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Discuss: Ghost Hunting
13 years ago
Welcome to the Circle. Feel free to discuss and provide insight. Please remember to keep an open mind and do not judge your fellow members.
Hello everyone.
We've talkd about some topics already during
's broadcasts and in the journals here.
Today we'd like to raise the subject of
's future broadcasts: ghost hunting. Ghost hunting is considered a pseudo-science, which (often) uses scientific equipment to try and validate or find proof for the existence of the supernatural or the paranormal, commonly through the forms of ghosts, spirits, apparitions, shadow people and much more.
We've conducted some investigations already ourselves, and have experienced a number of very interesting things: EVPs, shadow people, unexplainable hissing noises, a woman saying 'hello' and giggling so loud we could both hear it from a mile away and much more.
We'd like to invite you to share your views on ghost hunting with us and the group. What are your methods or opinions when it comes to this subject?
To help all of you get started, here are a few questions you could try and answer in order to present your opinion.
1) How would you go on a ghost hunt?
- How would you find a good spot?
- What kind of researching tools would you bring?
- Who would you bring with you on your team?
2) How would you deal with a ghost hunt?
- What would you do if you heard something you couldn't explain?
- What would you do if you saw something you couldn't explain?
- What would you do if someone starts to feel dizzy, sad, angry?
- What would you do if you suddenly get a very creepy or compelling vibe to get out of an area?
3) How would you document a ghost hunt?
- Which evidence would you keep and which would you discard?
- Based on which criteria would you do this?
- How would you argue your cases for your selection of evidence towards others?
A lot of these questions are common things a ghost hunting team can experience. A very good example of a show that illustrates how different ghost hunters work is the TV-show "Paranormal Challenge", presented by Zack Bagans, lead researcher of "Ghost Adventures". While the show itself might not be the best example of 'scientific' and is largely there for entertainment value, the locations and teams ARE real. It will give you a good look at how a team operates and functions, and what kind of things play a part in how a ghost hunt eventually goes down.
So, we invite you once more to take part in this journal and share your views and such on ghost hunting. Feel free to use the above questions as a guide, or not at all, whatever works for you!
Happy sharing and see you next time!
We've talkd about some topics already during
's broadcasts and in the journals here. Today we'd like to raise the subject of
's future broadcasts: ghost hunting. Ghost hunting is considered a pseudo-science, which (often) uses scientific equipment to try and validate or find proof for the existence of the supernatural or the paranormal, commonly through the forms of ghosts, spirits, apparitions, shadow people and much more. We've conducted some investigations already ourselves, and have experienced a number of very interesting things: EVPs, shadow people, unexplainable hissing noises, a woman saying 'hello' and giggling so loud we could both hear it from a mile away and much more.
We'd like to invite you to share your views on ghost hunting with us and the group. What are your methods or opinions when it comes to this subject?
To help all of you get started, here are a few questions you could try and answer in order to present your opinion.
1) How would you go on a ghost hunt?
- How would you find a good spot?
- What kind of researching tools would you bring?
- Who would you bring with you on your team?
2) How would you deal with a ghost hunt?
- What would you do if you heard something you couldn't explain?
- What would you do if you saw something you couldn't explain?
- What would you do if someone starts to feel dizzy, sad, angry?
- What would you do if you suddenly get a very creepy or compelling vibe to get out of an area?
3) How would you document a ghost hunt?
- Which evidence would you keep and which would you discard?
- Based on which criteria would you do this?
- How would you argue your cases for your selection of evidence towards others?
A lot of these questions are common things a ghost hunting team can experience. A very good example of a show that illustrates how different ghost hunters work is the TV-show "Paranormal Challenge", presented by Zack Bagans, lead researcher of "Ghost Adventures". While the show itself might not be the best example of 'scientific' and is largely there for entertainment value, the locations and teams ARE real. It will give you a good look at how a team operates and functions, and what kind of things play a part in how a ghost hunt eventually goes down.
So, we invite you once more to take part in this journal and share your views and such on ghost hunting. Feel free to use the above questions as a guide, or not at all, whatever works for you!
Happy sharing and see you next time!
I don't think I can comment on this much, though. I can uh.. 'see' so I don't have a very scientific approach to this. lol. I can't wait to see what everyone else has to offer, though.
I do know, though I could never go into one of those like the prisons and stuff like they do on PC but that's just cause I'm a wimp pff. Though, there are plenty of haunted buildings here where I live, a few of which I was 'told' to get out, like the compelling vibe... Most of which I said MAKE ME but thats because I am an asshole when I'm not being a wimp.
* research tools for phase 1 are two witnesses (me + 1), comfortable seating, journals and audio, video and photo equipment
2. Answer to all of the subquestions is : document, write it down.
3. Simple answers here, too - document everything, keep it all. Since I wouldn't be attempting to decide what was or was not evidence of observed phenomena, I'd just be creating a record.
If we did see something truly notable, I'm sure I'd pack it all up and send it along somewhere nice. Maybe Scotland! http://www.koestler-parapsychology.psy.ed.ac.uk/