Kurt Logsdon AN INTERVIEW

Hello Mark sorry to get back to you so late. I have had an interest in the paranormal since I was a teen. All aspects of it everything from ghosts,UFOs,and a bit of cryptozoology. My approach to investigating is done in a skeptical manner but still keep an open mind. I know that sounds a bit cliche these days. But when things kick off in the paranormal sense it has to be looked at what can be a rational explanation. I find groups these days go into an investigation looking for ghosts and other phenomenon I go into it trying to debunk the issue first. This I tend to blame on television shows and other media. Instead of using the word paranormal I like to call it unexplained. Being the on a English team out of Liverpool aand being an Anerican I find to be interesting since I take on there version of investigation. I do feel that groups need to share there findings not on fb but in other ways. For example should I catch an Evp I'll send it to my team and other teams to get there take . Growth is key in the paranormal world is needed I also feel there are no experts or we would already have the answers . Cheers Kurt

Angelo Faith-AN INTERVIEW

WOULD YOU D O A INTERVIEW FOR ME ,THANKS yes hi ya OK -WHAT INSPIRED YOU?WHAT PLANS DO YOU HAVE FOR THE FUTURE?WHAT ARE YOUR AIMS?-HOBBIES,WORK SELF YOU CHOOSE -MARAINES8GMAIL.COM-HI BACK What inspired me? as a small child, Vincent Van Gough, iboth of us are autistic and i identified with him ():-) FUTURE: to have Game of Secrets a success and to promote Hell Inc Nation, it like facebook. Next ():-) ANY THINK ELSE LIKE A BIT OF YOUR ART FORM Sure. Have had critical success as musician and song writer (dont care about money) not performing at the moment. Really i am happiest when creating things. enjoying Facebook as a wider canvass ():-) ANY EXAMPLES OF YOUR SONGS ? sure: youtube: Savant The Spirit Video, but its a secret lol . wrote it a while back WOULD IT BE OK TO USE FOR BLOG OR NOT of course, any interest is welcome. i did radio and TV here in the UK but nothing ever came of it, but it was nice to be asked ():-) OK MY FRIEND WILL PUT THIS CONVERSATION ON MY BLOG NOW ,BE BACK IN A MO-ok ():-)-https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004197795170-https://www.facebook.com/HellIncNation?fref=ts

Richard Knight Sole Proprietor at Dr. Knight Inc.-an interview

Greetings, Okay my inspiration is that of being a light worker and energy healer since birth. I was born with 14 senses and have always used the same in order to help others. I am presently putting together a paranormal conference in September this year at Dragon Hills in north Georgia. This will be an open forum with many speakers, a panel for questions and answers, booths for advertising group affiliates, sponsors or silent business partners, and lots of advertising in lots of different means of media. Then we shall have another conference for the west coast in Arizona. The long range plans are numerous, a school to teach paranormal investigators how to provide spiritual solutions to those in crisis all over the world. Then after the two years of study they shall be selected as members of a very elite team of investigators to travel the world with me as the lead. Then even a bit farther down the road is the creation of a community drop in center to give healings, teachings, spiritual books and supplies, statuary, jewelry, blessed candles, and magical instruction. In addition to this will be a medium sized bed and breakfast with about ten bedrooms and baths with kitchen and all for those who come long distance to receive treatments, counseling, healing, or to attend the school even. I hope this answer most of your questions if there is anything else you would like to know feel free to ask. All services are provided on a donation basis. I have a very long list of titles and credentials including ordinations, attunements, degrees, over forty years of experience etc etc. Blessings, Richard

Pamela Marcom a interview

I work for a large hospital in Sacramento CA My hobbies are cooking, sewjng, crochet but most of a paranormal investigation. I am currently part of the USS Hornet crew working on the paranormal tours of the ship. I am currently taking a Tarot Class and I am working with two close friends and mediums who are helping me to expand abilities I had but lost as a child. I started about 3 years ago when a coworker invited me to Virginia City NV for a weekend investigation. By the weekend I was hooked. We started Pacific Coast Spirit Watch and the rest is history. We have 11 team members who range in age from late 20s to mid 60s. My aim and goals are to continue to investigate. Learn as much as I can and in the end try to help as I can. Initially I wanted to learn if there is truly another side. I have lost both parents and wanted to proof that this isn't all there is. Our team has been extremely fortunate to have been granted permission to investigate many location, some which had never been done before. The Argonaut Mine, California Auto Museum, California Aero Space Museum, Gibson Ranch, several cemeteries and many other locations. We recently returned from Dunsmir and Castella CA. We investigated the Stone Cottage Inn, the California Theatre and the Castle Rock Inn and Café (a former bordello). Over the course of the year's we have captured many evps, video and personal paranormal experiences. Ghost Adventures used a clip of evidence we obtained on the USS Hornet in the Ghost Adventures Aftershock episode airing on May 31, 2014. We have secured many new locations and 2015 may be our best year yet. My plan for the group's future is to continue to investigate, learn as much as I can during that process and share it with our group. I look forward to continuing my journey, working with the team, meeting many new people and visiting new locations-our web site is www.pacificcoastspiritwatch.net

Lykquydyzer-ben kortekaa-a interview

What inspired you? My main influences Pop Will Eat Itself, Orbital, The Chemical Brothers, Hallucinogen. I remember seeing Orbital live in their early days and thought wow I want to do that. I've been playing drums in bands since I was 16 and played gigs all over the place. I was also quite a well known DJ playing pubs and clubs in Blackburn and Leeds and also a few illegal parties. My inspiration comes from many places but a lot of it comes down to how I'm feeling when composing. What are your aims? My main aim is to play live, I love the thrill you get when you see people enjoying and dancing to your music. If the sale of the CD goes well then a limited edition vinyl Ep will be in the offing. What plans do you have for the future? I have 2 festival appearances coming up this year and hopefully more be forthcoming. Playing live will be the the major plan with merchandise being produced ive already designed the t shirt so its all go.

