Kathy's Case Study

Kathy’s Words

I live alone in a 3 bedroom house with two dogs and three cats. The house was built in 1959 and has had two previous owners. The house has an amazing view, sits on park-like yard, and has fabulous mid-century modern architecture. The house was purchased from a woman whose husband, Bill, passed away in the house. The previous owner told me she was scared of staying in the house alone. At first I thought it was because of a burglary she had, but she told me the noises she heard at night scared her; although she said they were caused by rats in the attic. She was in an awful hurry to leave the house.

After a recent breakup, I found myself living alone, but I found a real peace in the house. Shortly after living alone, I noticed the house vibe and energy was changing. I found unwanted insects and animals in the house. I found two different instances of a garter snake in the house. Then shortly afterwards, I found a swarm of bees inside. After removing those animals, one of my cats (Doodle) started acting out. He started acting extremely aggressive toward the other cats and would spend all night stalking them and howling at them. His cat fights with them were aggressive (almost feral). I had to separate the cats in different rooms and even then they howled. One night I woke up to dog barking and cats howling and I went into a bedroom where two cats were hissing and their hair was raised. They were looking at a corner of the room and I realized they were staring at something I couldn’t see. I felt a presence in the room. Afterwards, I started noticing things going on like lights on, items moved, and sounds that I couldn’t account for. I heard weeping and growling. I’d awaken in the night and feel someone staring at me. One night I woke up and my heavy comforter was pulled up over the entire king size bed, and I didn’t do that.

After two weeks of this non-stop aggressive cat behavior and all night activities, I turned to John Chandler for help.

John’s First Clearing of Kathy’s Home

Kathy contacted me and described the strange occurrences in her home. I suggested she take the cat to the vet to make sure there wasn’t a health issue influencing his unusual behavior, and asked her to fill out a questionnaire about other activity in her home. Her responses confirmed what we had already discussed – unexplained noises, and the animal companions’ increasing anxiety, especially in the room with the Murphy bed. With this feedback I felt there was a good chance that an earth-bound spirit needed help moving on. We set a date for the first clearing.

As we reached Kathy’s house for the first clearing, my assistant Barb and I shielded ourselves with white light and asked for support from our spirit guides. We asked for this to be Kathy’s home and that all energies not there for her full benefit please move on.

We began with an energy-check of the property. As we walked down the front path and were next to the large boulder, both of us felt something. Barb felt sadness; for me it was an energy burden. Both of us felt our third chakras (dealing with self-identity and personal power) becoming more active. The energy we felt near the boulder was from the bedroom adjacent, with the Murphy bed, although we did not know this at the time. As we continued to the top of the property, the energy became calm and peaceful.

As we entered the house, the first thing we did was light a clearing candle. At the sliding glass door entry to the main living area we both felt draining energy. The energy field in this area seemed split on a diagonal, with the rest of the space feeling more clear. The cat Philippe came out to greet us and seemed like he wanted to communicate. Then Jazz came out, rubbed against the doorway and joined Philippe. Both cats were interested in who we were and what we were doing.

The energy seemed more open in the first room down the hall. Here Barb’s stomach starting making noises. I asked her if this happened often, and she said no, not at all. From my training, I know this is a sign of spirits being around you. Barb’s main focus was to send me energy to aid the clearing, but I asked her to make note of her feelings and any activity she may notice as well. Activity can seem minor – like her stomach sounds – but they do mean something to me.

We went into the bedroom on the left (with the Murphy bed). The energy here was heavy and intense; I knew this room would need a lot of work. As I moved further down the hall, the ringing in my ears became louder. This is another sign of spirit activity. (Remember that spirits are here to help us, ghosts are often lost and more self-serving.) I felt the presence of an outside energy. I told this energy to leave and move on with its growth; this is Kathy’s home. Barb told me later that as I was clearing this room, the hair on my head stood straight up. I asked for additional support from my spirit guides to help this soul move on. As with all other rooms, we burned sage to help the energy attach and move out with the smoke.

We then went to the first bathroom on the left. Barb was having a little trouble breathing. Her energy was being pulled from her. We took a break, and I balanced her chakras and cleared her energy field. I again encased her in white light for additional protection, as we did before we started the house clearing. She was fine in a few minutes and ready to go. Clearing this bathroom went faster than the other rooms and the energy seemed open.

The next room on the right (Doodle the cat’s room) had the best overall energy. We both felt this, the clearing went fast and gave us both more energy. Doodle and I talked for a moment and I told him things should be okay soon.

The next bathroom on the left had negative loop energy. Loop energy results from something that has happened and the energy from the event stays in the location, running in a loop like a video. It could have been heaviness from the former owner’s illness, or residual energy from arguments that might have taken place here. The shower area had most of this energy of pain and sadness, but it was just a loop and dissipated quickly when cleared.

The master bedroom had a lot of ghost activity. My ears were active, and Barb heard something – maybe whistling? As I heard the sound of water dripping, I wrote down “Tears” on my house map. Without seeing this, my assistant said she felt like crying. I asked for additional spirit support as I started clearing this room, which was full of activity. About five minutes into the clearing, Barb said she could see white light going into the top of my head, and then it turned pinkish. This was my aura receiving support energy from my spirit guides; pink is the energy color to which spirits and ghosts connect most. The room cleared well, and as with the others, sage was burned to collect the old energy and move it on.

As I burned sage in the upper back yard, I felt some fields of stuck energy, but not as heavy as I thought they would be. Now two hours into the clearing, I needed to stop; my aura was feeling week.

