Sunday, May 30, 2010

Our 2010 Conference's Results

Another year, another conference. I'm running out of places but it's been a great run so far. This year's conference was nice, intimate and a lot of fun. The people that attended were great. They were interested and willing to put ideas into action.

Everyone wanted to know the results of my experiment of placing John J. Oliver, psychic detective, one of our guest speakers, into the mansions before our attendees went through to get his impressions and then compare them with the impressions and/or history of these mansions. Here are his impressions as we walked through each mansion.

Meek Mansion

1. Walking through the door, John felt that it had a long history of family.
2. Walking into the great room to the left, first floor, he felt that there was a lot of arguing in that room or heavy discussions.
3. Walking to the second floor, he felt as though there were deaths in some of the bedrooms to the left.
4. Walking to the bedroom that was the last to the left, he felt as though there was a woman in a long dress and a bun in her hair looking out the window on the right and that a man in period dress was looking out the window on the left. This was actually a sitting room that was part of the bedroom.
5. Walking to the servants quarters on the right side of that floor, the second room most western, he felt that there was a rape that occurred in that room, not a violent act, but a rape nonetheless.
6. On the third floor where the children's play room was, he felt as though there was sickness in that room. There were children but some were sick or displayed a sickness.
7. In the cuppola, he felt as though a man of the house would go up there and think or that it was his office and that he paced up there a lot.

McConaghy House

1. Upon first walking into the house, you walk into the kitchen. He said there was very heavy residual impressions. He explained that there was a lot going on but that it was residual, layer upon layer, probably over many years of different things going on.
2. He walked into the hall and standing on the stairwell felt as though someone had been watching us as we were in the kitchen and walked into the hallway. He said he also felt as though someone had run passed us as we ascended the stairs through the hallway.
3. The room in the front felt as though someone was still there, just sitting, as though waiting.
4. The second floor has a series of rooms and the first to the west, which is behind or to the left up the stairs, had a feeling of many, many people that stayed in that room.
5. The room next to the left, most east, had a feeling of someone looking out that window and feeling as though they are lonely.
6. Across the hall in Mary's room, he felt loneliness, depression, a feeling of not being able to relax as though there were unfinished business and a feeling of why did they miss an opportunity.
7. The room in the front of that towards the front of the house, he felt as though someone had died in that room and was not happy at all. There seemed to be a very tense feeling.
8. John had a feeling of deja vu and vividly described being there in another time, perhaps in a dream, and coming out of the room that was locked and across the hall and pouring tea, picking it up after stirring it and taking a drink from a fragile, porcelain beautiful cup. He had that feeling twice once quickly and second in a complete beginning-to-end fashion.
9. In the attic, he felt as though this was a place where a young girl (?16-17) and boy would secretly meet to be together. He had no bad feelings in this area.

John spent a great deal of time in these houses and even walked the perimeter of them trying to pick up one impressions. While he had no impressions regarding the perimeter of the McConaghy house, he did not feel completely safe about the Meek Mansion. There were many reports of homeless people hanging around outside and drug dealing and drinking going on inside the park itself. We decided to stay where the other people were to be safe.

The conference was great and I, myself am now a great fan of John Oliver and his abilities. While I had seen him on "Haunting Evidence" and had heard of him, I did not have an opportunity prior to this to know him. He is a wonderful man, generous of time, gracious when talking to him. I hope to again cross paths with him in the future as he touched everyone at the conference in one way or another.

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