A Response From Dawn:
A few months ago, our own Dana Matthews wrote a review of a Paranormal State episode titled “Lady Vampire” that was quickly pulled from the series rotation before airing. No one could figure out why it was pulled, and the cast, crew, and production company did their best to suppress any information that came out about it. Comments regarding the episode were deleted from the A&E forums, people were being banned from the PRS website for asking questions about it, and they generally just wished it would go away.
Unfortunately for them, though the episode never aired, it was briefly available on Comcast “On Demand”, and a few copies of it popped up online. Dana viewed the poor quality bootleg and proceeded to write a review so that people could get an idea of what actually occurred in the episode.
Well, much to everyone’s surprise, the “Lady Vampire” episode finally aired last week. Before we had a chance to ask what went down, we opened our inbox to find an email from Dawn, the distressed mother from the episode in question. It is, for lack of a better term, an explanation. A rather candid one, at that.
She obviously intended for the readers of WF to read and respond to it, so we’re posting the email in it’s entirety. We’ve got our own opinions on this, but we’ll relegate them to the comments section, where we hope you’ll share your own thoughts as well.
Hi to you and all your readers,
I just happen to be the hysterical mother that this blog is about. Your blog was good. I guess all I can say is that to a degree, I do deserve to be raked over the coals. I have read a lot of cruel comments about me and my daughters suffering. I have been called a basket case, exploiting my daughter to being slapped with a well deserved lawsuit at the hands of a disgruntled father. At least you weren’t that cruel! I enjoyed the debate that you lay out there.
I do hate to hear how rough everyone is on PRS.
In my view, they are strong enough to take it all with a grain of salt. They are committed to their purpose and are truly passionate about it. I felt that their presence in our home did us a lot of good. It was a healing experience. Being on television though has not been good. I never wanted to be on television, but it came along with the help. I understood at the time. They were documenting their research. I was fine with that and knew I was leaving us exposed, but I was at the time desperate to get the help that I had been everywhere to get and no one until PRS offered us anything. I was at the end of my rope. Just so exhausted and my little girl just so scared to fall asleep. The pictures she drew about her nightmares would have sent any mother scrambling for answers and hope. The difference with me was answers were not good enough. Every doctor, expert…they all had a reasonable explanation. It’s just that those explanations did not solve the problem.
I finally decided to think outside of the box. For children, and in my child’s case, I took a chance on showing her in a big way that help was on it’s way and to just hold on. I started looking at it or trying to look at it all from her perspective. Children have such an imagination, and if imagination created this lady vampire, maybe imagination would send her away too, and if by some chance we got proof that it really was paranormal and got rid of it…that was fine, just make it stop. What I am trying to articulate is that the imagination is powerful. Why not use it for good instead of feeding fears?
Understand that she and I were battling this unknown for a year. We were exhausted. Lola was a happy child and very well balanced considering the dreams, night terrors and the proof in her drawings and clip art that she would collect. It would really break anyone’s heart.
Back to my point. When we walked outside the day PRS and crew arrived, we saw the big trucks, the bright lights and camera’s, the group themselves and all the kind and gentle people that poured into our home telling Lola that they believed her (finally the validation she needed) and they were all here to help her. She held my hand and looked up at me and said, “Mommy, are they really all here for me?” She couldn’t believe that all of this was for her. She and I were so touched. I don’t care if it was real to them or not. We believed it and it helped bring our miracle about.
I guess it could be argued but I am not crazy. I am a professional. I am a single mom on my own and it is hard. But I can take comfort in knowing that in all Lola and I have endured through a bitter divorce, night terrors and then yes, a battle with her father that is another drama more appropriate for Oxygen than A&E, I never fell apart. Crying is not falling apart. Crying is feeling what is happening and not ignoring something that you don’t understand. We were facing a problem and dealing with it whether anyone agree’s with the how is irrelevant, really.
To be truthful, I still don’t really know what happened. I know that something did happen but the good news is that it stopped when the trucks drove away. The night Ryan put that helmet on and Lola across the house from him and he in silence, both experiencing the same thing at the same moment opened my eyes to the fact that there is another layer to the reality that we know. There is something else out there that we will never understand. It was not a hoax at all. That was all real. And now that it is over the main questions I had were answered. It was real, it wasn’t just her imagination and not my concern feeding more into her fear and secondly that it could be made to stop just by empowering yourself to believe you can make it stop. The what it was and how doesn’t even matter anymore. It’s just over and we sleep peacefully and she did so in that room afterwards.
