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Paranormal Spot Light: George Turner

 

 

                  Paranormal author of At the Crossroads of Myth, Theory, and Reality, speaker, radio show host, paranormal investigator, and teacher George Turner was kind enough to sit down and discuss his work, techniques in investigations, and his theories that he has developed in the paranormal realm. Mr. Turner also founded Kentucky Mountain Paranormal Research Society in 2010. His investigation team consists of four people due to the fact that the more people that are investigating a location, the more likely evidence become contaminated. Also, George is very organized in his investigations and likes to make sure his team runs smoothly, without the hindrance of stepping over each other. He will also be a guest speaker at The Mineral Wells ParaCon December 4th-8th. An event that he is very much so looking forward to because this event will mark the farthest he has ventured from home in his work in the Paranormal Field.

                  George Turner is a man that feels a special connection to Mother Earth. He speaks out for humans to take care of Her as she cares for us. He feels that if mankind where to reconnect to the Earth as our ancestors once where then we would all have a better understanding of the Spirit World. His admiration for the nature around him stayed in his mind on June 16th of this year. Mr. Turner found himself the victim of a near fatal car crash. With dozens of broken bones and lacerations, George still could not help himself to notice the beauty of the night. He observed the lovely stars sparkling above him as he laid in a ditch before he slipped into unconsciousness. Three surgeries later and the green light to learn to walk again, George keep busy with his paranormal work and a positive attitude. I asked him if he felt that he gained of the spiritual realm as many people report happens after they have near death experience.

“I’ve been able to get a feeling from people wither if they are good or bad. If they are bad I get the feeling within the first minute of being around them and that is something that I have tried to develop over the years. Since the wreck it seems like it is magnified. Whenever I get around someone that is sneaky or no good the feeling really overwhelms me; actually to the point that it scares me so I want to get far, far away.”

                  In 2001 George Turner’s journey into the paranormal realm began. He was working as a rookie corrections officer. Shortly after he was out of the Academy he was assigned to a housing unit. The dormitory unit itself was brand new; however it seemed that something or someone had been living there for awhile:

“The dormitory pods were divided up 25 foot long hallways from end to end. If you walk in on the right hand side there is three pods, those are occupied. If you go to the right side of the great hall there is two pods and we always have to go over to do a safety and security check regularly throughout the shift. Being the rookie officer the sergeant always sent me over to that side. This is about 2:00am-4:00am, I could hear people talking. I could hear footsteps and laughter. I thought it had to be from the occupied side, but when you think about it; where the inmates were on the occupied side you would have to go through three cinder block walls and the 25 foot wide great hall way. So, it is virtually impossible for those inmates that are locked in their individual cells to carry over that far. Truthfully some of those encounters that I had the hair on the back of my neck and on my arms stand up and freak me out so bad. So, I started talking to the other officers about it and they are like: ‘Yeah, every one of us has heard that from time to time, that’s why we always send the rookie over because we don’t like going over there.’ That kind of spear headed everything for me. Questions like why am I hearing all this? I always loved horror movies on TV. I loved books, so I went to the library to research and the librarian looked up other books from other libraries.” As the old saying goes; the rest is history.

George is a spiritual person, whom does not really claim any religious institution. As a Free Mason it is a requirement to have a belief in some form of higher power. When working a case he does his upmost to stay neutral to the events that are reported at a location. He and his team do extensive research on a location before they investigate; often going to an area’s county clerk’s office to dive into the archives to look up old maps and history long forgotten. By doing this George feels that a team can not only tap into the energy of a location by understanding its history, but also gain an understanding of what type of entities are causing such events to happen.  For example, he was working on a case that involved a couple that had a lot of wooded land. They decided that they wanted to push the woods back an acre or so to put in an in ground pool among other things. Right after they did all that work on their land, items like keys would disappear for hours and reappear in unusual places like the bathroom. George reviewed property maps and other records; he found out that the land has never been leveled or altered in anyway. The solution hit him “like a ton of bricks”. They couple had upset the

 

 

 

 

 

Element Spirits of the land, the fairies. George advised the couple to plant some fruit trees and a flower garden to please the Elementals on their land. The couple decided to follow his advised and after they completed their gardens things around their home relaxed.

