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/

Ken, webmaster of About Facts Net. Webmaster@aboutfacts.net

Audio Interview

Ken:

Do you think that any race has a better chance of contacting a spirit, such as American Indian?

Preston Dennett:

That is an interesting question. I don't know if there is genetic factors per se, something that has to do with anyone's actual genes, or anyone's ancestor. I think that probably the greatest factor in these types of cases is the culture. The native American culture is a very spiritual culture that takes for granted that there are spirits, there is another side and that there is a whole spiritual realm out there, which I think makes it easier for them to make contact, or recognize spiritual activity when it is occurring. My answer would be yes, but not because of the genetics, but because of the culture.

Ken:

Have you ever gone anywhere to do a paranormal investigation that you felt you had to leave?

Preston Dennett:

No I haven't and it's funny, because I have been with other people and they said no I am leaving, I am leaving right now, because they feel an evil presence. For whatever reason, I am not scared of ghosts, maybe I am naive, maybe I am being foolish and dangerous, but when I am in a haunted house and stuff starts happening, I am fascinated, I love it . There is one case where I was talking to the witnesses about their poltergeist like activity and the kitchen is sort of around the corner, a closed up kitchen, not opened up to the living room. There came a sound from the kitchen that I have a hard time describing. It sounded like every pot and pan, every glass dish, everything that they had in the kitchen, fell down at once and hit the floor. It sounded like a cartoon and there was metal flying, there were springs going off, there was glass shattering, there were things banging. It happened very quickly, it happened in about two seconds. It was very very loud and we all stopped talking and none of them wanted to go in there. I went running in there and there was nothing, no change at all. There was nothing on the floor. I was sure I was going to find that the refrigerator had fallen over. No there was nothing there. I find it fascinating, I really love it, a lot of people are really freaked out about this. Even people that are being abducted by aliens don't want to see a ghost, they are even more scared of ghosts than they are of ufos. It is bizarre

Ken:

I have heard some really strange stories about Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and hauntings. Have you ever gone there?

Preston Dennett:

No I haven't, but I have talked to some people that have seen the Civil War ghosts, Civil War battlefield ghosts and said that it was really extraordinary. All that activity is really going on very strongly. I have a book on Civil War ghosts from that area as well and it is really amazing, some of the stories that are coming out of there. I don't know, I guess that some people are still fighting the Civil War.

Ken:

There has been a theory floating around for years that states that certain minerals may be able to store images and replay them if conditions are just right, have you ever heard this?

Preston Dennett:

No I haven't, I can't say that I have ever heard of that, but that is interesting though, because for some reason, some areas do seem to contain the impressions of crimes better than others. I don't know why that is? You don't have a lot of open areas, when it comes to haunting, or roadways, or certain locations. They seem to hold on to the energy better than others.

Ken:

An example of this are the catacombs under Rome. Many people have seen Roman soldiers and horses and the soldiers were marching in the catacombs, right under the city of Rome and it repeats at a certain time every day. That is why I asked you that question. It is like a movie playing back, you know?

Preston Dennett:

Exactly, I think that is exactly what it is. Another theory is that there is a time slip and that people aren't seeing a residual haunting and they aren't seeing spirits. What they are seeing is a window back into time. It has some validity to it I think, there are some cases where people have seen some full blown environments, that are straight from the past. Particularly when they see one person or two persons walking around. They see all the trees, they see all the carriages, they see people dressed up in old fashioned clothing, all this stuff. That is another theory which I think does occur in some places, a time slip type thing. That could be what people are seeing in these catacombs.

Ken:

At this point we have gone for an hour, I have some more questions, do you feel like going on for a little longer?

Preston Dennett:

Sure, yeah, I love this stuff.

Ken:

Do you think that all those stone circles that have been built around the world have anything to do with the paranormal?

Preston Dennett:

I have studied some of these and I have visited some and it seems to me that they could. The problem is that we don't know who built them, we don't know the purpose for them. Some of them seem to have some sort of a connection to astronomy. Others could be used for various ritual type things. Some people think that they are sacred areas and have been built over lay lines and magnetic anomaly areas There is some evidence that these areas are more prone to having paranormal activity. Yeah, I think that in some cases they can be used for that type of purpose.

Ken:

Are you aware of the fact that it has been discovered that the stones that Stonehenge was built with were taken out of pools that the ancient peoples had considered sacred and used for healing?

Preston Dennett:

Oh wow. No I hadn't heard that, but I know that there is a lot of new stuff being discovered about Stonehenge everyday. I think there was another recent study where they found a bunch of archaeological stuff around it.

