Many times, in many places, even though alone, the energy in the location has told me otherwise. I think most people are able to feel that different places have different energies, some places make you feel comfortable, and some places make you feel uncomfortable… Why? Nature has its own energy, and who knows if it’s the spirits of people who lived before us or things we have been part of. This is something we as humans have yet to work out or have forgotten as we have supposedly developed.

A few months ago, I got up before dawn and went for a walk, it happened to be my dead mother’s birthday, who I lit a candle for. I also was thinking about several people I knew who had died in a complicated situation; it was for an article I was writing. From the pre-dawn and dawn that day, my mind was with the dead. For some reason when I returned to the house where I was staying and turned on the electric kettle to make coffee the power quickly cut off, and the power cut out in the whole house. As I started to prepare to light the wood-burning stove the power came back on. In the three months that I stayed in that old house, through winter storms, that was the only time the electricity ever went off. Why? Who knows…

I have many stories of strange things happening and one photo of myself with something unexplainable in it. Many people seem ashamed and embarrassed to talk about such things due to the social restrictions of the circles they move in. Many things are unexplainable in this world, but many humans are so stupid and arrogant that they think they can explain everything. They think they know more than nature when it was nature that created them.

Maybe for most urban people who live in a world of constant noise and bullshit, everything has a reason and a supposed explanation. For the rest of those inhabiting this planet, there can still be a lot of things that are not really explainable.

Mexico is an ancient land with a deep culture where I have spent some time. I remember one night when I was training a police force unit, we had them on a road that was close to an old building, a large disused military barracks, that we were using for training that we had placed under covert surveillance. It was a rural area and there were team members in the bushes and trees close to the road and close to the building. Several times during the training exercise the surveillance teams reported there was noise of movement coming from inside the building, but for sure none of our people were in there. The area was locked down so anyone moving around would have been spotted, also there was no logical reason for anyone to be there, apart from us of course.

The exercise finished in the early hours of the morning and a few hours later when the sun came up, we returned to the old building to resume the training program. What we noticed was some of the equipment we had left deep in the building had been moved. Of course, we first blamed the surveillance teams but the look on their faces was enough to see their innocence. Flashlights would have been needed to enter the building that deep and none had been spotted by anyone. Was it a prank or… Who knows…

For these Mexican cops just to get them comfortable with such things I used a very old graveyard for a following exercise. For some reason, no one wanted to enter the graveyard at night and most were not too happy to be close to the place but, hopefully, they learned those nights that the dead won’t hurt you, they are just curious. Mexico is a land of myths and stories and definitely has a special energy all of its very own.

I owned a security company while living in Miami and one contract I had was for an upscale fashion boutique on South Beach that was housed in one of the old art deco buildings there. Before the boutique was operational, we were securing the building and one morning when I went to check on one of my guards, I found him standing outside. I knew the guy well, a Haitian friend of mine. When I asked why he was standing outside he told me because there was someone inside. Understanding Haitians just a little bit, I understood there was something a lot deeper at play than just site security issues.

My guy was adamant that there was a spirit of someone in the building, and he would not stay or work in the place. A few points were highlighted to me that pointed to the fact that the place had a resident spirit. What could I say, Haitians tend to be very in tune with such things. Spirits are part of their culture, like the majority of the Caribbean and Latin American cultures. Are they wrong or just still connected to things that for the mainstream have no public place for discussion or understanding in the modern world?

A few years after this the boutique hosted an event and the next morning I received a complaint from one of the managers that at one point my guards were absent from the front door and main areas where they were supposed to be. This manager was a little bitch and made a big issue out of this. When I spoke with my guards, they told me they were searching one of the floors of the building because one of them, while on patrol, had spotted someone in a locked-off area. The CCTV confirmed my guard’s stories, but no intruder was seen on the footage. The body language of the guard who spotted a supposed intruder said he had definitely seen something before he rushed off to alert his team members, but there were no pictures of the person he was adamant that he saw. Apparently, other staff members had other similar experiences that came to light and the matter was closed.

I spent quite a bit of time dealing with Haitians and even though most will deny that they believe in it, Voodoo is in their blood. I remember one investigation case where I was approached by an American who was under indictment and asked about the possibility of us getting a deposition, that could save his ass, from a fairly high-profile and shadier than most Haitian, in reference to a US federal corruption case that was going to court in Miami.

When I discussed the case with my Haitian associates who were well connected at the time, the best solution they could give me was to use Voodoo… Don’t giggle, I am very fucking serious and so were they. Several ceremonies could be done to bring this man forward and get him to sit for the deposition that would help to clear the gentleman that was under indictment.

For me, the main issue was how will I sit in a swanky Miami lawyer’s office and tell this potential client that part of our method of investigation will be using Voodoo. Did we have positive results from such methods in the past, well who would believe me if I said yes? Haiti is Haiti, it’s as unique as it is troubled.

We passed on this case as it was a long shot for the gentleman who was under indictment, and I don’t think he would have gone with the Voodoo option. His hopes of getting an excuse for his shady dealings were dashed a few weeks after I met with him when the Haitian businessman who could have helped pardon him was gunned down in a Port-au-Prince street.

Exorcisms still go on and are recognized in many religions, this is a fact. One location in the Caribbean where I ran a close protection course was a site that was used by the Catholics for Exorcisms. This we found out after a lot of weird shit happened.

What was strange from the start was a pretty unsecured building with lot of valuables in it. It was an old seminary but there were still elaborate Priest’s robes and chalices in the main hall. Obviously, the church that owned the property had no fear of the items being stolen, even though crime could be considered high on the island.

The guys on the course and myself were staying in the building as well as working from there. As with any building, there were always noises. But several sightings could not be explained, and again the looks on the guys’ faces were enough to prove their innocence when stories were questioned, and facts checked. I personally had something happen that I cannot explain and have a photo that caused some concerns when those with me saw it. Even today it causes concerns for some that see it.

The end result was we moved to another building in the complex and a number of the guys then refused to even go back into the haunted building during the remainder of the course. But even in the new accommodation there were issues, I will say it had a weird energy… One guy was refusing to sleep in his room after he felt someone lie on the bed next to him, but there was no one physically there…

A while after the course had finished and I had left the Island I received a video from one of the guys on the course who worked at a luxury villa complex next to the Church property. The video from the property’s security cameras showed one of the high fences that divided the properties being violently shaken, but there was no one in the footage shaking the fence. The trees were also still, but there was clearly an issue with the fence. The fence also happened to be very close to an area where a couple of the guys on the course had seen some strangers whose presence no one could explain.

The presence of spirits is acknowledged in many cultures, from my experience I have heard old and new stories from Europe, the Caribbean, the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East… How could places so far apart, centuries ago, have such similar stories, and in some ways, traditions acknowledging spirits that have survived until our present time if there was no substance?

Maybe as humans, during our development, we have forgotten and lost more than we will ever know. Real knowledge, earthly knowledge, things our ancestors took for granted. But, who knows, I just know it’s not worth trying to explain some things, just accept their energy and remember, the dead won’t hurt you, they are just curious…

Orlando “Andy” Wilson

Books on Amazon!
Social Navigation: A Practical Survival Guide For Human Interactions
In this book I’m sharing some of my experiences, in addition to giving you hard love advice on how to deal with those who you encounter.
Audio Book @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FDL1CBL3
Kindle @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4FTBS42
Paper Back @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C47JD1BZ
Hard Cover @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKGQVNH7