Ghostbumps with Jovie and Bridey

The legends of ghost ships fill our minds and bring out our deepest fears about the unknown, about death and about the vastness of the ocean.

So open up your minds to those fears and talk about some true stories of ghost ships.

From the Mary Celeste to the Joyita, the Baychino and the Sayo. Ghost Ships invade our psyche and remind us that nothing is permanent.

A ghost ship is a ship that sails the ocean without a crew. Sometimes these ships are seen in the distance and sometimes they run aground with the crew missing, never to be found.

We're never going to fully know what happened to these vessels, making them ghost ships. And really, that's what intrigues us and makes us repeat these stories, keeping these ghost ships alive in our collective consciousness.

Witnessing a UFO can be scary. Can you imagine an 8 year old, carefree and playful, having fun playing games with classmates at school, when suddenly a silver disk emerges from the clouds and lands in the school yard? This is exactly what happened on four distinct occasions; in 1966, 1967, 1977 and 1994. The event gets stranger and a powerful message is the only remaining artifact from these events. Don't miss out on this fun episode of Ghostbumps!

We're in mid-October and the veils are thinning this time of year. For a lot of Earth based people, we believe that the dark half of the year starts three days after summer solstice. The reason why we believe that is because each day after that, the nights get a little bit longer. And this time of year, everything is getting very noticeably dark early and the veils are thinning.

We believe that the spirits can move through the veils more readily to come join us. Most cultures have some sort of event that they celebrate at the end of the month, usually between October 30th and about November 5th, somewhere in that window of time. A lot of different cultures and religious beliefs will celebrate their ancestors and their family members who have passed and their pets, anyone they have loved that has influenced them and meant something to them.

In this episode we discuss ghosts and haunting activity. We’ll discuss the three categories of haunting activity, residual, active and poltergeist. We’ll discuss the characteristics of these types of haunts and talk about some famous and personal examples of these types of haunts.

Join us next week where we’ll expand the discussion to include more tales of hauntings.

Folklore and stories of blood sucking creatures have been abounding for thousands of years but there is a true modern subculture of vampires. But what is a vampire? The term vampire was not created until the 19th century. And before that, vampire traits that defined modern day vampires were attributed to a variety of creatures such as ghosts, evil spirits, ghouls, demons, the devil and even Deities.

One of the most famous was Vlad the Impaler. He ruled Romania from something 1456 to 1462. He was known for killing his enemies by impaling their heads on wooden stakes and then dining among his victims while dipping bread in their blood. Bram Stoker based his story of Dracula on Vlad. Bram Stoker has set the modern tone for how we generally interpret vampires and their stories.

Another famous vampire is Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who over the course of her tenure of ruling this castle in Romania is rumored to have killed over six hundred and fifty peasant girls and not only drank their blood, but bathed in it because she thought it would keep her young.

There is also a subculture of people who self-identify as vampires. And then there is this other group that do role playing in games and they play vampires. There are two main branches of vampirism which are referred to as sanguinarian and a psychic or pranic vampirism.

If you are interested in more information about vampirism, we urge you to do your own research.

Tonight's subject is Mer people. Mer people are just one part of a group of water elemental spirits. Mer people are just the ones we hear about the most. Folklore is sprinkled with stories of seductive mermaids singing songs to enchant sailors and lure them to their death. They are associated with the ocean and commonly referred to, of course, as mermaids and mermen.

Debunkers will say, well, people are misinterpreting other sea creatures that we know about, like a manatee. But manatee don’t look human at all and a manatee do not have arms and hands.

But a lot of people who are earth-based practitioners, people who practice Wicca and have a lot of reverence for the Earth, do work with mer energies. When those energies are captured, it is to open up emotional centers, to process emotion, learning how to separate intellect and emotion, developing tolerance. Some people say that to call on mer people and to invoke their energy is very good for protection for women. It is also very good for your imagination and ancient wisdom for predicting storms and future events. There's always this energy of prediction involved in water energies and developing psychic power and self-discipline.

Many energy healers call on mer energy because there is a really graceful flow of energy with mer. There's a sense of freedom and empowerment that comes with tapping into mer energy for healing.