Story1:

More than 20years ago when I was working in Seremban, I used to scale Gunung Angsi most Saturdays and Sundays for a couple of years. I normally used the Ulu Bendul trail. Initially I go with a group, but later on it was mostly solo.

I felt I know the route very well and start doing early morning hike up to see sunrise at the peak. Nothing unusual ever happened. Then one day I wanted to do a sunset hike..going up at 4pm, stay at peak to watch sunset and then go down. On the way down, I lost my way. I'm not very sure how it happened..but I was unable to figure out where I was. The jungle looks very different from what I was familiar with. I decided to just follow the stream.

Some 1hr later, I thought I saw another trekker with his torchlight on the other side of the stream. I shone/waved my torchlight towards him but he doesn't respond. Without thinking much I crossed the stream to get to him, but as soon as I wet my feet, he has disappeared. When I get to the other side of the stream, I can see the familiar trail nearby and managed to safely descend.

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It’s more like, you don’t want to be an uninvited visitor when all of them are “awake” 🤣😅. During the day time, only the guardians roaming around and most of them know/get used to human presence.. At night, the entire “kampong” were on their daily routine.. if suddenly human with their hot blood appeared.. they would be panic and furious.

Cremation has no effect, the soul still guard the place where the ashes are placed, just think of it like a normal grave is landed property and the columbarium are Condos.

I think I will share one of the story that made me learn a lot about the concept of Hell. if you all want to know, wandering spirits can actually hide from people that can see them if they wanted to. I remember I made a trip to Genting with my coursemates after our final exam, I was driving, and after the trip, we drove back to our hometown, my coursemates were all from the same hometown, so of course the last one to go home was me lor. I remember reaching home wee hours of the morning, around 4am. As my brother opened the gate. he tapped on my car window and told me someone riding on top of my car, ask me to halau first before driving into the carpark (then he went back to sleep). So I got down from the car and saw that a wandering spirit was really sitting on top of my car, a Malay Pakcik. (so for people with 3rd Eye, maybe you can confirm if this was common, but for me, when communicating with spirits, more like you are saying something in your heart, not spoken out verbally). I ask the Pakcik what he wants and why he follow me back. The Pakcik told me, he has been stuck in Genting for a long time, then saw my car passby and he felt that I can see him, so he tag along, and he wants me to help him "crossover".

I don't know why, maybe I was in a good mood, so I told him can he wait near the bamboo groves near my house (now you all know why never plant bamboo in your house compound). Few hours later I call my Sifu to ask what should I do, my sifu just told me do a simple ritual to help him cross-over, just need to prepare some stuff and chant some simple sutras. So I did lor. Prepare the incense, some hell money and offering of fruit, meat and Guinness. As night came, I told the Pakcik, "Are you ok if I use Buddhist way to send you cross over, as I do not know Muslim way"...he replied whatever as long as can Jalan.

So started to burn the incense and candle, then burn a request with the Pakcik's name, while chanting, then stop chanting and burn the hell notes. The Pakcik recieved the money after completely burning it and ask what are these for? I told him later there will be hell guards coming to escort you to the place you suppose to go, these are to eh...hmmmm..give to the guards as derma ikhlas (not bribing ar..derma) few moments later, the Hell guards came, started to enjoy the offering and drink the Guinness, then saw the Pakcik giving them the derma and the Pakcik left with the guards.

Nest day I went to my Sifu's place and ask him, how come our Buddhist way works on a Muslim? then he told me how the system works.

So to explain it so that all the k'tards here can understand. Basically Hell is like a SSC (Shared Service Centre0 just like large conglomerate has an SSC for Payroll and such. A soul is brought down to hell and there are 18 levels, each level has a judge and each level punishes for different bad deeds, example Soul A will report himself to Level ! that punishes for Greed, and the judge will read to the soul what kind of Greed sin that the soul has committed and how long he needs to spend at Level 1, after he pays of for the Greed Sin, he goes to level 2 that punishes for being unfilial, if Soul A did not commit any Sin of this type, he moves to level 3 and so on. So at the end of the Level 18, the individual reps from the Souls's religion will come and take the Soul to the next point.

any Questions so far?

They can be spirits or something else (I call them "dan lain-lain). To put it in simple terms, different people with different energy or luck will see different stuff. if they move away when you walk near them, means your fire damn stong
That one no effect...they will have their fave violin with them.
Hell Guards, Dato kong, Orang Bunian, Penduduk...you name it lar....

