Quantum Basics: How to Quiet Your Haunted Home

 

After decades of helping folks in haunted homes who are uncomfortable with the activity, I learned some very effective basics and it all can be explained by quantum physics.

What Are Shadow People?

What are Shadow People? 

This is my take on it - purely my own, but you might find some logic in it.

SUPERNATURAL ASSAULT - Must-See Shadow Person Documentary on Amazon Prime!

Sometimes, I see a documentary I insist others check out. THIS (Supernatural Assault) is one of them. If you have had shadow people encounters or other unsettling interactions or you are fascinated by shapeshifters, the Djinn, or shadow forms, THIS is one to see and free on Amazon Prime!

SUPERNATURAL ASSAULT was released on Amazon Prime to stream for FREE.

Top 10 Freakiest Phenomena of the New Millennium

Some phenomena occurs for decades, maybe even reported centuries ago, but it doesn't take hold in modern day reports until more recently. Other times, a phenomena seems to have come out of nowhere and caught our notice. 

Since the year 2000, there have been some pretty freaky things happening around the world that have us all shaking our heads and wondering - could something be trying hard to get our attention? 

Let's look at the top 10 most newly reported phenomena (no particular order) since the new millennium; all of them equally chilling - 

Supernatural Assault: Shadow People Documentary

Shadow people. A subject that has a lot of theories, creates a lot of terror, and leaves a lot of questions for those who have had encounters. Dark Element Media decided it's time to broach the subject in documentary form and that pleases me a lot!

What Are Shadow People? The Chilling Possible Explanation

They were given the moniker "shadow people," but that is not exactly how they appear. These beings, usually 3-4 feet tall (sometimes full height or tall), are human shaped and completely utterly devoid of details to be a kind of "black hole" of humanoids. It's what they do and where they are that is scaring people. 

In this post, I plan to shatter some of the earlier concepts of what shadow people are and it might just be even more unsettling than popular assumptions....

What Are Shadow People? The Chilling Possible Explanation

They were given the moniker "shadow people," but that is not exactly how they appear. These beings, usually 3-4 feet tall (sometimes full height or tall), are human shaped and completely utterly devoid of details to be a kind of "black hole" of humanoids. It's what they do and where they are that is scaring people. 

In this post, I plan to shatter some of the earlier concepts of what shadow people are and it might just be even more unsettling than popular assumptions....

Ghosts: The Little Phantoms in the Hospitals

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I worked in an ER for a few years. I remember hearing some nurses talking to a paramedic. They were discussing the "wee ones." I thought at the time they meant children. Later, however, I heard the discussion continuing as one of them pointed out where she had seen the wee one and what the wee one looked like.

The nurse pointed to a spot between two doors. The doors had no windows. It was between a couple of beds in the row of beds that were curtained in the ER. 

I listened as she told the paramedic her encounter.

"Probably 2:30 or 3 in the morning. It was a slow night. I was heading back in from the break room toward the front desk, going through here." She gestured the bed-lined room. 

"I got right about there." She pointed to the center of the room. "I saw something out of the corner of my eye and felt a weird shiver. Goosebumps all over." She rubbed her arms recalling it. "It's like I felt someone watching me, but only one bed was taken at the far end." She nodded her head back to the other end of the room. 

"When I turned my head to look around, there was this little figure standing there. It's like it saw me seeing it and it turned in profile. It was pure black. No detail at all. Just black human-like shape; head, arms, legs...." She visibly shuddered as if recalling every detail. 

"Then, it just turned and walked right into the corner of the wall and it was gone. I looked behind me, thinking maybe somehow it was someone's shadow, but nope. It was 3 feet tall, at the most."

I couldn't make out the paramedic's words, but then the nurse responded to something he said.

"Yes, they moved that patient to CICU, but I don't think he will make it." 

Apparently, he asked about the patient that had been in the bed in the room when it happened. I didn't think much of it until I heard two doctors talking about an encounter after they revived a patient after about a half hour of CPR.

"The lil fucker scared me. I'd heard about them. I just never thought I'd have to see one. I can't tell you what it is or where it came from, but I know I felt adrenaline running through me like I had a near miss on the highway. I don't ever wanna see that again!" 

Years later when I was teaching a class in ghost investigating at a convention, a student held up a hand. She told of a story of being a hospital, very sick, not sure if she'd make it when a little shadow person came out from between the wall and the bathroom and creeped up to her bed. She sat up, stared at it and rushed off. It happened several times while she was there and being a Native American, she had some strong reactions to this spirit person showing up. She was certain it was going to usher to the other side. Then, one night it didn't show up again and her condition turned for the better. She wasn't sure if it was waiting for her to die or had a hand in her healing, but she was never going to stay in a hospital again, she swore.

