Haunted Basement

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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 1 of My True Ghost Stories. I'm going to tell you a little bit about myself and what I do before we get to today's stories. I am a spiritual medium.

I talk to ghosts or spirits. Primarily those who are trapped or earthbound and I am blessed with the ability to help them cross over. As a kid, I saw and felt spirits all the time and I was scared. I was well into adulthood before I realized that these ghosts were asking for my help. And through a series of spiritual experiences, coincidences and messages, I realized that I was able to cross spirits over and even more so that I had a responsibility to do so.

I do this crossing over with a combination of help from my guides, the spirits guides, communication with the ghosts themselves and using these tools, I craft a custom ritual that will help this spirit move to their next stage. And every trapped spirit is trapped for a different reason, so each case requires a different approach. Sometimes the ghosts have already departed but have left behind energy and I am often called to clear these spaces, which is really rewarding because the atmosphere is so much better afterwards. I have many, many true ghost stories to share with you. Some before I knew that I was a medium and some after.

And my hope in telling these stories is to bring tolerance, love and understanding to trapped or lingering spirits who, although we might be afraid of them, are really just asking for our help. So let's begin. I have two stories for you today. The first is about two ghosts I encountered on a clearing job who were very attached to their earthly possessions and the second is about a happy spirit sending reassurance from a tropical paradise to a coworker of mine. And here we go.

This story is called Haunted Basement. I was contacted by a family who had done recent renovation and decluttering of their basement and had experienced a severe energy change in that area. They said it was uncomfortable and negative down there and they had a wreck room that nobody would use after this renovation and decluttering and negative energy had come upon the basement. So they asked me to please come and diagnose the problem and clear the basement so that they could use the rack room and the laundry and the washing machine and all that again. So I arrived at a lovely home and I was greeted by the family and after a short conversation about what they were experiencing and what had happened and what they had done in the basement with the decluttering and the renovation, I went down there by myself because no one would come with me.

When I went down there I saw the area that had been renovated and I saw lots of antiques and I felt definitely more than one spirit. So I will tell you about each spirit and here's the first one. So spirits can attach themselves to an object like some possession of theirs that they had while they were alive after they passed on they were clinging to that object which is probably really important to them for some reason. So this basement was full of antiques and the woman had told me that she likes to go to a state sales and purchase things and bring them home. So I was walking through the basement and my attention was drawn to this sterling tea set that was in a box and it was just sort of thrown into the box.

It was not organized and it had engraved initials on it and it was very beautiful, very beautiful. And I picked up one of the pieces and I said, oh, okay, the energy that we're all feeling is attached to this tea set. So I knew I need to find why there was so much energy attached to this tea set and I assumed it was a spirit who was attached to it. So I got into my zone in this way that I do and I said, okay, where are you? Where are you?

And takes a few seconds and then she appeared and it was an older woman and she was standing there and she was looking very upset and frustrated and I said, hello. She said, where is the rest of my tea set? I said, okay, so there's a problem with the tea set. I guess pieces have been removed or something. So I went upstairs to the family.

They were sitting upstairs and I said, okay, first off, there's a lady downstairs who wants to know where the rest of the tea set is. So the woman, the homeowner looked at me shocked and said, wow, oh my, I literally just took the tray from that set upstairs to use on my nightstand like a few days ago during the decluttering. So I said, okay, well, I guess that's it. That's where the rest of the tea set is. So I went back downstairs to talk to the spirit and she was not just missing the tray.

She was not just upset that the tray had been removed from the set. She was upset that this tea set, which was obviously very precious to her, this tea set was just in a box and it was not being displayed properly and it was not being given the attention that it deserved. So she was very upset about this. So the interesting thing about this spirit, it was different. Usually they remain there and want to stay with this conversation but this spirit was sort of flashing in and out.

So she'd be there and then she'd be gone and then she'd be there and then she'd be gone. And so I would have to like pause and wait to talk to her for her to come back. So I'm not sure I've never seen that before or again. I don't know why that was happening but I'm thinking that she was possibly following other objects from the estate sale like checking in on this one and checking in on this one. I guess but that was my feeling that that's what was going on with her, that they were objects all over the country from her estate sale or from her home and she was guarding them.

That was my feeling. So it came time for me to help this spirit move on because it really did seem to be that all she needed to know was what's going to happen with my tea set. I didn't need any more information from her. So part of a clearing process is giving compassionate help for troubled spirits that are in the space. So that's part of the clearing process.

