The Moon completes a full orbit around the Earth every 29.5 days. The phases of the Moon are:

• New Moon
• Waxing Moon (when the Moon gets bigger in the sky, a narrow crescent growing from right to left)
• Waning Moon (when the Full Moon is decreasing in size, moving back towards the New Moon, gradually changing to a decreasing crescent from right to left)
• Gibbous Moon is the period beween the first quarter and Full Moon and between the Full Moon and last quarter.

During the New Moon phase the position of the moon means no light is reflected off the Sun, so it is not visible at all.

The Full Moon appears 14 to 15 days after the New Moon and appears as a glorious glowing white circle in the night sky. This phase reflects the maximum amount of light from the Sun.

Magic of the Moon Spell No. 1 (Magic Moon Water)

Leave a jug of spring water out in the light of the Full Moon. This water is excellent for washing your face to impart beauty and purity and can also be used to energetically cleanse crystals and imbue them with the magic of the Full Moon.

Do you have a Ghostly Guest?

Take our paranormal checklist to see if you might have a ghostly visitor in your home.

1. Is there any room or area in your home that you really don’t want to go into or that you would rather not spend too much time in?

2. Do you ever feel you’re being watched or that someone is standing right behind you, but when you turn around you are on your own?

3. Ever catch a strange scent or odor that doesn’t belong in your house i.e. perfume, tobacco, flowers?

4. Do you have any cold spots in the house with no physical cause?

5. Do your lights dim, TV channels or volume change, batteries drain, despite no one being near appliances or switches?

6. Do your clocks stop or chime too many times?

7. Would your dog appear anxious, stare in space at nothing in particular, or howl for no reason?

8. Do you have nightmares or wake up startled during the night – more than once a week?

9. Would you hear your name being called when no one is looking for you?

Ok, if you answered yes to more than 3 of these questions, you might have an unwanted guest!

Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery, Chicago, USA

Reputed to be one of the most paranormally active cemeteries in the world. From the famous White Lady who appears when the moon is full to ghostly cars running people down, this lonely and very neglected location is well known for it’s apparitions and paranormal activities. Not used since 1965, it’s name is derived from the over-abundance of bachelors that lived in the area in the mid 19th century. As well as voices, cold spots, lights and apparitions, a ghostly Victorian house has been seen in the cemetery since the 1950’s, even though there are no records of one ever being in this spot. As a visitor approaches the house with it’s welcoming glow, it vanishes. There are reports of people who have managed to gain entry, only to disappear forever. 

Old Center Cemetery, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

Very eerie and creepy graveyard, located in Andover, New Hampshire with old graves that lean and tilt quite spookily. The soil is soft and sandy, appearing to grab onto a visitors feet as they walk through. The main ghost associated with Old Center is that of a woman wearing a diaphonous white gown who waves at people passing by to come into the cemetery. Only seen at night as a glimmering image, she then vanishes. The other spirit known at this cemetery is that of a young man who made a pact with the Devil in colonial times. He is thought to have perished in horrible circumstances inside the cemetery gates and was buried in an unmarked grave outside the graveyard. He is seen beckoning to passing motorists, only to disappear when they stop. Take a look around at your peril…

Kansas Aviation Museum, Wichita

An old disused airport and museum combined together – and haunted! This is my kind of place to visit! This wonderful building was one of the busiest airports in the 1940′s in the US with airplanes taking off and landing every 90 seconds. Eventually it was closed down and changed to an aviation museum. Paranormal activity is regularly reported, in particular the sounds of crowds walking, talking and laughing, residual tannoy announcements and also an apparition of a man wearing a fedora hat. Doors slam, music from the 40′s and 50′s can definitely be heard and there is a feeling of people all around the building. Fascinating place to visit.

Welcome to the island of no return. The place is known as Poveglia, and to local Venetians, many believe that the island is almost a living, breathing, evil entity. While the island is beautiful by day, many are fearful to enter at night.

About five miles of the coast of Italy is an island that sits much like Alcatraz. More than 100,000 people have perished here. With that many deaths, the souls have nowhere to be free but here.

As you walk through much of the trails, it seems as if the trees are consuming your world. For whatever reason, it’s as if the earth wants to consume you and take you with it. Many Venetians are fearful of speaking about such a place. The atmosphere is very much suffocating, and at times you feel as if you’re unwanted.

