Volunteer State had an amazing and busy year in 2011. We like to thank everyone who has supported us on our website and facebook page, those taking time to come see us at public lectures on the Paranormal and public investigations we have worked at.

YEAR REVIEW

The early part of 2011 VSPR did a daytime investigation at Rippavilla Plantation, Spring Hill TN in March. We tried some new techniques with EVP questioning. This gave us some great results and answers to questions on some of the history of Rippavilla.

In the month of April, Rippavilla asked for VSPR to help with a public investigation with special guest Chris Fleming. Chris Fleming had seen VSPR’s video on the PX/ITC session we did in the cellar of Rippavilla in 2010. He was impressed with the data collected and wanted to come investigate Rippavilla and to hopefully experience the activity that we had. After the public investigation, Chris commented that he was amazed on the amount of paranormal activity and spirit interaction at Rippavilla. He carried on a full conversation for a full 30 minutes in the old school house on the property, using the spirit box PSB7. He had said it was the first time he had encountered such a long 1 on 1 conversation.  It was great  to have Chris do a walk through the house and do a psychic reading. A lot that he was feeling about the property matched with our EVP data finds and our team psychic readings.

During that public investigation at Rippavilla, VSPR had put a motion camera in the cellar. The camera captured an unknown figure in front of the camera that we were not able to debunk.

The month of May VSPR worked on a private investigation in west Nashville. An investigation that we felt was life changing experience for the team. We investigated a property that had a recent tragic death and paranormal activity had started to happen. The investigation involved multiple EVP sessions conducted during the day and night.  During those investigations the team encountered many personal encounters. Some of the experiences were, seeing shadow figures, team members being physically touched, and communication responses by knocks and the use of our motion lights. The EVP’s we captured from this case were just amazing and made us a bigger believer of life after death. We are not able to share more detail on this due to client confidentiality.

During the summer and fall of 2011, VSPR guest spoke at the Center of Symmetry during the Moonlight Festival. We enjoyed meeting with our fans and meeting new friends. During the Moonlight Festival VSPR was able to share data and our personal experiences from our investigations. VSPR is looking forward to return in 2012 with new finds and experiences at future Moonlight Festivals.

September was VSPR’S first public investigation sponsored by ourselves. We did this due to the amount of people requesting to go on an investigation with VSPR. The public investigation was held at Octagon Hall in Franklin, Kentucky. Stephen Hill was originally our invited guest speaker on ITC (Instrumental Trans communication), but sadly canceled due to illness. VSPR was honored to have Donna Marsh to fill in  and  come guest speak on her recent published book “Nashville Haunted Handbook” and Donna shared her paranormal expereinces and  lead a team during the investigation. Kiki Dombrowski, VSPR team psychic guest spoke on her abilities and how she works with VSPR. Followed by Mike Sears sharing data collected from Octagon Hall and other investigations VSPR has done. The investigation turned to be a very active night; especially in the barn and slave cabin. The investigation ended the night upstairs in the home where  VSPR team member Lance Whalen played a civil war song on his guitar. At the end of the song the room went quite and we asked did you like the song. Four KII EMF meters in different locations of the room all lit up to red on the light meter at the same time.

From August to December. VSPR worked several private cases,two private residence and  a high school. We are still reviewing the data from the school investigation. During the investigation Mike and a teacher from the school saw a ball of light float out of the wall and then fly back into the wall in one of the classrooms. During some of the EVP sessions there was EMF interaction and several people were touched on their arm and leg. Hope to have some of our finds from this investigation up on our Facebook page and YouTube page in near future.

The year ended with VSPR helping the Clement Railroad Museum in Dickson, Tennessee with a public investigation. It was the very first time for the museum to hold a public investigation, which helped making it a sold out event. One of the ticket holders  who attended is a  known psychic and author Debra Katz who came all the way from California for the investigation. The museum turned skeptics in to believers that night. A team lead by Monique Sears conducted an EVP session in the gift shop of the museum. The windows were all fogged over in the shop during the EVP session. They started to encounter EMF interaction on the KII, One of the guest asked, “If this is a spirit doing this, can you go touch the window and show us you are here?” Soon after the question was asked a nearby window that was fogged, two hand prints appeared on the window. One was child size and the other was adult.  Mike was leading a team in the parlor room with Debra Katz. They had for almost 30 minutes, communication using a ghost meter, having it answer by blinking once for no and twice for yes. CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO OF THIS SESSION

Mike & Monique Sears with Debra Katz

VSPR Team members & guest Museum Event

Due to the success of the public investigation, the museum is hoping to have VSPR come back to hold another public investigation in 2012.

 We are looking forward to the New Year trying new equipment and techniques during our investigations. So we can share our data with you.

We thank you for your support and too those who donated to our research.  VSPR Wishes you all a Happy, Healthy and Safe 2012.

You can follow more of our updates on the Volunteer State Paranormal Research Facebook page-click here for direct link.

Also you can see some of our data videos on our Youtube page

CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

Written by Mike Sears

In 1994 Mike and his mother received one of the greatest Christmas gifts one could receive. Contact from a love one. Mike’s father passed away in June and he had shared that amazing experience on an earlier blog posting.

   This was to be the first Christmas without my father. My father celebrated Christmas real big. His gift to the family was to make a huge gourmet Christmas dinner. Each year my dad’s dinner had its own theme or specialty dish that he had learned when stationed in various countries while serving in the army.  His favorite dishes were from Asia, especially from Japan. He would buy the highest quality when it came to ingredients for the meal. He would save up all year to make this one day very special for the family. He might not have been a certified gourmet chef, but to us and friends he should been.

