Patrick Cross is recognized these days as an above average paranormal researcher who travels across the United States and Canada investigating the sites of alleged ghost sightings and hauntings. Exposure to the paranormal came quite early to Cross as he grew up in a house in Rexdale, Toronto, built atop a murder suicide site, and he's mentioned many times growing up and seeing mysterious blood spots appearing and reappearing on the floor in the basement. His family also had an organ upstairs that would play an eerie piece of music even when it was unplugged.
"When I was only five or six years old, go scared me all the time, then I just tried to live with them. I wanted to find out what was happening and why. I began researching the paranormal." recalled Cross.
Back in 1995 Cross, was also an accomplished musician, purchased a white electric guitar in the shape of a "V", a cheap knock off of the more famous guitar made by Gibson, commonly referred to as the Gibson "FLYING V". The guitar purchased by Cross was made of heavy maple wood and had the look of an instrument that had been passed down by numerous musicians. The guitar itself was made in 1989 and was in rather good shape despite the fact it was used. The only problems with it are it had a slight crack on the top of the neck as if it had been dropped or played well. The previous owner had stated the guitar had come from a fire in the Michigan bar, where a band had been playing and apparently a fire broke out. Everything inside the bar was burnt to a crisp except for this guitar which miraculously survived the fire without any burn marks fully intact. A band member had died in the fire, and the car was sold in order to help raise money for the funeral and the guitar eventually ended up in Oakville, Ontario.
Cross said the guitar played fine in the store, he tried it out jamming to some rock riffs and classic chords but when he took it home it seemed out of tune every time he picked it up to play. He thought it was odd that it would play fine in the store but at home it would always seem to de-tune itself. However when he would start playing something like "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple, and "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix, the guitar would play back in tune. It felt as if the guitar had a mind of its own and it liked a dark, heavy sound.
After a few days, Cross began to hear really weird sounds in his apartment. "The noises seemed to be coming from the closet in the second bedroom where the guitar was stored. I opened the closet door, heard nothing, looked at the guitar, looked around, and didn't see anything but I heard what sounded like men's voices arguing with each other. It was as if an argument was going on in the closet between two men. One sounded Spanish, the other Mexican, and they were talking about money. I heard this from the front room, and then went into the bedroom to the closet to look. Again, everything stopped."
As the days passed, where things begin to happen inside the apartment such as items would disappear, shadows on the wall, the sound of footsteps and banging. Doors began to open on their own lights would turn on and off and even the television would turn on hours after being turned off. Cross later began to use the guitar in his rock band "SCI-FI Prodigy" and strange things began to happen at rehearsals and live performances. The most chilling of which was when during a live performance a weird voice started to come through one of the music amplifiers coinciding with the lighting going out.
"As we started playing our songs, the haunted guitar would go out of tune on the fifth and sixth strings, repeatedly. I had to put it down and play my other guitar, because this guitar refused to be played. If we started playing songs with negative lyrics are heavy metal, the guitar would play perfectly fine. The guitar particularly liked one song I wrote and played called "Something Is out There" which is all about ghost in evil entities with emphasis on something coming to get you. It's an X-Files type feeling. This was one of the very few songs during which the guitar would stay in tune."
Cross began to take pictures around the guitar and investigate why all these bizarre things were happening. He captured some interesting orb pictures around the guitar and occasionally a missed figure was captured in the photographs around the guitar as well.
Over the years psychics have claimed that they have felt weird around his guitar and expressed their opinion that it contains an evil presence. Eugenea Macer-Story and accomplished psychic allegedly was able to channel the spirit of the main entity trapped in the guitar. She stated that the entity had a controlling effect on anyone who touched or felt the guitar. It seemed to have intelligence which suggested it was actually a spirit and not a demon when it allegedly told Eugenia that it did not like being put on display. It wanted to cause evil and destruction, longing to flying like a condor with large wings and even calling itself, "Eye of the Condor" which is a popular song in Mexico and South America were condors to live in the wild. The spirit allegedly also said it wanted the owner of the guitar to kill with it swinging it like an axe or even start fires.
The entity that possessed the guitar one on, saying he had started many fires and survives when all else burned. It claimed to have had been spawned in order to spread evil throughout the world.
On the advice of Eugenia, Cross put the guitar in its case and covered it with salt in order to contain its energy from even the case. Cross then sent out to destroy the guitar covering it with gas and catching on fire. He was horrified when he discovered he too was on fire but eventually put out the flames that engulfed him and watched happily as a guitar one up in smoke.
I find this story a little ridiculous but I have no proof that it did not occur and am unable to actually examine the guitar because it allegedly was destroyed in a fire. Whether or not the story is true it is stories like this that hurt the whole community because they just seem very far-fetched and lack any real documentation to prove or disprove their validity. Patrick Cross Is considered by many to be an authority when it comes to paranormal investigation but this is from his early days and I don't know it just has the B.S. feeling to it. In all my years of dealing with the paranormal I've never seen a valid case of an object being the subject of a haunting by a ghost i.e. intelligent life form I have however seen a few cases where I suspect an object may be haunted by demonic entity but those lack the ability to communicate on a level both Cross and the psychic Eugenea Macer-Story claim to have experienced. I only share this with you because I wanted my readers to see some of the lunacy that is causing our community to be looked upon as being inhabited by pathological liars and the clinically insane.
As always I offer the subject of any of my posts the opportunity to dispute what I'm saying about them and I am even willing to to put up on my website an unedited response if they are so willing to send me one. Till next time keep a spooky folks and keep us posted on any of your experiences or viewpoints.
