Investigator’s Tips

     Today you only have to click on the web or check out any bookstore to see a plethora of books on how to ghost hunt. They even have a Ghost Hunting for Dummies book out now, but is there really a need for so much advice? Do we need 57 books and hundreds of websites on ghost hunting? How hard could it be?

     Ghost hunting can be very simple--just take a compass and your little tape recorder along with your camera and go out looking for a haunted place. Visit a cemetery, look for a known haunted site and make sure that you’re welcome. The last thing you want is to be arrested for ghost hunting. Imagine explaining to a tired cop that you were looking for EVP not tipping tombstones at 3 a.m.! That’s a hard sell.

     Now comes the complicated part. You have to decipher what information you have gotten. There are rules--clear, steadfast rules for this, but you do have to know them and you have to be honest with yourself. You have to be willing to admit that everything that bumps in the night is not a ghost.

EVP

          We carry meters to gauge them, we talk about how paranormal activity is accompanied by an increase in them, but do we really understand what they are?  What am I talking about?  Electromagnetic Fields (EMF for short)...  It has become part of the standard patter for most ghost groups to talk about electromagnetic fields and there is not a ghost documentary around that does not sport at least one investigator waving an EMF meter about.  But it seems that very few people take the time to understand what EMFs are.

     I think that any rational discussion of this subject must begin with a bit of basic information. 

EMF