 

I wanted to make this Christmas special for my mom since it was our first  Christmas without my dad. I planned to make a nice gourmet dinner like my dad did and to decorate the house big for the holidays inside and out. I got up early in the morning and had my list of items to buy and locations mapped out that I needed to go to. I left not knowing what was going to happen that day.

 I was shopping in this department store and I was half way done with my list of items to gather for Christmas. I wanted something that would WOW my mom when she saw the gift. I entered into this store and saw an Angel standing just over four feet tall. The angel I thought was beautifully done visually with an elegant gown, great detail to the face and large wings opened on her back.  I felt drawn towards the figure and said to myself, “This is what I’m looking for. This is the WOW that will make her Christmas.” After my dad’s death my mother started to collect angel figurines and I knew she would love this angel added to her collection.

I walked to my car with the angel and started to put it in the vehicle. Unlocking the car I suddenly smell this strong odor of cigar smoke in the air. My first thought that someone is pretty rude to blow their smoke so close to someone. I look around and see no one around smoking a cigar or any form of tobacco. I shrug it off and continue to put the angel in the car. The cigar smell gets stronger and then I hear my dad’s voice say, “Mike! You need to go to Tokyo Market now!” At first I thought I imagined this and thought I must be thinking its dad because he used to smoke cigars. I get into the car and check my list and plan for the next location to shop at. Then the cigar smell was in my car, very strong. (I never allow anyone to smoke in my car) I started to tingle all over and then heard my dad’s voice again in my head “Mike! You need to go to Tokyo Market now!” For some reason I responded out loud, “Dad, if this is you, I have Tokyo Market on my list to go too.”  I then hear him again in my head, “You need to go NOW! Right now!”  I’m thinking this is can’t be happening, I was caught off guard and not expecting to argue with my dad about a place to shop at. I start to drive to the next location and I hear his voice again. “Mike, you need to go now! It’s a Christmas gift for you and your mother there.” Hearing this I start to fight back the tears.  I reply back out loud in my car. “Dad, I’m going there now.”

The cigar smell disappears and I no longer hear my dad talking to me. I drive to the other side of town to reach the Tokyo Market (Tokyo Market is a store that specializes in imported gourmet food from Japan) I arrive at the store not knowing what I’m supposed to be looking for.  As I walk towards the store door the smell of cigar smoke returns. Entering inside the store I’m drawn to an item on the front store display. As I go to look at the item, I hear my dad’s voice again. “Don’t look at that! Go to the left of the store and go to the last cabinet and look inside! There you will see yours and your mother’s Christmas gift.” I walk to the last cabinet and look inside the cabinet of products. Then my eyes are drawn to this one item. It was an item my dad wanted the store to order for him. An item that he tried for five years to get and the store wasn’t able to find or import from Japan. They had finally got it.

I grabbed every package of the item to purchase and head to the register to cash out. The cashier is surprised to see that I have this entire item they have for sale. She then says to me, “You’re not buying all of these are you? We had a customer who has requested this for over five years and we have lost his phone number. We are hoping he come in and get this. Can you leave a couple of these just in case he returns?” I asked, “Can you describe this man for me?”  After the cashier describes my dad perfectly, I reach for my wallet and show her a photo of my dad. “Is this him?” I asked. She replied, “Yes.”

I explained to her that he had passed away during the summer and I was his son. She then said, “I guess it was meant to be for you to come in here and buy this.” I didn’t share with her what brought me there; I thanked her and wished her a Merry Christmas. Leaving the store I smell the cigar and hear my dad’s voice for the last time saying, “Merry Christmas!”

I stopped any further shopping and decided to drive straight home. I needed to share what just happened with my mom.

When I got home I decided to give my mom her Christmas gifts. I told her she needed to sit down and prepare to hear how these gifts had come to be.  I had her close her eyes and then proceeded in the room with the four foot tall angel. She opened her eyes to see this elegant angel and became overwhelmed with happiness. I then told her, “I have one more gift for you and it’s in this bag. First though I need to tell you how I got this item in this bag.” I shared my experience and then handed her the bag to open. Saying to her, “Merry Christmas, from dad.”  She gave me a big hug and we both cried with tears of happiness.

Christmas of 1994 is a Christmas my Mom and I will never forget.  

 

                                        Photo of Mike’s Dad with a fresh cut Christmas Tree

ALL ABOARD!!! 

For a Paranormal Investigation

At the
Clement Railroad Hotel Museum
Hotel Halbrook Historic Site
100 FRANK CLEMENT PLACE,DICKSON,TN 37055

Time of event: 6:30 pm till 2:00 am

About the Location: The Hotel Halbrook is located in historic
downtown Dickson,TN. The hotel was constructed in 1913 and is one of the few remaining examples of a railroad hotel in a small Tennessee town. The Museum features exhibits and programming involving the Civil War, railroading, and local and regional history. The location and building has been used for various business and functions through history. The museum opened in June of 2009. Since the opening, there has been reports from some of the employees that they have encountered unexplained sightings and events at the Hotel Halbrook.

THIS WILL BE THE 1ST TIME EVER TO ALLOW THE PUBLIC TO INVESTIGATE AND TO HEAR ABOUT THE SPIRIT/PARANORMAL ACTIVITY AT THIS HISTORICAL LOCATION

 

Investigation Details
Spend a night investigating the Clement Railroad Museum in Dickson, TN. Join Mike Sears/Director of Volunteer State Paranormal Research and members of the VSPR team.

6:30Pm- 7pm is meet and greet with Mike Sears and the
VSPR team members.

