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He Sees the Dead
By Rosemary Ellen Guiley
FATE :: March 2007

Karl Petry hesitated in front of the big saltbox Co

lonial house before him as a queasy feeling rose up in his throat. A psychic, he had been called to check out reports of strange hauntings at a private residence in New Jersey. But now, as he stood here looking at the brooding house, he wondered what he’d gotten himself into.

The Angela Webb House, as the home became known, plunged him into a world of bizarre ghostly events and violent poltergeist phenomena—all of which unfolded before him in his psychic vision.

Exceptionally gifted with psychic abilities since childhood, Petry was no stranger to the unseen. In fact, he has always seen invisible worlds far better than many psychics. But the Angela Webb House proved to be a most unusual case.

“There were a multitude of entities in the house—more than I’d ever seen in one place before,” said Petry. “I could see them walking around. They were aware of me and of everyone living who came into the house. They conveyed to me in no uncertain terms that it was their house.”

As details about the house unfolded, Petry learned that it had an extensive haunted history. Built in the late 18th century, it had been the scene of a suicide, an accidental death, possibly a murder, and other unhappy events. At least one ghost was sexually active, molesting both men and women. Poltergeist activity plagued whoever lived in the house.

An even more bizarre aspect to the hauntings revealed itself. Somehow, the house had put a curse upon its owners. If an owner died while owning the house—no matter where or how he died—he was sucked into the house and trapped as a ghost. And the Angela Webb House, more than 100 years old, teemed with ­spirits.

The woman who owned the house and contacted Petry is identified by the pseudonym he gave her, Angela Webb. Petry was so affected by what he experienced there that he made a docu-drama film based on it, The Ghosts of Angela Webb. The house is still privately owned.

As he grew to know Angela Webb and saw what was happening to her, he kept asking himself, “Why would anyone want to live in a haunted place like this?”

It’s a question Petry faces over and over again in his many investigations of haunted places. He’s seen ample evidence of how the spirit world—ghosts of the dead and other entities—invade the world of the living. Sometimes effects are minimal, as in hauntings that seem to be nothing more than “imprints” of past events and personalities. Other times, the invasions wreak havoc upon the living.

“As a psychic, I try to put closure on troubled places,” Petry said. “I try to discover explanations that put the paranormal into perspective, and put people at ease.”

What distinguishes Petry from many other psychics is that he literally sees the invisible. Many psychics sense it, and get mental impressions. Petry sees with his physical eyes, as though curtains to other realms—and other times in history—have been pulled away. He sees ghosts in great detail, and hears them talking as though in real-time conversation. He can walk down a street in any city or town, and often he will see it as it looked in times past.

What’s more, he is adept at psychometry. Give him a photo or an object, and it’s like rolling a psychic movie to him.

How did Petry get such an ability? Like most exceptionally gifted psychics, he probably was born “wired” to perceive things that the average person does not. In addition, he suffered harsh physical and mental abuse in childhood. The result, say parapsychologists, is a “poster boy” for psychic abilities.....

Read the rest of this article in the March 2007 issue of FATE

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