In my mind it was successful in every way. They listened to us and took us seriously, they taught us how to take control, empowered us and we put it behind us. Lola, went in her room and yelled at whatever was there for 5 minutes and laid the law down. It was a release for her. To declare her space and say, I don’t want you here and you can’t stay. Wow. It has served as a lesson in life for us. For her at such a young age to be able to know, “look what I overcame! If I can do that at 5 and 6 the rest is a piece of cake!” It is a great example to us and should be to anyone who watches what we went through and can benefit in some way and to apply the lesson to their own lives. If I am made a fool then it was well worth it. I gained a lot more in the healing of my daughter.
Finally, I will say to you because although I don’t agree with what you say, I want to use your forum and not all the others to defend myself and my decision. I am not excited about being on tv looking like a basket case but in the end so what. I know what happened and so does Lola. She is proud of me and the choice I made. Your forum is different and had asked good questions that are fair to ask and I respect you for that.
As far as my ex-husband, I will take a chance and tell you that it was because of him that it was pulled. I had kept him in the loop the entire time. He knew of every step I was taking to help our little girl and never really was any help. He didn’t take her to doctors, talk to counselors seek any remedy whatsoever other than taking my daughter to what was supposed to be a faith based light worker that ended up being a freaking witch doctor. That was the bad move I think. It scared the crap out of her. The honest truth is, he is a cruel person and it was about power and greed. What better way to take a child from her mother than to allow the daughter to suffer only to get the mother to “give herself enough rope to hang herself with”. He is the one that exploited this baby. I told him everything and he seemingly supported what I was doing every step of the way. I was just foolish in believing that he was telling the truth. He sat back knowing for 3 months that PRS was coming to help. He sat back every time I invited him to review contracts, watch a sample episode, meet the people and even watch every moment of the experience. Never saying he disapproved. He chose not too and remained silent. Until the day it was to air. He shut it all down with a phone call from a concerned father, and had the audacity to lie to a judge and say he knew nothing about it and that I was delusional and convinced my daughter to play along with me. I kept a log of every correspondence with him about her night terrors, my journey to an answer and all the conversations I had with him about it all. I wasn’t so stupid after all. In a disgusting and shameful attempt he stood up in a court of law and lied and sought unspecified damages from A&E. But still, I had the truth and I kept good notes!
We are still battling but I will never allow anyone to use me, Lola or the court to extort money, get attention and exploit a terrible situation. And he is supposed to love her and once a long time ago, said he loved me too. I don’t know about what anyone else thinks but that is not love. Exposing yourself to ridicule and harsh consequences to get help and to get other mothers and parents talking. That’s love. My basic point is and has been “What if?” What if there really are monsters under our children’s beds? What if there aren’t? But just like santa claus they believe with all of what they understand that yes, they are real. With that, as a parent, what is so wrong with embracing what they believe with them and conquering it as a family. Not make them lay in a room that terrifies them, telling them, “it’s just your imagination…stop waking me up…go back to bed. How about the alternative. Confronting it as their protector. Saying out loud in front of the children, yelling at the monster under their bed or in their closets. Leave this child alone and get out of her room. Then imagine together that the monsters then leave. What is wrong with that?
I hope we help someone else in some small way. That it was all for something. That we turned a bad situation and made it good.
In the end, the show finally airing marks the death of the lady vampire, the end to a legal battle and a life re-emerging…my own.
I hope I have been some help. Feel free to ask me anything that you like as long as it is done in a respectful way, I am happy to discuss this.
Dawn
RIGHT ON…I agree 100% with this lady…she’s seems to be very aware and very, very well articulates the problem, how it can be grasped and ultimately overcome…I have been through many of the SAME sort of issues with my own children and grandchildren and have always attempted to tell AND show them that the answer to these issues lie in self-empowerment over these paranormal entities and also over most other problems, whether they may be paranormal-related or more “reality” based. This approach has served my family well and has proven to be the BEST approach to take with ANY problem confronted,IMHO. ~D~
CHEERS To the father who in my opinion was right trying to keep this off the air in fact I’d venture to say he may have enough to win a court battle for custody of her now, you don’t solve your child’s problems by airing them on national TV !! Worse you picked a bunch of wanna be demon chasers to help your child? Do you think the national exposure will help her in the future
while it may be true your child’s face did not appear on TV but yours did-people locally will know you were on Paranormal State, kids at school will pick on her about this- think about it-
if you really wanted to “help” your kid, with this fake reality show- you could have at least kept your identity secret- and insisted on being filmed in shadow, but no, your ego got in the way and its too late now- for AE will rerun “lady vampire” over and over and I’m willing to bet those Hollywood producers you were hoping would discover you won’t call
****Tip parents if your kid has nightmares or bad dreams don’t call Paranormal State- go to the dollar store buy a empty spray bottle
fill it with water - tell your kid its monster spray- tell them to spray it around to keep the monsters away
works wonders and there is no risk of looking like a ——- on national TV
Ok. Call me negative but I will wait and see what story she sells to everyone else. I mean is this going to be her all around response or is she just saying what she thinks we want to hear? I am still on the fence about this. But it was nice for her to write in.