Ken:

There was, they found one of the villages.

Why is it that some places near the circles, for example some pubs in England, seem to have a lot of paranormal activity? This is where you mentioned lay lines and I was going to ask you, could this be related in any way to lay lines?

Preston Dennett:

I do think that is probably the case. There are some areas that are just known for having activity. It not only goes to all kinds, whether it is a vortex type of thing or not, I don't know? It is hard to say. Tiopanga Canyon is an area that is known for a lot of ufo activity. Not surprisingly, it is also known for a lot of ghost activity and lots of other bizarre paranormal stuff and the same is true for the Hudson Valley area in upstate New York. A huge ufo hot spot that also has a lot of these really strange stone structures, which people have seen all kinds of spirits coming in and out of. Philip Imbrogno has done a lot of research on this and there is definitely some sort of connection there. I think that the ancients, or whoever built these things, were able to sense that these areas did have and still do have weird electromagnetic anomalies to them, or a greater electronic net of energy that allows the paranormal to manifest more easily. I am just speculating at this point, but certainly these areas are true areas, I mean something is going on there.

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Ken:

Would you tell us what lay lines are?

Preston Dennett:

I wish I knew. The whole earth is encased in a magnetic field which is not uniform. There are certain areas of the earth that are more magnetic than others. That is what these things are, sort of an energy field that surrounds the earth, the aura, if you will allow that term? I think that is exactly what that is, areas of high energy. They criss cross the planet and some areas are so strong that they earned a very strong reputation for this kind of activity. Whatever these lay lines are, they have been recognized for centuries. This is where I think there is a lot of opportunity for research today, using technology to measure these lay lines and see if there really is magnetic anomalies going on here, or not. It would be pretty easy to measure with the instruments that we have today.

Ken:

That is another point. They don't seem to be able to measure anything with the instruments. Apparently the energy, if there is energy coming from where the lay lines cross, is a type of energy that we are not familiar with.

Preston Dennett:

I have heard some people say that dousing is another way to pick up spirits and things like this. I am a believer in dousing and know a gentlemen that said that he is very successful and he makes a living doing dousing, locating wells. This is up in Wisconsin I believe. He is very well known in his neighborhood and insists that he is accurate most of the time. He is a pretty convincing guy, so dousing is another way where you can detect these things.

Ken:

There is always a lot of talk about near death experiences. I am talking about seeing the light or seeing a beautiful place. Some scientists say that this is normal brain activity, because your brain fires up more as you are dying and gives you this illusion. What do you think and why do you feel that way?

Preston Dennett:

I disagree very very strongly. I love the whole phenomena of near death experiences, I have studied it very extensively and talked to a lot of people and I know that it is not a function of the brain dying, because we have proof. People have gone out of there body and seen relatives that they thought were alive, but were actually dead. They have seen scenes that they didn't know about in real life and have been able to go back to their body and find out that this was true. For example, people will be having surgery and have a near death experience and pop out of their body. One lady saw a nurse take the blankets off the bed and not put them in the washer and just put them in the dryer, she didn't clean them. When she told the nurse this, the nurse turned white and said," how did you know?" Well she saw it. Other people have seen, where surgery is taking place, to the point where they can name the music that is being put on the radio, they can name the instruments that are being used, all this kind of stuff. There is a lot of evidence that people are actually having these experiences and not hallucinating. The whole phenomena of out of body exploring is another one. That is something that I really got into, which I think is a way of having a controlled near death experience, without having to actually die. You can go down the tunnel of light, you can go to the other side and you can visit your deceased relatives and see for yourself that this is all really true and anyone can do it. I am a huge believer in near death experiences, it follows very set patterns and I think that it is extraordinary evidence for life after death.

Ken:

Do you think that the people that have had a near death experience and are no longer scared of death, prove anything by this?

Preston Dennett:

Well they certainly got the proof to themselves. When it comes to the paranormal, that is probably the best proof that you are going to get. It is your own personal experience, because proof is in the eye of the beholder. You can bring a skeptic a photograph of a ghost, an audio recording of a ghost, evidence that the ghost pushed a chair over and all this stuff and they are not going to believe it, until they see it for themselves. Even then, they might not believe it. I think that the best evidence that people have is their own personal experience.

Ken:

Why do you think that people are so fascinated with spirits, or ghosts?

