The Unquiet Dead Are Everywhere

by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
In 1924, Dr. Carl Wickland wrote Thirty Years Among the Dead which described how enmeshed are living humans with spirits of the dearly departed.

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Anna Wickland acted as a medium for their parapsychological studies

Dr. Wickland (1861-1945) was a Swedish psychiatrist who practiced at the turn of the century in Chicago. During his lifetime he was a member of the Chicago Medical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and chief psychiatrist at the State Psychopathic Institute of Chicago.

In 1918, he moved to Los Angeles and founded the National Psychological Institute; however long before then he had turned away from conventional psychology of the day to the belief that obsessing spirits of the dead were at the root of many psychiatric illnesses.

He used low-voltage electric shock to dislodge them, and then his wife Anna (1864-1937) acting as a trance medium would guide the spirit over into the light, and convince them to release their hold on their human host. He worked with a group of enlightened spirits he called the "Mercy Band" who assisted from the other side in guiding these lost spirits.

In an age when spiritualism was rampant, Dr. Wickland warned against the use of Ouija boards and dabbling with automatic writing by persons who were not knowledgeable about what they were doing. He described several persons who after having tried to engage in automatic writing, had started to display totally different personality traits to their own, and many had ended up being institutionalized. Prior to their attempt to connect to the spirit world they had been normal. It was through these cases that he started to research psychic phenomena.

He wrote two books, Thirty Years Among the Dead (1924) and The Gateway of Understanding (1934).

​Dr. Wickland observed:

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Humanity is surrounded by the thought influence of millions of discarnate beings… A recognition of this fact accounts for a great portion of unbidden thoughts, emotions, strange forebodings, gloomy moods, irritabilities, unreasonable impulses, and irrational outbursts of temper, uncontrollable infatuations and countless other mental vagaries….

Carl and Anna Wickland c.1930s

According to Dr. Wickland, spirits were not tied to a location as many believed. Sometimes a person could be influenced by a dead family member, but just as easily by a stranger.

Barring a psychological or psychiatric source for these experiences, the following is a list of experiences that indicate you might have a spirit(s) trying to influence you and insinuate themselves into your aura:

• Feeling of being watched, hearing a voice(s) outside of yourself or being touched when you are by yourself.
• Sudden change in behavior and personality traits which include irrational fear, anger and sadness
• Sudden difficulties with relationships (disliking persons for no apparent reason, quarreling with family and friends when there was a good relationship before)
• Fatigue, loss of energy and foggy thinking
• Feeling coldness or finding scratches on your body with no logical source or cause, especially when you are in a certain room or part of your house.
• Losing track of time, including memory loss.
• Recurring nightmares, disturbing awake visions or hallucinations and seeing shadows
• Unexpected illness that can’t be diagnosed by your doctor.
• Disturbing thoughts or using words that you recognize are not your own
• Streak of bad luck and freak accidents

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How and why do these spirits start to follow you?

• Drinking to excess where you pass out. This is a common reason why alcoholics who binge and have blackouts can’t remember what they did or where they went. In cases of long term alcohol intake, there is an effect on the brain, however another reason is that these spirits of deceased alcoholics (where else would you hang out after death?) will elbow each other out of the way in order to jump into your energy field and use your body to taste the alcohol you are drinking. This holds true with use of drugs. Since many times addictive behavior opens your aura, not only will you initially be influenced to drink, oppression takes place which drives you to drink more and more. This is another reason why many addicts fail so many times when they try to maintain a sober lifestyle.
• Emotional and physical trauma, especially as a child will leave you vulnerable. Also not healing emotional trauma and resolving issues related to this event(s) in your life can attract a spirit with similar emotional wounds.
• General anesthesia during surgery can leave an unlocked door or portal to your psychic body, and hospitals are teeming with earthbound spirits who unaware of their death state, and are looking for someone nice to go home with.
• Organ transplants can also offer a doorway for an attachment; especially if the donor died suddenly or under heavy medication and was unaware they died.
• Extreme grief felt with the passing of a loved one, and saying phrases like “Don’t leave me! Stay with me!” can prompt a departing spirit to honor your request, and then once they are enmeshed in your aura they are unable to depart.