Halloween Week: Story from my book "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead" - Child Ghost

Because it's Halloween week, I thought I would share part of one of my experiences that appears in my second book "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead," by Rob Gutro. It's just a small part of a longer story and full investigation of an historic property Riversdale, Maryland, but this will put you in the Halloween frame of mind!

EXCERPT from "Lessons Learned from Talking the Dead" by Rob Gutro

Ghosts of Woman, Child Haunting Riversdale Mansion, Maryland

Riversdale is a mansion and a National Historic Landmark in Riverdale, Maryland. In February, 2011, we joined the Inspired Ghost Inspired Ghost Tracking team for a private tour of the mansion because some docents there reported strange goings-on.

(Beginning of the investigation and other ghosts appear in the story before this point) The girl who was communicating with me was Amelia, who lived from 1816 to 1820. Amelia showed me one of her favorite toys, although I didn't see a wooden rocking horse in the house.

I learned that most of the original furnishings of the family were missing, sold and not in the house, so Amelia could have had a rocking horse. Later I learned Amelia had eight siblings, five of whom reached adulthood.

I shared these messages with Margaret, and told her at the time that I didn't know who gave me the messages, but the sender, Amelia, became clear while touring the house.

Margaret took photos when I mentioned I sensed the presence of the ghostly young girl and adult woman. In one of the photos Margaret took, four orbs appeared, confirming that there was a presence in the room. In fact, there were two more ghosts in the room than I sensed. Because four of the children died at a young age in the house, the other orbs could have been those of her children. Apparently, I didn't sense the others because they were not as outspoken as the woman and the little girl.

(CAPTION: This photograph shows two orbs in the same room where both Rosalie and Amelia came to me. There were also two other orbs in the room. Credit: Margaret Ehrlich, Inspired Ghost Tracking, Maryland.)

After the docent finished his introduction, he led us into a first floor "office" that had wallpaper from the 1800s. One corner of the room had original wallpaper and showed a mural of people in a forest. The rest of the room was papered with a similar mural that was donated by a museum and was a close match. I happened to be standing near the corner of the original wallpaper when Rosalie gave me a physical sign of her presence and it startled me!

I was listening to the docent with my back toward the wall and no one standing behind me when I felt what was like a cold hand on the skin of my back (through my sweater and shirt)! It was on my back right shoulder, and I realized it was Rosalie trying to get me out of the room. It was unnerving to feel an actual cold hand on my back, as if it reached through my clothes and touched my skin!

FOR THE REST OF THE STORY - Read "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead" by Rob Gutro