Don’t laugh. There are people out there who seriously believe that every one of us and our whole existence is a technological simulation. There’s a new documentary movie, Code 12, that explores and advocates that theory.
It’s not just this one movie though. There are scientists and others who say that repeating patterns, numbers and codes have existed for thousands of years, and continue to repeat themselves over and over across cultures, structures, and languages, proving that we are living in a matrix, or simulation.
I watched the Code 12 movie while writing this. I admit that I went into it biased against the Matrix Theory. As you know from reading my posts over the last few years, I’m open to the possibility of most paranormal things. For some reason though, this theory gives me a very visceral feeling in my gut. It’s a literal physical feeling I get when I consider this possibility. I don’t like it. It kind of makes me want to punch the matrix theorists.
Is this what I look like to the overlords who are controlling my character in the matrix?
Is it possible that my gut reaction is because I’ve been programmed by the controllers of this simulation to reject any notion of a false reality? Kind of like in a video game when your character isn’t allowed to have certain powers or access certain skills until you have leveled up?
Another theory falls back on religion. In Hinduism your physical body dies and your spirit returns in another body to try again to attain self-knowledge. Reincarnation. How is that different than your game (matrix) player dying and then you bring him or her back to try again to reach a higher level? Is that what’s happening to us?
I find the whole matrix/simulation theory ridiculous. If this is a computer or technological simulation, then who programmed it? If there is a head programmer who is running this game, then how is that different than the theory of an all-knowing God that set up life?
I think the matrix/simulation theory is just a modern techno way to frame our belief about life and death. It’s the same kind of ideas but with different labels.
Sadly though, I’m still hoping I get to wear a bad ass black trench coat at some point. And if we are in the Matrix, would the Matrix allow me to publish a column questioning the existence of the Matrix? If this post disappears suddenly, I’ll know why.
Was this the weirdest Phil Factor post ever? Even as a post about a paranormal subject, I find it very weird. What do you think about the Matrix theory?
Paranormal shows are on just about every channel and they’re all basically the same aren’t they? Yelling about orbs and three people in a circle listening to static and pretending that they heard real words. “Did you hear that? It said my name!” Or, if it’s a fictional paranormal show or movie, the paranormal character is usually an evil alien or spirit terrorizing someone.
Adapted from the Dark Horse comic of the same name, first published in 2012, and written by Peter Hogan and illustrated by Steve Parkhouse, SYFY’s Resident Alien was created by Family Guy alum, Chris Sheridan.
Resident Alien is fictional and not like the previous fictional paranormal shows I’ve watched. It’s funny and insightful, and leading man Alan Tudyk plays his role absolutely perfect.
Without giving away too much, I’ll say enough to hopefully get you interested. An alien from a planet far away is sent to destroy Earth. He crash lands on Earth and isn’t able to carry out his mission. With no way home, he has to pass as a human and that’s where the humor comes in. His interpretation of humans and how they interact emotionally is brilliant. The cast is great and there’s lots of warm insightful moments.
As you can see from the pictures, the Ray P. Flower Library in Watertown, New York is a beautiful library inside and out. The library opened in 1905. The funds for the library were donated by Emma Flower Taylor in 1903 as a memorial to her father. Another girl with Daddy issues, am I right? Maybe that explains why these statues are there. Is Emma still trying to get daddy’s attention even in the after-life? Emma, when will you ever learn?
I’m here tonight writing this from within the library. (The blog is coming from inside the house! Who remembers that line from the movie When a Stranger Calls?) The ghost of Emma has been spotted by both librarians and others visiting the library. Also, many have reported blood-curdling screams in the basement. If there wasn’t a security guard and other people here I’d do a whole Blair Witch thing for you right now.
I am sitting in the room in the library that is dedicated to Emma Flower Taylor. My parents were both from this area and I share a surname with Miss Emma Flower Taylor. Could we be related? I have no idea, but it seems likely. I spent about 90 minutes hanging around this spectacular library. Sometimes I’d sit in one room or area for a bit and at other times I meandered through the halls and stairwells. Unfortunately, I couldn’t go to the basement. It was roped off.
I even spoke aloud to Emma when no one was around. Nothing. Hoping to provoke a response from her ghost I even did a cartwheel when no one was looking.
