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Speaker 2: And welcome back George Nori with you. Lauren Purcell with
Speaker 2: us rapidly becoming one of the most in demand mystics
Speaker 2: in the Midwest. As an energy impath and psychic medium.
Speaker 2: She has been called upon to investigate hauntings and other
Speaker 2: energetic disturbances and historic buildings and homes of all sizes,
Speaker 2: including the legendary Woodstock Opera House and a fifteen square
Speaker 2: thousand square foot mansion. She has done everything from helpspot
Speaker 2: potential issues for those looking to purchase new homes, to
Speaker 2: helping with historical research to connecting clients with their loved ones.
Speaker 2: Her website is mysticchick dot net. It's great website named Lauren.
Speaker 3: Welcome, Thank you, Hi, Happy to be here.
Speaker 2: How did you get coined the phrase mystic chick?
Speaker 3: Well, actually, I was trying to come up with a
Speaker 3: podcast name like fifteen years ago and it just kind
Speaker 3: of like clicked with me. So that's what I've gone
Speaker 3: with ever since.
Speaker 2: They caught on, didn't it it did? Yeah, how did
Speaker 2: you first discover these psychic medium mobilities?
Speaker 3: Well, I actually don't really remember a time without them.
Speaker 3: I think I was about two when I was able
Speaker 3: to start seeing like the energy around objects. And I
Speaker 3: have a long line of people on my mom's side
Speaker 3: that have psychic abilities in different ways, So it just
Speaker 3: kind of was assumed that, you know, something would come out.
Speaker 2: Do you specialize in the ghostly realm?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Did it ever scare you? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I actually it can, but that there's a lot of
Speaker 3: things in you know, kind of the spirit realm, Like
Speaker 3: there's ghosts, there's spirits, there's negative entities. So I think
Speaker 3: like negative entities are the things that scare me.
Speaker 2: Now, you're not an exorcist, but have you been approached
Speaker 2: like that to do things similar?
Speaker 3: I haven't. Yeah, I actually would you bring up can
Speaker 3: you come out of the game with these big, big
Speaker 3: terms here? Exorcists like, uh, the like demons are actually
Speaker 3: kind of a version of a negative entity. So if
Speaker 3: you are, you know, Catholic, especially any like negative entity
Speaker 3: you would probably attribute as being a demon. But I
Speaker 3: actually worked with somebody in the last year that had
Speaker 3: a piece of a mansion. She was given a piece
Speaker 3: of a mansion from New Orleans and it had a
Speaker 3: lot of like it was like one of the biggest
Speaker 3: like slave holding places. It had a lot of negative
Speaker 3: energy attached to it. She was so freaked out by it.
Speaker 3: She had it like locked the way in a special
Speaker 3: box that this like voodoo pre just told her to
Speaker 3: put it in or something, and it was still wreaking
Speaker 3: havoc in her house because of that negative entity attached
Speaker 3: to it. So yeah, things can get really really ugly
Speaker 3: really quick with that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Lauren, tell us what you think about the ghostly realm?
Speaker 2: What is it exactly?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, people talk about the veil, they talk
Speaker 3: about the other side things like that. So ghosts are
Speaker 3: actually they're in another dimension, but they're still earth bound, right,
Speaker 3: So you know, they have to be bound to a person, place,
Speaker 3: or thing. A lot of times it could either be
Speaker 3: because of a traumatic death or because of like strong
Speaker 3: emotions like you know, spite. If a woman got cheated
Speaker 3: on by her husband, maybe she decides to haunt him
Speaker 3: because she just wants to make him unhappy for the
Speaker 3: rest of his life. But you have, you know, the
Speaker 3: ghosts that are bound to the earthplane, and then you
Speaker 3: also have spirits that are people who have crossed over
Speaker 3: and they are you know, doing other things and other
Speaker 3: dimensions living their best lives, but they kind of come
Speaker 3: to us and support us when we need it. But
Speaker 3: also spirits can be attracted to us if they have
Speaker 3: some commonalities with us. So like if everybody's vibrating at
Speaker 3: these different frequency levels, energy frequencies, and I think that's
Speaker 3: the key, is that everything is energy and you have,
Speaker 3: you know, energy in all these different forms. Ghosts are
Speaker 3: a form of debt, spirits are negative energy is negative
Speaker 3: entities are and as well as you know earthly energies,
Speaker 3: the energy of different places around the world, like Machipchu
Speaker 3: or the Bermuda Triangle, you have the energy of you
Speaker 3: know water even so like dousing when you're you know,
Speaker 3: you're actually looking for water, and you can also douse
Speaker 3: to find ghosts and spirits and so all that energy,
Speaker 3: it's like the fundamental building blocks of everything. And that's
Speaker 3: the common language, and it's just about trying to figure
Speaker 3: out what frequency everything's on. And so whatever frequency you're
Speaker 3: vibrating at, you will attract other things of a similar frequency,
Speaker 3: and so that's when you have the potential to connect
Speaker 3: with ghosts or spirits. Or if you're going through a
Speaker 3: lot of like rough stuff, you're more vulnerable to negative
Speaker 3: entities or just having the effects of negative energy.
