Karl Crabtree is a resident of the Upper Ohio Valley who has been featured on LEDE News before this evening. He’s 36 years old, married, and is the father of a son and daughter. Crabtree also is an enthusiast of the paranormal, but this is where separation exists between the East Ohio native and others who, say, walk the vast hallways of the former W.Va. Penitentiary with high hopes and EVP machines.
Crabtree, instead, believes he talks to dead people on a daily basis. In fact, soon after his Friday arrival in Gettysburg, there were two soldiers outside his hotel room.
“They are just saying hi.”
Writer Mike Hughes also covered many other important points:
- Crabtree figured he was an empath and a medium around the age of 13.
- He charges nothing for helping people contact loved ones on the other side.
- He has accepted donations, but never has that been his idea.
- He does utilize tools but only when someone he is helping wishes to hear a voice of sorts.
- Crabtree performs readings, often with Tarot cards, to follow the path of an individual’s life and address particular issues if that is the wish of the person being read.
- He couldn’t care less who believes and who doesn’t.
“That part I can’t control,” the medium said emphatically. “Nor would I want to.”
The Battlegrounds
According to the history books, some 51,000 men and women were killed on the battlefields of Gettysburg in July 1863, a community located in southcentral Pennsylvania near the border of Maryland. The Union’s victory irrevocably swayed the Civil War in the North’s favor.
That’s right; men and women fought on both sides of the battle. The second day, July 2, was the largest and most expensive of the three days and is known as the 10th bloodiest of the war. And the line of wagons filled with wounded Confederates bound for Virginia was more than 17 miles long.
“It’s a place I always wanted to go,” Crabtree admitted. “Lately, I have had a feeling of wanting to come into contact with people from that era, so I’ve had a big urge to go. There are a lot of locations to choose from, so we’ll see.”
He paid the Civil War School House a visit his first evening in Gettysburg, and only revealed on his Spiritual Medium & Paranormal Group Facebook page that it, “went well.” Crabtree had plans earlier today to post a “big video” in which he speaks with his initial hotel visitors.
“I won’t know where to go until I get there,” he said Thursday evening. “Some people like to go during the night; I don’t, because it’s dark and scary, I guess. It doesn’t matter to me, day or night. Doesn’t matter. I can talk to ghosts any time of day. I just want to try and locate the most active place I can.”
The Cross-Over
Most people have heard of “the light.” Crabtree, though, only hears mentions. He doesn’t see it himself.
“One of the things that I do try to do is help people cross over,” Crabtree explained. “They are here still for some reasons. Sometimes it’s fear, sometimes it’s guilt, and other times it’s because something is unresolved on this side of it all. But a lot of times, it’s easier said than done, and that’s because sometimes there’s something holding them back.
“There are so many times when a spirit will approach me, and they want me to help them find a wife or a husband or one of their children, but that’s all they can tell me. They can’t give me names or locations, but they can tell me what they want. Even if they have a name, there are times when I still can’t do anything because pretty often all it does is cause problems for whatever reasons,” the empath explained. “Now, there have been times when I have been able to help them cross over. They see the light, and they go, but I believe they leave everything behind when they do that. All the memories of the life they lived are gone, and some of them fear that, too.”
One example of a successful cross-over that took place was with a male who held tremendous guilt involving theft.
“He told me he stole a pretty large sum of money, and he needed to tell someone about it but didn’t when he was still living,” Crabtree recalled. “But he told me about it. I guess all of it. And then he saw the light. I don’t see the light, but when they see it, they usually say something about it. And off he went.
“Some, though, they think they want it, and then they change their mind. I may talk with them again, but they really do think it’s what they want,” he said. “But then they don’t again.”
Two Kids
It was a little girl Crabtree saw first. She was lying on the floor, watching TV, and then she turned back and looked back at him. Once she did that, she was gone.
He was 13 years old.
“I didn’t do anything to get her attention. She just knew I was there, and over the years I learned why she knew. Ghosts have a natural empathic, and that means they sense our thoughts. They know what we are thinking, and they know everything we are feeling,” he said. “Ghosts are very in tune with our thoughts. They are mind readers, and that is something some people have a tough time understanding.
“That’s why I don’t have to talk when I communicate with them. They know what I am thinking, and they communicate back to me, and there are no noises made,” Crabtree said. “That’s the way it just works; the way it’s always worked. If I open the window, it’s because I want to talk with them, and they definitely want to talk back.”
When Crabtree opens his window to spirits wishing for contact, he knows there are no secrets between him and those on the other side.
“The ghosts know what we think a lot about on this side. Ghosts notice that people think about sex a lot. People think about money a lot. They know what we think about on a daily basis like our jobs, other people, and what makes us happiest,” he said. “Most of the time, the ghosts don’t care about what we think a lot about, but some of them can get a little annoyed by it.
“Some of them get upset about it because they can’t experience those things anymore,” Crabtree revealed. “They see how living people go day-in and day-out during their lives taking everything for granted, but they know we spend our entire lives working to make money while working toward some sort of retirement, and then one day it’s all just ripped away because you die. What was the point?”