Between my cartwheel and my salt & pepper hair, I don’t know how a ghost with daddy issues could ignore me! If you’d like to hear some first-person accounts, here’s a video with some of the library staff discussing their experiences with Emma.
Have a great Friday, and thanks for reading! ~Phil
Lucid dreaming is realizing that you’re in a dream when it’s happening. This isn’t a day dream when you’re bored during a Zoom meeting for work. I’m talking full on sound asleep at night dreaming and you realize that you’re in a dream and you exert decisions and control over your actions in the dream. I used that picture above because that’s my go to move when I lucid dream. Sometimes I fly for fun and sometimes I fly when I’m avoiding danger or fighting someone. The preceding sentences are just me typing off the top of my head. Let’s see what some experts have to say about lucid dreaming.
Pic from SleepFoundation.org
According to WebMd.com: “Lucid dreams are when you know that you’re dreaming while you’re asleep. You’re aware that the events flashing through your brain aren’t really happening. But the dream feels vivid and real. You may even be able to control how the action unfolds, as if you’re directing a movie in your sleep. Studies suggest that about half of people may have had at least one lucid dream. But they probably don’t happen often, usually only a handful of times in a year.”
Have you experienced this? What do you do in your lucid dreams?
I love that picture that’s above this sentence. It accompanies a blog post from a British foundation called Drive Forward, which assists young people transitioning from foster care or residential placements to independent living. The lucid dreaming article on there seems kind of out of place, but the British are a little bit more open to alternative learning than we are in the States.
The author, Daviona Plowright , works in Service Operations at Ministry of Justice in the UK. Someone working in the Ministry of Justice writing publicly on lucid dreaming? That’s interesting in and of itself. Her column, which you can find here gives you an outline of how she pursues lucid dreams. It’s an interesting read.
I have no structure or plan for lucid dreaming. It just happens sometimes. I’m going to try her techniques in hope of increasing the frequency of my lucid dreams.
Pic from Nu Sci Magazine
An article from NuSciMagazine.com even theorizes that lucid dreaming results in more insightfulness in our waking hours. Hey, I’m all in on a little extra smarts if I lucid dream!
Some of you have read this because you’re lucid dreamers. I’d be interested in hearing more about your experiences in the comments!
I hope you’re having a great Wednesday! Thanks for reading. ~Phil
To be clear, the podcast is not paranormal. No one is sending it to me psychically. The podcast in question is Greg & Dana’s Haunted Objects Podcast. Over the last several months I have tried several paranormal podcasts. Some are of the “tin hat” type of crowd and others are very knowledgeable and experienced, but the paranormal investigators are not always great broadcasters. Greg, Dana, Conor, and Keelin are anything but boring.
The name of the podcast is misleading. It is about so much more than haunted objects. Greg and Dana are a couple. She’s a self-proclaimed witch and paranormal investigator. He is a paranormal investigator and multi-media producer. Together with their fun loving crew they are producers of some of the most interesting and entertaining paranormal content online, in podcasts, and on TV.
Greg and Dana are also the curators of The Traveling Museum of the Paranormal and Occult. They have an advisory board that includes many of the most experienced and erudite paranormal minds in the business.
On their podcast, they essentially do what I did over the past several weeks with my blog posts, introducing a wide variety of paranormal subjects and exploring the history and science of each different type of paranormal phenomena. They intersperse funny stories from their travels and investigations, and sometimes do experiments to prove or disprove certain phenomena.
The time they went Bigfoot hunting with Jeff Goldblum
Above is a picture from Season 2, episode 5 of Jeff Goldblum’s show The World According to Jeff. That’s the only litmus test that I need. If Jeff Goldblum likes them, then I’m all on board.
If you have a sense of humor, like podcasts and the paranormal, then you need to listen to Greg & Dana’s Haunted Objects podcast.
Also, I would highly recommend that you check out Hellier, a docuseries on Amazon Prime, that they produced a few years ago. There’s two seasons. It follows their several years long paranormal investigation that has some truly bizarre turns. It is so much more fun than those ghost shows.
You can also watch The Unbinding, which chronicles their harrowing experience with a haunted/cursed relic that they discovered in the Catskill region of New York.
