Mike shared his personal  experiences of the paranormal and the Afterlife with Heather and the listeners.  The show was so  well liked, the show was replayed on Dec 15th.

Click here to access –> ” Midnight in the Desert ” Website

Mike Sears- Thank you again Heather Wade and the staff  of Midnight in the Desert for having me as a guest. Heather was an amazing host. It was a honor and pleasure to be on the show sharing my personal experiences and being able to talk to the listeners who called in.

Christmas Spirit

Written by:Mike Sears

Personal experience that happened in 1994.

In 1994 Mike and his mother received one of the greatest Christmas gifts one could receive. Contact from a love one. Mike’s father passed away in June and he had shared that amazing experience on an earlier blog posting.(Crossing Over)

This was to be the first Christmas without my father. My father celebrated Christmas real big. His gift to the family was to make a huge gourmet Christmas dinner. Each year my dad’s dinner had its own theme or specialty dish that he had learned when stationed in various countries while serving in the army.  His favorite dishes were from Asia, especially from Japan. He would buy the highest quality when it came to ingredients for the meal. He would save up all year to make this one day very special for the family. He might not have been a certified gourmet chef, but to us and friends he should been.

I wanted to make this Christmas special for my mom since it was our first Christmas without my dad. I planned to make a nice gourmet dinner like my dad did and to decorate the house big for the holidays inside and out. I got up early in the morning and had my list of items to buy and locations mapped out that I needed to go to. I left not knowing what was going to happen that day.

I was shopping in this department store and I was half way done with my list of items to gather for Christmas. I wanted something that would WOW my mom when she saw the gift. I entered into this store and saw an Angel standing just over four feet tall. The angel I thought was beautifully done visually with an elegant gown, great detail to the face and large wings opened on her back.  I felt drawn towards the figure and said to myself, “This is what I’m looking for. This is the WOW that will make her Christmas.” After my dad’s death my mother started to collect angel figurines and I knew she would love this angel added to her collection.

I walked to my car with the angel and started to put it in the vehicle. Unlocking the car I suddenly smell this strong odor of cigar smoke in the air. My first thought that someone is pretty rude to blow their smoke so close to someone. I look around and see no one around smoking a cigar or any form of tobacco. I shrug it off and continue to put the angel in the car. The cigar smell gets stronger and then I hear my dad’s voice say, “Mike! You need to go to Tokyo Market now!” At first I thought I imagined this and thought I must be thinking its dad because he used to smoke cigars. I get into the car and check my list and plan for the next location to shop at. Then the cigar smell was in my car, very strong. (I never allow anyone to smoke in my car) I started to tingle all over and then heard my dad’s voice again in my head “Mike! You need to go to Tokyo Market now!” For some reason I responded out loud, “Dad, if this is you, I have Tokyo Market on my list to go too.”  I then hear him again in my head, “You need to go NOW! Right now!”  I’m thinking this is can’t be happening, I was caught off guard and not expecting to argue with my dad about a place to shop at. I start to drive to the next location and I hear his voice again. “Mike, you need to go now! It’s a Christmas gift for you and your mother there.” Hearing this I start to fight back the tears.  I reply back out loud in my car. “Dad, I’m going there now.”

The cigar smell disappears and I no longer hear my dad talking to me. I drive to the other side of town to reach the Tokyo Market (Tokyo Market is a store that specializes in imported gourmet food from Japan) I arrive at the store not knowing what I’m supposed to be looking for.  As I walk towards the store door the smell of cigar smoke returns. Entering inside the store I’m drawn to an item on the front store display. As I go to look at the item, I hear my dad’s voice again. “Don’t look at that! Go to the left of the store and go to the last cabinet and look inside! There you will see yours and your mother’s Christmas gift.” I walk to the last cabinet and look inside the cabinet of products. Then my eyes are drawn to this one item. It was an item my dad wanted the store to order for him. An item that he tried for five years to get and the store wasn’t able to find or import from Japan. They had finally got it. I grabbed every package of the item to purchase and head to the register to cash out. The cashier is surprised to see that I have this entire item they have for sale. She then says to me, “You’re not buying all of these are you? We had a customer who has requested this for over five years and we have lost his phone number. We are hoping he come in and get this. Can you leave a couple of these just in case he returns?” I asked, “Can you describe this man for me?”  After the cashier describes my dad perfectly, I reach for my wallet and show her a photo of my dad. “Is this him?” I asked. She replied, “Yes.”  I explained to her that he had passed away during the summer and I was his son. She then said, “I guess it was meant to be for you to come in here and buy this.” I didn’t share with her what brought me there; I thanked her and wished her a Merry Christmas. Leaving the store I smell the cigar and hear my dad’s voice for the last time saying, “Merry Christmas!”

