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Help me find my murderer in my past life

November 18, 2009 | Comment icon 14 comments
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This isn’t fiction, this isn’t someone else’s story, this is my story. There is a puzzle that needs to be solved in my present life, a link to the person who was me before I was me. To piece my past life together and find who murdered me I need your help. I invite you as a reader to roll up your sleeves get on your computer and search with me. I want you to go through obituaries, archives, court records and news paper articles to find my killer. This article is the first in series of articles about my murder!

These are the facts: my name was Eleanor I was murdered in 1942 by a jealous boyfriend. I had straight shoulder length red hair parted on the side. My eyes were blue and somewhat small. I was a young adult, and a bit overweight but not obese. My skin was fair. My nose was straight and pointed. My cheeks were full almost plump, I had a strong chin, not a big chin a distinct chin. I was not beautiful or ugly I was average .I had the face of the girl next door, pleasant and friendly. How do I know these things? I spoke with my mother in my past life, she told me my name was Eleanor and my jealous boyfriend killed me in 1942!

Let me go back thirty years ago when linear time made sense to me and birth and death had a beginning and end. My paranormal journey started innocently enough, I fell off a horse and died. When I came back to physical reality I brought with me back psychic abilities. A tug of war in sued inside me as I struggled to make sense of my new found insights into the paranormal. What do you do when you can see spirits and occasionally speak with the dead? It is not exactly dinner conversation is it? To stay sane I channeled all my psychic experiences into three novels. I created fictional characters with my psychic abilities living in a pretend world with a mystery and a sense of humor thrown in for good measure.

As I wrote I refrained from reading about the paranormal because I didn’t want to taint my stories, overlap them with other peoples’ experiences. To keep myself psychically pure and my novels original I kept my mouth shut and worked alone.

In theory before 2008 I accepted that reincarnation might be possible, my thoughts on the subject we limited because I didn’t really care. I was doubtful anyone could recall their past lives and when someone claimed they were the reincarnation of so and so I assumed they were either a fraud or just crazy. I once joked to a friend that if I lived in Egypt two thousand years ago I wasn’t Cleopatra I was her maid. I imagined when you are born we all started out in this life with a clean slate so to speak with no recollection of who we were before we were born.

Twenty years ago I met a young woman at a restaurant she was petite with red hair and blue eyes. When I saw to her I instantly thought of a character I would write. At the time I believed it was inspiration something a writer gets from time to time and nothing else. Why did I think my idea was snatched out of thin air? Why did I connect with the eye color and hair color of this girl and not her as a person? I didn’t know the answer to those questions then but I do now.

I started my third book ‘The Reincarnation Of Tess Hamilton” in 2007. It is the third novel in my series of books. For me to write any novel I need two years minimum. This books focus is on reincarnation. During the process of writing my latest novel I felt compulsive to describe my central character Abigail Cantrell a certain way. She had to have blue eyes and red hair I wouldn’t have been possible to write her any other way. I am not plugging my books at least not in this article! What I am saying somehow my usual process in creating a character was sidetracked or I should say hijacked. Why my character Abigail Cantrell struck such a cord in me?

To make a connection to the other side I have a routine, I practice a combination of meditation and guided questions. Questions asked not to the living but to the dead. During my meditation I posed the question who was I before I was me. Nothing happened that afternoon in truth nothing usually takes place only once in a while do I get an answer, when I do it usually comes in sideways. I went to sleep that night almost forgetting what I had asked that afternoon.

During my sleep I became aware, lucid with all my scenes heightened and a feeling of anticipation swept over me. I wasn’t in the physical world anymore but my body was. Astral projection has always been a sensitive subject to me. To make it simple and short I detached from body and traveled to another plane of existence. I will elaborate more in the next article.

I entered a place or I should say I was drawn to this place. I met a woman her face and shoulders were visible but not the rest of her body. As for her age she was over fifty. All I could make out was that she was a heavy set woman with brownish hair. When she spoke her voice felt sad. She said “I was your mother, your name was Eleanor, a jealous boyfriend murdered you in 1942! For some odd reason I did not react, instead I felt a disconnection from the woman who bore me in a past life. I didn’t get to ask questions instead I was pulled back to my physical body and the event was over. A day or two later I was standing in a swimming pool in the middle of the day minding my own business when a picture, that’s the only name I can come up with to describe it was presented to me. The woman in the picture was me! The face I saw was my own when I was Eleanor!

