From: To: Subject: [IGHS] Newsletter, January 18, 2004 Globe, Arizona Date: Sunday, January 18, 2004 9:35 AM ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Remove Link To Unsubscribe from Newsletter: Click on Reply To or send email to ighs-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com for an automatic removal from this newsletter. Mission Statement: The Ghostweb is the official Web Site of the International Ghost Hunters Society. Membership in the IGHS is always FREE. The IGHS is dedicated and committed to the research, documentation, education, and investigation of ghostly phenomena recorded through EVP, digital, film and video photography. The IGHS is a society of ghost believers, ghost hunters, and ghost researchers with over 14,000 members in 87 countries worldwide. Travel Along with Dave & Sharon: Join us as we end our third year of RV traveling as we explore America's Most Haunted Sites. We had a dream and now we are living that dream of traveling across this great land in our little house on wheels with our Welsh Pembroke Corgi dog named BooBoo. We are currently investigating haunted sites in Arizona. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ International Ghost Hunters Society Newsletter January 16, 2004 from Globe, Arizona Dr. Dave’s Notes: Listen to us on this coming Friday night as we join Brad Steiger and Jeff Rense to talk about dust orbs and how misunderstood is the Orb Phenomena that has confused so many people. We will probably be on from 7 to 8 PM PST. More info on the Brad Steiger program can be found at www.rense.com. We are preparing for our 2004 Annual Ghost Conference this year that will be held in San Antonio, Texas in June and will focus on the Alamo and the Old Spanish Missions, with the Alamo being one of these old Spanish Missions. In previous years, we have held it at Gettysburg, PA, but starting from this year forward, we will be holding our conferences not in Gettysburg, but at other haunted historical sites. The film, Alamo, will be released in the coming months and will portray the heroic battle that took place. While history has recorded 183 men died in the Alamo, recent documents have surfaced that suggest that the number of men fighting at the Alamo was closer to 250. Why would this battle site be haunted? The bodies of those killed at the Alamo were burned like cords of wood, and so many of the spirits probably cried out for recognition, as in a tomb stone that marked their mortal remains. Many of the defenders would have unfinished business or unresolved issues that might anchor them to the area. So many of the historical sites are haunted, and the spirits voices will yet speak from beyond the grave. We have found, for example, the ghost town near Congress, Arizona that at one old stone cabin, we got over 30 different voices within a fifteen minute period. This is more voices then we ever recorded in Gettysburg during the six years we held conferences there. Our objective is to find new sites to hold our seminars and conferences, places that many ghost hunters may have ignored in the past. Our seminar in Albuquerque next month will reveal new sites not previously investigated by ghost hunters. The photo on the seminar page at http://www.ghostweb.com/oldtown.html clearly shows ectoplasm captured during the day at one of the haunted restaurants in Albuquerque. When you register with us, we will send the hotel information and the shuttle service available from the Airport. We have hotels and B&B" "s within walking distance to the Old Town Plaza. There is limited seating available for this event as we are limiting the size so we can have more time with each person attending. We are staying on the San Carlos Indian Reservation and have gotten some good stories about the ghosts that haunt the Apache Land. We are enjoying fresh, clean air and an opportunity to learn more about the people who live in and around this area. Digital cameras are as good as film cameras and in many instances better. The digital will capture any anomaly near its lens. This list includes dust, pollen, rain, snow, fog, ice crystals, bugs of all kinds. New beginners should experiment with shooting nothing but airborne dust particles so they can see what dust looks like on their camera. My Sony Cyber Shot shows airborne dust particles as diamond shaped anomalies while Sharon’s Sony Cybershot shows the dust particles as a six-sided anomaly. A common mistake made by beginners is associating a paranormal event with the dust orbs they capture with their digital camera. Paranormal events and happenings can occur without any digital photos of orbs. No EVP recordings are done so we have no idea if voices would have been detected, but people want to believe that dust orbs are the evidence of their loved ones who have returned. While this is their desire, the proof is not in the dust orbs. Yes, dust orbs do resemble spirit orbs, but only in shape, but not in composition, texture, or density. The size of the orb is determined from how far it is away from the camera lens, not by the comparing it against the size of objects within the two-dimensional photograph. The closer the object, the more washed out will be its appearance as the flash will wash out all details. This washed out orb is not what I refer to as being solid looking for a spirit orb. Remember, when we coined the term “orb” in 1996, it was as a description of the shape of an anomaly. It was never to represent a spirit entity. The size of an orb is dependent on the distance from the lens. Photographs are two-dimensional, so size and distance is not available, unless the anomaly is behind something else and whose distance can be measured from the