June Ahern's Blog - Posts Tagged "ghosts"

I like reading about history and outside non-fiction books enjoy historical novels to read about the happenings, the people - famous, infamous and ordinary folks like myself - the language, clothing, and society at a given period. Mostly what I learn is some things just never change. Do you like history/period novels?

Now that I'm "ghost busting" in San Francisco for a paranormal group I get some firsthand history glimpses.

See me walk the infamous streets of the Barbary Coast, San Francisco during the day seeing and talking to spirits.

http://youtu.be/m397g0a9F9A
The Timeless Counselor:The Best Guide to a Successful Psychic Reading
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City of Redemption

A SIMPLY MARVELOUS FUN TIME ON HALLOWEEN AND MORE!

Tonight the veils thin and the dead walk the earth. It can be a lovely time to invite our deceased loved ones to visit. Light a candle and place it in a window so they can easily find you. Perhaps leave them a treat and beverage they enjoyed while in body. I like to put a photo of each I'm inviting to visit tonight. 


When the ghosts come to visit, who you gonna call?





I am a ghost buster aka a spirit communicator.

See The Haunted Bay videos of some ghost hunts.
This one was especially spooky to me. https://youtu.be/c7FsCWmWLQ8
this one I really enjoyed myself https://youtu.be/TU4BvpvX5AQ

This night is also called Samhain (pronounced SAH-win or SOW-in[1] is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year. Traditionally, Samhain is celebrated from sunset on 31 October to sunset on 1 November, which is about halfway between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice.

As the nights grow dark early and we retreat to the comfort of our homes, it is said our dreams become more vivid and meaningful. Take note of your dreams tonight as the spirit of your dead family and friends often visit you through them.

Read more about spirits and how to communicate with them in my ebook, "How to Talk with Spirits: Seance, Mediums, Ghost Hunts" on Amazon and Smashwords. Links below. I have three other books you can review at
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Happy Thrilling Halloween! May it also be blessed with gentle, good spirits visiting.

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Review of my book - four stars out of four, "How to Talk with Spirits: Seances, Mediums, Ghost Hunts" 


"I've actually read a couple similar books in the past, but "How to Talk With Spirits" is my favorite thus far. It uses the terminology properly, but never feels condescending or confusing; it expresses strong beliefs and opinions but never tries to force them upon the reader, instead encouraging safe experimentation and making one's own judgements; it teaches without preaching.


Life after death is perhaps the greatest mystery of our lives. Reincarnation, heaven and hell, ghosts living among us, any combination of those, something we haven't even imagined or absolutely nothing at all, the possibilities are endless. "How to Talk With Spirits" by June Ahern helps answer those questions (and many more) the best way possible - by presenting the reader with information, helping them find their own answers and frequently reminding them to stay skeptical and not just believe anything, even the things in this book, simply because they're widely believed.


"How to Talk With Spirits" is a nonfiction guide for exactly what it sounds like - communicating with spirits. Spirits here typically include both spirits and ghosts (the difference, June summarizes, is essentially that ghosts are spirits that remain on Earth), but also includes the possibility of picking up messages or signals from others who are alive.  The pages are filled to the brim with information equivalent to similar books double the length. Despite having so much information, the book doesn't ever feel boring - this is an insightful guide, not a dry textbook.


Before the book really kicks off, we're given an introduction that gives us a history of the author, June. In 1970, at 19 years old, she was a passenger in a vehicle during a car crash that threw her through the windshield. She sees a woman in white surrounded in light and actually died for 20 seconds. Ever since, she's been able to see and hear dead people and identify things about people without ever having met them before. Since then she's gone ghost hunting, led and been a part in seances and passed all sorts of messages to the living.


Following the introduction, the book is broken into 12 chapters, the first chapter being the longest. This chapter briefly covers a history of ghosts and then answers a wide range of frequently asked questions. These answers cover a wide spectrum of information, and while there is a bit of repetition, it's only because this portion is made in a way that the reader can read only the answers to questions they're interested in without missing anything when skipping portions. From this point forward, chapters explain about spirits and ghosts - both the good and the bad - as well as how to communicate with the good and protect oneself from the bad from preparations to best practices and creating the best, most likely situations for success. These chapters also go into details about methods for speaking with spirits alone or in different forms of seance, acting as a medium, going on ghost hunts and all sorts of other tasty tidbits of knowledge concerning spirits. As she gives information, June frequently references articles and books by other authors, as well as her own interesting experiences and even a YouTube video of one of her own ghost hunts. The last chapter is a simple ESP quiz she's created - just a handful of simple questions that will make you think about what you've seen and felt, then guides you with your results a bit.


