Night Whispers

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Issue No. 3

February 2008 Issue

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    Winter time tends to bring about static electricity in most of us due to the dryness of indoor heating. There are also those people who cannot be allowed around computers as they can cause the computers to shut down or malfunction. Others must be careful about pumping gas as one spark from their fingers can cause incredible chaos and, possibly, death. Thankfully, most of us only have a small degree of static charge, but others are not as fortunate.
     The name given to the phenomenon that plagues these people is "high voltage syndrome". The people, themselves, are called "Electric People".
   One such girl was Caroline Clare, a 17 year old girl from London, Ontario. She became ill in 1877, dropping to a mere 90 pounds. Caroline had strange unexplainable seizures that would allow her to describe places far from Ontario that she'd never been to. Her illness lasted until she was 18-1/2 years old, but her nightmare did not end there.
     Caroline's illness was replaced with strong discharges of electricity causing her body to magnetize to the point that anything metal would stick to her body. Any metal object, including knives, would fly at her and stick, only being able to be removed by the efforts of another person.
     Another girl, Jennie Morgan from Sedalia, Missouri, suddenly came down with high voltage syndrome. It was 1890 and Jennie was also a teenager. Sparks would fly from her body, zapping objects as she passed them. Shaking someone's hand or having someone touch her was not desirable. People who attempted to do so ended up unconscious. Jennie was not born this way and no explanation could be found as to why she suddenly was highly charged.
     The phenomenon is not only one that happens to teens. An infant, born in 1869 in France, shot glowing rays from his fingers and badly shocked anyone who touched him. The poor little guy only survived nine months, but at his death, a type of luminous aura was seen to surround his body.
     Two other infants and a six year old boy also had high voltage syndrome. In 1882, the six year old boy gave off intense shocks to anyone and anything around him. One of the infants was charged enough to light up a jar just by touching it. The other infant could make any object that was brought to him vibrate and was always surrounded by a soft white aura visible to anyone who saw him.
     In February of 1976, a 12 year old boy named Vyvyan Jones from Henbury, Bristol broke his arm. For two days after his injury, his hair stood straight up on his head and he gave terrible electric shocks to anyone around him. The television and lights were affected by his high voltage syndrome, flickering constantly until he left the room. Watches were also affected. Vyvyan was able to hold a light bulb in his hand and it would immediately light up. His phenomenon only lasted two days, but was unexplainable.

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    A grown man, Frank McKinstry from Missouri, also suffered from high voltage syndrome. In his case, when he felt charged, he had to keep moving. If he stopped, he would become rooted to the spot he'd stopped at and could only be released if someone else physically helped him to lift his feet.
     As if all this isn't strange enough, in 1920, 34 prisoners became ill from botulism. The poison obviously made them ill, but it also caused them to become highly charged. The more severe the poisoning, the higher the charge. Once they were completely recovered, they were completely back to normal.
     The photo you see above was found at a flea market in Bentonsport, Iowa. The Night Watchman and I always go through photos at flea markets and antique stores as we've found some strange anomalies in a number of old photos.
     As you can see from this photo, the two children seem to be exchanging an amazing static charge between them which was caught on film. Neither child seems to be aware of the exchange.
     Though some scientists believe high voltage syndrome is caused by poltergeist activity, no solid explanation has been discovered as yet.
    

     Our son, Peter, first saw the light of day at 6.50 am on 25^th October, 1962. He was born at St. Andrews in Scotland, weighing in at 8 pounds 2½ ounces which was amazing as he was not due for another nine days. After bathing him, the nurses pushed his hair up into a quiff and he had a rather splendid DA at the back.

     As he grew older, Peter developed a love of music of the 1950s and early 60s. His idols being Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly amongst others. His hair is unfortunately like mine, straight and fine, so he used to have to gel it, getting the nickname by his school and friends of Buddy. With his dark framed specs which he needed for shortsightedness he certainly did look like him. He remarked once that he was rather envious of me being born in the 40s as he felt he had been born out of time, but  I explained we can’t know when we come down as who knows what we allot for in Spirit.
One night he was upstairs getting ready for a Rock n Roll ‘Gig’, as it's known by that fraternity, when the doorbell went. I just burst out laughing because there, standing on the step, was Paul, a friend of Peter, who during the day was the epitome of office dress sense, him being a trainee accountant down in Grimsby. There stood a very different Paul who I hardly recognized. TeddyBoy Drape Coat, bootlace tie, drainpipe trousers, quaffed hair, glasses and to finish of, this marvelous leopard skin coated ensemble, was an enormous pair of what we call ‘creepers’.

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