Wallydraigle said:

I've seen this alluded to a few times.  Was it some ridiculous story they told on one of their horrible sit-down discussion episodes?  Because I don't think I ever made it through one of those.

If this had happened to me and I was in the public eye, I do not think even under the pain of death I would have told this story, but Jason did.

Excerpt:

"At the age of twenty, I had gotten involved with a lady who practiced Reiki, a Japanese technique for stress reduction, relaxation, and healing that depends on the manipulation of a person's life-force energy. 

At first, I was skeptical about the idea of life-force energy.  The after six months or so of exposure to this technique I started seeing things.   Usually it started off with a mist, out of which emanated a dim light, and then out of the light came other things–including see-through animals and full-body human apparitions."

He would point them out to other people who thought he was crazy and he thought he was going crazy.  He consulted with John Zaffis who determined he was becoming more sensitive to paranormal phenomena.  He then started Rhode Island Paranormal that eventually became TAPS. more as a support group to help him with his new sensitivity and learn how to shut it off. But none of them could help him.

"Then one day at the aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut, a woman in her fifties came up to me out of nowhere and ask in a tender, almost intimate way, "How are you doing?"

It was a strange question to ask someone you had never met.  Before I could answer her she continued.  "Hon",  she said, "you're seeing things, I know.  But you can make it stop.  Try green olives, I will see you again soon."

He tried it and it worked and he has never seen the lady again.  However, if he stops eating olives the visions come back.

http://books.google.com/books?id=mejZ0r-YoakC&pg=PA12-IA3&lpg=PA12-IA3&dq=Jason+Hawes+green+olives&source=bl&ots=THy_uBueiW&sig=sLjpUv1051hVaFmm5ufCVfPN_qU&hl=en&ei=poAZStGeG5j4MaX-sJwP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA12-IA3,M1

Alicat I hope you can see it from the link.  If not, Google: Jason Hawes green olives  Google books lets you see certain pages of the book.  The story is on pages 2 & 3 of the book Ghost Hunters by Jason, Grant and a guy from TAPS.

The story of the lady starts on page 2.  "Involved with a lady" could mean a lot of things, I suppose, but I took it as in a romantic involvement.  It doesn't fit with his wife's story, unless they decided to break-up and date other people for awhile.  A "bottle a day" would have me seeing things!

Wallydraigle: Whoa, that's messed up.  This is from the book, then?

Yes.  Their own words.  Hard to believe.

Oubliette: How any sane adult could believe this BS is way beyond me.

That is why I said on the pain of death would I ever put that type of story out to the public.  I am with you though. . .if it was true, why not do scientific experiments with it?  Seems like it would be handy in his line of work.  Ilike your theory while he was doing Reiki, but he claims he will get them again if he doesn't do his olive therapy.  If he was convinced that it would happen without the olives his brain would oblige?  After the olive incident, he met Grant. 

I might actually have to buy the darn book. . .can you all imagine the number of topics we could pull out of there? 

Okay, Grant's experience dealt with a heavily wooded area in Rhode Island. . .recurring incidents that happened from age 15 to 17.   Jason said he would be more specific, but it is touchy subject for Grant.

page 5

UFO's? 

Page 11:  "Grant's driving passion is to make paranormal investigations more scientifically acceptable.  Me?  Even with the evidence in front of me, I am pretty skeptical.  So we balance each other out."

alicat said:

Hannah,

No, I could only read from page 3 forward.  Pages 1  & 2 were blank.  On top of that, the edges of the postings on this particular thread are cut off from the top of the column at Libray through Archives,, somewhat on an angle so I am missing words at the end of each line. 

Is there anyone else having a problem in this forum thread?

Thanks

The pages on this thread are cut off. 

I am so sorry you cannot see the book, the page will read 12 on the top, I am referring to the page numbers I "see" on the actual book. 

At Amazon you can look at a few pages.

http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Hunting-Unexplained-Phenomena-Paranormal/dp/1416541136