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Mum Sees Angels, Kids Talk to the Dead
Connecticut Haunting Spooks Man and Beast
UFO Crash Reported - Kettle Moraine State Park, Wisconsin

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 08:59 AM PST

I want to thank SW for her blog post at In the Top 10 of 2009. It has been an absolute pleasure working with her and I hope to continue our paranormal relationship in the future. Kudos to her, my readers and our associates at the wiki for a very productive and interesting 2009. Happy Holidays...Lon

Mum Sees Angels, Kids Talk to the Dead

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 08:20 AM PST

thesun - From the outside, the Holmes family house looks charmingly normal.

Set in a peaceful Cambridgeshire village, it offers no clues that it may be home to Britain's most psychic family and has regular visitors - both living and dead.

And while every parent believes their offspring to be special, Kylie Holmes perhaps has more cause than most.

The mum claims her three children - Jade, 11, Amba, nine, and five-year-old Leo - all have remarkable, but very different, psychic powers.

Jade, she says, has vivid memories of previous lives, Amba sees ghosts and little Leo has regular conversations with the dead.

Kylie says: "They have always seen and heard things that others don't. It's just a regular part of their lives."

The children are so relaxed about their psychic abilities they have even put pen to paper to draw some of the strange things they have encountered.

While it may look like a typical childhood drawing, Leo's picture of his family has a spooky subtext - as well as his living family members, it depicts his lost sibling - a baby Kylie miscarried at the beginning of the year.

And Jade's simple line drawing from 2002 shows an angelic friend she claims to meet on a regular basis.

While many might dismiss the drawings as the product of over-active imaginations, a strange photo of the three youngsters is harder to explain.

It shows them on The Giant's Causeway in Ireland, surrounded by a radiant white light.

Kylie says: "It's just a manifestation of the energy of the three children themselves, combined with that of the place itself."

As if that was not spooky enough, Kylie, 39, also has a connection to the paranormal and works as an "angel therapist", helping clients communicate with the dead.

Indeed, the only member of the family who isn't psychic is dad Eric, 48, a former soldier, who brands his wife and children a "bunch of weirdos". He is more likely to retreat behind his paper than commune with angels.

Eric says: "They aren't doing anyone any harm - but I don't believe in any of it."

But Dad's scepticism does not deter the rest of the family, who seem to be a hub of ghostly activity.

Kylie's psychic experiences started when she was just 20.

After a relationship failed, she slipped into a crushing depression which resulted in her taking an overdose.

When she woke in hospital, she saw "a being surrounded by light" at the end of her bed, who told her she would recover.

Putting the experience down to the medication, Kylie brushed off the vision - but she had a surprise in store when she returned home.

"I was a total cynic before that point," she says, "but when I got back home I found my house full of beautiful, white feathers and had this incredible feeling of peace."

Kylie is convinced she had an angelic visitor and since then has been passionately committed to her unusual career.

"I get in touch with the angelic realm and receive assistance about clients' lives," she explains, in a matter-of-fact way.

Kylie is adamant angel readings are not fortune-telling.

"It is up to individuals to make decisions, I can only give them guidance," she says.

Kylie's children are normal in most respects, enjoying swimming, playing on their Wii console and watching X Factor on TV.

But with such a psychic mum, perhaps it is no surprise all three believe they have inherited unusual gifts.

Kylie says, "It was when I was driving Jade home from nursery one day, when she was only four, that I first realised she had a special talent.

"She asked me, 'Mummy, do you remember when I was the mummy and you were the baby?

"She went on to talk about something she could have had no knowledge of at her age - describing pushing an old- fashioned metal pram in minute detail.

"I was so shocked, I nearly crashed the car. I remember my hands shaking on the wheel.

"When I got home I printed off lots of pictures of different prams from the internet.

"I showed them to her and she picked out the Victorian one, without hesitation.

"Since then she has often talked about her experience of being a Victorian woman with a child."

Jade insists she is not be scared of her powers, saying: "I'm glad that I get the chance to remember previous lives - it makes me happy." Just a few months after Jade's shock announcement, it was Amba's turn to surprise her mum.

Aged just two at the time, she told Kylie there was "a man in black" outside in the garden.

When Kylie went out to investigate, she felt "a very bad presence" rushing past her on the stairs.

"It made me physically sick in the kitchen sink and Amba was very wary about coming back into the house," she says.

That was just the first of many ghostly sightings Amba says she has experienced.

The next came 18 months later when, aged just four, she told her mum about a cyclist she saw on the corner of the road.

It turned out a man exactly matching the little girl's description had been killed at that location three days earlier.

While little Amba's visions seem a bit more frightening than her older sister's, Amba has one compensation - she says she can see fairies as well.

"I saw a fairy in the living room and another one by the wheelie bins. They are nice. The dead people I see don't really talk to me, but sometimes they wave," she says.

Five-year-old Leo also seems to be shaping up nicely as a psychic. At the beginning of this year, he told Kylie he knew she was pregnant - even though she had not told anyone.

Since her miscarriage, Leo claims he can converse with his missing brother, as well as his late great-grandmother.

Kylie says: "He tells me the baby and Nanny Phyl are together and happy."

The Holmes children seem totally at ease with their unusual experiences.

Jade says: "I feel special in that I can see things my friends don't, but I am still just like them in every other way. I still play with them. Nobody treats me differently because of it and I don't feel scared by what happens."

And their mum is supportive.

She says: "I don't want to tell them what they see isn't real. I encourage them to connect with their spiritual side."

