Mystic Investigations

Mystic Investigations

will be holding a workshop on

The Art of Talking Boards

 presented by Founder & Owner of Paranormal

and Psychic

Group

 Mystic Investigations Pat Harrison

www.mysticinvestigations.net

http://tech. groups.yahoo. com

/group/ mystic_investigations/

Learn the history of the Ouija board

 and how it all started

Learn how to commutate with the afterlife.

Dos & Don’ts of usage 

Interesting trivia on usage

The last hour of this workshop

will be hands on working

 with a few kinds of Pats personal collection

of Talking Boards

 and if you have a Talking Board bring

 it along for a fun time.

Cost: $30.00

Date: Thursday March 4, 2010

Time: 6:00 pm -9:00 pm 

Where: Beverly Shores Community House

500 S Broadway & Service Rd

Beverly Shores, IN 46301

To sign up or more information

 Please Call 219-210-2263

If you can't see it, is it real?
Pat Harrison hosts psychic fair on

the spookiest day of the year

Laurie Wink
The News-Dispatch

MICHIGAN CITY - For Pat Harrison,

Halloween is a "24/7" celebration.

Harrison founded Mystic Investigations

 and regularly delves into aspects of the world that a

ren't readily apparent to others.

Her Web site, www.mysticinvestigations.net.

 says,

"Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there."

On Halloween,

Harrison hosted a psychic fair at

Stimley's Town & Country, 204 W. Barker Ave.

 Customers were offered a 10-minute psychic reading

 session using two of four divination tools:

 a pure earth crystal ball, a bag of gem stones,

 a pendulum board and a deck of tarot cards.

Harrison was attired in a

 black flowing dress accented by a lacy black top,

wearing

a reddish-orange cross around her neck and

sporting bright red fingernails adorned with spiders and spider webs.

Looking the part of a stereotypical gypsy fortune teller,

 she was out to have fun, but she takes

 her readings seriously.

Harrison said she comes from a long line

of "gypsy witches"

in her Hungarian-Sicilian family tree,

including her grandmother and mother.

Both women did card readings and worked with

 "talking boards."

Her mother also did seances, using a small glass with letters and numbers.

"I've been ghost hunting since I was 6 years old,

" Harrison said.

"I do paranormal investigations the old-fashioned way

- I use my intuitive feelings on locations."

Harrison refers to herself as "an initiative feeler,"

 someone who can go to a location and smell,

 see or hear things in the surrounding environment.

 She's fully aware of the scepticism surrounding

her paranormal pastimes and, at one point,

 was reluctant to pursue them openly,

 worried that people might think she was nuts.

When her son, Chuck DePoy,

 died five years ago in a motorcycle accident,

 just a week after her father's death,

 Harrison formed Mystic Investigations

 in honor of her son.

"He always believed in my abilities having

 to do with the paranormal," she said.

"He's my spirit guide in this life

 and will be in the next."

The Mystic Investigations group

 deals with paranormal activities

in haunted houses and haunted sites,

 graveyards and cemeteries.

They're interested in a long list

 on topics noted on the

Web site, including spirits, apparitions,

 shadow people and orbs.

According to Harrison, there is nothing

to fear from touring cemeteries at night.

She has photos on the Web site of orbs

 of light that are balls of energy

emitted by a person.

 Sometimes, she said, you can

see faces of spirits.

For example, she talked about an experience

 in a place she calls "the little cemetery,"

located just over the Michigan state line near

 Posey Chapel. It was early spring and she had taken a few people there.

She said she saw orbs, then a dark shadow

 and felt a burning sensation on her shoulder.

Harrison said the "dark shadow"

 appeared to have the face of a young teenage

boy who is a bit mischievous

and wanted attention, she said.

"It was a very happy shadow,"

 Harrison said.

The number of individual readings

 she's booking

have increased lately, Harrison said.

"A hard as times area,

 I'm finding more of an increase

in people who want

to know what the future is,"

 she said.

She has some regular clients and sees

them about every six months,

 as life circumstances change.

According to Harrison,

 the way to tell if a psychic reader is scamming

 someone is if they tell you

to come back the next day for another reading.

Harrison notes that there are no

 really true answers about the future,

 just possibilities.

 She also demystifies what she does by saying

 she doesn't have unique gifts.

"Anybody can do this if

they're open to it," she said.

Harrison is available for psychic home parties,

 ghost tours and other paranormal activities.

Contact Laurie Wink at lwink@thenewsdispatch.com.