Station Hotel Dudley

We went on an investigation at the Station Hotel and it turned into quite a night. It wasn't an ideal group because there was a large party of noisy girls who shrieked a lot. But when Chris (the organiser /medium) saw our group were serious, we always somehow managed to be on our own as a group. And as a group we had a good mix. Becky I think is a total believer, Simon , Tony, myself and Brian are all open minded but take the Taps approach . Martyn I think is sceptical - and only doing it to please Brian. But would like to experience something that convinces him. Rob is a sceptic.

It started off with the whole group in the cellar. A couple of times I felt someone was standing in front of me but there was nothing really convincingly paranormal. I did get the name George which is associated with the cellar . And Tony picked up on a little girl called Anne or Annie and again that name has been linked with that location. As neither of us had researched the location that is interesting but hardly earth shattering. The names are common enough.

Our next stop , with Debbie from Ghost Haunted , was room 217 where we got one interesting picture, maybe a couple of emf spikes in the bathroom and some interesting personal phenomena like being touched and feeling breezes. Rob did some scrying and clearly something happened because he saw himself with a beard and moustache.

In room 214 we tried a ouija board . We apparently spoke to a young lad called Matthew , In fact we ended up singing 3 blind mice to him at Tony's suggestion. Tony then vigorously applauded us. He said he could see Matthew sitting on the floor applauding us. That could have been a touch of trance mediumship - but I am not sure. Physical mediumship is always by definition a paranormal occurrence. As Rob was one of the people on the planchet it was an experience for him. But I am sceptical about Matthew.

We were joined by a couple of other people and Chris the medium for a table tipping experiment. First of all we all sat round a large table that we decided was too heavy to move. But then a smaller group of us stood round a smaller table. All I can say about this was wow. I never knew a table could do that! And I know there was no trickery involved. We had apparent contact with Laura and Alexandra (mother and daughter) I did have some interesting personal experiences at the stat of the table tipping experiment when we were seated.. I had a couple of cold shivers and felt as if I was giving reiki. But neither Tony nor Chris were getting anything so I don't know what happened. I didn't get any names or anything. But this DID result in a suggestion form Chris that Tony and I might lie to join their closed circle!

The last experience of the night was a dark and emotional one and probably shows why trained mediums are useful to have around when you investigate the paranormal. Our group of 7 were in the cellar doing glass divination. We did simple yes/no with a torch. Becky was asking a lot of the questions with me doing some of the questions. We didn't seem to have any of the spirits from the hotel but it did seem there was someone there with a message for Brian - but we couldn't work out who or what the message was. Then Becky got a positive response to the word wife. She thought the person's wife was present in spirit in the cellar. That didn't seem logical to me and I asked if Alan was there and got a positive answer. The information that seemed to come through was that Alan was telling us Andy had passed. That out a real damper on things and the session ended almost immediately. But as we were leaving the cellar Tony went into medium mode and said Alan wanted to apologise to me for his behaviour, said how proud he was and Steve and ended with the comment that his Mum was still telling him off. This was very emotional for both me and Tony .

Robs comment summed the evening up very well. It was very good but the last 10 minutes were a real downer.

Analysing this in the cold light of day I think we were not sceptical enough about the apparent positive responses from the glass. Also Becky has never done anything like that before as far as I know and her questions were not clear . But even though I could accept that Alan might be there I was at a loss to think why he might come through. I wasn't expecting Alan to tell us anything about Andy. I know Tony would not fake that sort of message. But I can think of psychological rather than paranormal reasons for the information he came out with. His brain was reacting to something - but I am not convinced it was Alan's spirit.

How will I feel if we get told that Andy did pass last night? If we get that news watch this space

Now this is getting too silly for words

OK time to take a deep breath and record something that is almost certainly coincidence or imagination........but.

The other evening I was trying to get into a guided meditation and really not doing very well. I was lying in bed and I am wondering if at one point I drifted off very briefly into a doze. Whatever the reason, instead of seeing myself in a woodland setting I saw myself on a path made of square cobbles (aka small bricks) and I could see 2 brown and white spaniels running around.

I don't own a spaniel, never have owned a spaniel, am never likely to own a spaniel and don't know anyone who owns a spaniel. So there is no logical reason I should see a spaniel.

So fast forward to this morning and I decided to go for a walk in the park and try to get back into my exercise routine. On the way back I spotted a small brown and white spaniel running around with a ball in its mouth. He came up to me a couple of times while he was waiting for his owner to finish the conversation he was having. They walked past and I walked on thinking. Thats interesting then I looked at the path I was walking on. It was made of small bricks.

At that point 'interesting' became very spooky and weird. OK this wasn't an exact duplication of what I saw - not even close. But the two key factors were the type of dog and the type of pavement.

Coming so close after my apparent sensing of Andy's stroke I am very unsettled and wondering what else is going to happen. We are on an investigation this evening.

Psychic precognition?

On Monday evening one of our friends came round. He has a large number of health problems and looked very unwell. As I looked at him his mouth looked very slightly odd and the word that went through my head was 'stroke' I even wondered if I should ask him to raise his arms. But when I commented that he didnt look well he said he was just tired after his dialysis.

Today (Thursday) we were told he has ad a stroke. I am not sure when - I think sometime on Tuesday. Was he in the early stages on Monday evening? It seems unlikely as he was able to walk and talk OK. Or did I pick up something psychically? Given his underlying conditions some kind of CV event was always a possibility - but a cardiac arrest was more likely than a stroke so I wasn't expecting him to have a stroke.

Did I get a flash of precognition? I will never know for sure - but I must learn to trust that inner voice .

