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Investigative Medium Laine Crosby

Since the Travel Channel's Mysterious Journeys segment on the Ghosts of Gettysburg first aired in October of 2007, I have received a few e-mails that have voiced concerns, and dozens of others that were positive and asked for more information on paranormal investigations, equipment, etc. The concerns seem to be thematic with 1) how, as a historian, I work with our medium, 2) how programs are made for television and, 3) the historical research done for and by our medium.

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Author Rosemary Ellen Guiley

The new Russian translation of my "Encyclopedia of Angels," second edition, just came out, and the cover is beautiful, a rich red with embossed silver, and one of Gustav Dore's famous engravings. The publisher also added an insert of pages of beautiful color plates of angel paintings and icons. I like it so much I had to post it!

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Demonologist John Zaffis

Are Demons real? What are they, where do they come from, and why are they as fascinated with us as we are with them? This week's guest is "The Godfather of the Paranormal", John Zaffis. He is a Demonologist and paranormal investigator with over 35 years of experience and thousands of cases throughout the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. including possessions that led to exorcisms conducted by the late Father Malachi Martin and others.

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Author Troy Taylor

With the writer's strike (finally!) over, it looks like many of our favorite televisions shows are going to be back. Some of them, we won't see until the fall but others will return in a month or two. Of course, new episodes will be sporadic and it's going to be hard for anything other than "Jericho" and "Lost" (which is fantastic this season) to maintain any kind of real storytelling.

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Author/ Historian Mark Nesbitt

I told him about the theory about ghosts that proposes the geology—particularly quartz-bearing granite, like at Gettysburg, Antietam and other haunted battlefields—can capture the energy released by soldiers in extremis, and, under certain conditions, can release that energy, producing ghostly phenomena as in a residual haunting. That the Vicksburg Battlefield has no ghostly phenomena (yet certain buildings in town do) and other battlefields with their quartz-bearing bedrock close to the surface do have ghostly happenings, at least adds to the data we are collecting. As I have often said, Civil War battlefields are like laboratories for paranormal research.

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