Subjects of Interest:
Candle Face Chronicles
The Lost Souls
October 2, 2024
Lately, I’ve been dedicating more time to strengthening my remote viewing and mediumship abilities—both those I’ve developed on my own and the new techniques I recently learned from Stacey Tallitsch’s Remote Viewing class and Nicole Riccardo‘s Mediumship Bootcamp. It’s been an educational journey that’s reinforced my belief that I can take the reins of the paranormal side of my investigations and rely less on the paranormal community for assistance.
The Mediumship Bootcamp, led by Nicole Riccardo, introduced me to a range of exercises designed to enhance the different “clairs”—clairvoyance (clear seeing), clairaudience (clear hearing), clairsentience (clear feeling), claircognizance (clear knowing), clairalience (clear smelling), and clairgustance (clear tasting). Each technique is meant to refine our intuitive senses, and I’ve blended these practices with my existing knowledge of remote viewing.
For example, Nicole explains that one of the foundational exercises for developing clairvoyance involves meditating while looking into a flame or crystal ball. I have a large crystal ball that weighs over 20 pounds, which I originally bought as an office decoration back in my military intelligence days. Many Soldiers jokingly said that military intelligence personnel used crystal balls or witchcraft to predict or shape enemy operations, so it was my way of poking fun at that rumor. However, I’ve found myself gazing at it while meditating despite my saying just days ago that I didn’t need any aids. This practice is intended to train the mind’s eye to receive images and gain clarity through visions. I’ve been adapting this technique by incorporating it into my remote viewing sessions. Instead of just observing a static scene, I allow my mind to freely shift between different locations and events, pulling in visual information that might otherwise be obscured. This approach has enhanced my remote viewing by helping me connect with more details and visualize locations more deeply.
While I haven’t seen anything concrete during these sessions, I do feel a new sense of calm and relaxation. It’s as if I’m settling into the practice, and I believe I’m heading in the right direction. The clarity will come with time, I hope.
The exercises to enhance clairaudience—such as adjusting to background noises or isolating specific instruments in a song—are helping me refine my ability to distinguish between various voices or entities that might be trying to communicate with me. By isolating these sounds during remote viewing sessions, I can better interpret any auditory messages I receive, rather than relying solely on visual cues. It’s almost as if I’m tuning a radio dial, trying to find the frequency that lets me hear the spirits more clearly. During the Mediumship Bootcamp, Nicole played some of her own music, which featured six or seven different instruments. We were tasked with tuning into one instrument only. About halfway through the song, I found I could fine-tune my ears to that specific instrument, and I began to predict how the rest of the song would unfold. It was as if I had heard the song before and knew it intimately despite never having heard it before.
Another technique that has proven invaluable is clairsentience—the ability to sense emotions and physical sensations. This has always been more challenging for me, as I tend to prioritize logic and reason over emotion. However, by practicing energy-sharing exercises, where one person sends an emotion, and the other receives it, I’m becoming more aware of the emotional shifts during remote viewing sessions. I hope to eventually tap into the emotional states of the lost souls, providing deeper context to the information they share. This practice is helping me understand the lost souls’ emotions and become more comfortable with my own, a significant step forward in my personal development.
Integrating these techniques has been more than just an academic exercise—it’s a step toward independence. I’ve always appreciated the information and support of psychics, mediums, and other members of the paranormal community. But, there have been times when I felt constrained by the need to rely on others. The frustration of waiting for external validations or interpretations often slowed down the progress of my investigations. With remote viewing, the ability to project my consciousness to different locations and observe events has always been central to my work. Now, combining it with these enhanced intuitive abilities, I feel that I’m discovering deeper information that was previously inaccessible.
But now, I feel like I’m taking more control. I’m trusting myself more, even when the information isn’t clear-cut. When a lost soul reaches out, or I sense Candle Face lurking nearby, I don’t need to immediately turn to someone else for validation. I have the tools and confidence to explore these encounters on my own.
