Episode 3: New Restaurant

Hello, and welcome to My True Ghost Stories, where each story is a chapter from my own journey as a spiritual medium.

I'm Jennifer, and I specialize in helping trapped spirits to cross over.

I clear haunted houses, bring closure to those left behind, and I craft custom rituals that help both the living and the departed.

In this podcast, I share my true ghost stories, exploring those moments of connection between this side and the other side.

So join me as I explore these experiences one true tale at a time.

Welcome to episode three of My True Ghost Stories.

I have three tales for you today.

The first is about clearing a spooky lingering energy in a restaurant that was nearing its grand opening.

The second is about a weird and formative paranormal experience I had as a 10 year old.

And the third is the first of many stories that take place in a church in my neighborhood.

And let's begin.

Speaker: The name of this story is New Restaurant.

I was contacted by a restaurant owner who was opening a new restaurant in her neighborhood and she needed me to address a negative yucky energy that was inside and she was planning to open this restaurant in two weeks.

This location had already housed a few restaurants that had not lasted long, and she was doing everything here that she could to succeed.

I met her there to assess the situation and make a plan.

The outside of the restaurant looked great, and the interior was absolutely beautiful.

It was structurally sound, and she had made incredible cosmetic improvements, better lighting, new paint, new chairs and tables, artwork, and it had, from the appearance, what you would think would be a relaxing, serene vibe.

However, there was a heavy negative energy.

Just hanging in the air, like a bad smell or a high pitched ringing sound, and it made you want to get out of there.

Obviously, this is not in the recipe for a successful restaurant business.

We have to get this out of here, the restaurant owner said to me.

Yes, we do, I replied.

And I knew that I could do it because this is what I do.

Right there, I took some time, I sat in the center of the space, I walked around, and I was looking for the source of the negative yucky energy.

And I eventually found the primary source.

In the kitchen, hunched over the center island was a man.

I could tell that he was wearing a tan Carhartt winter coat and he had dark hair and his face was in his hands.

And the sadness coming from this spirit was overwhelming.

Tears came to my eyes immediately upon finding him.

And there is something a little different about this spirit from what I've seen before.

Now, although his image was there and his sadness was there, he wasn't moving or talking to me.

It was just an image and the sadness.

So right there in the restaurant, I communicated with my guides and I got the message that this spirit is what I will call partially ascended, leaving behind his sadness and this pain of his need to join him on the other side.

So that he could get the help he needs.

So far in my journey as a spiritual medium, I have only received glimpses of the other side.

And from what I can tell, it seems that over there, there is help and progress and levels and more and more peace.

So I only know a little.

But it's definitely a positive place where I think one continues to evolve.

The restaurant owner and I made a plan for me to come back in a few days to perform a crossing over ceremony and a subsequent energy clearing.

I went home and began preparing these two rituals.

Part of the preparation is a meditation where I get instructions from my guides and the spirit's guides about what the ritual needs to include.

Sometimes I will get communication from the spirit themself about what they need, but this did not happen in this case.

And as I described earlier, this spirit was not moving or talking and seemed to be like a shell, or only partially there.

The initial guidance I had gotten from my guides while still at the restaurant was that the spirit was only partially ascended.

So what I would be doing would be sending the rest.

I believe this is so he could be whole, move to his next level, and receive the help he needed.

That was the first part of the ritual, and this part I would do alone.

The second part would be a full restaurant energy clearing using all my tools.

Candles, prayers, smudge, my wand, some ritual dance y type stuff, a spray bottle with a special spiritual concoction in it, and more.

This part I would do together with the restaurant owner.

And these plans are what came from my preparatory meditation.

I arrived at our designated time and the owner met me there.

I began my setup as she asked the guys who were working on setting up the kitchen to take the morning off so that we could have the restaurant clear for this work.

And she told them what we were doing.

And the guys were complete believers.

They understood without question, but they did want to ask if I had a special tool that I was going to use and could they see it.

So I happily showed them my wand, which was made for me by a craftswoman who was, uses symbolic stones in her work.

So I've included a link to her information.

They asked me a few questions and then happily left for the morning and I got started.

I did the crossing over ceremony alone and it went well and I was able to send this partial spirit to the other side.

So I don't know exactly what happens after they cross, but you could feel the difference in that kitchen immediately.

And then I closed up the portal, which is important to do because all sorts of ghosts will come back down through it if you don't.

And then I did some concluding prayers to my guides and his guides.

Then came time to clear the restaurant of all the lingering negative energy and it was there.

In fact, the restaurant owner told me she had been talking to people in the neighborhood and they were saying that they hadn't liked going to the previous restaurants that had occupied the space because of a bad energy that they couldn't quite define so this had been going on for a while.

