Paranormal Season: Ghost Hunting Tools, Residual Hauntings, and Signs From the Other Side
As Halloween season approaches, Rachel Corpus answers listener questions about ghosts, haunted objects, and the thinning veil, demonstrating her REM-Pod, dowsing rods, and pendulum along the way.
Dimensions, the Thinning Veil, and Ghost Tools
Rachel Corpus opens the show explaining that listeners "didn't hold back" this week, sending questions about ghosts and hauntings just as the seasons turn toward fall. She walks through her framework of dimensions, describing the third dimension as the "administrative" business of daily living, the fourth dimension as the realm of guides, ancestors, angels and extraterrestrials, and the fifth dimension not as a destination but as a vibrational frequency already available in moments of peace. She reframes the veil itself as a conscious, feminine presence rather than a simple curtain, saying it "has started to come back awake." Rachel then introduces the paranormal-investigation gear she and her partner Ed use, including a REM-Pod that beeps when touched by spirit, an SLS phone app that renders a presence as a stick figure, and a trigger teddy bear that lights up on contact. She mentions a ghost currently in their closet and a live-streamed Victorian house investigation planned for October.
Telling a Ghost From Something Else
Tom from Duluth, Minnesota asks how to tell a ghost apart from something that was never human, and what to do upon encountering one. Rachel answers with a lesson in psychic discernment, describing how she trains her own body to recognize a true "yes" by repeating a known fact, like her own name, and noticing where the sensation lands, for her, in her belly, then practicing a "no" with an untrue statement to learn that feeling too. She says this training must happen before any encounter, so the ego does not hijack the moment with fear. In the moment, she advises asking directly, "what are you," and feeling the answer as it arrives, whether telepathically, verbally, or in a dream. She recommends building a relationship with guardian angels beforehand, assigning them signals like ringing ears, and offers Tom a phrase to use on anything that feels dark: "You are safe with me, take your costume off."
Sensing a Presence and Clearing the House
Megan from Georgia writes in feeling like someone is in her house and wanting to know how to tell if it is really a spirit. Rachel begins with boundary-setting, teaching listeners to stand at the heart of their home and declare it their own space, reminding everyone that no one truly owns land, only tends it as custodian. Her practical exercise is to sit quietly in every room for about ten minutes without music, feeling for an extra presence the way someone senses another person entering behind them before they see them. Once a person has mapped how the house feels, they decide whether it needs clearing. Rachel describes clearing as reasserting boundaries with sage, incense, music, or a bell while walking the home and declaring it cleared, turning any heavy energy back into "source's light" rather than banishing it. She closes by saying most presences will leave simply when asked politely.
A Residual Haunting on a Flagstaff Road
Derek from Flagstaff describes seeing a figure standing by the road at night, then finding someone in his backseat after looking away and back. Rachel jokes about the fright before turning serious, explaining that what Derek drove through was a residual haunting, a repeating imprint rather than a conscious spirit. She describes a story that came through of a woman, first name Brooke or Brooklyn, killed near that stretch of road around 1978 after a kidnapping, and uses her dowsing rods to confirm Derek passed through during the same time of night she died. She says the imprint cannot follow anyone home and, according to the message she receives, does not even know it is repeating. Rachel suggests Derek return to the spot alone, leave a biodegradable offering such as an apple, and speak a short acknowledgment of the woman's story and passing, explaining that this dissolves the residual layer rather than crossing over a soul who has, she says, already moved on.
Perfume Visits and Recurring Dream Houses
Laurie, grieving her grandmother, asks how to know if the scent of her grandmother's perfume is really a visit. Rachel says yes, describing shared memory as a kind of collective "sandbox" that lets loved ones use a person's own brainwaves to recreate a familiar smell, comparing it to the way ketamine therapy patients report smelling paint or citrus during treatment. She shares that she keeps a bottle of her own grandmother's discontinued Vanderbilt perfume for hard days. Anthony from Oregon describes recurring dreams of a house he has never seen but knows his way around. Rachel distinguishes two dream patterns for him, one showing a parallel version of himself working as a manager at an unfamiliar department store, and another, older house with oval, bowed-glass photographs that she reads as a past life. She encourages Anthony to try binaural beats and to practice meditating with his eyes open, which she says keeps him more grounded rather than instantly traveling into the "quantum realm."
Haunted Buildings, Cleared Objects, and Closing Blessing
Jenna from a building she once toured describes feeling suddenly ill and blocked from entering a hallway, later learning a reclusive alcoholic man had died there. Rachel says his spirit, upset that his belongings were being treated as junk before a planned banquet-hall renovation, was making visitors sick to protect his space. She recounts helping Jenna negotiate with him, moving his most treasured items into an old coal chute in the basement so he could stay without disturbing the new use of the building. Lucas asks whether objects can hold someone else's sadness, and Rachel demonstrates clearing one, an uncleared teddy bear from a paranormal shop, using incense smoke and a pendulum, checking yes-and-no answers before declaring the item safe. She also describes clearing a newly purchased Ouija board and dismisses the idea that using one alone is dangerous, calling it a myth from horror films. The episode closes with a channeled blessing from the angels and Rachel's reminder to keep your "halo straight."