David j pollard interviewed by mark antony raines aka ghostman

Hi Mark

What inspired me - to be honest I cannot remember not being interested in animals/wildlife. It is more like who inspired me ? - four people:- Desmond Morris, Johnny Morris, Gerald Durrell and Sir David Attenborough (Zoo quests etc) and as I grew up I added Alfred Russell Wallace to that list.

I remember had a 'Why and Wonder' book of reptiles that had a picture of a gaboon viper and a gila monster on the front and to this day these are two species that makes me tingle.

As I said I am a lifelong naturalist and interested in wildlife and habitats in UK and all over world. I am now lucky enough to pursue it as a career. When I was 18 mum told me to get a proper job ! so I went to work for the Health Service then Social Service and finally Probation Service - all the time taking time off to carry out surveys. Then in 1998 it all changed I left work went back to college and the rest as they say is history.

As a professional ecologist I have worked for small companies and large multidisciplinary organisations I now work for myself I am a part time lecturer in Ecology/Survey Techniques ID etc at a local college and also carry out professional ecological services - I also carry out my own research into adders and amphibians.

My professional aim is to provide pragmatic ecological advice, my personal aims is to carry on learning about the natural world every day I learn something new (Today I found out from field researchers at Fauna and Flora International that mountain gorillas 'sing' when they are happy ! love it)

The Future: I will keep watching wildlife both in the UK and abroad, one day I would like to write a scientific paper about adders or amphibians

In 2011 we went to Uganda on a family holiday and whilst we were there in Eastern Uganda I found a frog that had never been recorded in Uganda (West African Rubber Frog Phrynomantis microps) It has only been recorded twice in East Africa my record photo etc and a written account from Ethiopia. We are hoping to return next year for further exploration of the amphibians you never know what I might find - I personally think it is an area where little or no study has taken place so it is most likely under recording of species rather than new species but !!!

Like most naturalists I would love to find a new species - and I think that is what keeps us all looking !

I am fascinated by a mystery and that is why cryptozoology interests me

I hope this is what  you are looking for

My very best regards

David

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Daniel Bautz-Talk Show Host Grand Dark Conspiracy-interviewd by mark antony raines aka ghostmanraines

I was inspired by personal experiences to explore the paranormal. I had my own ideas about what was going on, but also saw that there were many different thought and theories about the ghost phenomena. So, my impetus to start my radio show/podcast was to have an opportunity to talk to people who share similar experiences and what they thought about what had happened seeing if their ideas were more plausible to me than my own initial thoughts. Long answer, but to sum up, like most people that inspiration to explore the unknown was first having my own paranormal experiences. My aims are to show that people who believe in the paranormal aren't all kooks,

EVIL BEAVER

What inspired you? 1) Other artists who make amazing work inspire me.

What are your aims? 2) Would like to continue to write good songs and release quality music.

What  plans do you have for the future? 3) we are tour for the first half of the year in the u.s.a and in Europe the second half.

Darla Watkins- INTERVIEWED BY MARK ANTONY RAINES AKA GHOSTMAN

As a paranormal investigator I have traveled to Florida, Tennessee, New York, Kentucky and have set-up investigations as well as been lead investigator on numerous private & commercial paranormal research jaunts.i am on FB and have a few notes that i have written based on some personal research, articles i have read and my views of the paranormal as a whole -- also have a youtube channel with evp's --BarbDarla-- Is this what u had in mind? My childhood home was also home to the builder of the 1800’s; he was a presence in my life & growing up that was just an accepted part of life. There were times the spirit was more predominant than others but remained a silent part of our physical world. I have investigated and researched the paranormal in New York, Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida and Georgia; this also includes numerous undisclosed residential investigations. I concentrate on helping the individual understand what is happening in their home and try to help them with their questions and concerns.HAVE THEY CHOSEN TO REMAIN IN A DARKENED PHYSICAL REALM 
May 11, 2013 at 10:19pm 
Be cautious of the level 4 spirits who contact & chat; they may be wanting your sensitivity as a possession of their own – thinking they feel the existence of physical life again; not accepting of their own death or having to examine & see their own physical life before them as they relive the misery, hurt and pain they caused from selfish acts of greed or jealousy against another. 

Ask questions directly; speak to those of the light who seek their guides to find their way; those who want to evolve & move on to another higher plane of existence – they have achieved their purpose of remaining earthbound but have lost their way or they have lost contact with their spirit guide & now reside in the darkness. 
.. spirits/ghosts who still possess the human qualities of anger, greed, jealousy & material possessions will not speak directly about spirit guides or the light that they should seek … giving evasive, nonsensical answers that are irrelevant to the question as they choose to remain in the darkened physical world draining unsuspecting living beings of their energy, sensitivities and causing mischief & meaningless anger, frustration & chaos in day to day living hiding underneath the mask of communication from the spiritual realm; hunting & using an unsuspecting paranormal investigator or researcher’s eagerness to have evidence of the afterlife. 