Eh - I don’t begrudge a mom for trying to do what’s best. As a parent, I have done the whole “monster spray” thing and all that, but if there were a point where my child was absolutely distraught and I had tried every other normal way to deal with it, I would probably turn to something a little less orthodox, too. Would I turn to PRS? Hell no, but that’s just because we happen to know more about them than the general public. But the truth is, whether we like it or not, the majority of the general public finds them charming and helpful and sincere. If this mom was willing to put herself out there and take the heat then that tells me she loves her daughter and wants what’s best for her. If this dad did indeed go along the whole time and then lie, then he’s an assbag and I hope she hangs it in his ass. It always pays to keep notes! If he sincerely thought it was a bad idea, he should have not gone along with it. By waiting it out it proves that his motive was solely to discredit the mother and not to do what was best for his daughter. His actions have NOTHING to do with wanting to be a good dad and EVERYTHING to do with being vindictive to the mom.
I personally hope the mom wins this one.
Well, this kid obviously needed some attention. I imagine being embroiled in a hateful and ongoing discourse between her parents felt awful. I imagine it brought nightmares. It probably also caused her mom to be more absent in order to pick up the slack. I don’t fault anyone for that. PRS came and made her feel special. That was the trick. Let’s just be clear that nothing paranormal went on here. A child’s need for attention was served by a show and a production company. Did it enlighten the child to her situation? Absolutely not, but it stopped the symptoms. I figure that is what a spray bottle would do. The shame is that everyone in this situation hid from the true problem; nothing was done to solve the emotional breakdown, which I suspect will return as the momma and the poppa keep fighting. Not to mention the ridicule thay was mentioned above. And through all of that, Chip Coffee and Ryan Buell walk away with a paycheck. Honestly, it’s pretty similar to what most of the slackers in special education do now. I am sorry the long term solutions to your child’s problems didn’t work fast enough for you. Next time try providing a stable home environment for your child and then a trip to the zoo will fix the occasional doldrums. Your kid is wearing a Hollywood band-aid…try those things the doctors told you now and maybe it won’t come off in the first bath.
The reason PRS’s presence in the home cured the problem with the lady vampire is that there was no lady vampire to begin with. Just a child’s response to the stresses of an ugly separation. When an equally large force comes to fix the problem, the power of that child’s mind lets the stress go. I wonder if you did a welfare check on the child now, how she would be evaluated. It doesn’t sound like the parent’s conflict is resolved. Lucky little, girl. She survived PRS, will she survive two selfish parents who do not put their child’s well-being ahead of their feud. And by the way, I am an expert in this field. I am a medical hypnotherapist with a Master’s degree in psychology. I listenend to these children in my office for years. And some of them were still undone about their parents’ behavior. My clients ranged in age from toddlers to the elderly. The only thing that has ever confounded the limiless power of God’s love is human stupidity…and many parents wield it foolishly. K. L. Ryan, CHT
>>Confronting it as their protector. Saying out loud in front of the children, yelling at the monster under their bed or in their closets. Leave this child alone and get out of her room. Then imagine together that the monsters then leave. What is wrong with that?<<
Nothing is wrong with teaching children to be brave. But that’s not what you did. And to say that the PRS would not help you unless you agreed to allow them to air it on TV says a whole lot about them. They are *not* in it to help people. You most certainly could have found help elsewhere without the exploitation factor. It’s a shame that you didn’t. Maybe next time? And BTW, what the PRS does is not research in my book. They are trying to fool people and they fooled you.
Since there was no indication of paranormal activity captured, this was an obvious case of exploitation of the producers of the show. The segment where Ryan wears the shakti helmet and seems to be experiencing something from a device shooting magnetic fields into his brain and then camera cuts to a sleeping child having nightmares, is a technique to tie the two in. To suck in the audience to believe the two are related. This is a sham!