Right now there’s only one season of the podcast, but it has over twenty episodes and I’m eagerly awaiting season 2. Hey Greg and Dana, if you ever see this blog post, I’d love to interview you for my blog! Email me Authorphiltaylor@gmail.com or on Twitter @ThePhilFactor
During paranormal month last year the incredible Jimmy Buffett passed away and all of us fans were sad that he his brilliant talent were gone. Then I began thinking about Jimmy Buffett and The Estes Method. At first glance, these two things have nothing to do with each other, or do they?
Jimmy Buffett was a popular musician who filled the heads of millions and millions of boomers with his music celebrating the virtues of hanging out at the beach drinking margaritas. He is probably completely responsible for retirement communities like The Villages in Florida. I’m not looking to move to The Villages, but I enjoy his music, and I’m all in on his living at the beach fantasy.
The Estes Method: If you’re not familiar, it’s a technique created by paranormal investigators Karl Pfeiffer, Connor Randall and Michelle Tate. They created the technique aiming to more accurately capture communication from spirits. Previously paranormal investigators used “spirit boxes” to listen to what they hoped would be cogent auditory messages from the other side.
The “spirit box” is basically a radio that scans rapidly through A.M. and F.M. frequencies.
Paranormal investigators believe that otherworldly entities have the ability to manipulate and communicate through these radio signals. For the last two decades we’ve seen paranormal investigators listen to these static making machines and occasionally shout with joy when they hear what might be a word if you listen really hard. I’ve never been impressed by that. It could be any random word from a D.J. in Spokane bouncing off a satellite and accidentally reaching a random spirit box in Albuquerque.
What Conor, Karl, and Michelle did differently was to start having the person listening to the spirit box wear a blindfold and noise cancelling headphones to remove any outside noise or influence. Then they ask the “spirits” direct questions and hope to get relevant responses. In examples that you can see in Hellier and The Unbinding, they’ve had some surprising success.
So how does deceased musician Jimmy Buffett play into this? Some of you have already figured out where I’m going, maybe because you’re psychic, or just because you know how weird I am.
All of us who were fans of Jimmy Buffett music wish there were more Jimmy Buffett songs. Some tech heads are going to start making Jimmy Buffett knock off songs using A.I. Not me! I’m going to collaborate on new songs with Jimmy using The Estes Method!
Here’s our first one:
Trudging through the snow, it’s miserable in Buffalo
I’m too tired to fight, I just need a flight
Three hours to paradise, I know fleeing life isn’t nice
But I just need sun and a rum drink with ice
That was all Jimmy. I heard it in the headphones. That’s all for now. Me and Jimmy will get back to work after we finish a game of beach volleyball and a couple margaritas! If you have an idea for a few more lines in the song, feel free to add them in the comments!
Just in case you don’t understand the title, my blog guest today, Amanda Paulson, uses “PrettyFNSpooky” as her moniker on most social media.
Amanda Paulson has participated in multiple media projects with paranormal research in the Pacific Northwest, taught workshops on spirit communication and amassed hundreds of thousands of views making spiritual-related content for the company Tamed Wild. In 2022 Amanda created the first Dark History Tour Series for the Campbell House in association with the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture and is in her second term as City-at-Large Representative Historic Preservationist for the Spokane Historic Landmarks Commission. She has been featured in the YouTube series Ghost Files, profiled in popular publications Apartment Therapy and The Inlander, and her personal writing published in Haunted Magazine and The Feminine Macabre Vol.1.
TPF: Hi Amanda and thanks for visiting The Phil Factor. You have a pretty long history of paranormal involvement. Why were you interested in the paranormal, and how did you get started?
Amanda: My experience began when I was 7 years old and living in a haunted duplex with my mom and grandma. I would watch my dolls and other bedroom knickknacks mysteriously move at night and have detailed nightmares about the house being “haunted”. When this activity followed me after we moved, I grew an interest in understanding the purpose of these experiences and finding irrefutable proof. I started investigating in 2008 when I joined the Billings Paranormal Investigative Society in Billings, Montana. They taught me everything I know now about equipment and how to conduct a private or residential cases. I eventually moved away and left the team but they are undoubtedly responsible for my growth and where I am today.
