Ghost Igator

Back in the spring of 1993 my mother died and left me a small sum of money. My mother and I had always had a troubled relationship. At the time of her death, we were not even on speaking terms. So the inheritance came as a surprise, and the feelings that came with it, mixed as they were with grief, confusion, and the knowledge that with her death we would never be able to mend our relationship, overwhelmed me.

I took the money and bought a small car and a small house. Recently divorced and a single parent with limited income, I had accepted that home ownership was probably now out of the realm of possibility, and yet suddenly, because of my mother’s death, my children and I had a home to call our own. I was grateful, and I was very sad.

A ghost is said to be the apparition of a deceased person, frequently similar in appearance to that person, and usually encountered in places she or he frequented, the place of his or her death, or in association with the person's former belongings. The word "ghost" may also refer to the spirit or soul of a deceased person, or to any spirit or demon. A place in which ghosts are supposed to appear is described as haunted. A related phenomenon is the poltergeist, literally a 'noisy spirit' that manifests itself by moving and influencing objects, though a widespread view today is that these occurences are either fraudulent or manifestations of the psychic energy of, particularly, adolescent girls.[4] Phantom armies, animals, trains and ships have also been reported.

Remote Viewing (RV) refers to the attempt to gather information about a distant or unseen target using paranormal means or extra-sensory perception. Typically a remote viewer is expected to give information about an object that is hidden from physical view and separated at some distance. The term was introduced by parapsychologists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff in 1974.

Remote viewing was popularized in the 1990s, following the declassification of documents related to the Stargate Project, a 20 million dollar research program sponsored by the U.S. Federal Government to determine any potential military application of psychic phenomena. The program was terminated in 1995, citing a lack of documented evidence that the program had any value to the intelligence community.