Do we ghost hunt or do the ghost hunt us? 
Darla 

LORI BOGEDIN - INFO PLUS INTTERVIEW BY MARK ANTONY RAINES AKA GHOSTMANRAINES

Representative Independent Distributor loribogedin@youngliving.org www.madepurecure.com www.youngliving.org/loribogedin Owner/Operator Twigs Restaurant October 1999 – Present (15 years 4 months) Owner Twigs Restaurant November 1999 – Present (15 years 3 months)Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania Our Mission at Twigs Cafe is to, "Offer outstanding food expertly served in a relaxed, casual and friendly atmosphere." Lori and Jerry Bogedin Executive Chef Ryan Ganesko, along with Sous-Chef Ca and our outstanding kitchen staff uses only the freshest market ingredients. Incorporating the finest foods from around the globe. Administrative Manager Jennifer Higgins Bogedin makes sure that our great friendly service never fails to serve. As active members of the Tunkhannock community, Twigs enjoys participating in many area projects. Twigs believes that it is just a matter of getting up and getting involved! Here at Twigs we know that getting active in your community is the best way to directly improve daily life in any neighborhood. Jerry and I are so very proud to be part of such a wonderful community. We know we have the greatest family, friends, employees and costumers ever! A Delicious Destination! A Delicious Destination! Certifications Usui System of Natural Healing Sho-Den Second Degree Usui Reiki Ryoho Minister of Divinity Universal Ministries School of Theology Publications MIRACLES HAPPEN The Transformational Healing Power of Past Life Memories(Link) Brian L. Weiss and Amy E. Weiss ~ HarperOne October 2, 2012 I was chosen to offer an insightful section in Brian L. Weiss and Amy e. Weiss New York Times bestselling book "Miracles Happen". Brian Weiss is the author of Many Lives, Many Masters, Brian Weiss MD delivers a powerful revolutionary teaching on the physical, emotional and spiritual healing available to all through embracing the reality of reincarnation. Filled with incredible true stories,...more Small Town(Link) Gravel Literary Journal November 3, 2014 This magazine is produced by the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Monticello editorial staff. I offered five of my photographs that I named Small Town. Volunteer Experience & Causes Community Outreach Twigs Restaurant October 1999Social Services As active members of the Tunkhannock and surrounding communities, Twigs enjoys participating in area projects, organizations and local needs. I believe it is just a matter of getting up and getting involved! Personally and as a small business, our philosophy is that becoming actively involved in your community is the best way to directly improve daily life in any neighborhood. Opportunities Lori is looking for: Skills-based volunteering (pro bono consulting) Causes Lori cares about: Animal Welfare Economic Empowerment Environment Organizations Lori supports: http://www.truefriendsanimalwelfarecenter.com http://www.howlandpreserve.com https://www.facebook.com/truefriends.animalwelfare?fref=nf https://www.facebook.com/FriendsOfHowlandPreserve Projects Enlighten Me EXPO(Link) October 2013 – March 2014 Comprised of subjects from leading experts such as, self-awareness, mediation, cosmology, new wisdom understanding, Zen teachings, Feng Shui, dream interpretation, creative manifesting, yoga, healing energy therapies, spirituality, herbal and other dietary practices, and many other mind-body practices, NEPA's first annual Enlighten Me Expo 2014 was a huge success! 2 team members Lori Bogedin Lori Bogedin Owner/Operator Twigs Restaurant Dave Andrews Dave Andrews Author, The 30-Day Sobriety Solution®: How to Quit or Cut Back Drinking in the Privacy of Your Own Home ● Recovery Coach, the married part, the kids and grand-kids sound great, not so much the dizzy spells - yuk! Is it all the time or does it come and go? And living life as it comes is probably good advice for everyone! Me I am just a normal old country girl that owns and operates a restaurant where I live in Northeastern PA USA - About 25 years ago I had an out of body experience in which I am writing about, that changed my life - for the better. Anyway I have been fascinated with all things spiritual, metaphysical, science based and religious that might explain what happened. Over the years I have gained much insight into the experience and now want to figure out how to reproduce the event or at least the feeling of oneness that I gained from it.

MelissaGeorge-INTERVIEWED BY MARK ANTONY RAINES -AKA GHOSTMANRAINES

 To: Mark Raines Thank you. Maybe some of this will work for you, just let me know. Please give me a blog link, as I usually charge for this.Being that I am a blogger too, I didn't mind doing this for you. http://MySouthernMoon.blogspot.com I am Melissa George, a South Carolina Native. I am a freelance Web and Graphics designer by trade. However, in this past year, I have come to be an Author. I have written two books telling about my family’s journey of living with a paranormal entity along with a Bigfoot book of true encounters. My family lived with a shadow person that only had one thing in mind, and that was to destroy us. It nearly accomplished killing me and destroying our family. We found help just in time with Carolina Society for Paranormal Research and Investigations. These people not only gave us hope. They stepped up and entered this journey along side us. My family ended up joining the team and eventually becoming board members. This team branched out in the Cryptid direction. Being a Cryptid lover, my family jumped at the chance to co-found Carolina Cryptid Crew. Little did we know then we were about to become the center of media attention and have Bigfoot step right of the pages of myth and legend and into our research area. Melissa George I Believe My husband Marty and I along with our daughter in law Cari had made a couple of trips out into the woods to look around. We came across a small area that was bare of trees. The ground was mostly red dirt here, so we thought it would be a good place to look for footprints. I remember the three of us walking around this area with our heads down, being very careful where we stepped. My eyes went to something that looked like a heal print, oh my. Further up it got wider, yes, that’s where the toes would be. I am standing here looking at a very large bare footprint. All sorts of emotions flooded through me in a split second. I stepped back and looked again. It was unmistakable. It validated the tree structures and the wood knocks. It was here! Or it had walked through here! Was it watching us now? I felt the small hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I slowly looked up and peered into the darkened forest. It could very well be standing in the shadows where the sun does not penetrate. Hey guys, come here. I know they could here the emotions in my voice. They were both by my side in seconds. Looking down to see what I was looking at. OH MY GOD! Cari exclaimed. Get the ruler, Marty said. I handed him the ruler. He knelt down to measure the abnormally large footprint. Eleven inches long. It was a very strange feeling to be standing there looking down at this big footprint, knowing that the huge animal that made this had walked through here. It was just a short walk to my backdoor. I was not sure how I felt about this. I just could not fully accept what I was seeing. It was right there in my face, and I still couldn’t accept that we had a Bigfoot nearby. My mind was not wiling to accept what my eyes had just seen the three of us continued to look for more prints. We found another one the same size, then a smaller one. I still could not believe it. We took photos and videos of these footprints. But they just weren’t deep enough to cast. I would have loved to been able to make a cast of what we had just witnessed. But I guess it was not meant to be. Haunted Doll By: Melissa George