7:00- 8:00pm Mike Sears will be giving a lecture on the
paranormal. Sharing data that Mike and the VSPR team has collected through the years from various locations they have investigated. Some will be from the Clement Railroad Museum.

8:15-8:45 will be a guided tour of the museum by Mike
Sears sharing the history and the paranormal activity of the
location.

9:00pm teams will be organized and investigations will
be conducted in the museum. Investigations will last for 45 minutes followed by a 15 minute break.

Investigatign will last till 2 am Sunday Morning.

 

Guest speaking : Mike Sears

Mike is the Director of Volunteer State Paranormal Research and has been investigating the paranormal for more than 5 years. Having investigated close to
100 investigations.To his credit, Mike has investigated some well-known haunted places like Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, Sloss Furnace in Birmingham, Alabama, Rippavilla Plantation in Spring Hill,Tennessee, Octagon Hall,Franklin,KY, and many other areas in the Middle Tennessee area.

In 2009, Mike was nominated by the International Paranormal
Acknowledgement Awards for National Male Paranormal Investigator and Best in Spirit Photography. Mike was awarded for Best in Spirit Photography by the International Paranormal Acknowledgement Awards.

Mike has been a guest on various paranormal internet radio shows, made appearances on “America’s Most Terrifying Places” on the TRAVEL CHANNEL, featuring Octagon Hall. He was also featured on “Tennessee Crossroads,” a PBS show featuring Tennesseans and Tennessee places. For the “Tennessee Crossroads” segment, Mike and his VSPR team investigated Rippavilla Plantation in Spring Hill and aired Oct 2011.

Mike has also been a featured speaker at numerous events in Middle Tennessee. His interest in the paranormal began with two amazing experiences he had in 1994 ; VISIONS Magazine published Mike’s life changing experiences in Issue #3 and #5.

 

Mike is also a volunteer at the Clement Railroad Museum as a Docent and works on several committiees with the museum.During his time working at the museum. Mike has witnessed and heard things at the museum that couldnt be explained.

 

TICKET INFO

The tickets for this investigation are LIMITED to 10 tickets.

Must be 18 or older to attend this paranormal investigation.

Ghost hunting equipment is not required, but are welcome to bring a camera or voice recorder.

Drinks and Snacks will be provided.

The event starts at 6:30pm with lectures and meet and greet running until
9pm.

From 9pm – 2am you will be split into groups to cover the area and conduct
a true paranormal investigation.

There are no refunds for this event unless it is cancelled. Event will
happen Rain or Shine. Guest speakers are subject to change at any time without notice.

COST OF TICKETS
ARE: $99.00 (proceeds of event will help preservation of the museum)

Military discount 10% off- with valid id

You can purchase your tickets Tuesday- Saturday from 10am- 4pm at the Clement Museum or by phone ask for Tina Littleton

Phone # is (615)446-8909.

Any questions about the event you can also contact VSPR at our email
address

VSPARANORMAL@AOL.COM

Paranormal Investigating: Spirit Footsteps Caught on Recorder at Octagon Hall Museum?

First you will hear Monique Sears, co-founder of Volunteer State Paranormal Research, say “OK”, then immediately after you will hear a series of what sounds like five footsteps. To me they sound like boots on hardwood, and seem to be echoing and walking around us in the room.

I thought this paticular capture was really cool for a several reasons. First off, we were all sitting down and even the guests were doing a great job of tagging–so we know it was not any of us. Secondly, there were no other groups inside the house at the time. This means that nobody could be walking around. Also, we all heard the noise with our “naked” ears–but to us it just sounded like random tapping on the floor. It wasn’t until later listening with the recording that it sounds like echoing footsteps, possibly a boot, walking in a circular pattern around the room.

Upon hearing this capture, Billy Byrd (owner of Octagon Hall Museum) wrote this: “You finally got a recording of the steps that I and numerous others have heard dozens of times. but never captured. I usually hear them when I’m alone and quiet.”

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Hag Syndrome or Paranormal Activity?

By Becki Baumgartner
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I just woke up. I feel the sweat beading up on my forehead. I am terrified. I know I am awake. I can’t move. The room is freezing. I don’t know exactly what time it is, but it must be somewhere between midnight and dawn. It is still dark.

I try to lift my head. I feel myself straining to lift it, but my head just doesn’t move. I open my mouth to scream, nothing comes out. A silent scream… just like in a nightmare… But I am awake – I know I am awake!

I try to sit up, to move my arms or legs. Nothing moves. I am consumed with utter terror. I am awake, this is not a dream. I know I am awake.

There is a heavy pressure on my chest, like somebody is sitting on me. I feel a presence, mean, evil, dirty. Was it Satan? A demon? I wasn’t sure. I wince inside, thinking that I am probably going to get hurt really, really bad. I am still consumed with terror. Again I try to scream. My mouth opens, but again nothing comes out.

I still feel the pressure on my chest, but it somehow spreads to my legs and feet. It felt as if someone has spread out full length on top of me for the sole purpose of pinning me down, so that I cannot move. The pressure increases, like there is the weight of two on top of me instead of just one. I strain to breath because of the pressure bearing down on my chest and lungs. The force has become greater. I feel tears trickling down the sides of my face. Time ceased. Had it been seconds or hours? I’ll never know. It seemed like forever to me.

Then it was finally gone.

I was in my early teens. The experience was in my childhood home, in my own bed.

Was it a dream? No, I knew I was awake… because the tears I had felt trickling down my face during the episode were still there when it was over… and I never experienced a transition of “waking up”… proof that it was not my imagination or a dream. It was REAL, and I WAS awake the entire time.

