What happened to 1981 America?

Before the profanity and the calling it like I see it begins. Let me give you a chance now to leave this link, as you may not like what I have to say.

 Also if you decide to read on, in the words of Corey Taylor I am stating "If I offended you, you needed it." Ok so I little history about myself and why the following makes me angry. 

I am almost 33 years old now, my life is far from perfect. I don't make nearly the money I should be for a man of my age. Through it all though, I have carried with me the pride of knowing that if I need something, I will be working for it. Now do not mistake me as the heartless carnivorus imbecile that I will be making myself out to be, just take me as 1 angry American who cannot believe we sat by and let this shit happen. 

 So moving forward. Like every other red blooded American I work a steady job, 8-5 everyday, putting in my hours earning a check to live on. I do what I can to provide for myself, my wife, and my animals. Not living wealthy by any means but we get by as a happy couple who have rescued a few dogs. So I am driving home and finally get to my drive way and just before I have to pull in, I see it. A waist high sign that says "THIS FAMILY NEEDS HELP"....... 

 I will pause here so you could soak that in... 

  Here is the problem I have with this fuckin sign. My neighbors are low life bastards who are feeding off of our system. Now through the years I have had some unruly neighbors, meth heads, pot heads, lazy mother fuckers and what not. But these new neighbors kinda take the cake. Now before you decide to wave that finger at me, suck through your teeth and scream "Shame Shame". I will give you a little insight to the root of the problem here. I live on 12 acres that shares 1 other house on this lot. The folks that moved next door knock on my door every other day asking "beggin" for food supplies and random items. Salt, flour, rides to town. 

I have found out recently that there are 6 able bodied adults that live under that roof. Neither of them have jobs, are looking for jobs, and all live off of the system. So it angers me to the marrow in my fuckin bones that, my hard earned Tax dollars are paying for these people, to continue sucking off of the tit of the statue of liberty. I have watched them for about 4 months now, being lazy bastards who refuse to work. They would rather stay home and enjoy chemical induced realities, than get their ass up and earn a pay check.

 Now why the sign bothers me. 

My wife stays home to look after our house and animals. My house is the first house on this lot. The last thing I want, is people who are trying to be a good citizen, knock on my door offering help, that I do not need. I am a privite citizen who believes that once I make it home, I should not be bothered by external sources. I like to live a nice quiet, and peaceful existence. I do not need people driving confusing me with them, and looking at me in disgust. Now before you think that I am a horrible person for bad mouthing the needy, let me briefly explain myself, and personal feelings. I was raised under the premise, to never ask for help. If I was able bodied enough to work, than I should. I need to learn to provide for myself and work for everything I have/ will have. I do however believe that there are circumstances beyond our control, and we all need help sometimes. 

My issue is not with those people who really need it. My issue is with the lazy bastards, who have made a living for themselves living off the system, because they are to lazy to become something better. The adults living next door, have been helped by various charities and churches. There is a guy from a church who told me today, that he offered the next door neighbor a job, a free ride to drug rehab, and the means to live a normal lifestyle. The neighbor refused.... 

 So with all that, I sit here angry... 

 Angry that as an American, we allow lazy mother fuckers to suck our system dry. Angry that there is no check and balances that makes sure people are not abusing the system. 

Angry that the hard working middle class has to suffer day in and day out earning a check, making a living, and paying taxes so that these vile freeloaders can fill their baskets with handouts. 

It angers me everytime I go to the store, having to buy ramen noodles and getting stuck behind someone bitching because they have to pay $1.20 towards their entire basket full of steaks and shrimp. 

Angry that this country can not come together and defeat this system that allows defeatist to live happily straining everyone elses pockets. 

Angry, that Welfare allows 6 people to live in a better house than someone who is trying to earn a decent living. 

 You can hate me for saying what I have said. Thats fine, and I will not judge you one bit about it, but I am an American who still believs that the American dream is earned...Not handed out. 

 From the bottom of my heart, if you are slaving away day in and out, trying to better yourself, I thank you. 

Never let the beggers make you feel bad for doing something for yourself. I will be ripping this sign out tonight, and restoring any dignity that I have left.

                             

 How does someone in need, able to put this many lights on their house???

