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Dear Mary Ann,
My name is Kimberly and I have a question about the gift. To ask it, I need to tell you a little about myself. A friend of mine told me about James and things he can do. She told me to watch Ghost Whisperer. She said it would help me understand more about stuff in my life. She told me also it may help me feel not alone. She never really could understand what I been through. So I started watching the show and hoping for answers. I can relate to Melinda a lot. Like her, I am married. I have two learning disabilities, which make me different.
When I was young (about eight or nine) things happened to me. It started out with shadows that appearing at the corner of my eye and then vanishing when I turned to look, hearing noises, sensing people who have passed on or feeling things, and even smelling things. At first, I thought it was my mind playing tricks on me. As I went through my teen years it happened more. I started seeing, hearing, sensing, and even having visions or dreams that became real. Now that I am 30, things happen, but not as much. I still sense spirits and once in awhile see them. It feels like sometimes I lost the gift. So my question is: Does the gift ever leave a person as they get older? I just fear it does and that scares me. Hope you can help.
Sincerely,
Kimberly
Dear Kimberly,
I think that you are referring to James Van Praagh. He is a psychic medium that is a consultant on Ghost Whisperer.
Everything that you have explained could have happened. Children often refer to earthbound spirits as shadow people. Senses are heightened and some people can get certain odors; any of this can be from earthbound spirits or spirits that have crossed over. The spirits in your dreams however are only spirits that have crossed over. It is very difficult for an earthbound spirit to get into a dream.
There are times in our life when the gift is not as strong as other times. This is normal. Also, if there is a lot of stress or turmoil in your life, the gift is not always working. Another thing to consider is that there are some medications that could block your abilities.
Hope this helps.
Mary Ann
Letter 2
Dear Mary Ann,
My name is Amy and I am 35 years old. I live in Fort Worth, Texas and my daughter and I watch the show all the time, tivo it on 2 channels…LOVE IT. So it has me thinking. I never really have believed in ghosts but rather demons….until now. Upon moving back to Texas in 2005, I moved into an apartment after my divorce with my then 13 month old and my 2 year old. I would always see shadows out of the corner of my eye. I thought I was seeing things and wrote it off as that. Then I moved into a bigger apartment upstairs and worse things started happening. Not often, but enough to raise the hair on your whole body. My boyfriend at the time (husband now) had the same feelings too when he was over. He lived across the hall and never had any of these experiences at his place.
On one occasion, I put the girls on the couch to watch a movie (they are 4 and 5 at this time) and I went to take a bath. I closed the shower curtain and was reading a magazine and the lights started turning on and off. I opened the curtain and it was my oldest. I told her to let mommy finish her bath and I would be out. She shut the door and left. A couple minutes later the same thing happened, the lights went on and off. I opened the curtain thinking it was Alex again and it wasn’t. I sat there and watched the lights go on and off. Then they stayed on. I left the shower curtain open and all of a sudden I felt like someone was watching me. The hair on my arms and neck stood up and I felt unsafe. I jumped out of the bath. I grabbed a towel and ran out to the living room where the girls were. I asked them if everything was ok. None of the clocks were blinking so I know the power didn’t go out in the whole apartment. Alex told me “someone turned the TV off twice.” I said who turned them off she said she didn’t know, she didn’t see anyone.
This is what makes me think it is a demon. One night we went across the hall to my boyfriend’s because his sisters and brother were in town. He went back to my apartment to get their flight information off the computer. When he came back, he was pale and looked like he wanted to throw up. I asked him what was wrong. He wouldn’t tell me. Finally the next day he told me what happened.
When he walked into my apartment, a figure that looked like a light smoky cloud came from the right side of the apartment and went by him. As it went by him it slowed in front of him, he said he could make out a “wicked” or “evil” face in it. Then it sped up and went straight into the kitchen and up into the ceiling and was gone. He ran all over the apartment to check to make sure no one was there and of course nothing.
We have since gotten married and moved into a house. I haven’t felt any presences or had any experiences. I often wonder if the people that now live in that apartment are experiencing what we did. I would LOVE to hear your input.
Thanks so very much,
Amy
Hi Amy,
Thanks for watching Ghost Whisperer, I love to hear that.
All the things that you have described in your email are what earthbound spirits could and can do. Let me clear up something. These spirits are regular people that have died and for whatever reason have not crossed over. They have the same personality they had when they were alive. If they were a nice sweet old lady when they were alive they are now a sweet ghost. A pervert when alive is a pervert ghost. A jokester when alive is a jokester when dead. Not demons!
I have been doing this for over sixty years now and I have only run across four or five spirits that were not from the light. All earthbound spirits can appear as shadow people, fog, wisps, clouds, or swirls. They can make scary faces to frighten you. The more that then can scare you the more energy that you put out, the more energy that they get. An earthbound spirit does not sleep or eat, but needs human energy to keep going.
Earthbound spirits can come and go as they please. It is television and the movies that claim that a ghost had to die in the house, or own the house. Earthbound spirits can move with you from house to house or stay put if they choose.
Thanks!!
Mary Ann
