Preston Dennett besides being a ufo investigator is also an expert on the paranormal., and has appeared on many different tv documentaries and written quite a few books on paranormal subjects. http://www.prestondennett.com/

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The Audio Interview Will Be On Part III

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Ken:

You may remember Mr. Dennett being interviewed as a ufo investigator a couple of months ago, he is also a paranormal investigator and he has graciously consented to do an interview on the paranormal for us.

Will you tell us how long you have been doing paranormal investigations and what books if any, you have written on the subject?

Preston Dennett:

Well let me see, I started pretty much the same time that I started investigating ufos, which was back in 1988. Let me see, since then I have written twelve books and about half of them are on the paranormal. A couple of books on ghosts, a book on out of body experiences, one on levitation, one on Bigfoot, so I have been pretty busy.

Ken:

Yeah, it sounds like it.

I see a lot of shows on tv lately, that deal with paranormal investigations, what is your general feeling about these shows?

Preston Dennett:

Well I am really excited about most of them, because finally they are bringing the technology that we have to study things which we can't see normally. Things like electronic voice phenomena, or these electromagnetic readings. These instruments are really capturing some amazing evidence. I think that some of the best proof we have right now, of ghosts, is coming out on some of these shows. I am really excited about it.

Ken:

Do you think that there are any humans that have any sort of paranormal abilities? I ask this question because the famous magician, the Amazing Randi told me that he has offered a million dollar prize to anyone that can perform a paranormal act and that no one has ever been able to claim it in the 30 years that the prize has been available.

Preston Dennett:

Right. Well I am absolutely convinced that people do have a wide range of paranormal abilities. As far as Amazing Randi, I am not sure what exactly his qualifications are for his getting that million bucks, but I understand that it's not cut and dry and easy to do.

Ken:

Well it certainly isn't easy.

Preston Dennett:

I have experienced on my own, I had several dreams that came true, I saw my mother's ghost after she died and that is actually what got me interested in all this. I know, I have talked to way too many people to have any doubt anymore that ghosts are real, or that people can go out of their body, or telepathy, I am absolutely convinced that that's a reality. On levitation, I have gotten over 350 cases stretching all the way back through history, appearing pretty much in every culture. So people have a whole lot of abilities that we have only begun to tap into.

Ken:

Some people say that orbs in photos indicate spirits or energy from deceased individuals, others say that they are dust reflecting light, or anomalies caused by digital cameras. What do you believe and why?

Preston Dennett:

I don't think that they are dust, maybe in some cases they are, the majority no. I think that in many cases they probably are spirits, because they certainly do seem to appear in areas that are known to be haunted. For example, I took the ghost tour on the Queen Mary, which is supposedly one of the most haunted places in southern California. We went into the pool room, which is supposedly haunted by a little girl. I stayed after all the crowd left and took a bunch of pictures. A couple of them do show orbs, they are very faint. I have had several other people send me their photographs of orbs. I am not entirely sure what they are, but my theory at this point, is that they are spirits that are kind of non vesting, from the other side. It is interesting, because orbs seem to be a relatively new phenomena. You don't have a lot of old photographs stretching back into history. I don't know, it is a curious thing that seems to be getting a lot more attention these days.

Ken:

Do you think that this is tied in, in any way, with digital cameras?

Preston Dennett:

No, I don't think so, because they are not only appearing on digital cameras, the orbs that I captured. I captured some on normal film and several other people that I have spoken with have captured them on normal film. So I don't think that it is a product of digital photography, no.

Ken:

Do you think that investigating an area, where there has been a lot of suffering and death, will be more fertile for finding spirits than an area that doesn't have such a history?

Preston Dennett:

Well I think probably yes, because those sorts of energy seep through, for whatever reason. Powerful emotions from tragedies seem to become imprinted on the environment somehow. I think that there are different theories about what ghosts actually are. There is the residual haunting and I think that is what we are talking about here. The environment becomes saturated with negative vibrations and possibly positive even, to the point where people pick up on it. People actually see things. Then of course, there are ghosts which are actual spirits which have passed on which are phychically there. There are at least two different types of ghosts, I think. I would say that the residual haunting is probably more popular than the other kind.