I put a protective shield around her and around me so that no negative energy would attach to us and we began cleaning the space using all my tools, ritual movements, and the instructions given to me by my guides.

And it took about an hour to do the whole restaurant and the entire basement.

I decided to do a little research on lingering energy and, I found an article entitled, The Science of Bad Vibes.

Can some places really hold on to negative energy?

And it's from the science section of the Popular Mechanics website.

And this article says, Our habitat may not be as neutral as we perceive it to be.

explaining the goosebumps and sick to your stomach feeling you may experience in haunted houses or sites where violence took place.

There are three predominant theories for this phenomenon.

The presence of emotional residue, or leftover evidence of past emotions that are still lurking around, Geopathic stress emanating from Earth itself.

and the power of our mind's own expectations.

It's possible that this restaurant is built on some geological fault or that people were experiencing bad vibes because they were expecting them because of all the failed restaurants that had occupied this space.

But to me, a medium, it seems obvious that it was the phenomenon of emotional residue that was causing most of the negative energy.

From whatever went on there before, and from this departed spirit whose residue was for some reason in the kitchen.

The article goes on to say, Emotions have the potential to infect or brighten their physical surroundings, even after their source has physically moved to a new location, according to the emotional residue phenomenon.

A professor of environmental science and public policy at Northeastern University tells Popular Mechanics, While I don't know of any Western science that demonstrates the influence of any energy signature, which is the unique vibration of an object, person, system, or organism, I definitely believe that there is still lots to learn about how humans are influenced by our environments.

And I agree.

And back to our story.

After I finished clearing the space, I was, as I always am, physically and mentally exhausted.

, and I have learned from experience that I cannot chit chat after a job.

All I can do is recap what we did, drink some water, and give instructions on maintenance, and then I gotta go.

So she and I sat and did this.

It takes about 15 minutes and I went on my way.

About two weeks later, maybe a little bit more, I got a text from her with lots of happy emojis and exclamation points.

The restaurant had opened.

Local customers who had dined in that space before she owned it came in to check out the new place.

And she said in her happy text that more than one of these local customers had said, There used to be such a negative energy in here, it feels so much better now.

And so she told them about the energy clearing and she even handed out my card to a few of them.

And I have checked in with her since, and she says that the space has remained positive, light, and airy, and the business is doing very, very well.

Speaker 2: And here is today's second story Speaker: The name of this story is Time Slip.

I grew up in a neighborhood where the kids played out in front of the houses, drawing with chalk on the sidewalk, playing hopscotch, hide and seek, riding our bikes, basically, you know, exhausting ourselves.

And for the most part, it was out in front and not in the backyards because all the moms sat out on the front porches watching us.

And anybody's mother could yell at you.

It was culturally accepted that if you were out playing in front of someone else's house and you misbehaved, You would get yelled at like six times before you even reached your own house for your own mother to yell at you.

But on this particular day, the playing, there's no misbehaving in this story, happened in my backyard.

I was out alone in my backyard as a kid one summer morning, and my mother's beautiful garden was in full bloom and I was snacking on ripe, juicy blackberries right off the bush.

The blackberry bush was in the sun, but most of the yard was shady, as the sun was still behind the house, and it was relatively quiet.

As the neighbors were still in their houses and there was not much traffic out front.

So I gathered a handful of blackberries and brought them into the shade to sit on the cellar door and eat them.

And as I sat down, I heard my mother's voice distinctly say, I heard my mother's voice distinctly say, Tell Scott that his mother is calling him and he has to go home.

I looked around, and my mother was nowhere in sight, and neither was Scott, my neighbor from across the street.

So this was a little weird, and although it had sounded very real, I did conclude that the voice was in my head and not from my mother, so I just resumed snacking on the blackberries.

Later that afternoon, for some reason, a few kids from the block wound up playing in my backyard.

And I don't remember what we were playing, but I do recall sidewalk chalk and also some dancing.

And in the group were my next door neighbors, one girl from down the block, and Scott from across the street.

This was unique as Scott was never in my backyard or rarely even on my side of the street because he wasn't allowed to cross by himself.

So we were fully engrossed in a dance party when my mother came out onto the back porch and said to me, Tell Scott that his mother is calling him and he has to go home.

And was like a recording of what I had heard in my head that morning, exactly the same.

So I told Scott he stopped dancing and my mom walked him down the alley so that he could cross, she could cross him over to his side of the street.

I continued playing with the kids who were left but I remember being somewhat shaken by having heard this exact replay of what I had heard in my head in this location hours before it had actually happened.

That evening, after dinner, my mom was sitting in the kitchen and I came in to talk to her about this weird experience that I had had.

I told her that I had heard her tell Scott that his mother was calling and he had to go home hours before she had actually said it.