              

So begins the year of the MAYA

Steppin in again from a nice cool day outside. 2011 has been a year of lessons learned and minor regrets. Mostly regrets of things I didn't do when given the opportunity. 2012 is all about Creation in all forms. I have a feeling that I will be stumbling onto something great this year that will help push my lil family forward. Now most people believe that 2012 is all about chaos and destruction, I honestly don't believe this is the case. I believe it is about self fulfillment. If lets say for example that this is the year that all hell breaks loose and everything else. Well I think you will become a victim of your own demise. Kinda like the people who get Born to Lose tattooed on them. Were they really born to lose? Or fulfilling a destiny they created? Well this year will be a year of firsts for sure and I foresee major advances in not only technology, but the human condition as a whole. I see more unity and less the ME ME ME mantra. I will also be creating a photoblog to take up the other new-found hobby I have created. Its funny now that I think about it here I am 30yrs old and finally doing things I shoulda started long ago. Then again if I had started long ago chances are this blog would have never existed....

Onto the Paranormal side of things, we don't have anything planned as of yet as the holidays tend to set everything back a month or two. I expect to be in full swing here in about a month! Until then My friends keep doing what you were born to do!

In principio finem - The End of the Beginning

"The end of the beginning"

As I type this I have disconnected my self from the surroundings by listening to music. Sometimes these small moments count. It makes the moments you spend doing other things more memorable and important. I have to admit I have been slacking a little lately on the paranormal and investigating and finding freedom to do these things. Although work and family have a lot to do with it, as the holidays are here my gears shift towards the living as opposed to investigating the departed. During my time off so to speak my eyes have been opened by random dreams and scenes from websites, articles, and what have you nots. I realized that something huge is coming. 

Don't get me wrong this isn't the end of the world stigma that everyone is following, this is admittedly my view of perceiving the surrounding around me. I seriously think that not subscribing to television has been helping, hell I barely have internet. As of recent there has been an uprising in many events worldwide. Everything from Occupy to scientists witnessing an event previously thought impossible. This definitely has opened my views of the near future. I don't think 2012 is the end of times but merely the end of something started long ago. Free will. Everywhere you look tents are being torn down, people are being tied up and taken into custody, and one sided truths being posted to youtube. I saw a vid of the OWS movement the other day that showed a cop spraying the peaceful protesters with 15% capsacin. The outrage I had for this fueled my urge for wanting to know more. Alas a friend sent me a link to a 15 min window before the spraying. I now stand firm in knowing that those peaceful protesters deserved what they had coming. 

Now this is a paranormal blog so I won't get into the finer details of political propaganda, but know this Do your research before taking a side as pure unadulterated truth. On to the signs. 

It all started with a dream...

A few weeks back I had a dream that I was having to save my fiance Stacy while she was being chased by some form of important people. As I was watching in 3rd person view of where she was there were times where I was her and seeing the men chasing me round corners of a community. Only to see myself saving me from them, If that had made any sense, I will go on. In this dream I was forced to kill these men with a handful of knives in a fashion that seems impractical. When I awoke I almost forgot the dream until Stacy had mentioned having a weird dream. Curiously I asked "You weren't being chased were you?" She declined but it would have been weird.

Occurrence #2 - I have noticed lots and lots of people walking around in this way of impeding doom. They smile but its almost like a sad person wearing a happy mask. The eyes tell all. 

The third occurrence happened yesterday morning. As the moon was heading out for the day and the Sun was waking the earth interjected the meeting and blocked the moon from sunshine for a few moments. Normally an eclipse is just that, this time around a phenomenon that previously thought to be impossible happened. While all three were in perfect alignment to shade the moon, the moon and the sun were visible at the same time in the sky. How does this happen if we are in perfect alignment the moon should be invisible while the sun is up and vice a versa. Refraction is the culprit. The curvature of the earth itself allowed for all this to be witnessed. Now the occurrence is not the strange thing to me, what is strange is giving the assumption that man has been staring at the stars for some time now why is it the end of the year before 2012  is when this was observed???

My only explanation is that 2012 is gonna be the year things start slamming against the veil that shades our eyes from the truth of things. Everything paranormal is happening more regularly. More UFO's, earthquakes, floods, fires and bigfoot, and things of such nature are now coming to surface faster than before. Normally I would be the one to be mal prepared for such coming events. But being a researcher now I am now in the means of self sufficiency. I do not allow people who tell me what the Truth is. I spend the time looking for it. Don't get me wrong friends this isn't a forewarning but merely an observance of my surroundings. I hope that all is well the morning of 2013 though I can only speculate as to the times ahead.

