Paranormal TV is NOT Real!

"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!” Or in this case, so does the public. When it comes to watching ghostly images and recounts of haunting stories on TV, the public is left with the undeniably and irrevocable thoughts of calling it what it is, “full of sh*t”! After all, is it evil to misrepresent the spirit world? I always felt it was.


It never ceases to amaze me what they put on TV and just how absolutely insane they have gotten in trying to wow the audience and yet, never really quite are able to show a REAL HAUNTING STORY. If you are one of the few that think that what you see on TV for reality TV or especially the documentaries is real, you are truly one of the few. Why is that? Is it really because the public doesn't believe? Well, if they don't, it might have something to do with misrepresenting the spirit world in such a disdain, inaccurate and quite obviously ignorant way, it's not surprising the public doesn't just jump on board with thinking everything they say is truth. After all, as I keep telling people, they underestimate the intelligence of their audiences repeatedly. If they think people want to be entertained more then being told the truth, they have already put themselves in a box of their own making and can't see out of it.


As the old time radio show called “The Shadow” had that air of mystery and that edge of relaying a story to keep you on the edge of your seat, today, they have gotten lost in the great affects and just throwing all the stops out to wow people, they actually miss the mark of retelling a ghost story. Like the radio show that was fictitious and not real, our “reality” TV is no longer real either. But, does it really entertain? Does it really? Or are people left with the feeling that it's just not right or hoped it would be better then it was after watching an episode. We all might as well be watching Harry Potter or Charmed on TV for the lack of reality, at least they do not propose to be reality.


Now, before you think me some great cynic that is merely just putting down all the documentaries out there and reality TV with it, I have had the privilege of knowing personally many of those people who have real haunting stories that have been either approached by filming crews or a good many of them have actually been seen on TV. The one thing that all these people have shockingly in common is that their story is NOT COMPLETELY THEIR STORY it is always changed in some manner to suit a make believe audience for ratings that seems at least in my opinion, non existent. I have a good reason to say this. Do people really want to be told something is real and then what they see is not exactly the truth and sometimes portions completely not true to the story? Do they? I have a hard time believing that. I also have a hard time believing that if they do not embellish or change the story, that it will not be watched. Yet, I am left with the feeling that they leave such a huge part of the story out... it's in the mystery and feelings and what happens in between the haunting phenomena that is left as if unknown and even unimportant.


One thing that always sits with me in viewing any of these shows is how it's not represented to show the reality of experiencing this type of phenomena. They can't show it if they have never experienced it and perhaps from the filming crew experience, it's all bull and it doesn't matter about telling the truth, because either the people whose stories they are filming are full of it, or... they have issues... either way, the feeling of telling a story in the manner of which it happened falls short every time. (At least as far as I have seen.) You wonder why those haunting stories seems so scary and over the top, because they are. It is not uncommon for the film crew to hear of some stories and add some of the ghost story to one they are filming to add interest, as well as shorten time lines or exaggerate greatly. It appears at least in some cases, they read the story online or it was previously submitted to them for a show idea by someone hoping to have their story told. Imagine if you will, seeing YOUR story included in another person's story. Oh yes, this happens. Online is just another place to search for ideas after all. Not that I blame these writers at all for doing this. However, plagiarizing is still plagiarizing and credit should still be given to the correct parties. That's just having values and etiquette. I do not much care about the “dog eat dog” world television production is suppose to be. I'm sure I'm not alone in my thinking here. Reflect being a jerk, that is how people perceive you, company or not.


So, can haunting stories to be told accurately? There is much that can't be shown accurately... right? Well, here's the deal, a lot can be. I notice that often they like to make a action packed show... but, it's the calm and then sudden action that have you in the sensation of feeling like you have truly witnessed something so unearthly and magical and yet, so very terrifying, because it goes so far outside what you thought was possible. You don't know what it is, why it's happening or what to expect. THAT is never even attempted in a telling of a story. It's the calm before the storm that is needed. It's the wonder and gaps in between where you do not know if something evil or angelical. It's the mere mystery and yet... the almost sudden and unexpected phenomena that happens in hauntings that truly make the stories different. They miss the magical, mysterious and unknown world that is so very different then the world we are conditioned to believe is.


Stories do not need more happening... they need the stories told in a manner that makes sense and is more true to what it is really like to live through a haunting. One thing about haunting is, the why's are not always answered, nor are the who or what it is. It's common for people to think a haunting is friendly when it may not be or to think it evil when it's not. People make assumptions on dark mist being evil for instance, but, is it? No matter what intention a ghost entity has, not knowing makes it threatening, mysterious and that feeling lingers. Now, they say that they can not show feelings. I beg to differ on that. Not only can they show feelings, they can show a story that will have the audience react. We are conditioned to react to our fellow man and their plights after all. It is much of the reason Ghost Investigators get involved with helping people. It is always a large part of the motivation behind people in this field.


