Campus Tour

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Hi, I'm Jennifer and this is My True Ghost Stories, where I share stories of my supernatural adventures as a spiritual medium, helping trapped spirits to cross over and more. Let's get started! Welcome to Episode 8 of My True Ghost Stories. I have two stories for you today. The first is about a frustrated spirit who got called back to this side every September.

The second is about a Zumba class and an awesome kid who is getting things done on this side from the other side. And here's story number one. This is a story about visiting one of my daughters at her college campus for the first time during her freshman year of college. It's a college in New England which is founded in the mid 1800s so it's an old school, a lot of history and a lot of spirit activity. We got there in the morning and saw her room and saw her building and then she took us out for a walk around campus.

It was a beautiful campus, very old. Generally, I am able to not see spirits unless I'm looking for them. I used to see them all the time, any spirit that was trying to get my attention. I was constantly paying attention to them and I learned how to set some boundaries and only talk to spirits that I really need to talk to. But if a spirit is really trying to get my attention, they will.

So walking around this campus, I was suddenly drawn to look up into the window of this building, probably the fourth or fifth floor had these, you know, maybe larger windows than the rest of the floors and I was drawn to look up there. And there I could sense the presence of and sort of see a woman, a woman who looked very sad, very tired. I want to use the word bedraggled but I don't want to insult her but she looked really tired and she was looking at me. She was looking at me pleadingly and I acknowledged her presence but I didn't know what to do right away which is usually the case. I don't know what to do right away so I acknowledged her and I continued on my little walking tour with my daughter and waited for further information to come if it was going to come about how to help that spirit.

One thing I noticed about her besides her demeanor and her appearance was that she looked a lot like my mom's, one of my mom's friends from when I was a kid who we will call Colleen. So she looked like Colleen. So we walked around some more. I saw the dining hall. I saw the theater.

I saw all the fun things about seeing your daughter's college on the first visit and then we headed back to her dorm. So in the dorm we went into this little kitchen on the end of the hallway and this, her dorm was in the building where I saw this woman on a much lower floor but it was in her building. So in the kitchen of her dorm she asked me, so mom did you see any ghosts? Because my daughters know me and they know that I'm often seeing ghosts and this is just like a normal question for her like you know did you enjoy the tour? Did you see any ghosts?

So I said yes actually I told you that I had seen a ghost. I said it was a woman and she was up in the window of this building and she was looking out at me and she looked very sad and so my daughter got a terrified look on her face and she said, what did she look like? And I said well she looked like my mother's friend Colleen and then I described Colleen and my daughter became very mesmerized with this and said that there is a ghost in this building who matches the description that I told her and had that name that I told her about. The story was that this woman had died in this building and now regularly haunted the residents of this building and one of the things that they did as a orientation tour was a ghost tour of the campus. So one of their major stops on the ghost tour was my daughter's dormitory building and I don't know if they went actually up onto that floor where I saw her looking out the window but they would go to the door of there or right beneath it.

I actually don't know how the tour went because I did not take that tour. So they would go there and then they would you know talk about Colleen and they would talk about what happened to her and they would talk about how you know she haunts the students and she makes the shades go up and the windows rattle and if you say her name things will happen which resulted in a lot of people saying Colleen's name. So this is what I know was happening to this poor, tired, sad spirit. She most likely wanted to ascend, wanted to go onto the next crossover but was continually being called back by name, by new people every year and featured on a tour where her presence was expected by this tour. So I felt so bad for this woman and I must have been very very frustrating for the spirit to have to live like this.

We'll not live like this, to have to exist like this. This was very unfair. I felt very angry and I thought you know my first thought was I should write a letter of complaint to the dean of this school but then what kind of letter would that be? I feel that you're being very unfair to this ghost that they probably didn't even really believe in or maybe they did. I don't know but I my daughter said mommy please don't write a complaint letter about the ghost that you feel is being mistreated on my campus.

So I did not do that. I did some research online and here's an article I found on Emerald Group publishing and the name of the article is an exploratory study of the future paranormal tourist experience on ghost tours and the article says paranormal tourism is considered a type of dark tourism which is currently gaining popularity producing a future interest in paranormal places that defy modern reality. Paranormal tourism can range from ghost walks to haunted houses or hotels to even traveling to locations where aliens or UFOs have supposedly been spotted and visiting locations where one can establish communication quote unquote with the dead. Paranormal tourism is not a new phenomenon during their own personal time for enjoyment. People have traveled to watch witch trials search for fairies and experience ghostly encounters for many centuries.

