Living with Ghosts - June 2010

Over the years I have spent a lot of time and energy clearing people’s houses of Ghosts, entities and blocked energy, as a medium this can be a very rewarding experience, when the spirit has been moved on and the client feels happy again in their home you know that you have done a good job.

I am of the opinion that until you experience such things your self you never really get to know how this would affect you both emotionally and physically.

Since the age of four I have lived in haunted houses but none of these encounters ever really bothered me until now, about a year ago I was drawn to a house in France my only feeling about the place came from a picture via the Internet, it looked harmless enough nestled on a hill surrounded by farmland, I tried several times to view it but each time something happened to stop me going there. Time was running out so the decision was made to move in and take a chance on the house, and at the time I had no odd feelings about the place and the excitement of moving put aside any niggles I had of living there. Looking back I should have taken note of my intuition as I do feel some places draw you to them for good and bad purposes. It was June and as the removal lorry unloaded the last of the boxes we all sighed with relief as the day had been long and extremely hot.

The house is double fronted and has two levels to it, the first floor has a bedroom to the right of the front door, a middle hallway and rooms leading off from that area, upstairs is completely self contained comprising of two bedrooms, bathroom, living room and kitchen, we decided to live in the downstairs space and leave the upstairs for visitors at least the living kind anyway.

That week we set about emptying boxes and cleaning the old house up .I was not disappointed in the house it was a lovely two hundred year old farmhouse with plenty of character.

My first feeling something was not quite right came the second week after moving in, it was a lovely summer night and I had been sitting in the garden with my husband, the hall light was on and a faint glow shone out of the front door casting a shadow on the steps leading up to the front of the house, my husband saw it first, a figure standing in the hallway, a silhouette of a man, at first we thought a neighbour had called round, but the image faded away and on inspection of the house no one except us was about. That night I could not sleep and our dog sensing this slept on the end of the bed. In the morning all seemed normal and we went about painting the brick walls and clearing away the odd bits of furniture that had been left here, the house itself looked like it had been stuck in a time warp, you could almost imagine being back in the 1940s and feel the energy of that time.

It was not long before the dog started to growl at night and he would not leave our bedroom, one night I woke to see and hear him growling at the door, the room was freezing even though it was mid summer and very humid outside, and then it started the footsteps across the floorboards, the smell of tobacco, doors shutting and windows opening with no wind, and a growling sound that spooked our dog into a barking frenzy.

Enough was enough and I set about clearing the property, I was very careful to check for portals and vortexes, I did connect to a spirit on that first attempt, a polish worker, a man in his fifties a pleasant gentleman, our tobacco smoker, he left without much persuasion and as he was the spirit that had stood at the bedroom door I felt that area was clear, well at least for now.

There are some house that just refuse to be cleared and this was one of them, it takes a lot of energy to do this and I was finding that it was an ongoing job, the house is built on ley lines and a well next to the bedroom wall acts as a portal which cannot be closed, even with help and my experience of the paranormal this house leaves you with many questions about the paranormal. We are still here and live with good days and bad days when the energy builds and you can no longer ignore it, and I set about another clearing, I think the sleepless nights get to my husband and when the shadows appear and the animals get spooked then we consider leaving, but for now we live beside these dimensions and hope they can do the same for us.