Paranormal Porch - Putting The Present In Touch With The Past
Like a great city on the highway, the great events of history fall farther
behind us with each tick of the clock. No one lives forever. Those whose
destiny it was to make the history that influences our destiny inevitably
age and pass on. To be 100 years old today means being too young to
remember World War I, and almost too young to remember the Great
Depression.
We have already lost our last chance to interview those who were adults
during those events, and who contributed to making them such noteworthy turning points in our history. We have already lost our last chance to
meet and speak with veterans of the American Civil War or The American
Revolution. Or have we? All around the Fredericksburg area, subtle mists and quiet whispers gather in the places where men
and women of yore lived, loved, fought, and died.
Downstairs, a family hears footsteps crossing the floor of the empty second story of their home. A woman digging in her garden
near a Civil War battlefield hears a soft bugle call, and the almost inaudible “whump….whump” of distant canon fire wakes her
neighbor’s baby. Little girls’ laughter is heard in a home with no children, and parents are nonplussed when their toddler recognizes his “imaginary friend” in a newly-found hundred year old family photo. The scent of pipe tobacco in her home puzzles the
elderly non-smoker who has lived there most of her life, but prompts her to fondly recall the beloved grandpa who promised to
watch over her…always.
What would it mean to you to hear the stories behind the pipe tobacco, the bugle, the laughing children, or the imaginary
friend?
The team at Paranormal Porch is dedicated to bringing those stories to you. Gifted with extraordinary abilities and cutting-edge
equipment to detect the most subtle phenomena, we strive to learn the untold stories where history has been made in and
around the Fredericksburg area. We learn these stories not from books or documentaries, but from the story tellers themselves, for we are surrounded by people who cannot ordinarily be seen or heard with conventional senses. They have some
things they want to tell us.
IN THIS MONTH’S ISSUE!
Tech and Techniques cont….
Meet The Paranormal Porch Team!........................17-18
Editor’s Corner……………………………...2
Lunar Cycle’s Effects on Paranormal Activity
Stan Miles : Director/Magazine Executive Editor
Take a Position
By: Eric Jobes……………………………………………...9-11
Chante’ Rittenour: Investigator
Personal Paranormal Experiences
Cover Story
Darlene “Dar” Lloyd: EVP Specialist
By: Jennifer M. Duell……………………..3-4
Virginia’s Top 15 Most Haunted Locations
My Rant With Getting Client Investigations
By: Phil Payette…………………………………………..10-15
By: James Burnette……………………...6
Tech and Techniques
Haunted Experiences
Right In Front of My Face
By: Dar Lloyd………………………………………………………….19
From Your Mind
Octagon Hall Civil War Museum
Tunnel Vision
By: Doreen McCrindle …………………………………………….16
By: Maria Wilson Duff…………………………………………...20
Selecting A Digital Audio Recorder
Through The Paranormal Mind
By: Patrick B. Bishop……………………..7-9
Photographs and Drawings From Our Readers!
Tom Feaser…………………………………………………………21-24
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