Ken:

EVPs or Electronic Voice Phenomena are being found in many places, can you tell us about them?

Preston Dennett:

EVPs are really strange, because this is another thing that seems relatively new. We don't hear a lot about this. If you research ghost phenomena, going back hundreds of years, there is absolutely nothing like electronic voice phenomena It is a relatively recent phenomena, but it seems to be valid. Certainly it's been repeated by a number of different researchers, who have come up professionally with these different messages, that appear on tape, which you can't hear normally. I think that the theory is that spirits are able to effect electromagnetic instruments, which we know they can. They can turn off and on lights and things like this, so it doesn't seem to be a stretch for them to do things like this. In fact, it could be a way for spirits to communicate with the living and if we refine this process, it can actually become a two way conversation between the physical world and the other side. It's bizarre, because a lot of these people that do EVPs, they start out to get some really scary messages sometimes. I have talked to researchers and they said that they get cursing, they get a lot of foul language and sometimes they get some more pleasant messages. I think the reason for that is that on the other side the closest plane is where, I guess you would say, all the bad people go, the murderers, the drug addicts, the people who are still caught in negative emotions. This is why you don't want to use a Ouija board, for the same reason, because you will probably land up contacting a spirit who is going to lie to you and who does not have the best intentions. When you do EVPs, this can also happen as well. I think it is a valid tool to make contact with the other side and again I am really excited about all these different ways that we are using technology to sort of investigate things, that we could never investigate before.

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Ken:

Have you ever gotten any spirit recordings and if so under what circumstances?

Preston Dennett:

No I haven't actually. I haven't done a lot of research into EVPs personally. I have certainly read about it and interviewed a lot of people. It kind of freaks me out, the last thing that I want to do is have someone cursing at me.

Ken:

It is said that Thomas Edison worked on a machine for many years, that would have been capable of talking to the dead, if he would have been able to perfect it. Do you think it is possible to talk to the dead by any means?

Preston Dennett:

Right, I heard about his machine and he was in to the whole telepathy thing as well. I absolutely do think that it is possible to talk to the dead. Mediums are already doing it and I think that the evidence coming from spiritual mediums is pretty darn convincing. There is a lot of evidence for ghosts, not only eye witness accounts of people that see apparitions and things like this, but these mediums, the stuff that they are bringing out, is really extraordinary. I think if we could just figure out how they are doing it, we could have a conversation with a ghost. There are some of these paranormal shows, that we were talking about earlier, that seem to be just at the point of having a conversation using electromagnetic instruments, like EMF readings, an instrument that can record electromagnetic energy, or a ghost can turn off and on a light switch that is very sensitive. There are researchers who now claim to have yes and no type conversations with ghosts, where if they ask a question and if the answer is yes then the light blinks once and if it is no, the light blinks twice.

Ken:

What do they call that, if you know? There is a device that is something like a KV meter or something like that, that picks up electromagnetic frequencies and it has five lights on it. Supposedly they can contact a spirit and he can talk to them by registering how many lights. In other words they say to him do three lights for such a thing or do two. Have you heard of that?

Preston Dennett:

I have. I don't know what it is called. I think that these are the kinds of instruments that are going to be what ends up being successful in talking to ghosts. Already people are saying, they go into a haunted house, is there a spirit here, show me a sign. Often something will fall off the shelf, a light will go on, an orb will be photographed. The ghosts can clearly hear us. They can clearly see us. We can't see them, for they are using this veil which is apparently like a one way mirror, where they can see us, but we can't see them. All the research shows that they are very very close to us. They are just a step up in vibration. I guess this would be one way of putting it, but it is all happening very close around us.

Ken:

Some people, who were dying, have said that they would come back if it were possible, to prove that life after death exists. One of these people was Harry Houdini, the great magician. He never succeeded, but it is said that one day, after many years of his wife and friends waiting for this to happen, his book fell off of a shelf and opened up to his statement that he would return. Do you think that this was a sign from him?

