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Marysborough A Ghost Haven 19 Marysborough A Ghost Haven 19 Maryborough a haven Williams flips through her numerous photo Having paranormal activities in your Maryborough a haven for ghosts albums and describes in detail each photograph. house, says Dr Yong, can be a drain on health for ghosts “I get so excited every time I pick up my and energy. pictures from Big W. I don't have a computer so Dr Yong’s clients includes real estate I can't look at them properly until I get them agents and homeowners. Their concerns run the Averyll Loft printed - it's always a thrill.” whole gamut. Averyll Loft Fraser Coast Chronicle, 'Sometimes it's just a pull but I do see “Some say the homes are too dark. Fraser Coast Chronicle, Australia Australia them, I feel them and I communicate with them. Others have an issue with previous occupants I try to help most go to the white light to cross dying in the house. But their goals are the same: KERRY Williams digs through a half-a- over' Replace the bad with good. dozen or so photo albums, picks one out and Kerry says Maryborough would have to “If it’s a problem ghost that is disturbing quickly flips through it until she finds the be one of the most haunted places in the you, you need to address it. Sometimes, these picture she's looking for. country. things want to drive you out of their home. “Here,” she says breathlessly with a She reckons a classic example of the Often, speaking aloud to it will get it to behave. huge grin on her face. “These are the orbs I city's paranormal activity was last week during “Why? If the spirit is playing tricks on captured on Valentine's Day - look how many the region's close call with tropical ex-cyclone you, it probably wants to be noticed. If that there are.” Hamish. doesn’t work, call in the professionals,” he Ms Williams, a ghost whisperer living in “When it storms you'll find more spirits advises. Maryborough, lives and breathes the spirit around - they're drawn in by the energy and it Animals, says Dr Yong, are more world - her eyes sparkle as she talks animatedly makes the earthbound spirits from the dark side sensitive to supernatural things than people. about the paranormal experiences she's had in stronger,” she said. “If you can, bring along a dog when you the Heritage City. “I went to the water towers on Ann inspect a property. If the dog appears anxious, “I love the spirit world. It's thrilling and Street to take pictures and when I saw how barks at something unseen, cowers without rewarding and it's completely changed the way many were around I immediately asked for apparent reason or stares at nothing in I lived my life.” protection. particular, there may be something there.” But Ms Williams hasn't been a believer “Earthbound spirits from the dark side “There are a lot of TV shows about long. It was only in 2003 after she lost her are real low lives - they exude violence and ghosts, which only serve to impress upon our mother when she first started her “spiritual hate. They want to cause mayhem. Protection is consciousness that hauntings are real. But journey”. important because they want to attach though ghost stories are common, actual “Things started to happen to me,” she themselves to you.” sightings aren’t,” says Dr Ong Hean Tatt, feng said. “I was getting messages - at first I thought Ms Williams has had some frightening shui scientist and an author on Chinese culture they were coincidences and then I thought experiences with evil spirits over the past few and management science. maybe I was going a bit loopy.” years. “Of course, not everything is caused by After that Ms Williams decided to read She said to protect herself she calls on supernatural forces. Before strange sounds send everything and anything she could get hands on her spirit guides and surrounds herself with a you scurrying from your house, it’s usually best about the spirit world. white light. to call in an expert — like a roofing or plumbing “(Spirits) don't necessarily whisper in “To ward off bad spirits you burn white specialist. your ear. You get signs. But if you're afence sage incense, frankincense or sage smudge “Most of the time, the problem can be sitter nothing is going to happen to you; you sticks. They don't like perfume either.” [] fixed with a hammer or screwdriver. That have to have 100% belief. animalistic sound may be rusty hinges or loose GOT GHOSTS? “They come to me because I have GOT GHOSTS? shingles. Electrical appliances that switch on opened my mind and I truly believe.” and off on their own may be due to faulty thestar.com Ms Williams doesn't go looking for thestar.com wiring. Shadows or reflections in the mirror spirits - they come to her. could be alcohol- or drug-induced “Sometimes it's just a pull but I do see hallucinations.” them, I feel them and I communicate with them. Dr Ong says high levels of I try to help most go to the white light to cross electromagnetic energy can also cause paranoia over.” — such as the feeling of being watched, She said one of her most cherished headaches and nausea which are often reported experiences was when she was sitting in her together with paranormal events. lounge room watching television when she felt “However, it may also be this that is something caressing her head. attracting spooky visitors, since it is commonly “I knew straight away it was a loving believed, in the paranormal research field, that spirit and luckily my camera was nearby. I took spirits need energy to manipulate their a picture of the top of my head and caught my surroundings, and so are attracted to mum's orb. I know it's her orb because it's electromagnetic fields,” he explains. pink.” Think your real estate harbours ghosts? The spirits Ms Williams communicate Count your options — pack or stay. with are from the “other side” or the earthbound Should you decide to stay put, consider spirits of humans who have passed away and The topic of ghosts tend to elicit rolled charging admission on Halloween. [] not crossed over. eyes from non-believers, but sometimes things She has learnt to communicate with that go bump in the night can’t be explained them and her “spirit guides” through logically or scientifically. meditation. “If a home gives you the creeps, there Ms Williams only started snapping may be good reason,” says Dr Wilson Yong, pictures around her home and Maryborough last CEO and founder of TaoistSecret.com and year after being given a small digital camera as Cosmic Metaphysic Research Foundation. a present. “The TV changing volume or channels Since then she has filled albums with by itself, muffled cries and whispers, a strange pictures of a pink orb in various places around scent that doesn’t belong there, and a creepy her house, pictures showing large numbers or feeling that you are being watched — people are different sized orbs, blue mists and dark shapes unlikely to talk about it unless they believe that which she simply can't explain. you believe. No one wants to be perceived as a It's hard not to be a bit spooked when Ms psycho,” says Dr Yong.