Really old spirits can take 1 of 2 path, become an enlightened being (hence becoming a guardian of a place) or become an evil being. And it takes them a long time to reach the state. if anyone has been to the Inari Shrine in Kyoto, if you walk up the path of the Tori gates, further until you reach behind the hill, where there is a grave yard, for people that has the 3rd eye, can go see there. the Giant Fox guardian of that place. The Chinese call these Guardian "山神" or "Mountain Gods". I'm been a chubby guy all my life, so I went there with my sister, my sister is on the track and field team, so you know, she likes mountani-trekking, me being on the fat-chubby side, hated any activity that has "walking up an incline" in it. My sis just happily jogging up the path while I already kaki sakit, waist sakit, and not enough breath. Then she ran down again ask me to faster come, (my sis can smell spirits when they are around but can't see them) she said got a very sweet calming smell coming from a graveyard, so I just go and take a look, lo and behold, a giant fox guardian.

ya walking distance. like near the schools too. i don't think the house is dirty la. anyway the next house more things. later i story. the new owners no problem, they're actually my neighbours.

Muggles like us miss out all the good (and bad) of the spirit world.

Which is good because I have a feeling A LOT of us would abuse or find despicable ways to utilize the benefits that world can offer if a big proportion of us have our eyes opened to it. Human greed and fear can have to bounds anyway.....

That is due to the fact that the majority of people will think:

1) The person is completely bonkers

2) The person is a penunggang agama conman and is out to cheat people.

I've actually gotten pissed off at a few of my close friends who knows, because they went and tell their friends and they ask my friend to bring them come see me for some ritual. I politely decline them and tell them I am not a professional situ, my job is the Regional Procurement Head for an MNC then ask them to seek advice from other sifu.

I can imagine.

Nevermind the labels other humans will call them.... having to see gore sights all day long is not something I would enjoy for the long term.....

People are born with this ability at differing levels I guess, for example me and my brother, his gift is a lot more than mine...up to the extent that he can slap the shit out of the spirits if he wanted to without the help of any "barang". Me, my fire is a lot more fierce, so a lot of time, the spirits cannot do anything to me (spirits ar...the "dan lain-lain is different story). From when I was a kid, I've had the 3 barangs that I carry until now, because I need to be able to protect myself.

Then there are those just born with the ability to see the spirits, and that is all, so normally they are very scared of the spirits.

Nope the condo is not fully occupied. The real malay neighbour is real as ive seen her many times.

Definitely those things are not real people, as they do this the whole day which no real person would do. No mix up, they are the same thing, as same voice.
Hi bro,

1. After they have revealed themselves I did go to a psychologist, thinking it’s schizophrenia. After hearing my story which is awkward to tell, he suspected schizophrenia and prescribed medications for it.

2.In the beginning these beings usually disturb about a month and then they would be gone for 2 months and then disturb for another month again but the past year it’s been everyday. Even when I took medication in the beginning, the disturbance still happens in this pattern.

They were always threatening me to go overseas or they would disturb me. In the beginning when I was fearful I did go overseas to take a rest thrice and each time, I only hear them up to the airport and when I was overseas I did not hear them at all. Twice when I came back from overseas I did not hear them for 2 weeks to a month before they return. On the third time, on entering Malaysian airspace I heard them again in the plane. Their voice is subtle like from far away so I think people may not take much notice especially in a noisy environment. I ditched the medications after this as I am then convinced that this is not a sickness.

I’m positive the old house behind neighbour can hear them as she usually shouts at her children and I can hear her shouting about what these things said. But I didn’t go to her and ask as not close to her. In my condo it’s the residents from different floors that shouted at them I think as not many people on my floor. They seemed afraid of people scolding them as they toned down after that and dare not talk much about god anymore. I did hear the Indonesian maintenance guy of the condo calling them animal spirits from a few floors down and when I got him over to my place to do some maintenance some time later, I brought up the topic of whether he heard voices in the condo, he sounded nervous and immediately changed the topic.

4.I do not remember any special incidence.

5.Actually it’s my own assumption that they can’t takeover the body and that they are always at a distance as their voice are usually subtle like speaking from far away. The sifu kept calling them, saying he wants to negotiate, assuming they would take over my body. After half an hour and this failed he got me to drink a flower water and lighted incense close to my nose. He said he has one case like this too and that the person is well again after getting enough sleep and exercise and just ignore and not think about them.