I can't suggest it to anyone who has closed their minds to the possibility of an afterlife or being able to speak with the dead, but anyone the least bit curious or interested in the topic should give the book a read.
 

The book definitely deserves 4 out of 4 stars. 
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June Ahern

WHITE LIGHTS - ORBSSIGN OF PARANORMAL ACTIVITY?

I have been involved in ghost hunts with a paranormal investigation group named The Haunted Bay: Paranormal SF and Beyond.

During the ghost hunt of a San Francisco landmark, The Defenestration Building (closed in July, 2014), we met a ghost of a frightened young woman dressed in only a full slip. She rushed toward me and the filming crew covered in blood. Her terror and quickness made us backpedal to get away. Most likely she was a victim of murder. Although, I was the only one who saw and heard her mentally, the others felt the tension. The woman came only so far down the long hallway then the image of her running toward us repeated. She was stuck in the time and place of her terror.

Later, the producer, Ying Liu and cinematographer, Matthew Abaya, returned with a camera to, hopefully, capture the ghost’s image. The photographs show orbits of light and flashing streaks.

The investigators thought it was inconclusive evidence because they were looking for a figure, a complete form of the woman.

For me it was proof because I’ve seen many similar photographs of spirits and ghosts taken with different cameras. This kind of white orb light or flashes of whitish light is common when photographing spirits and ghosts. It appears as though the movement of energy is captured.

One viewer of the woman in the Defenstration video commented, “...the Polaroid (photos) are spooky…a silhouette of a girl on the lower left…there is a set of legs in the middle…(in the) Fight & Murder Hall…a face staring right at the camera and the presence behind us. I don’t know if it’s a bearded man or a long-haired woman…”

Watch the video to decide for yourself if the shadows and lights are indeed an energy moving toward the camera crew. The Youtube video of The Haunted Bay: Paranormal SF and Beyond can be found here: The Defenestration Building.Amazon UK  Smashwords.com (sale 90¢ until 7/30)  - about my other books & me june ahern dot com

For more about these occurrence & my own orb experience go to http://witchgoddesses.blogspot.com/20...

Vampires stalk our world, according to storytellers. For most, Bram Stoker's book, "Dracula" was our introduction to a vampire. Nowadays, it's hard to get away from them with the surge of books and films to choose your scary experience. 

I've been well aware of them since the 60's when I'd watch the television series Dark Shadows' vampire, Barnabas Collins, sleep in a coffin through the day to emerge at night seeking necks to suck. Anyone else watch it? 

Seems blood gathering has been with us for quite some time. Vampire folklore has history from many countries. According to Gods & Monsters.com website vampires have a long history. On Wilipedia page the vampire, the undead, visited people and unlike our Count Dracula image of a a tall, somewhat handsome guy, the vampire "wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century."

In "Dark Shadows" and most other vampire sources I've read or seen, it seems young, attractive women are the main target. (Whew! That leaves me out.)

But in Matthew Abaya's newly released award winning indie action vampire film, "Vampariah", (the Philippine version) the blood sucker is one scary female. 

The film is about Mahal, who is a part of an elite squad of skilled hunters responsible for keeping the world safe from vampires and other creatures of the night. Her mission to rid the world of this undead threat becomes compromised when her fate intertwines with an aswang (a vampire of Philippine folklore).

What about your country's vampire? What is he or she called and what naughty things does that vampire cook up? Fresh blood? Followers? To find a list of vampires' names and countries see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vampires_in_folklore_and_mythology

The San Francisco premier showing will be in the historical and most delightfully haunted San Francisco's Chinatown's 1920's building know called, The Great Star Theater." The other night I investigated the theater for ghosts and vampires sightings. The history of the building is murky with one recorded suspicious death. What else did I find? My investigation film will be shown at the premier of Vampariah film on Saturday, September 3, 2016. Do join us for a spooky good time! 