But PRS has never been about trying to find evidence. They are about believing whatever the client says and trying to make their personal assumptions fit into the clients claims of the paranormal.
Did Ryan ever explain that hallucinations can be brought on by these magnetic fields?
Could the very presence of RPS agreeing with you and your daughter have been enough of a psychological shock to have helped you both get over this issue instead of blaming it all on a vampire ghost?
If the father was so upset, why didn’t Chip Coffey comfort him?
“…what is so wrong with embracing what they believe with them and conquering it as a family. Not make them lay in a room that terrifies them, telling them, “it’s just your imagination…stop waking me up…go back to bed. How about the alternative. Confronting it as their protector. Saying out loud in front of the children, yelling at the monster under their bed or in their closets. Leave this child alone and get out of her room. Then imagine together that the monsters then leave. What is wrong with that?”
there is nothing wrong with that. millions of parents handle the same sorts of issues with toddlers and young children all over the world in a similar fashion. but what these parents DON’T do is let a television network and a media-hungry ghost hunting group use their childrens’ issues to garner ratings.
plus, if all it took was a big group of happy warrior ghost hunters with their fawning psychic sidekick to come in and tell the little girl to yell at the ghost, i’m sure that there are any number of groups who would have been willing to do that WITHOUT putting the child on television. (well, who knows if these groups have a fawning psychic sidekick or not)
if the father lied then he should be prosecuted for perjury, but i still applaud his attempt to keep his very young child from getting exploited on national television.
too bad it didn’t work.
Well written letter by the mother. Yes, TV shows are mainly about making money and becoming famous, but if they helped the child then it was worth it.
I pretty much agree with what Kelli said. It seemed to me that Dawn fed into her daughter’s nightmares and by doing so, validated them. Ryans helmet deal was laughable. I would think the EMF it put out would cause unusual feelings and the like, just as high EMF from electrical boxes in a home can cause feelings of paranoia etc
This page needs more Greg.
The scariest thing about these comments ? That a delusional paranoiac like Kelli Ryan is an “expert in this field” (which field is that ? Strawberry Fields ?)and has “license” to muck about in troubled peoples brains. How does one hypnotize a headless ghost ?
This was an incredibly well written letter. The shame I feel for the mother is this: where was the paranormal community that she needed? Surely someone could have helped her who was NOT PRS.
I think that she is quite articulate and this does make a wonderful commentary. It’s an interesting insight to PRS, though I still dislike the show. It also shows how well edited it is to create her image as a “basket case” when she appears, here, to be an intelligent and articulate mother trying to help her child.
Most interesting.
Dearest Bellaboo, the reason the father’s efforts to keep his daughter from being exploited on TV by the big bad PS show is because A&E settled out of court. They paid him off…and he came cheap. Apparantly after you pay this dad, he finds a good reason to let his daughter be exploited. Didn’t you know? It is not right to let strangers exploit children…that is the right of parents.
To the mother… If this happens again, try leaving her light on in her room while she sleeps.
“…A&E settled out of court. They paid him off…and he came cheap…”
then A$E needs to start paying off a whole bunch of other parents, pronto.
the child exploitation (and families in crises exploitation) they’ve engaged in is plentiful and despicable.
anyone remember the VERY FIRST “paranormal state” episode ever? remember the little boy they USED to give a “sixth sense” vibe to their new show?
check out the stuff posted by someone claiming to be that boy’s mother - back in jan 2008. she posted as “mattrach”.
read quick, before A$E deletes it.
http://boards.aetv.com/topic/Share-Your-Thoughts/Please-Protect-The/700011676&start=0
What I find more deplorable is how can a mother allow any TV network in, at the expense of protecting their child from the worst kind of exploitation there is. I would have tried to find a respectable paranormal research team that would A) keep my child off national TV, and B) not add any more stress compiled to the legal battle which was going on. I would never settle with a network. I’d want the episode pulled as well, never to see the light of day.
Honestly, to “Dawn” where is your self respect? Did it fly out the window when A&E made PRS look like they actually knew what they were doing? You allowed your respect for your child’s privacy, and your own to be bought off so PRS, A&E, and all its affiliates got rich, and you didn’t get a damn thing.
They provide minor comfort, giving the child the attention she did not receive like the other poster mentioned, and then everything is ok.
Listen to yourself defending A&E, and PRS? How can you live with yourself for selling out to the ultimate evil?