That’s not to say I’m closing myself off to outside help—far from it. There’ll always be a place for collaboration in this investigation, and I still value the perspectives of trusted psychics, mediums, and paranormal investigators. However, by enhancing my own abilities, I’m hoping to fill in the gaps and approach my work with more self-reliance.
This shift in mindset has already started paying off. The past few nights, the energy in my living room, where the spirits often manifest, feels different. Actually, I just thought of something: maybe I don’t need to wait for the lost souls to come to me now—at least until I can sharpen my new skills. Maybe I can go directly to them. What if I could visit the sites where they were murdered and try to see what happened? I could embed myself in the location, using my remote viewing and clairvoyance to pick up on any remaining energy, visual details, or even sounds that might have been imprinted on the environment. This could provide geolocation information, descriptions of the killers, and other key details such as terrain and weather conditions on that fateful day. Being “physically” present might help me connect more deeply, revealing information that I couldn’t perceive while simply sitting on my couch, listening to the lost souls. It’s a new approach, and I’m curious to see if it could help me discover more clues. Of course, such a strategy isn’t without risks—physically visiting these locations could expose me to residual energy or encounters with entities still lingering at the sites, like Candle Face’s shadows or Candle Face herself. However, I’m willing to explore this option, keeping my guard up and preparing for anything. Am I starting to see things more clearly?
Reflecting on these new possibilities, it feels like I’m coming full circle. I began this mission with nothing but a strong desire to help these lost souls and find answers. Now, I’m equipping myself to see it through, no matter where it leads. The classes were just the beginning. The real work is just getting started. I feel more prepared and committed than ever to helping these souls find peace.
A Personal Note to My Readers
I want to take a moment to thank all of you for being part of this mission with me. Navigating the world of lost souls and confronting Candle Face hasn’t been easy, but your support and encouragement have made all the difference. Every message I receive and every shared experience from those of you who have sensed or seen things paranormal reinforces that I’m not alone in this mission.
Your belief in my work has kept me moving forward. I hope that as I continue to develop my own skills, you’ll find inspiration to deepen your own understanding of life and what lies beyond. We are all explorers in this vast, uncharted territory, and I’m grateful to have you by my side.
I’d love to hear from you: Have any of you felt a similar shift in energy when practicing your own intuitive abilities? If so, what have you experienced? Please feel free to share in the comments or reach out to me directly. Your stories are what make this community so special.
Looking ahead, I’ll test some of these new ideas by visiting one of the sites mentioned by a lost soul. It’s a risky endeavor, but I believe it will be worth it. I hope you’ll stay tuned for the next chapter as I document what unfolds.
I often wonder what keeps me going in the face of such evil. But when I think about the lost souls—the glimpses of light I see when a piece of their story comes to the surface—I know it’s worth it. I’m not just helping them; in many ways, they’re helping me too. To each of you who reads these journal entries and supports my mission, thank you for being part of this story. We’re in this together.
Is Candle Face real?
This is a complex and deeply personal question. On the one hand, there's the possibility that Candle Face is a manifestation of my childhood trauma, a figure created by my mind to cope with fear and emotional turmoil. On the other hand, the consistent details, physical evidence, and shared experiences with others suggest that Candle Face may be a genuine supernatural entity. Whether Candle Face is real or a creation of my psyche, her impact on my life has been undeniably profound. Ultimately, the answer to this question is up to you.
How are you able to communicate with the dead? Are you a psychic or medium?
I don’t consider myself a psychic or medium, although many in the paranormal community believe I have some kind of gift, perhaps one that I haven’t fully tapped into yet. Unlike those who claim to communicate with any spirit, my ability seems limited to connecting with Candle Face’s victims and Candle Face herself. While I’m not sure how this works, the connection is strong and focused on these particular Lost Souls, allowing me to share their stories and seek justice for them.
Do you use AI to create your content?
From October 2023 to around March 2024, I personally wrote the short descriptions you see on Google and social media platforms when my web pages or journal entries are shared or found in search results. These descriptions are those brief, 160-character summaries that pop up beside the URL. It was challenging to condense complex ideas into such a small space.
