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Mastering Ghost media
Beckah Boyd from MCAM’s Ghost Quest
By Jeff Mucciarone jmucciarone@hippopress.com
Beckah Boyd says she first showed signs of having psychic abilities when she was a little girl growing up in Manchester. Since then, the 23-year-old has made a career of her psychic talents. Boyd is a member of the Psychic Mediums for Ghost Quest Paranormal Society, which investigates different locations throughout New England. She is co-author of Ghost Quest in New Hampshire, which is available at Barnes & Noble. The Ghost Quest television show airs on Manchester Community Access Media, Channel 23 Saturdays at 8 p.m. Boyd will be at the Tri-City Expo in Manchester on Thursday, Sept. 25. Boyd is a member of the American Association of Psychics and Mediums, and of the International Tarot Society, and she is a mentor for the American Tarot Association. Her Web site is to www.ancientwisdomnh.com/Beckah.htm. For more on the paranormal society, go to www.ghostquest.org.
Q:When did you realize you had these abilities?
I kind of grew up in a family that recognized psychic abilities. When I was about 5 or 6 I saw a man come into my bedroom. It wasn’t scary, it was just like peace. I told my mother and I ended up describing my grandfather who I’d never met or seen a picture of.
How did you become a psychic?
I grew up a psychic. My family kind of trained me from birth. After high school, I went right into my practice.
What makes someone a psychic?
Everybody is inherently psychic. It’s that little intuition that tells you to go a different way to work, and then there’s an accident on your usual way. Everybody is psychic, they just don’t know it.
What do you say to the naysayers?
Come in and have a reading. I can understand skepticism. That’s healthy. Once you’ve had an experience, you walk out with a different feeling.
Are there other psychics in your family?
My mother is gifted. My grandmother used her intuition...
What type of psychic training did you have growing up?
Psychometry, when you feel the energy off pictures or photographs. My mother did it with different photos and energies. She’d ask, “what do you feel?” Often times, I’d be right on. Little experiments and training sessions, but she did them as fun activities, not so much training.
What is Ghost Quest in New Hampshire all about?
I’m the co-founder of Ghost Quest, which is seven years old. We’ve investigated all through New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut — most of New England. The book is the best cases from our first two years. [The group’s investigation of Devil’s Church in Manchester — before it was torn down — and Valley Street Cemetery are included in the book.]
What is your role in the investigations?
I’m one of two psychics. We walk through the area, one at a time, to pick out the different spirits we feel were there. Then we validate our findings. [Boyd said she and her fellow psychics use history and occupant accounts to validate the spirits they feel.]
How do you communicate with people who have passed on?
Often times in the form of feeling, how they died, heart attack or drowning. I actually feel that. It’s almost like you can kind of hear them. It’s faint, but it’s there. It depends on the strength of the spirit. When they’re really strong, you can see them.
Can others see them?
Other people have claims of seeing them. It validates that there is something. They’re not crazy.
What kind of enjoyment do you get from the work?
One of the greatest things I do comes with people who have never had closure. I deal with a lot of suicide or quick death. It gives them the chance to reconnect. It’s very rewarding work.
What do your friends think about your line of work?
They all love it. They’re very, very supportive. They understand it’s real and valid. They totally support me.
What types of events do you do?
Private parties, individual readings, and I’m getting into lecturing, so that’s really fun. I love doing fundraisers. Anything that can help me to help somebody else.
Are there ever people you can’t read?
No.
— Jeff Mucciarone
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