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Ghost's & Ghost Hunting (Part 1)

Electronic Voice Phenomena and communicating with the unseen

Building the Ramsey TFM-3 tri-field Meter

What is Proof to you?

Communication Vs. Validation

Types of Ghosts

What about orbs?

What are Shadow People?

How can I get rid of it?

 

A chance to meet some of our members and hear about there particular views on the paranormal.


 

 

 

 

Validation and Communication
What’s the difference if any?



“Are you here”?
How many times have you seen a researcher sitting in the dark asking questions while holding an audio recorder in hopes of recording a brief communication from an unseen presence, looking for a validation that something else exists beyond what we can see or hear? There are many validation experiments and the tools are as varied as the techniques. Some use technology, DVRs and EMF meters while others use ancient divining practices and Ouija boards etc. Wait did I just compare a Ouija board which most researchers look at as a taboo to a several hundred dollar state of the art EMF meter? Yes I did, because in my opinion it’s not the tool that makes one school of thought better or worse than the other, it’s the techniques which are employed during there usage.

We hear that Ouija boards are evil and can be gateways that open diabolical gates to the unknown etc. So why is it that sitting in a dark room lit by a single candle asking a series of question using a piece of cardboard with some letters scribbled on it or using a brass weigh attached to a swinging string is wrong or unacceptable while we see researchers gathering around the dim glow of electronic devices asking similar questions to the same unknown entities and it’s accepted readily in the field? The answer is simple and complicated at the same time.

Typically Ouija boards were used as a parlor game, they were a form of entertainment and found themselves the primary tool used by mediums and clairvoyants which used them to “make contact” with the other side. In more modern times we see the Ouija board used to scare adolescents and help add that extra punch to a good ghost story told in dorm rooms and dark garages on stormy nights all over the world. The primary usage techniques may start out as similar to the paranormal investigator but they tend to always take a sharp turn into the forbidden zone when invariably one of the participants uses the device to ask a question pertaining to a future event. Typically this becomes almost an addiction to some of the users and soon they are either experimenting repeatedly with the board or other divining devices such as pendulums etc. This form of repeated “communication” can lead to a pseudo relationship with the entity and may cause it to become attached to an area where the device is used or worse to the person using the device themselves where as a researchers line of questions pertain to deriving an ID of the entity itself and are not typically repeated personal events.

As a researcher, information gathering and detective work should be your prime concerns during any attempt at communication or validation. You should be restricting your questioning only for the goal of validation and or identification of the particular entity.
If you are a researcher your primary goal is not to make a relationship with something that is freely delving out tomorrow’s stock numbers, nothing is free anyway and the price may be quite high for someone who pursues active long term communication over simple research gathering validation.

Good hunting