Matthew and I met when he filmed my ghost infestation of another historical San Francisco building. Now that was scary!  Since then he's filmed three  more of my ghost investigations for the Haunted Bay.   

No more blood left in my house - move on vampires! 

Learn more about  me and my books (How to Talk with Spirits: Seances, Mediums and 

Ghost Hunts plus 2 novels) at june ahern dot com. Available on Amazon & Smashwords.

Vampariah Premier evening filled with vampires, zombies, real deal ghost busting, drinks, live music, and of course ASWANGS! Stay for the after party! Rising from the grave, LA/SF's premiere Filipino Goth Band Dominion returns with "Aswang", the awesome single from the Vampariah Soundtrack.
www.vampariah.com
Preceeded by a special featurette by The Haunted Bay's ghost hunt of the Great Star Theater. The Alameda Paranormal Researchers and psychic June Ahern will dive into Chinatown's Haunted History at the Theater.
The Haunted Bay:
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Alameda Paranormal Researchers:
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June Ahern:june ahern dot comDominion:
http://www.dominiondomination.com/
Tickets $10
June Ahern

Will You see Casper the Friendly Ghost or  The Headless Horseman? 
Excerpt from Chapter 2, Questions From the Curious Living in my book, How to Talk With Spirits: Séances•Mediums•Ghost Hunts

I’ve heard you talk about spirits and ghosts. Is there a difference? 
To me there is a difference. Although a ghost is the spirit or energy of a person, it has not gone onto a place of peaceful rest. Rather it lingers on Earth reliving the same scene over and over long after it has left the physical body.

They are stuck in time and space and the aspects of their deaths. Ghost (and spirits too) can be a floating white wisp of a cloud or a bolt of energy shooting along a darkened corridor. Since ghosts aren’t able to let go of the physical plane they appear to more people than spirits do.
The majority of times ghosts experienced a sudden, and often tragic, violentdeath. Ghost manifestations or appearances are frequently seen as disembodied person spirits. People have told me of seeing just a hand on a doorknob or a menacing face staring through a window or a body falling down a staircase. For example, if a person committed suicide by hanging, you might see only the face of that person with a rope tied around the neck. Usually, the ghost was a victim who did not receive justice. Some ghosts were perpetrators of a crime.

Then again there are some spirits who just liked their earth time and decide to stay for whatever reason they believe is right. I encountered one such ghost in an alley in San Francisco Barbary Coast district. 
A couple of my own ghost stories ended rather well. Both were murder victims. Many years ago before I became truly involved with, or understood, my medium abilities, I encountered a young woman named Sandy (not her real name) who was murdered execution style. Sandy’s untimely death only informed me she was shot.
(Story con’t with my police investigation in How to Talk With Spirits: Séances•Mediums•Ghost Hunts available Amazon  and Smashwords )

Walk with me through this infamous historical building in San Francisco before it was razed as seen on Youtube.

https://youtu.be/c7FsCWmWLQ8

June Ahern is an author of four books, two novels and two paranormal/parapsychology.
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Just in time to enjoy this spooky season, another The Haunted Bay paranormal ghost walk in San Francisco. As seen on Youtube https://youtu.be/coyG_KTb9YY via @YouTube



This ghost hunt preceded Matthew Abaya's scary (and sometimes funny) Indie film, "Vamparah" debuting at the city's Chinatown's historical building, The Great Star Theatre. The history alone, albeit the paranormal activity, is infamous and famous - suspicious death, gambling, and lots of drama plus Chinese opera.

The inside is old. Funky - original seats, stage curtains, old haunted bathroom, but excellent to get 'that feel' - know what I mean?

Come along with me and others as we encounter paranormal activity. Youtube: https://youtu.be/coyG_KTb9YY via @YouTube

A bit about the history.
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Perfect read for All Hallows Eve coming up! Followed by Day of The Dead.Great Ritual for that time included in book along with an ESP Quiz.Read excerpt of ritual below:* * *

HALLOWEEN, A SPOOKY good time and all for amusement, right? 

