Being A New Paranormal Investigator
Robin M. Strom-Mackey has written a really great blog posting of her experience of becoming a paranormal investigator.
So how often do ghost hunters experience something honestly paranormal? Opinions vary, but somewhere between 1 in 5 investigations to 1 in 20 investigations. In other words you’ll spend somewhere between five or twenty sleepless nights wandering around in spider-ridden old basements and sneezing in dusty, hot attics before you actually capture any real evidence. Now, what is considered verifiable evidence depends on the investigation group and how rigorous they are with what they collect.
Check out the article as Robin covers a lot of interesting things. Especially if you are thinking going from the couch to real investigation. She is a member of the Delaware Ghost Hunters.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
What the heck is “honestly paranormal?”
September 30th, 2008 at 11:12 am
I believe what Robin is trying to say is that most of what paranormal investigating is… waiting…waiting for something to happen, waiting to get through the evidence to get to that EVP. In all my years of investigations I would say that 98% is waiting the other 2%… is what we “live” for, that touch, that sound, the answer to a question.
October 6th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
But none of this stuff is credible proof of anything. Definitve proof of the afterlife would be a WORLD CHANGING EVENT!
Hypnogagia, hallucination, and mis-interpreting one’s senses can explain every “paranormal” experience. Every single one.
October 7th, 2008 at 7:11 am
the serious study of ancient history ,and mankinds hidden horrors-mental,phsyically the act of, where some peole could be stuck in time.
October 7th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Zeppelin:
How does one get stuck in time? I mean not in hippie-speak, but in concrete terms, and theoretical coherence.