Hospice workers are the first to speak of what occurs near death when people, for sometimes up to a few days before their deaths, are visited by their dead loved ones. The terminal patients' reactions are always ones of utter peace and happiness. It is comforting to know we are escorted by familiar faces for such a transition, as we are when we are born onto the earth and our parents hold us and help us adjust. 

I am reminded of when I was a child. My family had a summer home on Mobjack Bay in the Southern Chesapeake and we had a dear friend who lived next door that we referred to as "The Captain." He was a captain who had retired. One day, my mom was at home at our main residence in Fairfax, Virginia and she awakened from a nap, feeling someone watching her. She swung her legs over the bed and looked and in a chair that we had brought to our home from our summer place, she saw the Captain. 

Only, he wasn't quite right....

He was about 3/4 of his usual size and wearing a white gown. She watched him a moment before he simply disappeared. A half hour later, she got a call from the Captain's wife. He had passed away quite suddenly!

Why is it that the deceased might come back in smaller forms? We know we see apparitions, but so far as I have experienced with many apparitions in my lifetime, they do seem to be a moment in history replaying, not necessarily a spirit, but a glimpse of history. In this case, these might be genuine spirit forms. Spirit forms when able to be visualized may appear proportionally off, but if you are viewing them within their intersecting dimension, they may seem smaller, but it's a visual trick. It's kind of like this picture where I held a toy dino up next to the lens while taking a picture of my friend Julie in the distance.

Now imagine your are glimpsing something in another dimension - what distortion might that do to your visual interpretation? 

Here's some videos of folks running into ghosts in hospitals. 










Here is one last possibility for the "compressed" and "shadow shapes" - the way we might interpret with our minds another dimensional being wouldn't be as a physical form as we know them, but as a shadow reflection of a form we cannot perceive - 

Into the Rabbit Hole: Discussion of Shadow People

This is a new series "Into the Rabbit Hole - Discussion." It was born from an aha moment when a researcher and I were discussing back and forth a paranormal subject and I realized the way we come to conclusions is as interesting as the conclusions. If you ever wanted to join a think tank and learn the process of contemplating the unexplained, you will enjoy this series.

Today's installment is a discussion between myself and James Carroll on the subject of Shadow People. And, yes, we come to a very chilling conclusion....

ME: I look at where they (shadow people) are and what they do and come to the conclusion they are not ghost related - locations are often outdoors and in parks and new homes. They also seem to think we can't see them. When we do look at them, they are startled and take off.

Jim: Wonder if they may be tied to elemental spirits? Be interesting to see what the Native Americans thought about them.

Aha!

The Choctaws have stories about shadow beings. Nalusa Falaya, also known as a Impa Shilup, was the soul-eater, great black being. If people allow evil thoughts or depression to enter their minds, it would creep inside them and eat their soul.

Nalusa Falaya (long black being) resembled a man, but with very small eyes and long, pointed ears. He sometimes frightened hunters or transferred his power of doing harm. Some believed that Nalusa Falaya preferred to approach men by sliding on his stomach like a snake.

I found some Choctaw/Creek beliefs, which are basically the same and Cherokee beliefs. Surprisingly, I am not finding a lot of info on western tribal beliefs of shadow people. Also found a good reference of shadow people being humans seeing Jinn from their parallel world that existed beside ours.

ME:  I have heard Jinn referred to a lot. That is interesting.

JIM:  Islam is where the Jinn come from and just about the only occasion of shadow people referenced to not being all evil but can also be good.

It seems as if the talk of them really began in recent decades.

Seems that the Native Americans have had their beliefs for hundred of years, but our understanding started from a radio program from 50's or 60's.

ME: Interesting. I heard a theory that fast refreshing screens and computers/tvs have made it possible for us to see these things for the first time.

JIM: Where normally we couldn't see them, but in electronics you get the interpretations of energy into a visual media.

ME: May be. We see them first in peripheral vision and we try to focus on them and they can be gone. I have a thought, but it's a weird one.

I'm reminded of floaters.  Floaters in your eye.

So, you see it like a speck in your vision. If you try to follow it, it moves with your eye so it's gone.

They are spots in your vision. They may look to you like black or gray specks, strings or cobwebs that drift about when you move your eyes and appear to dart away when you try to look at them directly.

JIM: It's like having a small extra lens in your eye you can only look through under certain circumstances.

ME: It shows itself most when you look into a bright light or light background. That creates light to light up the gel particle in the vitreous. This is why they are silhouetted shapes from the light hitting it and making it easier to detect in your vision.

JIM: Yes you have light waves bouncing throughout your eyeball.

ME: So, any object in the vitreous fluid would show when lit. I am reminded of the odd quality of it disappearing when you go to focus on it - most of the times. Sometimes you see it even when you are looking straight on. I guess the question is it out there or in your eye? Well, I can probably dispute that because my son and I watched one together and he watched and interacted with one with a friend.