In the next article I will tell you how I think I was murdered and more. There are two clues I want to share first Eleanor’s mother wouldn’t have given so many details to me without a reason. The second clue is I saw Eleanor I know what she looks like and I would recognize her face again perhaps in obituary or a family photo. Two things need to be done in order to find my murder in my past life. I invite you to search for Eleanor’s last name second we need to find out where she lived. Let us solve this mystery together, contact me with any information you find through my web page www.LuraKetch.com or under LuraKetch on Face Book.

My Biography: My name is Lura Ketchledge, I am a paranormal author. I have written three novels. On my web page is my full biography, book previews and links to my radio interviews and magazine articles.[!gad]This isn’t fiction, this isn’t someone else’s story, this is my story. There is a puzzle that needs to be solved in my present life, a link to the person who was me before I was me. To piece my past life together and find who murdered me I need your help. I invite you as a reader to roll up your sleeves get on your computer and search with me. I want you to go through obituaries, archives, court records and news paper articles to find my killer. This article is the first in series of articles about my murder!

These are the facts: my name was Eleanor I was murdered in 1942 by a jealous boyfriend. I had straight shoulder length red hair parted on the side. My eyes were blue and somewhat small. I was a young adult, and a bit overweight but not obese. My skin was fair. My nose was straight and pointed. My cheeks were full almost plump, I had a strong chin, not a big chin a distinct chin. I was not beautiful or ugly I was average .I had the face of the girl next door, pleasant and friendly. How do I know these things? I spoke with my mother in my past life, she told me my name was Eleanor and my jealous boyfriend killed me in 1942!

Let me go back thirty years ago when linear time made sense to me and birth and death had a beginning and end. My paranormal journey started innocently enough, I fell off a horse and died. When I came back to physical reality I brought with me back psychic abilities. A tug of war in sued inside me as I struggled to make sense of my new found insights into the paranormal. What do you do when you can see spirits and occasionally speak with the dead? It is not exactly dinner conversation is it? To stay sane I channeled all my psychic experiences into three novels. I created fictional characters with my psychic abilities living in a pretend world with a mystery and a sense of humor thrown in for good measure.

As I wrote I refrained from reading about the paranormal because I didn’t want to taint my stories, overlap them with other peoples’ experiences. To keep myself psychically pure and my novels original I kept my mouth shut and worked alone.

In theory before 2008 I accepted that reincarnation might be possible, my thoughts on the subject we limited because I didn’t really care. I was doubtful anyone could recall their past lives and when someone claimed they were the reincarnation of so and so I assumed they were either a fraud or just crazy. I once joked to a friend that if I lived in Egypt two thousand years ago I wasn’t Cleopatra I was her maid. I imagined when you are born we all started out in this life with a clean slate so to speak with no recollection of who we were before we were born.

Twenty years ago I met a young woman at a restaurant she was petite with red hair and blue eyes. When I saw to her I instantly thought of a character I would write. At the time I believed it was inspiration something a writer gets from time to time and nothing else. Why did I think my idea was snatched out of thin air? Why did I connect with the eye color and hair color of this girl and not her as a person? I didn’t know the answer to those questions then but I do now.

I started my third book ‘The Reincarnation Of Tess Hamilton” in 2007. It is the third novel in my series of books. For me to write any novel I need two years minimum. This books focus is on reincarnation. During the process of writing my latest novel I felt compulsive to describe my central character Abigail Cantrell a certain way. She had to have blue eyes and red hair I wouldn’t have been possible to write her any other way. I am not plugging my books at least not in this article! What I am saying somehow my usual process in creating a character was sidetracked or I should say hijacked. Why my character Abigail Cantrell struck such a cord in me?

To make a connection to the other side I have a routine, I practice a combination of meditation and guided questions. Questions asked not to the living but to the dead. During my meditation I posed the question who was I before I was me. Nothing happened that afternoon in truth nothing usually takes place only once in a while do I get an answer, when I do it usually comes in sideways. I went to sleep that night almost forgetting what I had asked that afternoon.

During my sleep I became aware, lucid with all my scenes heightened and a feeling of anticipation swept over me. I wasn’t in the physical world anymore but my body was. Astral projection has always been a sensitive subject to me. To make it simple and short I detached from body and traveled to another plane of existence. I will elaborate more in the next article.

I entered a place or I should say I was drawn to this place. I met a woman her face and shoulders were visible but not the rest of her body. As for her age she was over fifty. All I could make out was that she was a heavy set woman with brownish hair. When she spoke her voice felt sad. She said “I was your mother, your name was Eleanor, a jealous boyfriend murdered you in 1942! For some odd reason I did not react, instead I felt a disconnection from the woman who bore me in a past life. I didn’t get to ask questions instead I was pulled back to my physical body and the event was over. A day or two later I was standing in a swimming pool in the middle of the day minding my own business when a picture, that’s the only name I can come up with to describe it was presented to me. The woman in the picture was me! The face I saw was my own when I was Eleanor!