TPF: When I started following you and reading your social media, your Emotive Touchpoint theory immediately grabbed my attention. It rang true to me. Could you tell my readers about your Emotive Touchpoint theory?
Amanda: The Paranormal Emotive Touchpointtheorizes that there are soft spots throughout the world where the other side is closer or easier to contact. These soft spots, or touchpoint’s, present themselves to us by giving us what I call “odd emotions” like nostalgia, deja vu or liminality and do not require the location to be traditionally haunted. They are simply spots that are charged by emotion and still reverberate emotion, that give us a clearer means to communicate with any entity on the other side. Kind of like finding the right station on a walkie-talkie, or a better Wi-Fi connection – I believe the key to it all is to pay attention to our living emotions.
TPF: For most people, when they hear paranormal, they think of seeing or communicating with ghosts. For you, what was your most definitive experience with “the other side”?
Amanda: I have some experiences that I’ve shared on my blog that felt rather definitive (like my time staying alone at the Lizzie Borden House) but today, I’d say my most definitive experiences with the other side are from the mediumship readings that I have been doing for others. I use a technique that allows me to enter a trance state and journey the living’s subconscious and in that space, I sometimes come across messages or visions from people who have passed away. Hearing stories from the strangers that I’m reading for afterward, that match exactly with the spirits I’d been communicating with for them, has provided me with better “proof” than I had ever gathered in my 15 years of ghost hunting.
TPF: You are starring in a documentary, Death Is With Me. What is that about?
Amanda:Death is With Me is a paranormal true crime documentary based out of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State and tells the true story of the Lady of Lake Crescent. It follows my journey researching the Lady of the Lake and investigating her purported ghost. But when the investigations take a strange turn, mine and the crews understanding of the intersection of violence, history and the supernatural, change forever.
TPF: A lot of people fancy themselves to be paranormal investigators. Are there any dangers for amateurs who muck around in the paranormal?
Amanda: It’s my personal belief that there are no outside, spiritual dangers of exploring the paranormal though that can change for others with different spiritual or religious beliefs. I believe though that it’s important to ground yourself and check in with the state of your mental health as you search for the meaning and understanding of life after death. The topics explored in the paranormal field can be heavy and it’s important to know your North Star – your reason why. That inner knowing and strength will guide you and protect you along your search for the other side.
TPF: Amanda, thanks so much for taking the time to share your knowledge and experiences with my readers. Amanda is a great follow on social media, so here are her links:
Readers, as always, thanks for reading! If there are any other paranormal subjects that you’d like me to research and/or get a guest for Paranormal Month, just let me know in the comments!
Yes, it’s Paranormal Month and I am pleased to announce that aliens have landed… on The Phil Factor. Well, maybe not aliens, but a guy who knows a heck of a lot more about them than I do. That’s his book cover above and I love the book!
Multiple award-winning filmmaker and Emmy-nominated casting director Craig Campobasso was fifteen when he started in the entertainment business. Craig has worked behind-the-scenes on blockbuster film classics such as Frank Herbert’s Dune and two Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, Conan The Destroyer and Total Recall. He began his casting career on Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories. He received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Casting for a Series on David E. Kelley’s Picket Fences.
Craig directed, wrote and produced the short film Stranger at the Pentagon, which was adapted from the popular UFO book authored by the late Dr. Frank E. Stranges. In September 2014, it won Best Sci-Fi film at the Burbank International Film Festival. In 2015, it won a Remi Award at the Worldfest Houston International Film Festival for Best Sci-Fi Short. Clearly, Craig knows how to write and he knows about UFO’s and aliens.
TPF: Craig you’ve done a lot in the entertainment industry over the years, contributing to many popular TV shows and movies, but what intrigued me about your career is your enduring love for UFOs and extraterrestrials. How did that start for you?
Craig: I began my casting career on Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories and when the show was completed I had a major spiritual awakening. I began to ponder the meaning of life, what was out there in the great big universe. I lived at The Bodhi Tree, a metaphysical bookstore, and started reading books on spirituality and contactee cases where individuals were having face-to-face contact with beings not of this earth, most of them humans just like us. That fascinated me.
