Forums: Investigating the Paranormal

What are the basics of investigating the paranormal? How does one get started? What techniques does one use? And what precautions does one take? I am sorry if these are basic questions, but I would really like to know. 

We are doing another over nighter at The Great Central Railway here in Loughborough, Leicestershire.

If you live near here or don’t mind travelling to this location let us know by emailing me at jester@themagicjester.co.uk

Hi All,

I firstly want to introduce myself to you all, my name is Karl (aka Jester) and myself, my Fiancee Milly and good friend Dave (aka Paul T Geist) run a paranormal investigation team called Spooked, we film our investigations to go on our own paranormal show that can be viewed on You Tube.

After centuries of written accounts cocerning people seeing ghosts and over a hundred years of people taking an active interest in researching them, what do we actually know about ghosts and hauntings?

Can we identify what is absolute fact and accepted about ghosts rather than just theory wrapped up as fact?

A thought occurred to me today as I had to listen to someone harangue me that ghost hunters were the snake oil salesmen of the modern age:  I’m not overly familiar with any ‘hard’ scientific studies of the phenomena.

I have just got back from doing the Muncaster Halloween investigation. A sleepless but quiet night. A good write article of the case entitled “Where do ghosts come from?” by Hazel Muir appears in the New Scientist, 30th October 2009.

I was on another forum recently which is I assume predominantly populated by Americans and I came across the term Matrixing.

When is a case no longer worth investigating?  I recieve e-mails from groups who have seen a location in our gazatteer, the historical research has been done for them, the case history summerised and they decide they want to go there and do an investigation with their group.  Even though nothing has been reported in 90 or so years and the current owners have shown no indication that they

While I do not agree in full I find this article well worth reading since most of us had the same feelings when investigating the "Paranormal":

endlessjrny.blogspot.com/2009/10/if-only-paranormal-could-remove-that-on.html

As mentioned in the latest ASSAP News, Dr Rupert Sheldrake is seeking people to assist him ina project by completing  his Mobile Telephone Telepathy Test.  You can do this by visiting his website www.sheldrake.org.  The link to his online experiments is here.