Paranormal author and podcaster Jim Harold believes spirits can transcend space and time – and souls can get trapped in places where evil deeds have taken place.
In his new book True Ghost Stories: Jim Harold’s Campfire Volume Six, the writer explores chilling tales of spooks, UFOs, and creepy creatures. Jim says: “It appears humans have this ability to transcend physical constraints of geography when the chips are down.
“I believe it speaks to the amazing properties of the human spirit and that our consciousness is not simply a brain in a skull but something that can tap into a universal consciousness of some sort.”
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Stone Tape Theory, first discussed by boffin Charles Babbage in 1837, suggests that energies can remain in places long after the actual body has left the building.
Jim, who lives in Ohio, USA, with his wife and two daughters, and has a master’s degree in applied communication theory and methodology, says: “I believe there can be sentient ghosts but also that energy can saturate a space that causes a replay of sorts.
“This can result in replays of people who were in a space centuries before.
“The 41st story in my book, A Breathtaking Apartment, looks at someone having a distressing feeling in a place with bad energy; an apartment connected to serial killer Ted Bundy.
“We see this in our everyday lives when we walk into a room after an argument – the fight may have ended but the bad energy remains.
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“If it’s intense enough it can last for decades or more.”
University of Northampton boffin Dr Callum Cooper recommends talking to ghosts through a medium to help cope with bereavement.
Jim says: “Most humans have some psychic ability but there are legitimate superstars – the David Beckhams and Eric Claptons of the psychic world – who are born with a natural talent to sense and interface with the supernatural.
“In the 27th story Crisis Apparition from my book, a woman sees her father in her bedroom at the same moment he is in real physical danger hundreds of miles away while scaling a mountain top.
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“This phenomenon of spirits transcending the physical limitations of space and time during moments of distress is similar to the ‘Third Man Factor’, where people in physical distress report seeing or talking with a person who isn’t there and helps them.”
In an unsteady world blighted by war, climate change fears and the cost-of-living crisis it’s unsurprising the appetite for exploration that there could be something waiting for us after death has soared in popularity.
After launching The Paranormal Podcast in 2005 followed by his Campfire podcast four years later, Jim has chalked up more than 65million downloads and says scientific evidence is not essential to proving paranormal activity is real.
He says: “I’m a great respecter of science, I couldn’t do my books or podcasts without it, however history is full of examples where science was wrong or had a blind spot.
“Science did not know about DNA until the 1860s and did not figure out its structure until the fifties, however it was there all along.
“Just because science doesn’t acknowledge a phenomena does not mean it is untrue or a hoax. I think most sensible humans have a healthy respect for science AND the unknown. That doesn’t mean every ghost story is true, but I believe some very much are.
“Sometimes we see what might be considered to be ghosts or doppelgangers from other dimensions, other times, and the ghost is just as shocked as the person seeing the apparition.”
True Ghost Stories: Jim Harold’s Camp-fire Volume Six is out now. See jimharold.com
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