Preston Dennett:

I think that it could have very well been. I haven't researched his case extensively, I've heard a lot of controversy about this whole Houdins has he come back or not. Some people say he has and there have been seances that have had some remarkable things happen. I certainly couldn't say if he has personally come back or not, but I certainly know a lot of other people who have. In my own case, my mother after she died. This is what set me on my whole research to investigate the paranormal. I have had a number of experiences with her that were really profound. I am absolutely convinced that people can come back and give a sign, so to speak. I don't know why they don't do it more often, or more easily? Perhaps it is because it is so great on the other side, that they don't want to come back, or they know that we are all going to be there shortly, so there is no need to. They could revisit every night in our dreams. I don't know, the veil between the worlds is the thing that needs a lot of research.put into it, before we could even understand what is going on there.

Ken:

One of the problems in the field of paranormal investigation, is that there are a lot of hoaxers. Is there an easy way to spot this type of person?

Preston Dennett:

I do run into people who are hoaxing, or looking for attention, or just flat out lying and trying to fool the investigator. It is a problem, it muddies up the valid research out there. It sort of confirms to people that are skeptical, that this is just a bunch of baloney. There are ways to weed out hoaxers, like any phenomena, ghosts, manifestations, do follow certain patterns. If you carefully interview someone, you can pretty easily trip them up, because there are red flags that investigators look for, in these accounts, that pretty much indicate that people are telling the truth.

Ken:

Would you say that there are dangerous spirits out there?

Preston Dennett:

You know, this is another thing that is really controversial, which I can't seem to get a straight answer on from researchers, or experiencers. Are ghosts dangerous, are there dangerous spirits? Personally after doing years of research, I am convinced that ghosts are just like people and yes can be dangerous and in some cases can be very dangerous. I have talked to people that have been pushed down stairs, nearly possessed and these are really negative experiences. There are some reports that those who move into haunted houses can have a lot of tragedies befall them. As far as demons, Hans Holzer, he is a very famous ghost researcher, he said that there is no such thing as demons. Where as Edward Warren, the famous demonologist says yes there are definitely demons. They kind of mix it up with humans, calling some human ghosts demonic. What I think the case is, we have people who pass over who are very very negative, who can come across as demonic and evil. I am not entirely convinced that there are demons. I just don't know enough really, but I have certainly talked to enough people who have seen these tall, dark apparitions, like eight or nine feet tall. Are these non human ghosts? Possibly. I think it is entirely possible and yeah, ghosts can be dangerous. I would say that a fifth of the haunting cases that I have investigated have been the result of somebody messing around with a Ouija board. That is pretty darn common. It can be dangerous, but for the most part, I think that it is a big deal for a ghost to turn a light off and on., or open a door, or pull someone's hair. I think that it takes a lot of energy for them to affect the physical environment, so I don't think that this is something that people are going to have to worry a lot about. On the other hand, I think that there are spirits out there, that have learned how to do this and some are what we would call evil and I think that there are cases out there, where some have been possessed and pushed into situations and forced to do things that they would not normally do, so I am going to say that they are about as dangerous as people are.

 

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Ken:

Do ghosts ever follow people when they move?

Preston Dennett:

Oh yeah, oh absolutely, they follow people all the time. This, I think, is especially true for people that have poltergeist type phenomena, which is a really active ghost. Again, poltergeist activity is very controversial, they just aren't sure if it is suppressed energy from a disturbed teenager, or a person, or if it is uncontrolled medium shift, or if it's some sort of demonic ghost, or something like this. In these types of cases, the ghosts will follow people from house to house, where ever they go. It is interesting that you mentioned do ghosts follow people, because I have a friend that is a nurse and she also has had a lot of ghost sightings. When she started working at this one hospital, the head nurse brought all the other nurses in and told them to not be alarmed if they see a ghost, because apparently it is pretty common in hospitals. If they dealt with a patient that has died, they should not go directly home, because they have had several cases where people that have died in these hospitals, have had their spirits follow these people home. They started a haunting. So the head nurse told these people, that if you ever lose a patient, do not go home, go out shopping, go out and have a drink, go to a restaurant and have a meal, don't go directly home. Other people have driven by car accidents and this is another thing where people have actually picked up spirits, who have followed them home. Yes, spirits absolutely do follow people, especially if they think that you can hear them, or see them in some way. They are very attracted to people that are psychic.