camera. The next time you think you have a three foot orb, remember it was very close to the camera lens. A home can be experiencing paranormal activity and have dust orbs captured in photos taken with a digital camera; the two events are independent of each other, not related. A spirit, who may haunt a home, may never show up in a photograph as ecto or as a spiritual orb. However, the spirit may display itself as a ball of light moving extremely fast or through the recording of EVP, you may record the spirit’s voice. The simple fact that a digital or film camera captures multiple orbs is not proof of said spirit. I have personally observed balls of light flashing by me for a number of years and these balls of light if captured in flight, show up as a single orb. I have captured the Ghost Orbs of Gettysburg on video and they resemble the Ghost Orbs captured on video by William Fink of the Louisiana Ghost Hunters Society. Ghost orbs do exist and are photographable. Too many ghost hunters are assuming that all orbs are automatically ghost orbs. This is not logically nor scientific. Natural environmental orbs are common, such as dust particles, grass and tree pollen, ice crystals, water or moisture droplets. Always evaluate your photos using common sense and realize that dust orbs are all around us, all the time. Ghost hunters should consider policing their own photos, reject questionable photos, and post those photos they cannot explain. Most of these ghost hunters have never experimented with photographing only airborne dust particles for a comparison. These investigators also do not use a million candlepower spotlight to confirm the existence of airborne dust particles before taking their night photos. If they had used this kind of spotlight, they would have observed the hundreds of airborne particles in the beam of light and avoided using their digital cameras One woman was very strong about dust orbs; she claimed her home was free of these nasty airborne dust particles. I responded and suggested that if she had to dust her furniture then the airborne dust particles had already settled on the furniture. We tend to forget that all homes need dusting as dust does accumulated on our furniture. If you seriously doubt that your home has dust particles, examine your television screen and realize that each of those particles attached to the screen were at one time floating in the air of your home. Common sense is still the most important tool for the ghost hunter. An open mind is the next important tool. A closed mind will find nothing of value as why would any self-respecting ghost want to take time to open a closed mind. It is not worth it. They would rather try to communicate with someone with an open mind. We encourage the use of science over religion to explore the ghost realm. Religion is narrow and not self-adjusting as science when faced with new evidence. Science avoids superstitions and seeks to understand what is happening. Today we understand more about parallel dimensions and perhaps the ghost dimension because science now understands the subatomic realm is different from Newton physics. When we come to understand the quantum weirdness, we come to understand about magic and miracles. Both magic and miracles are based on applications of quantum mechanics. Happy trails. Dr. Sharon Gill: Dave and I recently paid a visit to an old cemetery in Mesilla, New Mexico. We had our digital recorders with us to record for EVP. The cemetery was one of those that left us in awe. Loved ones as represented by the flowers and decorations from Christmas that covered almost every grave remember those buried. We saw a lot of damage to some of the more prominent, ornate headstones. It always saddens us to see such needless destruction. Once in a while, Dave and I will play music when in an area. We have done that many times in Gettysburg while investigating on the battlefields. We've been doing this for some time now and most often get spirit activity, responding to the music. I'll never forget one night, just before the Park closed in Gettysburg, when we were driving the back road into Spangler's Spring. We had Civil War music playing on the CD player as we stopped along the road to record and take photos. The night was pitch black out and with the dense growth of trees lining the roadway it felt pretty spooky. With my recorder out the open window, the music suddenly went into voices of men loudly saying, “Fire, fire, fire. ” and I remember thinking that if anything were to happen, it would have been during that time. I also remember it startling me so bad that I slunk down in the car seat just waiting for the flash of cannon fire. We laughed afterward about it but got nothing on the recorders that night. A long time member of the IGHS, Alice Whitehill, plays the mountain dulcimer while out in the battlefields and has had tremendous success with her music and the reaction she gets from the spirits present. Her experiences have recently been documented in her new book, In Tune With Spirits. Alice and her Mother, Marjorie Burgess have led the way in using music during investigations and have shown that it does draw the spirits to the source of the music. A few years ago at one of our conferences, two of our members tried singing while out in the battlefields. The lady started singing, Amazing Grace while her companion was videotaping. Suddenly, on the audio portion of the videotape, bagpipes could clearly be heard playing Amazing Grace along with the singing. We had heard of people hearing bagpipes out in the battlefield, but had not experienced the phenomena ourselves. It was chilling to hear the music play as the woman sang. It was exciting