"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

"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

Intriguing Paranormal Stories

 Welcome!

I have one photograph for you on this blog post today, but the photo is not paranormal because I edited out the paranormal part. The reason for this was to protect the name of the business that was at the top of the building which was where the ectoplasm was! I took three pictures of Greg in front of the building, but this was the only one that had ectoplasm.

The photo above shows Greg having lunch in front of the building that had ectoplasm near the top which is, of course, out of the range of this photo.

Many times the owner of a business doesn't want it to be known that his establishment is haunted for fear that it would scare away any customers, which is understandable. Normally, if the business owner is there, I get permission to use any paranormal photos that I have taken before I publish them. In the case of the picture above, however, the owner was not available since this is a regional chain.

For the rest of this post, I'll tell you paranormal stories that others have told me. They don't have paranormal photos with them either, but they are intriguing, nevertheless.

I recently got an email from our sister-in-law Cris from North Carolina who said she'd been meaning to send me "this little article from our neighborhood website," and that she looks "at that bridge every time we go to town." She said to let her know what I thought about it.

Here's what Cris sent me:

"ghost sightings. My brother in law has been seeing a Confederate Soldier ghost on the bridge over the Reuse River...on Covered Bridge Road. This has happened several times about 12:00 in the afternoon. Anyone else seeing this?" (This incident certainly dispels the idea that ghosts only appear after dark.)

"Echo Forest and Beyond

Yes, we had a ton of paranormal stuff happening on our property. Talked about it to our neighbors and they were having the same thing happening." 

"Buffalo Creek

It doesn't surprise me. If you look at the top of the hill...you will see a rock barrier that the soldiers used for cover during battle."

I told Cris that Greg and I would love to come and check out the ghostly goings-on there sometime, that we'd come armed with our cameras.

When we lived in Middle Tennessee, we happened to live next door to a psychic who told us that she once saw a Civil War officer on horseback, riding down our street! In fact, the whole neighborhood where we lived was an old Confederate campground with Civil War artifacts that people often found buried in the ground. No wonder it was haunted!

Earlier in my life, before I met Greg, I dated a guy who told me that when he was going to college in Eastern Virginia, he was driving by a field once when he came upon what looked like a Civil War battle being played out, but it wasn't a re-enactment! It looked real! He said that it had (understandably!) unnerved him, and that he'd never before told anyone else about the incident. 

(This was before I was into the paranormal, although ghost stories had always fascinated me. I certainly had no idea then that I had a paranormal photography gift. Had I known more about the paranormal then, I feel that I could have helped him more about what he had witnessed. However, what he said really impressed me. It was something that I filed away in my mind and never forgot.)

The Civil War soldier on the bridge in North Carolina and the Civil War battle in Virginia are both like a movie playing over and over again. It is like they are on film; they are unlike spirits who can at times even interact with the living.

My brother, Nick, emailed me yesterday, telling me that he and his wife, Lisa, had just gotten back from a trip where they visited a huge mansion, parts of which had "very creepy vibes." He said that otherwise they didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. No wonder it was creepy since two murders had taken place in that house. He said that the staff had been instructed not to talk about the murders, and I later found out that the staff was also not to mention that anything paranormal was going on, although there have been several reports of supernatural occurrences there by several witnesses!

However, in Abingdon, Virginia, the staffs of the Martha Washington Inn and The Tavern are not reticent about discussing all of their paranormal phenomena! Just check them out on the Internet!

I really appreciate those that shared their paranormal stories with me so that I could share them with you. You just never know about the paranormal; sometimes you happen to be in the right place at the right time, and you are able see or hear or feel something supernatural, and you may even be lucky enough to catch something strange on camera. You just never know.

There are plenty of paranormal photographs that Greg, Nick, and I have taken, (Greg and Nick also have the gift of paranormal photography.) and stories we have to tell in my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind" which is on Amazon. Please check out my book by clicking the widget above on this blog for more information.

