New Information on Ted Rice, Part 2, The New Age Years

 Source:  Dr. Karla Turner’s book, Masquerade of Angels, 1994

Ted Rice and his Irish friend Stuart Eglington had a podcast called Alien Talk. You can access it on Spotify here. 

Karla Turner’s famous book, Masquerade of Angels, the story of Ted’s lifelong encounters with alien intruders, is out of print but you can access it at amazon.com. You can buy an autographed copy from Ted himself for $75. You can email him at teddywayne789@yahoo.com or write him at 2513 Crossford Dr., Foley, AL 36535-1151.

In my Part 1, we met Ted Rice, a gifted psychic who for many years was able to help people with predictions and visions. We saw him leave his home in Alabama, get an unbelievable opportunity to work in Sun Valley, Idaho, gain and lose a girlfriend that he greatly cherished, and meet a beautiful, mysterious woman whose people lived somewhere up in the mountains…IN the mountains...no phone, no address. She helped Ted realize that he did indeed have unique psychic gifts. She also encouraged him to quit Sun Valley, go home to his parents who were now residing in Tuscaloosa, and go back to school at the University of Alabama.

In the short space allowed by a blog post, I can only focus on a few important incidents, so I picked events that are particularly instructive. After Ted moved out from his parents’ house, he found a masters student at University of Alabama who encouraged him to share the large home where he lived in alone. Ralph (I’m keeping Karla’s fictional name for him), was one of many students who had rented rooms in the house, but he gained such favor with his landlady, Miss Flowers (fictional last name), that she left her estate and her house in his charge when she passed. Since the house was next door to the church that Miss Flowers attended, her instructions were that Ralph would sell the house to the church after she passed. 

There was a lot of tension between Ted and Ralph due to the fact that her jewelry and artifacts that were closeted away would appear lying around where Ralph could find them. Of course, Ralph blamed Ted for getting into his things, which Ted denied doing. One horrific manifestation was a loud rough breathing sound that Ralph compared to the death rattle he heard as Miss Flowrs lay dying. Paranormal researchers would immediately recognize poltergeist activity in the home, but those boys weren’t ghost hunters, so the tension caused Ted to announce plans to leave at the end of the month. Ralph did not object.

The late Miss Flowers had other ideas. One night she appeared to Ted and informed him that Ralph needs to calm down and finish studies for his degree, and Ted could help him do that. She asked that he stay until the end of the school year in May. She told him that if he would comply, something he had been needing for a very long time would be given to him. Ted assented without asking whether it’s a healthy thing to make a bargain with a ghost. She also predicted that Ted would wind up in the hospital, but he would be OK. After his recovery, he needs to not return to the house so that Ralph would sell the home to her church and move on, (p. 117, 118).

Before that semester ended, Ted did come down with hepatitis and wound up in the hospital for three weeks. (So, ghosts know the future and appear to hand out rewards for obedience!). The overt activity in the house healed their friendship to the point that when the semester was over and Ted was moved back in with his parents for more recuperation, Ralph begged him to come back to the house. Ralph had brought a female friend in as a temporary replacement for Ted, but she was leaving. Ted was hesitant, reminding Ralph that Miss Flowers requested that Ted not move in again, that the house be sold to her church, and that Ralph move on. By this time, Ralph missed Ted enough to dismiss all that, but he did decide to take a trip to Atlanta and let Ted think about it.

This bit of the story is from personal communication with Ted: His sister had two daughters, Nell and Sally (real women, fictional names). While he was in the hospital with hepatitis, he asked them to go to the Flowers house and pick up his things. His mother drove the two nieces to the house, and Nell went in to retrieve Ted's belongings. 

"My mother and one of the girls were at the vehicle outside packing my things into it, while Nell, my 17 year old niece, came screaming out of the house, claiming that it suddenly turned ice cold, and the sound became so intense that she thought the house might be falling apart. She rushed to Sally and my mother and described what had just occurred. The two outside did hear a peculiar sound, but with the distance from the car to the inside of the house it wasn't really discernible." 

I wondered if the house was still haunted. Ted informed me that it was razed and the church used the land for a new addition. Nell and her two daughters all developed psychic abilities.

After a month had gone by, Ralph was back from Atlanta. He had met a girl there, fictional name Donna, and they were getting along great, so he was going to stay in Atlanta. He got along well enough with this new girlfriend that he sold the house according to instructions and married the woman. They started a new life in a new town.