I stopped any further shopping and decided to drive straight home. I needed to share what just happened with my mom. When I got home I decided to give my mom her Christmas gifts. I told her she needed to sit down and prepare to hear how these gifts had come to be.  I had her close her eyes and then proceeded in the room with the four foot tall angel. She opened her eyes to see this elegant angel and became overwhelmed with happiness. I then told her, “I have one more gift for you and it’s in this bag. First though I need to tell you how I got this item in this bag.” I shared my experience and then handed her the bag to open. Saying to her, “Merry Christmas, from dad.”  She gave me a big hug and we both cried with tears of happiness.

Christmas of 1994 is a Christmas my Mom and I will never forget.

Mike’s Father cutting down a fresh
Christmas Tree

Center of the Arts Presents:

Paranormal After Hours Event

 

“Spirit Communications”

 

Mike Sears

Mike is the Director of Volunteer State Paranormal Research and has been investigating the paranormal for just over 8 years. Having investigated over 200 investigations to his credit, Mike has investigated some well-known haunted locations like Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, Sloss Furnace in Birmingham, Alabama, Rippavilla Plantation in Spring Hill, Tennessee, Octagon Hall, Franklin, KY, and many other locations in Tennessee.

In 2009, Mike was nominated by the International Paranormal
Acknowledgement Awards for National Male Paranormal Investigator and Best in Spirit Photography. Mike was awarded for Best in Spirit Photography by the International Paranormal Acknowledgement Awards.

Mike has been a guest on various paranormal internet radio shows, made appearances on Television shows “America’s Most Terrifying Places” on the TRAVEL CHANNEL, CAFEMOM.COM “I’ll take that Dare!”  featuring Octagon Hall. He was also featured on “Tennessee Crossroads,” a PBS show featuring Tennesseans and Tennessee places. For the “Tennessee Crossroads” segment, Mike and the VSPR team were the first to investigate the Rippavilla Plantation in Spring Hill and aired Oct 2011.

Mike has also been a featured speaker at numerous events in Middle Tennessee. and his paranormal experiences  were published in several magazines : VISIONS Magazine  Issue #3 ,#5 ,#8 and also Un-X NEWS Magazine.

 

COST OF TICKETS

Lecture “Spirit Communications” is $15.00 each

 Investigation is $50.00 each (includes Lecture) {Limited to 20 tickets for Investigation} { Must be 18 years of age or older to attend the investigation}.

{There are no refunds for this event unless it is cancelled. Event will happen Rain or Shine.}

 

Tickets can be purchased at:

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Or at 

Center of the Arts, (google map also)

705 Lion Parkway

Columbia, TN 38402

Hotline for info at 931-548-6560

Also can RSVP on the Facebook Event Page – Facebook Event

Event is brought to you by Center of the Arts

Many thanks to Susan Manning for putting this event together.

By Mike Sears

When Mike, the director of  Volunteer State Paranormal Research,  is called for an investigation or meets people he is often asked,  ” So how did you get into this paranormal investigating and do you believe in life after death? ” He tells them about the two most amazing experiences he had involving the paranormal in 1994.

This is the first experience, which occurred June 20th 1994. 