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, July 17, 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  

 

Consulting a Psychic About Strange Goings-on

Welcome!

On my last blog post that I posted on Saturday, January 18, entitled "Christmas Spirits," I told about mysterious happenings in our old house that we've lived in for the past six months. I said in that post that there would probably be more strange things happening between then and now, and there have been. I also said I was going to consult a psychic about the strange goings-on, and I did.

Here's what happened-

The day after I posted my blog post, my husband, Greg, was in our downstairs bathroom, getting dressed, and our two cats, Kallie and Mitzi, were with me in the kitchen where I was giving them coconut oil which they love. Suddenly, I heard a rather loud noise like someone had dropped something on the floor above the cats and me which would be in the storage room where I've heard noises before.

About three times the night before, Greg and I both heard noises in the house after we had gone to bed. It was like a door was being opened and closed. Once there was a squeaking noise like the storage room door makes when it's pushed a certain way.

Finally, on January 22, I contacted an excellent psychic about all that was happening. I asked her one simple question, "Is our house haunted?"

She gave me her answer- that our 1901 house was, indeed, haunted by the spirit of a man who had previously lived here. He hangs around to see what's going on. He's very territorial, interested in what we're doing. He doesn't like us messing with his house.

He was not a nice person. He cheated people and even hit his wife. He was so mean that he is afraid to move on to the light, so he stays in our house.

The psychic told us what to do. She said to talk to him and to tell him nicely to leave us alone, that we need to fix the house.

We need to get rid of the negative energy, the sadness in the house. She suggested smudging, which we have done before on our other houses, but I also know of another method which I'll try first, by burning salt which I already have. We're just waiting for warmer weather so we can open the windows while we're doing our ritual.

Since I talked with the psychic, things seem to have calmed down quite a bit. Thankfully, we have had only a couple of weird occurrences the last few weeks.

One night, when Greg and I were in our bedroom, I quietly asked him if he'd noticed any "funny stuff" going on, and he said he hadn't. Then, the next morning, I went over to the heater in our bedroom, to turn it off, but it was already off. Greg said he had not turned it off. I figured it was our resident spirit that was letting me know that he was still here, and he wanted to show me an example of some funny stuff that I had asked Greg about. I decided to tell the spirit that we didn't want the heater messed with any more, to leave it alone.

Also, another night, Greg heard a knocking noise as he came out of our bathroom that is adjacent to our bedroom.

Besides noises, we also have photographic evidence of something strange, something that we can't explain-

Part of the time, Greg feeds our cats. I thought it was so cute, Kallie and Mitzi trailing behind him as he took their food to their room for them to eat, so I took this picture, above. Little did I know something strange would show up in that photo. (This was taken at the end of January, but we still hadn't put away all of our Christmas decorations for various reasons.)

Elaine Watson, a talented local psychic who helped advise me on my book,"Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind," (which is for sale on Amazon) said that anything that glows in a photograph is most assuredly paranormal.

The supernatural beat goes on, until we can get our cleansing salt ritual going. We may even follow up with smudging which surely wouldn't hurt!

I'll let you know more next time.

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, March 21, 2020, Becky

Paranormal Photos, One Real and One Not Real!

Welcome!

I take a lot of pictures because I love photography, and because I also sell downloads of my photos on iStock which is a part of Getty Images.

When I take pictures, 95% of the time, I don't even think about, or try to take paranormal photos. Fairly often, however, I do get strange images in my photos which I can't always explain.

One day, a few years ago, I noticed that I had so many paranormal photographs that I decided to write a book about them. The book I wrote is entitled "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind" which is now available either in paperback or as a kindle download on Amazon. There are over 100 paranormal photographs in the book that I and other people, including my husband and brother, have taken.

You might want to check it out:
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A couple of weeks ago, my husband Greg, and I were in town, trying to find a building to meet someone we know, so we went up a street that we don't normally drive on. I looked up and saw an old white house, and I asked Greg if that was where an old doctor used to live (It was also his clinic.), and Greg said it was.