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Those look good, except for the fact that they end with "Haunted Doll."           Melissa (AKA Lisa) George Owner of Southern Moon Creations Assistant Director,Director of Media, Investigator,Carolina Society of Paranormal Research and Investigations, INC. Co-Founder of Carolina Cryptid Crew     I am Melissa George, a South Carolina Native. I am a freelance Web and Graphics designer by trade. However, in this past year, I have come to be an Author. I have written two books telling about my family’s journey of living with a paranormal entity along with a Bigfoot book of true encounters.   My family lived with a shadow person that only had one thing in mind, and that was to destroy us. It nearly accomplished killing me and destroying our family. We found help just in time with Carolina Society for Paranormal Research and Investigations. These people not only gave us hope. They stepped up and entered this journey along side us. My family ended up joining the team and eventually becoming board members. This team branched out in the Cryptid direction. Being a Cryptid lover, my family jumped at the chance to co-found Carolina Cryptid Crew. Little did we know then we were about to become the center of media attention and have Bigfoot step right of the pages of myth and legend and into our research area.   Melissa George   Haunted Doll By: Melissa George   A few years ago, back before I ever realized that I shared my home with a dark entity. I was hooked on EBay. I loved the thrill of winning the bid for the lowest amount of money possible. And I actually got some good bargains this way. Well, I had been browsing through the ads one morning and I came across this porcelain doll. She was the most beautiful doll I had ever seen. I am not a doll collector in any fashion. However, I wanted her so badly. She was simply breath taking in a green plaid dress with a ruffled petticoat showing. She had long red braids that ended with bows to match her dress.. Her eyes were the most beautiful blue. I put in my bid and waited. I upped my bid a few times through out the day, as I really wanted to win her. I knew the exact spot she would be sitting out in my son room. I went to bed that night thinking of her. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. The next morning I made mine and Marty's coffee and sat down to check my email. I had won the bid! She was going to be shipped to me today! I was so thrilled. I told Marty that morning that I had won a doll in a bid. He was a bit shocked since I was not a doll collector. I told him how beautiful she was. He said she really must be for her to make such an impression on me. I could not wait for her to arrive! Later that day I got an email from the seller. She told me that this was one of many dolls that she had bought in an estate sale and she would send me the paper work with her. She said she had a few errands to run that morning, then she would come back home to pack up the doll and she would be shipped that night. That was fine with me; I could wait an extra day. After all, she was mine now. Later that day I received a strange email from the seller. She told me she had been out running errands that day and had left the doll sitting on her desk. She said the doll had sat in the same place on her desk for the past few months. However, when she returned home that morning the doll was sitting across the room on the floor. I thought to myself, Ok, this woman is going to try to convince me that this is a haunted doll and ask for more money. She explained that she lived alone so there was no one that could have possibly moved the doll from her desk. I didn't think too much of this email, However I did wonder what her motive was for telling me this. I showed the email to Marty that evening, we both had a good laugh out of it. Just as we were laughing at this email, something crashed in the back part of the house. We were the only two home and there were no dogs in the house. We went to look but found nothing out of place. This would happen two more times that night. The doll showed up the next day by UPS. She was in a package that looked to be way to small to contain her, and as I opened the box the contents seemed to be chewed, but it was chewed up on the inside of the box, not the outside. But this was soon forgotten as I pulled my beautiful doll from her cramped box. I spent a few moments smoothing her dress and hair, and then I placed her in a seated position by my lamp on the end table in the sunroom. I crossed one tiny leg over the other. She looked so lovely there. Through out the day I would look over to admire my beautiful doll. When Marty and Chris came in from work Chris spotted her right off and told me just how creepy he thought she was. How in the world could he find such a lovely doll creepy? I looked at her again, but just could not make myself see her as anything less than beautiful. But wait a minute...hadn't I crossed her legs earlier? They were now plainly uncrossed. Maybe one of the dogs had bumped against the table causing her to shift. I walked over and readjusted her legs. Then went out to the kitchen to fix dinner. I didn't think much more about the doll that night. The next morning Chris told me he had gotten up during the night, and he had heard her porcelain legs moving around on the table. He actually forgot his drink and raced back to his room because of this. I assured him he had just creeped himself out, that the doll was harmless. However, through out the day that day I caught myself looking over at her to see if there was any movement. (Oh, stop it! I told myself. Chris is just getting to you.) However, there were a few times I thought I noticed the very slightest facial expression change on the doll.) Days and then weeks passed. Most people that would come over to visit would comment on how creepy the doll looked. I never understood what they were seeing. One day Marty was walking through the dinning room when he stopped and picked up a piece of paper. He brought it to me and said it must have come with the doll. Her paperwork! The seller had mentioned sending her paperwork, but I hadn't seen anything in the box. How did it get in my dinning room weeks later? I unfolded this small piece of paper, it turned out to be an aged newspaper clipping with a picture on it. An elderly woman had been driving down the road, when she met with a tragic accident and ran off an embankment ending her life. It showed the car with the trunk open and literally hundreds of dolls spilling from the trunk. There was my doll! She was just at the opening of the trunk looking as if she had been posed climbing out! Now that was creepy! I showed the paper to Marty, and we agreed that the doll had to go. That was just too weird. At the time, Marty and Chris were remodeling the home of a local woman. I told Chris he could give this woman the doll. However, I never mentioned the newspaper article to him. Chris took the doll to work with them the next morning, just as he went to hand the doll to the woman of the house; his leg went through the floor and was broken. It took him months to regain the use of his leg. Coincidence? Maybe. However, I no longer purchase any dolls from Ebay.   Melissa George http://MySouthernmoon.blogspot.com