to hear what was taking place. Music is something understood by everyone, though the words at times may be foreign to us, the music itself can draw us to it. Just as Alice, playing her dulcimer at the conference drew my full attention, it seems to draw the attention of those who have gone before us as well. As Dave steered the car into the cemetery in Mesilla the other day, the music from a new CD of Native American Flute music played softly on the CD player. We will turn the music off if we are recording from the car in areas, but this day, I told him I thought we should let the music play for a while, before turning it off. He stopped in one area of the cemetery to take a few photos, while the music played. We then continued to the back of the cemetery, recording in different areas, taking photos in others. The music played as we left the cemetery to head back to the RV. It was late afternoon, the sun was starting to set and the evening air was chilly. The air was still and the only sounds to be heard were those of doves, nesting in the trees nearby. We drove to our next site to record and as Dave stopped the car and turned off the ignition, he only turned the key to the mid position and as the CD cycled the next flute song, it played loud and clear. Dave immediately turned the key to the off position as we were already recording. Later when he listened to the recording, clearly, a male voice came through the recording that simply said, 'More.' It was clear to us that the music playing was enjoyed by someone in the cemetery who wanted us to let the music continue to play. How wonderful it would be to have the ability to hear the voices as they speak so that we could oblige those who are trying to communicate with us at that time. We got more voices in the cemetery, but the one that came through the clearest was the spirit voice asking us to play more of that beautiful flute music. Ghosts of Old Town Plaza Seminar: Join Dave & Sharon on February 14, 2004 for a ghost seminar in beautiful, sunny Albuquerque, New Mexico. We love New Mexico and what better weekend for a special get away then at Old Town Plaza, known as the City of the Dead because there is an unwritten saga that suggests that the dead were buried in the floors and walls of the adobe homes within this community. We will devote the afternoon to hands on investigations of various haunts in Old Town. This is not one of those stuffy, stand offish type seminars, but one where you roll up your sleeves and apply what you’re learning, side by side with Dave & Sharon. Check out our seminar page at http://www.ghostweb.com/oldtown.html. All events are within walking distance of your hotel. We limit the size of the seminar group to allow more time for personal instructions on a one to one basis. Digital Ghost Photography Handbook: Confused about orbs? What are dust orbs and how do they relate to real ghost orbs? Read our 20 page thermal bound book or download the PDF book and discover how digital photography is the wave of the future. We have been using digital since 1994 and we share with the reader, which are the best digital cameras on the market today. We also share what to look for when purchasing a digital camera and provide some protocols to avoid falling into the dust orb trap. Check it out at http://www.ghostweb.com/booklet2.html. How to Record and Analyze Ghost Voices: Susan Olson of Riverside, California writes, "I LOVE your new EVP booklet! For a long time now, I have experimented with digital recording to no avail. The information in your booklet helped me to get better recordings without background static! Thanks so much and keep up the good work!" Our book, How to Record and Analyze Ghost Voices is the best definitive publication on this subject and we have shipped this book around the world. This twenty-one page book will provide step by step detailed instructions on how to use our secret techniques for successful recording and analyzing of ghostly voices. This new thermal bound book is an easy to read size of 8.5x11 inch bound with a clear plastic cover and a white plastic back cover. The book is USD$10 plus Priority Mail shipping of $4 for a total of USD$14. We will ship this book to Canada by International Air Mail and to Europe by International Ground Mail for the same price. The book can also be downloaded as a PDF file for $10. Upon payment of the $10, we will send an email with the address and password to download the file. The download saves time and saves the postage for shipping the book. Traditional techniques for recording ghost voices are outdated and far less successful. Sharon and I have an accumulated 28 years of experience in ghost research and in evaluating ghost tools for field investigations. Along the way, we have discovered many hidden techniques that enable us to be tremendously successful in recording the voices of the dead. No special equipment is required as all equipment that we recommend is off-of-the-shelf products purchased at any Radio Shack store. Our new book will disclose our time tested techniques in a step by step procedure that is easy to understand and to apply. The book, available via PayPal or through our Online Secure Order Form, will become a resourceful guide to understanding how to perform the investigation and how to operate the software for evaluating the ghostly voices. Check out the book at http://www.ghostweb.com/booklet.html. We ship via Priority Mail through the Post Office, not the slow boat to China known as Media Mail that takes several weeks to arrive at an address. CD Version Home Study Courses: We offer two CD versions, one with the Home Study Course in PDF format that can be read by any hardware or