We learned during a ghost tour a few years ago that the house was very haunted. After the doctor moved out or died, the house was sold. The house has changed hands several times since no one lives there very long.

This was one of the few times that I decided to hurriedly take some pictures as we were driving along, to see if I could get anything paranormal.

Later, after we got back home, I decided to look at the photos I'd hastily taken. I examined them closely, especially around the windows, since that's where spirits show up in houses so much of the time. If the spirits were there, I couldn't see them since all but a couple of windows were covered by curtains or blinds.

Then, I noticed a weird figure of a little boy sitting on something like a stool in the front yard. It looked as though you could even see through his legs. Scary!

Anyway, a couple of days later, I got brave and decided to revisit this old house to take more pictures, to see if I could again spot the little ghost boy.

Much to my surprise, the ghost was actually a little yard statue! It had looked so real that it had fooled me, and everyone that I'd shown it to had thought it was real, too! (His legs had looked transparent because the boots he was wearing blended in with the color of the background.)

However, there are at least three real apparitions in my paranormal book including the famous June Tolliver House ghost photo which my brother, Nick, took. Apparitions are rare, but when conditions are right, they can appear. You're really lucky if you can capture them on camera.

This was just not one of those times.

However, my next photo is very real! There are no apparitions, but the photo is a real mystery!

Greg and I love going to parks, so on a rare warm winter day a few weeks ago, we decided to visit a nearby park.

This time of year, there's not really a whole lot to photograph, but as I walked by the river, I thought that I might get a good shot that I could use on iStock.

Instead, I decided that the photo was more suitable for this "Spirit Photographs" blog! Here it is-

Notice the lavender-colored ectoplasm on the trees, and even stranger is the cluster of tiny colored balls just above and to the right of the river. I have no idea what these represent, but I need to find a psychic to explain these to me. The only other time I've noticed this phenomenon was in a photo that I featured in my 11/18/17 blog post entitled, "A Haunted Fall Festival."

Life is mysterious, but I'll be right here, the third Saturday of every month, with my "Spirit Photographs" blog so we can explore and try to solve these supernatural mysteries together!

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, March 17, 2018, Becky

Christmas Spirits

Welcome!

Last Sunday I published a blog post entitled "The Christmas Spirit" (12/10/17) on my "The Art of Positive Living" blog www.theartofpositiveliving.blogspot.com .

However, today, I'm writing a post on this "Spirit Photographs" blog entitled "Christmas Spirits" because of a photo I took last weekend while visiting historic Franklin, Tennessee which, I believe, is not only a very old town, but it is also a very haunted one!

I took some pictures of different Christmas decorations that I thought I might use on my "The Art of Positive Living" blog sometime, but, after I looked at the shots I had taken, I decided they should be on this "Spirit Photographs" blog instead!

I liked the decorations going up the steps, 

and I decided to get a closer shot of the decorations on the door which offered a big surprise upon closer examination-

The lower part of the door was covered in ectoplasm!

I would guess that the owners of this house have had some ghostly problems from the looks of this photo!

Earlier that day, I had taken some photos of an old graveyard which I thought might turn out to be paranormal, but nothing at all showed up, so I just deleted those. Little did I know that just taking pictures of Christmas decorations would produce something supernatural when I least expected it!

Spirits can be anywhere, however; they don't just inhabit graveyards.

For much more about the paranormal, you might enjoy my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind," which is available now in paperback or as a kindle download.

This would make a nice, unique Christmas gift for any lover of the supernatural!

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Wishing you a very Merry Christmas, and a happy New Year!
Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, January 20, 2018, Becky

Supernatural Cats

Welcome!

Greg and I don't have to go very far to take spirit photos. In fact, we can get plenty of paranormal pictures right around and even in our own house! This blog post mostly deals with cats and the supernatural!

