our-story

Later on in life after having quite a few other paranormal and other strange experiences I felt compelled to investigate such things and present my findings to the public. I felt there was no one else in these fields of research who could come at it from my perspective. I had to tell my story and show others things I had seen and experienced while in the spirit O.B.E. as well as to present events I had tracked after having viewpoint dreams, what some will call "remote viewing" dreams.

I had been involved in television work for years and owned a 3/4" Umatic system like those used by TV stations to gather the news. I had shot and edited TV shows for other producers. I thought I had what it took to do what I wanted to do. The first thing I didn't have was a good crew and then I discovered that I couldn't do what I wanted to do with my old 3/4" Umatic equipment. I needed a new camera and a crew and then I needed some money to get things rolling.

I bought a new GL-1 Canon camera, some DV tapes and began practicing with it. In order to pay the camera payments I went to work shooting for the local Young Actor's Guild. After shooting and editing several plays I realized that our prices for selling the tapes and DVD's we made was way to low. I was spending a week or more editing each of their plays and then charging around $10 per VHS tape. We might sell 20 tapes per show. $200 a week just won't get it so we raised our price to $15 per tape. You should have heard the complaints from the parents who wanted videos of their children in the plays. That was bad enough but we knew that $15 was still cheap for shooting, editing and creating the videos for this group. Not to mention I build them a website and didn't charge them anything for it. It's still out here on the web but is no longer being updated.

Our daughters Laura and Kristy said they would be glad to host the show and they were both attractive teenagers who could entertain an audience without effort. We saved up some money and went to shoot our first show segments at the beautiful and historic Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, AR. The girls took some of their friends with them and the manger there allowed us full run of the building until midnight. We captured some orbs but other than the girls entertaining us we didn't have much to build a show upon. We came home, went through the video and realized we needed more so we called Jack Moyer the manager of the Crescent Hotel to see if it was all right for us to return and shoot a few more segments. He refused our request leaving us with our last option. We had to find somewhere else to build a show. I wasn't that impressed with the events at the Crescent anyway, we needed something much better than that if we were going to achieve our objectives.

We kept working and saving our money then one day we scheduled a trip to Virginia City, NV. I wanted to stay in Virginia city in a haunted building but my wife decided the best place for us to stay was a swap of our condo for a room on beautiful lake Tahoe. That meant we had to drive our rented car back and forth to Virginia City each day.

We were greeted by most of the people in Virginia City, NV with open arms, all but one person treated us well and we found out the reason he didn't like us was because he thought we were rich, shooting a TV show and he was going to make some money being interviewed and showing us around. When he found out he wasn't being paid a great deal of money he gave us the cold shoulder very quickly.

We were given access to some very impressive historical places which included the old whore house the "WashShaw Club." The area above the bar was the whore house and it was closed and locked to the public but the owner allowed us into the building after we signed a paper that says if we get hurt up there we won't sew them.

We spent hours shooting video and walking through the old buildings. We had a wonderful time. I checked each tape as it was full to be sure it was all right. When we got home and I started to transfer the video to our computer hard drive to be edited I discovered that less than 10% of the video could be viewed. SOMETHING WAS WRONG!

I learned the GL-1 had literally trashed our video tapes! Was I angry! You better believe I was. We had spent all the money on that trip and had nothing we could use! We were not just out of funds we were seriously in the hole! You can call it a run of bad luck if you want to but after several attempts to create a show I came to the realization there were forces in the universe that didn't want our show to see the light of day. In the mean time other producers were doing the same thing only they were succeeding where we had failed. The only thing they didn't have was me and my experience in dealing with the paranormal.

What do I have they don't have? I've walked among the spirits in the spirit on many occasions. I've seen them, I know there are earth bound ghosts, evil spirits, demons and their underlings, and angels. All I needed to do was capture the evidence so I could show everyone what I had seen in the spirit world.

I paid $500 to have the camera fixed by Canon and then low and behold I got a call from Victoria Monroe in Reno who wanted me to come join her at Piper's Opera House in Virginia City, NV to help her shoot Ghosts of Piper's. It seemed my luck was about to change.

I couldn't afford a crew and low and behold I got an Email from Sonya Lee who offered to drive out to Reno and pick me up at the airport and drive me around. Not only that she was willing to bring a friend with her who would help running a camera! I just knew God was moving things around in my favor for a change so despite the fact I couldn't afford it I knew I had to go. Money was a problem, we have expenses on jobs like this, but I wasn't doing it for the money.

You might ask "why in the world is Bryon so driven like this?" It's a worthy question and I'll tell you this. Sometimes I sidestep this question because my answer sounds like the words of a crazy man. The truth is I died twice thanks to the shadow of death and saw Jesus wearing the Crown with twelve points and the Ancient of Days (really old man) at the Great City of Light in Heaven on the first trip and on the second trip I was with the great host of angels and one of the angels, the first female angel I had seen told me that I could stay with them on this trip or I could return. I told her I had to return to tell others what I had been allowed to see. The angel sent me back. So the reason I'm here now is to tell my story! So either I'm crazy and need help or I'm telling the truth. One thing you must know is that I believe I was sent back to share what God has shown me. Therefore making people aware that spirits exist is my primary mission. In my mind God was clearing the way and making it possible for me to do just that. I had to go back to Reno and hopefully I would get the chance to shoot the video that would make our Spooky Places show possible.

I arrived in Reno at the airport and Sonya Lee was there to get me. We went the "small" mall in Reno and met with Amy (Victoria Monroe). We went to Virginia City and low and behold we were invited to stay in the very haunted but famous Mackay Mansion and it didn't cost us anything. That's saying something since they don't allow people to stay there without paying an enormous fee. The last person who stayed there was Johnny Depp and he saw the ghost of the little girl in white.