Preston Dennett:

It is one of the biggest mysteries that we are dealing with today, isn't it? Not only that, we are all going to die one day and it is something that people don't like to talk about and I think that they try and ignore it as long as they can, until they actually face death. Then suddenly they became very interested and realize how really integral the whole idea of spirits and the spirit world is to being human. People are really fascinated with it, because it is a mystery. People love a good mystery and certainly a persistent mystery. After hundreds of years we still don't have, what I would call, scientific proof of life after death. We are right on the cusp of it and I really believe that we are right on the edge of having enough evidence to really prove to a skeptic that ghosts are real, there is life after death, you can go out of your body and levitation is possible. All these things are really on the point of exploding into the mainstream scientific community.

Ken:

If ghosts do exist, why do you think that they hang around in the same area? What I mean by that, is that if you get a ghost in a house, usually it will stay in that house and won't go anywhere else.

Preston Dennett:

Ghosts are just like people, that is my explanation. People are creatures of habit, they like routines and this is especially true of ghosts, because that is the type of person who becomes a ghost, a person who is very connected to the physical world .in some way, to their house, to their location, to their job, or even to alcohol or drugs or something. It keeps them locked up to that area. It keeps them tied to a person or an area, or an activity. because they are such creatures of habit. That is true, ghosts do appear over and over in the same place and can stay there for hundreds of years. This is why we have so many ghosts that are appearing in old fashioned clothing and things like this. They have been there for a long, long, long, time. They don't perceive it that way. Apparently ghosts don't perceive time the same way that we do, which is something that I don't quite understand. Time apparently moves faster on the other side

Ken:

Do you feel that doing a ghost investigation effects the ghost activity in any way?

Preston Dennett:

Oh yeah, oh yeah. Ghosts know when they are being investigated and they don't always like it. There are many, many cases where people are living in an extremely haunted house, having activity on a daily basis and an hourly basis. The paranormal investigators move in there with all their equipment and the activity stops cold. That is not at all uncommon. The ghost doesn't want to be discovered sometimes. On the other hand, ghosts can become really angry at paranormal investigators and suddenly kick up their activity. There are other ways you can effect ghosts. One way is remodeling. Ghosts don't like it when you remodel your home. I have had several cases where people have lived in their homes for years, remodeled it and suddenly all this activity starts occurring. Definitely you can affect ghosts and their behavior. Again they are aware of us, they can hear us, they can see us.This is what I recommend people to do if they have a haunting that they want to stop. Talk to the ghost as if they were a person, as if they can hear you, because they can. If you have a door slam in your face, or a ghost trips you or pushes you down the stairs, turn around and tell that ghost, what are you doing, you are dead and it is 2008, what year do you think it is, don't you realize that you have died? Go to the other side, there are people waiting for you, talk to them. Ghosts are reasonable people too.

Ken:

Have you ever heard of a particular ghost haunting more than one place at the same time?

Preston Dennett:

Oh wow, that is a good question. As I am flipping through my mental files, I can't even think of one. I am sure that it must have happened. That is a good question, I will have to look into that. I don't know, I don't think so.

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Ken:

I have heard that young children can see ghosts that adults can not. Do you believe that this is true?

Preston Dennett:

Oh God, I am so glad that you asked me that. In my research I have actually done a survey of every person that I have ever interviewed. I got a real shock, when I found out that twice as many women than men, in my research, have seen ghosts. As far as children, absolutely yes, I have five cases that I can think of right away, where the children could see the ghosts and the older people couldn't. One case that comes to mind, was an apartment in Hollywood, where they were having some limited activity on ghostly type stuff, where lights would turn on and off and doors would slam, things like this. It wasn't really that bad and one day they were having a party. Everyone was there the kids, all the adults were in the living room, when suddenly the youngest daughter, she was about four, started screaming and pointing at the doorway and saying, "the man, the man" and everyone looked at the doorway and there was no man. She insisted that there was and she said," the man, the man, the man". She was freaking out, was very upset and actually had to be pulled out of the room and taken away. They did find out that a man had committed suicide there, a police officer, he was injured on the job, was a paraplegic and ended up committing suicide. She was able to describe him as well. There are other cases like that as well. Two sisters woke up and there was their dead aunt sitting in a chair in their bedroom, just looking at them and smiling. They were terrified and screamed for their parents to come into the room. The parents came running in, "look there's our aunt", I forget her name, but the parents said, "what are you talking about there is no one sitting there"? The kids were screaming, "why can't you see her, she is right there?" Not only could they see her, they could see her as if she was fully solid. She wasn't transparent looking, in full color and she looked like a normal person. Eventually she just disappeared, when the parents walked up and started waving their hands around. Yes children can see this stuff when others can't and I think that it is because they just came from that dimension. They recently came from the other side and their somehow resident to it. They don't have the cultural prejudices that we heap onto people, saying that ghosts aren't real and you can't see stuff like that.