Since "a picture is worth a thousand words," here are two photos that say it all!-

This is the back of our house. I was taking a picture of it to compare its size to the size of Greg's elephant ears plant, but I didn't know there would be ectoplasm in the windows! In fact, there is an image of a ghostly cat's head in the window on the upper right of our house where our cats' room is located!

Speaking of cats, here's a picture of our Kallie, surrounded by orbs!

This is the photo I took of Kallie which I briefly mentioned in my last "Spirit Photographs" blog post (9/16/17). Here, our cat is looking at our neighbor's cat which is outside, and if they ever got together, the fur would fly! With all of that energy, no wonder there are so many orbs! It could even be that the spirits in our house have gathered to watch the furry confrontation.

In my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind," there are over 100 of Greg's and my paranormal photographs which gifted Tennessee psychic Elaine Watson (now deceased) so expertly interpreted. Our kitties, Kallie and Mitzi, are featured in several of those photos.

"Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind" is available now, either in paperback or as a kindle download.
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Be sure to get in on the Halloween fun during the next few days.

Besides trick-or-treating, there are lots of neat things going on around the country.

-WKRN, Nashville, will present "Haunted Tennessee" this Thursday, October 26. Last year's haunted subjects are featured on WKRN's website.

-For all of us "Munsters" fans, there will be a "The Munsters" marathon on Cozi TV this Saturday, October 28.

-There's a "Creepy Hollow Haunted Woods" event in Spring Hill, Tennessee that you might want to check out since it is a well-done production that has been rated "very scary."

-Also, on October 28, there will be a paranormal Halloween investigation at Henry Horton State Park in Chapel Hill, Tennessee where you just might see a real ghost!

-Weather.com has "American Super/Natural" videos from 2014 which are weather-related true tales of the supernatural.These are well-done, quite good, and creepy!

Happy Halloween!

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, November 18, 2017, Becky

Haunted Caretaker's House, and More!

Welcome!

This month, I have a couple of really creepy happenings to share with you. I'm usually not affected by the paranormal things I come across, but for some reason I feel really uneasy about what I'm about to tell you-

Fist of all, a few weeks ago, Greg and I visited an absolutely breathtaking state park here in Tennessee on a beautiful day. This was a place we had never before visited, and we enjoyed exploring around.

It wasn't long until we came upon an old house in which a caretaker of the park had once lived, but it was now vacant since the caretaker had died. I told Greg that if I were the deceased caretaker, I would want to still live here, that I'd haunt this place. It suddenly occurred to me that the place probably was haunted!

Greg suggested we take pictures. Why not, since that's what we so often do, especially since it looked like the perfect place for a haunting!

I took out my camera which I always carry with me when I go out, and started taking several pictures.

Here's one of the typical photos that I took-

It looks like ectoplasm in the trees above the old house.

 Also, I half-jokingly asked any spirits there to start rocking in one of the rocking chairs on the porch, when suddenly one of the plants in the foreground started shaking on its own like the wind was blowing it even though there was no wind, and none of the other plants near it moved. I figured that moving a plant was easier for a spirit to do than moving a rocking chair! Apparently, the spirit wanted us to know that it was there.

Then, Greg asked to borrow my camera (He hadn't brought his.) since he wanted to see if he could catch anything paranormal.

Here's what he got-

While he was taking pictures, the camera started malfunctioning, and the photos turned out to be blurred. It took him a while to get the camera functioning normally again! I thought maybe the battery had gotten low, but later we were able to take more photos just fine.

Our conclusion is that this area is most certainly haunted! Let's put it this way, I sure wouldn't want to be there after dark!

Another photo in the realm of the supernatural is from my brother, Nick, of his wife, Lisa, and their cat, Whiskers.

Photo by Nick

Here is part of the email Nick sent to me, explaining the above photo-

"I'm attaching a pic showing Whiskers going berserk near the computer: Lisa was looking at your paranormal blog and he started jumping around, trying to get to the screen. He has never acted like that before! It's like he sensed something weird going on with what she was reading! Strange!"

(Guess you already knew that animals are very psychic!)

