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The smoking ghost

  One of my first ghostly encounters when I moved to Oklahoma was at a nursing home in Oklahoma City.  I have lived in several states growing up since my father suffered for PTSD from Vietnam.  That was one of the symptoms of the disorder.  I was originally born in California and spent my younger years and teenage years there.  In between those years we moved to Indian, Texas, and Oklahoma.  After I left my abusive husband at the age of 21, I drove to back to Texas with my new born son to live with my sister and return to college.  After finishing my nursing degree, I moved to south Oklahoma with my parents and my child.  Not long after my sister fell in love with a man from the Oklahoma City area, and my father being the family man he always was, packed us all up to move up to be near one another.  That is how I found myself in Oklahoma.  That was in 2000.  It's been 18 years and I have made Oklahoma my home.  So it came as no surprise that I would start my paranormal career in Ok

What better place to start then the beginning?

   I often get asked what got me started in the paranormal field.  The answer is quite simple, curiosity.  I remember the first time I ever saw my first full body apparition.  I was six years old.  I lived in a small little town in the panhandle of Texas called Fritch Texas.  My cousin had came over to spend the night.  The house was an older home, two-story, square structure.  Down stairs there was a living room, a very small kitchen, my parents room, a small bathroom, and my brother's room.  Upstairs was mine and my older sister's room, a large walk in closet, and another room which held stuff that belonged to the owner of the house.     The storage room's door always remained closed since the things in there didn't belong to us.  I remember always getting a strange filling from the room as we passed by it to go into our room.  Of course I was only six at the time and the room was a mystery to us.  I also remember having the same feeling around the other door to the