And it's also part of helping troubled spirits is to go to where they are and give them compassion and find out what it is that they need and do the best that I can to give them what they need. Using my guides and their guides and confer stations with them, I discern what that spirit needs. And in many cases, just like this one, it involves helping them to become willing to let go of their earthly possessions like a tea set. While I was back downstairs, I had one last conversation with this woman about the importance of this tea set. And I was able to convince her that it would be taken out of the box and it would be honored and it would be displayed and she did not have to guard the tea set anymore.

I went upstairs and spoke to the owner of the house and she happily agreed to place the tea set in a place of honor upstairs. I went back down to talk to the spirit of the woman and she was happy to hear that her tea set was coming out of the box and leaving the basement. But most importantly, through this conversation and messages from my guides and hers, she became willing to trust her earthly possessions to others and move on to a better place, which is exactly what happened with my help after this conversation. And here's the story of the second ghost that was in the haunted basement. So the back of this basement, there was a water dryer, storage room, and a back door and a room off to the side of the laundry room that had no door and lots of energy emanating from this room.

I walked through, I followed the energy and I went inside this room, turned on the light to see the renovations that had started in a big empty space in the corner and a for-lorn and very agitated man standing next to this empty space. So I said to him, you know, what's wrong? What are you doing here? And I got no communication from him except this feeling from him, this feeling of outrage and disbelief and frustration. I couldn't communicate with this spirit except for him, you know, staring at me and shrugging his shoulders in disbelief.

So I went back upstairs and I consulted the family about what had gone on in that room and they told me that they had removed this very large work bench that had come with the house. It was there when they bought it and they had just removed it. So I said, well, I bet that's it. So I went back down to talk to the spirit and I said, are you mad about the work bench and then the communication started. Yes, he says, you know, it was a perfectly good work bench.

How could they get rid of it? And on and on and on, like just all this just complete disbelief that they would remove such a beautiful work bench. And I could tell that he stayed in this room all the time near this work bench and as I said before, the work bench, the room was next to the washer and the dryer and this family had told me that they felt particular discomfort while doing laundry. I could tell from his demeanor and from messages, I was getting that he would stand in the doorway when someone was there and probably yelling, excuse me, excuse me, why did you remove my work bench? And although they couldn't hear him, they definitely could feel his agitation being shouted at their backs.

It came time for me to help this spirit cross over as he was very attached to this space. Getting instructions from my guides and his guides, they told me that this work bench and probably all that it represented to him was extremely important and his attachment to the work bench space and his frustration over it being gone now was what was keeping him here. He was trapped and he was earthbound. I was asked to tell him that there is an even better work bench on the other side. And this he listened to, this got his attention and the ranting stopped.

I kept that and using our guides his and mine, he actually voluntarily went out the front door and I imagine he went to that fabulous work bench on the other side as I rarely get to see what happens once they cross over. But I can say that from the little that I have been shown of the other side, it is beautiful. I left that family with instructions on how to close the two portals and I told them their basement was clear now and I have received updates from them that their basement is now clear and comfortable and they're using the rec room and doing the laundry and it's restored to its previous positivity. One very important aspect of the story of the haunted basement is the closing of the portals that I instructed the family how to do after I left. A portal happens when a spirit exits this realm and goes to the other and they leave a hole in the membrane between the two planes and that hole needs to be closed up after a short period of time.

I like to leave it open for a brief period to ensure that the spirit has time to finish their exit but it is very very important to close it up. If it remains open it's like leaving your front door open and then all sorts of folk can come through and make themselves at home in your house. There are different methods of closing portals but leaving them open can lead to all sorts of ghostly troubles and this is the voice of experience talking. I learned this lesson about portal closing the hard way. It's way too much to go into now and I will tell that story the story of the unclosed portal in a future episode.

And here is today's second story. I get a lot of messages from spirits in my dreams and this does not bother me. I keep a no pad next to the bed to write messages down not my phone because I don't want to see any notifications at 3 o'clock in the morning but with my no pad I can write down the messages that I get from the spirits in the dreams and get back to sleep pretty easily. And while I am okay with receiving messages in dreams I have set a boundary that no ghosts are allowed in my bedroom. There are a lot of my dreams but not in my bedroom and I definitely don't want any kind of apparition.