None of our team saw the little girl in white but we were shown a good time and saw the sights of Virginia City.

We met with Amy and the other teams at Piper's Opera house and began our adventure. I found it odd that Amy had brought everything except lights and yet intended to shoot during the night. I was the only one who had thought to bring camera lights. When we split up I gave my digital 8 camera with light to Sonya's friend and he did a good job following their "professional" videographer and his team around. I worked exclusively with Vickie Gay during our investigative part of the show.

With the exception of some strange sounds in some of my GL-1 video my video was good. It wasn't long however until Amy contacted me telling me that her videographer had made off with all her Ghosts of Piper's videos and she wanted to know if I had enough video to complete the show. I told her I had some good video and certainly she was welcome to all of it. Then she asked me if I would finish the show for her. I admit I have enough of the actual video from the event to do the show but what I don't have is the in-between segments that can be shot at any time to finish the show. Once again it seems something didn't want me to finish her show or mine.

Now I will admit that while I was in the spirit I ran into some unsavory characters, one was a demon named Nata who without question does not want us to make anyone else aware that such spirits do exist and they have a great deal of influence over the living. Their greatest power is in the fact that people are not aware of them. Can you imagine what might happen if people discovered that God and the devil actually do exist? I'm sure this would come as no surprise to most of the religious world especially the Christians. What they don't want to hear is the fact there are ghosts who are disembodied spirits of the dead who still roam the earth.

Strange as it might seem I've learned the reason why the ghosts of the dead still roam the earth. In my experience It is true that when a person is saved they are taken into the light to the great city of light by two angels. At one time in the past there was a place where all the spirits of the dead were kept and that place is a place I refer to as the underworld. It is a dimension of spirits that resides within the earth. It is the place where the spirit of our Creator went to set his friends free. To do this he broke the veil between this world and that and when He took his friends on into the light he left that veil broken allowing many of the spirits of the dead to roam the earth at will. I am also inclined to believe that now and then a glorified spirit (one existing in the light) will return to the earth plane and act as a guardian angel or escort into the light.

Since all we had at this point were segments of videos I edited the usable ones that connected together. We quit working for the Young Actors Guild and went to work for Southside High Drama in order to keep paying the bills. During the year we do other jobs now and then to help pay the bills. We bought a new Sony FX-1 because the Canon GL-1 VCR failed again just as it had before and the only way we can use it is if we connect it directly to a computer via firewire. As long as we are stationary and have power it works well enough. The Canon has the best optics but the Sony has the best picture and dependability.

When we began all this we were among the very few who were even attempting to do a show dealing with the paranormal. Because of all the complications and set-backs we still don't have a completed show and now everyone and their brother are making shows about the paranormal. Some of those shows are quite good I must admit and all I really wanted to do was help make people aware that we are not alone. Ghosts and UFO's do exist and does it really mater if it's our show or someone else's that make people aware of the truth?

Ghost Hunters, Dead Famous and Most Haunted are three of our favorite shows dealing with the paranormal. I admit Ghost Hunters and Most Haunted have things I don't care for but all of them have certain things I like. Derek needs to leave the channeling out of his work. He's insightful and gifted as a psychic medium and channeling isn't a wise thing to do and can leave a person with psychic scars and traumatic stress problems from a ghost. The other thing that channeling does with some is to discredit the show. Not everyone believes in channeling and think it looks fake. If you do it enough sooner or later it will backfire on you, which is exactly what I think has happened to Derek Acora.

I get sick and tired of the Ghost Hunters frequent bickering. I could care less about their "day job" as plumbers. They are using these things as fillers and they distract from the show. I don't watch Orange Country Choppers show because they are constantly yelling and this is done by the same producer. Sometimes they just don't have time to do a proper investigation and write it off as a "ghost no-show" when the place might very well be haunted, but now they'll never know. Now and then though the Ghost Hunters do capture evidence of the paranormal on video and the light house shadow entity was amazing.

Years ago not all that long after we moved into this house I had a very close encounter with a shadow entity just like the one they caught on video at the light house. I came into the house thinking that Matthew was behind me and I was talking and not getting an answer. When I got to my office door I turned around and there standing within arm's reach from me was a shadow entity. I stood there looking at the thing astounded at what I was seeing. Then the entity went down the hall and vanished into our bedroom. I ran after it but didn't see that one again but me as well as the girls have seen the smaller shadow entities since then. Like the larger one the smaller ones suck up the light as well as the heat in the air.

I was having a chat with some people in a ghost forum and was somewhat set back by the fact these people mentioned the shadow figure in the light house Ghost Hunter show and said they thought it was faked. In this line of work a person needs to take everything with a grain of salt and keep an open mind at the same time. I can assure you from my own experiences the shadow beings do exist.

I believe things around me that guide my path have a purpose even though I may not always understand the methods by which things come about. I believe the people I meet in life may also have a purpose in my quest to help others understand the paranormal exists. I worked with Vickie Gay during Ghosts of Piper's and now she's the director of the Universal Passing Over event. She ask me to speak at the Universal Passing Over event in Las Vegas, NV this year. She also asked me to be the official videographer to document the event. So once again it appears that our adventure has taken a turn toward what we hope will be a positive future.

The Universal Passing Over event took place in Las Vegas, NV. I had more people attend my segment than anyone else. I'm not sure why it worked out like that but on the events schedule I had a larger listing than anyone else. There's more information on the Events page.

For now that's our story.

...Bryon Smith