EMF vs K-II Meter

Checking around at home I have found several places, including my bedroom, that had high EMF's (electro-magnetic fields). The readings were constant and readable on my K-II and EMF detectors. While the readings didn't always coincide exactly, they were close enough to not question the results. The K-II meter reads milli Gaus from 1.5 to 20mG. The EMF detector reads mG as well as micro Tesla units, or uT, which is one tenth of an mG. All this really means is that the emf detector is more sensitive and definite of a reading; it will read from as low as .1mG to 99mG. Many times on an investigation, we may get frequent readings on one, but not the other. If they are next to each other and the K-II lights up showing a full reading of 20, (the red light), and nothing is picked up by the emf detector, that is unusual. A high emf concentrated in such a small area is paranormal. It may or may not be spirit activity, but it is above the norm. Hence paranormal. K-II meters are often used by our team to try to communicate using simple questions with yes or no answers. A 'yes' would be answered by lighting the meter, a no would have no response. EMF's of less significance can be found and sometimes followed using the EMF detector. These are just a few of the reasons we use both pieces of equipment on investigation.

By Rick Kueber

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Hauntings and the pubescent female

Puberty is a difficult time in which we are all confused about our bodies, sex, relationships, and love. We all go through this difficult time where we deal with peer pressures, mental changes,  and confusions are all very common. But puberty has a much different side, a side that is much more terrifying than a pimple the day before pictures.

As a female myself I can speak of what a dramatic effect hormones can have with the paranormal. As a teen I delved into things I didn't understand, the Quija board after all was just a board game how could it hurt. That is when I realized that there was more than just what we could see, there was a world out there merged with our own. A world where if you tore down the paper walls your mind could open up to things you only imagine. I tore down that wall and brought good and bad with me.

It is a common belief that there is a connection between the pubescent females hormones and the paranormal, thought to be brought on by all the physical, mental and hormonal changes.  "Especially the emotional state; fear becomes terror, a crush becomes love, hurt becomes devastation, and so on. These changes create energy which is thought to become a pathway to the paranormal.

The parents and 'teen' have an argument at dinner, no big deal. Hours later neither of them is actually thinking about it anymore, and all have turned in for the night. As the girl falls asleep the excessive energy that she doesn't even realize she has built up, releases. In a room down the hall a door slams shut on its own, or in the kitchen downstairs a plate flies off of the shelf and breaks on the floor.  Suddenly the house is 'haunted' , or is it?

It could be, as I believe , that hauntings are far more common than most paranormal investigators believe. Perhaps entities are just more 'silent' than they are expected to be, just not manifesting, or having the proper energy needed to manifest. It could be that the emotional turmoil of a young adolescent female creates the necessary energy for a particular type of entity; therefore a particular type of haunt, a poltergeist, or 'noisy spirit'. Is it possible that a prankster from beyond would hide your keys, break dishes, etc. all of the time if they only were given the type of energy they needed all of the time? Have you ever tried to replace "c-size" batteries in your flashlight with "AAA" batteries? They both are batteries, they both store DC energy, so why doesn't it work? Why don't poltergeists cause chaos all of the time?  These answers may be very similar , indeed! They both need a very specific type of energy to feed on. Remove the girl from the location and the activity slows or stops completely. This could mean that the entity has followed the adolescent, or maybe not. It could simply be that the batteries have been removed from the flashlight. The flashlight is still there, it just doesn't do anything now!" (Rick Kueber, found of E.V.P.).

While many teenage females have these experiences, there isn't definitive answers as to "why". We may never know the true reasons behind these events, we only hope those effected can understand and cope with their experiences.

My experiences with the paranormal

I don't remember always being able to know or see the paranormal. I remember the instances starting to happen when I was a pre-teen.

 

I stayed with my grandparents a lot when I was kid, they were like second parent. My grandad had to have a leg removed because of diabetes. Not long after he had the amputation he died of a blood clot. I was staying there the night he died, he went peacefully in his sleep. My dad frequently went to work in the early hours and I would have to go to my grandparents house. I remember one morning letting myself in and I layed on the front couch to sleep. Not long after that I heard my grandad calling for "Janie" that is what he called my grandmother. He had been dead for a while at that point and I just calmly walked out the door and went home to an empty house.

 

I am from a small town in Kentucky and we have a big farm. I can remember feeling someone was watching me from the back trees, I knew someone was there. Once I heard footsteps in our trailer, it was new when I was born. One time I had a sleepover and everyone saw red eyes under my bed, there was no animals, nothing plugged under my bed.

 

Later on when I got married I moved in with my husband and his family, we lived in the basement. One night we decided to play with a Ouija board, something happened. We let go of the planchet but it kept moving. We wrote down the information which would never be significant, but the events that happened later would be. My husband started changing once a loving man that cried alot turned into a monster. He would trap me in the basement sitting in front of the doors threatening that if I tried to leave the room he would kill me. He would go off at the drop of a hat, there was no controlling him. One day I was in the basement and heard scratching, followed by something calling my name. Whatever it was pounded on the walls.

 

Making excuses for him I thought we just needed to get away from his overbearing parents. I found a huge trailer for free and worked hard to get it to my property. He didn't change and other aspects of our life was now changing. We loved animals, we had 3 dogs and 2 cats. One dog died suddenly, with no known cause. One cat got deathly sick, when we got her she was fine. We would wake in the middle of the night to our doors standing wide open, even though I know I locked them. Our air conditioner would turn itself on in winter, unplugged. My husband morphed into an even deeper, meaner person. The beatings became more regular and more violent. I put an end to it and abandoned the trailer which belongs to someone else now.

Once when we weren't home my dad was at my property (with the evil trailer). He heard something loud in our bedroom, followed by the sound of someone running down the hall. He went to the front of the trailer calling our names wondering if we were there. In our front kitchen window was a woman with brown, curly hair; he thought she was my sister. The "she" wasn't my sister, my sister had never even been to our trailer.

 

Although I feel things, I don't see anything anymore. I have closed myself off, I don't want to be a magnet anymore for my sons sake.

 

By April Denton