My name is Jesse and I am the Founder and Lead investigator of the Shadow Chasers Team. This is a little backstory about me and my life in the paranormal. It has been a few years ago now, maybe about 5 or 6 years ago, I had my first experience. I woke up one night about two o'clock in the morning and I woke up to go to the toilet, I open my door and I find that my Mum and Brother are awake too becasue my Brother needed to go as well. Anyway I went back to bed and my bed was on the right side of the room up against the wall and my door was on the left wall in the corner. I look to the door and my Mum and Brother are still outside and the hallway light was on. So I look to the door and all of a sudden this tall women in white comes towards me with her hands cupped and she is holding them out, I shoot out of my bed and she was gone. I was really startled at this point. So I go back to bed and the same thing happens and it happens a good two more times. Now I didn't feel threatend by her or anything. The next week or so I tell this story to my Grandma and she said to me that it was her Mum and that she has seen the same women at the end of her bed and she recognises her as her Mother.

 

After this experience I keep on having different experiences everywhere I go and I start hearing them and getting messages, so my Mum an I do some research and talk to some people and It turns out that I'm an Indigo child, and we now know that I can communicate with the dead. When we first heard about this and figured it out, I was scared but now, I take it as a gift everyday. It does have its draw backs but I love it and it makes everyday special and interesting at times. I've help a few people with loved ones who have passed on for example, not to long ago, maybe a month ago I had a great experience. Last year one of our beloved teachers died of cancer and it affected alot of people including the students and teachers. He was such a great person to be around and so helpful, loving and just a great person. When he died it really affected one of my favourite teachers who was really close to the teacher who passed. So about a month ago the teacher who passed came to me and spoke to me. He wanted to give me a message to the other teacher. So I spoke to this teacher and told her the message I recieved for her, and she couldn't believe it. At that moment she was really thinking about him alot and had a cancer scare her self. She was really gratefull and was really happy that I could do that for her.

 

Now thats just the good side of my story. There has been a few bad experiences. One of them stands out the most and it happened this year, and the majority of the people on this team were with me at the time. So this is how it started. My family and another family went camping in Beechworth. This was the second time for us and the first time for the other family. The first time my family and I were here which was only last year(2014),  I totally forgot that the Beechworth Lunatic Asylum was here until my parents told me, so my Mum and I booked a ghost tour on the last night we were there. This was the first ghost tour I had ever done and it was absolutley fantastic. We had such a great tour guide, and not only were the ghost stories great, but the history was too. Anway, so this year(2015) I decided that my Mum and I do it again but with my friends from the other family and one of our other friends who camped with us too. The morning of the tour, it was about 4 maybe 5 o'clock and all i could hear was screaming. Male and female. At first I thought it was the rooster but you could tell the difference between a scream and a rooster, but I was thinking to myself "why can I hear screaming?" Then I realised that the Asylum is just up on top of the hill next to the caravan park. It is literally a 5 minute drive.

 

That whole day I was really nervous about the tour and I had no idea why. Then one by one everyone started to drop out of the tour. The only people left was my Mum, one of my friends, and myself. So we drive to the Asylum and I'm getting really nervous and anxious. As soon as I stepped foot into the lobby, I was sick as a dog. It was like all my air was taken out of my body. We sign in and sit down to wait for the tour to start and I'm getting worse. I go up to go to the toilet and I open the door and I know something bad was going to happen, and the toilet door is right next to the door where you enter the Asylum to start the tour. I go over to my Mum and friend and say that "I need to leave. Something bad will happen to me if i go past those doors. You guys will be fine but I won't be." Above where we are sitting there are stairs that lead to a platform over head, and all I can see are the patients looking down at me and pointing and laughing at me. My Mum and friend take me outside and I'm hunched over like nothing else feeling like I'm going to vomit. Then the owner comes around and asked me if I'm ok. Straight away she knows whats wrong. She takes my Mum and Friend inside tells them whats going on and gets them to start their tour. She comes out with a Stick of sage and starts saging me down and telling me to tell the spirit to go away and swear at it if I have to. We stop and we have a walk around and we are talking and she says that shes like me and she saw something on my back and she was telling me that I had a spirit attachment. When I heard this, I wasn't scared but I was glad that she knew and that she helped me. About that time my Dad and friends Dad were their to pick me up and take me back to the camp grounds. When I got their I just sat their quiet and surrounded by friends and family.