By March 2024, I began letting Wix, my website host, handle this task for me. Their AI generates these summaries much faster and often with more precision than I could manage within that tight character limit. It was a practical decision to let the system take over this small aspect of my work, allowing me to focus more on my writing and investigations.
The web pages and journal entries themselves are entirely my own. My writing encompasses a wide range of topics, including the testimonies of the Lost Souls, my investigations into Candle Face/Isabel, my books like Isabel: The Forgotten Daughter of La Llorona and The Haunted Handbook, as well as other works and research. Everything I write is rooted in my decades of experience in writing (over ten books in 15 years) and my 30+ years of expertise in intelligence analysis, missing persons cases, and human trafficking investigations. The core content you read always comes from me.
By early March 2025, I decided to create a Shopify account to sell copies of Isabel: The Forgotten Daughter of La Llorona, The Haunted Handbook, and to look for caretakers for The Scrolls of Souls. It was a tremendous amount of work to manually transfer all 130 journal entries from Wix to Shopify and recreate the Google SEO titles and descriptions for each entry. Shopify’s blogging platform also required a summary for each journal entry. Summarizing my work was taking around 30 minutes per entry, which became overwhelming and unsustainable.
To streamline the process, I allowed AI to create the summaries for me by uploading each journal entry and letting the AI generate the SEO descriptions, summaries, and ALT text for images. Here's a clear breakdown of what is AI-generated:
- Some journal entry titles.
- Nearly all SEO journal descriptions (up to 160 characters).
- Nearly all summaries (which are only available in the backend and not visible to the public).
Everything else you read comes from me, whether it’s documenting testimonies from the Lost Souls, researching Candle Face/Isabel, or writing my books. The AI simply handles the tedious, mechanical parts of the process, leaving the writing, storytelling, and investigations entirely in my hands.
I review all AI-generated summaries and descriptions to ensure they accurately represent the essence of my writing. My decision to use AI for these backend tasks is about maintaining efficiency and allowing me to focus on what truly matters: writing, storytelling, investigations, and giving voice to the Lost Souls, protecting the Fugitives, investigating Candle Face/Isabel, and exploring new projects. Your experience as a reader is shaped by my work, not by AI.
Why did you end the podcast?
I decided to cancel the Candle Face Chronicles Podcast for two key reasons. First, while the Get Haunted Network is a fantastic community for paranormal entertainment, it wasn't the right fit for the serious and important nature of my work with Candle Face Chronicles. The network's lighthearted tone didn’t align with my mission.
Second, the friends and family of one of Candle Face's victims reached out and asked me to stop discussing their loved one on the podcast because it was causing them too much pain. Their request made me realize that my work, while well-intentioned, was unintentionally hurting those who are still living and grieving.
These reasons led me to end the podcast, but I remain committed to continuing my mission to uncover Candle Face’s origins and methods with a renewed focus on compassion and respect for the living.
Why did you stop using www.candleface.com and start using www.branchingplotbooks.com?
I have had the branchingplotbooks.com domain since 2012, but I transferred the domain to Shopify to use it as my storefront. I needed to do this because Isabel: The Forgotten Daughter of La Llorona can't be published or sold via Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing because of its spiral binding requirement. The same goes for The Haunted Handbook.
I decided to sell them, along with most of my other books, on Shopify because it allows me to provide a more streamlined and reliable experience for my readers. It also enables me to have full control over my work and how it reaches my audience. Additionally, all my books are still available on Amazon (paperback and Kindle), except for Isabel: The Forgotten Daughter of La Llorona and The Haunted Handbook due to their unique binding requirements.
I also chose to use Shopify’s blogging platform, keeping all books, my journal, and the shopping experience located in one place.
I plan on keeping www.candleface.com up for the interim, but it will likely go down as well, or at least be redirected to www.branchingplotbooks.com. In the end, I want my work to be more streamlined and easier for the paranormal community and my readers to find my work, read and help the lost souls, protect the fugitives, and care for the Scrolls of Souls.
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