Ps: Thanks bro for the recommendation.

not much stories there any more. i can't remember, when i talk to my mom if she's in the mood maybe got more la cos i was young and nothing actually kacau me.
the next house more stories. this one in Bandar Menjalara. nice end lot unit, 10 ft land at the side i think about 20-30ft extra at the back. the whole row facing the big main road jalan kepong to LDP. really nice neighbourhood to live in too bad they sold it when i was still in school if not i would have done something to hold on to the house.
back then about 20 years ago la, the back of the house was a steep hill down all the way to the main road. the developers planted like a row of trees on the top right after the back of our houses as sort of a "barrier". blocks out some sound from the road as well. sometimes at night those racers still accident and can hear as i was using the bedroom at the back.

this house had many gloomy spots. the living room was split into sort of 2 areas, one where the TV was and the other was sort of a place for receiving guests. the TV area was extra gloomy. added to that it was next to the staircase bottom so we made a storage area under there, quite messy so it added to the whole thing. when the house was new and just moved in all was ok, over time i guess the energy in the house was not good. so it took a turn for the worse and those things started getting stronger? or maybe they just moved in cause nobody bothered and so much negative energy.

it came a time maybe 1-2 years before selling it off to our neighbours the whole house was like shrouded in gloom. no matter how many times u change the lightbulb also same got one layer of like gloom like that. don't know how many times i changed my room lights, initially it will be brighter but still got like sort of a "fog". after a while gave up. i think i was like 16 or 17 then, not like i can move out. aside from that there was always a feeling of someone watching me in the house. my computer was next to the door, so i would leave the door open most of the time unless i wanted to play loud music or game at night. always i would feel like someone is outside watching. got so used to it that i never realised it's something until i moved to my current place.

at night going down to get a drink from the kitchen is a real challenge, no matter how many lights i turn on it will still feel very dark. i would never go to the kitchen in the dark to get anything. how also must on all the lights all the way to the kitchen or where ever. i was still very stubborn la. 17 and 18 years old time at night go yum cha with my friends come back 3am etc kena marah also don't care.

back then my dad didn't install any aircon in any rooms because he said electricity bill too expensive so i had no choice but to leave the windows open at night, if not it will be too stuffy. the issue was outside the window it's like pitch black. total darkness. it's super scary. for me nothing happened but i always felt spooked, but my sister kena damn kao. if she didn't close the windows before sunset, that night sure will have something in the room, it will move her make up or whatever on her dressing table. she would wake up with hand prints on her leg or arms. when she was younger she even sleep walked quite a bit. she was weaker when younger, had asthma so i guess these things can prey on her. when older a bit she had to leave the bible open before sleep and it must be a specific page. i don't know which page but if my mom clean the room or someone accidentally turn the page then at night sure kena kacau again. best thing is i don't sleep till late and i never notice anything even though our rooms are next to each other.

my mom told of one experience early in the morning like maybe 4am or something. my grandma used the groundfloor room and she will wake up maybe 5am do some light house work like sweeping etc. but she will just take care of ground floor but that day my mom heard something sort of like sweeping up to the 2nd floor so she like half wake up to see, maybe my sister came to use her toilet or whatever. instead she saw a 3 feet tall thing walking covered with a cloth, but not fully white she said got pattern like table cloth flower type. it moved from the stair case into her room and into the toilet. my mom also like don't care la, half sleep half wake up. the thing never kacau her that night so she didn't bother. she is damn brave dealing with all these since young kena a lot.

Not really, it was much tougher living in that house in pj, was there for 10 years even though it was unpleasant.

For these beings it was only tough in the beginning when i do not know what they are capable of, nowadays i just treat them like an annoyance like a fly. But as long as i dont think and take seriously what they say then i wont get affected. They seem to try very hard to provoke fear even though it doesnt work nowadays, maybe they feed on the negative energy i do not know. I just take it as training as i plan to move up to the mountains to live one day where i heard beings are more vicious as souls are trapped by the vicious energy of the mountain.

