Tag Archives: apparitions

Jun 7 2023

Beauty, Apparitions & Fishing


Diana’s Pool in Chaplin CT has it all.  A beautiful spot on the Natchaug River, lots of history, great fishing, wonderful picnic spots, and a great place to spend a day trying to reunite with nature and get away from it all.  And you’ll never feel alone. The apparition of a woman has been seen around the high cliffs bordering the pool many times over the years.


Is that woman Diana?  There’s no hard evidence if it is or not.  The pool has a few tales associated with it.  Two would suggest it is her. Supposedly, her lover left her and she couldn’t take the pain of losing him so jumped into the water from the cliffs. Another doesn’t intimate suicide, but says she slipped on all her tears and fell into the water from high up.  And a third version of the legend says the pool is named after the Diana family who once did business there and doesn’t mention a woman at all.  Even if the third option is the correct one, it doesn’t negate the fact that something ethereal has been seen there floating over the area.  And the activity continues.


Although there are signs posted that state, “No Swimming”, and a warning of being fined if you do, people still come here and swim.  The state does stock the pool and fishing is allowed.  There’s a hiking trail about a mile-ish long abutting the river.  There’s a lot of rocks and many of them are quite slippery, so, if you go be prepared for a not-so-easy jaunt.

Around 1983 the state closed the pool to swimmers explaining that all the people visiting the spot were ruining the environment around it.  This angered a lot of town folks who grew up in the area. This was their swimming hole and always had been.  Maybe the woman is an earlier resident of the Chaplin area going back to visit the area she loved, doing something she was prohibited from doing while still alive. 

The Natchaug River flow isn’t always smooth, either.  There are a couple of waterfalls leading to the pool and sometimes the water rushes in a raging current through the area.  Other times are more serene.  Some people have reported hearing voices – not of the living.  Perhaps one is the voice of an old angler telling anyone fishing there to get out, it’s his spot to fish?  Orbs also seem to be a frequent occurrence.  Some follow you as you mosey around.  Did you want a tour guide?  

     -ashanta

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May 17 2023

What is the Paranormal?

The paranormal is comprised of normal things that we don’t understand to be an ordinary part of our existence.  For example, when you consider how limited our  senses are compared to the vast ranges of sight and sound that exist, it’s no wonder we don’t experience most of what happens around us.  We live in small box of explained phenomena that’s promoted to be everything we need to know about life.  It isn’t.  Truth is, no one can really explain what life is or consciousness and where it comes from.  So many questions, so few answers…at least for us, the common population.

Science has made great inroads discovering answers, but how much of what is known is being shared?  It’s taken the government around 70 years to admit it knows about UAP’s.  Had that information not been leaked, we probably still wouldn’t know that.  Where do they come from, what are they?  That info hasn’t been disseminated yet and more than likely won’t be.  Those who know like to keep their discoveries to themselves and decide who should and shouldn’t know about them.  It seems that’s why paranormal events are so controversial.  This box of common knowledge we live in and are expected to believe doesn’t make accommodation for other normal events that occur, but aren’t defined. If you want to know about what is called the paranormal, you have to look outside yourself and the restrictions of the box.

Ghosts are another problem area – they aren’t supposed to be there.  Says who?  Many who experience them just don’t talk about it.  Maybe they don’t want to be called delusional or insulted for their lack of common sense.  But, if you’re the one who sees someone you knew or loved after they’ve passed on, you know who you saw and you know you aren’t nuts.  Apparitions exist, they are still part of life, maybe not on this plane, but somewhere around us.  More people might experience them if their years of conditioning didn’t prevent them from knowing it’s a possibility.

There are many things that exist that we’ve not been told about, that we’ve been cautioned about not delving into, and conditioned to believe every day life is the only thing we need to believe in.  It’s a way to deflect investigation into the possibility of other things around us that we are a normal part of.  But, why?  We live in a complex system that is a concomitance of life – we are all interconnected.  We are all a part of a vibrational matrix and so are other manifestations that can’t always be explained.  

     –  ashanta

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Jun 28 2014

A Curiosity Uncovered

My interest in ghosts began when I was quite young and had started seeing apparitions. One early experience I had was at my grandparents home. I was approximately 5 years old and staying with them for the weekend. My grandmother and I were the only ones home at the time and what happened was that I was on the first floor walking from the dining room towards the kitchen and happened to look up the flight of stairs leading to the second floor bedrooms. As I was looking up a female figure came out from one bedroom and seemed to glide just above the floor and across the hall into one of the other rooms. She had a very calm demeanor, very peaceful, and this had the same effect on me while in her presence. Being a young child I assumed it was a living person that was there with us until I asked my grandmother about it and she assured me we were alone. I didn’t know what to think about this, but wouldn’t look up the stairs for a long time. This event happened during the day and was one of only a few ghostly encounters I’ve experienced during the daytime. I have had other experiences at my grandparents house as well. Not all involved ghosts, but other paranormal encounters as well.

I will write more about them and other locations soon.

-Bran

Feb 6 2014

Some Thoughts on Energy and Perception

Perhaps nothing is paranormal  —  maybe it is just a manipulation of energy.   Our Universe and all the existence within it is vibration.  Energy is vibration and everything we experience as living beings happens within a Vibrational Matrix.

Whether it be an apparition, psychometry, clairaudience, automatic writing, ouija, ufo’s or any other type of psychic manifestation all is embedded within a web of oscillation emanating from the Universe around us.

This matrix and everything comprising it’s parts manifest an array that helps to complete the network of existence.  We experience life through our senses believing that what we see, hear, feel, smell, etc. are real and exist as we live them.  Yet, we see less than 1% of the electromagnetic field that surrounds us.  And, we hear less than 1% of the acoustic field that exists.  The understanding of our reality is badly hampered and distorted by those two factors alone.  Our other senses are defined to us by our brain which does not necessarily lead us to truth.

Our senses are censored by our brain.  It is a mechanical organ that demands we greet and comprehend things in a way that makes sense to it.  Our brains demand a physiological logic that does not elaborate on any other criteria except what it has been genetically wired to believe from our birth to our death.

Because our access to the full spectra of what the entirety of life offers us are mitigated, we do not experience the totality of what exists on a physical level.  That doesn’t mean we cannot or do not receive extra-sensory information through other means that some call the supernatural.  But it does insinuate that we do not usually make a connection between what could be called de ja vu, insight, premonition, and/or gut feeling.  All that exists leaves an imprint on us whether it’s an intelligence, an encounter with a past life or a residual energy that cannot get beyond the here and now.

Physical life is not alone in possessing energy.  Places and buildings also have and hold vibrational information.  And like people, it all depends on what happens how that ‘feeling’ will be perceived. We only have to remember that energy can neither be created nor destroyed.  There are some among us that feel this energy more than others do, however, all senses and experiences are intraconnected and can seep through to this plane of the so-called ‘living’ for those who are willing to feel, understand, and know that life of the past.

Does life exist beyond death?  Energy does!  Noises, smells, shadows, maybe even ufo’s all relate to a possible communication from a different plane. It is that dynamic that we experience as apparitions and other manifestations that signals an intelligence and continuance of energy/life that will not die.

-ashanta