She sat across from me, holding a fancy E cigarette. Her dark tinted shades framed her face perfectly.
By Gina Wedlake
She looked at me with a somewhat mischievous smile. Her whole aura was bright, strong, and confident. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, she was downright erogenous without saying a word. Cristina Nelson, aka the Demon Warrior, took us on a journey of her life of excitement, adventure, adversity and spirituality. This is the life of Christina Nelson as never seen before. This is Christina’s story, uncut, raw and real.
Q: Let’s start from the beginning. Tell us about your childhood years. Did you have any paranormal/psychic experiences as a child?
Christina: Yes, I did. I was molested by a shadow person as a kid. It pinned me down in bed and attacked me many times. It frightened my mother too, but I don’t really know if it actually molested her. I was eight years old when this happened, he was really, really bad. My mom was a very highly educated woman. We lived in Fresno at the time. She knew a lot of influential people and she was an entrepreneur. She had a college paranormal investigative team come here from Los Angeles. I believe it was back in 1969. She had them do an investigation because it was that bad.
Q: Was it the house itself that was haunted or the land?
Christina: It was the house. It was an earthbound spirit. It wasn’t really a shadow man, but that’s what we called it. There is a difference. This earthbound spirit, come to find out (we did the research), hung himself there in the barn. We were renting it temporarily because we were having a house built. We rented it from a friend for maybe 6 months. We discovered this spirit hated women and he hung himself in the barn over his wife leaving him for another man. He was a bully, a bad bully. He terrified us. We would get on the phone and call grandpa, after my dad would go to work like 2 am. That is when this spirit would start. We would have to call our grandpa to come and sleep with us until the morning daylight because he wouldn’t leave me and my mom alone! It never bothered my brother. It was just us. The spirit would even get on the phone so that mom couldn’t call grandpa.
Q: He was a strong spirit wasn’t he? Did you finally get rid of him?
Christina: No! We were having breakfast one Sunday morning and we had one of those old fashioned toasters that was heavy and kind of round, it flew across the room and if it had hit one of us, it probably would have killed us! My dad never believed in anything and he said, “Oh hell no! We’re getting the hell out of here!” So we packed up and we got out. Another couple moved into that house and they got thrown out by the spirit. The owners decided the best thing to do, because of all the strange happenings in that house, was to burn it down! The orchards were still there. He’s probably still on the land.
Q: I saw you on a TV program recently. It was about a haunting in your home?
Christina: Oh, I’ll Haunt You When I am Dead! We were being haunted by Shirley, my wife’s deceased mother! It’s a true story. We have the actual footage from the haunt! It’s also on my website if people want to see it. This was a very stressful time for Mary and me. We finally had to call in my cousin, Leanne to help get rid of it. I was practically killed at one point! We will talk about Leanne a little bit later on here.
Q: How did you begin riding in the motorcycle group?
Christina: Oh yes! I was a three patch motorcycle gal and I earned the nickname, Wrong way Chris!
Q: What the heck?
Christina: Oh yea! I definitely earned that name! Anyway, I had been cruising and riding for years with people, various people, just riding and doing my thing. I love the freedom of a motorcycle. It was a while back. I wanted to join a motorcycle group. I looked for a group, preferably a women’s group. I thought I would enjoy it and I did! I really, really enjoyed it. I found one and it was a bunch of women, some bad ass women, which is what I like. They were a bunch of women that could hold their own. No mealy-mouths, no sissies! These were some TOUGH women! (She begins to chuckle)
I loved this group, we had a good time. It was a diverse group of ladies. You had some lawyers, housewives, just all walks of life in the group. I rode with them to various places. We would go to Palm Springs, Nevada. We would party with all the other motorcycle groups and had a lot of laughs. I remember one time, we all went to Indio, California and we got a hotel room. A bunch of crazy ass women! That was my life, that was my life then.
During my time with the group, things started to change in my life and I knew this isn’t what I wanted. (Christina’s mood begins to shift to a more somber tone. There was a brief pause for a moment and she looked back retrospectively). Don’t get me wrong, I really loved the life and I loved the freedom of a motorcycle. I love having the freedom of having my motorcycle in my garage and knowing I can just go out and jump on it and have the wind in my face. It is my life, it is my meditation. I knew I didn’t want to be a part of the group anymore, you know, the party animal; partying, getting drunk. I had fun, too much fun! It was a little irresponsible. It just wasn’t meshing with my soul and who I really was. I’ve done that, I’m over that. I decided to step away from the group.
