More Ghostly Goings-on at a Haunted B & B

Welcome!

From now on, "Spirit Photographs" blog posts will be published late morning on Mondays. After today, the posts will be published on the first Monday of each month.

On the 1/4/14 "Spirit Photographs" blog post, "A Haunted B & B?", I told about Greg and me spending the night in a B & B in East Tennessee that was apparently haunted, and I show pictures to prove it!

We've been back there several times since I wrote that post, and nothing else weird has happened, until recently!

In this East Tennessee B & B, where Greg and I were again spending the night, I was awakened by some sort of strange noise in our room. Later, I was again awakened by a rattling sound, like paper was being rattled, twice! It wasn't Greg, because I looked over, and Greg was beside me, sound asleep! The next morning, before we got up, I told Greg about the noises I'd heard, and he told me that he'd also heard some sort of unusual noise before he'd fallen asleep.

We we got up, I found my papers, cloth jewelry holder, and a few pieces of my jewelry which had been on a table at the foot of our bed, turned upside down in a neat stack on the floor. Neither Greg nor I went near this table during the night, so we know that we didn't touch these items.

This is what I found lying on the floor in a neat stack, upside down.

What caused this strange phenomenon? We're not sure, but we're seriously thinking about spending the night somewhere else whenever we visit that area of East Tennessee again so that we can get a good night's sleep!

My brother, Nick, recently told me about a really good paranormal show that was on "Destination America," "Paranormal Lockdown," which stars Nick Groff who used to be on "Ghost Adventures." Presently, it's on Fridays 10/9C. "Destination America" also features a couple of other paranormal shows, "Mountain Monsters" and "A Haunting." For more information and video clips from these shows, visit  www.destinationamerica.com  .

On the "Weather Channel," Jim Cantore has an interesting show, "Cantore Stories," which features various weather-related stories. Just recently, the show had a paranormal slant, and it featured the skunk ape which is in the Florida Everglades, and The Marfa (ghost) lights in Marfa, Texas. (The Marfa lights is listed as the number one place to visit in Marfa, according to "TripAdvisor."  It even got their "Certificate of Excellence"!)

Also, similar to the Marfa lights, Greg reminded me about the Brown Mountain lights which can be seen near Brown Mountain in western North Carolina.

This is fascinating stuff that you might want to check out for yourself on the Internet if you enjoy the paranormal as much as I do!

Thanks for visiting! Until Monday, April 4, 2016, Becky

Personal Paranormal News

Welcome!

In this monthly blog post, I want to give you my personal paranormal news on what has been going on in my life these past few weeks.

As far as taking any photographs of spirits, there have been none, probably because I take most of my pictures using existing light for my photography business, and to get good spirit photos, you most often need to use a flash. I'm sure this is just a lull, and I'll get more spirit photos in the future. I can always just use my flash a little more often.

All has been quiet in our house, which is nice for a change, because it's a little unnerving to try to go to sleep at night when strange noises are coming from your chest of drawers!

I recently contacted a neighbor who had a household disaster a few weeks ago, and I asked her how things were going, and offered to help, and told her I hoped the disaster wasn't because of us. She laughed and graciously said it was not us. I felt relieved when she said that.

The reason I asked her that question was because a couple of years ago, we found out that she was very psychic, and we asked her to come to our house to check out any entities that we thought might be here. She toured our house not long after we moved in, and she said that several spirits were in our home.

Our House, Right After We Bought It

Several months later, she told us that after she'd been to our house, that a couple of spirits had attached themselves to her, and that she had a hard time getting rid of them. She hasn't been near our house since then. We can totally understand why! (I was afraid when I recently called her that spirits from our our house might have caused their disaster. Thankfully, that was not the case!)

Greg and I are looking forward to a visit from another psychic in the spring. This is a psychic that I've talked to several times on the phone, to have psychic readings, but I've never met her in person before.

A few days ago, she called me out of the blue, and said she'd be visiting a relative in our area in the spring (The psychic lives several hundred miles away, in another state.), and would love to meet Greg and me. I was thrilled, because I've long admired her psychic abilities, and besides that, she seems like a really nice person.

She was with one of the top psychic hotlines in the world until recently. She is very talented; she is clairvoyant, clairaudient, and clairsentient. Besides that, she's a gifted medium. (Wow! That is very impressive! You can't be any more psychic than that!) She was especially helpful to me when my mother passed away a few months ago.

When she comes to visit, we're going to her relative's popular restaurant, and she's also coming by our house to do a reading. We're really looking forward to this! This sounds like it would make a great blog post, for both of my blogs,"Spirit Photographs" and "The Art of Positive Living!"

Speaking of mediums, there's a really neat reality show on TLC Sunday nights, 9/8C, "Long Island Medium," starring medium Theresa Caputro who brings humor to a serious subject. Check it out, if you haven't already!

I'm a little upset that one of my favorite TV shows of all time, "Finding Bigfoot" won't be on this week due to a special program, but hopefully it will return next Sunday night on "Animal Planet." Of course, I can always catch videos of the show on the "Animal Planet" website.

Important note: "Spirit Photographs" blog posts will be published on Mondays (late morning) from now on, starting on Monday, March 21, 2016. Thereafter, the posts will be published on the first Monday of each month.

Thanks for visiting! Until Monday, March 21, 2016, Becky

Paranormal News from "Spirit Photographs"

Welcome, and happy New Year!

Today, I'd like to start the new year right with some paranormal news from this blog, "Spirit Photographs."

I hope you had a very merry Christmas.

Below is a photo that someone took of us while we were celebrating the holiday in Nashville.