Seen 2 mediums and 1 ghost catcher. One medium told me theres a problem, another told me no problem.

looking back i don't think it was really the house la. i think it's my dad. he probably disturb something or has weak energy. cos my mom remarried and i'm living with my wife so far 0 of these things happen la. i don't keep in touch with my dad much. but i know he isn't doing well economically la, enough to live but not great that type.

it’s not God, also not a demon, it’s semiGod/demiGod I think. They are the guardian of the shrine.. it could see your deepest heart, as long as no bad intention and be respectful, can go in.. bring some offering and incense stick
Hahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

This reminds me of a family vacation involving my generation (all my cousins) we had at Cameron highlands when we were in our younger days. The Hotel we stayed at rhymes with "Turn". So we all stayed in the same floor, took around 8 rooms. Me and my brother were staying in different rooms, and we were bunking with our cousins lar. The first moment we went into the rooms, my younger brother come and find me, he asked "How? they are everywhere". I just replied "Already check in, and we are here, should be no problem lar, just tell them don't kacau us...and you also don't fly into a rage and start wacking them, later people think you are a nutjob"

So as young people, we drank and played cards until very late at night lar. So slept at 4am...then at 5am, the cousin I am bunking with said "who the hell is playing basketball this early in the morning" because can hear like sound of basketball being dribbled coming from corridor.  Because the cousin are all more senior than me and my brother, I went out to the corridor to check lot. So there was this kid with a ball at the corridor. His back was facing us. Then I hear another room door opening behind me..my brother also awake. Normally, if it was another person, seeing a kid in the corridor of a hotel with a ball at 5am in the morning would be terrifying. But for me and my bro, it was just a "can i get this over with so that I can sleep" moment. So I just walk up to the kid..and the kid did one of those slow turn around like in the movies. Basically he was trying to scare us....so I jsut waited for him to turn around, he didn't have any eyeballs, just empty sockets. I then told the kid we were all trying to sleep, if you are trying to scare us, it aint working, see that Kor Kor behnd me? He will give you the beating of your life if you pissed him off even more. Basically the kid just nodded and went into an empty room (I assume it was empty, because not many people staying during that time)

9am we all went down to take breakfast, my cousin ask me, this morning was it one of "those". I said yes, then he said "should we change hotel?". At the breakfast place, there was already a few "spirits" roaming about, I guess one of them heard what we were talking and the spirit told me "Don't bother, all the hotels here are full of us".....end of story.

Fuiyoh..pandainya the guessing. We're a Hainanese Family, Hainanese are famous for their kepala angin, my brother had a very short fuse, first year in Uni, he already use glass bottle to wack the security guard at his Uni, until I had to go over and settle. Basically he can be very nice but then if you pissed him off, things take a very fast and nasty turn...luckily now he has a kid and the temper is no more.

It is important to buy a place that the FS is suitable for you, sometimes it may be good FS for one but not necessarily for another and sometimes the good FS doesn't necessarily flow to you.

Another thing, a home with a bad FS doesn't necessarily mean it is bad as there are many things that can be done to improve the FS.

Finally one thing to note, just because the house has excellent FS, it does not mean that you can just let it be, it does require maintenance and upkeep.

Some houses or more usually the land have an excellent FS to it, anyone that owns and or stays there usually would benefit from the good FS. Some the FS is only good for the owner but no one else (This is definitely the case with many commercial buildings)

There are some houses that due to some characteristics of it such as the direction it faces, the main decorative materials or even the numbers it will be good FS for some people because most likely the direction or the numbers match them therefore it would normally be good for them but for someone else it would be just a normal place or it could even be a bad place. There are some houses that the FS is only good up until a certain time for the owner, usually after 2 cycles of the zodiacs (meaning rat to rat till the next rat year) and would then require either renovations or in some cases a complete rebuild and usually when it is rebuilt the position of the main door would be amended.

