Ghosts And Entities In Austin Texas

Ghosts And Entities In Austin Texas

Austin like many large cities has a history of ghosts and entities inhabiting various homes and buildings. Each town has its own uniqueness and ghosts are most often a subtle part of it.  Even a new land like America has many opportunities for ghosthunters and ghostbusters.

Ghosts not only live off the energies of the home and its residents but often there are connections to the land itself that the spirits thrive from. Some of the places in Austin that are more popular with ghosts would be the Clarksville area and around the University of Texas campus. These are the oldest neighborhoods in Austin. A general rule, where there is a past history there are ghosts. However, there is a more complicated reason why these are popular areas for spirits.

To begin with, we need to understand why people become ghosts and not move on. The biggest reason people stay on this plane of existence is fear, particularly fear of the afterlife. For many they have a strong belief (when they were human) that they would go to hell resulting in a strong fear of dying. Upon death, these new spirits could not find the forgiveness in themselves even when their angelic guides tried to direct them to move on.

If we consider how religious beliefs have changed in the last two hundred years it is easy to see why people were more likely to become a ghost back then. People were more likely to hang onto their former physical life as well as the neighborhood that they lived in. There were very few that had heard of the now popular belief ‘going to the light’ upon dying.

As a ghost remains on this dimensional plane they gradually lose their identity and most of their memory. This is why you have ghosts that have limited abilities such as their whole existence is guarding a house or repeating an action. In some ways these ghosts have created their own prison through the loss of their self. They do not know how to move on without help.

Some ghosts simply never realize that they are dead. They generally died in a fast, traumatizing event such as a car wreck. Or image an area such as a battlefield. How many souls still remain at Gettysburg? For some reason these spirits are unable or find it difficult to be guided out of this reality.

One of the special characteristics of Austin is it’s energy, there is a special feel to this city. Austin is a highly innovative and creative atmosphere. Some would say it is the people of the city that create this dynamic atmosphere, which is partially true. There is a deeper energy that nourishes the creative flair of the people. It all begins with the Balcones Fault line. This area has a buckling of plates underneath the layers of rock that allow more of the energy of the earth to come up through the land and integrate with the people. The Balcones Fault begins along the Interstate Highway 35 corridor and goes out west into the hill country. The buckling of the rock plates created the hills themselves. If we look at Austin itself, there appears to be more things happening west of I-35 than east. People follow the energy.

Through out the hill country there are places that have more energy from the earth flowing into it than others. Ghosts are sometimes attracted to these energies of the land using the tetonic source to fuel them.

The American Indians were aware of these power spots and they revered them. They were often their home ground, sacred spot or were the sites for conflicts. Occasionally when the Indians were either pushed out or exterminated they left a type of curse upon the land.

I have done some work in the South Austin area around the intersection of Oltorf and Congress which is influenced by some old curses of the American Indians. I have cleared many Indian spirits in that particular neighborhood but do not exactly understand the dynamics of that limitation.

Another aspect of clearing homes is the entities that live in a home or attach to people. Entities are different than ghosts. Entities are etheric beings that come from lower dimensional planes. Entities have never had a body before, they are etheric energies that live off other energies and beings. Like ghosts they are lost and have no inner direction.

When I do clearings on a home that is located near a hospital, school, mental hospital or similar institution there is a strong probability that there will be a high incidence of ghosts and entities. What these places have in common is a high degree of traumatizing experiences occurring within them and a high number of people moving through them. A home that is nearby a hospital, that has a ghost with a strong presence in it is likely to have attracted a large amount of entities from the institution. The ghost and entities conglomerate their energies to create a bigger power.

Often this is how poltergeist type of activities are created. A general rule for such strong spooks is there is always an energy source creating them.

An important part of any house clearing is the energies of the humans residing or who have previously lived at the home. Every home has this aspect to consider. If the home has never had ghost problems and suddenly does, it may be due to the people in the home who are unconsciously attracting them. If the personalities of the human residents are for example, extremely angry or have other personality disorders they may need more than entities removed before the ghost problem is resolved. Ghosts and entities are stimulated by negative energies of humans.

I once went into a home and immediately felt disoriented. The couple had recently moved into the home and never felt comfortable. As we investigated the history of the home it was uncovered that there had been a high amount of drug usage in the home. We did clearings to move the energies of drugs out and the home was immediately better.

Some places have a dominate energy to them such as the building on 38th street that was once the home for widows of confederate soldiers. There are a wide variety of ghosts and entities there. Not all of the spirits are confederate soldier’s widows. The widows began the cycle but the energies of sadness of the widows attracted more ghosts and entities. When I approach that building my body experiences grief even when I am happy. Ghosts can be a dominating emotional presence in a home.

Any town with a historical past like Austin has its ghosts. They add a local flavor to a place. Not all aspects of haunted houses are perceived as negative. A local lazar tag establishment told me about their resident ghost who would pull the cups out of the dispenser. They liked the unique charm of the spirit it as added to the flavor of the place.

I like to think that helping a ghost or an entity is a service to the spirit. They have lost perspective of who they are and why they exist. I help these limiting energies of ghost and entities move on whenever possible. It allows for one less limited conscious energy to leave to make room for us, the living to grow into something better.

It is a popular ideal that ghosts live in specific homes which is true but many ghost wander. In fact ghosts are attracted to specific people. For example someone who has the ability to be a medium may attract ghosts as the ghosts feel into the energy of that person and know of the talent. The human may not be aware of their own talent but senses the odd energy of spirits around them. Some psychically gifted pre-pubescent children have visitations by ghosts as the spirits wish to connect to the strong budding energy.