Ken:

What are shadow people?

Preston Dennett:

Shadow People? I have heard that term, but I think that it is just another word for spirit. When people see an apparition, it can appear as a very dark form, it can appear as an outline of light, it can appear as a full flesh and blood person. Most people will see little shadows. I don't know, I have heard the term shadow person to differentiate it from a different type of ghost. As far as I know, that is just another way that ghosts manifest.

Ken:

A couple of years ago I took a ride out to the house known as the Amityville Horror house on Long Island. The number had been removed from the house and some work was done to the front to disguise it. Do you think that there could have been murderous spirits in a home like this?

Preston Dennett:

Absolutely, but the Amityville case was very controversial There are people that have lived in there, they were interviewed and stated that they have never experienced anything. I know somebody who was friends with the Luts, I mean witnesses and she asked them if this was real and they said yes, we won't talk about it, we don't want to talk about it, other than to tell you, yes it was real. If you examine that case and compare it to other cases, I've got other cases that follow the same exact pattern. I am thoroughly convinced that if that case wasn't real, it could have been, because there are a lot of other cases just like it. So I do think that yeah, spirits can infest a house like that and force a person to commit murder.

Ken:

So you believe that a ghost can take over a person's body and force them to do things?

Preston Dennett:

I do and I don't come to that conclusion lightly. I have talked to many people that have experienced possession, or near possession. It can be very scary I talked to two ladies who moved into a haunted apartment. Things started very slowly, they kept hearing knocking noises, objects would move around, lights would be turned on and off. They would be in the living room and suddenly this huge clatter would be heard in the kitchen. You would go into the kitchen and there would be nothing there. They had a weird phenomena where they would turn on the water faucet and the water would go sideways. Really bizarre. I have talked to other people, who have had that same exact thing happen, they would turn on the water faucet and it would go sideways. How someone could make up a detail like that, I don't know? In their case, these ladies....., it just kept getting worse and worse and they started to see apparitions, then they would start to get into these knock down fighting arguments with each other and at this point the spirits would appear much more bravely. They would appear right in front of them, sort of egging them on almost. They felt like the spirits were trying to cause them to become angry with each other. This is something that turned up in several cases and it just got worse and worse, until one day they were in their bedroom when the bed started shaking. One of the girls started praying stop it, stop it, go away I don't want to deal with you anymore and she started saying the Lord's prayer and at this point one of the spirits came swooping in and came right into her body. She said that she could hardly breathe and she got this image of this oily haired women who had bad teeth and an evil grin. She said that she felt really altered and it was around this time that she actually went out to visit a friend and her friend did not recognize her, until she got right up next to her. She went up to pet the neighbor's dog, who loved her and the dog did not recognize her and tried to bite her. Whatever was going on with this lady, other people and animals were sensing it. She said that she felt very altered and suicidal at times and she was able to pull out of it eventually. Yes spirits can enter into your body and cause you to do things that you would not normally do.

Ken:

Do you think that it is possible for a spirit to return to human form?

Preston Dennett:

Absolutely I do think that it is possible and I think that is what we would call reincarnation and past lives and I have done a lot of research into that as well. It is a very hard to understand this phenomenon, because of what happens to our identity after we die and are reborn into another person, but I do think that reincarnation is real and this is what happens to us, we die, we go to the other side, we plan out our next life and come back into human form again, until we get it right, so to speak.

Ken:

What would you think if I said to you that it might be possible for human beings to pass memory on to each other by some chemical means. such as bees do and other insects?

Preston Dennett:

Well I I haven't hear of that.....

Ken:

Or genetically, either way.

Preston Dennett:

Well there is telepathy and that's a valid phenomena.

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