This is strange! Thank you all for sharing!

The blog post Lisa was reading was my April 15, 2017 "Spirit Photographs" post, "An Enlightening Psychic Reading."

For much more about the paranormal, be sure to check out my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind," available now, either in paperback or as a kindle download, http://amzn.to/2usXWIO .

Also, if you could use a little more of the positive in your life, you might enjoy my other blog, www.theartofpositiveliving.blogspot.com .

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, September 16, 2017, Becky

Spirit Communication

Welcome!

One morning, Greg came in from our front yard, and asked me if I'd noticed that our angel statue was lying on the ground.  I told him that I hadn't.  We couldn't understand why it was lying partly on the sidewalk a couple of feet from where it usually stands.  Because of the position that it was in, there's no way it could just have fallen over or have been blown over by the wind.  Nothing else was disturbed.  We concluded that either Halloween pranks had started early, or that it was something supernatural.

We were really puzzled by this, and I told Greg that I would mention the angel statue to a psychic-medium that I would be contacting in a couple of days.

As I said in my last two blog posts (August 8, 2015 and September 5, 2015), my mother passed away just recently.  I promised her before she passed that I would communicate with her through a psychic, especially since the last few days of her life she couldn't speak.

True to my word, I contacted a really good psychic-medium by phone.  I asked her about the angel statue, and she said that Mama's spirit had tried to move the statue to another part of Greg's flower garden to show us that she was here, visiting us, but it was too heavy for her to move any further.  Now, we understood; the mystery had been solved.

The reading with the psychic went well, and I communicated with Mama, as well as my father who had passed on several years ago.  She also saw my grandmother, and even described what she was wearing.

The next day, I looked out the upstairs window, and noticed a heart-shaped leaf floating in the birdbath on the deck in our back yard.  I mentioned it to Greg and to someone else, and wondered if it could have been from Mama, or was it just a coincidence?  The doubt left my mind the next morning after I saw a second leaf floating in the birdbath, as well!  A statue was too hard to move very far, but a leaf or two was another matter!

Also, another strange thing that has happened involves a pretty mourning dove.  Apparently, the same dove seems to enjoy coming to our deck where the birdbath is, and just either sits or stands on different parts of our deck for hours at a time.  Since this was so unusual, I decided to research this online.

Just last night, I found an intriguing website (www.wisdom-of-spirit.com) that gave me the information I needed.  It had "after death communication" which I found very helpful.  It even mentions "physically occurring afterlife signs" such as birds "who behave in a strange or remarkable way in our presence...."

Also, according to a book that I often consult, "Animal-Speak," by Ted Andrews, a dove represents the feminine, motherhood.

Greg has also received messages from a couple of his loved ones who have passed on.

I'm sure that Greg and I are not the only ones that have received messages from beyond. The above-mentioned website has tremendous information for any of us who are puzzled by strange things that might have happened after the death of a loved one.

I really appreciate Mama's persistence, and her willingness to communicate.  In the past, we always enjoyed talking to each other about a lot of different things, and just because she's no longer on this plane, doesn't mean the communication has to end for us, or for anyone who wants to continue  relationships with those in spirit.

***To celebrate Halloween this month, I'll have a very special blog post on Friday, October 23, 2015.  It concerns a photo my brother took that is mind-boggling!  That blog post will be the first time it has ever been shown anywhere.

Please stay tuned!

See you then!  Becky

The Last Paranormal Blog Post Until September

Welcome!

A lot has been going on for us the past few days as far as the paranormal goes.  Three days in a row last week, something supernatural happened at our house.

The first incident was after supper last week when I was in the kitchen, working with some dishes.  All of a sudden, I felt something lightly touch my upper arm.  I looked down, expecting to see a bug, but nothing was there!  That was the first time I've ever had the sensation of being touched by anything I couldn't see.  Very creepy!