During this time, I must say, I was having a lot of troubles with my relationship. I was very, very much in love, the love of my life and she was hurting me horribly. She did some horrible things and she destroyed a piece of me. I think that is part of the reason that I partied hard and rode hard. I wanted to hide from that facade, that everything was good when clearly it wasn’t. I separated from the group in 2010.
I tried to find out who I really was. The epiphany of, what am I doing? I am in this miserable relationship. I’m partying on the weekends, or whenever I can. This isn’t who I am. This isn’t what I want anymore. I’m going to be 50 years old. I don’t want- I mean, this isn’t my life! I always knew I was spiritual, but I needed to find it. So I went to my partner and I said, “Look, this isn’t working. I’m going rent a room and we are going to separate. I have to find myself.”
That was the hardest thing I ever did. I locked myself in a room that I rented for 8 months. During this time, I reconnected with my cousin, Leanne Thomas, and I cried and cried. I began learning who I was, with her help. She is an amazing psychic/medium. I began finding who I truly, truly was. 2 years I spent in that room. I could have filled that room up with tears! I could have. I chose to heal myself with my new found spirituality and spiritual life. I began taking a lot of classes. I knew I had it, I knew I had these gifts. After 8 months, everything in my amazing life started to change. I started doing a radio show with Leanne. This started to take off “Intuitive connections.” People really started to follow Leanne and me. We were really out there utilizing and using our gifts. I realized and said to myself, “I am able to do this!” I realized the importance of my spirituality and my spirit guide. And then I found Eli!
Q: Ah, yes, Eli! Do tell us more about him! How did you meet him?
Christina: Oh yes! I love Eli! Finding Eli was the most amazing experience! I was practicing at least a year and a half full time before I met him. I knew I wanted to meet him so I was asking questions with Lisa Williams and Leanne. I want to meet my spirit guide. Everyone has one, and I want to know who it is. So when I set out to do something, I do it. I watched everything I could get my hands on by Lisa Williams. Finally, I found the right one. It was Lisa’s guided meditation, called, “Meeting Your Spirit Guide.”
So I meditated. I usually do it at my desk every morning and shut my eyes. I put on my earphones and I put my head back. I just listened. I went in this deep, deep meditation. I was in this meadow with horses. Horses are my totem. I started playing with the horses and stuff. I remember I touched them, and I could smell them. They came up to me and we just ran. It was so amazing, the whole experience. This man, this big 8 foot man came up to me. Spirit guides and spirits are huge. Anyhow, he was burly looking, like a biker dude! He had white hair and beard. This big guy starts walking towards me. I ran to the bench and sat down. He sits next to me. I looked at him and I asked who he was. He replied, “I am your spirit guide, I am your master.” So, it was that easy. I was like, “really? No way! It’s like this? It’s too easy!” We make it harder on ourselves. I asked him his name, and he asked me why was it so important for us here to have names. He told me that names are nothing, but I could give him one. I said to him, “Ok, then how, um, ok well how about Eli?” He said, “Ok, hmmm, let me think here Chris, Eli. I like that! Then it’s Eli.” I said, “So dude, Eli, why am I here?” He told me I was brought here to basically change people’s lives the latter part of my life. This was the most amazing experience I have ever had, besides having my son. The biggest part of my spiritual life would be that! That was a huge and miraculous thing in my life! The healing process in what I went through was miraculous. People don’t bounce back from such adversity in their lives!
Q: Can you tell us how this was an important part of your life?
Christina: Well, I can tell you this, when I finally found Eli, I have conversations with him in my meditations which were very important to me. Eli had stated to me that everybody in my life, prior to meeting Leanne, my life began to get strategically placed. They knew at the age of 50 that I would start to realize my gifts. “But until then,” Eli stated, “Christina, you had to go through all these life lessons.” He meant my being married, living a straight life and knowing I was gay. It was absolutely horrible, but then I had my son, that was strategically placed too. I came out gay. My parents disowned me, again strategically placed in my life. That was another lesson. My son goes into the military. Some horrible things happened. All these things were placed in my life, strategically placed in my life. Then I met Kim-that love of my life, besides my wife Mary now. That relationship lasted 13 years. I loved her with every fiber of my being, and she cheated on me. She treated me horribly, but I allowed that, another lesson.
