Category: Cannon Shots

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how the pieces fit in life. How the bad leads to good, and just as the good can lead to bad. As I was pondering this began to compare that thought to my life/journey down the paranormal.  I look back when I started “hunting ghosts” with friends at Urban Legend locations, the fear and excitement of it all…. The path began long before those moments, but with out those moments i’m not here today sitting here telling you this.  Without those moments I’d never investigated Gettysburg or met one of my best friends (Miss Information my friend and thankfully someone who keeps me on the right path, which is a challenge she needs to be given credit for that!) Being asked to be in a DVD after only having a handful of investigations under our belts and the location was the first official place we investigated as a group was.  I’ve thought about the students at Delval College whom I spoke to 2 years running, is a experience that i’ll never forget or imagine i’d be doing. I’ve probably said all that all before, but it needs repeating – if not for the paranormal i’d not the person I am today which is better then the one who started this journey. I have the guts to admit that and by no means am I a king or know it all paranormal wise. We all learn everyday in the para field or hobby, but some of us don’t want to – that is a problem.

And as such i’m calling out and on every single paranormal group or organization or celebrity or fan or whatever in this field/hobby and to say this:  “I am not always right, nor am I always wrong. I am human being with ideas, thoughts, believes and joy who does things my own way.  And that’s OK  ” I’m so tired of people fighting over what amounts to nothing positive in the long run, yes I’ve been guilty of that it happens, but lets be honest it doesn’t have to.  To me the first step of many these different views on paranormal is to get them in the same room so to speak….  So lets gather and mingle a little… give it a try… who knows you may actually like the people you disagree with. Debates do not need to be personal, just thought provoking.  Checking the ego’s at the door and we all win…

Peace,

John C. Fowler

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Something I see happening alot lately in the para community is calling out trouble makers, liars, frauds, etc. Which I agree we need to step up to these people, but I also see a few who are going to far and are making leaps into what “is or isn’t” happening out there….. what I mean by that is they let their good intentions go unchecked and when guilt by association starts to kicks in…. it is taken to far.

We all know what’s right and wrong in the field we see it everyday…. how many of us step up and try to fix it? How many of us use the evidence we see to judge people not what we told? If we aren’t careful it will turn into a witch hunt… do we really want to be known for that time frame in the para world? So basically check your facts, check them again, then make sure your level headed… we all let the emotions get the best of us from time to time…  Stand up for whats right and true, not what is “thought” to be true…

Peace,

John C. Fowler

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I think a change of pace is needed. So this is a quick throw out to the paranormal episodes of shows that really weren’t thought of as having paranormal episodes 🙂 First we have:

• GI JOE: A Real American Hero; Season 1, Episode 18 “The Phantom Brigade” (1985) – Cobra Commander and the Baroness hire a Gypsy to summon three ghosts; a Centurion warrior, a Mongolian Amazon, and a World War I American pilot ace, to destroy G.I. Joe. The Baroness informs the Joes to locate a Roman coin, a wedding ring, and heart-shaped locket from Cobra Commander, and then bury the items to make the ghosts disappear.
  
• GI JOE: A Real American Hero; Season 2, Episode 35 “Excalibur” (1985) – G.I. Joe sets up a radar tracking station in England. While Storm Shadow finds King Arthur’s legendary sword Excalibur at the bottom of a lake and uses its strength to attack the Joes and destroy their station.
• GI JOE: A Real American Hero; Season 1, Episode 22 “G.I. Joe and the Golden Fleece” (1986) – Joes and Cobras race to capture a golden coil dropped from a UFO, and the device sends them back in time to ancient Greece, where they are mistaken for deities.
• GI JOE: Season 2, Episode 28 “El Dorado: The Lost City of Gold” (1991) – Grunt discovers the Lost City of Gold, will Cobra soon follow?

Yup GI JOE the animated series had more than a few episodes that dealt with paranormal… I bet you didn’t exactly remember that growing up watching it, did you?

• X-Files; Season 2, Episode 11 “Excelsis Dei” (1994) -Mulder and Scully’s latest case begins with the rape and battery of a nurse in a Massachusetts convalescent home. What makes it an X-File is her claim that her attacker was invisible. But upon their arrival, they discover that the unrest is not limited only to the live in residents. 

• X-Files; Season 2, Episode 23 “Soft Light” (1995) – An ex-student of Scully’s asks the agents to help her with her first investigation concerning a number of disappearances with very few clues. Mulder ponders the idea of spontaneous human combustion but rethinks it when they find a man who is afraid of his own shadow. The man is Dr. Banton, a scientist researching dark matter.
• X-Files; Season 5, Episode 12 “Bad Blood” (1998) – While investigating bizarre exsanguinations in Texas, Mulder kills a teenage boy whom he “mistakes” for a vampire. Awaiting a meeting with Skinner, Mulder and Scully attempt to get their stories “straight” by relating to each other their differing versions of what happened during their investigation.
• X-Files; Season 6, Episode 3 “Triangle” (1998) – Mulder goes in search of a ship that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in 1939. But when he gets on board, Mulder finds that he—and all the passengers and crew (as well as some strangely familiar ones)—are still stuck in the past.
• X-Files; Season 6, Episode 6 “How the Ghosts Stole Christmas” (1998) – On Christmas Eve, Mulder convinces Scully to put aside her gift wrapping and stake out a reputed haunted house. But they discover a pair of lovelorn spectres living inside the house who are determined to prove how lonely the holidays can be.

X-Files is paranormal you say? True, but so many focus on the UFO (which is paranormal too) that i’d figure remind some of the other side of the coin that the X-Files so proudly showed from time to time…

• SeaQuest DSV; Season 1, Episode 8 “Knight of Shadows” – When Bridger is hurled across his quarters by an unknown force, it leads the seaQuest to find a hundred-year-old sunken ship where the spirits of those who perished there haunt its ancient hull, one of which possesses Dr. Westphalen.

SeaQuest DSV followed in a long line of, sadly not not seen anymore, true “Halloween” episodes from network shows, that strayed from the concept to give a nod to the time of year it aired.

• The Boogieman, “Quantum Leap”: (One of the best “Quantum Leap” episodes) Sam leaps into Joshua Ray, a horror novelist, on October 31, 1964. As he leaps in, strange things start to happen. And it gets worse and worse… until something unexpected happens. Also, Sam’s stories help inspire a boy named Stevie, who has a car named Christine and a dog named Cujo.

Quantum Leap had many interesting moments, but this one fit Halloween Perfectly! Have we missed anything let us know?!

Peace,

John C. Fowler

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