                  Events like this help further George’s belief that if us as humans were to have a closer relationship with nature; then we can develop into a deeper spiritual state of being.  He also makes note that there is more to the paranormal world than just the wandering souls of deceased humans. On his own radio show he welcomes guest from all areas of paranormal investigation. Of course I am speaking of Cryptic and UFO hunters alongside ghost hunters.  He goes into his interviews the same way he goes into his own investigations, by doing his upmost to leave his own personal bias and ideas at the door and see what is brought to the table. He is deep spiritually but also has a degree and background in criminal justice, George takes a rather intellectual and dare I say forensic approach to his cases.  In addition to doing full research on location before he and his team arrive, he also have over 200 books on the paranormal in all its incarnations, myths, scientific theory, and religion. George feels strongly about arming oneself up intellectually. Not only understand what a team is doing while they collect evidence but also give a better understanding of what spirits a team may encounter on location. He is very much aware of the stigma in the mainstream scientific world that paranormal research has. At this time paranormal research is pseudoscience plan and simple.

“In my opinion the paranormal is a big mixture of myth and lots of theories, but you have got to firmly base it in reality. That is how I came up with the title of my title: At the Crossroads of Myth, Theory, and Reality. In the paranormal world there is a point where all three of them have to come together to be considered legit or acceptable; even if that acceptance is a small amount of people, because I mean face it. The paranormal world is pseudoscience anyone with a half a brain will admit that. It is pseudoscience. It really bothers me when people say they use the scientific method in their paranormal investigations, because there is no way to do that.”

                  George feels that it is just about impossible to use the scientific method in paranormal investigations due to their unpredictability. A team can go to one location that is famous for being very haunted and capture all kinds of evidence and activity; then return to the same location the next week and receive nothing at all. He shares his and his team’s experience with such a situation when they investigated Waverly Hills Sanatorium:

“We went to Waverly Hills last year, my team and I we didn’t get anything hardly. This year went we went back we were lucky. We caught some shadows. Each and every one of us had some kind of personal paranormal experience. So, yeah you can’t duplicate anything in the paranormal at all.

                  He then goes into his views of the growing popularity of paranormal ghost hunting show that have re launched the paranormal world back into the main stream and how they have affected the everyday paranormal  investigator:

“The shows are really a double edge sword, when I say that ‘m going to say the pros first. They have gotten the paranormal more into the mainstream. People, in my opinion, more apt to talk about their personal experiences at their home or at their office and they don’t necessarily have that stigma of being kooky or crazy or anything like that. That is the pro side of it. The con side of it is that some people think that after they have watched a couple shows or a season that qualifies then to be a paranormal investigator. It doesn’t, there is a whole lot of things that one must learn if they want to get into the field. Like, how to do you protect yourself; how do you protect your home. Use your equipment properly.”

                   Although, George does his upmost to conduct his investigations in an intellectual manner and to show respect all the spirits that reside at a location. He also encourages his team to use low tech approach:

“Everyone is running around with those K2 meters, and things like that. They are spending thousands of dollars in the field when there is really no need to buy all this stuff. I personally like the low tech avenue when doing an investigation. Jamie has her camera that she used to take the pictures with. She has a nice $600.00-$700.00 camera set up. We have a camcorder that has night vision capability, and everyone on the team has a digital recorder. That is as high tech as we get on location. I also like to use pendulums when I am out on an investigation. I know that pendulums are only about 60-80% accurate, but I feel the low tech approach, especially when you are dealing with an entity that has been at a location for let’s say a century. The pendulum is really easy to understand as opposed to ‘Come up here and touch the flash light, make it blink three times for yes and four times for no.’ That’s a little bit farfetched for me.”

