Saturday, May 8, 2010

Psychic Circle Board


Some time ago I bought a Psychic Circle "spirit" or "angel" board. It differs from a Ouija board in that it has symbols, words, colors, and astrological signs on it. The creators, Monty Faber and Amy Zerner claim that through earlier communications they were guided in some of the layout.

One night I was using the board by myself while a friend shot a digital image of it. She said that she could see waves of white flowing over my right arm through video as she was capturing it, as you can see subtly above.

In a different session I asked it to give me a poem, which it did through some complex symbol usage. I will try to decode and make sense of it sometime, if possible.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Moore's Crossing Bridge - Austin, TX


Background: Moore's Crossing was first erected over the Colorado River in 1884. It since has been moved and has been partially rebuilt after some flooding. The (unsubstantiated) legend goes that a white man was hanged from the bridge for an interracial affair of some kind while the black lover looked on in dismay. It is said that after midnight a man can sometimes be seen to be hanging from the bridge with the woman he loved watching from below.

May 1, 2010

We set out to (informally) investigate the scene shortly after midnight armed with only a digital camera, sound recorder, and flash-light. The bridge is plenty safe to walk on though apparently it is not considered safe enough for driving (it's closed to vehicles and there is a concrete barrier on each end to prevent this, as well as a gate). No visual anomalies were seen, though at one point I saw something grayish white fly from behind Susan, which could have been a large insect of some sort.

Upon review of the photographs taken, there were several "orb"-like features with greenish color. I am not sure if this was some kind of lens or dust anomaly. You be the judge (click images to enlarge):







In addition to the above pictures, there were a couple more perplexing images, and although I tend towards explaining these away as the result of long duration shutter speeds, I put them up for viewing anyway. The shutter was on automatic, and automatic with flash on the second. I imagine that the shutter speeds were in the neighborhood of one second or less, since these were point and shoot shots. In any case, there were occasional car and building lights across the street to the north end of the bridge which makes ascribing these to anything paranormal difficult.


Below were some of the questions asked using the sound recorder. The sound is a bit garbled, but amid the only background noise of the occasional bird sound or a far away car, there appeared to be a definite, unexplainable noise that may have appeared in response to these questions:

Recording 1 "Are you here" [perceived answer: "what?"]
Recording 2 "Is anyone here?" [perceived answer: "yes!"]
Recording 3 "Do you haunt this bridge?" [perceived answer: "what the f*ck?"]
Recording 3 again using a filter

Impressions:

It is worth mentioning that after taking a moment to focus in I felt some unhappiness/trauma/negativity related to the environment. I saw and felt an impact and a going backwards, so perhaps someone was truck in the forehead by someone or with an object. Susan, who is empathic, seemed to confirm similar negative impressions. Attempting to get more EVP material, I asked if anyone needed any help. We both reported feeling a warmth and a change in the tone of the energy shortly after that.

As we turned away and were at the edge of the bridge ready to leave, we all three heard three distinct raps on the rail of the bridge. Jack, ever the skeptic-minded among us, dismissed it as a noise occurring much further away, but being the closest to the noise, whatever the source actually was, I was able to discern it as being right on the side of the bridge.

Overall our findings are inconclusive, but this may warrant more investigation.

Investigators: John Adams, Susan Crawford, and Jack Noble