Posted Orginally on: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2010
Williamson blogs, hosts a radio show, founds the League of Extraordinary Women of Paranormal and Horror!
Below is an article written about myself and The League of Extraordinary Women of Paranormal and Horror. Marilyn Papa, Wednesday Lee Friday and Danielle Egnew (along with myself) were all quoted in this article. I had no idea that members of the League were going to be contacted, I will say that this was a VERY pleasant surprise!
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(Source) The Collegian
Area Woman Investigates the Paranormal
Williamson blogs, hosts a radio show, founds the League of Extraordinary Women of Paranormal and Horror
By Joel Pavelski
Published: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
http://www.hillsdalecollegian.com/area-woman-investigates-the-paranormal-1.1732221
The poor woman was terrified.
She had just moved into a new house, and it was being invaded.
She couldn't call the police. They wouldn't be able to help.
They wouldn't know how to handle a ghost.
But maybe Amy Williamson would.
On the surface, Williamson, a paranormal investigator who lives and works in Hillsdale, is a perky blonde 35-year-old with seemingly endless energy and creativity. She works as a counselor and social worker during the week, and volunteers a lot of her time at the Sauk Theater in Jonesville. But after hours, she's a paranormal researcher, investigator and media figurehead.
She calls herself a "therapist to the living by day and a therapist to the dead by night."
(Source) The Collegian
Area Woman Investigates the Paranormal
Williamson blogs, hosts a radio show, founds the League of Extraordinary Women of Paranormal and Horror
By Joel Pavelski
Published: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
http://www.hillsdalecollegian.com/area-woman-investigates-the-paranormal-1.1732221
The poor woman was terrified.
She had just moved into a new house, and it was being invaded.
She couldn't call the police. They wouldn't be able to help.
They wouldn't know how to handle a ghost.
But maybe Amy Williamson would.
On the surface, Williamson, a paranormal investigator who lives and works in Hillsdale, is a perky blonde 35-year-old with seemingly endless energy and creativity. She works as a counselor and social worker during the week, and volunteers a lot of her time at the Sauk Theater in Jonesville. But after hours, she's a paranormal researcher, investigator and media figurehead.
She calls herself a "therapist to the living by day and a therapist to the dead by night."
When she was contacted by a confused woman being haunted in her new home, she visited the house to help.
"I'm not psychic by any means, but I follow my gut on things," Williamson said. "If something's nagging at me, I can't get it out of my mind and then it's usually something that needs to be said."
Williamson believed that she knew the name of the ghost, but the homeowner hadn't ever heard the name before. Later, the homeowner learned that the name belonged to the former owner of the house – a man who, unbeknownst to the new homeowner, had died there.
"He just didn't know that he was dead," Williamson said.
The woman who contacted Williamson about this haunting wasn't alone – Williamson occasionally investigates paranormal flare-ups for county residents. Lately, she said, she's been so busy that she only does a paranormal investigation when someone is too scared to be in their own home. She investigated only three cases this year.
Her process is similar to a typical detective. When she is contacted, she goes to the house to gather information about what's going on and inspect the location. She asks the homeowner questions about their faith and discusses options for helping them.
"You have to build on what someone believes to make them feel safe and secure," she said.
The crux of Williamson's work is developing a sense of security for the homeowner, because the paranormal can feed off of fear and insecurity.
"We usually do some type of prayer, because I believe that good overpowers evil, or the negative, and any prayer will reinforce the good and overpower the negative," she said.
Williamson said that she's never encountered the demonic, and deals primarily with people on the other side of death.
She also investigates historical locations and blogs about her efforts at hauntedhillsdale.blogspot.com. She's investigated the Grosvenor House, the Will Carleton Poor House and old Church Road, where the rumor is that on certain dark nights red eyes will follow travelers driving down the street. She said that she thinks that Reading is the most haunted part of Hillsdale County.
Williamson became involved with the paranormal simply because it snagged her interest. She didn't have a life-altering experience like many who become psychics or mediums, she simply always loved ghost stories and learning about the other side.
When she "entered into the paranormal," as she calls it, she noticed that she knew many women with similar interests, hobbies and vocations, and felt that they weren't getting the notice that they should.
And so, in 2007 she founded the League of Extraordinary Women of Paranormal and Horror.
Pulling inspiration from superhero teams seen in comic books, she hoped to form a group to support and highlight women working in the paranormal. She started a blog that many members of the league now contribute to. They started giving lectures, planning events and created a radio show called ParaWomen Scream Radio. Every Thursday Williamson broadcasts a new show with guests that include psychics, hypnotherapists and other paranormal investigators. The league now boasts members from across the country.
One such member is a full-time medium from Los Angeles named Marilyn Papa, who says she speaks to the deceased to perform insightful readings for her clients on anything from their career to their relationships. She said she also channels the dead, or will try to contact specific people who are deceased at her clients' request.
Papa was first introduced to Williamson by another member of the league and was featured on ParaWomen Scream Radio last year. She said that the league lends credibility and offers visibility to its members, and lends a supportive atmosphere and a platform to be seen or heard.
"So many people right now are reaching out to psychic mediums, people are just fascinated by what's going on in the fifth dimension, so it's great that Amy is giving a voice to our field," Papa said.
Another member of the league, a horror novelist from Ann Arbor named Wednesday Lee Friday, met Williamson in elementary school.
Friday and Williamson both grew up in Oakland County, where the infamous Oakland County Child Killer roamed in the late ‘70s. In Oakland County, there was a lot of talk of child ghosts. Both Friday and Williamson attended Olivet College in Olivet, Mich., which had its share of haunting stories.
"There were sections of the campus where the energy wasn't right," Friday said.
According to Friday, Williamson's interest in the paranormal may have come from their college dabbling in New Age philosophies.
"She was always more of a believer and I've always been more skeptical," Friday said.
Friday believes that the league is meant to be a hub for people in the horror and paranormal communities to hang out, share ideas and network.
Another member of the league, Danielle Egnew, a Los Angeles recording artist, film producer and director, said that Amy is an "unstated genius."
"I really believe that the purpose of the league is to create a pool of knowledge that can be shared with the general public or the mainstream media regarding issues surrounding the paranormal," she said.
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Egnew said that she's a "clairvoyant channel," or one who can see the future or translate messages from the other side. When she's not on tour, she works with law enforcement doing crime solving and helps Hollywood production companies choose profitable projects.
"Pretend we're the Justice League of America," she said, "and everyone has different strengths, but we all create a powerful group of women who can really help people understand what's out there."