Elaine Pomeransky-https://www.facebook.com/groups/339011862813132/?fref=ts

well this is just a social group so there aren't any aims or future plans. started the group a few years ago under a different title, it was initially called St. Ives Hippies, as post hippies who lived in st. ives in 1973 had a few reunions. But the site didn't really take off like my Mousehole group, so I closed it down, and then re-titled it, and it's just starting to take off. There are 'hippy' photos in the photo box amongst the other numerous photos-https://www.facebook.com/groups/339011862813132/?fref=ts

Gem quinn interviewed by mark antony raines ghostman

Gem Quinn wrote:
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What inspired you?Good production and sounds inspire me, interesting people and passionate friends who believe in working towards something you love rather than money.
What are you Aims? are to get better and better at my craft..
What plans do you have for the future? for the future are limited, as the future doesn't exist.. The immediate future, maybe, and upcoming gigs, but no big plans.
Thanks.

Vegdwk@yahoo.com -interviewed by mark antony raines aka ghostman

WHAT INSPIRED YOU?My grandfather inspired me he fought in WW1 and WW2.WHAT ARE YOUR AIMS?My aims are many and diverse, right now I would like to finish a book by Dan Brown .WHAT PLANS DO YOU HAVE FOR THE FUTURE?Plan for the future is to live a full and productive life.

David Field interviewed by mark antony raines aka ghostman

questions-what inspired you?Sights and sounds of this miraculous world!what are your aims? Apart from being happy, my aim is to play Glastonbury with my Fabulous Band - The QUIRKS. what plans do you have for the future?Make a new album with The QUIRKS and to keep on Painting and Illustrating. Cheers, Dave,Freelance Illustrator/Musician/Singer Songwriter at www.davefieldart.com

Jon bass interviewed by mark antony raines ghostman

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Hi Mark, sorry for late reply, this was in my spam folder for some reason,
doh! i appreciate your interest, my answers are as follows:
I get inspired by allsorts of things, music, films, the way people act,
art, nature, destruction, the list is endless, am trying not to sound
vague, but, it's hard to pin down to a specific answer, but, what i can do
is say recent inspirations. I lived the film 'Under The Skin', i found it
to be a beautiful work of art that dealt with, isolation, lonliness and the
human experience as viewed from an outsider, which, is what i am really, i
have had many bad experiences which have left me unable to deal with any
kind of intense intimacy, so it really hit me in that way, also loved the
fact it had very little or no music, which is what i loved about 'No
Country For Old Men', the locations in Scotland were absolutely stunning
also. this was also a year when i got to see Mogwai three times, which, is
unheard of for me, as, that's the amount of times i'd seen them since 2005.
to see them sell out the south bank was immense for an independant band
from Glasgow council estates, that was a huge inspiration, the second this
year was an intimate benefit for a dead artist, who's name i can't remember
(sorry) in Koko's, Camden, that was a treat, saw Steve Coogan there which
was odd, as, the first time i saw them, all i could do for three days after
was listen to Brian Eno and watch Alan Partridge. the third was them
headlining Simple Things Bristol festival at Colston Hall, they played when
the clocks went back, so, it was basically in a moment that didn't exist,
was the most brutal i've seen  them since the first time in 2005. all three
completely different gigs, with different sets, by the same band in the
same year, very inspiring. the fact they walked on to Waiting For A Girl
Like You by Foreigner and it made sense was so surreal. i've also been
inspired by a new artist friend i've met called 'Lucy Purrington'. she's
also a burlesque dancer with some friends band called Johnny Cage & The
Voodoo Groove. her art, i can't really describe it, but, it seems so raw
and honest, it's quite fascinating really!
    My plans for the future, well, the Honey Bane project i've been
involved with has been plagued with constant problems and hold ups, which,
is very frustrating, she's a singer from the DIY Crass records days and old
skool punk/artist. the new album is great, but, the label fell through, the
promoter/manager left, so, sadly, it still hasn't got off the ground, but,
next year it hopefully will. i've now started my own thing again, which, is
difficult, as, where i live in Cardiff, it's a very small scene with too
many players, who are all too busy to do anything else, which leaves me
with the following way to do it, the drummer from the Honey Bane project,
who lives in Basingstoke, meets me in Brighton (Studio 284, as, it's my old
mate from 2000DS that runs it) every 8 to 10 weeks, i show him ideas the
day before, then, we pick the easiest to record the next day, i play guitar
and bass on it. obviously, it's going to take a while to get all the songs
ready at that rate, but, i'm hoping that, once it's done, it will be able
to help me find other musicians. i guess another problem, is the fact that,
people ask me what sort of music it is? as i never sit down and think 'oh,
i'm gonna write a song in bla style', i just play what comes out naturally,
so, they all sound kind of different, which, always sounds shit when i say
it, so, the completed recording will help immensley. I also feel it's the
best stuff i've ever done, so, it is a very positive thing for me if i do
it right. One thing i am worried about is, i've had to take a break from
gigging etc, as, i developed very bad tinnitus, which, is currently
stopping me sleeping. i went to audiology department, they said my ears
were clear, so, it's definately permanent damage, i've ordered expensive
custom earplugs to stop it getting any worse, i also need to find a good
doctor, as, my current one is awful and has caused me many problems. I'm
also hoping to do the DSAD band with the remaining member 'DS Paul'. 2000DS
was an underground band with a big following that ran from 1988-2001,
mostly on the now defunct free festival and squat scene in europe. i played
for them 10 years off and on, we were about to get back together when,
tragically, the singer 'DS Gary, Cath, the mother of his first daughter,
and his second daughter Caisie' were all killed in a car crash in Jamaica.
his first daughter Josie was critical, but, survived, his son Gwyn was ok,
it was such an awful thing, this happened in 2011, his brother and drummer
DS Paul has always been keen to do a DSAD thing as a tribute, but, he's got
three kids and had had hell of a lot of adjusting to do, we jam sometimes,
hopefully we can do that more next year. it's just timing i guess. i
sometimes wish i had four arms so i could play both guitar and bass at the
same time, ha ha, would half my music problems immediatley!
thanks so much for getting in touch with me, i'm sorry if these answers
aren't in depth enough, but, i've answered them in the most honest way
possible without 'going on' too much
have a good one and a happy new year ok
onwards and upwards
Jon_the_Bass