                  The idea of using a pendulum very much caught my attention. He explained to me that he only brings out the pendulum when he has a personal and spiritual experience.  He explains in dept on how he incorporates the pendulum as a tool in his investigations:

“The technique that I use, the pendulum is only yes or no, I start out with rocking the pendulum back and forth and straight to me; clockwise for yes and counter clock wise for no. Then I asked three questions: May I ask a question? Can I ask a question? Should I ask a question? If I get a ‘yes’ for a question then I move on to the next. If at any time I get a ‘no’ response I stop, because that is the Spirit World telling me ‘This is a bad time to try to communicate with the pendulum. I ask the three separate questions: May I ask a question? As in do I have permission to speak with you? Can I ask a question? I can talk with you just like we are on Skype, but that doesn’t mean I have your permission to ask you a question. Should I ask a question? Sometimes you shouldn’t ask a certain question and the Spirit World will let you know that.”

 

As analytical as he is, George understands this field does have a spiritual effect on people. Going into these locations can really put one’s very soul at risk for oppressions, attachments, and in rare cases possession. He is fully aware that he and his team need to do everything they can to protect themselves on location and when they all go home.  George does not align himself with any religious institution he believes in a higher power great than all of us. He then goes on to share how he protects himself spiritually before an investigation.

“Different team members do different things. We don’t do a group prayer or anything like that, but I encourage everyone to say something in their own mind or to yourself: ‘No one can follow me, no one and attack me, I am protected by insert deity name. I personally bring along with me, my grandfather’s watch, I have a certain hat that I like to wear, and my Masonic ring. In my mind those things are items that enable me to protect myself.”

                  Despite all these protective rituals, we all know that things can still happen and entities still are able to follow one home. I asked if anything had ever followed him home. Mr. Turner explains that he does not feel that he has had anything follow him home or anything like that. He does explain that this past June after he and the team left Waverly Hill he had a great feeling of being drained and had no energy. At first he thought that he was just tired from the investigation, but the feeling did not go away. Ten days after Waverly Hills is when he got into his car accident. He doesn’t feel that the two are related in any way. However, with the great out pour of prayers, Reiki energy, and white light sent his way after his accident he feels that if he was being oppressed, that entity is now gone due to all the energy sent to him by his friends that range from across the religious spectrum.

                  With his work heavily based on a more studious approach I wondered aloud if there would ever been any room for a medium or psychic to work with his team when they are working a case on location. He states that he would love to have a medium or psychic to join him and his team, however he has yet to meet a person with said abilities in his area. He would like to sit down and speak with the person before they go on location to make sure they person would be a good fit with him and his team. He would embrace that opportunity if it were ever arise.

                  Mr. Turner is the real deal and a driving force in the paranormal field. His passion and commitment to his work in the field is inspirational figure in his own right. Speaking with him and how he carries himself and his team during investigations is fascinating to me. I do hope that he writes more books for the field. Namely a text book if you will on paranormal investigation in all is incarnates. I feel that his background in criminal justice has helped shape how he goes about his work. Although he didn’t himself make the analogy, I found myself comparing his techniques in going into a case very much so how one would go about going into a crime scene investigation. We did speak some about how cryptic hunters could make sure that they use latex gloves to make sure they do not contaminate any hair or other possible evidence that they find with their own DNA. After we ended our conversation I was left wondering if going into these cases in a more intellectual manner could help gain some respect from the laymen. Although investigating the paranormal can and is a very spiritual experience, those who are not in the field would not and could not understand that; that a more crime scene investigation approach would help develop the field more in the future.

            His radio show is broadcasted live Wednesdays at 3:00 at http://www.georgeturner.us/podcast-show.html. He and his guests discuss a wide range of paranormal topics: ghost and spirit hunting, cryptids, and UFOs. His book At the Crossroads of Myth, Theory, and Reality is available on Amazon