Q: Tell us about the love of your life, Mary?
Christina: Mary and I have been together for 3 years. I was spiritual at this point in my life and was ready to date. It had been a long time. A friend of mine talked me into joining this dating site. I reluctantly joined it. It was called “plenty of fish” (we laughed) I am serious! I kid you not. I got all kinds of weirdos. They asked for pictures of my feet, you name it. I finally decided this wasn’t for me! So I tried to delete it. The damn thing would not delete! One day I came home from work and at the bottom of my screen was this message. I went ahead and opened it, and it was Mary. (Christina begins to get excited as she recounts seeing Mary for the first time) I saw her picture and wow, she’s was pretty cute, you know, and I saw that she liked dogs, she was holding her dog in a picture; cool. I saw that she loved bikes, really cool. Wow, so far so good! So, we messaged back and forth for a while. She was a nice girl, had a career, you know, she had it going on. She was stable. So, we finally decided after a few months to talk on the phone.
I realized I really liked this chick! So I thought I’d go out with her and see. I met her at the Wabo Taco. That was the name of the place, sounds dumb I know! I rode up on my motorcycle. I am wearing my leathers and I am looking good, ya know. She drives up wearing these sunglasses, she is looking really hot! I am thinking to myself how beautiful she is. She gets out and makes a comment about how she likes my bike and then she had me! You don’t have to like me, just like my bike!
I parked my bike and I walked up to her and saw these beautiful cowboy boots and that is where she got me! Custom made boots! She stepped out with these red handmade boots! She had me at her boots! I remember walking towards her thinking, ‘oh crap, should I tell her?” I was going to tell her I was a psychic/medium right off the bat. No messing around! If you like me, fine, If you don’t, then ok.’ The minute we sat down and began to talk I told her I was a psychic/medium. I wasn’t sure how she would take it. I said, “Mary, I have to tell you something, you might want to turn around and run, but I have to be honest.” She was actually cool with it and said that she thought it was cool and she wanted to hear more about it. I was a little nervous to tell her about it, but she was accepting. We hit it off. We talked and talked and before I knew it, it was 6 am. I left from there and went straight to work! I knew in my heart that day that she was going to marry me.
Q: So everything is good in your life now? You have Mary, and you have a healthy relationship.
Christina: I have a woman who truly loves me for me. Leanne helped me heal. I have learned to heal and move forward. Everything is absolutely phenomenal in my life. I’ve learned to feel, FEEL, and I mean FEEL my emotions. My most significant epiphany from this is to love and learn to be loved. Love and be loved, that is it. That was for humanity, God, myself, Mary and the angels. I was able to feel and move forward and find the woman who truly, truly loves me. I’ll tell you what, it was all God, the angels, and Eli that put Mary in my life. I don’t even know what to say. I was ready for Mary. She appeared at the right time and giving me this phenomenal life and wife. She helped me heal as well. She is so supportive of my life, she doesn’t question me. She knows she is married to an 8 year old! Oh, yea it’s true! I am very child-like, ask Mary! She keeps me in line, she keeps me centered. She accepts everything about me because I can get off kilter sometimes, and she brings me back. She truly loves me as I am. Our love is unconditional. She is absolutely my soul mate.
Q: You mentioned having a very toxic relationship you had with your first partner. Do you mind talking about it?
Christina: It was a 13 year relationship. Yes, I was very toxic. I had been divorced a while. I was just beginning to date, had a great job and was having fun being single. At first, I didn’t really like her, yet she would drive 3 hours to see me. I met and loved her kids. I fell in love with her children. I then began to fall in love with her. Finally, 6 months later, we decided to move in together. I packed up my house, and I left my warehouse manager job. I moved up there with her. She was having problems with her bills and I u-hauled it to her house, the way lesbians do. (We laugh)
I had been moved in for a while. She began to act weird. She put me down, told me I was too heavy, and it really hurt. One day, she told me that she didn’t love me and that she was using me, and then later she said it wasn’t true. She played a lot of head games. I found out she was cheating on me. I was really unhappy and I dove into the kids, took care of them; raising the kids, working, supporting her. I worked many hours managing a warehouse to provide for the children and give them the things they needed and deserved. I cooked for them and was basically a mother and father to them. I gave it my all.
Meanwhile, she was cheating on me with others and I caught her with someone. My friends told me about some of the others. I called her out on it and she admitted it. She was running up and down the road spending my money, cheating.
