LIS' Sunny Side Up episode, featuring Aether Paranormal's, Carly Bell

Lost In Sunshine's featured Sunny Side Up artist this month is Carly Bell. She's a dance teacher, choreographer, mother of two, my ghost hunting partner in crime, and very good friend. I think you'll find her answers to be refreshing, uplifting, and hilarious - just like Carly! :)

www.aetherparanormal.com


Sunny Side Up topics are always related to our film's theme.

New Aether Paranormal documentary in the making!

This past weekend, Shad and I made our way to the quaint Texas town - New Braunfels, to make a short documentary. It was a sweet little place, with lots of great bakeries, mouth watering eateries, and water sports! But that's not why we were there (although I took advantage of some baked goods!). We were there to document our ghost hunt at the Faust Hotel.

Our first night, we were graciously given a "ghost tour" by a hotel worker, who I'll let remain anonymous. He said that he gets asked about 40-50 times a day about ghosts. Mostly from people who don't even take it seriously. So, we were happy that he eventually gave in, and noticed how 'serious' we were about capturing the essence of this town, the hotel, Mr. Faust himself, the rich history, and stories from people who'd been fortunate to witness something (they believe to be) supernatural.

The second night, we had a couple of experiences we are still baffled over... I'll let you wait and watch it for yourself... but it's pretty wild (from what we can tell!). It's rare that we, as paranormal researchers, actually get to witness something we can't explain. Most of what we do revolves around gathering research, conducting interviews, and documenting whatever we can for evidence, whether it's to disprove or prove anything.

And in between our 'ghost hunts' we had a lot of fun just getting to know some locals, hotel workers, eating a ton of great food (Huisache!) and walking the streets of downtown to do a little antiquing.

We missed the full team not being able to be there, but it was a nice, romantic getaway for some q-time with my Oney (yes, that's what I call Shad). :)

Now it's chop time... for the next mo. Shad'll be editing the footage from our trip, so you can have a taste of the experience yourself... and if you don't already know, look for our team on the Travel Channel this Sept./Nov. - The Most Terrifying Places In America (series).

We'll also be doing a full feature length doc with the entire team again, sometime this fall... hopefully out for you to watch next Spring.

And we're even thinking of throwing a good ole fashion ghost party this Oct.! TBA.

I'll let you know as soon as I have something else to tell or show you! Spook ya later. :) Jentri

The Texas Ghost Show experience

This weekend was a blast. Went to Beaumont with some of my team members from Aether Paranormal, and met lots of new people/groups in the paranormal field at the Texas Ghost Show on Saturday!

It was a long 5 hour drive for Beaux, Dug, Shad and myself Friday night from Austin, TX to Beaumont. Sadly it was Dug and Carly's birthday, and we didn't get to all celebrate together.. well, not really. But we'll make up for it this weekend at our wrap party! And we (Paranormal Productions) were able to finish our Aquarena Center (investigation) DVD, just in time for the show!!

We got to our hotel late Friday night, where we met up with local (Goliad) historian and paranormal friend, Bill Corey (from Presidio La Bahia documentary). Then we hazily headed to the bar, and met a few other paranormal folks. One of which is known as the Oprah of psychics, Ericka Eoussarhane. She came up to us at our table and called us 'Hollywood Paranormal.' OK...thanks... I think. :)

She was very friendly, and told us a bit about ourselves that was hard to ignore... especially since we had just met! Shortly after, we found ourselves talking with a guy who practices witchcraft... so the night was interesting, to say the least!

Unwinding from a long trip is never easy. We arrived back in our hotel room around midnight, and crawled into our double beds. We couldn't stop talking and laughing.. I felt like I was thrown into a guys' slumber party!!! We seriously couldn't go to sleep, and as hilarious as everything seemed to be, we had a 7am call time! That meant getting up no later than 6am. Yeah.. it was rough getting to the civic center the following morning. But we did!

We arrived at the show to set up around 7:30am. There were 12 booths, and we occupied one of them. About 20 feet away, were Ghost Lab's, Brad and Katie. Beside them, was Ghost Hunter's ex-bad boy teammate, Brian. They were all really lovely to meet!

Larry, a paranormal investigator, who co-wrote 11:11, The Time Prompt, was one of the first people to walk up to our booth after settling. That was pretty exciting, since it's one of about 12 books I've ever read (I'm not a 'book' reader!!). Putting several online friends' names with faces over the next several hours was pretty freakin' cool, too!

We met so many wonderful souls.. I can't name them all.. but among some were the sweet couple from Ghostology, some of you may be familiar with... Dan LaFave from Graveyard Shift Paranormal Investigations/GSPI, and Don Dennis (Texas Ghost Show coordinator) and his lovely family...

Overall, it was a weekend of talking fun paranormal stuff with good people, drinking rockin' good coffee, and eating delicious ice cream (shhhh).. what more could a gal ask for? :)

Here's our documented video from the trip (just for
fun!). xo Jentri