title: Help for the Haunted: A Guide to House Blessings, Ghost Clearings,  and Spiritual Self-Protection
author: Ms. Lori McDonald
description: Lori McDonald is an Arizona native who has worked as a professional paranormal investigator and spiritual adviser since 1998. Throughout her life she has had the intuitive ability to sense of a haunting. As a child she often visited her grandparents, who lived in a historic haunted home. In 1998, she developed the ability to take paranormal photographs. After supernatural and ghostly images appeared in her family photos she asked the local camera shop owner to analyze the images. He informed her that that nothing was wrong with the camera or the film and that the images were paranormal. As a result, she began troubleshooting and advising the haunted in both California and Arizona. Loris no nonsense investigations have been featured several times on Channel 15 in Arizona. Her Whaley House Orb photo was nationally televised on Fact or Faked. She is a legally ordained minister and Reiki Master Teacher who conducts professional paranormal investigations of haunted locations in the Phoenix Valley. Her specialty is in the research and documentation of the paranormal. Visit her website at www.alienufoart.com.
zlib_text: ![](images/00001.jpg)
  
  
  ##### www.blackmask.com
  
  * * *
  
  How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery
  
  * * *
  
  # How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery
  
  
  ### E. F. Benson
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Blackmask Online.
  
  
  http://www.blackmask.com  
    
    
  
  
  Church-Peveril is a house so beset and frequented by spectres, both
  
  
  visible and audible, that none of the family which it shelters under
  
  
  its acre and a half of green copper roofs takes psychical phenomena
  
  
  with any seriousness. For to the Peverils the appearance of a ghost is
  
  
  a matter of hardly greater significance than is the appearance of the
  
  
  post to those who live in more ordinary houses. It arrives, that is to
  
  
  say, practically every day, it knocks (or makes other noises), it is
  
  
  observed coming up the drive (or in other places). I myself, when
  
  
  staying there, have seen the present Mrs. Peveril, who is rather
  
  
  short-sighted, peer into the dusk, while we were taking our coffee on
  
  
  the terrace after dinner, and say to her dau