The Peste Nera, or “Black Death consumed much of Europe during the 13th century. More than one third of Venice’s population was decimated by it. Within five days, many victims were dead. The bodies began to pile up in the streets. The swollen decay of the dying would be bricked up within their own homes. Anyone who tried to escape would be murdered on the spot.

Victims would be buried in graves called Plague Pits. So many victims began to pile up, that many were hauled into pits, some while still alive. They would then be burned. Since there were so many victims, the solution was to bring the victims to the island of Poveglia.

Without proper burials, the spirits of these lost souls still linger. Many Venetians are respectful of the dead, and will usually not step foot on this island. In fact, many refuse to go here. Even to ask a Venetian to take you to the island, they not only look at you as if you’re mad, but almost with curiosity. The waters surrounding the island still dredges up the bones of the dead by fishermen.

To make matters worse, a hospital was built on the island for the ill in 1922. The doctor of the hospital performed cruel experiments on the patients because they began to see the dead. The doctor was then pushed from the top of the bell tower by unseen hands. Going by at night, you can actually hear that bell tower toll, though not a single soul is on the creepy land of death.

To step foot on the island is to bring fear to your senses. You walk amongst ash, or what many believe to be human ash. You feel breaths upon your neck; feel your hair stand on end. And at times you often wonder if that’s really screaming that you hear. You also feel an impending danger, and a need to get off the island. At one point you see moving shadows that make you wonder, ”Did I just see that? I sure enough did, and now I need to change my soiled pants.” Needless to say, to go to that place takes immense cojones, and a reserve. You may not believe in ghosts, but there is something about the island that is unnerving and will make you believe in something.

Venice, Italy

One of the most haunted cities in Europe. Not the Venice that tourists know, but the dark and mysterious alleyways and side streets only known to the locals. After the sun goes down, if you are not careful, it is possible to get trapped in a time loop. There are numerous locations where you can see the ghostly figures in the shadows of the old buildings, which usually vanish into thin air when they realize that they have been spotted. The Island of No Return is a place that locals are reluctant to venture to – either at day or night. An overwhelming sense of negativity surrounds the area and ghostly voices and footsteps are often heard in the mist. Poyeglia is another Venetian island which housed bodies of those who had died of the Black Plague and also those who were still alive , but dying. In later years, a hospital was built on the site, where mental patients were housed and supposedly experimented on. This location is closed to the public, although psychics who were granted permission to investigate are said to have been frightened to death by what they found. Very disturbing.

PS101 – Paranormal Investigator Certification

The Paranormal Investigator Certification (PS101) course offered by Flamel College is one of the most respected in this field. The course is designed for students wishing to conduct paranormal investigations and research apparition and ghost sightings, the nature of the soul, poltergeist activity, and voice, electronic, and photographic evidence of paranormal activity. Included is a sophisticated electronic ghost hunting device, so you can start your investigations immediately. Successful candidates will be granted a certificate, issued a professional laminated identification card, and listed in directories of paranormal investigators if desired. The course includes a proprietary manual and syllabus to guide you step-by-step through your studies. Also included is a sophisticated electronic EMF meter used to detect ghosts (shown at right). The textbook that comes with the course is How to Be a Ghost Hunter by paranormal investigator Richard Southall. Southall has been conducting paranormal investigations for nearly twenty years and his four-phase procedure for conducting effective investigation is widely  praised for its professional and evidence-rich results. Aside from his investigations, Southall creates haunted tours, teaches workshops on ghost hunting, and has contributes to numerous periodicals, as well as being interviewed on many television and radio programs. His illustrated field-guide for paranormal researchers is the only handbook that details so many practical facets of conducting investigations:

• How to find and research suspected haunted areas.
• How to conduct effective eyewitness interviews.
• How to form paranormal groups.
• How to use electronic detection equipment in an investigation.
• How to capture paranormal phenomena on various kinds of cameras.
• How to record disembodied voices and paranormal sounds on tape.
• How to assemble an affordable ghost-hunting kit.
• How to undertake special investigations such as graveyards.

The textbook for the course also provides contact information for numerous paranormal organizations and sources for hard-to-find equipment such as electromagnetic detectors and infrared film. The book contains actual photographs in which you are asked to search for signs of paranormal energy like orbs and faces of the departed, and it includes a glossary, index, and appendices. You can purchase extra copies of this book from the Flamel College Bookstore.

