spirit Photographs" blog posts, and for even more information about the paranormal, check out my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind" which is for sale on Amazon. (See widget above.)

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, February 20, 2021, Becky