It’s a story that will happen a lot over the next few years, but will happen rather quietly we think. The Evening Star in the UK has an article telling us of a Suffolk paranormal group calling it quits:

Mr Proctor set about recruiting other believers and created a website for the group. He divided his time between the investigation team and his day job as a health assistant.

He said: “The group started life in the summer of 2006 and was made up of me and my friend Sally Goddard but by the time it was over and done with, we were five members strong.

“We advertised through our website and word of mouth and wrote lots of letters to places we thought were haunted. In the end we just got fed up with people turning us down. Nine times out of ten there would be no response.”

The group ran a free ghost hunting service for nearly a year before they were forced to bring the venture to a close.

It makes you wonder why they started. Maybe they wanted to be another Most Haunted clone and they seemed surprised they were not let into famous haunts.

It’s a theme that will happen often though. We have heard veterans of this field comment many times how the number of groups has exploded the last few years. No doubt others will feel similar like this group from the UK.

I think in a few years the people left in the field will be the people who do the work for the sake of the work and for helping people.

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The Times Record News has published a nice article on Texoma Regional Organization Of Paranormal Studies (T.R.O.O.P.S.).

The group is just a few months old, no doubt inspired by the Ghost Hunters. Hopefully they will take the time to read Orbs or Dust? A Practical Guide to False-Positive Evidence by Kenny Biddle as every paranormal investigator should do.

The article includes the following interesting personal experience:

“I was home alone in my room with my dog, a big Rottweiler,” she said. “All of a sudden, he starts scratching at the door.”

She opened the door and he bolted out, but then came back just as quickly and hid under the bed.

Something had obviously scared him, she said.

Latishia walked out into the kitchen and saw an unusual shadow hanging out in the corner of the room.

“It stood there for a while and then this thing walked right by the windows,” Corwin said.

Light from the outside didn’t pass through the image.

The “ghost” then walked through the wall into her room.

“The dog ran out from under the bed and went and hid, and I went and hid with him,” she said.

I’m sure this ghost hunter wouldn’t have hid under the bed.

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