Nonetheless the popularity of this form of tourism is increasing thanks to social media marketing techniques and the internet all of which actively promote these haunted destinations. Among the activities that are part of paranormal tourism the most popular nowadays are ghost tours or ghost hunting. In an article entitled Ghost Tours Marketing Hype or Spiritual Quest by the American Association for State and Local History this article says many museums and historic preservation groups have been unsure how to react to the growing popularity of commercial ghost tours over the past 20 years. Some museums have tried to avoid any connection to what they perceive as inaccurate theatrical or just sensational uses of history and others have embraced the idea and offer their own versions of ghost and cemetery tours as part of their historical interpretation. In an essay by Pamela Cooper White called Haunted Histories of the Gettysburg Ghost Trade.

She set out to determine whether or not a spiritual hunger motivates ghost tour participants. While some visitors are simply drawn to the entertainment factor and dramatic presentations of history she concludes that many individuals come with spiritual questions or even on a deeper level a personal quest for validation of their own unexplainable experiences for the possibility of contact with a lost loved one and for the greater certainty that there is truly life beyond death. Cooper White identifies three levels of engagement with these tours. One, a folklore or storytelling aspect that is primarily theatrical in nature. Two, a ghost hunting level to observe and experience ghostly activity.

And three, a paranormal investigation level that applies scientific methods to collect evidence of paranormal activity. So I think the first level that was talked about in this last article by Pamela Cooper White, the first level is a folklore or storytelling aspect that is primarily theatrical in nature. It's what this college ghost tour was trying to be, but the tour was inadvertently and repeatedly disturbing an actual spirit and preventing her from crossing over. Now I of course was unable to find any research on the effect of ghost tours on ghosts. And as an advocate for trap spirits myself, I think that they should be kept in mind when participating in paranormal tourism.

How is this affecting the ghosts? Are we interfering with the spirit's progress? And maybe I am being called to do this research. And that's all I'm going to say. I mean, I personally will never go on a ghost tour because my whole life is a ghost tour.

They're everywhere. But back to Colleen. What I do when I'm called to help a spirit is I create a personalized ritual, a custom ceremony that speaks directly to what that spirit needs. And I get the information from my guides and from that spirit's guides and sometimes from communication with the ghost themselves. So with Colleen, I quickly worked on how we can help this spirit without writing a letter of complaint to the dean of the school and embarrassing my daughter.

I came up with a very specific ceremony for allowing this spirit to finally cross over. And we performed that ceremony right under the spot where they would usually have their tours and right under where that window was, where she was looking out at me, and that floor was closed to the public. So my daughter and I performed this ceremony and I will not share specifics in respect for this spirit. I was able to communicate with Colleen to reassure her that she would not be summoned back here by tour guides every September and by new students all year. And the way we could make this a reality for her was to seal up the portal immediately after she crossed over.

So she could ascend to her next level and sort of get out of earshot of any calls by ghost hunters. Colleen crossed over quickly and completely and we did some quick portal closing. I had my daughter go back on a regular basis for maybe a month or so to maintain that portal seal so that when they called Colleen's name just to see what would happen, she would not hear them or even be able to come back because the portal was closed. Apparently there were a lot of paranormal type things going on in the dormitories before we performed this ceremony. The shades would roll up that windows would rattle.

People would hear strange noises, they would hear footsteps, all of these things, and my daughter was at the school for some time after we performed this ceremony and apparently the haunting stopped, which I am so grateful for. I do imagine that they are still doing this tour but that's okay because the portal has been closed and Colleen has ascended and she can go onto her next levels and get the help that she needs on the other side and end this miserable existence that she was having. And here's our second story. This story is about one of my chance encounters, although it was obviously arranged by the universe and spirits on the other side. And the name of this story is Mary the Coolest Kid.

I was taking a Zumba class which was really fun and afterwards I had the notion to linger after the class. There was not another class coming in so there was room in the studio to hang out and I decided to hang out and stretch and relax. And another woman also lingered and she was stretching and we were on opposite sides of the room. Both stretching, neither of us had headphones on and all of a sudden she goes, oh wow! And I looked at her and she was obviously talking to me and I said, oh, oh what's going on?