JIM: It would be interesting if we could find any commonality between possible shadow people and poltergeist. With poltergeist being a paranormal entity created by a living person.

ME: They are odd. They seem solid. They hold no light at all. It's that black hole effect that intrigues me. My son said his camera's focus light was on top of it, like it was solid. But it had no features. Pure lack of light. Some say they are short. Others tall.

JIM: Wonder if a shadow person could be created similarly? Then, there's the hat man.

ME: I'd almost like that concept except that people can see them together. Not sure if they can be projected from a person. PK (psychokinesis) is one thing we can never really take out of any equation.

Yeah. Sometimes they describe a hat.

JIM: Yeah. I read a bit on a type of SP (shadow person) called "Hat Man." A tall shadow apparently wearing a wide brim hat.

ME: See, the constellation of descriptions makes it hard to sort it out. It has no particular place it happens, no particular people, comes in many sizes, but always black, thinks you can't see it, disappears, doesn't speak.

JIM: Makes you almost want to start drooling on yourself.

ME: Pretty much. What do we know? More reports now than in the past. We know they act as if they think we can't see them. That makes me think strongly of interdimensional.

JIM: I saw a part of an article that mentions a possible connection between SP and aliens.

ME: Hey, it's all on the table at this point.

JIM: What about if SP may be an alien that is observing us, but is not necessarily in our vibrational plane or has a type of camouflage that makes us not really notice them?

ME: Yeah. I'd almost like to know if contactees and abductees see them more often. I have always said the greys are not as they biologically appear to us - they are wearing a sort of suit. When I saw them leaving in a red-orange light, it seemed as if they were simply shedding the fake shell to become light and dissipate.

I'm probably wrong about contactees and abductees. The one my son saw with his friend, it was next to an altar in a cemetery at night. Why? These were regular teens, not abductees, and this thing was in a place where it was assured no humans would be at night. That's hardly the behavior of an alien seeking knowledge. .

JIM: In that instance could it be a resident that could not re-corperate any better??

ME:  Hmmm... So let's say they come as observers of a sort. Why do they appear purely black with no eyes, no features?

Is it our own trouble understanding something that sucks light from the space it inhabits? We have weak senses?

JIM: Easier to be unobserved or to blend into the background? I know that is the basis for what we call camouflage, to break up our look so harder for others to observe.

ME: If you had that ability, you would truly camo - reflect what's around you. The lack of features is what gets me. If it is purely black, no details, that is not a costume. That is impossible unless it's very existence blocks out things or somehow has no light reflection, even the eyes or it has no eyes.

JIM: Invisibility is a much harder thing to do and very energy intensive, but if you can fog yourself in a black haze and only have to completely go invisible when necessary would be a lot less energy intensive. Invisibility means completely either bending light around your body or having a camera and screen point over every part of your body. It would have to be paired with many others comparable to every viewing angle.

ME: Yeah, but to make an entire body surface and eyes and all go black....

It's entirely possible that if this is out of our realm of understanding sensory wise, we might be seeing waves instead of something our eyes understand and can interpret.

JIM: Heh, just thought of something from the "Restaurant at the end of the Universe."  It was a type of camouflage called "Not My Problem " shield.

I like the wave idea. We kind of get close to that in the last article about the BF standing still and us not seeing them until sometime later in video review.

ME:  Okay, so let's assume our eyes and ears are used to light waves and sound waves and interpreting them. But what about another wave out of our spectrum of perception? We don't see infrared or ultraviolet. Perhaps there is another energy wave, not sound or sight - but our eyes try to process it with our brain and we get a blank canvas where the waves are.

JIM: Oh there is a crap load of energy waves we can't see but affect us. Unified Field Theory. Maybe something like a microwave that instead of exciting the water molecules but affects what we see or not see.

ME:  Strange how it would have a form like us, two arms, two legs, all the trappings of us.

JIM: It may be a form of us.  But one from a different time or plane of existence.

ME: So perhaps man evolved here in a few forms? We would have seen them more. Why see them now? Harbingers?

JIM: Quite possible. Or maybe they are like historians that want to see how we live now or other aspects of our time. Maybe the SP look is a projection of beings into this plane.

ME: I contemplated once that black-eyed kids were just shadow people donning a suit so no one would know the wiser - but their eyes are all black because that's still part of the shadowperson they couldn't dress up....

JIM: A disguise of sorts.

ME:  Well, they are said to be 3-4 feet. People are starting to notice them. Weird thing is the black-eyed kids try to get into your car or house by acting helpless. Now, is that to get legitimate access without raising brows?

JIM: Well, aren't there tons of stories where the only way to gain entrance is with the permission of the main person? Almost like the main person has almost ultra-normal control over their environment.

