The first time I visited Savannah, Georgia, was 2008. I remember feeling like my body was entering a place I could feel on my skin but couldn't see with my eyes. Like driving into a wall of clear gelatin. The sensation was visceral and I remember knowing the land held more dead than living. Since that time, I've paid more attention to how my body responds to spaces and dwellings. For example, a few years back, my best friend and I made a little day trip up to Juliette, Georgia, to have lunch at the Whistle Stop Cafe (made famous by FRIED GREEN TOMATOES). Afterwards, we moseyed across the street to a row of thrift and antique shops. I walked into one of the antique stores and my heart raced so violently that I had to leave. There was something, or someone, in that shop that didn't like me one bit.
Thank you so much for sharing this post. I haven't heard of the Stone Tape Theory but it really resonated with me, especially since I've been spending the last few months exploring the stone circles of Derbyshire and Yorkshire! All of these places have felt so peaceful and powerful to me. Places where people have come to pay respects, connect to the ancestors and the gods and connect with each other for thousands of years. All but one! At one of these sites, Arbor Low, I felt ill at ease. I saw visions of sacrifices and other horrendous ancient practices. Interestingly, in this stone circle all the stones have "fallen", but I had the very strong feeling it was "shut down" on purpose. Even though I'm very intuitive I wondered if I was just letting my imagination run away with me! A few days later I met someone who knew quite a bit about local folklore. I told them I got a bad vibe there and they said - "Oh yeah, they say there were human sacrifices there". I felt that I had seen it, accessed the "tapes" and sounds like many others have been able to as well! Sorry that was a long story, but I just loved this post and wanted to share a recent experience!
Hi Vix, I love your work too! Yes, I'm not surprised as your experience. I have gone (or tried to go) into several very old (not as old as in the UK) places and I couldn't force myself to enter - the energy was so dark. I think you truly accsessed the tapes and I'm very appreciative of you sharing your story - it feels so accurate. xo
What an interesting question, "Are you experiencing the memory held by place, or seeing the ghosts of your own past?" I think it could be both. The first time I drove through what I later found out was Gettysburg, I felt a heavy energy and a sense that I had to get out of the area quickly. I felt fine on the other side of town. When I visit old towns, I sometimes like to put my hands on original brick buildings; sometimes I can get an image or a scene that plays out. Maybe next time I will see if I can get a name to research the scene or residence.
I’ve read many stories about the ghosts of Gettysburg so am not surprised at your experience.Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could get an name from touching a building. 💚
Have definitely experienced this in old churches, battlefields, etc. I just always assumed, as indicated by one of the explanations you mention above, that it had something to with energetics, that some kind of force that we don’t completely understand resonates or leaves an imprint of some sort. I remember an experience I had years ago. I was taking a series of historical walking tours of downtown, early New York City. At one point during a tour of Chinatown the group rounded a seemingly ordinary corner. I am not at all psychic but I was hit by a strong feeling of eerie unease. The tour guide announced at that point that a massacre in which several people had been killed had taken place during the Tong wars in the 1920’s. Feeling “vibes” in churches or battlefields could be attributed to my imagination since I knew the history of those places but in this instance I knew nothing of the history of the place and the alley way was nondescript with nothing to suggest what had happened.
Love the Pawnee artifacts info. Not as suprised as I might have been before I studied with some Native American teachers. And yes...holograms combine with energy stored in stone and bone. And past lives and ancestral lines. In my travels around the UK, I was surprised on one trip when my mood shifted dramatically (into anger) when I reached the roundabout at the outskirts of Salisbury. No where near the stones yet, and not intending to visit those (I am not drawn), but stopped on our way back east. We went to the cathedral and I suddenly felt completely drained and I told my friend I had to get out of there. We had seen it so she was okay and the odd thing was, the minute we crossed the bridge over the Avon, I was recharged. Had a great dinner in a lovely pub restaurant. and the minute we crossed back, anger. I had a deep bone pain in my right leg when I got into bed. I had to use energy work on it. We left and got to the most wonderful town, Arundel. So years later when I studied Evolutioinary Astrology i had a reading wiith Jeff Green and the area ws connected to a very difficult pastlife including invasion of Vikings (I had no idea about the history). So the past life hologram was enough to affect me as I came into the city. I've had that past life come up when working on certain issues with an Emotion Body Code practitioner.
There is a field I sometimes drive by. Tall grasses, trees. I always get the feeling that something important occurred there...no explanation for this...
We visited the Buchenwald concentration camp while in Germany. The air felt very heavy, especially in the crematorium. My kids couldn't stand being there. They went back to the car.
I infinitely % believe that places hold memories. I have experienced too many of those memories to count in different places over the years. Interesting thing Amanda Hughes (funny thing - I have a cousin named Amanda Hughes) said about Savannah. I feel fortunate to have been born there because the town that Savannah was built on was one of my Ancestral tribal towns pre-colonization. I live close by but don’t go there much if I can help it. I always feel my people’s grief and sorrow and all of the dead there, as well as the old sacred places in the area that have been destroyed but the energy does remain to a degree, though it feels corrupted to me nowadays. And I also feel the sarcasm and annoyance both from the land itself and the dead with how the ghost tours get the stories so wrong and so much actual history is just left out.
I drove through Gettysburg ages ago and could feel the anger, betrayal, grief, and disbelief kept by the land and the dead who remain there.
On the property where I grew up, on certain nights everyone at our house could hear and sense a battle being waged there, it was interesting because that property has always been called “haunted” and heavy but on those nights in particular it was even heavier with the energy that was being shared.