What a sweet story! Lonely little old lady finds the son she never had and bequeaths him all her worldly goods, coming back in spirit form to further benefit him and reward Ralph’s friend for helping out. What could possibly go wrong?

The rest of the story that Donna was a 22-year-old single mother of a 3-year-old daughter. I know this because Bonnie, (who has since passed away) my source for the new information, was the daughter. Now grown, married, and with children of her own, she found my blog and decided to contact me.

Her mother says that the requests and predictions of Miss Flowers had nothing to do with her decision to marry Ralph. Nevertheless, Ralph’s marriage was sufficiently troubled that it ended in divorce. Ordinarily, Bonnie had little to do with Ralph because she and her brother didn't get along with him, but she knew that he was still in touch with Ted, so at my request, she approached him to see if she could get Ted’s contact information.

Bonnie, Ted, and I agree that the ghost was not really Miss Flowers of Tuscaloosa. The spirit knew that Ted would get sick and recover, but did "she" not know that the life she wanted Ralph to go off to included a divorce? Of course, she knew. She was probably a demon masquerading as a sweet little old lady.

Bonnie asked me once, “What do aliens want?”

I answered, “Our bodies and our souls.”

“Like in the resurrection?”

“No! They want them now. The devil doesn’t have to wait until we die to grab our souls. He clearly controls a lot of us here and can enter into our bodies and make us do things we wouldn’t do on our own.”

Jesus Christ described the devil in several ways: he’s a liar, the father of liars, a murderer, and he has power to kill the soul, (John 8:44; Matt 10:28). He described hell in several ways: outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth; a fiery place where worms never die, (Matt 8:12; 22:13; Mark9:43–48).

At some point in his life, Ted wisely decided that he had had enough of ghosts and spirits. He just wanted to get on with his life, but the devil’s hook was planted deep, and you can’t just wish it away. He got a bank job in Atlanta. When a friendly colleague started poking him about a group of local psychics who want to start a work, Ted waved her off.

He and Harriet got along well and often spoke on the phone. She raised the issue again, saying that her friend Julia wanted to introduce Marie to him, but again Ted said he wanted nothing to do with spirits. As he said that, a glass raised off the counter and smashed itself in the sink. Ted ran out of the house shaking. He told Harriet to come over so she could see for herself what happens when there is talk about ghosts and spirits. He was so shaken, he moved to another apartment.

Some weeks later, there was a knock at his door. It was Julia and Marie Jackson. Marie had had a vision of someone that was supposed to help them get their work started. She also received the initials TR, so she was not going to be put off. She literally stuck her foot in the door when Ted wanted to shut it.

Naturally, she talked him into joining their psychic development project, which they conducted under the auspices of the National Spiritualist Association of Churches, whose headquarters was in Florida. There were about twenty people in the group. Ted quickly developed as a gifted medium and psychic, proving his ability by sharing revelations about illnesses, jobs, deaths, events, etc. Overall, he felt they were doing God’s work and were helping each other in extraordinary ways. He even picked up a couple of spirit guides, one named Raphael, and the other Sharon. Sharon claimed to be a former friend of his before she died. This association became a regular spiritualist congregation. What could possibly go wrong?

But something did begin to go wrong. Ted eventually became accustomed to spirit guides and ghosts, but after working with his Atlanta congregation for a few years, he suddenly had an experience one night like no other. In a dreamlike state, he saw a hand bring a wand that touched his head and sent a shock of both bliss and terror through him. After that, a new entity entered his life. Ted described Volmo to Marie in Masquerade:

“He seems really friendly and pleasant,” Ted continued, “but to tell you the truth, the way he looks sure scares me. Volmo’s god-awful ugly! His head doesn’t have any hair, and there are bony ridges on the top. His eyes don’t look human, that’s for sure. They’re dark, sort of yellow-gold, and there aren’t any eyelids. But his mouth is the worst part, Marie. It looks like a big fish mouth, with sharp teeth.”

“What about his hands?”

“I saw them pretty clearly. There are only three or four fingers on each hand, and I think they’re slightly webbed. The hands look claw-like, because he’s got these long, pointed nails on each finger. So, what do you think about this character?” (p. 147).

We’ll see more of Volmo in Parts 3 and 5. Because he seemed like a nice entity, Marie was not put off by his appearance, however, when your spirit mentor is seen to have sharp teeth, be warned that the universe is trying to tell you something.