All I can say is this at the time midnight strikes the final moments of 2011 and the beginning of 2012 begins, start enjoying the things you do to their absolute fullest. This will be the year of firsts not lasts!

Life At The Speed Of .16 Seconds

There has been many new developments since my last posting. One of my most greatest accomplishments was acquiring a RadioShack 12-469 radio basically new out of the box.

After testing this ghost box I realized first hand that the 12-469 was a champ right out of the box. Is it because it is the first known Hack??? Or perhaps no energy but my own have been imprinted upon the box? Whichever the case this ghost box alone is single handedly changing my perceptions of a radio that scans uninterrupted.  Like stated before I have gotten some good results from other boxes and use all of them regularly. Where the 469 sets itself apart is that its responses are far more than mere chance and audio paredolia. I know there are skeptics out there and believe me I am one of them for sure. The breakthrough for me though was the other day when I recorded here in the comfort of my own home.

I asked can you tell me my name?

Ummm....Martin

Can you tell me the name of the other person in the room?

(immediately) Stacy.

This by far made me put the headphones down for a minute. Did I really hear that correctly??? What is it in the scanning of the radio that causes a portal to the other side or dimension to open?

If you are a skeptic or a believer, I invite you to sit in with me for a few minutes and let me show you a window you may have never thought to look through before. I am now in the process of building my own ghost box from the ground up. I want something for our team that is going to set us apart from the rest. When it comes to paranormal, there are 2 types of teams those that seek evidence of the after life, and those that the afterlife seek. I hope that when all is said and done people will look back and realize that I am an all or nothing kind of guy who continues to push the known boundaries of everything around me.

This is Martin Bravo founder of Bravo Paranormal signing off!

Everything Adds Up - even when numbers don't

Friday 10-29-11
I came home and partially prepared myself for the weekend. Halloween weekend of course. On 10-30-2011 Saturday Stacy (fiance) and I spent the day taking care of the animals and wrapping up some odds and ends around the house. It was 5pm as we were getting ready for the Mckinney Ghost Walk. Normally I would pass up things like this but I got a sense of needing to go for this one.

On our way there we decided to stop and get some energy drinks and 1- 9v battery for IR. The cashier looks to me and says that'll be $6.66. I chuckle a lil out loud and Stacy explained to the guy that we were ghost hunters going to the Ghost Walk. The guy looked at us as if we were insane. Oh well back in the car.

As we reached our destination and got our wristbands. We met up with Clay, and Sterling. Shortly after we got our maps and headed to the old Mckinney Courthouse. There a team by the name of TEXPART were showing a video of some of their findings around Mckinney (my hometown). We were there for the first airing. About 5 min into recording the disc begins to Skip and that gltichy sound comes through the speakers. The speaker who was not wearing a microphone at all speaks up and says "The video didn't do this all afternoon. I didn't break it I swear!" There is a short silence followed by chuckles. One of the other members comes in and saves the day.

After the video one of the members for TEXPART comes up to me. (She's a medium) She cut through a whole crowd of people to walk up to me and say. "Things follow you." What?? I say. She repeats "Things follow you in a big big way." "Not in a bad way but they do follow you" I smile and say its probably because of all the research I do. I go on to explain to her about our team and our independent research on Project RSVP (Road side voice phenomenon). She got excited and said "Awesome!" She then asked me if I had an uncle pass away. I said yeah no this year but...She finishes my sentence "the year before" "Well he is helping you, in everything that you do" and he stands to your left.

Let's pause here for a moment. This isn't the first time that I have heard these exact words. Almost verbatim. I know now more than ever that my family helps me along, even during the times I make some not so great choices. I know they are there and If by some odd chance you can read this. I love you guys!

Back to the story shall we.

We make our way to a few other places recording here and there. We felt like rockstars because, I guess someone noticed us recording everywhere we went and the mothers and daughters hit me with a brick wall of questions about the paranormal. To which we all obliged happily. After downtown, we took Clay to Pecan Grove. I have been meaning to swing him by there because of all the EVP that I have captured there. This is the first time that I attempted DRV at a haunted location. I took the ghost box to 540 am. I asked if the spirits if they are from the cemetery. Quite shocking;y there was a response through the white noise. A man stated "We come from other places then are buried here!" a smart ass remark, but amazing none-the-less.