My mother is so cool and open minded to this type of thing.

So, she told me that it's possible that time and events are all running simultaneously and that what is going to happen is also happening now.

And I had merely caught a glimpse of the near future and that was totally fine.

And she explained it in a way that my young mind could understand, and her matter of fact manner led me to just accept this type of occurrence as a normal part of life.

An article from Psychology Today, dated January 9th, 2022, entitled, Time Slips, The Multiverse, and You.

describes time slips as a paranormal episode during which someone or a group of people somehow experienced traveling through time without knowing how or why it occurred.

So it is plain that I had experienced that day a very brief, very simple example of time slip.

A time slip.

So I'm going to make up a term.

I'm going to call it an audio time slip.

I'm totally making that up, but that's what it was.

Without the influence of my open minded mother, I might have disregarded this altogether, or at least kept it to myself.

Like, if she were the kind of person who I knew would react with, you know, don't be ridiculous, or make a joke like, ooh, you're scarier, then, I would have been the kind of kid who would have pushed this level of consciousness down into something to be embarrassed about and eventually I would have completely lost touch with it, which I think happens to a lot of people.

Because of this freedom to be who I am, at least by my family, not so much the neighborhood, they were not that type of person because of this freedom, I have had many experiences like this in my life.

And rather than be freaked out by them, I am able to say, Oh, you know, that was just the future running parallel to the present, like my mom explained.

And now I'm a medium.

, thanks mom So if you have a little blast from the future or the past, I encourage you to reconsider your concept of time.

and our third story is called Storage Room, Speaker: There's a church in my neighborhood and the congregation of this church began in a small rented home in the late 1800s and the cornerstone for the present building was laid in the late 1890s.

This building, from what I hear, is built on top of one of the ley lines that runs through New York City.

So there is lots of spirit activity in this building.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a ley line as a hypothetical straight line connecting prehistoric sites, etc., frequently regarded as the line of an ancient track and credited by some with paranormal properties.

And I believe in them.

Someday I will do a whole podcast episode about them.

However, today I am going to tell you the first of many, many stories from this church building.

And here goes.

I was asleep in my bed, not at church, and I had the dream of a man trying to get out of a room.

And he was panicking, and he was circling the room, and he was feeling the walls, and he was pulling on a locked door.

And finally, in this dream, he turns to me, the viewer, and says, help me.

I recognized the room as a storage room I had seen at this church, and the door was always open.

So when I woke up in the morning after that dream, I needed some time and some coffee to make sense of the dream.

And I decided to call someone that I know who works at that church and who is familiar with this sort of thing.

And I told her.

I think there's a spirit in the storage room downstairs, and he seems to be trapped, and he wants me to help him.

And she said, Wow!

We just closed that door yesterday!

And she told me that the door had been open for years, and for some maintenance reason they had decided to now keep it closed, starting yesterday.

So I guess the spirit lived or existed in there, or he was in there when they closed the door, and suddenly felt trapped and he was obviously used to having the option of going in and out of that door.

I asked if I could come by that afternoon to investigate and I arrived at the church and I went down to the storage room with the closed door.

I opened the door and turned on the light and I looked around and then sitting in the window looking so upset and afraid was the man from my dream and it was heartbreaking the level of distress that this spirit was showing.

So I said in my most friendly voice that I could, I said, Well, there you are.

Hello.

I'm here.

The door is open now.

But he appeared to be exhausted and didn't move towards me or the door.

So I said, Okay, come on, let's go.

It's okay.

Come with me.

Come with me.

I tried to be as reassuring and nice as I could.

And the messages I started receiving right then and there from my guides and his guides told me that it was time for him to cross over.

So he left the windowsill where he was sitting and he came with me through the door and we went out into the hallway.

And this spirit needed specific instructions.

to ascend, which I received from the guides involved.

And these instructions are usually certain prompts and things to say to them, often involving people that they might see on the other side or things that they might love that would be on the other side.

And I don't remember the exact messages for this spirit from his guides, but I do remember that he was very willing to cross over, which is not always the case.

And I imagine he had been lingering and maybe even trapped for some time, and he needed someone like me to help him cross over.

I created a portal for him.

and I helped him to go through it using the prompts that I was given by our guides, and he went through very quickly.

So after he went through the portal, I sealed it up, which is very important to do, and I received no more messages from this spirit.

So I assume he has moved on to a more peaceful existence on the other side.

Again, as I said earlier, this is the first of many, many stories from this very spiritually active church building, so stay tuned.

And that's all for today.

Thank you for listening to today's episode, and if you think your house is haunted, want energy cleared from your space or need a custom spiritual ritual, I'm here to help.

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Until next time.