"Ask The Weasle"
Milwaukee Area Paranormal Investigations
"Follow me into the shadows..."
Send the Weasle your questions and every week she will select a few letters and answer them here.
Ask the Weasle
"Ask the Weasle" is written by Louise Tarmeowski. Known as the Weasle by her family and friends, she has maintained an active interest in the paranormal since kittenhood and attributes her ability to perceive the unknown to the fact that she is an albino feline.
Dear Weasle,
From my understanding, a place becomes haunted once somebody dies and their spirit or soul remains there for whatever reason. Why then are cemeteries considered to be so haunted? I don't know of too many people that have actually died in a cemetery. Is it because their physical body rests there?
Matt, Racine
Dear Matt,
Wonderful question! I too do not personally know of anyone who has died while inside a cemetery. It is my humble opinion that society's assumption in cemeteries being haunted is truly a "grave" misunderstanding. Yet the fact remains... Many people including myself have experienced unusual happening while visiting such places. Without more hard evidence, it is hard to say why we experience these things. But these are a few theories that I have come across.
One theory is that we "create" the manifestation. We long for one last conversation, or for a sign from our loved ones. We wish for these things so strongly that our minds turn these thoughts into a reality. We have all heard the phrase, "Be careful what you wish for." The human mind is a very powerful and not well understood organ. All of our collective anguish, love, and raw emotion is fed into these places. If that's not a primordial recipe for creating activity, then I don't know what is!
Another theory delves into parallel worlds. The shadowed figure you saw or the muffled cries you heard might not belong to a ghost. Stars and planets may have aligned just so (figuratively speaking of course), so that our world overlaps into a parallel one. That shadow you saw may be a living, breathing person visiting the grave of a loved one. And to them, YOU are the shadowed apparition. That muffled cry may have belonged to someone grieving over their recent loss, and they perceived your voice as a faint echo from the past.
I hope that satisfies your curiosity a bit.
Weasle
