ORBS IN HAUNTED ATCHISON, KANSAS

My trip to Atchison in October 2011 resulted in some of the best orb pictures I have ever taken.  We drove around town (with the guidance of a friend who is a resident) while I took random pictures.  Some in sequence seem to show the same orb.  Our first stop was the Sallie House, the time was around 10 pm.  After the Sallie House we drove around Benedictine College (the trolley tour does not go there).

 I made one of my friends get out of the car and pose with the house!
 

It appears that the orb starts at the top of the house and floats down to the ground.
 

Benedictine College

 Driving away from the college.

After dinner pictures always result in an orb or two.

Big one in the upper right hand corner.

 Orbs to the right and it looks like one is on the trunk of the car on the far right.

ATCHISON, KS GALLERY WITH TRACI BRAY - UPDATE

Toward the end of the gallery Traci had worked her way around the room and made her way to our table where she stopped and stood less than two feet from my friend Brenda.  Traci asked if anyone knew of someone named Brenda who had passed from breast cancer.  No one responded and the room remained silent.  Brenda and I looked at each other and I knew what she was thinking, which was the same thing I was thinking, which was "oh shit!".  Having no one acknowledge knowing anyone named Brenda who had passed, Traci moved on to the next soul wanting to come through. 

After the gallery concluded Brenda asked Traci if perhaps that message could be for her since she was named Brenda.  Traci's response at the time was that "it really didn't work that way" and she thought Brenda had nothing to worry about.  I wasn't so sure.
Brenda had already gone through uterine and bladder cancer and she unfortunately has a genetic condition called Lynch Syndrome which greatly increases her risk of getting cancer. Naturally I told her I thought she should go ahead and get her mammogram scheduled "just in case".

So - to make a long story short, Brenda did call for her mammogram and had to wait about six weeks before she could have it since it had not quite been a year since her last one.  After the test she received a letter from the breast center stating she needed to come in for a more detailed xray of her breast because something did show up. That test led to a needle biopsy which led to her discovering that she did indeed have breast cancer.  Thankfully it was in a very early stage and after out patient surgery and radiation she is doing very well.

We don't believe this was all just a coincidence.  Of course we will always be speculating who came through at that moment to give Brenda a warning.  Was it another woman named Brenda or could it have been a classmate from high school who had passed a few years earlier from breast cancer, or an ancestor?  But no matter who it was, we are very grateful for the message! 

I wrote to Traci about Brenda's cancer and she was amazed and I think a little shocked.  She plans to add this testimonial to her website.  This underscores the importance of always recording any reading you have.  Something that may seem of little significance at the time may reveal itself later to be much more important than you would have imagined.

HAUNTED ATCHISON, KANSAS AND GALLERY WITH TRACI BRAY

A couple of weeks ago I drove to Kansas City for a weekend with several of my good friends.  The highlight of our weekend (besides just being together) was another visit to Atchison, Kansas.  Atchison's claim to fame is mainly from being the birthplace of Emilia Earhart. In recent years, however, Atchison has now become a destination for those interested in the paranormal.  It is the home of the Sally House, a house purportedly haunted by a little girl named Sally.  The Sally House has been shown on shows about hauntings which has resulted in a paranormal industry of sorts in Atchison.  Every October there are daily trolley tours around town to all haunted homes, some of which offer private tours.  Our first year to visit there we went on the trolley tour and found it very entertaining. Of course there are mediums (whose time slots fill up quickly) and a spirit fair (which we missed).

If you like to take pictures of orbs, then Atchison is a great place to go.  On the trolley tour we took photos of all the haunted homes, including the Sally house, and found numerous orbs in our pictures.
We even had a huge orb in our group photo after dinner at Paolucci's. (Very good Italian.) Actually it was the biggest orb we captured all evening.

                                        As far as I can tell the orb is behind the post.

                            Typical Atchison haunted house with orbs.

This year we skipped the trolley tour and went to a gallery on Saturday night which also included a dinner.  Not a bad deal for $45!  As it turned out the medium giving the gallery, Traci Bray,  was the same one I had made an appointment with the next day.  This gallery had about 60 people attending and the late husband my friend Karen came through.  Not surprisingly Karen went almost totally blank when Traci was talking to her.  Traci asked about a ferret and Karen had no clue what she could have been talking about.  After the gallery was over she remembered that her daughter did have a pet ferret at one time.  Traci had stated there was something significant about the end of Dec - first of Jan time frame and once again Karen had no clue.  Later when we were discussing the reading I asked her when she and Dave were married.  It was Jan 2.  I don't think this type of amnesia is unusual at readings (of course I've seen this when watching John Edward!).

At one point Traci described someone on a motorcycle who seemed to fall in slow motion.  This did not seem to fit for anyone since the room was silent and she went on to another spirit.  After the gallery was over did I remember a drunk I had literally helped pull a motorcycle off of who had fallen at a stop light.  He was an older man in his 60's and he actually got back on his bike and tried to ride away - but only managed to roll a few feet before he slowly fell to the side and was back on the street with his bike on him once again.  He died the day before I had to testify at his hearing and I couldn't help but wonder if maybe that was him. Not sure I would want to hear what he had to say! 

For more Atchison orb pictures see my post of 9/7/2013.