So, I am often referred to as an “empath”. I am a very deep spiritual (not religious) person and I pick up on energies very easily and typically can read people very well. Often, I can sense when someone is being “shady” when others can’t. I will speak up about that and no one will believe me-until it reveals itself later.
In any case, I often have some sort of experience when I shoot in cemeteries.
When I was in Nola last weekend, I shot St Louis 1 Cemetery–the infamous one with Marie Laveau’s tomb.
Standing near her tomb gave me a knot in my stomach and I had no desire to touch it, as opposed, to the other people around me.
My time at the cemetery itself was uneventful. However, some strange things happened while processing my images of her tomb last night.
I started processing images around 4 yesterday afternoon and went non-stop until around midnight. It was late when I started on her shots. When I did start, weird things started to happen and I had that knot in my gut again.
Photoshop kept freezing up on me. I would get it back going again and then other bizarre things started to happen and I kept getting PS error messages. That was the first time that I have ever seen PS error messages.
It especially started happening on the below image, when I tried to put my watermark on it. This is a close up shot of the “X”s that people marked on her tomb, asking for favors from her. I swear, it was like something didn’t want my watermark to go on it because I couldn’t transfer it over. When I would manage to transfer it, other letters came in and I couldn’t get it all right. I would have to keep deleting the later and trying over and over again. It was like something had taken over my computer and I didn’t have control over it. In addition, I started feeling negative energy around me.
Most people would have been scared and/or freaking out about this. Not me. I was pissed.
I had been working my tush off for 5-6 hours straight trying to get all my Nola shots processed and finished with. Whether things were happening due to “negative energy” or coincidence, I did not appreciate those kinds of shenanigans and simply didn’t have time for it.
So, I said a prayer, asked St Michael for help and lit my St Michael candle….
…and then it all stopped. Seriously. I was then able to finish getting my watermark on that image above.
Afterwards, I went on to process, what I believe to be, my best shot of her tomb (below)
This morning, when I went to upload that watermarked shot here, it was not saved. I KNEW that I had saved it, especially after all of the trouble that I had. So, I had to go back and duplicate the original and watermark it all over again. Thankfully, I was able to do so without any problems.
If anyone else has had any experiences during/after visiting her tomb, I would love to hear about them!