Paranormal Investigation Group of New England

The Fort Griswold investigation is coming in only one week, and things are getting pretty exciting! I had the opportunity to chat with Robyne and Tom from MASSparanormal on their myspace page last night, and found them to be full of crude humor. Eeeeeeexcellent! We will get along perfectly! They are just as excited as we are to go on this investigation. It will definately be refreshing to have some non-group members along to check out a place that I already know is haunted.

Our next group meeting is coming up tomorrow. On this note, I really should be cleaning my house up, not blogging, but oh well *shrug*! Tomorrow is going to be a very busy day for many of us in the group: first thing in the morning is the UU church service in New London, then shooting back up to Plainfield really quickly to meet most of our group members for one o'clock, then all of us running up to Brooklyn for the Old Trinity Church walking tour (YIPPEE!!!!), completing the tour and grilling the tour-givers about all the paranormal happenings surrounding OTC, then rushing back to Plainfield to my house again for the group meeting at four pm!!

 Things are going well within the group still.  There have been a couple snags cropping up this week, mainly in regards to communication issues.  We have (hopefully) worked through all of that, because we all really need to focus on the coming investigation.

I will tell you this, for anyone interested in starting their own group, no matter what the area:  running a group is HARD!!!!!  It's not always love and light and chasing spooks!  People all have their own opinions and feelings about things, the way things ought to be run, etc., and it's virtually IMPOSSIBLE to not be stepping on someone's toes throughout this process.  Most paranormal groups do not make it through their first year of being together.  I am determined, however, to not fall into that category, and hopefully everyone else is in line with what I feel!  I do feel that it is absolutely necessary to have some kind of structure within every group, because without order and structure the result can be only chaos.  Deciding who should be "in charge" should be made with reason and forethought, not emotions.  If you end up being the leader of a group, you WILL hear bitching.  Probably lots of it!  You'd better get used to it now, because if you are truly serious about doing whatever it is you are doing, there is only bound to be more!  My advice to you is to learn about people and do it fast...sociology, psychology, group dynamic...figure it out!  

If you can't keep your people happy, you may end up doing what you love...all by yourself!

 I just joined the website www.modernwiccan.com for my own enlightenment.  I was reading an article where the writer pretty much bashed every wiccan out there who's not stuck in the broom closet...this person made me laugh!!  In one point he/she states, and I quote "I am annoyed to be in the same faith as people who believe they can literally (not metaphorically) float, fly or levitate."  Hmm...well, I guess this person has not ever tried "Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board" then.  Because I was all of 16, and the other girls as well, when we made this happen.  My own husband will attest to it, because we used him as the floating guinea pig!!!

Levitation is not some kind of heebie-jeebie spooky mystical practice...it is merely that of focus and mind over matter.  Science has proven this.  LMAO to this undeucated person!

Don't knock it 'till ya try it, kiddos!!!  :)

I posted a portion of the below in a community I just joined, kind of my introduction of myself to the group. When I read it over, I thought it was so appropriate to how I am currently feeling that I decided to post it into my own LJ.

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I have been a solitary for over ten years, always holding onto my personal beliefs but seeking opportunities to gather together with others in a non-coven setting. For about a year, I was a member of the Spiritualist Church, and because of my interest in the paranormal (I am also a paranormal investigator here in CT and founded a ghost hunting group with my best friend of 15 years) I thought I had found a true home for me. Turns out, the church I was going to- I'm not going to blanket statement them and say the ENTIRE church- was not as open-minded as I had originally thought. Long story...they, like every other place I've been to for the community association, have some serious issues that turned me off completely to the entire religion. I haven't been there for several months and have found that I missed the spiritual comraderie of the people. After a great deal of soul-searching over the summer months, again I have come back to Wicca. I am hoping to begin studying practices again and meeting people who are on the solitary path as I am. The more I think about, the more I realize how much I've missed it.

About two weeks ago, I went out and searched for a new pentacle to symbolize my rededication to my beliefs. I am not the kind of person who uses tools or practices rituals, but wearing a pentacle to me always gave me that...connection...to what I felt and believed about myself and the universe around me. As soon as I put the chosen item on, it felt like a homecoming to me. I have found a sense of peace within myself that I didn't realize was missing, and I am so grateful to the God and Goddess for drawing me back into their arms!!