Many people experience episodes such as this, and it has been recently coined “Old Hag Syndrome”.

What is “Old Hag Syndrome”?

The Medical Community Explanation

The medical community explains Old Hag Syndrome as simply being sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis is normal and happens every night during the REM stage of sleep. This is a natural protective function of the body that prevents people from acting out their dreams during their sleep and is called REM atonia.

Occasionally, something physically malfunctions and people wake up still in the state of REM atonia. When this occurs, it is common for the victim to experience horrific hallucinations such as demons, witches, aliens, rapists, intruders, etc. in the room with them. The hallucinations are very real and the person suffering the hallucination may be spoken to, threatened and touched… all while being paralyzed and unable to speak. The experiences of many people who have claimed to be abducted by aliens in their home have been attributed to sleep paralysis and the hallucinations it creates. The medical community is unsure exactly how or why the hallucinations and apparitions occur, and according to Stanford Sleep & Dreams, this remains one of the biggest mysteries in dream research.

The Folklore Explanation

“Old Hag” or sleep paralysis is a common phenomenon and described by almost all cultures of the world. Some consider it alien abduction, others the devil and his minions, others demons, or the one commonly used in the United States – the “old hag” who sits on the sleeping victim’s chest rendering him unable to move upon waking. This is often said to be a sign of an upcoming tragedy or event. “The witch riding your back” is the term used by African Culture. In Hmong culture the translation is “crushing demon”, “held down by shadow” in Vietnamese, “ghost pressing on body” in Chinese, “goblin or succubus” in Iceland, and similar translations from all around the world. The victim is paralyzed, unable to move or speak, and experiences various phenomena.

Many believe that these experiences are actually paranormal phenomena occurring, and not a hallucination.

So Exactly What Happened to Me?

I am still trying to figure this out. There is a little more to the story…

I never really told anybody about the experience when it happened because I was embarrassed, feeling that I let down my family and my church community. You see, beforehand I had been playing with an Ouija board… and it appeared as though I was getting answers. It was all fun and game until that night time episode. Then I was absolutely positive that God was punishing me in some way for “dabbling in witchcraft” and playing with the Ouija board. Maybe my punishment was demon visitation… or maybe God had just abandoned me for a while, and the demons crept in. My young, teenage mind struggled to sort through what happened and why. I was sure nobody would understand so I just kept it to myself and sought out as much information I could on God and demons. I never did run across anything about “Old Hag Syndrome” at that time, but did find many, many religious stories relating to demons.

So did I “open a portal” with the Ouija board? I couldn’t say for sure, but I don’t think so. I have never had another experience even similar to this.

Could it have been paranormal activity? Maybe. Several years later my brother had a similar experience in the same house. Also, as young children (much prior to my “Old Hag” experience) my brother and I had both seen a similar-looking apparitions in the house. Although they are skeptical about the paranormal, my parents have both recently told me of unusual things they have experienced – hearing strange breathing and seeing a white mist — things that would have frightened some people and have caused them to want to investigate.

Was The Experience a Sleep Malfunction or Paranormal Activity?

I guess I will never know for sure. I have no witness, no documentation. What I experienced could easily be explained by either. The medical community can’t fully explain how or why the apparitions occur. Could this be because they really are paranormal? Or is it just some chemical malfunction in the brain that has yet to be discovered. Who knows!

The search for answers to questions like this is the reason why paranormal and psychic research are so important!

We are only at the tip of the iceberg as far as reality is concerned. Science is an ongoing process, facts being updated daily as new theories are developed and proven.

It could be that the spirit world is much closer and more accessible than most of us can imagine. Maybe “hauntings” are not a rare occurrence, but a mere instance of us nearsighted humans getting a glimpse of what is going around us all the time.

This is why I investigate.

Consider everything. Question everything.

How I became a psychic medium: Personal stories from the Otherside

By Kiki Dombrowski

I was very young when it all started – I’ll guess between five and seven years old. One night I was very ill in bed, with a flu that didn’t seem to go away. I had a terrible fever (well over 100 degrees), I was sick to my stomach, I had a sore throat, a stuffed up nose, and both of my ears were infected. While ill, late at night after my parents went to sleep, I was awoken by the sound of the most beautiful harp music. This music was so incredible; I never wanted it to stop. I just listened to it, with my eyes closed, feeling comfort and relief for the first time in days. To this day, I don’t remember hearing anything so soothing or beautiful. Within the next couple of days, my illness cleared up completely. I knew in my heart it had something to do with the harp music.

At this point in my life I was attending Catholic school on Saturday mornings. I decided to tell my teacher (who was a nun) about what happened, telling her about hearing the music late at night, and getting better after I heard it. When I asked her if she knew what it was, she enthusiastically told me, “It sounds like the Mother Mary visited you!” I’ve held this story close to my heart ever since then. I always knew it was a very unusual event, but I didn’t know where to fit it into my life. Since studying medium work and clairvoyance, I’ve realized that my Mother Mary encounter would be my first interaction with the spirit world. I believe that night I was visited by a spirit guide. Since then, I have been extremely sensitive to the spiritual world.

I used to play on my swing set, staring at the clouds imagining that there were little angels sitting on them watching me. I always had “imaginary friends,” whom I’ve concluded may have been nature spirit that I talked to. There was a man in the birch tree outside the window to my room who would tap on the glass at night to say “Sweet Dreams.” In my adolescence, my interactions with the spirit world became stronger. My family lived in a small house in a rural area of Connecticut. There I was constantly the center of spiritual attention. One night I awoke to my feet getting tickled, followed by the sounds of tiny giggles. I was visited by a flowing, bright female ghost on a couple of occasions. She floated over my bed and held her hands out to me. I wasn’t frightened by those incidences.