You should have been proud the father loved, and cared for his daughter to fight an exhausting legal battle to make sure this thing never aired. I would only settle with a network if they agreed never to air the episode because I wouldn’t allow it to happen to begin with. Whether he was ok til 3 months before means nothing to me. I don’t know the truth on that because I wasn’t there, and I also couldn’t sort out either side of the story.
PRS did not give you the help you needed whether you agree with me or not. They saw dollar signs flashing in their eyes, and I’m sorry to tell you this but were the sucker who fell for it.
Let me clue you all in about PRS. Belonging to a paranormal research group myself, I can tell you that more often than not PRS are referred cases that your normal everyday group don’t want to touch, ie. crackpots and delusional people. How do I know this? Because the group I belong to did just that.
The case in question involved someone who believed they were under demonic attack. Even after my group found no evidence to support their claims, this person insisted they were being attacked, and that it was still happening. After continuous harassment of our Case Worker and her assistant, they were finally turned over to PRS, and the person told we no longer were working their case.
People will believe what they want if they want to believe it strongly enough, even when evidence is brought forth to the contrary. I’m not saying ghosts and demons are not real, only that not every case of such is what is claimed. Don’t be afraid to entertain the possibility, but be prepared to accept that it is something normal, and not paranormal.
I still would like to know why a young child, going through the stress of a bitter divorce, is banished to a different floor to sleep, with a creepy attic door to allow her troubled imagination to run wild. That has to be scary.
Dawn, you need to make sure your child gets out of the house more, has activiities and playmates to take her mind off the “Lady vampire” hokum. Maybe you can swap bedrooms with her, or make a room for her on the first floor near you.
Ryan Buell has gone all old school demon slayer to boost ratings. Like Lorraine Warren, it seems like every haunting has to do with a demon, succubus, incubus, or vampire. Sometimes a ghost is just a ghost, Anna.
To the Mother,
I think using your daughter’s normal, childhood experience with the “monster” in her closet in an attempt to bed the Hottie from PRS is rather sad.
Here’s a suggestion: The next time Ryan asks you if you would like someone from PRS to spend the night to protect you and your daughter from the evil Vampire Lady - do yourself a favor and just say yes… You will look less like a desperate basket case that uses her daughter’s nightmares for a booty call
Many children have “night terrors”! I had them EVERY night when I was little! IMO, I don’t think it’s a good idea to “valadate” a night terror as “real”!! There are other ways to deal with the situation! The child could have seen a Therapist (continually) to work through it! No cost Therapist ARE available, through State/County Mental Health Orginizations! ALSO, just because you are “a professional & single mother” dosn’t negate the possibility that you may be Mentally Ill! Contrary to popular belief, the mentally ill are not a “gaggle of drooling idiots”!
Finally, I’m glad YOU believe Ryan’s “PRS-BS”, frankly I don’t!! And congratulations….now, every time your child has a nightmare she will believe “something” that can harm her & IS real is after her, and she WILL be Terrified! GREAT JOB!
It’s funny how all of you “experts” know what is best for this mother and daughter. I’m so glad you were by her side when she needed help. It was so kind of you to offer your services to her. And I bet it was a comfort to her that you were there when her daughter woke up screaming at night. Oh! You weren’t there? How can that be? Oh! That’s right. You are just talking out of your asses based on what you read on the internet. You have all this information based on posts by someone who may or may not be the mother and others who have only their opinion.
All I see is articles and posts written by jealous, evil people who have nothing better to do in their miserable loser lives than bring others down. whoforted? This website did because it really smells.
Well, RWraith, the jealousy card is something people usually resort to when they don’t have a good argument. Apparently mocking anything for it’s absurd nature makes us jealous. Who knew? It’s ok. We’re used to that kind of unoriginal, illogical argument.
The ‘evil’ thing is new though, so kudos for that. I guess I am a bit confused though, because I think I’m a pretty regular guy, and I’d be more apt to label folks such as Ryan Buell evil for going out and clearly exploiting the mentally ill by marketing their religious theatrics to weak-minded people as a quick fix for emotional problems. And hey, we can’t forget that he’s doing this with the obvious intention of making pocketloads of cash and making up for his childhood as a social outcast with manufactured celebrity status (even if that status doesn’t transcend the the small bubble of 12 year old’s with a surface interest in ghosts). I’ve gotta say, that sounds a little more malicious and self-centered than doing what we do: pointing out the obvious to the oblivious and attempting to entertain while we inform. But then again, I’m talking about ‘evil’ in the traditional sense, and you’re a person that believes Paranormal State is actually documenting a group of kids battling invisible demons by yelling, posing, and wearing ping pong balls on their faces.
