Something Paranormal Happened During A.S.Santos' Radio Interview

On Halloween morning October 31, 2012, DJs Vince & Lexi interviewed me on the their radio show called The Wake Up Show at the Manila station Mellow 94.7fm.

DJ Vince didn't believe in the paranormal but was very open-minded, while DJ Lexi had experiences of her own. As we talked about the four kinds of ghosts, though, we were experiencing something strange in the booth, too.


DISAPPEARING CALLERS

At first, it was very trivial.

We were inviting our listeners to call in with their ghost stories, but for the first hour we didn't get any calls.

Correction: the station phone was always ringing, but whenever DJ Vince picked it up, we found that the call had been dropped.

Now, this wasn't so extraordinary. A lot of people try calling up radio shows and then chicken out at the last minute. But the fact that it was happening consistently was a bit strange.


THE NEXT HOUR

The next hour was different, because the calls were finally getting through.

But then the conversation would get cut midway (like the caller would be talking, and then there'd be that unmistakable pot-pot-pot sound telling us the caller was no longer there). Sometimes it happened before we even had the chance to put the caller on air.

Still, a lot of the callers did make it to the end of their short personal experience stories about the paranormal, and things were going well.

Until...


THE SPOOKIEST THING HAPPENED

An interesting call came through; the caller was an Engineer, and he was telling us about how his college professor introduced him to the concept of "white noise," and how spirits can supposedly contact us through it.

For those of you who don't know, white noise is that static we get on the radio while we're flipping in between stations; it's also the video and audio static we get on our television sets.

The theory is that white noise is a source of energy and a possible open channel through which human beings (with our normal senses) can receive messages; therefore, it's an ideal tool that spirits (which are made up of energy) can use to manifest and communicate with us.

(There was even a 2005 film about it titled White Noise, starring Michael Keaton.)
 
But this is the call where it happened.

As I was explaining all this energy and white noise stuff to the caller, a sudden loud burst of WHITE NOISE filled all of our headphones, and our entire show went off the air for about 2 seconds.

The burst of static was so loud that DJ Vince jerked back on his chair with a rather loud "Whoa!" while DJ Lexi jumped up from her seat, jerked off her headphones, and looked at us with wide eyes.

Two seconds later we were back on air, and I continued talking to the caller, who was still on the line.

Meanwhile, the show's Twitter and Facebook pages suddenly lit up with messages, with people asking "What just happened?!" and "Was that a prank?"

It was totally not.

The sad part is we didn't get to record what happened. I told DJ Vince it would've been interesting to listen to and review that burst of white noise, since it might have contained an audible message.

DJ Vince laughed nervously, and said since he was a senior deejay, he'd simply assign DJ Lexi to do the reviewing.

Later, he told me that what had happened really couldn't have been because of something technical. The only thing that could've caused it was a "blackout," and if it was a blackout then we couldn't have returned on air for at least an entire minute.

Also, a blackout would've just created a quiet "ssshhhhhh" sound in our headsets as the connection disappeared; it wouldn't have cause the loud burst of sound that we actually heard.


CAN YOU HEAR THEM?

The first book in the SPRG Trilogy is called Voices in the Theater, and deals precisely with paranormal phenomena that we can sometimes hear. You can get it from Amazon.com and instantly read it on your laptop, tablet, or Kindle.

Just click on the cover photo to check it out.

When Grandmother Said Goodbye

Our grandmother died at 3am on January 1, 2010. She had just finished celebrating the coming of the New Year, and a few hours later she was gone.

After her funeral we adopted and brought home her favorite dog, "J," a cute brown shih tzu, because everyone thought we could take better care of him.

J was friendly, toilet-trained, and became instantly protective of the kids; he stayed wherever they were, and usually slept in their bedroom.


One night--about a month after grandmother's death--something strange happened.

It was a Saturday night and the kids were allowed to stay up late. They were in the living room watching a movie, and J was on the floor near them, looking like he wanted to go to sleep.

According to the kids, "all of a sudden J's ears perked up, his tail started wagging, and he started bouncing around joyfully, running and barking at an empty wall." 

A few times he even excitedly stood up on his hind legs, like he was reaching up to someone he loved.

The kids were too weirded out to react or move (it was a quiet night; the adults were reading in their rooms). It really seemed to them that J was playing with someone/something they couldn't see.


After five minutes of this strange behavior, J just as suddenly settled down, returned to his spot on the living room floor, turned around a few times, then lay down and curled up to sleep.

To this day we believe it was our grandmother who came to our living room that night. 

The kids couldn't see her, but J could... and she stayed around to play with him, until she had to say goodbye.

After all, J was her favorite dog.

I'm now writing Book 2 of the SPRG series...

...and for some reason we've been having a kind of manifestation in our own house.


It started last December 2012, and it's happening about twice a month.

It's a very simple manifestation, and it's pretty consistent: 

We would hear movement inside empty bedrooms.


Thud Against The Wall
The bedroom belonging to our house keeper L has one wall made entirely of wood; outside her bedroom that same wall lines our hallway, and it's the wall where we hang several pictures.

While I was alone in the house one day (everyone was out) I distinctly heard a thud against the inside of L's bedroom wall, like an adult body had just slammed against it. It was so distinct that some of the pictures hanging on the hallway shook.

But when I opened L's bedroom door, there was no one there; I was still alone.

I didn't tell anyone about this.


Chairs Moving
About a week later, when L was alone in the house, she distinctly heard chairs being moved around inside F & D's bedroom; the chair legs could be heard scraping across the floor, all the way from the kitchen where L was. 

When L went in to check, there was no one there. And she couldn't be sure if the chairs had been moved (F & D don't always leave stuff in their proper place).


More Chairs
Just yesterday, C & I left the house and locked our bedroom door behind us, the way we usually do.

We were gone for about 3 hours, but when we came back D reported that they heard the chairs inside our bedroom moving around in our absence.


It's nothing alarming, just interesting.

And since I'm usually writing about the paranormal at night, I just hope it doesn't turn into more than that.




Read Book 1 of the Student Paranormal Group
(SPRG) Series Here:

Ghost Photo

Tagaytay, Philippines

A friend sent me this photo from when she was in Tagaytay, Philippines.

She and her companions had been taking pictures from themselves in a scenic "vacation community" there.

In this photo she was leaning against a railing, and the friend who shot the image wanted to capture as much of the background as possible.

They didn't see the figure behind her until much later, when they were going through the files in the camera.

It was the figure, apparently, of a little girl, hiding behind her head and pointing at something.

If that little girl had actually been there she should've been floating about a foot above the ground to reach my friend's height and hide directly behind her head.