In the next article I will tell you how I think I was murdered and more. There are two clues I want to share first Eleanor’s mother wouldn’t have given so many details to me without a reason. The second clue is I saw Eleanor I know what she looks like and I would recognize her face again perhaps in obituary or a family photo. Two things need to be done in order to find my murder in my past life. I invite you to search for Eleanor’s last name second we need to find out where she lived. Let us solve this mystery together, contact me with any information you find through my web page www.LuraKetch.com or under LuraKetch on Face Book.

My Biography: My name is Lura Ketchledge, I am a paranormal author. I have written three novels. On my web page is my full biography, book previews and links to my radio interviews and magazine articles. Comments (14)


Recent comments on this story
Comment icon #5 Posted by Lorelei 16 years ago
Although it was an interesting read, I'd have to say that this lady is chasing a dream. It is nothing more and anything she might find is merely a coincidence. One time I had this dream and it was so real. When I woke up I could remember the dream word for word, which is rare for me. There was a girl in it and she told me her name and how she was murdered, etc. All sorts of details and it really creeped me out. All I could think about was her. I felt like I had to do something with the information that she told me. It weighed so heavily on my mind that I finally told my husband all about it an... [More]
Comment icon #6 Posted by Great Big Sea 16 years ago
The statue of Limitation would be long gone. I wonder what she expects to do once she finds the guy? Even if it's true (I do believe in reincarnation but I find her story sketchy) I wonder what she would do. I doubt that she could go to the local Cop Shop on this one.
Comment icon #7 Posted by Ryinrea 16 years ago
The statue of Limitation would be long gone. I Is a forever thing on murder.
Comment icon #8 Posted by meankitty 16 years ago
I guess the author needs that kind of closure and has that kind of time to spend, so why not search. I'd be interested to hear what she finds.
Comment icon #9 Posted by Siara 16 years ago
This would have been a little more believable if the mother provided a street address, and past phone number. People had phone #'s in 1942. Maybe an ID number having to do with some sort of WWII rations? Class photos from school? Birth date/place/time? Addresses of family owned/leased property (deeds are on file). Church affiliation? I think the author needs to pick a date when we couldn't expect to find records. By 1942 the mother (if she was American) would have had a social security number and would have been working in some war related effort. She would have a bank account and would pay ta... [More]
Comment icon #10 Posted by JonathanVonErich 16 years ago
i don't know what to say....seriously, i don't know....
Comment icon #11 Posted by cluey 16 years ago
This would have been a little more believable if the mother provided a street address, and past phone number. People had phone #'s in 1942. Maybe an ID number having to do with some sort of WWII rations? Class photos from school? Birth date/place/time? Addresses of family owned/leased property (deeds are on file). Church affiliation? I think the author needs to pick a date when we couldn't expect to find records. By 1942 the mother (if she was American) would have had a social security number and would have been working in some war related effort. She would have a bank account and would pay ta... [More]
Comment icon #12 Posted by Drakehugo 16 years ago
Although it was an interesting read, I'd have to say that this lady is chasing a dream. It is nothing more and anything she might find is merely a coincidence. One time I had this dream and it was so real. When I woke up I could remember the dream word for word, which is rare for me. There was a girl in it and she told me her name and how she was murdered, etc. All sorts of details and it really creeped me out. All I could think about was her. I felt like I had to do something with the information that she told me. It weighed so heavily on my mind that I finally told my husband all about it an... [More]
Comment icon #13 Posted by MID 16 years ago
You know, sometimes. You just have to let things go... Ah, synopsis in a single line! I like that. I'd have to ask, what life is this person living in now? If, in theory, one has lived past lives, one might expect that one has experiences in a given life in order to progress and to gain knowledge so as to evolve and attain to more in a subsequent one. If you've been murdered in a past life, there was a reason for it I suspect, and your next life should evolve into higher states of consciousness and knowledge. I would muse that someone posessed by the idea of finding one's murderer in a past li... [More]
Comment icon #14 Posted by danydandan 16 years ago
Yeah if he's alive, he'd be like 80+ something wouldn't he? Just let it go. But he KILLED ME! Um... You know what I mean - in my PAST life! Uhh.... yeah. Oh you don't understand! You'll never understand! HA Good one


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