Tuition for this course is $95 and includes the price of the textbooks and EMF meter. To enroll online now with a credit card (you do not have to fill out the Enrollment Form), click the button below and pay tuition online, by mail, or by fax.

It all started in l898 when the ten year old son of Olof Ohman, who was farming two and half miles northeast of Kensington, found strange markings on a slab of rock that had just been pried out of the ground. The son, Edward, called his father’s attention to the stone.

The father, who had been clearing trees and rocks from a level space on top of a hill 40 feet above the surrounding low land, saved the stone, and later showed it to prominent citizens in Kensington. No one was able to completely decipher the stone, until nine years later when Hjalmer R. Holand, a University of Wisconsin graduate student with a major in history, heard of the stone on a trip to Kensington.

Mr. Holand translated the stone and found it to read,“8 Goths and 22 Norweigans on exploration journey from Vinland over the west. We camp by 2 skerries one day-journey from this stone. We were and fished one day. After we came home, 10 men red with blood and tourtured. Hail Virgin Mary, save from evil. Have 10 men by the sea to look after our ship, 14 day -journeys from this island year 1362.”

The translation of this stone sparked an international search to find out if it could possibly be genuine. The Minnesota Historical society appointed five scholars to investigate, and after a year and half of work reported the stone genuine.

The Kensington Runestone is 31 inches high, 16 inches wide, six inches thick and weighs 202 pounds.

This is how the expedition, 130 years before Columbus started:

Navigator for the crews was Nicolas of Lynn, an English astronomer who was known throughout Europe. He brought the small ships safely to Iceland, Greenland, Rhode Island and Hudson Bay. While the main party went south looking for a safer way back to New England than the bitter cold northern route, he mapped the whole of Hudson Bay and discovered, for the first time in history, the magnetic North Pole.

The sons of Columbus said the discovery of islands in the west by Lynn, was one of the factors which encouraged his father to try the southern route to America. A map by John Ruysch, dated 1508, refers to the discovery of the magnetic North Pole as an accomplished fact. In 1537 a map was published of Hudson Bay showing the discoveries of Lynn, which included such details as spring thaws which flooded to the north.

The American evidence is equally extensive.

A series of 15 campsites have been found, running from Hudson Bay to Sauk Centre, Minnesota. The Vikings, as is still the case in Norway, cut triangular holes in convenient rock ledges to which to fasten anchor pins for their boats.

Because the Indians or early settlers to Minnesota did not use such type of holes, these mooring holes are distinctive and have not been molested. They are so old, the rain and sand have worn the tiny chisel marks on their inner surfaces smooth. Several have been found at projected intermediate places along the route.

There are a number of actual 1362 period Norse instruments, which have been taken to Europe and found to be identical with similar instruments in the Nordic museum near Stockholm and other museums.

These instruments have been found in no other place in the North American continent showing they could not have been brought to this country by settlers.

These instruments include a firesteel for making fires; a ceremonial halbred signifying a royal expedition; a heavy battle axe with a 16 inch cutting edge; a light battle axe, used for fighting men in armoured suits; a spear head; a Nordic sword, and other relics which include mooring stone pins.

The Verendrye Runestone was found in 1783 near Minot, North Dakota. It was fitted into a pillar, had runic markings on both sides and was about 5 inches wide and 13 inches long. Indians who were asked about the stone said it had been part of the pillar since time immemorial.

Verendrye, a French explorer, took the stone to eastern Canada, where it was studied by Jesuit priests, and then he took it to France where it became lost. The Minnesota Historical Society has offered a $1,000.00 reward for its rediscovery.

Mr Holand says it may well have been found in Mandan territory and that it may carry an additional message from the Vikings who lived out their lives with those Indians.

There are blue-eyed Mandan Indians who knew about Christianity before the first settlers arrived, and who lived in square medieval-Norwegian design buildings. It is believed that the main party which went south from Hudson Bay had a special religious service at Sauk Centre at a huge stone alter there and then turned back north to rejoin their comrades.

However, due to accident, fire, error in judgment, or unexpected severe fall headwinds, they were unable to return in time to go with Lynn on his return back to Europe. So, they cast their lot with the Mandan Indians, widely known for their noble mode of life.