I'd already gotten a name for the presence or spirit that was hanging around our house, Roselane, and discussing the history of the house with our neighbor had confirmed that a person with that name had died in the dining room. Thus equipped, I decided to take action.

I had been taking a psychic course and practicing techniques to enhance psychic ability. I now decided to go into the Alpha level of the mind and ask our spirit to leave.

To be honest, I didn't believe my efforts would make a difference. I had no experience working with spirits or trying to clear them. Selena and I were fast losing our enthusiasm for the house, feeling it was more than we had bargained for. I would see pictures of old Victorian houses and now could relate only too clearly to the creepy feelings they conjured up.

One afternoon, I stretched out on the living room sofa and waited until I could feel myself in Alpha, then spoke to the spirit and tried as gently as possible to tell him that he had passed and that he needed to move on. I explained that although he might still feel this was his home, for his own well-being he needed to go to the light.

I related to Selena that I had asked "-----," our spirit (we'd gotten used to calling him by name) to leave. I've left the name blank out of respect for -----'s family. Selena seemed doubtful; however, we were both surprised in the days that followed, because the negative energy we felt was gone as mysteriously as it had been present. Selena could approach the area in front of the chimney and felt fine with it. We no longer had that ice cold feeling.

Roselane still had a way to go because we sensed other energies--but these were nothing in comparison to what we had felt initially. As the months passed, the energy kept improving.

We would, however, encounter bending knives, a shell that turned, a gauze-like substance in the kitchen and 3 distinct odors.

And most interesting of all, I would have an encounter with one of the miners from the 1958 Springhill, NS, mining disaster! Read Part 4