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Eric Dionne interviewed by mark antony raines aka ghostmanraines

Ok so the questions you sent over here you go. What Inspired/Inspires me? What inspired me to get into the field of study that I do was my grandmother, she was born in Manahawkins NJ, and used to tell me stories when i was 6/7 about the New Jersey Devil and how it would come down from the sky and get me if i didn't start listening to her, well at that time we all lived in North Carolina and as a young boy, you can imagine the look of fright on my face when hearing theses tales, so I decided to start looking up things on the NJ Devil at the public library. From there it bled over into things such as Mythology, Greek Mythology, Indian Folk Lore, Native American History, Monsters, Tall Tales, and eventually into the Paranormal. As of lately my main focus has gone back to my roots of Cryptozoology. That is my passion and as I always tell people, "Things That Are Hidden Are Meant To Be Discovered..." . What are my aims? My aim is to bring the focus of Cryptozoology and The Paranormal field back to a positive light, i'm really tired of the false light and negative focus that both fields have gained over the past 10 years now, Part of this blame i put on the media, I mean don't get me wrong, theses TV shows and Reality "Said with Air Quotes" shows are great for an entertainment point of view, but the networks need to label them as such, They are for Entertainment. I've fallen to the same promises from production, and been behind the scenes of many of theses shows, and I get it, Unsuspecting team gets approached with a chance to do a TV show, a chance to be the Next GHOST HUNTERS ooh OOOOO lol, " then they sign their lives away, and guess what they have no say, it's all in the court of production teams and directors and better yet the NETWORK, and well the networks just care about the ratings" I could go on and on and on about this stuff, but that would take up way to much time. Simply put and as I tell people at my lectures, The biggest secret about Reality TV is, that it's Not Reality at all. I've done and been apart of shows on SyFy Channel, Sky Atlantic in the UK, The History Channel, Discovery Channel, HBO, FOX, the CW and more, and some of the shows i'm on film and others i'm in the background or consulting, I do a lot of consulting for theses Monster shows that are out there now a days, but off my rant and back to the question, my aim is to show people that theses fields aren't a pseudo science field and that there are some really fantastic people in the field that mean it well, and aren't out for a quick buck, or to just get 15 mins of fame on a TV show. What are my plans for the future? My plans for the future are all over the place lol, in all honesty I want to focus more on my Cryptozoology research, I'm currently working on 2 crypto books, as well as a book about the True Accounts of my story that was shown on SyFy's Haunted Collector, biggest problem i'm facing with the book writing is actually having the time to sit down and write, I've even considered looking for some one I can tell the story to and have them co-write the book with me, in order to just get it done and out there. Besides that I'm still doing some acting stuff here and there, I just finished up the season at the Nightmare Factory in NC, playing their newest character named "Botch" who runs the Chamber, and been working on some other little side shows you could say. In 2015 I'm hoping to finally sit down and put together a strong team for my ICE (International Cryptozoology Establishment) group which is separate from SEPIA and hope to start doing some expeditions, If i can do things that right way and get the money earned and saved I want to plan some expeditions around the world at some kin locations. I hope that answers the questions you sent over to me, and if you have any more questions or would like me to go into more detail on anything i've said feel free to shoot them my way, sometimes writing things out i don't get all the details i'd like out there lol, sorry it took so long getting back to you, it was a hectic week over here. Eric J. Dionne

Geralyn St Joseph-interviewed by mark antony raines aka ghostman

Aloha! Here is my interview piece. You and many people ask what inspired me and I have to say I am inspired every day. I was and still am inspired by Spirit. After all, isn’t that what inspiration is? To be filled and called to action by God. My Faith is an important motivator for me. By Faith I am not referring to religion, I am talking about true faith – complete trust and confidence in Spirit. Along with that, I am inspired by my child and my parents. I have always been a bit different – more sensitive, more aware. I have always known and had a close relationship with my guardian and guide Gabreal.When I was 10 I decided that I wanted to be a priest. However, being Catholic and a girl, that was not an option. In 1994, when I was in my mid-twenties, I dealt with my first possession and began my journey clearing people and spaces by transmuting negativity and helping souls [ghosts] ascend. I feel it is my vocation to help others using the gifts God has given me. It is my goal to help as many people as I can to live a Joy filled life. I do this through my psychic readings, energy healings, coaching, inspirational talks, classes and books. It is our nature to be happy. We simply need to discover how to live our lives in such a way as to see the beauty of every day. I have recently released two new books: Discover Your Whole Self - Step by Step Guide to Healing Your Self Through the Chakra Energy System: Experience Life at 100%! (Self-Empowerment Series) http://www.amazon.com/Discover-Your-Whole-Self-Self-Empowerment-ebook/dp/B00QFJHM7Y/ Completing the Circle - Path to Self-Empowerment (Self -Empowerment Book 2) http://www.amazon.com/Completing-Circle-Path-Self-Empowerment--mpowerment-ebook/dp/B00QFMN8ZQ And there are many more coming! Let me know if you need anything else. Send me a link when it's up and I will post it. Blessings! Geralyn St. Joseph 808 261-7866 text or talk Check out my Author Page on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Geralyn-St-Joseph/e/B00938QGGM 50 Ways YOU Can change the World; Small Steps for Making the World a Better Place www.VoiceofSpirit.com www.GabrielsTrumpet.net www.SpiritualParents.com www.WholisticUniversity.org www.PsychicinHawaii.com www.HealersinHawaii.com

Dennis Claveau interviewed by mark antony raines aka ghostman

Dennis Claveau wrote:
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Questions what inspired you?