I enjoy listening to ghost story podcasts and someone will come on and tell this story. You know I was asleep and I woke up and there was a man in a revolutionary war uniform standing there staring at me. You know it's terrifying and I am not the type of person who can handle that kind of thing. I have seen a few ghosts in full view like that and it was all before mediumship and before I learned that they are asking me for help and I did not handle it well. I want to thank the universe for respecting my boundaries because now I only see these spirits in my peripheral vision, in my mind's eye, in my dreams or I feel their presence.

And this allows me to help them because I'm not you know screaming and crying and running out of the room. So that boundary has been successfully set as I have not seen a full apparition in a long time. However, as I said, I am open to receiving messages in dreams. And here is one story about that. It is called brother-in-law.

I was getting recurring visits from a certain spirit in my dreams and it was coming in the form of the sound of knocking on a door. You know not my actual door. Again, that'd be too scary. In the dream some of would say excuse me repeatedly or I would hear a doorbell ringing. And yes this does sound scary but it was in my dreams so it didn't scare me.

And although there was no visual with these sounds, I knew that it was a man and it was the same man each time and he had passed recently within the last few months. And I could tell he was a nice man which was another reason why it was not scary. So these dreams went on for a while, maybe a few weeks and finally there was a visual. The visual was a man maybe in his forties sitting in an open air resort bar during the day and there was other people around but he was sitting by himself. There were palm trees in the background, there was sunshine and there was a bartender.

It had a paradise look but also a local look more like he lived there than that he was a tourist and it was nice, really comfortable and not too fancy. The most notable thing about this man was this magnificent head of dark brown hair with an impressive hairline and I got the impression that he really liked his hair and he wanted me to notice it. So after looking at this for a few moments the man looked at me and a voice said, talk to Michelle, not the actual name, I've changed the names and the voice came in like a voice over but I knew it was coming from him. Talk to Michelle. I have a coworker with this name and I knew that that was who he was talking about.

I saw Michelle the next day and I asked her a little hesitantly because I didn't know if she was open to this kind of thing. I asked her, is there a young man in your life who recently passed? And she answered, yes, my brother-in-law passed away a few months ago. She told me that she had had a very good friendship with her brother-in-law and that his passing had been very hard for her and he had been too young. And she asked why I was asking.

I decided to tell her about my dream. I was getting a feeling that she would be open to this type of mystical message. I told her about the dream and about the beautiful setting I had seen him in and that all he had said was, talk to Michelle. She looked at me in disbelief and she told me that she had been having a rough year with lots of unresolved problems and he was one of the people that she would talk to. And she told me that her brother-in-law's last words were, talk to Michelle, tell her everything is going to be okay.

So we sat with that for a few moments and then we started talking again and together we concluded that he was reiterating this reassurance to her by sending a message through me. And I told her, oh, and there's one more thing. He had this beautiful head of hair with an impressive hairline and he obviously wanted me to notice it. And she started laughing. She said that he was so upset about losing his hair in the last few years and he had done all sorts of treatments and nothing was working and he was all frustrated.

So she was glad to know that this had been resolved on the other side. I went online to learn more about spirit contact while sleeping and surprise surprise. There is not much research scientific or otherwise to be found on messages from the dad in dreams. And the little that I did find focused only on deceased loved ones appearing to the grieving, which is not what happened here with Michelle's brother-in-law who I didn't even know existed, let alone ever met. But here is a bit of what I found.

I found an article in the Sunday Guardian from January 2019 and it's called, mystery behind ghost visits in your dreams. And it starts out saying, dreams that involve contact with a ghost or spirit are generally known as visitation dreams and are quite common. There are many explanations and many possibilities. Some of them scientific, some of them spooky, some of them historical, some of them traditional, some of them supernatural. The article says that dreams are in fact considered one of the most effective ways for the spirit realm to connect to the living.

And Rath, PhD and founder of the Institute for a Mediumship, Psychic, Astrological and Raky Training, explains that it is actually easier for spiritual entities of all kinds such as deceased loved ones, guides, angels or in my case other people's brother-in-law's to communicate with us while we are sleeping partly because you're more likely to be receptive to it in a dream than you would be in a waking state. Visitation dreams are typically clear, vivid intents and are experienced as real visits when the dreamer awakens. The dreamer is always changed by the experience, explained Patrick McNamara, PhD, an associate professor at Boston University School of Medicine. And to conclude our story, it would seem that heaven for Michelle's brother-in-law is living in a paradise with palm trees and sunshine, sending reassurance to the living with a full head of hair. 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. And don't forget to join me here every Tuesday for a new episode. Until next time.