Speaker 2: How does a ghost attach itself to an individual? How
Speaker 2: does that happen?
Speaker 3: It's usually because there's something with that person. They had
Speaker 3: some sort of emotional connection in life. So when you
Speaker 3: talk about about things attaching, ghosts can only attach to
Speaker 3: somebody because of you know, strong emotions. But if it's
Speaker 3: just an everyday person going somewhere usually in a negative place,
Speaker 3: a negative entity can attach to anybody. So that's pretty
Speaker 3: much the difference. You have to have some sort of
Speaker 3: connection with the ghosts, and they're basically kind of like
Speaker 3: haunting you.
Speaker 2: How did you end up keen on Woodstock the Opera
Speaker 2: House and that's in Woodstock, Illinois?
Speaker 3: Right, Yes, how did I end up? I'm sorry?
Speaker 2: What how did you end up finding that place?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: I've lived in the area. I'm like two towns away,
Speaker 3: I've lived one town away. I've lived actually in Woodstack. Actually,
Speaker 3: so I I got it for years. I've lived in Woodstack.
Speaker 3: I've known about it for years.
Speaker 2: What is so haunting about it?
Speaker 3: Well, it's there's just if you actually like take it back,
Speaker 3: you know, thousands of years Woodstock Opera House is very
Speaker 3: closely located to a lot of like ancient where ancient
Speaker 3: mounds and things were found. So it's the square itself
Speaker 3: and all the buildings around it have a lot of
Speaker 3: energy kind of focused in that area, and so when
Speaker 3: you have more energy in an geographic location, you have
Speaker 3: more potential to draw things to it. So there's there's
Speaker 3: all kinds of activity in the Opera House, and yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just been a very it's kind of intense to
Speaker 3: be in there.
Speaker 2: You're going to be there on Halloween night, aren't you?
Speaker 3: Yes, Yeah, I'm going to be there Halloween night. Joe
Speaker 3: Diamond and I the mind Reader America's Curtis mind Reader
Speaker 3: are going to be doing some ghost tours there, a
Speaker 3: couple of tours that night.
Speaker 2: Be careful.
Speaker 3: It's always safe though, Like I never bring anybody in
Speaker 3: anywhere that you know, anybody could potentially have any anything
Speaker 3: harmful happened. But it's definitely going to be creepy. And
Speaker 3: if anybody wants tickets for that, just feel free to
Speaker 3: visit mystic tick that net because I have a link
Speaker 3: on there.
Speaker 2: You should call our show. We were doing our Ghost
Speaker 2: to Ghost Danuel Halloween show that night. You should. You
Speaker 2: should somehow called in as a listener and give us
Speaker 2: a report on what's going on out there.
Speaker 3: I would love to do that.
Speaker 2: To go sometimes follow people home, that would be so.
Speaker 3: So unless the ghost is bound to somebody because of
Speaker 3: the personal connection, which usually happens in life, the things
Speaker 3: that can follow somebody home would be either a spirit
Speaker 3: because the spirit is crossed over already, so they connect
Speaker 3: with you on you know, a mental frequency or an
Speaker 3: emotional frequency, and once they lock in, they can follow
Speaker 3: you anywhere. Also, a negative entity can actually attach itself
Speaker 3: to you and then you can bring that home, so
Speaker 3: things can come home with you. It's just not typically ghosts.
Speaker 2: Lauren, what does the negative entities want with us? What's
Speaker 2: their goal here? Their mission?
Speaker 3: Well, they just they their mission really is to feed.