software with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, version 4 or higher. This option is for those using the Mac Operating system or PC computer with an operating system that is not Windows based. We also offer the second version on the CD as the HTM version for PC computers using Wins95, Wins98, WindowsMe, and WindowsXP. The added features of this CD version, includes color photographs of spiritual orbs, spirit energy ectoplasm, a full body apparition and samples of ordinary airborne dust particles we call dust orbs that fool so many people. The separate Photo Analysis CD is now a part of the CD version. In addition, a printed copy can be made from CD, as in the printed version. We have also added ghostly EVP voices captured by us during our travels, such as the Confederate rebel commenting about the 20th Maine boys at Little Round Top or the Peyton Place Gossip found in a 1753 Cemetery about Mary is a Peach. Listen to an old miner recorded at a mining camp in Nevada or the ghostly morbid whine of a ghost dog, perhaps standing over the body of his murdered master captured in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon where a 1900s rancher and his family was murdered. The CD version is “HTM” based, this is not a “PDF” version, but a true “HTM” version that opens and functions as a web page. We have updated the material and even included a message from Dr. Dave Oester. Buyers from around the world have purchased the new CD version. We pay the shipping charges for Priority Mail in the USA, International Air Mail to Canada and for ten dollars more, we ship it by Global Priority Mail to Europe and Asia. More information is available at http://www.ghostweb.com/cgh.html. IGHS Printed Home Study Courses Since 1998: We offer the premier Home Study Course program on the Internet. We offer the best and most comprehensive ghost hunting and paranormal curriculum available. We have trained more students in this field than any other paranormal organization. We set the standards and the protocols for field investigations that followed by the ghost hunting community. We offer the premier Home Study Course, sharing all of our experiences and knowledge gained over the last dozen years. Read more about our premier Home Study Course Program at http://www.ghostweb.com/mainhsc.html. Fulfill your dreams: Magic Dimensions We all have dreams that we wished that could be our reality, but we do not know how to make that wish come true for us. In our book, we teach about the magic of having your dreams fulfilled. We show the reader how to open a doorway for a new reality where your dream will come true. Many claim this process is a miracle, but Quantum Mechanics teaches us that our miracles are simply an application of this weird science. Out book can show you how to create that miracle! We share with the reader the magical techniques that create the miracle we seek after in life. Magic Dimensions may be one of the most important books that will change people’s lives. Visit our web site at http://www.ghostweb.com/magic1.html for more info on ordering the book. The ISBN number is 0-595-22032-0 and can be ordered from any bookstore or online at major dot.com bookstores. The online e-book can be downloaded immediately. IGHS T-shirts Available: We are pleased to announce that we have our new IGHS light blue 50/50 screen printed T-shirts available. The two sided printing has a large full size on the back and a smaller size image on the front, over the left pocket area. Limited sizes are available ranging from XL to 2XL. Check them out at http://www.ghostweb.com/tshirt1.html. Life Time IGHS Member Certificate: Instead of renewing every year, IGHS members can now purchase a Life Time Membership for $60 or a Life Time Membership and Life Time Clip ID Badge for $75. This is available through PayPal and through our online Secure Order Form. IGHS ID Badges for Investigations: We have received many requests for some kind of Identification Badge to wear while conducting field investigations. We have created a laminated ID Badge with a metal clip that snaps onto your shirt or other piece of clothing. It says that you are a Registered Ghost Hunter/Paranormal Investigator in good standing with the International Ghost Hunters Society and it has our signatures and web address. Order the ID Badge at http://www.ghostweb.com/id_badge.html. Password Memberships: We offer a special membership in our Ghostweb Ghost Galleries. Due to the size of these ghost galleries, we have to limit the number of people because of the bandwidth consumed by downloading the photos, spirit voices, and ghost videos in this area. If you want to view over 9,000 ghost photos, EVPs, and videos, check out our membership program at http://www.ghostweb.com/pass.html. IGHS Membership Certificates: The IGHS offers a beautiful Membership Certificate, along with a handsome laminated business card. The membership certificate is valid for one year Check it out at http://www.ghostweb.com/memcert.html for more information. We will soon be discontinuing the laminated business card due to the difficulties of obtaining the laminating material for the card. Kind regards, Dave, Sharon & BooBoo International Ghost Hunters Society Copyrighted 2004 by Dr. Dave Oester All Rights Reserved. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our next book is spooky! American Hauntings Investigated, due out in Spring 2004 Old Town Plaza Ghost Seminar -- Valentine Day, 2004 http://www.ghostweb.com/oldtown.html Dave Oester, Ph.D., DD. Sharon Gill, Ph.D., International Ghost Hunters Society Web URL: http://www.ghostweb.com Email: MagicDimensions@aol.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~