Tara Ciampa - EDITOR: Visionsmagazineonline.com

EDITORs welcome by Tara Ciampa - EDITOR

..After many years of having myself witness what I believed to be paranormal experiences of a personal nature in two residences these events prompted me to do a lot of reading, research and study on the subject of understanding and scientifically detecting these anomalies. There is a sensitive in my family and that made my life pretty atypical. Based on that research if I wanted to get answers I felt the K-2 meter would be the device I needed. I today own my own K-2 meter (just like the one you see on TV on Ghost hunters).

..This device works really well. The premise this meter works on is that it detects “electro-magnetic fields.” Spirits need to draw energy when they manifest and this meter will spike and move all crazy when there is something paranormal taking place. There are times when it is not paranormal activity you are picking up. That is when the lights go solid when you are near to appliances or some man made device generating electro magnetic energy.  I felt, since there was such a rise in paranormal activity in my home and very constant which was causing interruptions in sleep due to noises coming from the paranormal realm I had to consult a psychic. I chose Lynard Bluewolf, a psychic I found online from Oklahoma. http://www.lynardbluewolf.com/

..Lynard was very personable. During our first conversation he started describing someone in my family (it wasn’t me). I said you just described my daughter in detail. I said you are obviously making a connection to her. My daughter was seeing auras and Lynard, I felt, could advise her on understanding her abilities better. Lynard said yes, I have been able to see auras from a young age. He said when I was younger he would say that man is on fire, but in reality it was their aura he was seeing. Lynard also described how he couldn’t own a modern car because electrical things would short out. He said his computers don’t last long either. Lynard was my introduction to the world of psychics and he was an extraordinary ambassador. He left me wanting to know more. Since I didn’t have the funds to call psychics very often I read as much as I could on the subject.

..One thing that I was highly concerned about was an incident that took place on a used piece of furniture. It was a green sleeper sofa. One day my daughter was asleep on it while it was folded out into a bed and I saw her leg being lifted high in the air and then suddenly dropped. Something unseen was manipulating her. That was the scariest thing I had ever witnessed. I woke her up and told her to stay away from that couch and to never sleep on it again. If I had my way I would have gotten rid of that couch immediately. My ex did not believe in anything paranormal. I did not even mention this to him knowing full well he would have only criticized what I had to say. I did not let his ignorance and disinterest dissuade me from searching for answers to the strange occurrences taking place all around us in our very own home.

..My (now ex) husband claimed that couch as his own and he fell under its spell. He insisted on sleeping on it constantly. It changed him for the worse. He wouldn’t speak to us and he wanted us out of the living room. If we went in there he would turn up the tv full blast and drive us out. One day I had a little fender bender and I said: "I had an accident with the Jeep". He just looked straight ahead and would not acknowledge what I was even saying. I made plans to leave the day he was walking through the house cocking his shotgun. I felt he was losing his mind and possibly could do us harm. He was acting so odd and closing himself off from his family. He was saying strange things too. He said he was going to rip the light out of the ceiling. I wondered if he was on drugs he was acting so bizarre. Perhaps it was a mixture of the drugs and that opening him up to whatever entity was present in the home influencing him.

..I told Lynard (the psychic) about what I witnessed take place on that couch. He said there was a rape committed on that couch. That caught me by surprise. That was unsettling news. I had some used furniture in the house and he explained that the spirits were attached to the furniture. That was a new concept to me but I didn’t doubt him. Who else was going to explain the unexplainable to me. I also told him about my (now ex) husband’s behavior. He said in a very firm voice: Get out of there now. His tone alarmed me because I didn’t come from the most loving family and my dad would not take me in while I saved up for a security deposit to have a place of my own. I was stuck in that situation far longer than I was comfortable with. I stayed there until I saved enough money to move out and I did. Being stuck in that environment taught me how oppressive being around something evil really was. Not being able to leave was unbearable. Anyone caught in a similar situation has my empathy.

..While on a pre-interview at a haunted bar/restaurant the owner said to me: "You don’t think I’m crazy do you"? I said: "Well no, I run a paranormal online magazine. I am not against ruling out things that can be explained as {not being paranormal}.” One example would be her kitchen. She was working in an area that made the K-2 meter go up to its highest level (5) and stay there steady. She was being {bombarded} by high electromagnetic fields. Studies have show that when a person is exposed to high levels of electromagnetic fields it can cause dizziness, fatigue, anxiety, decreased mental functions and weakness. She told me workers frequently saw something eerie passing in front of the door when working in the kitchen. I felt that was quite possibly due to the high magnetic fields making them hallucinate.

..However, the electromagnetic energy a spirit entity produces is not prolonged or even considered a high level so hallucinations and dizziness would not come into play. EMF's that move (through walls for example, around a room, or say up-and-down stairs) are what I would consider indicators of paranormal activity. You may also notice EMF's that appear, and then disappear randomly. This would also be suspect of paranormal activity taking place in that location. Investigators also use the calling out of questions and the K-2 can be placed on a table untouched by human hands and it will still react at times.

..The vastness and mystic nature of the paranormal and the spirit world made me want to create a magazine that would bring a lot of different ideas and experts together in one place. I originally wanted this to be a printed publication. I ran the idea, when it first struck me by Joe (my boyfriend and now assistant editor). He suggested we do this all on the web. So, right now my publication lives on the web since it would take major financing to create a printed publication.  Not to mention we reach a worldwide audience being on the web.

To date, after being online for only {two years} this is the worldwide readers we have gotten: United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Mexico, Sweden, Italy, Philippines, Mexico, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, India, Pakistan, China, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Portugal, Hong Kong, Spain, Malaysia, Columbia, Poland, Turkey, Belgium, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Fiji, Russian Federation, Vietnam, Finland, Norway, Greece, Switzerland, Nigeria, Denmark, and Singapore.