However, there were frightening incidences to occur. One occurred after a night of unsettling dreams. I woke up, feeling unnaturally cold. When I opened my eyes, I realized there was a small boy at the foot of my bed. He was in an outfit you’d expect from the 1920s or 1930s – a small jumpsuit with a poor boy’s hat. He was reaching out his hand to me, but I was so stricken with fear by his appearance that I couldn’t move. I began to panic. I could move my head back and forth, and I noticed the clock said 4:15. I stared at the lamp in my room, wishing it would just turn on. While I felt the ghost’s cold presence in my room, I just concentrated on the lamp, hoping I could unfreeze and reach to it to turn it on. After a minute of staring at it, it flickered on and off and then turned on completely. I was able to move and the ghost was gone.

On another night, after more bad dreams, I woke up to seeing faces peering at me from the wall. Their faces came out from the wall, and looked like relief sculptures. However, I was so used to paranormal activity, I just turned around and went back to bed. So, I learned how to ignore the cold rushes of air, the weird noises at night and the odd dreams. I willed myself into not dealing with the spirit world, and I believed that they felt this, because as a teenager, I was left alone.

These kinds of phenomenon did not occur during my high school years. I was too frightened to be open to them, I believe. After telling my mother about what I saw at our house, she insisted that what I was seeing was not real. What my mother failed to mention was the history of psychic power in her family line. A line of Italians, Scotsmen, French Canadians and Blackfoot Indians, many members of her family had strong psychic abilities. My great grandfather could clearly see auras and would entertain everyone at family parties by describing the colors he saw around them. My cousin would often be visited by our grandparents who had passed on a decade earlier. Even my mother has given accounts have seeing ghosts and my sister has a gift for scrying with mirrors.

During my early 20s, I started to meditate and become a spiritually aware person. Having studied many forms of divination, I realized that my encounters with the paranormal were more than coincidence. I recognized I had pushed my unique talent, a gift of sensing spirits and paranormal activity, to the wayside. After constant study, meditation, and practice, I reintroduced the ability back into my life. Almost a decade later, I have been able to use my abilities to speak with spirits and assist in paranormal investigations. I also can use the same psychic means to help others reach to people who have passed over, and give them reassurance that yes, they are very well, very happy, and watching over us.

Kiki is a Investigator with VSPR and also uses her abilities to aid the VSPR team during our investigations.
We use Sensitive’s/Psychics to help point us in the right direction with our equipment and to help with our research of the location. Psychic evidence is only presented to the client if our equipment and research of location can match with our evidence. Our team Sensitive’s primary are to be Investigators first.

Graphics by Joyce Dierschke


Public Investigation at the Civil War Plantaion Rippavilla

Paranormal Guests:
Chris Fleming & Mike Sears with VSPR Team Members.

CHRIS FLEMING

With over 37 years of experiences with ghosts and strange phenomena, he has spoken on numerous radio and TV shows all over the world, including “Coast to Coast AM”, “Larry King Live”, “Inside Edition”, “Showbiz Tonight”, “Sirius Radio”, and “Fox News” sharing and discussing his knowledge on the supernatural. In the 90′s Chris published his own magazine, “Unknown Magazine” that dealt with his first had “paranormal” experiences from around the world and helped establish his name in the paranormal community. He also had a radio show called “Unknown Magazine Hour”.

He recently appeared on A&E’s “Psychic Kids”, Travel Channels “Ghost Adventures”, and SyFy’s “Ghost Hunters”. He also co-hosted the international show “Dead Famous: Ghostly Encounters” that ran three seasons on BIO channel in the USA and Living TV in Europe.

In 2009 Chris was nominated by the International Paranormal Acknowledgement Awards, He was nominated for National Male Paranormal Investigator and Chris was awarded for:
Best International Paranormal TV Program winner: Dead Famous
Best Spiritual/Psychic Medium Male TV Personality
Best National Spirit Medium Male category

His passionate style of investigating has helped open the doors for psychics and mediums to investigate side by side with paranormal investigators while using scientific equipment to support and verify their claims, creating more credibility and greater assistance to finding answers to proving ghosts exist.
More about Chris Fleming- click on the word LINK

Mike Sears

Located in Burns, Tennessee, west of Nashville.
Director of Volunteer State Paranormal Research
Mike has been investigating the Paranormal just over 5 years.
Mike has investigated some well known haunted places like Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, Sloss Furnace, in Birmingham, Alabama, Octagon Hall, Franklin,KY, Rippavilla Plantation,Spring Hill,TN and many other areas of Middle Tennessee area.

He was Nominated in 2009 By the International Paranormal Acknowledgement Awards for National Male Paranormal Investigator and Best in Spirit Photography. Mike was awarded for Best in Spirit Photography by the International Paranormal Acknowledgement Awards.

Mike has been a guest on various Paranormal Internet Radio shows, seen on the TV show ” America’s Most Terrifying Places ” on the TRAVEL CHANNEL, the TV show ” Tennessee Crossroads”, on PBS in Tennessee ,which featured the VSPR team investigating the Rippavilla Plantation in Spring Hill,TN, he has guest spoke at various events in Middle Tennessee and is published in VISIONS Magazine about his life changing experience he had in 1994 with the paranormal.