I would have to say that my experiences with the paranormal had inspired me to look for more answers. A conversation with my grandmother inspired me to share those answers with others. 

What are your aims?

I want to be able to prove in some empirical capacity that things we call "paranormal" do, in fact, exist. I want to find out how to measure it, interact with it and finally be able to scientifically study it. Bridging the gaps between religion, spiritualism and science. 

What plans do you have for the future? 

I am planning on a series of experiments to try and test out some theories I have regarding electromagnetic energy, recording devices and how it interacts with us, as humans. Hopefully, this will yield some results that I can use to start publishing the research and we will be one step closer to being able to figure out exactly what is going on out there.


Chip Reichenthal INTERVIEWED BY MARK ANTONY RAINES AKA GHOSTMAN

Hello Good Brother:

      Here are the answers to your questions for the blog. Naturally they can be edited to make them shorter if need be. I hope it makes for good blogging, and feel free to let me know how it did or if other questions arise from the interview, either from yourself or from others. I really appreciate being asked, and thank you ever so much. I am attaching the answers as a Document, and if you have any problems with it, I will re-send as a 'cut and paste'. Very best to you, Brother, and again I thank you!

Sincerity and Regards,

Chip Reichenthal

Q: What inspired you?

A: I feel very fortunate, with some years hosting radio shows and being at paranormal conventions and events, to have met what I feel are the greatest minds and talents of the paranormal and metaphysical realms. I feel that many if not most of them come into the realm from a place of fear, where something grabbed them or called out their name and aroused their greatest curiosities. My beginning was quite different, as my earliest experiences were from people I knew well and loved, and I feel that my earliest experiences came instead from a place of love, and yet I am just as motivated to find answers to afterlife sciences, yet rather than a quest for evidence, it is more about the opportunity to communicate.

My first experience came in 1979, right around the time of my 21^st Birthday. My very best friend, who lived next door to me all while growing up since we both were two years old, was involved in a horrific accident. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit him while he was on a motorcycle, and he hit the car head first. He was brain-dead once at the hospital, and his prognosis was grim at best. My first encounter with death, yet he was not dead, kept alive artificially with breathing apparatus’’ until his parents had to make a horrid cross-country trip to unplug him. Meanwhile I was trying to process all this, made any grieving more difficult since my dearest friend was not dead. One night I went out to a swingset in my parent’s back yard, with some beers and a determination to figure how to process all this. It was rather peaceful on a warm summer night, yet right around midnight into my Birthday proper, something ‘changed’ with the swing next to me. It’s very hard to describe, but it seemed there was something…some kind of energy on that swing next to me…not that I saw it or heard it, but knew something was there as surely as if I had. Turns out, it was my friend! I had conversations with him, in my mind, since I heard about his accident, but in those conversations it was my inner dialogue that spoke for him. Yet here, what this ‘energy’ said was beyond my wildest imaginings, and something my inner voice would never have considered. My friend said he came to visit on my Birthday and beyond that, said he wanted to ‘give up’ and came for my blessing. Give up? What do you mean…give up, is what I asked in return. He said he could not move, eat, bathe, or do anything for himself…he no longer had that option, because he was brain-dead. At best, he was doomed to be a vegetable, and others would have to do everything for him. He always was very independent, it was his nature to be so, and refused to live in such undignified manner, and he wanted out, and came for my blessing. I tried to talk him out of it…stronger survive, I said…hang in there, Doctors may find a way to fix him, I said. He stood his ground, though, and made some convincing arguments until it finally made sense to me that perhaps, in his case, there are worse things than death, and I caved in, agreed with him, and gave my blessing. I told him I was moved, I was touched, that of all people, he came to me for such blessing, and once granted, he thanked me. I told him I hoped he might visit me…after…and he said he would try. After that, he was gone, and the ‘energy’ on that swing was no more. About ten minutes later, by now around 3am, my Mother came outside to the swingset to tell me that my friend’s parents had just called to tell us they pulled the plug on him about ten minutes ago and wanted us to be the first to know. At that point, I realized quite plainly that I had spoken to my best friend, my first soulmate in life, right at the moment of his death. That changed my outlook on death and the potential for afterlife forever. Happy Birthday to me. I had also had a visit from my Wife’s Father a year after his passing, a story perhaps for another day, and my friend has also visited a few times, and I have spend the better part of my full adulthood in search of answers, considering paranormal, spirituality, parapsychology, metaphysics, quantum physics and other realms that consider these quandaries, really ever since that defining moment.

Q: What are your aims?