In fact, Kylie is so convinced of the spiritual powers of children - not just her own - she has written a book about living with psychic kids, which includes anecdotes from all over the country.

Professor Chris French, head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit of Goldsmiths College at the University of London, is more cautious.

He said: "Kylie may well be 100 per cent sincere in her beliefs but that does not mean she really does communicate with the dead via angels.

"It sounds quite likely that Kylie is what psychologists would call a 'fantasy prone personality'. Such people have vivid imaginations and often confuse fantasies with reality.

"This does not mean they are 'crazy' but they are certainly more likely to have unusual experiences compared to most.

"Most children have vivid imaginations and enjoy fantasy play and that's a perfectly healthy part of growing up.

"But it is important for them to learn ghosts and bogeymen are not real."

While aware some people may scoff at her claims, Kylie simply shrugs.

She says: "Everyone should be free to believe in what they want without being the subject of ridicule.

"I don't feel it is appropriate to try and convince anyone.

"My children and I know the truth."

But her husband remains less than convinced.

Smiling, Kylie says: "Eric does think we're mad. He doesn't believe in an afterlife at all.

"But he believes in us, and to him that's all that matters."

Connecticut Haunting Spooks Man and Beast

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 06:23 AM PST

registercitizen - The horses do not mysteriously switch stalls at the Santos farm anymore.

Nor does the cat's bowl move from one step to another step to another.

Donna Santos believed spirits were at work inside her house and inside her barn on West Hill Road. According to her, the horses moving from one stall to another and the cat's bowl moving are the work of spirits.

"There are no more ghosts. They're all gone," Donna Santos said. "My horses are very happy now that the paranormal society has finished its work. They're not scared anymore. Since they came to investigate, everything has been fine."

Besides the horses switching stables on their own and the cat bowl moving on its own, the family's dog growled at apparently invisible beings, Donna said in an interview this week.

Her husband Bob, son Danny, daughter Cari, and Donna became uncomfortable living in their house. Unable to find a rational explanation for these occurrences, the family began considering the notion that they lived among spirits.

"I did not move the horses. My husband did not move the horses," Donna said. "Our children did not move the horses."

"The horses could not unlock themselves and move on their own," she said. "Something had to move them."

Eventually, she heard about a group called the Northwest Connecticut Paranormal Society. Comprised of people who believe they have experienced a paranormal activity, the society scrutinizes instances in which people report suspected supernatural activities.

Donna Santos initially suspected someone broke into her barn, unlocked the horses from their stalls and then moved them around. Eventually, she called the state police and had state troopers stay outside her barn on at least one night; even then, in the morning she found the horses were in different stalls, Donna said.

John Zontok, the founder of this paranormal society, describes himself as a skeptic and a critical thinker. With its goal being to educate people, the society includes a college professor, a professional photographer, a paralegal, a business executive, a Marine, a Reiki master, college students and a dog, according to the organization.

"Something in the barn was threatening her animals," Zontok said. "We captured several unexplainable voices."

The team uses an array of devices in an effort to determine the source of suspected paranormal activities. Seeking an answer to people who have many questions, the paranormal society does not charge any money for its services.

"Our main goal is to find something to show that paranormal activity exists," Zontok said. "I am a sceptic regarding the paranormal."

As the paranormal society people investigated activities in the barn, they were filmed by Picture Shack Productions. The production company interviewed the Santos family at their farm in January and June. Picture Shack Productions documented the paranormal society's investigation at the Santos house.

Picture Shack sold its work to Animal Planet. The television network will broadcast the piece on Sunday, Dec. 13, at 10 p.m. as part of a series called The Haunted.

Ever since the paranormal society people investigated, the unexplained phenomenon have stopped, according to Donna Santos.

Toward this end, she praised the paranormal society people for giving their time and skills.

UFO Crash Reported - Kettle Moraine State Park, Wisconsin

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 10:01 AM PST

The following account was reported on Dec.4th:

"On Wednesday Nov. 25th while hiking the area of Kettle Moraine State Park (Wisconsin) a friend and I noticed a strong sulfuric odor coming from the woods. Looking down we saw what appeared to be a small craft at the bottom of a hill. Upon further investigation we found that the damage to the craft consisted only of a few dents and scratches. My companion and I returned later with a large flat bed tow and full bio hazard suits, covered the thing completely with tarp and hauled it to locked refrigerated storage."

"We photographed the object on site but I had to remove all color from the photograph just to be able to see it as everything in the photo had a deep blue color. We also photographed the stump the craft had landed on and that photo also came out blue."

"We were unable to open the craft and from the available window we could only see 4 coffin like objects which appear to be made out of the same titanium like substance as the craft itself."

"I fully recognize the value of such an object and am therefore offering it for sale to the highest bidder."

"I will warn you all that the smell of sulfur is intolerable especially in the enclosed storage area and because of this we will not be showing this object unless all involved are safely attired in full bio hazard suits and masks."

"Further information on the craft's exact location will not be released to anyone other than serious inquirers able to afford such a unique find. We will not risk our health for mere "curiosity seekers"!

The following email was later forwarded to me after I made an inquiry:

We found it hiking in Kettle Moraine Park in Wisconsin and believe we were the first and only people to see it. In fact we actually smelled it before we saw it. It has a very very strong sulferic smell and because of that we put on full biohazard gear before moving the thing to refridgerated storage. Aileen has all drawings and available photos of it.

NOTE: Well, these witnesses certainly are coy on releasing images of this supposed find. I am not going to post any of their contact information based on the lack of evidence and the fact that they are attempting to make a profit. If any further information comes forward I will post an update...Lon

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