Lizzie Borden Society Forum

Hi all..I was checking out some Discovery Channel stuff and found they are airing a show called "A HAUNTING IN GEORGIA" The description that goes along with it is:
In 1988, the Wyrick family moved into a suburban home outside of Atlanta. For years, they were visited by neighbors who had lived in the area but who had been dead for years. Parapsychologists attempt to explain the strange aura in the Wyrick home.

It is on tonight, and I am sure they will aire it again. Just thought I would pass the info on.


Tracy...

Tracy, I just watched it tonight, long show, it was like 2 hours long, my sweetie had TiVoed it for me. Pretty interesting stuff.

One thing that I thought Kat might be interested in was that they spoke of magnetic fields and hauntings. Lets see if I remember this correctly, there was a professor that dealt with paranormal research who found that there were heavy magnetic fields in this particular home, directly in the parents bedroom and their daughter's room. He stated that strong, postive magnetic fields affected the temporal lobe (I think he said the right side) of the brain which caused people to see things i.e. hallucinate. And also something about them acting irrationally. But, going back in the mother's past has shown that there seemed to be a long line of psychics in the family and that these magnectic fields allowed them to see these spirits of the dead. There was other phenomena such as scratches on their bodies and chairs moving which the professor had no explanation for at all. All in all, a fun, creepy, thought provoking 2 hours.

Susan...thanks for telling what was on the show. It was on the TV schedule for Utah, where I live, but it wasn't what they actually aired here. I was so mad ! They showed an extra repeat of one of the Shark Week shows here instead. Hopefully there will be a replay soon !


Tracy...

You're welcome, Tracy. I didn't post all that went on in the show, don't want to ruin it for you. I know just what you mean, my sweetie (I guess I should start refering to him as my fiance, just sounds odd for me to be saying that!) TiVos shows for me that are listed on the cable schedule as one thing and then they turn out to be something completely different, I hate that!

Theres this interesting looking show coming on soon about Christopher Columbus, I think its called Secrets From The Grave or something like that on the same channel. They actually dig up bones and do DNA testing on them to determine who Columbus actually was, I guess not much is really known about him? It looks pretty cool though.

Tracy, some of the cable channels have two satellite feeds, one east and one west. I've noticed that can sometimes put the times off 3 hours one way or the other from the time listed. That 'Haunting in Georgia' was a repeat, so I'm sure they'll show it again. 'Unsolved Mysteries' did a story on that girl years ago.
Susan, I'm looking forward to the show on Columbus, too. Did you see the one they did on his first settlement in what is now Haiti?

No, Alice, I haven't. Is it something recently on the Discovery Channel? I love these sorts of shows that re-examine history and they usually come up with some new findings, find proof of certain things, and retell history from a new standpoint.

Sorry, I missed this topic earlier!
I don''t get those TV channels tho.
Harry says if I got Court TV I'd never be seen again!

I watched an Unexplained Mysteries two weekends ago which had a family where the guy got scratched all the time. It seemed to follow them when they finally moved- but *experts* say that is very rare (is that redundant? "Very Rare?")
Anyway, I think scratches can be hoaxed.
I also think a lot of polterguist activity is also hoaxed.
Not all, but I am skeptical of things like that which especially involve adolescents. If the recipient of the activity is older and mature, I would take another look at the possibility of something really going on...like with Stuart's experiences.

I don't know if I have seen this family before on Unexplained Mysteries, tho I have seen all the shows. Maybe I missed a segment- that's probable. I would need more info to know if I had seen them featured. I'll look them up on the internet.
(But I'm getting a big storm any minute)

Last week the show UnexMyst. concentrated on crop circles, which they call *Signs*. They had to also investigate related phenomena, such as cattle mutilation and UFO's and potential Abductees.
I taped this one, because it was rather up-to-date, including the "Doug & Dave Hoax" (within a hoax, if you ask me) and the British contest where circle-makers came to compete and could only work overnight. Their results were amazing!
They also showed the mathematician and the music guy who have reduced signs to equations and notes on the musical scale. That theory is that these crop circles are in a language which we can possibly decipher and with a message about our planet.
There was a circle which looked like the solar system but had one planet missing- you guessed it!

OOPs! The Wyrick family saga DID start with a little girl.
I remember this now.

There is a review at CSICOP
http://www.csicop.org/cmi/reviews/20020 ... nting.html

and a more intimate look at the family at:
http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/georgia/page2.html

(you might need to give the pics a chance to load, even if you have to come back to the site)

Thats the one, Kat. Did you ever hear the positive ion theory that was presented? I thought it was interesting as you had posted about that possibly being a cause in the Borden case.

I recall the theory of sonic sensitivity.
That something nearby vibrating at a certain speed in hz can make the eyeballs jump and cause hallucinations.

In this episode that Alice recalled from Unex.Myst. there was not much info. i recall the little girl meeting *the man* in the yard and talking to him.

I do think that small children are more likely to see or hear or experience or recall odd occurences- it's age 10 or so until say 25 that I find suspect.

Kat, the Wyrick girl was only about three when she started "seeing dead people". She's a teenager now and still has experiences. The ones who were scratched, according to the Discovery Channel show, were her and her father.
The other scratching case I've heard of was on 'Sightings' about a family in Kansas. They called it the 'Heartland Ghost'. It was an adult man who was being scratched.
By the way, 'Unexplained Mysteries' is produced by Henry Winkler, as was 'Sightings'.

Susan, I can't remember what the show on Columbus was called, but it was on only a few weeks ago. It was about an archaeologist digging to find Columbus' settlement on Haiti, and an ocean explorer looking for signs of one of Columbus' ships. The ship went aground on a reef, according to Columbus' log, and the wood was used for the settlement. I can't remember which ship. Anyway, the archaeologist found evidence of the fort. But the ocean explorer didn't find anything. I'm sure they'll show it again.

Susan, I found a story about the Columbus show on discovery.com. The ship was the Santa Maria. Here's the link:
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/qu ... umbus.html

Alice @ Fri Jul 30, 2004 3:26 am wrote:Kat, the Wyrick girl was only about three when she started "seeing dead people". She's a teenager now and still has experiences. The ones who were scratched, according to the Discovery Channel show, were her and her father.
The other scratching case I've heard of was on 'Sightings' about a family in Kansas. They called it the 'Heartland Ghost'. It was an adult man who was being scratched.
By the way, 'Unexplained Mysteries' is produced by Henry Winkler, as was 'Sightings'.

That must be where the *overlap* is. Maybe they are combining these shows into this show.
I just saw that scratched man on there. They thought it was a spirit of a little girl named Sally. But when the ghost-buster came he found others there. Then they decided it wasn't "Sally" scratching him after all. Whatever was doing it followed them when they moved. This is the case I doubt, the one of which I am skeptical.
I got to read about the Wyrick family online, and their experiences, when I looked them up, so I remember that little girl. A 3 year old's comments as to what she *sees* are more believable to me.

There are instances of youngsters at the age of talking who have described a past life in detail. The family has traveled to where they thought the child described and found the people with the names described living where the child had said.
This has happened in India, where they put a lot of emphasis on Reincarnation. But it has happened more than once and that's why I think small children are more likely to give untainted information because they don't yet know what will be expected of them in their culture.
(Well, that's my reasoning, anyway... )

Thanks, Alice, it sounds interesting! I'll have to see if my fiance can TiVo it for me so I can watch it, I personally don't have cable myself.