Peace, all!

 

I didn't even get a chance to blog at all yesterday, that's how busy we were!! The morning was filled with grocery shopping and grocery putting-awaying. Joe (the hubby), Richie (my 19 month old son), and I got home around noonish and ended up with Katie and Nikki at the house shortly thereafter. The original plan was to just hang out at the house, maybe cook up a decent dinner with all the new, yummy food in the house. However, Nikki brought up a friend of hers that is interested in the group, so she called him when we expressed interest in meeting him.

We ended up deciding to meet him, and he was interested in seeing Maud's grave and the surrounding area. We packed up the baby and all-wheel-drive stroller (thank god for that thing!) and headed out to meet him. I also on the spur of the moment asked my next door neighbor Terrie if she would like to come, and she jumped on the chance. Mark's the guy's name, and I've got a pretty good feeling about him being a future investigator and researcher. So we met up with him and headed down to Maud's in Voluntown. When we arrived we discovered the gate open (I think that they are doing some logging or something down there) and a couple guys across the street getting ready to go hunting in the woods- camo, deer scent, and all. Well, needless to say we decided we ought not stay there, so we headed off to Hell Hollow instead. Walked around for a little bit, pushing the stroller and checking things out.

We all came upon one area that you could tell immediately had some bad, baaaad stuff going on there. I was the first to go into the area, up the hill on the left of the road. We found a circle, done immaturely with table salt from a can!!, and various markings, which we wrote down on a scrap of paper.

The circle hadn't been covered up or even broken, it seems. Tree (terrie) broke up the circle in the appropriate way and we burned some of our special cleansing incense in the woods to clear the taint. The feeling that I got was that of the exploits of The Pagans (not really pagan at all, but a psuedo-satanic baby cult that practiced in our area through the late 80s into the 90s, and pretty much anyone who knew about them was scared of them...pretty much because they felt invincible, stole and sacrificed people's animals, all that kind of retarded shit...), and this makes me wonder if they might be coming back to the area again. There was also a space not far away near a tree where it appears a hole had been dug and something (?) buried. We placed rocks on top of it and burned incense in that place too. I don't think any one of us had the balls to dig and see what was in that hole...

 

It's obvious from this pic above that the rocks were sinking a little into the ground.  *Shudder*  Well, at any rate, we did all that we could do and left that area.

Upon going home, we waited for Tony and Debbie (more of our senior members) to show up and had an impromptu senior staff meeting.  We managed to get a lot of stuff accomplished, including working on departments for the group, editing and reorganizing our group contacts list (with phone numbers, email addys, and now departments as well), talking about stuff that we had concerns with, and a bunch of other stuff like that.  The meeting lasted at least up through 8 pm, but the couple of us who were still here after the rest went home managed to discover a few things about all the markings that we found painted in that area earlier in the day.  Once we have our theory complete, I will post more about it.

Well, I think that's enough for one morning!!  LMAO 

I can't believe how everything is just falling right into place for the group and especially for the coming Fort Griswold investigation as well! I am looking forward to working with members of MASSparanormal, in particular Robyne and her son. I haven't heard from the Norwich Bulletin yet about having a reporter come out with us for a story, but I will give them a few more days before I blow up their phone! LOL.

On an aside, I GOTTA get some batteries for the keyboard & mouse at home!!!  It's driving me nuts having to hunt-and-peck because it's not registering!  Thus the reason for the short post... grr

Hello to all and thanks alot for visiting my blog!

My name is Tabitha Johnson. I am a 26 year old, newly married StayAtHomeMama of one 19 month old little boy. I am a solitary practitioner of Wicca.  I enjoy a variety of activities, love art and reading and the outdoors, love to meet new people, play World of Warcraft regularly...

And, oh yeah! I'm also a paranormal investigator!

I created this blog so that people who visit my group's website can take a look into my mind. See what I'm thinking about our investigations, where the group is heading, random rants and various things like that. This blog will be my PERSONAL feelings, not just the cold, hard facts of a case that we present on our website. I am a sensitive- as are many in my family- and sometimes in spite of a lack of evidence, we may feel that a site bears further looking into.

So please take a look at my journal posts and as always, I look forward to comments and replies.

~Blessed Be, All!~
Your friendly neighborhood ghost hunter, Tabbie :)