Reports of paranormal activity come and go through the years but one incident changed my perspective on spirits. I realized that what we call ‘ghosts’ are pockets of trapped energy.
Years ago, a newspaper in El Cajon, CA, called the Daily Californian assigned a series of travel stories for me to write. One involved driving to Riverside County to stay overnight at a place called The Mission Inn.
This property has been described many ways but it is fantasy and whimsy woven into architecture. Life-size figurines rotate through the clock tower, hidden stairways lead into catacombs and balconies are everywhere. There was even a huge Buddha that you could sit in his lap and have your picture taken as Raquel Welch did at one time.
I was booked into a room, had done my dining review and started to go to sleep. Every time I closed my eyes, I felt someone right in front of me. Every single time. For hours. I turned every light on, then off and back on. It was exhausting.
Nothing would make it go away. At 2:30am, I gave up and checked out. I left the hotel and drove all the way back to San Diego arriving just before dawn.
I still don’t know what was in that room with me but I felt it and it was there. And I don’t believe in ghosts. After that experience, I did decide that maybe energy gets trapped. That is what my gut feeling was from that hotel room, something was trapped and I was invading its space.
Recently, a friend with a camera and I decided to try to do a video story on the historic Eagle Mine in Julian, CA and came upon a similar scene in the ‘hoist room.’ I wasn’t stunned as I recognized the feeling. My camera man had a different reaction.
He ran out of the mine and the only video we got is the ground as he ran. I wrote the story with still shots. He claims when he lifted the camera, he saw someone standing behind me.
Ghosts are pockets of energy trapped at the wrong vibration so they disturb the surrounding energy. When sensitive people get near imbalanced areas, some perceive angst. Sometimes, similar energy will join or merge temporarily. Boundaries dissolve and re-appear-but not at will.
When man began manipulating electricity and other forms of power, imbalances formed that may be felt by certain humans-artists, writers, creatives, etc. Everything was once pure energy that came down in vibration to ‘appear.’ Some clusters become caught in a rapid vibration and are perceived by the artists among us.