The first time I visited Savannah, Georgia, was 2008. I remember feeling like my body was entering a place I could feel on my skin but couldn't see with my eyes. Like driving into a wall of clear gelatin. The sensation was visceral and I remember knowing the land held more dead than living. Since that time, I've paid more attention to how my body responds to spaces and dwellings. For example, a few years back, my best friend and I made a little day trip up to Juliette, Georgia, to have lunch at the Whistle Stop Cafe (made famous by FRIED GREEN TOMATOES). Afterwards, we moseyed across the street to a row of thrift and antique shops. I walked into one of the antique stores and my heart raced so violently that I had to leave. There was something, or someone, in that shop that didn't like me one bit.
Our body definitely knows!
Thank you so much for sharing this post. I haven't heard of the Stone Tape Theory but it really resonated with me, especially since I've been spending the last few months exploring the stone circles of Derbyshire and Yorkshire! All of these places have felt so peaceful and powerful to me. Places where people have come to pay respects, connect to the ancestors and the gods and connect with each other for thousands of years. All but one! At one of these sites, Arbor Low, I felt ill at ease. I saw visions of sacrifices and other horrendous ancient practices. Interestingly, in this stone circle all the stones have "fallen", but I had the very strong feeling it was "shut down" on purpose. Even though I'm very intuitive I wondered if I was just letting my imagination run away with me! A few days later I met someone who knew quite a bit about local folklore. I told them I got a bad vibe there and they said - "Oh yeah, they say there were human sacrifices there". I felt that I had seen it, accessed the "tapes" and sounds like many others have been able to as well! Sorry that was a long story, but I just loved this post and wanted to share a recent experience!
Hi Vix, I love your work too! Yes, I'm not surprised as your experience. I have gone (or tried to go) into several very old (not as old as in the UK) places and I couldn't force myself to enter - the energy was so dark. I think you truly accsessed the tapes and I'm very appreciative of you sharing your story - it feels so accurate. xo
What an interesting question, "Are you experiencing the memory held by place, or seeing the ghosts of your own past?" I think it could be both. The first time I drove through what I later found out was Gettysburg, I felt a heavy energy and a sense that I had to get out of the area quickly. I felt fine on the other side of town. When I visit old towns, I sometimes like to put my hands on original brick buildings; sometimes I can get an image or a scene that plays out. Maybe next time I will see if I can get a name to research the scene or residence.
I’ve read many stories about the ghosts of Gettysburg so am not surprised at your experience.Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could get an name from touching a building. 💚
Have definitely experienced this in old churches, battlefields, etc. I just always assumed, as indicated by one of the explanations you mention above, that it had something to with energetics, that some kind of force that we don’t completely understand resonates or leaves an imprint of some sort. I remember an experience I had years ago. I was taking a series of historical walking tours of downtown, early New York City. At one point during a tour of Chinatown the group rounded a seemingly ordinary corner. I am not at all psychic but I was hit by a strong feeling of eerie unease. The tour guide announced at that point that a massacre in which several people had been killed had taken place during the Tong wars in the 1920’s. Feeling “vibes” in churches or battlefields could be attributed to my imagination since I knew the history of those places but in this instance I knew nothing of the history of the place and the alley way was nondescript with nothing to suggest what had happened.
Love the Pawnee artifacts info. Not as suprised as I might have been before I studied with some Native American teachers. And yes...holograms combine with energy stored in stone and bone. And past lives and ancestral lines. In my travels around the UK, I was surprised on one trip when my mood shifted dramatically (into anger) when I reached the roundabout at the outskirts of Salisbury. No where near the stones yet, and not intending to visit those (I am not drawn), but stopped on our way back east. We went to the cathedral and I suddenly felt completely drained and I told my friend I had to get out of there. We had seen it so she was okay and the odd thing was, the minute we crossed the bridge over the Avon, I was recharged. Had a great dinner in a lovely pub restaurant. and the minute we crossed back, anger. I had a deep bone pain in my right leg when I got into bed. I had to use energy work on it. We left and got to the most wonderful town, Arundel. So years later when I studied Evolutioinary Astrology i had a reading wiith Jeff Green and the area ws connected to a very difficult pastlife including invasion of Vikings (I had no idea about the history). So the past life hologram was enough to affect me as I came into the city. I've had that past life come up when working on certain issues with an Emotion Body Code practitioner.
There is a field I sometimes drive by. Tall grasses, trees. I always get the feeling that something important occurred there...no explanation for this...
We visited the Buchenwald concentration camp while in Germany. The air felt very heavy, especially in the crematorium. My kids couldn't stand being there. They went back to the car.
I infinitely % believe that places hold memories. I have experienced too many of those memories to count in different places over the years. Interesting thing Amanda Hughes (funny thing - I have a cousin named Amanda Hughes) said about Savannah. I feel fortunate to have been born there because the town that Savannah was built on was one of my Ancestral tribal towns pre-colonization. I live close by but don’t go there much if I can help it. I always feel my people’s grief and sorrow and all of the dead there, as well as the old sacred places in the area that have been destroyed but the energy does remain to a degree, though it feels corrupted to me nowadays. And I also feel the sarcasm and annoyance both from the land itself and the dead with how the ghost tours get the stories so wrong and so much actual history is just left out.
I drove through Gettysburg ages ago and could feel the anger, betrayal, grief, and disbelief kept by the land and the dead who remain there.
On the property where I grew up, on certain nights everyone at our house could hear and sense a battle being waged there, it was interesting because that property has always been called “haunted” and heavy but on those nights in particular it was even heavier with the energy that was being shared.