Dad – Jim Sears

   The near death experience I was able to witness was my Father’s passing in 1994. My Father had been battling cancer and was losing his battle in June of 1994. His last few months of life my Mom had called in Hospice care, so my father could pass away at home with family. He was not a big fan of hospitals and we respected his wishes. Before his first passing he was in a coma for just little over three days. Hospice would come and help every other day, unless we requested to have them to be there. On the 3rd day of his coma the Hospice nurse said his temperature had risen greatly and she felt he was very near to passing away. Hospice wasn’t due to come over the next day to help, but the nurse said if he passed away that night or we needed  any help at all that we should feel free to call them.

   I had been working long hours and plus helping my mom look over my dad. I was exhausted and told my mom I was heading to bed, and if she needed me or if my dad passed away that night, to please come wake me and let me know. Later that night, sometime after three a.m. in the morning, my dad had passed away. My Mom was at his side and heard his last breath. She stayed at his side for some time grieving and then left his side to go wake me to let me know he had passed away. Before she could leave the room, my father sat up in the bed and asked her to come back to the bed to talk to her. She was in shock to hear his voice since he had been in a coma for several days, and for over a week prior he could not speak at all. She turned around to see him sitting straight up in the bed, full of color and looking healthy. She went over and sat next to him. He began to speak and said to her, “I could not leave you and Mike without making sure that you will be OK.”, and then told her .that he had asked them to allow him to come back and tell us this. During this time my mom said she felt a presence in the room with her. My dad started talking to family members and friends he knew who had passed away years ago, then relaying their messages to my mom. One of the most interesting talks he had was with his first wife. She had passed away back in the early 1960’s of cancer and she was from Japan where they had met when he was stationed there serving in the Army. My dad started speaking fluent Japanese and then translated back to my mom what his first wife was telling him. She told my dad to tell my mom this message, she said “I just want to thank you for taking care of him on this side” and that “he will be ok and I will be taking care of him on the other side.” My dad talked to my mom, back and forth to past love ones for several hours.

My Mom came into my bedroom later that morning and woke me up to tell me that my dad wanted to talk to me. Being half asleep I was surprised to hear this and said, “What? “ “He wants to talk to me? “ I had gone to bed and he was in a coma and was very close to death. I got up and walked out my room and started to walk to our living room where Hospice had placed a medical bed, my mom stopped me and told me I need to go to my parents’ bedroom and that I will be very surprised for what I was about to witness.

I started to walk to their bedroom and I heard my dad calling for me. I was in shock hearing his voice so clear. I entered the bedroom to find my dad looking healthy and laying in his bed freshly cleaned from a shower he had took that morning and was dressed in a clean shirt and shorts. I was in shock and wasn’t sure what to say or think of it. He had asked me to sit next to him on the bed and he wanted to talk to me. My dad started to tell me that he was worried about me and wanted me to know that he will be ok and that I need to go on with my life and not dwell on his death. I was speechless at first and then said to my dad. “Dad you have had it rough, it’s not been easy for you” (my dad served 22 years in the Army and had bad health since his return from Vietnam) His reply to my comment was a huge surprise for me to hear.

His reply “Mike I haven’t had it that rough, you know who has had it rough? Jesus has.” I was in shock to hear this from my dad. My dad was not religious at all. He never attended church the whole time I knew him and the only time I heard Jesus come from his mouth it was used in a form of cursing. My dad then asked if there was anything I wanted to know. I was just in shock of the whole moment and I was left pretty much speechless. (Today I have tons of questions and wish I wasn’t so much in shock when this happen) We then talked for about 30 minutes and then he said “I guess if you’re done talking to me and I have nothing else to tell you both, then I’m ready to go back.” My Mom and I were not sure what to do, and My Mom said, “Maybe you have to go to sleep and they can take you back”.

