What ghosts in my travels taught me about Hauntings

Today's blog focuses on something I learned from ghosts I encountered while on vacation in Ireland. 

My series called Ghosts on a Medium's Vacation is about History and Hauntings! Places I vacationed and met ghosts who revealed their lives and the history over hundreds of years were in places like Ireland, England and the Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone, Arizona (by Rob Gutro). In today’s blog I’ll share an important point they taught me about haunting a certain place.

What ghosts in my travels taught me about Hauntings

Earthbound ghosts are the ones who stayed behind in a place they lived or died. People who cross over to the other side or heaven, if you will, are those I call spirits. All of the dead people I “met” in Ireland in these places are Earthbound ghosts.

What they taught me is that there is a lot more history behind the facades of a structure and that someone did not have to die in the current structure to haunt it.

As a medium, I’m not surprised that I run into ghosts in historic buildings, but I do get surprised when I encounter them in newer structures, like the Corbett Court Shopping Mall in downtown Galway, Ireland. I wrote about that story in "Chapter 17: Unexpected Ghosts in a Shopping Mall," in my book "Ghosts of Ireland on a Medium's Vacation." But here's a peek at what I experienced.

Before we met our tour guide in Galway, we decided to walk through a multi-level shopping mall to do some window shopping. The mall entrance was on ground level, and it had a basement level, filled with about 40 stores.

I became aware that we were in the presence of a couple of ghosts who lingered within the mall, and that they suffered traumatic deaths. Those ghosts lingered around the entrance that led to the main street. Some of the ghosts conveyed that something happened there and they were trapped and died there, but there was no indication of any disaster in the mall.

When I returned home from vacation, I did some searching on the Internet. I learned who the ghosts where and why they conveyed those feelings of fear to me... and that their deaths were not in the Mall as it exists today. You can read the entire story in the book "Ghosts of Ireland on a Medium's Vacation" and learn what happened.

It’s important to tell the stories of these ghosts, share their experiences and inform others so the same fate does not befall anyone else.

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New Book "Ghosts of Ireland: On a Medium's Vacation" for St. Patrick’s Day

It's finally here!! After working on this for years, I'm happy to announce my 11th book, "Ghosts of Ireland on a Medium's Vacation" just in time for St. Patrick's Day! It also includes references to places where St. Patrick traveled. On-pre-order status, the book attained the number 1 spot on Amazon’s “Irish Travel” and “Haunted and Unexplained” categories.

 Today's blog is the press release I wrote about it! Hope you'll check it out. It's loaded with photos, including one ghost I encountered in an old jail!- Rob

 New Book "Ghosts of Ireland: On a Medium's Vacation" Before St. Patrick’s Day   

BOSTON –   Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, best-selling true paranormal author and medium Rob Gutro is publishing his 11th book, “Ghosts of Ireland on a Medium’s Vacation.”  The book debuts on February 24, 2024.  

What happens when a medium goes on vacation? Can a medium simply switch off their ability at will?  Well…not exactly. Like others in his “Medium’s Vacation” series, this book contains Rob’s ghostly encounters, history, his sketches of ghosts and photographs of each place. Readers will experience ghosts in prisons, castles, churches, other historic places and even a shopping mall with a tragic past.  

“Cork City Gaol (jail) was the most haunted place and many prisoners still lingering there as earthbound ghosts,” Gutro said. He sketched out one ghost and captured a photo of a male ghost walking across a corridor that was sealed off by a glass window. “I sensed a ghost down an empty corridor in the jail so I snapped several photos one after the other, and the ghost appeared in one of the photos. That’s the cover of my book.”

The book is organized alphabetically by County, and crosses Ireland from Dublin in the east, to Galway in the west, and south to Cork County. Within each County section are chapters of the haunted places he visited, so readers can use it as a paranormal tour book. “It’s the perfect guidebook for travelers who want to see Ireland, learn history and find out where ghosts still dwell and why,” Gutro said.

"Ireland’s rich history resulted in many ghosts who decided to stay earthbound. I also encountered an abundance of residual emotional energy generated from battles. Everywhere I traveled, I had a paranormal experience, he said.”        

On pre-order status, the book attained the number 1 spot on Amazon’s “Irish Travel” and “Haunted and Unexplained” categories.

The book provides a brief history of haunted places and is intended to be much more than just a collection of personal ghost stories. “Knowing the history of a place is key to understanding why a ghost has decided to stay behind,” Gutro said. Readers will experience haunted places like churches, castles, jails, and unexpected ghosts in an art gallery and shopping mall. “You’ll also understand how the spirits of your loved ones can give you signs anywhere in the world, even on vacation.”

This is the third book in his popular “Ghosts on a Medium’s Vacation” series. The others include Ghosts of England on a Medium’s Vacation and Ghosts of the Bird Cage Theatre on a Medium’s Vacation.  

Gutro also has two other series of best-selling books. One is the award-winning "Pets and the Afterlife" series, containing for books on how pets communicate from the other side. His third series is “Ghosts and Spirits” which conveys his personal experiences with ghosts in paranormal investigations and spirits. He is the first in the paranormal field to make the distinction between earthbound ghosts and spirits who have crossed over.

Rob maintains a website, social media pages and a weekly blog where he writes about paranormal topics, and where people can share their stories or find other resources on the paranormal. He also provides pet spirit readings for people around the world for a small fee. Details are on www.robgutro.com.

Rob Gutro has been featured in hundreds of radio and video programs and podcast. He was featured in the Washington Post, MSNBC, WBZ News radio Boston, "Coast to Coast AM" syndicated radio with George Noory, and many more. See his website for upcoming appearances and interviews and links to previous interviews and videos.

Rob’s books are available in paperback and E-book, on Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Rob-Gutro/author/B003UNTASW. 

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