It appears some people made some assumptions about where one can setup and try to catch paranormal evidence without checking first. Organizers of the “G-4 Summit” planned to investigate the Gettysburg Battlefield “hot spots” without checking with the park service that operates the Gettysburg National Military Park.

As this article states at EveningSun.com, the organizers are asking local Gettysburg businesses and residents to open their homes to allow investigators to search for ghosts. The organizers were planning on doing this all along but since the park service is disallowing the use of the park, the search for haunted places to investigate has become more important. One quote from the article:

To qualify for the free investigations, residents don’t need to see headless horsemen or hear rattling chains on a regular basis, (Kerry) Eble-Keller said.

Eble-Keller is encouraging residents to call “even if they’re just curious.”

It turns out that Kerry Eble-Keller is a filmmaker not a paranormal investigator. We checked their web site G-4 Summit but it’s currently broken. A view of their description of the investigation from Google cache sheds some light:

We at the G-4 Summit hope to spend three intensive days with the largest group of paranormal investigators and ghost hunters ever assembled. At this early stage we currently have paranormal investigators attending the G-4 Summit from 30 States! This history making event will put the most experienced paranormal investigators in the lead with the latest state of the art paranormal equipment. In this investigation we also will perform some energy field experiments and will spread small teams all over the battlefield in all the so called “hot spots.” After the military park closes we will send teams all over greater Gettysburg. If you live in greater Gettysburg or have a business in Gettysburg and would like paranormal teams to investigate it please let us know we will not charge you anything and who knows your home could wind up on TV.

I’m sure that most of the paranormal investigators that have signed up so far are attending the summit with the intention of doing paranormal research. But this filmmaker clearly is just looking to find places to film that can be edited together to create a show to be sold to TV. Whether those places are worth investigating or not.

So who is being helped here?