THE EVENT :

Saturday, April 9 at 6:00pm – April 10 at 2:00am

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Location 5700 Main Street, Spring Hill, TN 37174

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Created By Rippavilla Plantation

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TICKETS ARE :

PLATINUM EVENING-( SOLD OUT ) $250.00 a person
includes:

One-on-one thirty minute session with Chris
Presentation/meet and greet with Chris and Mike
Paranormal investigation with Chris and Mike
Only two tickets will be sold for the Exclusive evening.

GOLD EVENING:( STILL AVAILABLE ) $150.00 a person
includes:
Presentation/meet and greet with Chris and Mike
Paranormal investigation with Chris and Mike
Limited number of tickets available.

SILVER EVENING: ( STILL AVAILABLE ) $50.00 a person
includes:
Presentation/meet and greet with Chris and Mike; does not include investigation.

To purchase your tickets, call 931-486-9037. Advance purchase only. Must be 16 years or older to attend.

If you have a digital voice recorder please bring it! For EVP capture.

Living with a Extreme Haunting-

Written by- Mike Sears Director of VSPR
Edited by Marilyn Sears

Last year Mike shared a Blog posting of one of the two events that changed his life with the paranormal. He shared the death of his father crossing over to the Spirit World. A few months after that event, Mike’s and his mother’s life would come to a terrifying change exposing them to another side of the Paranormal that most people could not phantom… Living with an Extreme Haunting! These are some of those events that happened to them and later helped to influence Mike wanting to seek answers and to help others experiencing the paranormal.

I lived with an extreme haunting from August 1994 to August 2000. The haunting occurred in my mothers home in Melbourne Florida. The early 1980’s home was part of a nice neighborhood. The property originally was cattle land. My parents had bought the house in the late Summer of 1984. From 1984 to 1994, there was no paranormal activity, that my family or myself remember. When my father passed away from cancer in June 1994, soon after, the activity began. My mother and I continued to live there. We had no sign or incident to warn us about the extreme haunting that was about to take place.

