Antonio Garcez - Gay & Lesbian Ghost Stories
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To every LGBT person weve lost to crimes of hate, violence, and murder driven by intolerant, antigay discrimination campaigns, legislation, and sermons.
And to those LGBT souls driven to suicide.
My deepest appreciation to each socially visible LGBT person living a peaceful, production, and fulfilling life.
AUTHORS NOTE
Some of the names associated with the storytellers mentioned in this book have been changed. This was done for the sole purpose of not identifying those individuals because of their cultural beliefs or their personal requests to disguise their identities. Thus, any name used in the book that might be associated with anyone known to the reader is simply coincidental.
Ghostly encounters are frequently described as mystical phenomena pertaining primarily to heterosexuals and rarely to gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender people; however, history proves otherwise. Anthropological research has referenced compelling scientific evidence that homosexuals have often been sources of counsel, wisdom, honor, intuitive power, guidance, social status, and spiritual strength throughout virtually all levels of human culture. Gays and lesbians have ruled prominently within Egyptian empires, Roman society, and Native American cultures.
Before Christianity became a major religion, both male and female psychics were regularly accepted and consulted in the ancient world. But as soon as Christianity gained prominence, spiritual mediums and psychics were condemned as servants of the devil and driven into hiding. Specifically, the Catholic Church perpetuated this persecution until the eighteenth century, with frequent tortures and executions. Gays and lesbians have even made their presence known from within the tepees of the great plains of North America to the grand royal stone temples of the Aztecs and Incas. Throughout this grand history, gays and lesbians have played prominent roles within their own cultures religious and spiritual sects.
Gays and lesbians have been both honored with wealth and burned at the stake for the spiritual power they possessed and harnessed. In my experience recording and researching ghost stories over 45 years, gays and lesbians, both in the past and in the present, are intrinsically gifted in their psychic abilities. This begs the question: are there higher percentages of gay and lesbian psychics serving today? My belief is that we, gays and lesbians, have been given a very unique and precious gifta gift that, if developed, allows us to see, communicate, and experience the paranormal from childhood.
The sad fact is the AIDS epidemic has brought the gay community to intimately experience innumerable deaths within our communities. The afterlife encounters with those who have passed have only added to our firsthand knowledge of the paranormal. We have become uniquely aware of ourselves as exceptional spiritual beings experiencing a corporeal moment on earth.
Given the personal self-searching, societal hurdles, family struggles, sensitivity to creativity, health-related challenges, and for many, a deep spirituality, its no wonder that the universe is so easily accessed by such a chosen population. Within these pages, youll read of individuals, from Alaska to Florida, who have experienced direct contact from spirits either at home or at work. My partner and I traveled to these particular states as I personally interviewed gay men and women and a few straights for the firsthand accounts of their encounters. We were not disappointed.
These interviews cover paranormal subjects such as extrasensory perception (ESP), near-death experiences (NDE), and, most definitely, ghosts ! Our investigations continue to expose the potential for further validations that encompass all the elements of such experiences. I am therefore thrilled to share with you these new, intimate collection of ghost stories as experienced by members of LGBT communities throughout the United States.
Antonio
Im originally from Santa Maria, California. I moved to Anchorage 12 years ago to live with my girlfriend, Rachel, in her familys home of three generations. Rachel was also in the medical field and worked as a pediatrician in a different hospital than I did. We used to do quite a lot of outdoor activities before her untimely death. Rachel died of complications from hepatitis C. She contracted this disease from a deceased patient while conducting the autopsy. So I am left to manage alone on our property since her death two years ago.
I graduated from Keck School of Medicine of USC in Southern California with a degree as a surgical technologist (OR tech). My job at Alaska Regional Hospital requires me to assist within the operating room during various invasive surgical procedures, especially open-heart operations. Because Ive been at this job for so many years, Ive become very friendly with my fellow associates. I know it might sound corny, but we genuinely regard each other as extended family members. We rely on each other for emotional support when a patient were fond of dies while in our care.
My personal ghost story took place eight years ago in the hospital. We had an excellent female surgeon who worked at the hospital for just a few months. She died one Thanksgiving holiday in an auto accident while driving back home to Anchorage from the town of Dawson City. Somehow she drove her car off the road, first hitting a tree and then coming to a stop in a shallow water channel. She sustained fatal injuries to both her skull and spine and was pronounced dead at the scene.
It was not long after her funeral that a few staff began to talk among themselves about seeing the doctors shadow image standing at doorways, and at one time it was even spotted by Arnold, our anesthesiologist, standing against a wall in the operating room!
Arnold himself once told me that during an operating procedure while he was adjusting the concentration of anesthetic vapor isoflurane for a patient, an unexpected movement caught his attention. He looked to see what moved and spotted the image of the dead doctor standing about four feet away from the patient on the operating table.
He told me that he happened to glance about the room and noticed two other staff also captivated by the same paranormal image. Arnold said, We elbowed each other to look in the direction of the ghostly figure. One nurse, a Catholic, made the sign of the cross and said in the direction of the spirit, Thank you for your assistance, Doctor. As this was said, the doctors image suddenly disappeared. Because we had a patient to tend to, we got back to the business at hand and only freely spoke of seeing the doctors apparition later after completing the operation. We all had to admit that the good doctor was continuing the work in death she loved so much in life.
Despite surgery room instruments being moved about, doors opening on their own, and footsteps being heard in empty halls, our job responsibilities continue as normal and as usual. I know the rational mind works to disprove, even deny, what Im describing, but eventually, even the most hardened minds can change with enough evidence. I sincerely believe this to my core.
My interview with Lisa and her partner of 33 years, Geri, took place in their home 20 miles south of Chino Valley in the nearby town of Prescott. The women purchased the house and 15 acres in Chino Valley in 1962 from a woman who lived in the house for only three months. Lisa and Geri were attending a party in Phoenix and, by chance, happened to meet the seller of the property. As their conversation progressed, the seller informed Lisa and Geri about the home. That night, Lisa and Geri made arrangements to meet her at the property the next day. They drove 150 miles north to Chino Valley and immediately fell in love with the old two-story house and surrounding land.
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