I remember on my 50th birthday, fifty was a big milestone, I walked in the door from work, hot and tired, but it was my birthday. They told me they were leaving. I asked if I could come along and she said no. She had rounded the kids and her mother to go and get ice cream. Bear in mind, she knew it was my birthday. She didn’t invite me. I thought to myself, “Wow, they are going to get me a cake or some ice cream as a birthday surprise! They came back to the house and they all had these ice cream cones, laughing. She walked by me, eating her cone, not even looking at me. I was thinking to myself, “what the hell? It’s my damn 50th birthday!” You know, that was the best thing she could have done for me, not buying me ice cream that day because I had, had enough. I decided to leave. I loved so deeply. This was a knife in my heart. I had my blinders on. I loved her. She emotionally abused me, and I allowed it. It was very toxic. I was worn out. I was tired, and I couldn’t do it anymore. I did, however, stay in touch with her children and still do. They are like my own. Remember in the beginning of this interview where I said that I went to my partner and told her, “Look, this isn’t working. I’m going rent a room and we are going to separate. I have to find myself”? She didn’t even care. This was her. The love of my life, at least until I met Mary. It was actually a life lesson.
Q: You mentioned you were married? Can we talk about that?
Christina: Sure. My husband was a remarkable man, a wonderful provider and a great father. I have nothing bad to say about him. I tried to deny myself. I tried to live a straight lifestyle, but it wasn’t me. I always knew I was gay. I loved him, but I was not in love with him. I waited until my son was raised and went into the military. He’s was off doing well, and I decided to leave. My husband always kind of knew in the back of his mind that I was gay. He deserved to have somebody that would love him and meet his needs, and that wasn’t me. We are still friends to this day and we talk often. He is happy and has moved on with his life.
Q: How did you come across the nickname, “Crossbow Medium?”
Christina: Oh here! (She reaches behind her and she pulls out this huge crossbow.)
Q: What in the world do you use that for? Is it just a prop or what?
Christina: No, it’s not a prop! I have always been interested in weapons. My dad had weapons and has done gun and knife shows all his life. My dad builds beautiful knives. Look! (She shows me a gorgeous knife with inlay of turquoise, ivory and coral) I’ve always incorporated that in my life as a hobby, you know a past time.
So, when I started doing investigations, what I realized is a lot of the times people will have objects that they don’t want anymore because of the energy. It’s haunted. Objects that I get like this speaker box, for example, (Christina displays a speaker obtained from a previous investigation) spirits can manipulate these things and make them shake and move. People would say, “Take this crap out of here, we don’t want it anymore!” So, I take these objects after I cleanse the house and the investigation is over. I would end up with a collection of objects. So, I decided that I didn’t want anyone to have it. I mean, what if somebody else takes it home and there is still some residual bad energy in that! Think about it, he may take it home and not know what’s going on and not know how to get rid of it.
I would take these things, my trinkets and my dolls, and I would destroy them! I would take them out to the desert. If I don’t bury them, I will take my crossbow, knife or my shotgun, lay it out there and do a ritual in the desert. I burn my frankincense and myrrh. I say my prayers and then I get my weapons out. (She has a huge grin on her face) I get my fire, lighter fluid and whatever I need, and of course, my DEMONATOR, which is freaking amazing! It is a huge hammer. I then destroy these objects into nothing.
Q Has there ever been an object you just kept and couldn’t let go of?
Christina: I have had things that I have wanted to keep, but no. They speak out to me, saying, “You want me, you are going to keep me!” It’s not worth it. I remember an armoire I recovered. It was hundreds of years old! I would have loved to have kept that, but I didn’t.
Q: What’s the most unusual object you have destroyed?
Christina: Oh this is a cool one! I did an investigation long ago. The lady had a front door that was being haunted! A front door! The door would knock on its own, lock on its own, the handle would turn, freaky stuff! She couldn’t debunk what would be doing this. So, I go in the house, I do a complete clearing. I could feel this vibration energy on the door. I knew I had to get rid of this front door, NOW! It’s got to go. She literally took that door off that night.
Q: Oh wow!
Christina: Oh hell yea! We took it down that night! I mean, that’s somebody’s security, right? I mean we take down your front door in the middle of the night? She’s not been haunted since! That night, my team took it to a friend’s house. The next day, we burned that damn thing up. I mean I blew it up. My teammate doesn’t blow crap up. I’m the one that blows stuff up! (We all laugh).
