My name is Luann Joly, AKA A E Angel, I'm the founder of the paranormal team Whaling City Ghosts based in New Bedford, Ma.  Since I was a child I've experienced strange phenomena.  I began studying the paranormal as soon as I reached adulthood, trying to find explanations for the events that had plagued me my entire life.  I am still searching for answers but over the years I've documented ghostly activity all over New England. 

Early on in my research I began to think that if I could put the right people together in the field I'd be able to record paranormal activity more readily.  Since starting Whaling City Ghosts we've recorded more ghostly antics than I can count; EVP, photographs and video clips of unexplained voices and apparitions.  Because of my brushes with entities of a darker nature in my youth, some of our cases are of a more sinister nature.  One of our most active and long standing cases is my own.  In Dead Whispers I not only bring you into the haunts of some more famous sites, such as Salem, Massachusetts the site of the 1692 Witch Trials, Freetown/Fall River State Forest the locale of "The Cult Murders," and Lizzie Borden's Bed & Breakfast the crime scene of violent ax murders, I also open my home to you.  After over 40 years of paranormal experiences it was only a matter of time before I removed "Defier the Beast" from my home, but I did catch some impressive EVP while he was present.  In an empty room in my own home I heard him call out to me, "You're mine!"  I was also fortunate enough to record this disembodied voice to share with you on the audio CD that accompanies Dead Whispers, the book.  I hope that not only do I share the voices of the past from haunted New England, but that I bring you up to date on another chapter in the life of a "ghost magnet."

For me, bringing the ghosts I've encountered in the field to life was an exciting endeavor.  Painstaking research between myself and Whaling City Ghosts' own "history bloodhound" Debby White-Paiva was put into Dead Whispers in order to resurrect spirits who have long since passed beyond this existence we call life.  Impossibly, these long dead souls still call out to us from beyond the grave, sometimes wanting only to be remembered for who they were.  Now that we know who Sarah Maria Cornell, a lowly mill worker was, we can't help but wonder who was Nathaniel Hall?  Was he a child laborer in a Fall River, Ma mill during the last century?  Who are the owners of the hundreds of other ghostly voices we've recorded over the years?  For that matter, why are some of our locations so very haunted?  Could it be natural geological conditions that exist or could it be something else, such as pollution?  I still don't know for sure, but I like to remain open to possibilities.

*More to come!