THE CAPE COD GHOSTHUNTER / by Dave Sircom

AN ENTITY BY ANY OTHER NAME

dave@nespi.net — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:57:00 GMT

AN ENTITY BY ANY OTHER NAME / by Dave Sircom

Those of you whom are faithful and loyal NESPI fans know that we categorize all paranormal activity in to the general classifications:

RESIDUAL ENERGY

ENTITY

POLTERGEIST

The one I’m concerned with today is the classification of ENTITY.

“ENTITY is intelligent, conscious and fully aware of its environment and reacts to stimuli. It may or may not be a discarnate human being or animal. Sometimes seen as full or partial apparition, white mist or black shadow. Most commonly communicated with by means of Electronic Voice Phenomena.”

I am proposing we add two sub-classifications to ENTITY.

NON-TRANSIENT

This spirit or entity is either confined by force or choice to a limited area of existence; upstairs bedroom, first floor or entire structure but whichever it is, it is defined to only that space and will not leave it.

TRANSIENT

Freely wanders wherever it chooses. It is not bound to any location or object. This is the one that will follow you home! This spirit or entity makes frequent use of portals or vortexes when available.

Once, during a recording session in my home office on summer morning, I asked, just out of the blue, “Is there any spirit or entity here with me in the house?” The response came with a soft and peaceful female and male voice in tandem “Yeeesss”. With good headphones you can often tell in what direction the voice comes from and this time I knew it was the adjoining bedroom. My next question was “How long have you been here?” again, the tandem response was “A while.” My final question was “Why are you here?” And the response was “So quiet.” I let them alone and never heard from them again. From time to time others would answer that same question and tell me they liked it here because it was restful or peaceful. It actually made me feel good. I was running a B & B for ghosts!

This brings me to a short story about names. This transpired about the fall of 2004. Every legitimate EVP researcher will tell you how difficult it is to get these things to give us their names. Unless you call for a specific person, and even then there is no guarantee you are actually communicating with that deceased person unless you ask a series of questions only that individual would know the answers to, for confirmation. Anyway, I’m asking if there is any spirit or entity that wishes to communicate and I get a faint little female voice that says “I do!” We have a wonderful conversation and at the end she tells me her name but swears me to secrecy about it. I realize she is breaking a rule so I promise never to divulge her name. To this day, I have kept that promise. The next several weeks are quite fruitful and we actually become friends as she tells me her last name, that she had been a teacher; she taught History, was married with two children and died in a car accident. As you will find out as you progress in you own EVP work, this kind of information is real hard and almost impossible to get. I couldn’t believe it. My next set of questions were factual in nature as to where she had resided, what year was the accident, all in an effort to be able to corroborate that she truly existed somewhere, sometime. I could, most likely, track her down through the internet. But I never got the chance. On the next session I immediately called for my friend and was greeted foul-mouthed voice with a very guttural sound. Sort of like a big pissed off “Cookie Monster” which told me to never contact her again. Now, I’ve done this along time, I don’t scare easy, anymore, and asked “Who the hell do you think you are?” he replied “Her husband.” WOW, right between the eyes! It might have been my imagination but I truly thought I could hear her softly crying in the background. Obviously, I let it go.

Well, about three months later I figured I’ll give her another try and excitedly asked for her to come forward. Immediately the foul mouth growl responds with “Stay away. You’ve been warned!”

That was about four years ago, maybe it’s time for another try! I’ll keep you posted.

THE CAPE COD GHOSTHUNTER / by Dave Sircom

AN ENTITY BY ANY OTHER NAME

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