And she said, I just got this notification from this hospital and the hospital was nowhere near where this Zumba class was. So she said, this is really weird that I should get this notification. And then she said, you know, it brings up, she just started to tell me this story. She said, it brings up all these feelings for me and she told me a story about this long drawn out illness of her daughter who were going to call Mary, her daughter who was in this hospital for a long time with a drawn out illness and had passed on a few years earlier at a very young age. And she told me the story of what happened and her experience at the hospital and she was obviously experiencing unimaginable grief over something like this happening.

So I listened, which is what you do when someone is sharing about something like this. I just listened and I didn't comment much. I just listened. So after she told me the really sad part, she took out a picture. She showed me a picture of her daughter who looked wonderful and then she started to tell me all these wonderful things about her daughter, which is why I called this story Mary, the coolest kid because she was obviously a really awesome kid and very active and a real force of life.

So she was telling me all about her and showing me the picture and then she said, you know, but I haven't had any dreams of her. She's not trying to contact me. She said, you know, other family members have had dreams of her. She's come to them in dreams, but she's not coming to me. She said, I was thinking of going to a medium.

So I had not mentioned anything about the fact that I am a medium. And I listened to her say this and I had a feeling, you know, there is something more happening here than just two people talking after a Zoom class. And my guides told me to tell her that I am a medium. And so she finished her statement about possibly contacting medium, but she hadn't been able to bring herself to do it. And I said, well, I'm a medium.

And then there was some silence. And then I said, I guess Mary brought a medium to you. And she smiled and said, that's my Mary. Our conversation continued and I asked her the mom for permission to make contact with Mary. So, you know, I did what I do put my palms up.

I waited to listen. There was no words, no actual message. But what I did get was this life force, this busyness, efficiency, this purpose, this sensation of purpose. And I said to the mom, I said, okay, she's got a job on the other side. And I was just getting this image of like meetings and clipboards and rushing around and taking care of details.

And mom was pleased with that. It was a very, very positive image. And then she asked me, but why has she and she contacted me? Why is she contacting everyone else and not me? And I said, well, she is contacting you.

She brought us together so I could contact the two of you. Know how would you say that? So I could bring you two together. So that was the end of our conversation. It was pretty overwhelming.

So we left it at that, but I knew that there was more to this communication, that this was not the end of it. This was just an introduction of the two of them. So I went home and over the next few days I did some meditation to find out what, what is this further communication between Mary and her mother. And that came through quite clear, although the communication was not from Mary, it was from this team that she was on that I could tell from that busyness and the meetings and the clipboards. They said, to tell mom that there is some charity or organization to start in Mary's honor or with her name.

And so I asked the guides. I said, so what is it? What is the foundation? And then Mary's voice came through. It's the first and only time in this whole experience that I heard Mary's voice.

Mary's voice came through and said, she knows what it is. I imagine that this committee that Mary was part of was saying mom has to get involved in this charity or foundation or whatever it was that needed to get started. And they needed mom's footwork in order to get this started. And obviously it was something very important that needs to happen on this earth. I saw mom again by chance or not by chance maybe arranged by the universe, maybe a week or two later near the zoom class.

And I told her about this message, about a charity or a foundation. And I said to her, Mary says that you know what it is. And I told her this is the only time that I heard Mary's voice directly was her saying she knows what it is. And I said, do you know what it is? And she said, oh yes.

And that was all mom said. And I realized that the rest was not my business. And that my part in this delivering this message to mom about starting the charity or foundation was done. And now it was time for me to back out. So my conclusion here, what I think and what was what seemed really obvious was that this really cool active spirit of Mary was at a level in her progress on the other side because on the other side there's progress.

She was at this level where she was working with a team to get something very important, this charity or foundation done on this earth. And they needed mom's help. Because we humans are often called to do the work of the angels. You know, they need us. The reason I call it Mary the coolest kid is because I just thought it was so cool that she and her team arranged this chance meeting with a medium.

And I got the notion to linger after class. And the mom got the notion to linger after class. And then she got this strange notification from a hospital, which sparked this conversation between the two of us. And that is how it works. And that's all for today.

Thank you for listening to today's episode. And if you think your house is haunted, want energy cleared from your space or need a custom spiritual ritual, I'm here to help. Visit jpclearing.com or email me at jpclearing60 at gmail.com. Don't forget to join me here every Tuesday for a new episode. Until next time.