We went back to the magic shop for a grand finally ending, in which a magician set up something for the kids. Now comes the interesting stuff. We learned a lot about the history in Mckinney. I caught many EVP's some of which happened during the video.

When it began to glitch, the man said that he didn't break the system. A male voice came through the PA system and said "I Didn't Break!"

At the old jail, a story about Ed Stepp a man who hung himself intrigued me. I asked "Ed Stepp are you still here?" the response was "Yeah I'm here".

This is just a few of the things that I have reviewed. Hopefully more things will turn up after I am completed.

All in all it was a great night and Stacy and I had a lot of fun.

Thanks for reading everyone!

Picking up where we left off

I know it has been some time since my last blog posting and most likely for the better. There has been many changes at present for me, almost all of them for the better. One of the most recent things to happen to me is quite a unique experience and basically what keeps my drive going when it comes to the paranormal.

Lets walk back to two months ago. During one of our meetings Clay had told me about this book called Electronic Voices. It isn’t your run of the mill ghost hunters book. This book talks about a womans journey into a whole different direction of EVP collection. This is a journey unheard of to most ghost hunters. The journey of this woman begins in Galacia, Spain. Anabella Cardoso is the author, who talks about her first hand experiences with ITC (Instrumental Transcommunication). Those familiar with ITC are usually pretty well versed in the forms of either the ghost box, or The Video loop (Schreiber Method). There are however a variety of methods and a quick search on the internet will bring you to itcbridge.com. During reading about Ms Cardoso’s experiments and personal success, I became very interested in the subject. Mostly due to my belief that in the interest of science all avenues must be taken.

3 weeks into reading the book…….

I normally am not a slow reader by any means but, Life as it were happens haha. I began subtly by recording around the pond area on my property. This was the traditional means of EVP capture which is nothing more than a basic recorder. Now in the instance of EVP I have realized that one must find which recorder works for them. I have had a million recorders but the two work horses that I bring myself back to are; A sony ICD Stereo recorder, and An Olympus VN 4100. People could literally argue for days about which recorder is better than the other, but I have heard some of the best EVP’s on vintage Wire recorders.

Back to the initial recordings, I heard some pretty interesting EVP’s some of which sounded like very, very old spirits. One of them decided to give me their name which is Akim. After gaining some small form of contact, I decided that it was time to speak to the native American sounding spirits. On a simple 2-minute recording – I asked “Out of curiosity are you Native American?” the reply was clear as day “We are all native american here”. Needless to say something was willing to speak back .

10-15-2011

This was a special day for me. In Mckinney, TX there is an event that happens on the weekend of the third Monday of every month. Tradesday here we come. In this venture I was on the search for vintage radio’s as I wanted to get the same basic setup that Ms Cardoso had in her home. I was almost about to give up, as for some odd reason when one goes looking for something it’s never there. I rounded my last corner and I see two old radios and an tape recorder. SUCCESS!!! How much I ask the man who looked as if he had spent the last forty years prepping himself for a horror film villain.  He rubs the 2 day old bristles on his face and asks “What’s it worth to ya man?” I ponder for a moment because this is the point where one could make or break themselves in a deal.  I replied with “Well considering it isn’t worth anything to you at present, otherwise you wouldn’t be eager to sell it.” “How’s $15.00 dollars sound?” He met my request with a look of disbelief for a second then, suddenly he gave that look that one gives when you walk up to a 5 dollar bill laying alone on the ground. “You have a deal sir.”

