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Psychic Diversion A A Psychic Diversion 33 33 Paranormal When people die they look exactly the Massachusetts Paranormal Massachusetts investigator gives same as they did right before they passed, but MUFON investigator gives MUFON without visible injuries, she said. If they lost spirited talk weight from a long-term illness, however, their spirited talk Hosts Fall UFO spirit also appears thin. Hosts Fall UFO She’s even sent animal spirits to the Conference Conference other side, she said. Hibernian Hall - Stephanie Castor, of Lorain, listened to Hibernian Hall - Winkowski with three of her friends for her Watertown, MA birthday. Watertown, MA “I loved it,” she said. “She’s so down to October 14, 2006 @ Earth and had a wonderful sense of humor.” [] October 14, 2006 @ 7PM 7PM Psychic Diversion A A Psychic Diversion Seniors Take `Who's To Say' Presentations of some of the Presentations of some of the Seniors Take `Who's To Say' East Coast’s most intriguing Attitude About Getting In East Coast’s most intriguing Attitude About Getting In UFO cases ouch With The Beyond Adam Wright T Touch With The Beyond UFO cases The Chronicle-Telegram Boston, Mass. – July 26, 2006 – Hartford Courant Massachusetts MUFON, the Massachusetts Hartford Courant Those keys you left on the dining room State Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network table are now on the counter. You feel An aura of energy surrounds everyone's heads, (MUFON) (which is the nation’s largest UFO someone’s gaze crawling up your neck, but you telling them what life has in store. So says Janet investigative organization) is pleased to turn around and nothing’s there. Carr, an aura photographer whose pictures show announce that it will host an evening Crazy? people as if they had colorful Afro hairstyles. conference on Saturday, October 14th, 2006 Nope. You may just be having an To demonstrate, Carr took a photograph featuring some of the East Coast’s most otherworldly experience, according to of Sally Hoffman using her special camera intriguing UFO cases. paranormal investigator Mary Ann Winkowski. hooked up to a computer at a psychic fair held The program will include Stan As the inspiration behind the TV show “The in July. Gordon, lead investigator of the Kecksburg, Ghost Whisperer,” Winkowski can Hoffman was one of hundreds of people Pennsylvania UFO incident (as featured on communicate and see spirits who have not yet - mostly residents of The Villages, a sprawling the Sci-Fi Channel and “Unsolved crossed over into the spirit world. retirement community in the Orlando, Fla., area Mysteries”); Greg Berghorn, Massachusetts Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt plays - who lined up at the Mulberry Grove Center to MUFON State Director and lead investigator Winkowski on the show, about a woman who is consult with tarot readers, astrologists, of the Hampden County, Massachusetts crop just getting used to her paranormal abilities. But iridologists, foot massagers and channelers who circle case; and Mark Petty, Massachusetts life has been far less glamorous for the North communicate with the dead. The event was MUFON Assistant State Director and lead Royalton resident, she told about 30 customers sponsored by the Parapsychology Club of The investigator of the Middlesex County alleged at Poor Richard’s Tavern in North Ridgeville on Villages. abduction attempt case. Sunday. Hoffman has a close family member The venue is the historic Watertown “Every week we have a meeting and I who is seriously ill and wanted to know whether Hibernian Hall, located at 151 Watertown tell them things they got wrong,” which she would soon get better. Street in Watertown, Mass. Seating is limited, includes showing characters passing through Her photograph from Carr showed a but there is ample free parking. Doors open at ghosts or sitting on a spirit. large yellow-orange bubble floating around her 6:00 p.m. and presentations begin at 7:00. “But they still put it in,” she said. “It’s head. That was Hoffman's aura, and those colors Other events and activities will include prizes, television — they Hollywood-ize it.” meant she was a cheerful person full of loving a trivia contest, souvenirs, concessions, Winkowski was invited to the restaurant energy and sunshine, Carr told Hoffman. exhibits, a slideshow, a Q&A session, by the owners, which has an eerie reputation for "It means when you walk into a room, information on how to join MUFON, how to being haunted. She discussed her life and spent you brighten it up," Carr said. The green colors become a UFO Field Investigator and more. most of the time fielding questions about her around Hoffman's face mean "there's some There will be an admission fee fee of $20. abilities. healing going on." Please visit our website at She grew up in Cleveland and her Hoffman didn't take Carr's message very www.MassMUFON.com for more up-to-the- grandmother, who she said had a less powerful seriously, but she said it was an "uplifting minute information and how to pre-register or gift, would take her to haunted houses to tell message" she needed to hear. email massmufon@aol.com. ghosts to leave when she was only 4 years old. "It's a blast, if nothing else," Hoffman She said she first discovered her talent at the age said. "You can't live your life by what they tell Violet Castle, for example, broke each of 2. you. But it satisfies my curiosity." of her arms about six years ago and has been in She learned early on that spirits have 72 That was the point of the event, said Ina to 80 hours, starting at the final memorial Anderson, of the Parapsychology Club of The almost constant pain since. service, to walk through an aura of white light Villages. The 87-year-old Villages resident that surrounds them after they die. But some Parapsychology, alternative therapies consulted with Elaine Carpenter, a Reiki don’t want to leave, especially those whose and matters of the psychic world have grown practitioner. Reiki is a combination of Asian family disobeys their burial wishes. increasingly popular among seniors in recent healing concepts in which practitioners place By picturing in her mind a white light, years, Anderson said. In the past year, she has their hands just above a client's body and use and then mentally drawing it in a wall big seen her club's numbers climb to 155 members. hand movements to direct and clear the body's enough for a person to walk through, she asks "I think people - seniors - are less energy. spirits to leave and they do. hesitant today to say they're interested in this," "I'm the middle person between the Lord “Ghosts never bother me. It’s the living she said. "They are at a point in their lives where and the client," Carpenter said. who drive me crazy,” she quipped. they can finally say I'm going to do it and I don't When Carpenter finished, Castle said She doesn’t know what’s on the other care what anyone else thinks." she felt "very relaxed." side, but said she has seen pedophiles and Most consultations lasted between 15 "Whose to say this stuff doesn't work?" murderers walk through the same white light. and 20 minutes and cost about $1 a minute. said Jim Baldwin as he stood in line waiting to “I have to believe there’s someone But it was not only about wanting to know what enter the event. "If you believe in it, and it gives standing at the end with a clipboard,” she said. the future holds. you some peace of mind, then why not?" []