After this energy-check and initial clearing, I didn’t feel there was anything Kathy needed to fear, although the earth-bound spirits I detected had not been moved away yet. But I had dissipated a substantial amount of stuck/loop energy.

I provided Kathy with a list of actions she could take to keep her home clear of unwanted energy, and really make it her own:

After this preliminary clearing, Kathy emailed me: “I have to say everyone (me especially) slept soundly last night. I went to bed at 11:45 and woke up exactly at 6:45. I’m usually up at least twice a night.”

The Second Clearing

In the first clearing and energy check, I detected two earth-bound spirits in the home: one in the Murphy bedroom and the other in the Kathy’s master bedroom.

I had a different assistant for the second clearing, Dawn, so I met with her in advance to review the situation. Since we would be making direct contact with ghosts, we both wanted to make sure she was up to the task.

As we approached Kathy’s home, Dawn and I asked for blessings, support, protection and guidance from our spirit guides. I encased us both in white light. We would share whatever we felt, saw and sensed, as we have different but complementary psychic skills.

Kathy welcomed us into her home; it was about 10 pm. My immediate feeling was that it was much clearer in the front room than before. There was still a somewhat dense, smoky cobweb feeling, but the room seemed to belong more to Kathy than it had before. Her spirit seemed lighter, and those of her animal companions too as they came out to greet us. I lit a candle as a blessing to cleanse the home and burn away energy that was not beneficial to Kathy and her companions.

As Dawn and I started walking towards the main hallway leading to the other rooms, my ears immediately started to pick up more activity. I get a ringing sound that increases as I come closer to contact with spirits and ghosts.

The first room on our right was the clearest in the house during the first clearing, but it was the one that created an energy shift for me, and caused Barbara’s stomach to gurgle. Now as Dawn and I entered “Doodle’s room,” it felt very good, comfortable, at peace, even happy. But as we moved toward the door in the back of this room the energy became sad, fearful, lonely and upset. It was heavy and we both took note of this. We burned sage in Doodle’s room and moved to the first room on the left, the Murphy bedroom.

The Murphy room felt as intense as it did during the first visit. The air was very still, and there was a closed and bound feeling. With the presence of the large boulders outside the window, I felt it was part room and part rock, and I felt a lost soul taking refuge in this small part of a large house. My ears were on full ring at this point, and Dawn said her ears were starting to act up as well.

I walked around the room with my arm out, palm down, feeling for temperature change. In the far right corner of the room, on a chair, I felt a presence and temperature shift. As soon as I felt it, it moved around me like air sweeping away. I spun around to see where it went, and saw the face of a young woman low to the left of the Murphy bed, hiding in fear as I think she had been doing for some time. The spirit seemed lost, confused and troubled.

I said out loud that the ghost needed to move on and continue her existence in the next plane. I was firm that this was not her home, it belongs to Kathy. It is better not to be lost and fearful as an earth-bound spirit, but to move on and continuing growing as a being. I asked her spirit loved ones and guides to comfort her and help her not to fear this transition. We let her know she was making the right choice in going to the light, and waited for her guides to support her. We opened a window and saged and blessed the room, and let the smoke take the fear that had permeated this room out the window.

Dawn said the top of her head felt like it was being massaged by fingers. She feels this sometimes in energy events; it is similar to when my hair stood on end in the first clearing of this room. Now the room seemed much more open. I felt that this ghost had moved on with her spirit support group, but still had not walked into the light to complete her transition.

Kathy’s bedroom was our next stop and this is where we made contact with the main earth-bound spirit of the house. The previous owner, Bill, was waiting for us; he felt this was still his house and he had some unfinished business. His energy was strong in the room, and moved from the bed to the far right side of the room. Both Dawn and I felt and saw his energy and began to talk with him about his path. We explained that his interaction with the person that now lives in this house and her animal companions was a negative force to them. His anger may be warranted, but it should not be directed towards them; their time in this house should be comfortable and fulfilling.

We tried to help Bill see that by looking elsewhere he may find the answers he wanted. Time passed slowly, but we began to feel his energy soften, his anger subside, and there seemed hope that he might indeed move from this house. We asked his guides to help him find his way. We burned sage and opened windows so the energy could loft out on the air, into the canyon below.

The main bathroom still had the energy residue of Bill’s illness that we felt in the first clearing. This time I also had visions of him in the shower with his head resting against the wall and water pouring off his face. The sickness was thick and I could feel and see that he had known his body (the home of his spirit) was failing him, and his transition time was approaching. I worked for awhile clearing the area of this strong stuck energy. The imprint energy had a force of its own capable of changing a person’s mood if they were sensitive to it. I felt relief when this pain left the bathroom and crept away to join other energy, to renew itself.

As Dawn and I moved back to the front of the house we both felt drained from the work. Kathy mentioned to us that the further we went down the hall, the more she felt energy surging towards her in the living room area. Then, from the corner of her eye, Dawn noticed a man walking out the front door, without a word or a backward look. The earth-bound spirit felt it was time to leave for now. Dawn and I felt relief that our efforts and those of spirit guides with us helped him move from this house.

I suggested additional action items for Kathy:

Kathy was even more at ease in her home after the second clearing. “I’m still working on [John’s] suggestions, but I have had no paranormal experiences since his visit. It was a great blessing for me to make it through this experience and have his support through it all. If I had not had John’s help there’s no doubt I would have had to sell my beautiful house.”

Kathy and John’s negotiations with the ghost continued beyond this second clearing. A few months later, Bill returned to try to prevent the Murphy bed removal. This case study will continue in John’s upcoming book, “What’s Under Your Bed?”