I’m more than aware that logical arguments are lost on you, trust me.
Except, RWraith, the person who is supposed to be there when her daughter wakes up scared is her mother. And her mother was so mind blown by fantasy she couldn’t provide that service. Yer damn right I wasn’t there, I was home using my rational thought processes and advice with my children who, coincidentally, never even thought about demon or ghost possession because they didn’t have Paranormal State or an illogical adult planting those seeds in their heads. My degrees and profession focus on child psychology, and my inability to save every child in the world from their own parent hardly renders the conclusions they provide irrelevant. Likewise, the negligent self-interest of the PRS team is not rendered a benevolent act because the concerned posters here were not present on this case. By Dawn’s own admission, she failed to follow through with the psychologist’s advice and ELECTED for the star treatment instead.
I just watched the episode in question after looking around on the net for it. There are a lot of things that I question about PRS. I watch the show for entertainment purposes. I do believe in supernatural because I have experienced things firsthand that there is no rational explanation for and if you want to call me nuts, then go ahead. I do feel that there is a possibility that if this child was exposed to negative words against one parent from another, the child could’ve been making things up for attention purposes. If the father went along with everything until right before the show aired and settled for getting money than to make sure the episode never aired, he is exploiting his child as everyone claims this mother has done. I think if you’re going to have your child and yourself on a show like this, you really should request that your image be obscured so you can’t be recognized by your community. There are ways these shows could handle situations with families without exposing them to ridicule. The best thing is to stay positive and if you have negative things to say about your ex, don’t do it in front of your young child. I’m divorced and I try to keep my opinions of my ex to myself. My children have experienced through the years that their father isn’t the father he should be and by doing it this way it shows that I am not influencing my children’s attitude toward their father. I let them make their own conclusions on how they feel about him.
this is a reply to getreal’s comment.
yes there are alot of phoney wanna be’s out there. however, chip coffey and demonoligist lorraine wareen are real and they would not stake there reputaion on a phoney reality program.also catholic priest will not do an exorsism or cleansing without the permission of the church and its own investigation. as far as the
investigation in quincy, il. for example, i am a friend of a niehbor of the family, i can assure you its real. i have a daughter who experienced visions and heard voices and no person was present. a evp recording reaveled she was truthfull. if people can beieve there is God, then why cant they beleive other unknowns ? people need to open up the miond to supernatural.
20 years ago i was in a car accident and my sister live 1800 miles from me in florida and she called me the next day and ask if i was ok, i said yes. she told me she had a vision that i was in a car accident the night before. skepticakl now?
As a single mother who has no support financially or otherwise from my son’s father and no understanding from my family when I talk about the paranormal things we both experience I can completely sympathize with Dawn. Whether the “lady vampire” was real or not, the situation needed to be dealt with and she had tried every other avenue to get that help, and ended up going to what some would say extreme measures to get it. I’ve never even heard of PRS, I stopped watching paranormal shows a long time ago because it disgusts me the way money is made from family’s terror and the poor unfortunate souls who have passed. I’m a member of a paranormal research and investigation team in the UK, and that has helped me learn to deal with my own experiences and we actually help people for no financial gain.
Kudos to Dawn for being a good mother and for writing the best response anyone could’ve written
dawn is sexy as hell
your husband is an idiot…
let me take care of you
dawn is soooooooooo hot
i wanna hit that
I have to agree with len, Dawn is a super sexy actress.
IMO,
1) PRS is a psuedo-reality tv show that shows up at peoples doorstep to investigate perceived paranormal experiences.
OR
2) PRS is a completely fabricated tv show with actors/actresses script and all to feed peoples desire to see other peoples pain/discomfort involving USA societal obsession with the paranormal.
I am inclined to believe in option #2.
My daughter loves the show, and I will watch it once in a while. I have a hard time believing in the authenticiy of the progam knowing that it has like all tv a production component to it. Let’s see some more Blair Witch productions like that last one in the theater (’Paranormal Activity’? I forget the name already).
Probably my fav tv show is ‘What not to Wear’, since Stacy is the most sexy woman host on tv. I wonder if she is still dating that baseball player?
I believe in Bill Maher’s conclusion about religion and the paranormal phenom. Believe what you will, but when someone says it is the truth, then that turns me off. I do believe that everyone has an agenda to fulfill even at the expense of others.
Noises in the enclosed attic space? Did anyone notice the water heater in the attic? Okay, now we have piping and water running through the piping. Okay, has anyone ever heard of “Water Hammer”? Correct me if I am wrong, but an inbalance in water pressure may cause the pipe to vibrate. Maybe Dawn needs a plumber more than a priest.
