psychological and emotional conditions

[johnny]

Hi everyone, I haven't been on here in a while... just recovering from knee surgery and some changes at my job, nothing major. All is well.
I had a couple cases and each has been a learning experience, glad to have a couple under the belt. To protect their privacy I will not divulge too much information.
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Most recently, someone claimed they were experiencing paranormal events going on in their home. Lights being turned on and hearing cabinets opening and closing in the middle of the night and so on. Then a child got involved, the child claimed to have seen an apparition according to the mother. In this case, this case panned out over some time of over a year. Never had to go in to investigate.

Conclusion: Not haunted. It seems some people may believe they are having paranormal experiences without really knowing it. I learned how some negative events in life could affect them and their children. They had a break through emotionally and psychologically recently putting anything paranormal behind them. It may not be the last time I hear from them and I will always be happy to talk to them. But most of all, everyone is safe and no harm came to anyone.

Case is closed.

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I had recently been in contact with a couple I had met about a year ago, the wife claimed to be having paranormal experiences but not the husband. Claims of hearing voices, waking up in the middle of the night to mysterious noises, etc. The wife was suffering from psychological and emotional issues. She was in fact verbally abusive to the husband, it seemed like they were just going through the motions. I'm not a professional psychologist but people are people and I could understand. So i won't go too much further into it. Since paranormal activity was never personally experienced or anything captured I could only come up with the following conclusion.

Conclusion: Not haunted. In this case, I learned psychological issues were at hand.  I was glad I could be there to listen and offer my assistance as paranormal investigator. I eventually pointed them to 3rd party counseling. I heard from one of them recently and unfortunately things didn't work. People have needs in relationships and if it's only one sided, it can be difficult. In this case, with the issues and dynamics at hand, it was very complex.

Case closed.

[PPI Jason]

Johnny,

Thanks for sharing your experiences with us.

That second case in particular sounds like a type of scenario that, unfortunately, is pretty common. There's a debate as to whether psychological and emotional issues actually cause legitimate paranormal activity (e.g. in thought forms) or whether people just tend to confuse normal things with paranormal activity because they are in an amped up state. What a good call, though, recommending counseling. I don't know that there are very many paranormal investigators out there that would have thought of that. That seems to me like not only a very smart, but thoughtful, response on your part.

If you don't mind my asking, what did you mean when you wrote, "It seems some people may believe they are having paranormal experiences without really knowing it"? Also when you say the case "panned out over...a year" do you think the paranormal activity just died out on it's own or were the clients able to explain away the activity? My impression from what you wrote is that when they reached their emotional and psychological breaththrough, the activity ceased. I was just curious as to whether they determined there really was no paranormal activity after all or if there actually WAS paranormal activity but it died out with the death of the emotional issues. And I apologize in advance for being nosy 

[johnny]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the kind response, no apologies needed. I am still learning as an investigator how to deal with situations that seem to come my way.

This first case mentioned spanned over some time since I met the person in the community so I would run into them every couple of months. The claims of paranormal activity began to turn up in conversation. They had pets so some of the activity was easily reasoned away. However, they eventually contacted me again and mentioned that one of their children claimed to had a paranormal experience nearly a half a year later.

You read into it correctly Jason, I believe they had an emotional and psychological break through at some point and the activity began to cease. In this case, I think it is possible they may have actually experienced some paranormal activity. What got me scratching my head was the coincidence of activity experienced by both adult and child within a short period of time, both separate claims. I never got to investigate in the home so it's just one of those things where I can only try to piece together. When they got in contact most recently they admitted that it was possible they were causing this activity. I pointed them towards possible ways to investigate the matters themselves and that this theory is likely not uncommon. To me, it seemed that there was a negative energy/mentality surrounding the adult for quite some time and somehow it may have projected to the children. I can't say for sure, but this is the best explanation I have as to what may have happened.

Personally, I really tried not to get too involved. In these cases, I guess I learned from past experience, if people are self realizing of things but are still lost, one can only point them in a constructive direction but can't fix their problems for them. 

[PPI Jason]

Very interesting Johnny. Thanks again for sharing this.

[hoodini]

After reading case 1, I wouldn't conclude that there isn't something going on there.  Emotional conditions can definitely have an affect on a given situation and possibly spark some activity and awareness of ones surroundings.  Some times activity will come and go.  For case 2 I would question to see if there is any prescription medication thats in the picture.  There are some depression medication's on the market that can cause hallucinations.  I mention this because when I was on grave shift, I would get calls at night from my wife who was spooked because she was taking wellbutrin at the wrong time of the day and was linked with her hallucinations.  My childhood was pretty turbulent, but as soon as I was able to see shadows walking around..  It just seem to come and go.  What was interesting was when things were going on and there was high tension in the family...  There would be times that certain rooms would smell rotten or of death if I could put a name to it.  It was extremely foul and even more interesting, could be detected at the walking plane of the doorway to my room.  It wasn't just me but both my mother and father would agree on the smell at times.

Chris M