When We Were Just Beginning

I remember how new things used to be and how frightening experiences could be when we were new as paranormal investigators.  For me, being an investigator and learning to use equipment to capture evidence of what I was experiencing was very invigorating and empowering to me.  I spent all of my life thinking that no one would believe what I was experiencing, hearing and seeing.  I touched on the fact in a previous post that I have been able to communicate with spirits for as long as I can remember.  The truth is that I actually cannot remember a time when they did not communicate with me.  That is the truth.

One of the things that just amazes me … and will probably continue to do so … is hearing these spirits call me by name.  “Ava” … sometimes is it just said regularly like that.  Other times it will be more drawn out … “Aaaavaaaa”.   I find it comforting that they call me by name and talk to me.   Even though it freaked me out the first few times I heard it … and even made me cry … hey … I will be honest about it.  I have grown to accept it as a friendly greeting.  And now when I’m listening to evidence review and hear my name called it makes me smile.  Sometimes they give me their names but most of the time they don’t.  It seems that they are more interested in giving me messages or simply answering any of the questions that I might ask.

We have learned to take our time.  Your first instinct is to react to everything.  If you spend your time reacting to everything … you will miss so much because you are too busy talking or running around.  We try to use hand signals as much as possible and nod yes or no in response to those signals.  We do talk.  Don’t get me wrong.  But it is important to be as quiet as possible. 

Doug and I are partners in Aegis Paranormal Investigations … API.  You’re going to notice on here though that I mainly talk about my own experiences unless I am talking about us as a team.  There are several reasons for this.  There will, however, be plenty of upcoming posts about things that we have done and Doug will be included.  Don’t worry.

You will not see me telling on here where we’ve been to do work for clients.  That will never happen unless they have given me permission to do so.  But we can talk about our experiences in general and we can talk about public investigations that we have done.  We keep busy so that we stay in good practice and stay sharp. 

One of the things that we stay sharp on is talking while being recorded.  It has become second nature to us now and we don’t even think about it … sometimes we even forget that the recorder is on … but it was kind of hard at first because we were self-conscious of how we sounded.  Ha!  If you are self-conscious and worried about how you are sounding things can happen like getting tongue tied, or completely forgetting what you were saying and not being able to finish your thought … worrying about what your voice is going to sound like. 

Have you ever listened to yourself talk on a recording?  We always sound a little different than what we hear with our own ears.  It takes some getting used to.  I quickly learned that I said “okay” too often.  “Okay, let’s go over here.”  “Okay.  Let’s sit over here”   The “okays” quickly got on my own nerves.  Lol   Oh, and let’s see … there’s the “ummmm” … and the “uhhhhhh” … I tend to say “Okay” to soothe myself.  It just gave me a minute to think.  I have tried to not say it so often … it’s a hard habit to break.

Well, thank you for stopping by the blog and sharing some time with us.  We really appreciate your visit.