Ken

I was always told, as a child, that whatever is in a room in the light, will be the same in the dark. Why is it that the lights are always turned out during a paranormal investigation?

Preston Dennett:

Yeah, that is another really good question and light does seem to have an effect on how ghosts can manifest. Certainly this is true in seances, when activity seems to increase remarkably when lights are turned on or extinguished entirely. I am not sure why that is, other than there is some sort of electromagnetic field that ghosts are very sensitive to and the appearance of visible light can retard their ability to manifest. Certainly there are a lot of cases where people who have been in a dark room and seen a ghost, have turned on the lights and the ghost disappears and then turned off the lights and the ghost is still there. It could be that visible light makes the ghost invisible. I don't know, we are still at the point of speculation with this, but visible light does have an effect on how ghosts can manifest.

Ken:

I wonder if there is a difference between incandescent light and florescent light?

Preston Dennett:

Well you know possibly there are a number of cases where people have used red light. They have been able to have some really amazing experiences with that. I am sure that you are right. Again this is a good area for people to experiment with, not just places for people to do research that has failed.

Ken:

Is there any reason to believe that a curse can actually summon spirits to hurt people?

Preston Dennett:

Sylvia Brown says no, curses aren't real, but I talked to other people from other cultures, like from Mexico, some of the South American cultures who have experienced cures and said yes it is real. I don't know, does the witness believe in this and does this have an effect on how well it works? Possibly, I think that is possibly a factor. Max Freedom Long, he was a paranormal researcher, who worked in Hawaii with the Kahunas. He was cursed by one of these Kahunas. and had some really bad experiences, but he was able to learn how they did it and was able to curse one of these Kahunas back and reverse it. I don't know, I think the power of thought...., some people do have the ability to manipulate spirits and cause them to do their bidding so to speak, so there are things, curses can take different forms is what I guess that I am trying to say. If you have the ability to manipulate these astral energies and you studied it, it can come across as a really bad curse. That is how people would interpret it and really it is just a natural phenomena being manipulated in a way that we don't understand yet.

Ken:

Do ghosts always look the same age as when they died?

Preston Dennett:

This is another thing that is really strange. No they don't always look the same. There are a lot of people that have seen ghosts and reported that they were in the same clothes that they were in when they did and the wound that they had, the gunshot wound was also there and they looked exactly how they did when they died. There are an equal number of cases where people have seen ghosts, particularly loved ones, parents, brother or sister, or somebody and the ghost does not appear at their normal ages, they appear about age twenty five, thirty. They appear very young looking in their absolutely peak physical condition, which is apparently what happens to us when we die. We are able to get our youth back to a certain extent. That has happened enough, where it is pretty much agreed upon by researchers that this does happen. So ghosts don't always appear at the same age, usually they appear younger.

Ken:

Do you think that most people had strange experiences, but are afraid to talk about them for fear of ridicule?

Preston Dennett:

Absolutely, even skeptics who say that I have had no experience with anything, are shoving aside and ignoring some of the paranormal experiences that have happened to them. Almost everybody, according to surveys, have experienced some episode of pre cognition. Most people have experienced at least one out of body type experience in their life. A lot of people will have at least one dream which comes true. I think it is very very easy for people to ignore these experiences. I have read one study that said that people that have a child, a parent who has a child die, fifty percent of these people experience a signal or sign that the child is still alive, which is a large percentage. I think it is pretty darn common and you know I have interviewed a lot of people and the first thing out of their mouth is, "I have never told this to anybody, don't think I am crazy.", but then they start to launch into this long story about this experience that they have had. A lot of people do keep it to themselves, I think. I am going to say that at least fifty percent of people have had a paranormal experience of some kind.

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Ken:

Preston, is there anything that you would like to tell my readers that I haven't asked you?

Preston Dennett:

Well not that I can think of, other than to say that if you don't believe in ufos, you don't believe in ghosts, I think that you are making a huge mistake and what I advise you to do is to ask your friends and family, people you trust explicitly, ask them if they had an experience. I think you are going to be surprised to find out that a lot of people around you, if you are not having experiences, the people around you are. That can be pretty convincing when someone you know and trust tells you that they have seen a ghost. That is what I would recommend people to do. If you are skeptical, just hold on a second and do some actual investigations, look into this stuff and I think that you will find out that it is all very real and if you want to, you can experience it yourself.

Ken:

Thanks very much Preston, the interview is over.