Here lies my wife, here let her lie. Now she's at rest, and so am I ... John Dryden
ANOTHER DAY,
ANOTHER DIMENSION
This truly happened to me, and it was strange. One cold February morning in 2014, I set out for New Jersey Transit’s Allwood Road bus station at 5:35 a.m. sharp, as always. The stars were particularly bright that morning. As I turned North onto Mountain Avenue – BAM -- it felt as if my car hit a wall of solid air. Suddenly it was difficult to breathe then difficult to ...
EVERY BOY NEEDS
A FRIEND
Glimpses of the afterlife come in many shapes and forms. A young man named Jason told me this story. One morning, while he was growing up in Burlington, Connecticut, Jason began talking to a man pacing outside of his grandmother’s house. The man looked to be in his late twenties; was wearing a tattered white shirt, brown workpants, and suspenders. ...
HEARING IS
BELIEVING
Some of the best mediumship is evidential, meaning that the people, events, and circumstances that a medium claims to be sent from spirit can be backed up by facts. A few years ago, a well-known East Coast medium said to me, “I have a woman. I'm aware that she’s your mother.” Then he started laughing, “She’s telling me that you’ve got to get rid of that old ...
DO MEDIUMS
TELL THE FUTURE?
Mediums are trained to be a straightforward conduits between the living and the dead and to never, ever guild the lily. I've found that some sitters expect a medium to be able to tell the future because they believe that spirits can tell the future. In my experience, when a spirit mentions the future they do so in the same way they would were if they alive. ...
ON SOME NIGHTS,
GETTYSBURG
RESTS IN PEACE
Years ago, my cousin Nancy ran a business from a one-story corrugated-steel building on Fairfield Road, three miles from the center of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. At the time, she was living with a charming but quick-tempered man. One night they argued, and Nancy stormed out to find a hotel. Unfortunately, it was graduation week at Gettysburg College and every ...
SOMETHING
WICKED THIS
WAY COMES
Bruce is a salt-of-the-earth paranormal investigator from Staten Island whose team prefers scientific methods rather than instinct. At times they may bring a medium, but they never forget their digital voice recorders, electromagnetic field detectors, thermal scanners, digital cameras, and infra-red lenses. As dusk turned to night, he and I drove by a vacant ....
DO NOT SPEAK ILL
OF HYDE HALL'S DEAD
Mediums love running into spirits. One gorgeous Fourth of July I made the drive to Cooperstown, New York. Hyde Hall is a magnificent Georgian limestone house, sitting grandly atop a hill overlooking the tall pines that encircle Lake Otsego. The house was finished in 1834 for British-born George Clarke, who died just a year after it was completed. ....
TIME TO MEET
YOUR FATHER
My father was cynical, argumentative, contrarian, moody and agnostic so when he died as dramatically as he’d lived my sister worried that he’d been sent to some dark, lowly plane. A week after the funeral, as a special favor, a well-respected energy healer reluctantly dusted off her mediumship skills and focused on my late father. It didn’t take her long to find him. ...
