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Unique & Unexplained: Connections to the Other Side
Clairvoyants seeing through to the other side, psychic readings that determine fate, mystery vortexes and more of the unexplained… This next set of locations may have you feeling like you’re somewhere in the twilight zone, where you’re encountering the mind-bending, spellbinding and all too mysterious.
It seems almost destined that this former funeral home would be ripe for the spiritual activity that persists within the walls of the Ivy League Psychic Academy. The presence of ghosts is strong here, with phenomena including spirits using cat toys to communicate with the living, and the most active spots being in some of the most macabre areas of the house—like the embalming and body bag rooms. (Did your skin just prickle?) The residence now serves as headquarters for the current owner’s psychic training school, where it seems apprentices will get great hands-on training! Embark on a private or public ghost hunt, take a self-guided tour or check in for a haunted sleepover experience.
When you’re ready to deepen your understanding of the religion of Spiritualism, Lily Dale is the epicenter as the largest center for the practice, science and philosophy. Join them for a 10-week summer season full of special workshops, seminars on clairvoyance and healing, sacred music and more. Appointments with registered mediums can also be booked year-round.
Move over, Roswell! The Hamlet of Pine Bush has been dubbed UFO Capital of the East Coast, where possible visits from interstellar beings are dinner table talk, unknown occurrences are a regular part of daily life, and locals have the low-down on where to find extraterrestrials. Add to that the haunted locations and tales of shocking tragedies that have plagued the area, and you’ve most certainly got the makings of an episode of The X Files. (Not sure about you, but the theme song now lives in our heads rent-free…) Visit the Pine Bush UFO & Paranormal Museum for a self-guided or exclusive guided tour, or embark on a Pine Bush Haunted History Lantern Tour, where you’ll take a deeper probe into the hamlet’s haunted history.
Kate and Maggie Fox were sisters who cracked the code on communicating with a restless spirit in their home—a precursor to their future careers as traveling mediums. They learned to converse with a restless spirit using a sort of call-and-response technique, where the girls clapped to match the rapping sounds the spirit—a peddler who had been murdered and buried in the house—was making. After this revelation, the grim story of the peddler’s demise would live on, and his bones would later be discovered in the crumbling walls of the home long after the sisters had passed. Can the rapping still be heard today? Take a guided tour of the property to learn more of the family’s history and see if you experience it for yourself…
Wait, wasn’t I just…over there? This could be a question you find yourself asking after a visit to Thompson Park, said to be the site of a time vortex that transports visitors to a different part of the park. What could be behind this strange and unsettling phenomenon? Visit to see if you’ll experience it for yourself and see what answers you might uncover.
The phenomenon found here is unexplained even by scientists: When you stand in the center of this area and speak out loud, your voice will echo back to you even louder. The origin of this mystery is rooted in the legend of a Native American god shouting his wisdom for the mountains, lake and landscape to hear—could this echoing be the sound of his voice reverberating mysteriously from centuries past?
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