 So my Dad decided to go back to sleep and we gave hugs and farewells just in case he didn’t re-awake. After he went to sleep my Mom and I went to the living room and she told me all that happen that night. We talked for several hours until we heard my dad call out asking if anyone was there. We got up and ran in to the bedroom to check in on him and he was surprised to find us there. He asked “Why are you two here with me? Have I crossed over?” With a hint of disappointment in his voice. We told him he is still here with us and that maybe that they are giving him an extra day with us. He then asked us “What should we do? “ Then he suggested he was very hungry and wanted me to make a meal for him. My mom mentioned making him soup or a smoothie since he hadn’t had a solid meal in almost a month.  He suggested I go rent some movies and find something special that he could eat, make him a nice meal and we could spend the rest of the day talking and relaxing together.
I went out and rented some comedies and found some fresh crayfish at the market(one of his favorite dishes,.) red potatoes, corn on the cob and a six pack of beer and head back home, not knowing if he will be there waiting for my return.

I got home and he was very pleased to hear what I had got for us to eat. Now this is a person who was eating through a straw for several weeks before he was in a coma. I cooked up the meal and we even shared a beer together. We watched movies in his bedroom and shared family experiences for the rest of the day till it was pass midnight. He started to get very tired and he wanted to go to bed. Before we all went to bed, he gave us a hug and told us he loved us and not to worry about him if he didn’t reawaken in the morning. He also said he would give us signs after his passing to let us know he is ok.

The next morning we got up and found him back into a coma. Hospice came over that morning and was shocked to find him out of his hospice bed and in his own bed. They wouldn’t believe us when we told them that he had gotten out of his hospice bed on his own and that he walked to his own bed. Hospice being upset with my Mom and I  asked us to stay out of their way and allow them to return him to the hospice bed. . My dad was back in a coma for 3 more days and then he passed away in the afternoon on June 23rd 1994; a day after his Birthday.

A week after his death, every day for five days we had a red cardinal show up on the time he had passed away and peck at the window. On the 5th day, we finally realized that this had been happening every day that week and it was the same time frame in which my dad had passed away. Once we said this, the cardinal never returned to the window. Later that year Mike and his mom had two avocados, two pine apples and two big honeydew oranges on plants that Mike’s dad had planted on their property. All three of these plants never produced fruit when Mike’s dad was alive and his dad was disappointed that he never was able to have any fruit from them since he planted them. Mike and his Mom believed these had to be the signs to let them know he was OK, to have three plants to produce only two fruits on each that year only.

This experience was a huge eye opener to Mike and his mom; the experience gave them a whole new outlook on life and has made life less stressful for them.  Since then Mike and his mom have shared this experience with others and the experience has made Mike seek for more answers about the afterlife.

When Mike does his guest speaking at events and group functions he shares this experience and gives more detail what happened that day and  also other amazing experiences his dad had during the month of June.

Art of Charles Santoso
Title: Goodbye & Welcome
Medium: Pencil & Digital

Written By-Mike Sears

GHOST- REAL OR NOT??

What is a ghost?  Definition of the term “Ghost” is the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.

Why is it hard for some to grasp and not believe that ghosts are real? For others they are to be very real and they do not need convincing that they are.

To me a “Skeptic”- is a person who hasn’t had that personal experience yet; a personal encounter with the nonliving.

A poll from CBS News in 2009 pollsters they have seen a real-life ghost in some form. And whether or not they’ve seen one, even more Americans believe that ghosts actually do exist. Nearly half of Americans say they believe in ghosts, or that the dead can return in certain places and situations.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS?

Yes
48%
No
45%

Women are more likely to say they believe in ghosts than are men: 56 percent of women believe, while 38 percent of men do. More than half of younger Americans aged 18 to 45 believe in ghosts; those over 45 are less likely.
More than one in five Americans says they have seen a ghost themselves, or have felt themselves to be in the presence of one. [1]

Ghost have been seen and reported since man could record it.

For example, Spirits/Ghost are even mentioned in the bible, The word “Ghost” is only used in the Bible a handful of times in the following passages: Is. 29:14; Matt. 14:26; Mark 6:49; and Luke 24:37-39.

Luke 24:37-39  one of my favorites that I like sharing : The disciples believed they were seeing a ghost rather than Jesus. 37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

There is the strange tale from rural West Virginia in the county of Greenbrier; it is not only a part of supernatural history, but of the history of the American judicial system as well. It remains a one of a kind event… The only case in which the word of a ghost helped to solve a crime and convict a murderer! If the legal system accepts and believes it, then doesn’t this show Ghost must be real? The State has even placed a historical marker located in the Greenbrier County to mark and remember this amazing event in History.

