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Are you living with unexplained or ghostly occurrences in your home? Do you feel the presence of something unknown or unfamiliar? If you feel like you have paranormal happenings that disrupt your life or threaten your family, getting answers and relief is important. Finding a paranormal investigator in your area may be the way to... more »
Hauntings, poltergeists and other paranormal happenings can be quite unnerving for those who must endure them day after day. Often, it is the mystery of what is happening in people's homes or places of work that frightens them the most, so they will call in people to help them conduct a paranormal investigation to get to the bottom of... more »
Being a paranormal detective or ghost hunter is usually an unpaid position driven by curiosity. Using electronic equipment and the five senses, a paranormal detective attempts to record evidence of paranormal activity in a given location. Investigating hauntings is a matter of nighttime vigils and groups of eyewitnesses. Read on to... more »
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:Not to be confused with Haunting
Ghost hunting is the process of investigating locations said to be haunted by ghosts.
Typically, a ghost hunting team will attempt to collect evidence claimed to be supportive of paranormal activity. Ghost hunters often employ electronic equipment of various types, such as EMF meters, digital thermometers, infrared, thermographic, and night vision cameras, handheld video cameras, digital audio recorders, and computers. Organized teams of ghost hunters are also called paranormal investigation teams.
While many teams purport to utilize scientific methods, there has been no scientifically testable and verifiable evidence supporting the existence of ghosts.autogenerated1>, Associated Press, Thursday, October 26, 2006
History
Pliny the Younger recorded what has been regarded as the first story of a ghost hunt in 100 AD.autogenerated2> The story was already a century old when Pliny told it, and concerns a haunted house in ancient Athens being investigated by a philosopher named Athenodoros Cananites.
The Ghost Club, founded in London in 1862, is believed to be the oldest paranormal research organization in the world.underwood1>Underwood, Peter (1978) "Dictionary of the Supernatural", Harrap Ltd., ISBN 0245527842, Page 144 Famous members of the club have included Charles Dickens, Sir William Crookes, Sir William Fletcher Barrett and Harry Price.underwood1/>
In the mid 1880s, William James, philosopher and founder of the American Psychological Association suggested applying scientific method to paranormal questions such as the existence of ghosts or spirits. He found allies in England such as Alfred Russel Wallace, Cambridge philosopher Henry Sidgwick and his wife, Eleanor, Edmund Gurney, and others to form the core of the Society for Psychical Research to collect evidence concerning apparitions, haunted houses, and similar phenomena. "spr">, website of the Society for Psychical Research The inves read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost+hunting
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