Speaker 3: Let's be like. I mean, they're very basic, but they
Speaker 3: just are looking to feed off of your emotions or
Speaker 3: your physical energy. And so what happens a lot of
Speaker 3: times is that there's all these places on the earth,
Speaker 3: and I know people talk about lay lines, and I
Speaker 3: kind of agree with that. There's some things I disagree
Speaker 3: about lay lines, but I kind of envision a net
Speaker 3: around the earth and you have these you know, knots
Speaker 3: in the net, and every knot is going to be
Speaker 3: like a place that has a lot of positive energy
Speaker 3: or a lot of negative energy, and then like the
Speaker 3: strings between the knots are more like kind of those
Speaker 3: pathways where the energy goes from negative to positive. So
Speaker 3: that's why, like when you're you know, walking around town
Speaker 3: and stuff, for the most part, things are pretty like average.
Speaker 3: You have to kind of make a trip to go
Speaker 3: somewhere either really positive or really negative for the most part,
Speaker 3: but there's a lot of places that kind of start
Speaker 3: leaning one way or another. And if you have a
Speaker 3: place that is energetically kind of primed to be more negative,
Speaker 3: it attracts more negative things to it, and so then
Speaker 3: people are more likely to say, do bad things in
Speaker 3: a negative energy location, and that adds to the negative energy,
Speaker 3: and so then you have kind of like layers of
Speaker 3: negative energy, and these negative entities kind of seek these
Speaker 3: areas out because they are low hanging fruit, like there
Speaker 3: are a similar frequency, and so you already have these
Speaker 3: negative entities kind of cropped up in these locations. And
Speaker 3: then people who are vibrating at a lower frequency, usually
Speaker 3: because of a lot of reasons, but they could have
Speaker 3: gone through a breakup. They could have gone just lost
Speaker 3: their job, they could have just had a major surgery,
Speaker 3: they could have had you know, just like lost someone.
Speaker 3: Like the list goes on and on, but like things
Speaker 3: that fundamentally kind of lower your energy and make you vulnerable.
Speaker 3: When you're in that kind of state, you're more drawn
Speaker 3: to places of negative energy and you don't even know what.
Speaker 3: It's like a frog and boiling water, Like it feels comfortable,
Speaker 3: it feels good. It's like, oh, I feel like, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm home. And I always tell people like, if you've
Speaker 3: gone through something major, a loss, you know, a you know,
Speaker 3: you've gone through a breakup or divorce, things like that,
Speaker 3: do not buy another house right away. Like take the time,
Speaker 3: get yourself back in order, rent, and then when you're
Speaker 3: in a better place, then move somewhere. And you know
Speaker 3: that you're going to be for a while because it's
Speaker 3: too easy to buy something that could have potential problems.
Speaker 3: And then that energy will feed off of you. And
Speaker 3: usually you know that somebody's got like a negative entity
Speaker 3: or even just in a really bad negative energy location
Speaker 3: because they move into the place and then they'll be like,
Speaker 3: you know, oh my goodness, I've gone through like several
Speaker 3: car accidents in the last year, and you know, then
Speaker 3: I just broke up with my boyfriend and all these
Speaker 3: like bad things start happening.
Speaker 2: Are demons ghosts? Are they something else?
Speaker 3: Demons would be like a form of negative entities, so
Speaker 3: they're not ghosts. Ghosts are just people without bodies, so
Speaker 3: you can have evil people, but demons are kind of
Speaker 3: another level.
Speaker 2: What's easier to get rid of a bad ghost or
Speaker 2: a bad demon?
Speaker 3: Oh that's a good question. Okay, so a bad ghost.
Speaker 3: They both present challenges because the ghost is you know,
Speaker 3: it's a person without a body, so it still has
Speaker 3: free will. You can try to, you know, send it
Speaker 3: to the light, you can, you know, but basically you
Speaker 3: either have to learn to live with it if it
Speaker 3: refuses to go, or you have to move with a demon.
Speaker 3: It gets a little weirder a negative entity because you
Speaker 3: actually have to remove it or it's going to keep
Speaker 3: feeding off of you. So you can remove yourself from
Speaker 3: the location, but again it's connected to you, so it's
Speaker 3: a multi step process because you want to get yourself
Speaker 3: out of the location, but you also need to address
Speaker 3: getting get removed from you, which is just an energy thing,
Speaker 3: and it actually does not even take that long. But
Speaker 3: it's also a sign that you know, you're in a
Speaker 3: vulnerable state and you could attract other negative energies or
Speaker 3: entities to its reattached to you, so half of its awareness.