Really strange

I am working with a lovely technician at my current placement and she is clearly not only fascinated by te paranormal but is psychic herself - although her catholic upbringing and family mean she is slightly scared of it all. But she told me how when she had visited a friend in the chapel of rest she had asked him to let her know somehow that he was OK. She believed he had. I got a picture in my mind that I thought was her friend but when I asked if he was mid twenties with dark hair she said no. But a bit layer she said she also had a cousin who had died. So I decsribed ths person who had popped into y mind 25 clean shaven short dark hair swept top one side with a parting. She said the description fitted her cousin. So I concentrated to see if I could a name. I thought of Tim - which was wrong but his name was Martin.

I have no idea what was going on. My scalp was tingling and I initially thought her friend was with her. Maybe it was her cousin - or maybe I am just deluded. She is going to see if she can find a picture of him.

If he looks anything like the person I 'imagine' I am going to be truly spooked.

I also got the strong idea that woever I saw is a spirit guide for her. I did tell her this.

After the fair

I didnt meditate but as it turns out it didn't matter. As a means of getting clients the fair was a bust. Too few visitors plus there was a large empty space between where the run of tables on our side was - and the main fair so the few tat came in often didn't get down to the area I was in. But I was next to some therapists who all work out of a natural health centre not too far from me- and they have just lost a reiki practitioner. Hmmmm

Then one of the therapists said she had felt all morning she should ask me for an oracle card reading so I did a reading with my Fairy deck for her. The first card she pulled was sexuality - and her immediate comment was 'thats interesting. '. It turns she has been diagnosed with gender identity problems and needs to decide if she wants to live as a man or a woman. Her question was about the implications of her decision. All I could think was 'wow' and as I talked to her the message of the cards became very clear. Double wow.

I also gave a tarot card reading to one of the other theraist. That also had some interesting cards and an interesting message. The cre of her question was about finance and she pulled 3 pentacles out of 5 cards! Again wow.

I learned a lot from the fair, made some useful contacts and I think I need to make more use of oracle cards.

A very odd waking vision

It has been ages since I had one of these. Since I associate them with working with energy I suppose I haven't been too surprised. But my energy work has increased over the past few days (ghost hunt, workshop and giving reiki) so maybe it isn't so surprising I had one this morning. As 'visions' go this was very uninspiring. It was in muted colours and looked for all the world like watching a load of cells or bacteria dividing and moving. The phrase that came into my mind was 'The germ of an idea' but what idea I don't know. The only idea I have had lately is the one about providing parties at peoples homes which to be honest I don't think is that practical. But these visions have never really meant anything - much as I keep hoping they will. They could be energy related and be physiological or psychological. The only thing I am sure about is I never had them before I started doing reiki.

Today is the Natural Health Fair. It is Sunday morning silly o'clock and I am copying leaflets, feeling very nervous. I must meditate before I go to the fair to calm myself down.

Lots of little things

I have had lots of small successes over the past couple days.

On Thursday Tony got very upset by Glenn's actions. So on Friday morning I did a five card spread which was full of 6's - the number of balance and harmony. That seems ironic under the circumstances. But I think the cards were telling me things would work out OK


My daily picks were very odd. 3 of cups, grandparent, mediumship,miracle healing and judgment. The one that really puzzled me was grandparent - and the mediumship card. But it did feel like a good omen for the ghost hunt (Evesham) I meditated about the grandparent card and who it could be. I suddenly got the idea it wasn't for me but Tony and that his grandmother was close to him because of the upset with Glenn. So I told Tony that - and realised I had just done a bit of mediumship. I can't remember now if I saw a specific guide.

The ghost was interesting but irritating in that the emf meter went awol - and we have no idea where. Either one of the other guests took it somehow or............

During the hunt we did a ouija board session and it seems that Tony had a malign spirit with him from Hay. I don't believe that was what was really happening but there was clearly something making mischief.Anyway the mediums round the table were making sure Tony was well protected and one of them described Tony's Grandmother in apperance and character (but not name) He did however say that she was with him because of some trouble over the past couple of days and that she wanted to bag heads together. Now that he could NOT have known about. So i took that as confirmation of what I picked up in the morning.
Yesterday evening we went over to Gill and Darren's and it turned out Mal had seen something during the day that scared him. H (Darren's Dad) had seen it clearly and Gill had glimpsed it. H is interested in Tony and I because he knows we are both psychic (how calmly I write that now!) and he asked Darren to ask us if we could work out what had been seen. I tuned in and asked Eli for some help and got the idea of a ball. Darren said I was very close. Then he asked about the colou and Tony came out with blue - which was right. basically it looked like a blue ball of lightening apparently.

It was on the way home that I had a bit of a doh moment. I had asked Eli for information. and he had given it. I think Eli is my mediumship guide.

Steve came over yesterday too and I ended up giving him 2 reading one with Ask Your Guide cards and one with Tarot cards. AYG gave him among other Psychic awareness and Solitude. Tarot. Gave him 4 of swords - indicating the rest he is having now after his exams, the Sun which I hope is indicative of good news with his results, Temperance - which indicates he still needs to keep some balance as he lest his hair down, The hermit and the King of Cups - which in this case I see as emotional balance. The fascinating thing is The Hermit represents solitude and spiritual development . This echoes the 2 cards he got from AYG. So I think Steve may well find he has some strange events that may guide him down the path of psychic development. he certainly has my empathy - and that is how I first got going.

I have been anxious for some time for him to meet Darren and Gill. I am now wondering if in some way Darren is going to give him some help in some way.