Maintenance and upkeep is just what it means, keeping the house tidy and neat is often a good practice, doors and the center part of the house often requires things to boost or balance the elements, these could be things such as crystals etc.... have a horseshoe above your door? Make sure that thing is kept clean. Garden? Has any tall trees grown in front of your house? Prune it to make sure it isn't blocking light and air flow. Dead branches?? Get rid of it. Dead leaves?? Keep those outside your compound or get rid of it. Grass has lots of brown spots? Remove it and let it regenerate. (Some grass types it is a good practice every 5 years to cut it till soil level so all the browned out ones are removed. Leaky taps and pipes?? Address them. Blown light bulbs? Either remove the lamp or replace the bulb. Holes in the wall? Cover it especially if it is in your bedroom or work area within the house. Rotting wood? Repair it.... this is especially important for certain elements especially if you are a "fire" character as rotting and wet woods zap your fuel. Rust on metal surfaces? Sort it out. Creeper plants taking over your walls?? Remove it. Same goes for moss growing on your walls. Drains?? Make sure they are clean especially the ones that surrounds your compound. Stagnant water or ponding within your compound? If it is a grass area sort it out, cemented or stone/tiled area just keep it clean so algae or mold doesn't grow. Cracks on the walls, floor or ceiling? Fix it. The other thing to watch out for is the surroundings, any new buildings, a renovation the neighbor did and very often a tree from the neighbor, are any parts of the neighbor's tree coming into your compound? Cut it off, especially if it is a root.
Interesting, last year and year before last the main troubles weren't really to do with my own real estate investments but more along the lines of very very difficult clients that were demanding truffles for their projects but wanted to pay peanuts. The other troubles were with the wife.... had several wars with her including a big one in the early part of last year which ironically was due to a shithole house which used to belong to her father.

This year seems good since CNY other than I have 14 houses that I need to sell and haven't had a viewing..... need to sell it off so could buy a house in French Quarter.

in hotel.. behind clothes

my office attached to hotel linen
can see the rows of clothes in front..
that night.. i work night shift... opening laptop suddenly heard woman crying behind clothes... i not dare to go and look
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Since a lot of people say they miss this "lejendari thread", maybe I just share one recent incident. One of my local Chinese colleague (why I say local Chinese is because I am working in China) just moved into new apartment which they bought a few years back which is now completed. He is from Fujian Xiamen and they share a lot of similarities to us Malaysian Chinese in terms of culture, but since they are a young couple with a young toddler daughter, they did not follow some of the religious stuff that their parents followed.

So before CNY holidays, we were chatting in the office and he has been telling me, his toddler daughter around 20 months old seems to be not getting used to the surroundings of the new apartment. I ask how is that so? Then he said they have a 2.5 room apartment (the 0.5 room is a very small study room). So they put a small bed in that room for the daughter to take nap and such. The toddler just refuses to go into that room, and if they tried to make her, she will fight tooth and nail and cry like its the end of the world. 

Me being me told her, a lot of times, really young toddler can actually see stuff that adults cannot see, so she might have seen something that is scaring her.  Then he said he doesn't quite believe in "unseen entity" and ask me why am I so superstitious. Then my other colleague who was also there chipped in "This fella can see stuff you and me cannot see" and then we left it at there. After CNY now that we are back at work, he came and approach me and ask me if I can go to his apartment to "take a look". I kinda suan him saying "Why, I thought you don't believe in "unseen entities"?" Seems he went back to Xiamen and had a talk with his gradmum and his grandmum say why don't ask your friend to help take a look.

So on 20th Feb, I was at the front door of his Apartment, level 7 unit 303. Going to other people house in China without a small gift is very rude, so I got him a carton of beer. He welcomed me in and then showed me where the small study room is. From where I was standing I already knew something inside but since I don't feel a lot of terror or pressure, I knew it was a human spirit. So i just ask them to just sit at the living room area, I go into the study myself. I open the door and immediately all the signs that a spirit is present, felt colder, and uncomfortable. I step in and close the door. Then i just let whatever is inside that I know its there, please stop hiding (yes, they can hide if they want to). Lo and behold, this shadow of man appeared, from what I can see is, he is wearing the clothes of a worksite worker. It can be said that he has malevolent tendencies. I just started to communicate with this spirit, it showed me how he died....falling from height (that is why safety harness is very important people, when you work at height, if you see unsafe condition at your workplace, you have the right to stop it and report to the safety manager)

I told the spirit, this is no longer you space, so you need to move on, and he said he don't know how to move on and he is still angry he had to die her leaving his family back in the kampung. So i told him I can help him move on, but will he agree, what are his terms? So he agreed to some terms (basically people think that exorcism is like in the movies where the monk or priest use power to fight the spirit, actually a lot of times, it is negotiating with it what he wants)

So came to an agreement, need to burn offering to him and stuff. Now this is the best part......the place I am staying is not like in Malaysia, simply simply can find those shops that sell josssticks and paper offerings. My colleague had to buy from Taobao all the offerings we need. The stuff is all from Guangzhou. and they arrived 23rd Feb morning at his apartment. So last night, I help him with the prayers and we burn the paper offering, of course with roast chicken, and other food offering. I told the spirit, now you received the stuff liow, there is a few items, there, that later 2 guards from the basement dept will come get you, you just need to give the stuff to them (sorta like paying toll).

