About Ghosts and Gods
Why Should Anyone Believe in Ghosts and Gods?
HALF THE WORLD'S population believe in ghosts and Gods.
Why?
Available facts: Ghosts and Gods are long associated with human community, since anyone can remember. That doesn't make them real but it does include them in the human story.
Arguably every community has a haunted house, or ghost story. Most people know someone who knows someone who experienced a supernatural encounter.
Almost everyone has offered a prayer into the blue yonders, at some crisis time or other.
Ghosts and Gods evidently are a thing.
"Ghosts and Gods are not a thing," is the prevailing conclusion these days. Mostly because Science finds no proof of a ghost in the machine or paranormal intelligence . Until it is testable, they do not exist. They are not real.
The irony is that science doesn't know what is real and what is not. Data describes extraordinary, unbelievable truths about the world in which we live.
Why Ghosts' Stories Are Important
Margo Williams claimed to have a gift of hearing and seeing ghosts.
Her scientist husband proved it true and convinced others that personality survival is a fact. Which means ghosts are people like you and me trapped, perhaps in time.
We need to know how and why some of us end up in this unexpected state; and what other paranormal intelligence plays a part in that process.
What ghosts had to say about the hereafter was important. Not for the revelations of Heaven, to which most were barred access. But the meaning of life.
Isle of Wight Psychic Margo Williams
Born in Ashford Kent, UK in 1922 girl-with-the-strange-psychic-gifts Margo Williams left school aged 14 years. Worked in London telecoms during the war.
Met and married Walter, a chemical engineer munitions expert from Wales. Walter and Margo Williams accepted a post-war fish-industry job in Southern Africa and the couple moved to make a new life.
Margo and Walter returned to the UK in the 1970s. Settled on the Isle of Wight, in a seaside town described in an English-language book found in the African desert.
Margo discovered an interest in Buddhism, loved to dance and unexpectedly suffered a sensory loss of taste and smell. That loss lasted several years.
Then just as unexpected, it restored. With a surprising bonus gift - ability to hear ghosts.
Ghost Hunter's Losses and Gains
Understandably on hearing of this, scientist husband Walter wondered what was happening.
To help his wife, he resolved to prove the ghosts who came to visit were hallucination. Appliance of science. Margo noted what the ghosts had to say, and diligent Walter checked the data, dates and details.
And found it to be true.
So did a gathering of science-minded attendees at a conference where Walter presented his evidence. Margo Williams became famous for a while. National Media reported on the ghost hunter's case files and amazing finds of buried treasure on the Isle of Wight.
On reading the news, homeowners and business-people suspecting supernatural sitting-tenants got in touch by phone.
Margo's Ghost Story
From her case-files Margo produced a series of popular books relating her supernatural experiences with friends and ghost investigators.
Among these were Ghostly Adventures, Out of the Mist, Ghostly Gifts, and Ghostly Encounters, all of which related experiences in and around the Isle of Wight.
Her final case-files collected together much of the best of these classic books and are part of her Ghost Encounters series, edited by Nick Hammond who worked with Margo for the last 17 years of her life and accompanied her to mainland and European locations.
Collected together in five themes they tell Margo Williams' story of how it all happened and those who shared the ghost hunt.
"Thank You" to all the Rescue Team Members
“Thank You” to all the fantastic people who helped and worked with Margo; those many, many unsung heroes who looked for clues come rain or shine and moved mud and brambles to rescue people trapped as ghosts.
Nick Hammond
ARRIVED in 1961 into a cor-blimey family who lived in Bomb Alley, the east end of London. "They laughed a lot," said my dad who spent his own childhood picking shrapnel out of the street in the morning aftermaths of World War II bombstorms.
Dad made a good a living as a dark-story teller; helped by a hitch-hiking demon, so he informed me. He seemed serious when he said that.
Maybe he is possessed but it is a co-dependency relationship, and both must derive some benefit. I ignore the demon and love my dad anyway. He scared me early with a TV Ghost Show called “The Stone Tapes”.
Mum Myra, bless her beautiful heart, voluntarily exited this world early in defiance of life’s unkindness and lack of love. Breathtaking courage and resolve to ignore all pleas for sanity and nourishment.
Such are the qualities I inherited from my family.
Ghost Story
Teenage monster-child of broken-biscuit 1960s love wave, I certainly irritated too many good people before reading Zen Flesh Zen Bones. That inspired me to bail-out of a corporate marketing career.
Instead, emptied my head and rescued snails, insects and worms if it seemed like the right thing to do.
And soon found myself homeless outside the door of a haunted house on the Isle of Wight, with an idea to write a story about pirates. Mrs Williams happened to have a room available.
After a few cups of tea and biscuits, I asked my new landlady if the rumours were true. 'You hear ghosts?'
I haven't ever heard a ghost or seen one. Spent a childhood year in a ferociously haunted Scottish farmhouse plagued, so most people suspected by the ghosts of tragic crimes of passion.
Never felt, heard or saw a thing.
Did I believe in ghosts?
No. But I do now.
If you would like to know more about Margo Williams' investigations and life and death matters, read this book. Now available from Amazon.
