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By Sam Wheeler TALENT - With electromagnetic field readers blinking and infrared cameras surveilling every upstairs room, there was only one thing left to do - kill the lights and call the spirits.
Members of the ghost-hunting Oregon Paranormal Society of Medford came out in full force Thursday night to investigate why the 120-year-old home of Talent founder Aaron P. Talent is haunting its current occupants.
The family, who does not want to be identified, says it has tried driving off the shadowy souls lingering in their rooms by burning sage and having a local reverend bless the house with holy water, but nothing has helped.
"When my 5-year-old daughter woke up and saw the little girl sitting next to her bed twirling her hair, I said, 'Enough is enough,'" says the mother, who has been renting the home in the 100 block of South Front Street since February.
The mother of two says she hasn't personally encountered the spirits, but strange occurrences - most recently, their pet snake disappearing from its locked cage in an upstairs room - and her children's sightings have her convinced that the home is haunted.
"I can deal with it, but if they don't leave my children alone we will move," says the mom. "It's a beautiful home and you'd love to live here if you didn't have to be tortured by these spirits every day."
The woman says she's had similar sensations at some of her past residences, but nothing close to this."I'm scared," says her 10-year-old son. "I like seeing this stuff in the movies, but not here."
At least three spirits reside in the house, the mother believes: an older man, a young girl and at least one other child. After months of her smoke alarm mysteriously going off at the same time every morning, her caged birds wildly chirping during the middle of the night for no reason and the family cat hypnotically staring into the same corner, she decided to call the Oregon Paranormal Society team.
Scott Triem, 42, of Medford founded OPS in 2009, and the group has gone on to investigate dozens of sites around Southern Oregon, he says.
Triem's team didn't have a significant personal encounter with any spirits at the Talent home that night, but hours of audio and video recordings still have to be reviewed before the investigation is complete.
Voices and objects that humans can't detect naturally often are realized while reviewing video and audio recordings from investigations, he says.
OPS member Pam Lindgren, 49, referred to as a "sensitive" by her colleagues for her ability to detect the presence of spirits without the help of recording equipment, says the house is haunted without a doubt.
"I definitely feel a presence... you're being watched," Lindgren told the family Thursday. "I don't feel maliciousness, but I wouldn't sleep in this room."
Even if the night's footage and audio recordings don't reveal a glimpse of any spirits, the team agrees that the house is haunted.
"It's heavy in there," Triem says.
Tina Sanchez, 41, of Medford, the team's research leader, says a young girl decades ago drowned in Wagner Creek near the home. It could be her spirit lurking in the rooms, but it's hard to tell, she says.
According to historical records, Aaron P. Talent built the home in 1886, about 10 years after settling in Southern Oregon. Originally a carpenter, Talent had opened a successful grocery store between Ashland and Phoenix in 1881. Two years later he established a post office inside the store, which made possible the incorporation of Talent in 1910.
Talent and his wife, Martha, raised nine children in the Front Street home, records show. Six of those children made the trip from Tennessee to the Rogue Valley with their parents, and three were born here.It's possible, OPS team members say, that any of the Talent family or subsequent occupants could be haunting the place.
Talent sold the home to Mary Packard sometime before 1896, the year she sold the property to George A. Briner, records show. By 1902, Talent and his wife had moved to Medford and the Front Street home had been sold again, this time to Van A. Dunlap, who went on to become the city of Talent's first mayor.
Dunlap's daughter Bertha, following the death of her parents, sold the home in 1922 to Susan and Thomas Clayton, who owned it until 1945. Ownership was then transferred to F.O. Clayton, records show.
Reviewing all of the recordings from the investigation could take weeks, says Sanchez. She expects OPS will conduct a follow-up investigation once the review is complete.
Sanchez says she doesn't know whether any of the former owners died in the home, but she assumes someone has.
However, "we're not qualified to rid a home (of a ghost)... our only intention is to investigate and find out if our clients' home is haunted... and hopefully find out why they (spirits) are using the home," Sanchez says."It's possible to make peace with them."
As for the family, the mother says, "we'll just have to wait and see what happens, but we can't do this very much longer."
Source: Oregon Mail Tribune
How Will We Negotiate With ET?
By Ed Komarek
7/27/08
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My blog: http://exopolitics.blogspot.com/
I would like to initiate an open discussion as to how open negotiations between earth society and benevolent extraterrestrial races might proceed post-disclosure. What I hope will happen is that others may become involved who have some knowledge of this either in the public or classified world and together we can wrap our collective minds around this issue. I would not be surprised if negotiations might include both sanctions and incentives similar to how we handle things on earth so as to induce earth society to cooperate with universe society and not threaten the peace and security of the rest of the cosmic neighborhood.
I realize that many people have enough trouble accepting the testimony of high level whistle blowers like Astronaut Edgar Mitchell that we are being visited by extraterrestrials and even question the huge amount of documentation available. http://dsc.discovery.com/space/qa/alien-ufo-edgar-mitchell.html Most people simply don't understand that they have been severely deceived and brainwashed by the 60 year old UFO/ET cover-up and are going to think that speculation about negotiations with aliens is way over the top. Be that as it may I believe it is important that we move forward on such speculation.
I have endured denial and ridicule over the years in regards to expressing my views as to extraterrestrial reality but I believe in telling truth to power in this field of government lies and deception regardless of the consequences. Folks can read my free exopolitics e-book at my blog site if they desire to understand the context in which I write these articles. http://exopolitics.blogspot.com/ Another good resource for those that have an interest and wish to understand the seriousness of extraterrestrial relations can discuss these issues on the Open Minds Forum where I participate. http://www.openmindsforum.com/
Some evidence from multiple sources suggests that ethical civilized extraterrestrial races require certain preconditions to be met before there can be significant sustained contact between these civilizations and earth society. This would follow along the lines of Star Trek's prime directive. The first precondition seems to be that only limited secret contact with world governments is possible in return for and in preparation for open disclosure of extraterrestrial reality.
Once the first precondition of open disclosure is met then open negotiations between extraterrestrial races and earth society can begin in earnest. I suggest that further preconditions must be met by earth society before open direct sustained contact, trade and cultural exchanges are allowed.
My impression is that these preconditions for sustained contact and interaction are:
Nation-states must stop all hostile action against ethical extraterrestrial races.
Nation-states must settle their differences through the rule of law and not war, as well as eliminate weapons of mass destruction.
We must show major progress toward humane democratic population control.
We must show major progress toward solving our environmental problems.
We must show progress toward development of a civilized societal organizational structure based on cooperation not mutual predation.
We must understand that we co-inhabit earth and this solar system with other races and that any ideas of manifest destiny must be discarded.
If we meet these preconditions then I believe these would be the following incentives offered to us by the ethical extraterrestrial races.
Open fair trade
Cultural exchange
Technological exchange
Mutual defense treaties
Participation in collective extraterrestrial government
Enlightened guidance and advice
The deeper I get into understanding extraterrestrial reality the more I have come to realize that it is really not all that different out there as it is here. The laws of physics and evolution seem to apply elsewhere just as they do here and so too the laws of logic and reason. The only difference I can see is in orders of complexity.
I believe our earth based still primitive society will be able to meet the challenges of extraterrestrial reality now and in the future. We must face up to and prepare for post disclosure reality and that includes conversations such as these even if it makes uninformed people uncomfortable or incredulous. When I go out on a limb I try to base my speculations on several different sources of information. In this case a number of clues supporting this speculation can be found on this OM thread as well as multiple sources in other of my articles. http://lucianarchy.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=unitednations&action=display&thread=2468