Notice how blurred Greg and I look, especially Greg's face. It looks as though at least one spirit was having his or her picture taken, too! The amateur photographer who took this photo probably isn't even aware that he's psychic enough to take a spirit photograph!

We really enjoyed "The Twilight Zone" New Year's marathon on Syfy the past few days. We have a DVD with several episodes, but I'd like to have the complete series of 156 episodes which you can get on DVD on Amazon for around $150.00. (I'm saving up my pennies!) Over fifty years later, this quality show is still a favorite of those of us who love the paranormal.

Another quality show, in my opinion, is "Finding Bigfoot" on "Animal Planet." Greg and I can really relate to that show after our scary experience in West Tennessee which I describe in my 9/5/14 and 9/13/14 "Spirit Photographs" blog posts.

The season premier of "Finding Bigfoot" is tomorrow (Sunday, January 3, 2016) at 9/8C. Look for reruns earlier in the day.

A show that my brother recommends is "Ghost Asylum" which is on "Destination America." There are some full episodes you can watch on the Internet if you don't get that channel.

An intriguing book I'm planning to buy is "Do Dead People Watch You Shower?" by Concetta Bertoldi which answers questions that many of us would like to know about the spirit world.

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, February 6, 2016, or sooner!, Becky

Animal Spirits

Welcome!

A few weeks ago, my husband Greg and I went to Memphis, Tennessee for a sightseeing visit. We saw and did a lot of things in just a couple of days. Since we didn't have much time, we had our itinerary well planned so that we could work in everything that we wanted to do.

One of those places we definitely wanted to visit was the Memphis Zoo, and we're glad we did. Greg and I both love animals, and being there was a lot of fun.

We even had a delicious lunch there. While enjoying our lunch, we were thoroughly entertained as we watched through a large picture window a couple of  primates frolicking outside.

After lunch, we strolled around the park, taking pictures of the animals as we went.

When we got back home, we put the pictures on our computer, and we noticed that a couple of pictures that Greg had taken had a strange fog in them.

Here is an example of a regular, normal photo that Greg had taken of a giraffe:

Then, here is a photo of an ostrich which is anything but normal! Just look at how foggy this picture is! This photo is just full of ectoplasm. Part of the picture even has a lavender/purple tinge to it. This ectoplasm is probably from the spirits of animals who had once lived there at the zoo.

We went to the Nashville Zoo a couple of years ago, and lavender-colored ectoplasm showed up in several of our photos. Lavender/purple/violet is a very spiritual color.

There are also several animal spirit photos (and a lot of other paranormal photos and stories) in my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind." Be sure and check it out!  It might make someone who enjoys the paranormal an unusual Christmas gift!

Greg and I never see anything strange before we take our photos. We just enjoy taking pictures, and these strange anomalies sometimes, when we least expect it, show up in our photos. These don't scare us; they're just more of a curiosity. They're actually a natural phenomenon that we just don't fully understand right now.

Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday, January 2, 2016! (or sooner!), Becky



  

See the Genuine UFO/Flying Saucer Photo!

Welcome!

In my last "Spirit Photographs" blog post (October 23, 2015), I wrote about my brother's trip to New York state and the Hudson Valley.  In that post, I showed a genuine UFO/flying saucer photo that my brother took and sent to me while on that trip.  It's a lovely photograph taken from the Hudson Bridge.  Several people saw this post, but I'm now trying to get the word out to more folks, because in my mind, this photo is huge!  I researched UFO photos on the Internet, and this is better than most that I saw, and taking a photo like this is so rare!
 
I'd like to encourage my brother to take it and have it analyzed, because I believe that this photo is every bit as intriguing as his now famous June Tolliver House ghost photo which I tell about in my paranormal book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind."

If anyone out there could let me know what steps we need to take to draw more attention to this unique photo, please do!  I'd really appreciate it!

Be sure and check out my October 23 post if you haven't already!

Until Saturday, December 5, 2015 (or sooner!), Becky

A Paranormal Adventure in New York, Including UFO's!

Welcome!

On this special pre-Halloween blog post, I'd like to feature my brother's recent paranormal adventure in New York state.

My brother is Nick Botts who is mentioned in my book "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind."  Among other things, in the book, I show Nick's now famous June Tolliver House ghost picture which he took when he was just a school boy in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

Nick does have a gift for taking paranormal photos, just as my husband Greg and I do.

Nick also has a keen interest in the paranormal which is evidenced by the places he and his wife went on their trip to New York.  They went by the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York and the Burn Brae mansion in Glen Spey, New York which were both featured on recent episodes of Syfy's "Ghost Hunters."

Culinary Institute of America

They didn't notice anything unusual about either place.  That's the way it usually goes, you don't see or hear anything at so many of these "haunted" places you visit.  Greg and I have run into that several times.

However, when you least expect it, something really great shows up!  That's exactly what happened to Nick on this trip.

While still on the trip, he emailed me an extraordinary photo that he had taken from the walkway of the Hudson Bridge in New York.

In his email, he said, "Here's a weird pic...notice the strange objects in formation in the sky.  I did see something right when I snapped but (they) were gone in an instant."

Wow!  This picture is amazing!  It was a really lucky shot.  You can see, especially when you study the objects more closely, that they are flying saucers, just like in the old classic flying saucer movies.

Capturing UFO's on camera is probably even rarer than capturing an apparition.

Good job, Nick!  Thanks for sharing!

Suggested paranormal book for Halloween, or anytime: "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind" by Becky Arnott.

Happy Halloween!

Thanks for visiting!  Until Saturday, November 7, 2015, 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