One August morning in 1994, I woke up at 3am knowing that I was not alone. I slowly reached out towards the light on my headboard, and to the 9mm pistol that was hidden nearby. Suddenly, hands grabbed my ankles, and pulled me towards the end of the bed. I kicked, trying to break free. After a several long seconds, I felt free from the grip. I moved back up the bed quickly, reaching again for both my gun and the light. I feared for my life, since I just escaped not knowing that my attacker wasn’t finished. I felt someone jump on top of me, pushing my head into my pillow, attempting to smother me. I tried to scream loud for help, my voice muffled by the pillow. I attempted to move my arms, push myself up, break free from whoever was on top of me. Finally breaking free, I flicked on the light, and grabbed my pistol.. I turned fast to see who was there. Surprised, I saw no one in my room, and my bedroom door was closed. My heart raced, my eyes searched the room, and found no one. I left the room, walking fast down the hall to my mother’s bedroom to make sure she was fine.
I woke her from a deep sleep and told her in rushed words what had just occurred. She awoke, listened, and felt that I was having a nightmare or a PTSD flashback from the Persian Gulf War. (Three years prior to this event, I had served in the Air Force Police in Desert Shield and Storm.) I knew what flashbacks and a nightmare felt like. I explained to her what had just happened seemed very real. My mother saw that I was frightened and in shock. She excused herself and splashed cold water on her face, so she could be more alert. When she had left the room, I heard and felt something coming towards her bedroom doorway. I expected to see my dog, Niki, coming to check on us. I looked towards the hall and saw nothing. A force of energy struck me in the chest, pushed me backwards, hitting my back against the bedroom wall, as if I was tackled. My mom, who was just returning to the room, witnessed this as it happened. Her voice came out rushed, “Are you ok? What just happened to you?”. I explained to her, that I was just attacked again. She asked if I were dizzy, or if I had somehow lost my balance. I blurted out, “No, I was physically pushed by something!”. Soon after that, I felt the force grab me. I tried to speak and tell her that it was back, but no words could come from my mouth. She noticed that the hair on my body was standing straight in the air with goose bumps appearing all over me. Soon as I was released from this unknown force, my hair would return to normal. Then being grabbed again multiple times on and off , it lasted for almost 30 minutes. My mom tried to remain calm through this and thought, maybe I was having some medical ailment happening to me. Thinking quick and keeping calm through this, she started to take my blood pressure and temperature during my attacks. Each time the blood pressure and body temperature would be a different reading. When I was being grabbed , my blood pressure was extremely high and my skin would get colder. And when I was being released ,my hair would go back to normal, as would my blood pressure. She was experienced in taking blood pressure from the years of taking care of my dad during his treatment of cancer. During this time she kept calm and got a note book and started taking notes on the events happening to me. My attack happened so many times ,she couldn’t keep up writing the events in her notebook. She went to grab out of her nearby purse a mini tape recorder she used for school and started recording the last 15 minutes of the events. The attacks finally came to a stop after almost 30 minutes , I was able to calm myself. During that time, we both noticed my dog “Niki” was not around when all of this happened. We called out to her to come to us. Not getting a response, we left the bedroom to go look for the dog. Both of us were surprised to find her under the dining room table huddled and terrified. My dog was a 100 pound Akita, which resembles a husky type dog ,very protective towards us. We wondered what had scared her so much to have her hiding under the table. My mother and I stayed up that night for another hour and talked about what we had just experienced. This left us for bed with no answers to what had just happened.
The next day our family friend stopped by and we shared with her what had happened the night before. She asked about the tape recording and asked if she could listen to it. Listening to it she could hear the panic in my voice ,she heard a strange voice in the background. My mom rewound the tape to the voice and played it again. This time we all heard it. It sounded like a deep frightening male voice yelling, “ OFF!!” This voice had spoken, during the time when my mom had grabbed my arm to check my blood pressure. Possibly this voice was the spirit telling her to let me go.
Several days later, around 4:00 pm, my mother was talking to my grandmother on the phone and was sharing with her what had happened that night. I left to go to my bedroom, so they could talk in private. As I walked into my bedroom I felt that someone or something was following me. I first thought it was my dog ,but when I was about to turn to see if it were, all my hair started to stand up on end. Suddenly I was grabbed into a strong invisible bear hug hold, actually feeling the arms holding me tight. I tried to break free, but could not. I could hardly walk out of my room to where my mom who was still on the phone . Slowly walking towards her , I still felt weight of someone on me and hugging me tight. I could hardly speak ,being frighten by this unknown force. She turned around hearing me moan out loud and saw that I am paralyzed by fright from what is happening to me. Being frighten as well seeing this, tells my grandmother that I’m being attacked at this very moment . With phone in hand she grabbed on to my arm felt the electrical static coming from me. Holding my arm, the hair on her arms started to rise also , then yelled “LET GO OF HIM! LET HIM GO!!!”. Soon after she yells, I am released and the feeling of negativity presence is gone. I’m shaken by this ,as so is she. After we calmed down we both talked on the phone to my grandmother about our experience. At that moment we all thought possibly we have a ghost or haunting in the home.
As days went by my mother and I started having more experiences within the home. We started to share this with friends and family. Some believed us and others thought we were under a lot of stress from the recent loss of my father. We both witnessed the track lighting in the living room start flashing on and off when we spoke about the attacks. Sometimes when we shared these experiences with friends, the lights would start to flash in front of them.
My dog would be frightened to enter my bedroom or sometimes not even go near that area of the house at all.
My mother and I would both continually awakened between the hours of 2am and 4am. These time periods seemed to be significant. We would see shadow figures of a man or persons in our bedroom or outside our doorway during those times of night.
My bedroom was the most active for the paranormal activity. When I was away at work, my mom would hear voices talking in my bedroom and thought that I had left my television on. She would investigate the room to find the television turned off and the room feeling ice cold. Sometimes it was so cold you could see your breath in the air.
My Mom and I having watched documentaries and movies on the paranormal,we thought we needed to seek help since we had no knowledge how to handle this.
Decided to tell our neighbor , a minister, to tell him what was happening, We hoped he would be able to help us by blessing the house. The minister, skeptical of our story, offered to bless the house with two of his church associates. They conducted prayer for us . After they left, the house did not feel the same. It actually felt more negative. The muscles in my body became tense and ached. I went to bed that night and soon awaken by blankets moving on my bed. I sat up to see the moving blankets and then was grabbed by my shoulders and being pushed back into my headboard by some unknown force. Suddenly it let me go and the negative presence left the room.
I spoke to my Mom the next day and said, “ This is getting worse ,and we need to know what this is and why. Maybe we can call a psychic and have them do a reading of the house. Hopefully they can help us.”.
We had gone to a psychic fair, by pure chance, a few weeks after my dad’s death, and before any of this paranormal activity had started. We had gone out for a drive. During our drive we came to a psychic fair. My mother had never been to one and wanted to stop and check it out. At the time, I was very skeptical of psychics and the paranormal. When I entered the fair, I had asked, “Who is the best you have here?”. The person in charge of the event told me there was a lady there who is used by the state and local law enforcement to find missing persons. This impressed me and made me think she could be the real deal. I decided to choose her booth for a reading and my mom selected another psychic. I told the psychic that I was very skeptical about this, that I would not be talking during my reading. Also I would like a little of my past ,present, and future told to me. She had no problem with my wishes and then took my hand, beginning to tell me things about my past. She was so accurate about my life experiences, things that only I would know. She did not generalize like I had seen from psychics on television. She gave my age when specific things had happened to me in life. I spoke not a word during the reading. When she was done, I was a believer of her ability.
I suggested to my mom that we call her to see if she would do a reading of our house, since she had impressed me with her abilities. Several days later she came over in the early evening to do a reading. During this we had a friend over to give us support and to be a witness of the reading.
As the psychic entered the house ,and said right away that she could feel a negative presence in the home. She walked into the living room pulling out of her bag a very large white candle. She placed it on top of a silk scarf onto our coffee table. Lighting the candle, she told us she wanted pure white light around as she read the house. When the candle was lit, the candle started to crack and snap ,spitting wax into the air. She had never seen this happened before. The candle finally settled down and was burning normal holding a high flame. She told us if we had any white candles to light , to please light them. My mom placed 6 tea candles on the fire place mantle and lit them. The psychic then walked around the house going to each room and telling us what she was feeling .
She said she had felt the presence on 3 male individuals, who where very angry. The 3 had known my Father in the Vietnam War. She mentioned they had been haunting my father since their deaths.
She said, “My dad did not agree with these men, and he decided not go with them because it didn’t feel right nor like what they represented” She then asked, “Did my dad have violent nightmares ?”. We replied, “ Yes, very often. We assumed it was his PTSD from the war.”. Then she shared with us that my father had crossed over into the light. They were furious about this, since they could no longer haunt my father. That they decided to haunt me.

( Some background about my father in the Vietnam War, he spoke very little about his tour there when he was in the Army. All we knew was that he was a Advisor with MACV command, and that he mentioned to me once that he worked with a mission called the Phoenix Program. After his death, my mom and I requested history of his tour in Vietnam from our government. Years later we got very little back and most of the paper work was censored, blacked out so you couldn’t read it. He had worked in covert missions. Maybe this psychic was right about what she was feeling.)

