The Paranormal Has Never Been So Popular

Ghost Hunters Ghost Hunters International Ghost Hunters Academy Ghost Cops Ghost Lab Ghost Adventures Ghost Trackers Paranormal State Etc, etc, etc. Anyone else seeing the trend here? Paranormal programming has been around for awhile. As early as 1975, through shows such as "In Search Of…", as well as movies and books like The Exorcist or [...]

Why Should Christians Care About The Occult?

  My friend Keiki, from The Vessel Project, asked a very good question today on Face Book. Basically she was wondering what all the interest is around horoscopes, what draws people (especially Christians) to them? The interesting thing is I was at a Praise and Coffee meeting this week and got into a conversation with a friend about [...]

A Lonely Voice Crying Against The Wind

You know, some times when I see yet another major news network offering a profile of a psychic medium or catch a commercial for any of the paranormal investigative television programs I want to throw my hands into the air and say "fine".   Some times I honestly want to understand why God has put [...]

Don’t Go Looking for “Spoilers”

I have been asked a time or two by people who honestly don't understand "What draws people into exploring the occult"?  Why is there an interest in things like ghosts, fortune-telling, witchcraft, etc?   While there are any number of answers but I think one part of the curiosity is an insatiable desire to know [...]

Should Christians Ghost Hunt?

Paranormal investigation.  Over the past four or five years interest in ghosts…and hunting them…has grown by leaps and bounds.  According to the Harris Poll,, as of 2007, half of all American adults believe in ghosts. Actually, belief in or speculation about ghosts goes back thousands of years.  Pliny the Younger is actually credited with recording [...]

Auras

I was recently asked if the supernatural ability to see "auras" is a gift God has given to Christians.  First, let's define what the ability to see an aura actually is. According to Got Questions.com, "Auras are believed to be subtle energy fields or fields of light emanating from human beings, as well as all [...]

Ghost Hunter’s Anonymous ~ Part 2

In Ghost Hunter's Anonymous ~ Part 1, I referenced the scriptures that indicate human souls do not remain on the earth as disembodied ghosts haunting the living.  Another look at scripture takes us to the gospels of Matthew and Mark.  When Jesus walked on the water some translations inappropriately use the word "ghost" (meaning a [...]

Ghost Hunter’s Anonymous ~ Part 1

Hello.  My name is Kristine and I was a ghost hunter.  What can I say.  I was always interested in the idea of ghosts and life beyond the grave from the time I was young and heard an EVP (electronic voice phenomena) on a broadcast television special about the paranormal.  So years later in 2005 [...]

Paranormal Activity

The other day my husband forwarded me an email which he thought I might find interesting.  The email was about a movie called Paranormal Activity.  He thought I might be interested in the fact that over 1 MILLION people had requested the movie be released nationwide through a viral internet campaign.   Let me say [...]

The Pit of the Pendulum

  A pendulum is a crystal or other weighted object suspended at the end of a chain. These tools can be very simple or hand crafted with beads and ornamentation, the applications and use are still the same. Individual pendulums can be dedicated to discerning different types of information depending upon the materials used, but [...]

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