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Spirit Seekers: The Spokane Paranormal Society
Clip: Season 37 Episode 3701 | 5m 33sVideo has Closed Captions
Hear from Mark Porters, an empath and cofounder of The Spokane Paranormal Society.
Mark Porter is an empath and cofounder of The Spokane Paranormal Society. Members Mark, Amy Forness, Connie Couch and Frank Davi, specialize in searching for spirits and helping them cross to the other realm. The KSPS production crew followed the group on August 19, 2023 as they passed along spirits at Market Street Antiques in the Hillyard neighborhood of Spokane, Washington.
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Spirit Seekers: The Spokane Paranormal Society
Clip: Season 37 Episode 3701 | 5m 33sVideo has Closed Captions
Mark Porter is an empath and cofounder of The Spokane Paranormal Society. Members Mark, Amy Forness, Connie Couch and Frank Davi, specialize in searching for spirits and helping them cross to the other realm. The KSPS production crew followed the group on August 19, 2023 as they passed along spirits at Market Street Antiques in the Hillyard neighborhood of Spokane, Washington.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipAs far as demons go, there are a lot of shows that want to tell you there are a lot of demons out there.
And ever episode is a demon or multiple demons or you come out of there a demon.
Ive done this for eight years, I can legitimately say I have found four, what I would call low-level demons.
Im Mark Porter, Im the cofounder of The Spokane Paranormal Society.
We started in February of 2015.
Many people have had difficulties with spirits.
That didnt want them in their home.
Or just negative entities.
Things like that.
And weve gotten to the point where weve got a system to be able to get rid of them.
[Mark: Randall, are you going to be nice to my people now?]
Mostly I come in as the spearhead.
Im the one that kinda takes control.
Amy is our psychic.
So, Ill look to her and ask her where she want to go first.
Uh, Connie Couch, another empath, along with myself will walk through.
[Mark: What are you getting?]
[Connie: I still get the peaking hiding around this corner.]
And pick up on things and well put them in if we get them, but we dont get things like Amy does.
Its mostly with me, its feeling.
[Mark: Walking in here, I felt suffocated right there.]
I can get a little sight.
I can get a little audio in my head.
But mostly what I get is feeling.
Amy can see and hear.
And she can look right at a spirit and well put a K2 meter or a flashlight and yeah, theyll set it off.
Theyre right there where she was looking.
Thats the difference between a psychic and an empath, They can really see and hear.
We just get snippets.
When we pass a spirit.
There is two different ways.
The spirits that want to go, that are asking us to come and help them.
[Mark: Tell Amy who you are.]
[Amy: His name is Michael.]
[Mark: Michael.
Okay.]
We ask them who they want to meet them.
Its usually a mother or a father or a grandmother.
[Mark: And who you would like to have greet you at the door.]
[When you crossover.]
[Amy: Mother.
His mother] [Mark: Mother.]
[Mark: That's the who Id choose.]
We will then create a door.
[Mark: All right, let's start the door.]
[Amy, what kind of door do you want?]
[Amy: Its going to be a white wooden door.]
[Mark: A white wooden door.]
[Amy: With a brass handle.]
[Mark: Brass handle.
Okay.]
[Start with the door being just a pin prick.]
Amy will open the door.
The person will go through.
Well close the door.
Well get rid of the door.
And then we will bring the light down.
[Mark: Amy, go ahead and open it.]
[Amy: Kay.]
[Mark: Do you see his mother?]
[Amy: Oh, yeah, he's running.]
[Mark: Oh, okay, good.]
[Amy: He's ready.]
[Mark: All right.
Is he through?]
[Amy: Oh, yeah.]
[Mark: Go ahead and close the door.]
[Amy: He says, Thank you.]
[Mark: You're very welcome, Michael.]
Now, when you are crossing a negative entity, we do that with, uh since Most of us are Christian based in our group, we do that with the help of St. Michael, the archangel.
[Mark: In the name of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.]
[I command the Archangel Michael to sweep through this bubble] [and just remove that negative entity.]
[Body, mind and soul.]
And to take away the negative spirit.
And we have had quite a bit of success with that.
A lot of places that we did years ago, are still clean.
That have been having problems for years before we came in.
[Mark: In the name of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.]
[Amen, Amen and Amen.]
We will get the skeptics and they have not walked a mile in my shoes and seen what Ive seen and done what Ive done and have had happen to me, what has happened to me.
[Mark: I'm getting real tight,] [and pulled in right at my lower ribs.]
[Like somethings trying to squeeze me.]
Ive been punched, scratched, had my ears boxed in.
Ive gone to the ground.
Ive been pushed down stairs.
All five of my sense tested, and believe me, Taste is the worst.
[Mark: You're not going to scare the wits out of any of us.]
[We all know what coming.]
But they will do things to you, just to make you back off and go away and it just makes me want to get them out of here even quicker.
[Mark: Randall,] [You're getting very close to having me do something about it] This is our passion.
This is what we do.
We want to help people.
The living people, the past people.
[Mark: Would she like to pass?]
[Would she like to cross over?]
[Amy: I dont know.
She is just so scared right now.]
[Mark: If we cross you over, they can never touch you again.]
If there is a spirit that wants to go to heaven, or to go to the other side, or whatever you want to call it.
Thats where we can come in and we can help.
Because what gets people to call you is the negative.
People dont call you if, Oh, I felt a nice warm feeling.
I think its my grandma.
You know?
They dont call us for that.
We get, I got pushed on my stairs or I woke up with scratches or I feel like someone is watching me in the shower.
You know, ugly stuff.
And then we go in and we look for it.
Weve never charged anybody anything.
Wouldnt be right.
And soon as you add money to something, then you get the skeptics come in and say, Well, their just doing it for the money.
And were not.
Were doing this for the people.
Both the living and the past.
[Mark: If you let us cross you over,] [your hearing will come back.]
[Everything's restored once you cross over.]
[You only have it on this plane.
Not on the other one.]
Probably the greatest hobby I think anyone could ever have But you definitely have to have, I wont say, what it takes.
But Ill say, you have to have the right mind set to do this.
Its a gift if you use it right, its a curse if you dont.
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