ME: If they want to observe they can't do so in the black anymore. Gotta be a kid, kids get help from elders. Perfect ruse.

Then, there's the issue of interdimensional. I saw a video once that described that situation well. If we put a finger on a piece of paper, the 2D figure would see a dot near it and assume it was one its own kind because it can only register what is in its dimension, so these figures might be looking that way because that's the only part of it in our dimension we understand/perceive is the three-dimensional aspect.

Jim: Very good. 

Me:  So, instead of considering the dimensions as if something magically comes and goes from other dimensions (which would mean it has to alter its very content such as me taking a photo of myself to become 2D), we are sharing a space all the time. I am in the room with a TV screen. I can put my hand on it. I'm not entering 2D so much as interrupting it a bit. So it is with this higher dimension interacting with us.

Jim: If you think back to the Jinn story, they're world is beside us and we see them as shadows. Maybe this concept describes something, there may be an advanced culture in a parallel world and they are looking over at us from time to time.

We are characters on a screen to them.

They are able to project an aspect of themselves into this world and in some cases actually interact with us. Though that seems to be rare, almost a taboo.


Me:  Yup. I don't consider my own photograph much except that it is a facsimile of me. Perhaps we are a facsimile of them that is animated. There's a chilling thought. We're not too useful like the photo because, like the photo, we cannot interact or realize they are there and are lacking a sentience that makes us worthy (like the photo once again).

Jim:  It is sort of related to some theories that Einstein had about parallel worlds existing along with us that may have diverged from great or not so great moments in history.

Also remember that several cultures had a great taboo about having their photo taken in that they believed the photo took part of their spirit with it and would possibly allow a bad person to be able to control them.

Jim:  I saw that Carl Sagan video - 

Holy crapamoly, Watson! I do believe we have it.

Sagan explained it just as well, if not a little bit better than we have. We are seeing the shadow of the projection of someone in another plane/dimension.

Me: Yes! And imagine if your photograph suddenly turned its eyes on you and you realized it saw you?

So, we became cognizant at times of another dimension - a prism. I wonder if our "real" selves in the next universe are visiting their facsimiles here? And, I wonder if like we would turn the photo upside down if it blinked at us, they do the same with us....

Mind Fuck Tuesday: Shadow People

It’s another issue of my Tuesday special, trying to open your minds and make you question everything.

Today’s subject is Shadow People, those creepy things caught out of the corner of one’s eye at first, then whisk away when they realize they’re being seen. These “beings” are a dense black color, sometimes 4-feet tall and human shaped, other times tall and slender and with a top hat, as well.

Here are some theories tossed about:

They are noncorporeal beings (having never been in human form)
They are evil demons
They are spirits having trouble forming
They are beings from another dimension
They are a projection of our own dark side

Okay all these explanations being told, let’s look at some things a bit more unconventional.

Today's Mind Fuck:

What if shadow people are a being that is always there, thought we couldn’t see them, but are being seen more and more because people use TV and computer screens that refresh so rapidly our eyes are becoming sensitive to things we couldn’t see before.

This is the theory I've probably hung onto the longest of all of them. It's universal that when you look at these things, they tend to startle and rush away. Sometimes, they come back curiously to watch you again and perhaps see if you can still see them. That they are shocked you see them says that they thought we never could before. It also explains why they are seen nowadays and not so much historically. It also explains why people who use computer screens all day seem to see them more often. It also explains why they show up anywhere--even brand new homes, gardens, graveyards, wherever, as this would mean they aren't necessarily earthbound spirits. It does not, however, explain why this being has to be shaped like a human. Why does it need to have our shape? It comes and goes without needing good running legs or arms to reach for things. Why is it shaped like us?


What if shadow people are people in an astral form who are in the dream state acting out dream scenarios and sometimes being seen by us or those who are purposely entering the astral plane during astral projection, therefore creating a form with their mind's intent that is similar to human shape.

This theory appeals to me in many ways. I often dream I'm in foreign countries and I wake up even speaking another language, feeling exhausted as if I truly traveled and have, in fact, been told by others that they saw me when I visited them in my dream state. So, it's possible we can project our spirit elsewhere in our dream state. That we literally act out our dreams. Depending on the stage of sleep, perhaps the imagery of the dreamer, we are nothng more than noises and chilly air and other things we call hauntings, but other times we project ourselves and in the dream state, our minds being rudimentary we project a dark human-like shape but no detail. The moment when someone sees us and we whisk away is when we are entering our awake state. It might even explain some of the feelings of dread people feel when one is near--they are actually feeling the anxiety of the dream state. This one fits nicely in that it finally explains why these beings suspiciously look human-they are a conception made by a human and a head, arms, and legs are our projection of what we know, our point of reference.

Those being tossed out there, hope your mind works in overdrive to chew on these theories and consider them. Let me know what you think.