Ellie's Case Study

At 11 on a Monday night, I got a phone call from Ellie. She was very upset. She had just had physical contact with an earth-bound spirit, a poltergeist. While her roommate’s mother was brushing Ellie’s hair, the poltergeist threw her against the hallway wall, and then pulled her back and shoved her onto the floor of her bedroom down the hall. Ellie called me for help right away.

I collected as much information as possible while the event was fresh in everyone’s mind. I talked with Ellie in depth, and then spoke with her roommate’s mother (a Registered Nurse). She had never seen anything like it but was convinced, as Ellie was, that there was no earthly explanation for what had happened that evening.

I knew the poltergeist had used a good amount of its energy to manifest direct contact with Ellie, so I felt sure the rest of that evening would be free of incidents. I scheduled a clearing for the next evening. Meanwhile, I asked Ellie to fill out my questionnaire about events or unusual activities in the home.

Ellie had been feeling increasingly uneasy in her home for the past few months. She had not been sleeping well, always waking at 2 or 3 a.m. and not sleeping soundly afterward. She stated “I can’t remember the last time I woke up feeling rested.” She said her radio would sometimes come on by itself in the middle of the night, and the TV would change channels on its own. Things had gone missing in her house, including adhesive non-slip decals on the bottom of her tub. There were additional examples of physical manifestation: “Last week my knitting bag was thrown off my shelf in my direction at around 3 a.m.” Ellie’s response to the last question (Is there anything you would like to add that has not been talked about?) made me very glad we had scheduled an immediate clearing: “I believe last night was meant to get our attention. I believe it was a desperate cry for help, and I fear what may happen to me if we cannot get this entity out of my house and out of myself.”

Upon arriving at Ellie’s home, I reviewed with them what my assistant and I were going to do. To start with, I placed a candle in the living room and asked Ellie and her roommate to watch the flame for any sudden movement or flickering. We all observed the flame burning straight up, indicating there were no drafts that would influence its movement. While clearing Ellie’s bedroom, the spirit made contact with me (I felt his name was Jack), screaming at me in anger. This went on for several minutes, until Jack left the room, heading into the living room. As Jack’s spirit moved into the living room, the two women reported that the candle flame began to move, and the temperature in the room dropped noticeably.

My next encounter occurred in the hallway, the same place Jack had made physical contact with Ellie the night before. My assistant saw red spots appearing on the back of my shirt. Jack was psychically stabbing me, manifesting his anger at me. I did not feel the stabs, because I had shielded myself as always. But his energy and anger came through to my assistant as these red color spots.

Moving into the living room, Jack stabbed at me again, and this time I felt it in my back, a small sting. I let Jack know it was time for him to leave. Opening the front door, I told him that his spirit family was around him and waiting to help him cross over. He became smaller than before, showing more of himself to me – a slight man wearing a red T-shirt and blue jeans. The sadness he had created in his life was moving toward him, and he realized he had much work ahead. But he had a feeling of hope too, as he considered moving on. In communicating with earth-bound spirits, I try to show compassion and support for them, and give them hope of release from the miserable place in which they are stuck.

I continued my clearing work through the rest of the house, and eliminated loop energy – imprints of past lives, fights and sadness. There was a good deal of positive energy in this home; it had just been masked by Jack’s negative energy. My impressions of Jack on this first clearing were that he was an entity consumed by the unresolved guilt and anger he created in his lifetime. Always in a pattern of blaming others for his misfortunes, he never became one with his spirit. Jack had negative feelings about women that led to spiritual and physical abuse on a major level. This abuse was now directed at Ellie, as the main occupant of a house filled with female energy.

My recommendations for Ellie after the first clearing included:

Two days later, I received this comment from Ellie: “Thank you so much John. The energy in the house has already shifted and become a lot more peaceful. Thank you again.”

I returned to Ellie’s home for the second clearing two weeks later. She had made progress with my suggestions, and Ellie and I both felt the home was much clearer. Although Jack was still occupying the home, his energy was much depleted and he seemed more willing to transition.

Our main goal in this clearing was to help Jack cross over or to at least get him to leave the house and realize that the attachment he had to this location no longer benefited him. I made contact with Jack with an open statement letting him know that his life here is over and that there is more for him to work through on the other side.

At this time, Jack’s energy was centered in Ellie’s bedroom. But I moved through the rest of the house with sage and with my spirit guides to clear any other energy so that I could keep track of Jack. I didn’t want to let him hide and avoid dealing with the transition he needed to make. As my assistant and I began to clear the roommate’s closet, my assistant noticed the zipper pull on a purse hanging there was moving, swaying back and forth. This went on long enough that we felt Jack had retreated to this unlikely spot to hide. Checking back awhile later, the zipper pull was no longer moving and the room felt clear.

In the hallway, the place of earlier aggressive acts by Jack, my assistant felt an energy stab in her left shoulder. We let Jack know we would not allow this to happen again.

Back in Gabrielle’s room, my assistant and I both felt Jack’s sadness. I could see him standing close to the window, crying with his hands over his face. It seemed that Jack had not only been an abuser, but had been abused himself in the past. This is an unfortunately typical pattern. With my encouragement, and with the help of my spirit guides, Jack now left the house. I started placing salt and holy water on the window sill to seal the house from unwanted energies. My assistant saw Jack looking in from outside, in a white t-shirt and blue shorts with long curly brown hair. I am unsure if he made his transition, but we knew he was no longer inside the home.

In addition to continuing with my earlier recommendations, I also advised Ellie to take control of her home; burn sage and tell energies to leave if you feel their unwanted presence. This is important for anyone who is dealing with unwanted earth-bound spirits.