The use of Mediums and Psychics has often helped solve crimes. They are supposed to be able to make contact with the spirit world. If spirits/ghost are not real, why would the police and government agencies continue to pay or ask for these Medium/psychic services to contact spirits? A great link on info about the use of Psychics and Mediums for crime solving.

There are many reports of people saying they were saved by a ghost. An apparition would appear to tell them to not enter or go towards a certain location. Later to find out if they did continue they would have been severely hurt or killed.  Also people had been contacted by an apparition to tell them something specific about a person or item. They would later try to thank this person and to find out that the person who they described had passed away hours to even many years prior.

I met a couple who shared this type of experience with me. They were visiting back to a house they once owned few years ago and once belong to several generations in their family. They wanted to visit the family graves that were on the property and see any changes to the old home. When they arrived at their old family home they noticed there were no grave markers on the property. A new house had been built next to their old house and a new large driveway was put in that went between the two houses. They asked the new owner, “Where was the grave markers, where had they gone?” The new owner knew nothing of the markers. She had purchased the house a few months prior and was told it was a prior rental home when she bought it. The couple explained that to the new house owner that there used to be 3 graves on the property. The new owner then asked “Were they children?” She then said, “I’m not sure if you believe in ghost? But just a few weeks ago, I was hanging my clothes outside on the clothes line. I was startled when an older woman walked up and took me by surprise. She asked me “Have you seen my 3 children?”  The lady replied “No mam, I haven’t. I would be happy to help you look for them though. Just let me clip this sheet to the line and I will help you look.”

The lady hung up the sheet and then stepped away from the clothes line to see that the old woman had vanished. She then told this couple that the old lady was not able to walk away that fast and could not figure where she had gone to. The couple asked her, “What did she look like?”

She described the older woman about 5 feet and 4 inches tall, wearing a vintage black dress with tiny wire frame glasses. Her gray hair tied up in a tight bun.  The couple was surprised of the description; the gentleman then told her that sounded like his grandmother. She had lost 3 children from sickness during her time living in that house.

The graves on the property were of 3 children who had passed away. This information startled the new owner and said “I would hope they are ok, that they had been moved.”

The couple left and told the new owner they would be back. When they returned the couple showed her a photo of the husband’s grandmother who had passed away over 20 plus years ago. The photo matched what the woman had seen and met. This  startled  and amazed her it was the same woman. The couple then asked if they could check the land with a steal rod they had brought back with them. They wanted to poke the ground and see if they could find the head stones, just in case they might have been buried. The new owner had no problem and was happy to help. It didn’t take long till they struck hard rock in the new gravel drive way. There under the gravel not far  down and apart was 3 head stones ; each having the children’s names on them. The prior owners had bulldozed them over during the construction of the new drive way and house next door.  The couple later on took the stones and children to a nearby cemetery to be with other family members. Was it possible the mother was not at rest till she was back with her children? Her spirit had come back to ask the living for help to find them? There are so many personal experiences like this worldwide, where a Spirit/Ghost asking for help.

Those who have claimed to have seen a “Ghost”, come from all types of life styles, from the poor to the rich and famous. From the uneducated to the every educated. All can describe their experience in great detail and be able to share their experience over and over through time without change to their story. Why is this?  If it is a figment of their imagination, wouldn’t their stories change with different details?? If ghost aren’t real, why have millions come forward saying they have seen or made contact with one?

For those of us who research and experience the paranormal, debating with skeptics can be frustrating. Maybe experiencing this with skeptics is what it must have been like for those who first believed the World was round. I personally have taken skeptics on investigations and later left with a believer or having them with a more open mind to the supernatural.

For those who have seen and experienced a “Ghost” no longer need to be convinced if they are real or not. For those who don’t believe, they will have to wait till their time comes to experience one.