The Portal at Ground Zero
By Joyce Keller
FATE :: August 2006

Sometime during the period that the World Trade Center was under construction, I had a conversation with a psychic who was familiar with the construction site. He looked me straight in the eye and said, “I know that you are occasionally in the area where the World Trade Center is being built. I strongly suggest that you do not ever go into those buildings.”

When I asked him why, he said, “Those buildings are cursed from great human suffering. They will definitely come down in our lifetime. Stay away from the area.”

Prior to and during the excavation for the World Center and for other construction in the area, the remains of at least 419 Colonial-era African-American slaves had been unearthed. In October 2003, they were respectfully re-interred a short distance away. Included in this burial were the remains of other black slaves who had also been discovered near the site in 1991.

Historians report that these African-American slaves were brought to lower New York during Colonial days, and horribly mistreated. Young children, teens, and adults had been brought here from Africa, forced into heavy labor, tortured, and killed. The killings were often done by hanging, mostly in the area now known as the New York Financial Center. They were buried in and around the area of the World Trade Center.

The starvation and mistreatment of the slaves went on for many generations. The area around what we now know as “Ground Zero” festered for centuries with the energy of human beings who were horribly mistreated, tortured, and killed. The energy had never been released, and it became more negative after the Financial Center began to grow and prosper and people lost or gained money. As financial dealings were consummated (some fair, some unfair), the negative energy grew in the area. The area surrounding the World Trade Center became an overwhelming magnet of darkness. The hatred, misery, despair, and human suffering had been building up for centuries. It had never been cleansed or released.