I continued studying the phenomena, met many UFO researchers, began investigating cases with them. In one case, I actually photographed an extraterrestrial. The photo is in my best-selling book The Extraterrestrial Species Almanac. While I was writing the ET Almanac in 2019, I found my biological father whom I had never met, through a genealogist. He had passed in 2006. Long story short I found his brother who literally lived around the corner from me and discovered that Fred Vierow, my biological father was in the Air Force and was a part of Project Blue Book.
Craig: The publisher Red Wheel Wiser books and their imprint MUFON books wanted to do a follow up to the ET Almanac, which is now a documentary I directed, to be released later this year.
We had the head of MUFON send out queries to all the MUFON State Directors to nominate their favorite hotspots. I compiled them, added a few of my own, and wrote the book. The reader will find the story behind each hotspot and or extraterrestrial encounters. You’ll hear from eyewitnesses, see photographic evidence, and learn about the government and military attempts to cover up and control the flow of information. You’ll learn the when, where, up-to-date story, things to do at the site, tour guide information and Sources so you can read more about the hotspot.
TPF: What is the most convincing proof of alien life that you’ve ever seen?
Craig: A photograph I took of an extraterrestrial on a high profile abduction case in the Midwest. Another photograph I took of a round metallic probe flying away from Bell Rock in Sedona. (That picture is in UFO Hotspot book.) Also UAPs (Unidentified aerial phenomena) zipping across the skies through night vision binoculars, and in some cases, mentally communicating with them to move their ship in different directions, asking them to power up their ship, and they produce a light show. Also contactee photographs of ships and the extraterrestrial themselves.
MUFON is a national network of researchers, experts and interested people who track and research UFO sightings. You can join!
TPF: What do you say to people who question the existence of UFOs and aliens?
Craig: I ask them if they believe in God. Most reply yes. Then I ask, Have you ever seen God?
TPF: It’s definitely hard to argue with that logic.
TPF: Here is the question we have all wrestled with. If extraterrestrials landed in your back yard and asked you to go with them for a ride in space, would you go?
Craig: I have been asking this question to actors, some famous, and friends–and most of their replies are yes. The few that said no were terrified of the unknown. There have been many contactees that have been onboard craft not of this earth: George Van Tassel, Dr. Frank Stranges, Howard Menger, early contactees in the 50s and 60s. More recent contactees have been on otherworldly craft numerous times, one man over 100 times. They are featured in my ET Almanac documentary and their story and evidence will be revealed upon its release. I myself would definitely go for the adventure, spiritual elevation, and connecting with our cosmic cousins.
Craig, thank you for sharing your time, experience and knowledge with The Phil Factor audience. For my readers, if you enjoy both reality and fiction books about UFO’s and aliens, instead of forking over more money to Amazon, go to Craig’s website where you can order a book and he will autograph and personalize them! I’ve already got the book and am planning to use it whenever I travel.
Thanks for reading, and keep your eyes on the skies! Stayed tuned tomorrow for an interview with a great psychic! ~Phil
I feature a lot of paranormal content to celebrate Paranormal Month, which I invented (copyright!). When you think about the paranormal you usually think of ghosts, demons, UFO’s and cryptids like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster.
But have you heard about the Mothman? I had heard of Mothman occasionally when consuming paranormal content, but it wasn’t a big topic. The Mothman never gets paranormal headliner status, except in Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. That’s sort of his home region. Despite stories of a winged entity in the Point Pleasant area since the 1920’s, Mothman is still like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster’s little brother, forever in their shadow.
Mothman is an interesting character though because, unlike cryptids, which are usually considered animals that are unusual and difficult to verify, the Mothman (or Mothwomen) are considered to be sentient beings. (Yes, I said Mothmen/women plural. There have been a lot more sightings than people realize.)
The Mothman is often described as being a tall, hairy, winged humanoid being with glowing eyes. Some people have theorized that the Mothman is an alien.
2016 picture of a Mothman flying over Point Pleasant
The Mothman sightings that really captivated the country began in Point Pleasant, West Virginia from Nov. 15 to Dec. 15, 1966. Author John Keel popularized local folklore about the creature with his 1975 book “The Mothman Prophecies.”