Speaker 2: Getting back to Woodstock, the Opera House. Did somebody die
Speaker 2: there once? Is that? Is that why it's haunted? I
Speaker 2: mean somebody fall all of the balcony or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of drama at the Opera House,
Speaker 3: no pun intended, I bet so, Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 3: a little I have to admit I've been kind of
Speaker 3: a run and around with the Opera House because they're
Speaker 3: a little cagy on that one. They don't want to
Speaker 3: really and I've been through this actually with multiple historic
Speaker 3: locations that I've worked in. They don't want to admit
Speaker 3: that there's ghost activity because they're worried about losing you know,
Speaker 3: people you know coming to see them, or like losing business,
Speaker 3: so they try to you know, no, it's not haunted.
Speaker 3: But yeah, all of the stuff that I've heard about Alvirah,
Speaker 3: she had been a dancer, she didn't get apart well,
Speaker 3: and there's there are conflicting stories because it was a
Speaker 3: long time ago, and with the multiple multiple fires in
Speaker 3: the Woodstack Square over the last one hundred and fifty years,
Speaker 3: I swear to god there was a fire like every
Speaker 3: five or ten years. Records were lost all the time.
Speaker 3: So but yeah, she conflicting stories. She either jumped off
Speaker 3: the belfry tower because she lost the part that she
Speaker 3: really really, you know, thought she deserved as a dancer.
Speaker 3: The other thing that people kind of talk about is
Speaker 3: her like going through a breakup and just hanging herself.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot with that. And also there's historically
Speaker 3: proven somebody died in the building due to a fire.
Speaker 3: So a long time ago, some people passing through town
Speaker 3: were kind of camping out in the basement and there
Speaker 3: was actually like a wrestling match going on with like
Speaker 3: six hundred people, and nobody was hurt except the one
Speaker 3: of the people in the basement that started the fire
Speaker 3: to warm up. So bad situation.
Speaker 2: But what about a haunted seat out there?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, Gidi one thirteen is Alvira's seat. So a
Speaker 3: lot of times during rehearsals for performances and things like that,
Speaker 3: you can actually observe her being present because the seat
Speaker 3: will actually be in the downposition, and like they've checked
Speaker 3: it a million times and it's normally very functional. It
Speaker 3: stays up on its own, So she's had a lot
Speaker 3: of like interaction in different ways with the theater.
Speaker 2: You can actually see her.
Speaker 3: I personally don't see her. I feel her, But again
Speaker 3: it depends on the person. So if you whatever frequency
Speaker 3: you're vibrating at, you'll pick up on different things. I
Speaker 3: more hear ghosts or I will feel ghosts. I also
Speaker 3: get a lot of like information through like thought forms
Speaker 3: and stuff. It takes a lot for me to see one,
Speaker 3: and usually it's not for the best.
Speaker 2: Lauren, is this a different Alvira from the one we've
Speaker 2: known from the movies?
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely a different Elvira, although I love the one
Speaker 3: from the movies.
Speaker 2: Were Yeah, that one wasn't evil at all.
Speaker 3: No, and she yeah, she was a cutie.
Speaker 2: But Woodstock is a strange place. Now when you give
Speaker 2: these tours, do people feel these unusual circumstances? So what
Speaker 2: are they witness?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, we've actually one of my last tours there,
Speaker 3: and that's the question. Like we were trying to figure
Speaker 3: out with the group if it was Alvira or it
Speaker 3: felt like a younger energy. But we were actually and
Speaker 3: in the basement is where the old jail cells were
Speaker 3: because way back when before it was just the opera house.
Speaker 3: It was more of a municipal center, but it was
Speaker 3: also it had you know, performances and operas and things
Speaker 3: like that, but it was also the firehouse, the courthouse,
Speaker 3: the library. So we were downstairs in the jail cell
Speaker 3: area and in this back room like it was just
Speaker 3: we heard things like falling off the walls like some
Speaker 3: like people started going in there and you know, their
Speaker 3: pendulums were going crazy. We went back out and then
Speaker 3: there was like more noise. It was very very bizarre,
Speaker 3: and everybody was really freaked out, but it was pretty fun.
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