I get home and am overly excited at this point to have in my possession 2 vintage radios and a ghost box. Now my first experiment I tried the Jurgensen Wave – Which is tuning to around 1544-1550 am. It was hard to find an empty channel in the area as Texans are still believers in the AM transmission. I sit down and recorded myself asking questions for 5 minutes. I would ask a question and give about 15 sec for an adequate response time. Feeling as I may have heard something coming through I threw the recording onto Audacity and began listening in. I received a couple of responses but none that were groundbreaking. Still interested and remembering some of Ms Cardoso’s words that say everything with attempted DRV takes time. A few days later I decided sit down and do another 5 minute session. This time I went for the lower band of the radio and hit right around 540-550 AM. During this session I also placed my recorder further away, since the first recording almost blew my eardrums. This session felt more successful than the previous one. I decided to send a copy of the recording to Clay Coleman as his hearing for EVP is about as acute as a 8^th tour Marine sniper. I realized this time around that after every question there was the faintest of responses but they were there.  Then about 20 min into my review I noticed I had received an email. It was Clay with some good news. In his email he was excited to tell me that towards the end of my recording, I had spoken about how my intentions for DRV are true in nature and was looking for anyone who was willing to give me some guidance. Their uncanny response was “Our Intentions Are What is Beautiful.”   WHOA!!!! Did I hear that correctly??? I played and replayed it over and over. It was true, and Clay was right, those words say quite a bit about everything in this phase of life.

Needless to say I was hooked. This is everything until the present moment. I will be conducting another session tonight maybe a lil longer than the last given the amount of success on the second go around. Tonights session will be around 10pm on 10-24-2011.

Events Unfolding: Guidance from the Stars

There has been an event horizon that has been slowly unfolding before me. I feel like everything that has been happening is not coincidental, and everyone and everything has been for a greater purpose. Here recently we have been contacted to perform a private investigation to help relieve spirits in a home in Seagoville. From what we have been told this location has alot of dark energy and poltergeist type of activity. Now after speaking with the team they were excited for this investigation but at the same time, as I value all of my members input as if it were my own, we as a group were unsure as to the direct path of spirit rescue should be taken. I get a text a few days ago fro Jeffrey Stirl official Host of Unknown Paranormal Radio. He asked If I could fill in for him again as he was working tonight. Me being the one to help other families was obliged to help. 

Low and behold the speaker tonight is an actual Spirit Rescuer, or as some would call a Ghost Whisperer. Now I won't give her personal story away on here as I feel that everyone should find the source of a story. What I will say is that in her life she has encountered some things that would destroy most people I know. Yet she still had the strength to call upon the Man upstairs and seek his guidance. In return help his cause by cleansing homes of spirits, and demonic activity. What does this all mean to me??? I feel that by some cosmic alignment of stars put her in my path at this exact moment in time, and I seriously feel that being able to speak to her and get her story, was very intriguing to say the least. I think she will be playing a role in helping us understand how to better help families in need and deal with anything head on without fear. 

Now, I am normally a skeptic when it comes to mediums, sensitives, and most things of that nature but tonight on the radio show, I experienced something that I cannot explain. I know just I am skeptical of everyone else some of the readers of this blog will be skeptical of my posting. I will be posting the archive for this show so you can tune in and hear it for yourself. The show started off with Kevin and Myself speaking of the events of 9/11 and some of the things that have happened to us and other things that may have transpired because those same events. We finally got our caller online and soon after speaking with her I began to hear voices coming in from the headphones. This wasn't outside noise or the being in a noisy location type of voices. I truly believe that these were of a paranormal nature and that this woman has such a grand following that she also brings forth energy for these spirits to communicate to us. This was very interesting indeed. At one point I heard a male chime in and say Hi. Not any of us. Also if you have done any work in the paranormal these voices were coming in at the same frequency as you would hear from the Ghost Box. Needless to say I believe this woman 100% on who she says she is. I heard first hand spirits wanting to speak with her and were using ITC (instrumental trans communication) to speak to us. Their were full sentences coming through and I found myself questioning what I was hearing for myself. 

This also brings me to my next point I had received another voicemail last night from some unknown person or spirit. I couldn't even make out this voicemail as I am not even sure the voice is even in english. Nonetheless I am sitting here pondering if I am being spoken to by spirits in need. This trip into the unknown has been very interesting indeed. I hope in time every thing will have unfolded itself and shown me what the intention of the universe is. We are living inside a living organism everything around you produces energy and retains a memory of some form. You are still everywhere you have been in your life, and will always be there. I hope to one day help leave behind clues to the afterlife.

Until next time do what you do, and do it well. If you are in the business of helping others then you are already receiving the greatest check known. That is the check of helping others become happy again. It is a great feeling to know that you helped a little girl see daylight for the first time again. Everyday is going to be brighter for her, and she will never forget what we did for her. My only hope is that she returns the favor to someone else in need!