She entered my bedroom and felt that this room they went in the most. She told us that we needed to make white paper cross’s to be placed around the room, and to bring in a Bible. She requested to place it and open it onto the bed and read from the page where it opened. My skeptical self thinking, “ Ya right, sure lady.” My mom placed the Bible in the center of the bed and opening the book in the middle. Stepping back from the bible the pages suddenly started to move and flip through pages like a fan was blowing on to it. Suddenly the bible slams shut. The psychic tells us to reopen the Bible and everything was repeated.
The psychic left my bedroom suddenly feeling frightened and said, “ I need to leave. I’m sorry, but I can’t stay in this house any more. I recommend you locate a priest to bless this home. I need to go!”. She then went to the living room to gather her large candle she had lit earlier. She gasped out loud to find this large candle that stood about around six inches in diameter, just completely melted to the scarf she had placed it on. She looked at our tea candles on the fire place mantle which had flames reaching from 6 to 12 inches in height. Then she swooped up her scarf and the hot melted wax into her bag ,then rushed for the front door. As she was leaving the house, the track lighting in the living room started to blink off and on. My mom and I, still in shock and some what frightened, asked her if she was ok and what should we do? She replied, “ What we have ,here she could not help and we needed clergy. She expressed she would not return to the house, but would still help us from afar if we needed.”. My Mom and I where speechless in our front yard wondering what we are going to do now as she drove away in her car. Just then we hear our friend yell out, “ MIKE, GET IN HERE, IN YOUR ROOM NOW!!!” I ran into the house , to my bedroom ,where she was standing at the door. She says, “Mike, look at the Bible on your bed !” The Bible was on the bed and the room was ice cold. You could see your breath in the air. The pages of the book were flipping again, and the book started to move and lifted off the bed into air. Then slammed shut. When the book closed ,so did my bedroom door also slammed hard into our faces. Our friend and myself stood there in shock. This Bible was not a small book, it was a large family size Bible that weighs close to 10 pounds. To see it lift in the air and close by it self ,gave us quite a scare. We left the house to calm ourselves and share with my mother what we just witnessed. Our friend stayed with us for several hours till the house returned to normal. That night I slept on the couch with little sleep, I was not going to sleep in THAT bedroom this night.
As months went by, the activity continued. Some days were more active than others. I continued to be attacked in my bed and in other areas of the house. I was pushed into walls and pushed out of bed or into my headboard. We continued to see shadow figures in our rooms. We bought the tea candles by the case, using them to let us know when spirit activity was going to happen. We witnessed at times the flames reaching about 12 inches in height, not one candle, but several of these at once, just before I would be attacked or we would witness some form of paranormal activity.
My Mom once witnessed a cloud of smoke come out of the fire place and float across the room ,then go into a near by wall on the other side of the room.
One night she called me at work to come home soon as I could. She was very frightened by what she had witnessed. She said, “ I just saw your dog staring at the wall and growling, then lifted off the floor being tossed into the wall. Your dog ran and hid after this.”
The extreme haunting lasted for almost a full year. The lack of sleep and stress from it was effecting us both at our places of work. My mom , a school teacher, had shared some of the experiences with her fellow teachers. By doing this she was contacted by her supervisor , who required her to have a psych evaluation. Luckily, the psychiatrist believed her story, and she kept her job.
After almost a year with several different religious leaders coming to bless our house, there seemed to be no end to this haunting.
My Mom was finally able to find someone that helped us greatly. She had a student, who was Native American Indian, and had heard his father was a medicine man. She contacted his father explaining what was happening in our home. He said he would do his best to help us. He came over with his son and they spent eight plus hours in our home doing a Native American cleansing ceremony. The ceremony involved lots of sage being burnt filling the house thick with smoke and leading us in prayer. He also told me that I needed to stand up to these spirits, letting them know I am no longer afraid of them. After he finished and left the house, the whole home felt lighter and peaceful; a feeling we hadn’t felt in a long time.
Over a year goes by and there is no more attacks on me or paranormal activity happening in the home. Life seemed to be back to normal.
Mom was invited by our neighbor to join her on a trip to Georgia for a weekend. This left me alone in the house. That Saturday at 3am in the morning I was wakened by my dog jumping onto my bed frightened to the extreme. The dog was huddled real close to me shaking with fright. I started to tingle all over and felt the presence of the spirits again in the bedroom. Just then all the doors in the house started opening and closing fast and hard. Frightened at first, then thinking back what the medicine man had told me, “Don’t be afraid! Stand up to it!” I screamed out “ WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!!! LEAVE ME ALONE!! I’M NO LONGER SCARED OF YOU!!”. The doors suddenly stopped slamming. The whole room felt lighter again.

From 1996- to 2000 the house continued to have some activity, but it wasn’t violent. We had electrical items turn on and off ,some of them not even plugged into an outlet, picture frames moving on the walls, and a shadow figure appeared from time to time. The violent attacks had come to a stop.

I was married in the year of 2000 and moved out of the house. The house was sold several years later. People often asked us , “ Why didn’t you move?” Our reply back ,“ Move where? How on a fixed income?” And plus, “We love the house and the neighborhood.”

In 2006 I decided to help others understand what they are experiencing ,letting them know they are not alone. I have assisted on 74 paranormal investigations. Non have compared to the activity my mom and I experienced at the house in Florida. I’m no longer skeptical, but a believer of the paranormal.

Photos of the Actual Bible that was in Mike’s room to show the size and thickness of the book.

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