I would like to challenge the TV networks and film crews that make these shows to bring about a truth to those stories and honor not only the people who are telling the stories, but, the spirit world. For how often does the story telling of lies oversee the reality of truth and make myth into reality in the beliefs and hearts of society? It's a dangerous proposition to play at such spiritual truths.


One thing people should be aware of is the “mockumentaries” that are documentaries gone wrong in my opinion. One such show is called “Mermaids” that is suppose to be for entertainment, but, is completely made up. I have heard some people think parts are true. Well, no, it's all completely made up as much as “War of the Worlds” was. The scientist and experts are all actors, the proof fabricated and the filming all done by a professional film crew. It's as fake as “The Blair Witch Project”. It has come to a point in time where telling the truth on supernatural or paranormal events is not needed and lying is acceptable. Or is it?


I have this one last fleeting message... how great would it be to have a film crew brave enough and yet creative enough to try to tell a REAL ghost story and get it right? It might be the best story ever seen. I always think that there is a reason to object to spiritual messages that appear to have gone wrong. It's one of the reasons I do what I do. I do not think I am alone. I am only almost alone in having the guts to just go out in public and blurt out what I think. Nobody ever likes to be lied to or accepts it as OK, even when proposed as truth by a mere television show.


The truth is out there... believe it.


By Evan Jensen,
Producer of Beyond the Edge of Reality Radio Network
http://beyondtheedgeofreality.net


(Note: I did not leave names or examples of whom I am speaking of about what isn't true in TV to protect those people who are under contract, as well as their reputation. However, if you know someone that has been on TV, feel free to ask them for the whole story and what has changed. One part is that often, the haunting continues and is not resolved.)

Halloween and the Last Great Deception

By Lisa Grace

People believe what they hear. When you repeat falsehoods over and over, people believe it. One bad horror movie with incorrect theology, can re-write the most authoritative book written on the subject, The Holy Scriptures.

For example, on October 30th, 1938, seventy five years ago yesterday, a radio broadcast of a dramatic science fiction story of a Martian invasion called War of the Worlds caused panic up and down the east coast of the United States. http://history1900s.about.com/od/1930s/a/warofworlds.htm you can listen to the original show here: https://archive.org/details/OrsonWellesMrBruns

How foolish to think people really believed we were being invaded by Martians. How could people be so easily deceived? Because they believe what they hear if it appears to be coming from someone with special knowledge.

But that couldn’t happen today, could it?

Well, it is. Right now you can watch television shows, listen to radio programs, buy books, that all teach you, “How to communicate with the dead.” This is last great deception.

Yes, empaths are getting information—from demons! 1/3 of the angels fell, and they can appear to be angels of light. What better disguise than to act as some one’s passed on loved one?

What do all the mediums say?

Go into the light.

Your loved ones are in a better place.

Your loved ones are with you.

They don’t want you to worry.

It doesn’t matter what you believe, when you die, everything will be fine.

This, however, is not what the Bible says.

The prophet Isaiah said it best: (Is 8:19) And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

That’s right. The Bible says to seek God. If you have questions, go to Him. Read His Word. The answers are in there and not in the words of lying spirits.

The mediums themselves are being mis-lead. If they knew their Scriptures, and had an ounce of discernment, they would know this. This is why the Holy Scriptures forbid communicating with “spirits.” The very spirits that want human interaction do so only because their ultimate goal is to lead humans down the wide road, the path of false doctrine and feel good theology.

The penalty of suffering a witch not to live or mediums, because it was better the one die by unwittingly acting as a pawn of the evil ones, than to have them lead many to their destruction. (Ex 22:18);

(Lev 19:31) Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

(Lev 20:6) And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

The warnings go on and on throughout almost every book of the Bible. There are around fifty of them.

The Holy Scriptures give very clear messages over and over:

The dead are dead.

The dead “sleep.”

The dead know nothing.

There is a great gulf between the living and the dead.

When Christ died, He was dead for three days! He did not immediately go up to the Father and heaven. He died. He was DEAD, and He was buried. (1 Cr 15:4)

Only on the third day did He go  up to his Father in heaven. He warned Mary not to touch him, BECAUSE HE had not been to the Father yet. John 2:17 (KJV) Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

And what did Jesus do? He cast out demons. He didn’t sit and talk to them! He wasn’t mis-lead.

The great deception is that so many are willing to talk with the demons (ghosts, i.e. spirits, which are all fallen evil types of angels), which will do nothing but lead them away from the truth. The demons tell just enough truth, so you and the mediums will believe the ultimate lie.

I leave you with this warning: 1 Thessalonians 4:13 (KJV) But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

So today, a day most of the world celebrates the evil things in this realm and the next. Get educated, and do not be deceived.

Lisa Grace is the author of the teen Angel Series, which has been optioned for a major movie. You can pick up her first book in the series free through any major ebook retailer, from Smashwords.com in a variety of forms including .pdf and phone apps, or here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0052AI5W8