You know, could this be a scenario or maybe I am just too cynical? Dawn and her supposed ex-partner play the scenario she describes, but are in league with each other to force A&E to settle out of court. That would be an awesome storyline.
Dawn, call me.
Until someone faces a haunting like this, they see it as fake and made up.
It’s a shame truly.
As a normal, happy, secure, religious and mentally sound human being, i’ve had experiences that you only see in movies. Traveling all over the world and living abroad for 2 years, i have seen some crazy stuff.
Long story short, my first experience was a little girl waving out a window at me every morning. (this was in England) everyday she waved when i would leave to walk to town. I would wave back and she would smile at me. This went on for months.
I asked my neighbor who this girls parents were because i’d like to stop by and say hello. She said that the house is vacant and has been for months.I went to the front window and sure enough it was destroyed inside and very vacant. I had just waved to her that morning. She vanished after that. I still waved everytime i walked by till i moved back to the USA. This was a case of a non-malevolent haunting.
I’ve been punched and shoved by unseen entities. I was slapped in the face while taking a walk once. Just out of the blue, like hitting a tree. One other walker saw it happen, the look on her face was insane. Her reaction scared me more than getting slapped by nothing.
I just wanted to clarify that not all people are lying and not all hauntings are “just ghosts”. Some can be very dangerous, very.
We aren’t all crazy. If Dawn’s daughter was suffering, Dawn did what she thought was the best thing. Who are we to judge what she did? If it helped her daughter, what harm was done? It was more damaging to drag that child to doctors and therapy than to have the PRS team come. Docs didn’t help, PRS did.
It’s very easy to criticize people when you aren’t the one being criticized.
Wow! I haven’t been on this site since the night I wrote that email. I read all of the comments and tried to be open-minded. Looking back thru the past year and half, for me and my daughter it seems like a lifetime ago.. She never mentions the lady vampire anymore, and I try to keep it out of my thoughts as well. I am a different person now. No longer fueled and operating from a place of fear. It has been replaced by love and honestly the shift began when The PRS team arrived. Truly. For that, I am forever grateful to them all.
It is fair to accuse me of exploiting my daughter and the situation. Absolutely. The truth is I didn’t. I didn’t make any money, I didn’t write a cheesy book, and I didn’t continue to parade my daughter or myself on television in an effort to extend any 15 minutes of exposure or to get any money whatsoever from our suffering.
In retrospect, would I do it all over again? It’s hard to say. We are different people now. We were a family suffering. You can clearly see a women (me) with Post traumatic stress issues to say the least. You can say anything you want about me, I opened myself up to that and deserve every last piece of criticism. I was desperate and in a desperate situation. I beat down so many doors to get help and get someone to listen to us. It wasn’t about getting attention it was about paying attention. Then someone finally did. I was so relieved and felt that if they were going to help us, and it was for a greater good of helping other people that the situation resonated with, what harm could come from it? right?
NO harm did come to anyone but me really. I expected it and deserved it for the most part. I still think well of the PRS group. I believe their hearts are in the right place. I do believe they cared about us then. I do believe they are trying to make a positive difference. And they give the general viewing public what they want when they tune in each week. They see a group of young people as they experience a very unique and interesting job. People want to see that type of stuff or they wouldn’t watch. I never wanted to be on tv. I did want to get the healing they offered in privacy but that is not part of the arrangement. It’s a freaking tv show. Ya, they give you the help and it is of great benefit to those they come to that are in distress. The downside is you have to be willing to be on tv. I was ok with that at the time because I had nothing to hide, nothing to loose (I thought) and was not ashamed of what was happening and how I was dealing with it (I knew I wasn’t dealing with it well, that’s why I needed help) and again, my goal was to get people talking about the issues I was struggling with and not perfect at handling and to help my child and children out there. I hope it did help just one family and one child out there. It helped my daughter and hopefully just one more child in the least. that would make it not done in vain. I wanted my mistakes to help someone else and hold myself accountable to my daughter.
Now, my daughter is doing great. She is a sensitive but I changed the way I encourage it. I convey what I believe to her if she asks. I do not lie to her and because of what she has gone thru in life, she is a lot more able to understand than most kids her age. We have very lively debates about things and I encourage her to express herself and she definitely does. Reflecting on the experience we shared together with Paranormal State and the actual traumatic time in our lives back then is something that bonded us together and made our relationship even more special. For that reason alone, I am glad I made the choice that I did. It is the only reason. I could have never foreseen the negative results and the impact of this 20 minute show that i thought would only been seen by a few. I could never have known as a broken mother, woman and human being. I do see it now as a healed person with a healed child. I admit that I did make a mistake, but time has healed all of it.
