When Ghosts Speak - Mary Ann Winkowski [0]
Copyright © 2007 by Mary Ann Winkowski
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First eBook Edition: October 2007
ISBN: 978-0-446-40968-1
Contents
Copyright
Foreword
PART 1
LISTENING TO SPIRITS
INTRODUCTION
1: MY STORY
PART II
UNDERSTANDING EARTHBOUND SPIRITS
2: THE TRUTH ABOUT GHOSTS
3: THE WHITE LIGHT
4: WHY SOME SOULS STAY BEHIND
5: FUNERALS
6: MURDERS AND SUICIDES
7: CHILDREN
8: ANIMALS
9: EVIL SPIRITS
PART III
LIVING WITH GHOSTS
10: ASKING FOR TROUBLE
11: SIGNS THAT YOU ARE NOT ALONE
12: HOW TO DEAL WITH GHOSTS
13: CURSES AND OTHER NEGATIVE ENERGY
A Final Word
Acknowledgments
About the Author
This book is for my loving husband, Ted,
my best friend for over forty years.
Our daughters, Amber and Tara,
who were great children and are now exceptional adults.
In memory of my grandmother Marie Fantozzi.
She recognized my abilities, nurtured them,
and gave me invaluable advice up until her death in 1998.
To all the earthbound spirits I have met over the last fifty years
who have educated me and taught me how to accept and
enjoy my unique life, as I helped them on their journeys.
Although I have encountered each living individual and each earthbound spirit who appears in this book, I strongly feel that it is important to protect the privacy of both the living and the dead. Therefore, names, locations, and certain identifying characteristics have been changed throughout.
Foreword
I HAVE BEEN seeing spirits and professionally communicating with them for more than twenty-five years, and the only time I have ever heard of a ghostbuster was watching Dan Aykroyd battle with slime in the Ghostbuster movies. For many years, I have met people claiming they had the ability to clear houses and detach unwanted entities, and being somewhat skeptical of individuals making such claims, I must follow an absolute unscientific method of testing them. Why unscientific? you might ask. I guess because as of now, scientists cannot correctly measure spirits or ghosts based on the limited instrumentation they have currently developed. To date, the most they can demonstrate are temperature changes, energy spikes, and luminous orbs. So when people tell me they can communicate with ghosts or spirits, I tell them they will have to prove it to me by giving specific names, details, and information that they could not find on the Internet or in other ways. When I had the opportunity to meet Mary Ann, I was all prepared with an ounce of skepticism and my sharpened intuitive skills. Was she genuine? Did she give facts she could not have gleaned elsewhere? Did she have integrity and a sense of responsibility for her work? Would she be aided by any gadgets or machines such as night-vision goggles or even a Dan Aykroyd slime-away machine?
Mary Ann was nothing like I expected. She didn’t go into a trance or dance around and chant some ancient cultural ritualistic prayer or even carry instruments, aside from a notebook and pen. She was, well . . . normal. In fact, very normal. Instead of Dan Aykroyd, I saw an engaging Midwestern homemaker who would seem more comfortable making brownies than chasing after otherworldly phantoms. But don’t get me wrong: Just because she has a sweet disposition doesn’t mean she is anybody’s fool. She carries weapons—with her wits, her ability, and one forceful look in the right direction, she can scare a ghost right out of its earthly lodging and scrambling toward the Light.
Through movies and television, ghosts have been portrayed as everything