Interestingly is that shortly after the Mothman started appearing, so did reports of UFO’s and “Men in Black” (not Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones). In the documentary The Mothman of Point Pleasant there are several eyewitness accounts of unwanted harassment by the Men In Black.
Some believe The Mothman is a bad omen , only appearing when catastrophe is about to strike. There have been many claims that the winged, red-eyed creature was seen right before the Point Pleasant Silver Bridge collapsed early in 1967. That event took the lives of 46 people.
A great book by author JW Ocker with a chapter on the impact the Mothman has had on Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Over the last 50 years there have been reports of Mothmen or Mothwomen being spotted in Vietnam during the war, in Chernobyl, Russia before the nuclear plant melted down, and even a mothman near the Twin Towers before they were hit. Another was reported in August 2007 when the the bridge collapsed in Minnesota.
More recently, starting in the summer of 2011, reports of Mothman-like flying humanoids have been popping up in the Chicago area. The picture below is a map of where those sightings have occurred around Chicago. That’s a lot of sightings, so it’s definitely is not one or two crackpots reporting their hallucinations.
I find the century long story of the Mothman fascinating. If you look back at history, in every country humans have always reported seeing flying beings. Some were thought to be angels, some aliens, some predators. It’s another of those murky paranormal stories that seems to have enough widespread validation that something different is going on but we just haven’t pinned it down.
If you’re more of a watcher than a reader, there is a documentary titled The Mothman of Point Pleasant on Amazon for free. It’s interesting with some very detailed eyewitness accounts. Also on Amazon is a fictional movie based on what happened in Point Pleasant titled The Mothman Prophecies. It stars Debra Messing and Richard Gere, who in the 6 degrees of separation game is only one person away from me. I wonder if The Mothman predicted that?
As they say, keep your eyes on the skies! You never know what you might see. What do you think? Are cryptids like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster real? Is the Mothman a member of an alien species that visits Earth to warn us of danger? Feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts!
Grady Hendrix has no idea that I was going to make his book the first pic on my blog today, but hopefully he’s cool with it. I would be. Today’s paranormal topic is how the paranormal has influenced the housing market. There are literally thousands of real estate signs being put up with NOT HAUNTED as part of the sales pitch.
What? Why wouldn’t you want a haunted house? Why aren’t there signs that say “Haunted”? I would pay extra for a legit haunted house. In the past I had a house that was lightly haunted and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
If you are a fan of the paranormal and want to have more of it in your life, why not buy a haunted house on purpose?
You’re probably saying to yourself, “But Phil, how can I buy a haunted house on purpose?” First off, I like when you use my name when you’re talking to yourself and secondly you can learn how to buy a haunted house on purpose by continuing to read this wonderfully written edition of ThePhilFactor. Read on my friends, I have an answer for you.
Yes, that’s real. There is a website that will tell you if someone died in a house that you’re planning to buy. They don’t promise ghosts, but the in-house death certainly gives you a better shot at having some ethereal company. About 20 years ago when my wife and I were house shopping, there was a house that was up for sale because there had been a multiple murder there. I literally said, “C’mon, imagine the discount we’ll get!” She wasn’t having it.
Amityville Horror House
When I moved last year I was hoping for a little haunting. I walked around my house with an EVP meter and and EMF meter and I got nothing. So disappointing.
But then, on Friday, just two days ago I was emptying the dishwasher when a box of cereal literally hopped off the counter and into the sink. It literally had to move at least four inches to the right and clear a ridge about a half inch high. There is no way that was an accident. Windows were closed and the ceiling fan was off, so there was no breeze. Yesterday I mentioned it to my wife, and she casually said, “I’ve smelled cigarette smoke in the living room.”
We’ve been in this house about eight months. Not once has anyone that was a smoker entered my house. Neither of us smokes. I’ve never smelled the cigarette smoke, but between the flying cereal box and the cigarette smoke, I’m feeling pretty good about my chances of living in a haunted house.
If my house is haunted, I want the full on Stranger Things “my son is in the upside-down” kind of haunting. I want to see my dog walking on the ceiling and not knowing why. I’ll be running around the house with my cell phone recording myself Blair Witch Project style, only to find myself in the closet facing the wall.
So who else is with me in wishing for a haunted house? If so, give me a shout in the comments! Have a great Sunday!
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