The night is much more than just for fun. All Hallows Eve or Halloween and November First, are sacred times for many throughout the world to honor the dead. The Celts and Mexicans honor their elderly, ancestors, and the dead with special rituals and celebrations on those days. The Catholic Church combined the pagan beliefs with their own to create a day to honor the saints on November first. Celtic pagans believed the veils between the two worlds of the living and dead thinned or dropped so spirits could walk the earth to visit their living relatives before crossing back over to the “underworld.” 
The spirits were not only our loved ones, but also all spirits who want to walk the earth, feel alive and connected to the living.

During the spirits’ visit, spooky things happened, as you can imagine. The Celts disguised themselves to waylay troublesome or evil spirits so they wouldn’t recognize and haunt people. Tradition warned people, especially the elderly, the sick and the young, to stay safely hidden inside so they wouldn’t be grabbed and taken to the underworld.This is a good time to invite spirits you want to visit your home. You can prepare for visiting spirits with these two welcoming rituals. One is more elaborate and the other simple. You can do all or a bit of each. Design a ritual to best suit your interest and need. No matter which you choose to do, both are a lovely way to remember your loved ones and feel their presence.

Before it is dark on Halloween get a photograph of the deceased you would like to visit and a pen in perhaps their favorite color. You’ll also need paper, flowers and incense of your choice. Also gather white, black and orange candles. The white candle is for protection and to receive clear visions.

The black candle is for the mystical, spiritual unknown, and the orange one for the season’s color of renewal. Have a burning vessel (ashtray or cauldron,) matches to light your incense and candles, and a full lipped glass or bowl of water.
(cont'd in book) 


June Ahern
How to Talk With Spirits: Séances, Mediums, Ghost Hunts

I AM NOT THERE.  I AM IN THE SKY, THE STARS...
Excerpt from my ebook,  "How to Talk with Spirits: Seances, Mediums, Ghost Huntsby June Ahern
I'm a lucky author! Three five star Amazon reviews in one day for my books, How to Talk to Spirit and The Timeless Counselor.

This is to be included in my second edition, both ebook and paperback, January 2017.

Chapter 4Afterlife
I learned more about what transition of the spirit from communication with my sister who died in 2010 than from any book. About the fourth year after her death I called on her by name. She took a couple of days to respond and told me she no longer was known by that name. She didn’t tell me what name to call her other than “sister”. In late 2015 she awoke me in the early hours of the to give me a message. It was information I never knew about spirit transformation. My sister showed me how her entire being as I had known her that is the physical person I knew, had separated into energetic cells. The cells appeared like sparks of light or little shooting stars. They integrated with all matter in the sky––the entire universe. There was a sense, not words or images, that my sister was everywhere in nature. She had become The All. It was awe-inspiring. To the very core of my own cells, I experienced the power and vision of The All Divine. What my sister expressed through thought and images reminded me of the bereavement poem, Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep,  by Mary Frye (1931). In it Ms. Fry asks those grieving her not stand at her grave and weep for she is not there, she does not sleep. Further in the poem she says where her spirit will be found:
I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glint on snow.I am the sunlight on ripened grain.I am the gentle autumn rain.When you wake in the morning hush,I am the swift, uplifting rushOf quiet birds in circling flight.I am the soft starlight at night.Do not stand at my grave and weep.I am not there, I do not sleep.
 Along with the new spiritual awareness my sister gave me she also revealed in time her cells would reunite coming back (reincarnate) into form known to us as the physical body. This new body would be made up of renewed energy within the DNA, that being healthier cells. Her spirit will also be a new energy along with new karma. (to be cont'd)
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All Hallows Eve is a sacred time to honor and communicate with our beloved ones (and others) who have passed on to the other side, the other world, Heaven, Nirvana, Slumberland - the Universal Flow.

Much more than a fun time to dress up (old tradition of hiding from unwanted spirits). It's an psychic energetic time to open your mind's eye to see beyond the physical into the unseen world of the dead.

Read this wonderful, sacred ritual for communicating with your loved ones on the other side as the veil tonight (Halloween) drops. Blessed be.

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Excerpt from my ebook, How to Talk With Spirits: Seances, Mediums, Ghost Hunts. Available Amazon and Smashwords, Barnes and Noble. 2017 paperback edition will be available.
How to Talk With Spirits: Séances, Mediums, Ghost Hunts
June Ahern