This was one of the easier case, where the spirit did not have a lot of request, but there is one real world request, he ask that my colleague please provide some support for his young daughter back in the kampung to go to school. So my colleague also found the family and is going to give RMB 5k to support them thru hard times. The family very surprise, but we just say we knew their son/hubby when he was here working.

End of story.

Bro...how also still..communist country. it's easier to find those shops at southern region of China. Even near to the temples here, only got jossticks. Want to get those paper baju, Mercedes Benz, house, all tarak. Not like in Malaysia, can find latest iPhone, LV, Buggati....

This time is lucky, there those rare time where the spirits are degil, then need to wack them, but this is very very rare and bad karma if they did not try to harm us first. If they did and we wack them as self defence then still not as bad karma. How we wack them....I have a very old takrut that when I hold in my hand I can wack them.

I only help my colleague because his young daughter getting scared. Normally i try not to busybody because I cannot help everyone. I ask my colleague to keep everything I done a secret.

Hmmmm, it's a little bit more complicated than that. What you are doing is effective to a certain extent. Every year, the specific group of debtors is different, if to explain in layman term, let's classify the Debtors into HR (High Risk), MR (Medium Risk), LR (Low Risk), and OL (Outlier - extremely rare but jialat if he comes that year)

So for example, if this year, your Debtors are HR1, HR2, HR3, MR1, LR1, then that year you will be jialat, also you need to couple with your luck that year. if you luck is good, then maybe still ok, if coincidently your luck also bad that year, then really jialat. So in this case, your chanting will probably work on the LR1 but not the rest. So how doest luck play a part in all this. Example HR1 + HR2 means one of the "Gate" you need to cross this year is an automobile accident. If your luck is good, then you might come out of this automobile accident with only a broken leg. If your luck is no good then maybe you get multiple fractures of all limbs, and your spine kena and got mobility issues. Worst case is can die.

So if another year, your Debtors are MR1, LR1, LR2, LR3. Then your prayers would be able to kow tim the debtors. Example MR1+LR2 means you will lose a certain amount of money this year (can be due to investment or kena scam or something that will cause you to come out with a bunch of monies which you never plan in your budget). So when you pray, the effect maybe left MR1 only, so the seriousness of the issue is reduce. So maybe instead of maybe roof leaking causing your whole house appliance rosak and wiring rosak, you only burn out your expensive TV and audio system.

There is a ritual that I do just before the beginning of the lunar year to pay off all the debtors (sorry, I cannot share with you). What this does it, example this year I have HR1,MR1, MR2, LR1, LR2, when the ritual is done, it lessens the severity to become MR1, LR1, LR2, LR3, LR 4.

There are also some rituals out there to boost your luck or borrow luck, I seriously Do Not recommend anyone to do this. Every person's total luck in life is predetermined and is scattered thru out your lifetime to where you need your luck the most. Example is, a person at age 42 will meet with an accident, the luck is distributed at that point so that he can survive the accident. If at 35 he go listen to some bomoh, crackpot sifu say can boost the luck or borrow luck, basically it means to  bring forward the luck from your future to use. So at 35 years old, that fella kena 4D jackpot...but then when he reach 42 years old, when he kena the accident, he was suppose to survive, but because he already use the luck, he end up passing away in that accident.

Today is Friday, so not much meeting line up today, I got time to write so long....tonight colleague ask to go eat Malahotpot...........I really love it but one of the things i hate is even if we put our jackets and all in the basket, we will still end up smelling like a walking hot pot after exiting the restaurant.

Some of the movies might actually have employed "consultants" that have the same ability as me and a few others here have. To be honest, our ability is not exactly "rare". I've watched Keeper of Darkness and then showed the movie to my mom and my family....that movie I can confirm someone "in the know" was consulting for them as some of the scenes in the movie are like right out of my family's own experience (all except for the spirit talking part).

And yes, the SSC downstairs is not exactly fire and brimstone.........there are desserts, there are winter wastelands.