History And Ghosts All In One
My name is Jamie Roush and I am the founder of Historic Haunts Investigations. I have been a certified Paranormal Investigator and Ghost Hunter for many years and have a certificate in Parapsychology. I also am a genealogist. My research ability comes in handy on investigations.
I am also an author of the Paranormal, Historic Haunts Florida, which came out in 2011 and am working on a second book and hope for it to be out the end of 2012 or beginning of 2013. You can order Historic Haunts Florida from this website.
I started Historic Haunts in 2004 to try to help people who were experiencing the paranormal and to answer questions they might have on what is still a touchy subject.
I have always been interested in the supernatural and had my first experience at a very early age. The reason I have started Historic Haunts is to share my investigations with people, help answer paranormal questions and to be there for people who need their home or business investigated. Plus, to hopefully help the non-believer become more open minded and realize, ghosts do exist.
We answer any questions you may have and do investigations free of charge. We go in believing a place may or may not be haunted and if we find real proof that it is, we will present it to you. If we think a place is not haunted, then we will explain to you why we believe that and what is causing the alleged paranormal activity. We also help people whose homes are haunted. We suggest ways that will help eliminate the activity or hopefully even do away with it.
We never use Ouija boards to try to conjure up the spirits. We also do not practice in seances. Honestly, we don't believe you need to use these to contact the spirits. If they want to be contacted, they will contact you first.
Feel free to email us your questions at historichaunts@yahoo.com
I am also an author of the Paranormal, Historic Haunts Florida, which came out in 2011 and am working on a second book and hope for it to be out the end of 2012 or beginning of 2013. You can order Historic Haunts Florida from this website.
I started Historic Haunts in 2004 to try to help people who were experiencing the paranormal and to answer questions they might have on what is still a touchy subject.
I have always been interested in the supernatural and had my first experience at a very early age. The reason I have started Historic Haunts is to share my investigations with people, help answer paranormal questions and to be there for people who need their home or business investigated. Plus, to hopefully help the non-believer become more open minded and realize, ghosts do exist.
We answer any questions you may have and do investigations free of charge. We go in believing a place may or may not be haunted and if we find real proof that it is, we will present it to you. If we think a place is not haunted, then we will explain to you why we believe that and what is causing the alleged paranormal activity. We also help people whose homes are haunted. We suggest ways that will help eliminate the activity or hopefully even do away with it.
We never use Ouija boards to try to conjure up the spirits. We also do not practice in seances. Honestly, we don't believe you need to use these to contact the spirits. If they want to be contacted, they will contact you first.
Feel free to email us your questions at historichaunts@yahoo.com
Live interview with Jamie Roush
March 13th, 2012
About Ghost Hunting
Just because a building is old, doesn't mean that it is haunted.
Ghost hunting is not always as exciting as television makes it out to be. Sometimes you can spend hours doing research and setting in buildings and not see or feel a thing. Then there are times there is so much activity it is unbelievable! You just never know what will happen on an investigation. That is one thing I love about the paranormal field, it is so unpredictable! This truth is out there and half the fun of it is discovering it for yourself.
Ghost hunting is not always as exciting as television makes it out to be. Sometimes you can spend hours doing research and setting in buildings and not see or feel a thing. Then there are times there is so much activity it is unbelievable! You just never know what will happen on an investigation. That is one thing I love about the paranormal field, it is so unpredictable! This truth is out there and half the fun of it is discovering it for yourself.
Forms of Manifestation
There are four basic ways in which a spirit can manifest itself. The one that most people think of is actually the least common and is a seeing an apparition. For the investigator, catching something like this on film is the holy grail of evidence and unfortunately is very rare. In this form of manifestation the ghost or spirit appears in a physical form. They may look like a normal, living person, a semitransparent figure, or somewhere in between these to forms. People have also seen apparitions of animals as well.
The second form of manifestation is by sound. These may be disembodied footsteps, the sounds of doors opening and closing, music, or voices. Often times when speech is heard, it will sound muffled and like a whisper. A lot of people have reported hearing their name come from an empty room or a conversation and when they go to see who is there, they find no one. These are just a few examples of what people have reported.
In the next form, scents or smells are detected. Often times people reports smelling perfume or flowers. Pipe, cigarette and cigar smoke are also very common occurrences. These scents usually do not last long. Typically, someone will catch a brief smell of something and then when they recognize what the smell is it will be gone.
The fourth and final form is tactile. Like all others this can take several different forms as well. A common example is the feeling of cold spots. These spots are believed to be caused by a spirit absorbing the energy in a room to assist it in manifesting itself. Heat is another form of energy, and when used by a spirit, can drop the temperature more than 10 degrees. Sometimes an entire room can be affected by this occurrence. Tactile manifestations can also take the form of being touched, such as a hand on the shoulder a poke in the stomach, or even having their haired brushed aside. Also, people have reported their hair being pulled or clothing being tugged. These are generally very slight but can occasionally be forceful.
These are the four main ways a ghost can manifest itself and can happen individually or together. The combinations all vary just like the hauntings they are associated with.
The second form of manifestation is by sound. These may be disembodied footsteps, the sounds of doors opening and closing, music, or voices. Often times when speech is heard, it will sound muffled and like a whisper. A lot of people have reported hearing their name come from an empty room or a conversation and when they go to see who is there, they find no one. These are just a few examples of what people have reported.
In the next form, scents or smells are detected. Often times people reports smelling perfume or flowers. Pipe, cigarette and cigar smoke are also very common occurrences. These scents usually do not last long. Typically, someone will catch a brief smell of something and then when they recognize what the smell is it will be gone.
The fourth and final form is tactile. Like all others this can take several different forms as well. A common example is the feeling of cold spots. These spots are believed to be caused by a spirit absorbing the energy in a room to assist it in manifesting itself. Heat is another form of energy, and when used by a spirit, can drop the temperature more than 10 degrees. Sometimes an entire room can be affected by this occurrence. Tactile manifestations can also take the form of being touched, such as a hand on the shoulder a poke in the stomach, or even having their haired brushed aside. Also, people have reported their hair being pulled or clothing being tugged. These are generally very slight but can occasionally be forceful.
These are the four main ways a ghost can manifest itself and can happen individually or together. The combinations all vary just like the hauntings they are associated with.
