Ghosts, Ghosts and More Ghosts
by Alexandra Holzer
A wise seasoned parapsychologist used to say, ‘Some of my best friends are ghosts!’ ‘Really?” I thought to myself. That is quite a statement and one showing bravery and understanding of the unknown. That quote would be from my late father, the good Dr. Hans Holzer, the original ghostbuster. He came to a point with his work and life’s curiosity filled challenges to feel that way, which would have meant there would have been an underlying hidden meaning. After-all, were talking about the man who pioneered and modernized the field taking it and ‘them’ to a whole new level.
Perhaps father, as many others, may have felt that ghosts were better to ‘hang around’ with then some humans. I wouldn’t doubt it as I wouldn’t doubt anything in the occult and paranormal especially today with cable TV leading the para-pack. Oh there are topics I snicker at because that’s my opinion, but on the whole I don’t joke about the dead and beyond. I don’t joke about what happens when we pass also known as crossing over. I do however; do a mean joke on how transparent some of them can be. They cross and become just as difficult or annoying as they were in life. Oh wait never-mind as that would be my father as nothing has changed. I found that out recently during a séance I helped in Upstate New York at a haunted hotel.
I believe Medium and TV Show Personality Jon Edwards, really coined that term when his show was picked up. Something magical happens when the soul detaches from the body and whisks off into an invisible realm where it can eventually go back and forth between Earth and the Afterlife world. Those are spirits who were lucky enough to peacefully leave their once human existence to go on and continue another way of living. However, for those trapped by terrible causes of death, causes whether they created them or not, become the walking dead!
These poor souls are the ghosts I speak of as a ghost is ‘stuck’ or just really liking the decor in your home or what you got in the fridge. Society is very wrapped up in the notion of ‘well, if you can’t see it then it doesn’t exist!’ Just like if we don’t look at the car accident as were driving by, it didn’t happen and there will not be a terrible impression made upon us. That and the poor animals that become road kill. Where do you think their spirits go to? A flattened out squirrel more than likely is continuing on his or her journey of the perfect nut find so hopefully they won’t mind much leaving their little furry bodies behind. Humans though, on the other hand many a times, do. You have to try and venture outside your mind and opinions at some point and you may not like what you see. How an individual deals with a difficult situation depends on many factors and everyone has to do it their own way. So, when one comes across a ‘ghost’ or a ‘haunting,’ there are many questions and openings to be explained, answered or left as unexplained.