The very next day, I couldn't find a silver earring that I decided to wear.  It should have been in the blue container where I keep a few pieces of jewelry that I wear more often than others.  (That same container was featured in my April 12, 2014 blog post entitled "Another Strange Incident.")  I carefully looked through the container, checked on the floor, etc., to no avail.  I finally just gave up and put on another pair of earrings.  However, later that day, I went back to that same container to look for something else, and there, as plain as day, was my missing silver earring, right in the middle of the container.  I asked Greg if he had found it and put it there, but he said he had not!  Chills ran up and down my spine, as I contemplated what had happened.  I was in shock!

Finally, the next day, Greg told me that he had noticed  as he went by the laundry room that the basket of towels had fallen over and wanted to know if I wanted him to take care of it.  I told him that I would go do it.  I couldn't believe it when I saw the basket of towels lying against the dryer.  Earlier, I had put a couple of towels on top of the pile, but there was no way that would make the basket fall over on the dryer like it had done.  I also thought about the cats, but I've very rarely ever seen them in that laundry room since we've lived here, and I just can't see them pushing over a basket of towels in that manner.  I knew that this had to be in the realm of the paranormal, along with the other two incidents that had just recently happened.

Basket of Towels in the Laundry Room

The very next day, after the above incidents had transpired, Greg and I left on a trip to Savannah.  A lot of paranormal things happened to us there, as well, in the form of paranormal pictures that I and some other people took.  One restaurant in particular was very haunted.

Savannah is supposed to be one of the most haunted places in the world which, I believe, is very true, and I can prove it!  I'll detail it all in a new book that I'm currently writing which I hope to have out next year.

I have a lot of irons in the fire right now, so this will be my last "Spirit Photographs" blog post until September.  However, you may keep up with my latest on the paranormal, via my "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind" Facebook page, www.facebook.com/pages/Photographic-Encounters-of-the-Spirit-Kind/134892953371993?fref=ts ,where I'll feature updates, videos, etc.  Please give a like while you're there.

Thanks so much for your support!  Until September, Becky

Comments from Fans of "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind"

Welcome!

I just recently received a really nice letter from someone who had read my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind."  With the risk of looking as though I'm bragging (for I certainly don't mean to do that!  I just wanted you to know that several people think that my book is worthwhile.), it inspired me to share it, along with some other comments that people have made about my new book.

Here is a portion of the letter that I mentioned above:

"I think your book is terrific.  I love how you captured so many entities by taking pictures.  I especially liked the one of the June Tolliver House.  (Although I didn't take that one!)  Now, when I go by there, I always look to see if someone is looking out the window at me.  Your book is great."

Here are some other comments via email, in person, etc.:

"Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind" is extremely interesting and thought provoking!  What amazing pictures you have taken and collected!...I have been sharing information on your book with others.  I admire your courage and perseverance."

"I love your book."

"I'll...always be a fan of yours."

I'm so grateful for comments like these from people who have read my book.  I'm a little overwhelmed, for I didn't actually expect the response I've gotten.

The book really didn't take much courage, because I knew I had a story I had to tell, and I just decided it was something that I needed to do, no matter what the reaction was.  I think it's good to express our thoughts and feelings as long as we don't hurt others or ourselves.

I believe it's a book that almost everyone can relate to, for most people, whether they admit it or not, have had some kind of personal experience with the paranormal at some time in their lives.

The truth is, there are things that we just don't understand.  Life is a fascinating mystery that is just waiting to be solved.

I really appreciate any of you that are spreading the word about my book, whether by word of mouth, by Facebook, or however, for if this book does well, I'm planning a second paranormal book for next year which would include among other things, chapters on an enchanted park in East Tennessee, a paranormal ghost-hunting group in Southwest Virginia, and the supernatural goings-on in our present home.

If you're in the area, please stop by and see me at the book signing for my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind," at the Spring Hill Library in Spring Hill, Tennessee on Saturday, November 23, 2013 from 10:00-11:00 AM.  Light refreshments will be provided.

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Thanks for visiting!  Until next Saturday, with love and appreciation, Becky