In an effort to bring more smart, critically-thinking warm bodies into the field of paranormal investigating, I’m going to (in blog form) answer one of the questions I’m most often asked when we are making public appearances for ETPRS.
If you go by what you see on the TV lookie-box, you would need thousands of dollars in equipment and/or magical mind powers to effectively investigate the paranormal. Not true. Way not true. Really and truly, in my not-so-humble opinion, the only one thing required to ghost hunt is an open mind. You don’t have to believe 100% that ghosts, spirits, haints, etc. exist, that they walk among us, but you need to be open to the possibility. You don’t have to believe that these spirits can manifest enough energy to speak, cry, sing, or touch objects or your person, but you need to be open to the possibility.
Anyone who goes into a situation with all certainty that an outcome is going to be “A” or “B” will usually feel they were correct in the end. Once you’ve made up your mind, you will make sure that the end result matches your preconceived notion of the end result, whether you know you’re doing it or not. I always tell people at these events that if we go into a house to prove that it is haunted, we WILL prove it’s haunted 100% of the time, even if it isn’t. The “matrixing effect” is your mind’s ability to pick out shapes and forms from images of nothing, or specific words from jumbled sounds. If you want to find ghosts, you’ll create a full environment matrix effect and find the ghosts you’re looking for. The same can be said in the reverse.
If you aren’t open to looking for the right anomalies in pictures and video, if you aren’t open to listening for the voices that lie just under the white noise, you won’t see or hear them. You won’t.
The world of paranormal investigation is the perfect balance of finding evidence while not inadvertently creating your own evidence. An open mind doesn’t mean a lack of healthy skepticism, it just means a willingness to take a deeper look at what might be there. You also need to take a deeper look at what IS there and make sure there aren’t normal explanations before jumping to the paranormal explanations.
If you start with this, you can use tools that are handy to you for recording the evidence: paper and pen, a cheap voice memo recorder, the smart phone. The greatest piece of evidence I’ve personally ever caught was a picture taken at Prospect Place in Ohio with my cell phone. As time goes on, if you truly love investigating, then you can put some money into the equipment you see used on shows.
As always, you can find the picture I talked about earlier and a LOT of other evidence we’ve caught on our website http://www.etprs.com and you can look for East Tennessee Paranormal Research Society on Facebook.
See ya in Hell, motherf*****s.
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