My daughter sleeps well, does great in school and socially has many friends that enjoy her wonderful sense of humor and playfulness. She has an amazing empathy for others. I sit back in amazement as I watch her interact.
So I give only to this forum my opinion of the experience 1 year and a half later. For whatever it is worth. I believe, based on the impact of the show that reality/documentary shows that involve children should not be done. It is irresponsible with the impact being unknown and unforeseable. But it is the times we live in. People want to see the real life train wrecks. To hell with well written television with actual actors in them. We live in a time where real life (the bad ones) are what we want to see. Perhaps because we can all sit in judgment of these idiots being completely stupid and mis-managing their lives to a degree that it actually does make good television. We watch and feel better about ourselves and our private messes in life (that we hide behind closed doors and keep a secret). We want to be the judges not the ones judged. It makes us feel better and feel smarter than the ones paraded on television.
I did what I thought was right then, and I do have courage. I love my daughter very much and want to always do whats best for her, and what is defined as best for her changes as we both grow up. The year after filming was a lot worse than the year leading up to it. I equate it to being in a terrible and traumatic car accident every day for two years! I have endured what would have made a lot of women throw in the towel on and I survived it all and shielded my daughter from it all by saying, “Bring it on!”
Thank you for posting my open letters, thank you to those who gave me the benefit of the doubt and all the kind expressions of thoughtfulness, and even thank you to those that were harsh towards me. It helped as well. It kept me balanced in my own opinions and helped me grow and improve a bad situation (partly self inflicted and an innocent child, my own suffered consequences.) That makes me cry even today.
The lawsuit fizzled out. I stood my ground and became empowered. I stopped letting ex husband and anyone else (living or dead) push me around and influence my relationship with my child and the well being of my child. No one knows their child like the one of an active and involved parent whether we are the poster for parent of the year or not. We all struggle to do the best we can with the circumstances we find ourselves in.
I hope in years to come that when I show my daughter the episode that she is empowered by her own courage and that she will understand why I made the choice that I did. To me the show is not and should not have been about a child suffering but rather a situation that some family’s find themselves victim too because the atmosphere that they live in is so dark, so negative, that it actually manifests and alters their life and that of their children. My weak state invited negative activity to manifest and I was ignorant to the fact that I was the culprit. The entire reason for the lady vampire appearing should have been recognized as a spiritual reflection back to me of what I had become through an abusive marriage, bad divorce, depression and fear. The lady vampire showed herself to my child because it was her that I loved more than anything. And if she was a reflection of me, it makes perfect sense that she would want to be near my child too.
Now through educating myself, I am very cautious of what I allow into my home in thought or in form. I control my moods to a degree of walking outside my home to vent or release stress or even if I have to have a negative thought. I do it outside. I believe thoughts are energy that never dies. Half the crap in my head sometimes…I do not want floating around in my house and near my daughter. As a result, my home has a healthy and excellent vibe of good energy and peace for the first time in my own and the life of my little girl. So for those that have these shared experiences, I offer you my own honest take on it. Be very careful what you allow to come into your thoughts, feelings and home. If you want to take control you must be in control. If your not, make yourself by surround yourself with people that are smarter than you are about the paranormal and that will lift you up until you can stand up on your own by yourself.
I look back and I am proud of the woman and mother I am and am even more proud of the daughter that I helped give life to and the woman I know that she is already evolving into.
I send love to all that read this. Thank you.
The worst thing about that episode now is that the show never showed what a dynamic, adaptable and intelligent person you must really be. I loved reading your response. I don’t think anyone who commented here ever expected you to be perfect, but I know your depth of thought is everything I ever hoped for when I wrote my first response here. Your child is lucky to have you.
Thank you for saying that. It is always nice to hear someone take extra time to say something heartfelt rather than ridiculing someone when they haven’t walked a mile in that persons shoes.
I do love my daughter very much, like every mother should. It is strange but when your child doesn’t tell you or can’t tell you that something is wrong, as a mother or a father, you know it. You can smell it, taste it, feel it and then you ultimately deal with it.
Sorry for the two novels I have written here, I guess I still had more to say on the subject. I appreciate the time you took to read it and write a response that was so very kind.
Thank you very, very much! God Bless.