Q: Have you ever been haunted by the spirits that inhabit these objects later after you blow them up?
Christina: Ah, glad you asked! I am very big on protection. I protect myself before and after an investigation. I protect myself before I do readings and after I do readings. Protect, protect, and protect, people. That’s why so many investigators get hurt. They don’t bother to use protection. When I say protection, I mean prayer. I state, ‘In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.’ When I take these objects out, I am not provoking spirits. That’s one thing that me and my team are big on, and that is going into a location with respect. Not only is it someone’s home, but also these spirits are earth bound. A lot of times, they were human and they deserve to be treated that way.
Do I go in there with these bully spirits very stern? Yes, I do! I go in and I treat them like they were my child. You know you did something wrong. I’ll go in and I say, “You know what? In the name of God, you are to leave this home now! You don’t belong here, you need to leave now. How dare you bother and come in here and do this, you are better than this. I command you now to go to the light in the name of Jesus.” So, I’ll talk to them like that. I am very stern, but I never cuss at them or provoke. You know, it pisses me off when they go in using profanity like you mofo this and that. Blah… blah… blah. You never treat a spirit like that, ever.
Earth- bounds are confused. They don’t know what the hell is going on. I am there to comfort them as well. I’ll ask, when the last time they ate a meal was. Give me the last day.
I had a spirit lady in a local town tell me that her last meal was on Monday in 1976. Oh man, it was this year, 2014, and I told her that. She really got confused. You don’t eat in spirit. I explained to her what was going on with her. I explained to her that she died in 1976. This was her home and she was very ill. She had passed away and she was afraid to go to the light I knew it was because of her religion. She thought she was going to go to hell because she was an alcoholic.
She was afraid to cross over. She refused to go to the light. I told her that she had nothing to fear and I would be here with her, guiding her and holding her hand as she left. Eli would take her and deliver her. She would be greeted by her family. I said, “Hurry they are waiting. They love you. Eli and others will take you home now. Please go with Eli now.” I gave her my word.
I could feel Eli working to deliver this beautiful lady home. She went with Eli and they’ve not felt her in that house again. It’s a long time not to be with your family. This was a very emotional experience for me. I cried. This was one of the most beautiful moments in my investigation career. I’ll never forget it.
Q: What’s on the horizon for you Christina?
Christina: Oh wow, I’ve got a lot going on right now. I have formed a paranormal team. Our team is named Demon Warriors Paranormal Investigations. We go into homes to help families with their hauntings. We also find the problems and we eradicate them. We send spirits home, we cleanse and we remove objects that seem to be the center of the problem. My team is awesome and it consists of people who are experts in the field. I remember, I interviewed a lot of different talented people for my team. I wanted the best in the field. I interviewed until I found these talented people. My team consists of respectably: Tiffany Danich (Case Manager, Lead Investigator), Veronica Tioicha (Shaman), Solana (Demonoligist), Kevin Nolan (Lead Tech and Investigator) and Victoria Barajas (Investigator). We are working on a pilot for a television series right now. We are very excited that we can educate people on the seriousness of hauntings, respecting spirit people, and cleansing homes the responsible way. I can’t say enough good things about my team. I couldn’t do this without them and I am deeply grateful!
Q: Do you have anything you wish you had done differently?
Christina: No there isn’t. I have had an awesome life. I have a beautiful wife who really loves me. My friends love me. I am well respected in my community and I am a good upstanding citizen! How could I ask for more? I must say, I have no regrets! It’s been a great ride!
Beautiful spirits come in many forms, all different and all unique. Christina is the epitome of just that. She has learned from adversity and, like the Phoenix, out from the dust she rises, standing tall and proud of who and what she has become. She shines brightly for all to see. Unique, strong, and bright, she definitely is a diamond in the rough. It’s no wonder the world is falling in love with her.
About The Author:
Psychic Medium and Channel, Gina Wedlake, is a third generation Psychic Medium. She limits her practice to spiritual mediumship, where she has passionately immersed herself in the art of spirit communication. She also offers spiritual counseling sessions and past life regression therapy, along with custom made meditation journeys for those desiring a more personal meditation experience. Gina is accompanied by Nuva, her Hopi spirit guide. Gina spent her childhood years on the Hopi Indian reservation.
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