A: Through the years I have developed a distinct platform, especially nowadays where it is not so taboo to talk freely about ‘ghosts’ or communicating with the dead, and it has everything to do with being brought into the realm in a fashion more ‘love-based’ than fear-based’. Especially considering media, where television shows are practically horror movies guised as research or documentary shows. It appears as though evil is afoot whenever something unseen is making noises or moving things about a house, and there is even taunting potential spirit activity to gain evidence for the studio audience, and I vehemently disagree with such methods and aim to change the way we approach these energies. I think if there are spirit energies, even ones thought malevolent, then perhaps we should consider them as people, who lived lives, gained wisdom, and are worthy of respect rather than fear or eradication. I understand the reasoning behind all this…we tend to fear the unknown, and even look for thrills, and there are many faiths that see any attempt to communicate with these types of things as sinful. Yet I have spent decades researching and investigating the paranormal. I had some years attuned as a spirit medium with remarkable success, and I look to theoretical physics as well. I have never had a negative encounter or got scratched or pushed; never had an EVP that was negative or threatening, I have helped people besieged by the poison of deep grief and even helped spirit energies cross over or relay messages to loved ones. I have seen love in them, or felt their pain; I have considered some things more residual than in spirit; I have considered that there may be times the person’s personality or history splits…where the pain is in one area and the grace in another, and have seen instances where the living are creating the chaos of items moving about a room on their own. There are so many different situations, and each different, often leading to more questions than answers. One thing rings out, and that is that the dead don’t suddenly change into some evil and monstrous beings or develop otherworldly psychic powers just because the living body is out of the equation. Like anyone else, they hope to be heard, considered, respected…sometimes they don’t know they’re dead…but we all long to belong. I distinctly believe that every single person is a story, and when you take the time to learn that story, it is always fascinating. The more you learn these stories, the more you know about people, dead or alive, and after a long time looking toward afterlife communication and speaking with so many other enthusiasts, eventually you come to believe that some things are true whether we believe in them or not. My platform is, basically, that ‘ghosts’ are people too…if they are ‘ghosts’ in the first place. I see people who honor the history of a property thought ‘haunted’, and sometimes there is a distinct love and honor there, which is great…and sometimes they are basically treating the dead like pets or flaunting the tragedy the occurred there and sometimes that is unconscionable disrespect …and yet they wonder why so much negative activity occurs. Sometimes I see people who feed the bad…and once someone tells you they ‘have a bad feeling about a certain room’ or they think a ghost is active, it sends all others into expectation mode, and they begin to blame all sorts of natural activity to the ghost they now expect or the ‘bad feeling’ has to come to fruition somehow, and it becomes our expectation to see bad where there may be none in the first place. So many times I have been on investigations where people get ‘scratched’ in front of us or expect  all this nasty stuff, and often the ‘scratch’ comes from engaging in something and forgetting or ignoring it, and rather than malice, it’s the kind of thing where they want the attention back and it’s incidental and not malicious at all…sometimes people create the ‘scratch’ themselves for attention. Again, everything’s a situation on these investigations, if there is anything there at all. It may also be inter-dimensional, or even a time-warp that brings us these energies…the Einstein ‘space-time’ thing…and look…I do not claim to be an expert in this…no one is, really…as we still have no proof of any of this. But if I can impact anything within these realms, I hope to show a kinder side of afterlife science, where if we think on paranormal activity stemming from people and not some demon, we have a wonderful chance to embrace a kinder side of the realm, and that is my greatest motivation here. We need more ‘nice’ in life, and it can bring some amazing potential when we bring more ‘nice’ to afterlife science as well, and there aren’t many folks actively considering that, so I will.

Q: What plans do you have for the future?

A: I have a lot of things going on, thanks mainly to the radio shows. They’ve led to more shows, guest appearances, lectures, I have a book out that’s published and writing more, I’ve had acting roles in film and have been a part of documentaries on internet and in film, I make appearances at Paracons. I’ve had the tremendous fortune to meet my heroes, and many are personal friends now. I have some offers in the air, to appear in Documentaries, write for a magazine, more acting roles, another book in the works; I do Tarot readings, and have some nationally known psychics I’ve read for who loved my approach. It is magical. For the radio, I am not aiming for fame…I am aiming to be the person these friends and talents come to when they want something promoted, or to be featured in the kindest light, and I hope to ask the deeper questions…I don’t want a million listeners…I want my heroes to think of me when they have something special to them, and I hope to pay goodness forward. All else will follow from there. Of all things, though, I get the most pleasure and value from lecturing. I want to do more of that. I have a lecture platform entitled “Ghosts Are People Too: The Kinder Side of Afterlife Science” and it has been wonderfully received. My book that is currently out is called “Even the Dead Won’t Tell You the Truth” from Rowe Publishing, on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and the Rowe Publishing website of rowepub.com. The book is a fictional work based on personal truths, and is a murder mystery where the main character talks to the dead as a living. His best friend is charged with murder, the victim known to them both. The friend is not into the ‘talking to the dead’ stuff, but with evidence circumstantial and damning and piling up, he asks our medium to communicate with the murder victim to find a way to clear his name. It has a lot of first-person perspective from the eyes of a medium and is as informative as it is a really good mystery, and the book has done well. I am working on a new book that may be a sequel, but adds some science-fiction to the mix, and will still delve into first-person metaphysics. I am also more active in UFOlogy and have a few prospects there…and sometimes the world of physics and the quantum world helps to find potential answers to a lot of paranormal-type things, and I’m in. Most of all, in any and all of this, the platform is about ‘nice’, it is about a kinder approach along with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. My current radio show is called “Beyond the Norm with Chip Reichenthal” and is on A1B Radio Monday nights at 9 pm Eastern US time on www.MyA1B.com and I will be doing lecture tours in 2015 with another Rowe Publishing Author, Mark Keyes, who inspired a character in my book. He is a State Police Detective who works malevolent hauntings in his spare time with some other lawenforcement officers, and wrote a marvelous book called “Chasing Shadows”, a non-fiction that is truly the best book I’ve ever read on the paranormal, and he also embraces a kinder look at afterlife, and together we will be bringing the ‘nice’ forward. It seems more opportunities are coming my way all the time now, and I am still open to lecture dates or doing readings and other engagements. I hope to accomplish what my greatest hero if life has…my Dad…who ultimately is a ‘nice guy’ who finished first, and that is my ultimate goal.