Wes_Forsythe wrote:
John does have a good reputation amongst us (though there are plenty who would disagree).
He has been doing the haunted item thing for a long time so I will allow for the sake of arguement that he is sincere and occasionally accurate. My problem is that while I believe in attachments I tend to think that a spirit is more often than not attached to a place, event, or even a person(s). I do believe I have encountered one that was attached to a kitchen cabinet (seriously) once.
Maybe the show is highly "cherry picked" as to which locations they show us, but I do not believe at this point based on my own experience that object attachment applies to a majority of hauntings as the show would lead one to believe.
But, and I AM NO EXPERT ON THIS, the only thing a glass lid is going to do is keep an object dust free. I mean the ghosts aren't "living" in the objects like Genies are they?
I personally know of a person who was told to get rid of a beautiful chair they had as there was something attached to it. They didn't want to get rid of it and took it to their dad's house [I can see if it was her mother in-law, but her dad??? Lol]. Anyway, when she took the chair to her father's house, all of the clocks in the house stopped.
I don't know how common it is for a spirit to be attached to an object; but after this incident, I'm also convinced that it happens at least at times.
While I don't know John and am not in your type of circle Wes, I would like to know how he got a "good reputation". I've seen similar instances where people say others have a good reputation and brag on another's platform. My question is "Who says so?" I would have to disagree that he's a good demonologist [at this time anyway] as who has the proof that he is? Nobody.
I've found [according to one site, which lifted the person's platform first] that a demonologist is involved with religion [something I left after 20 years] and due to that religion's chief figure, they have power over demons. I will not go into religion so as not to offend; but the reality of it is that no group of people has any power over the spirits called demons more than anyone else. How do you know Matrix? Because we are all entitled to our own opinions; we are not however entitled to our own facts, regardless of how much "written" information exists about those who want the masses to believe their legitimacy.
I think this field, like everything else, could be more legit if some would leave the titles/egos at the front door.
Just one man's opinion.