Don't Ghost Hunt Without a Guide
by Bill Russo
I’m pretty sure that the huge interest today in the
paranormal is all the fault (or credit) of Orson Welles. On radio, on Halloween
Night in 1939 he staged a live re-enactment of ‘War of Worlds’ that was so
realistic it sent hundreds and perhaps thousands of screaming people streaming
from their homes into the streets.
Apparently a great number of listeners believed that Martians really were
attacking New Jersey and that they were hearing the war being broadcast live
over the CBS Radio Network.
There certainly were discussions of ghosts and such long
before Orson Welles figuratively put on a sheet and went ‘boo’ to the entire
United States. As early as the 1870s, Conan Doyle, the literary father of
Sherlock Holmes was writing about it and attending seances. He was not alone, many famous figures from
the period including the great illusionist Houdini dabbled in the
paranormal.
But after The War of the Worlds broadcast, and the
thousands of newspaper stories that followed it, ghost hunting, UFO watching,
and other paranormal activities went mainstream. Today there are thousands of shows, articles,
podcasts, and films about everything from Bigfoot to the ancient civilizations
we have yet find on distant planets.
How about you?
Have you ever heard an unexplained knocking in the dark of night while you
are resting quietly in your bed?
From an open window in your living room on a warm evening
do you ever hear clearly and distinctly the sound of someone breathing, and yet
there is no one there?
Do the fixed shadows cast by objects in your home sometime
move four or five feet quickly in your direction as though jumping at you,
before dashing back to their original places?
If so, you are not alone.
Many people see these things and much, much more. The majority of us shrug
these sightings off because they are infrequent and sometimes ambiguous. A number of others yearn for explanations.
Is the knocking in the night, an attempt by an ancestor
to get in touch with you? Did an uncle
you did not even know you had, bury a sack of gold somewhere and he wants to
tell you where it is?
Sometimes people attempt on their own, without training
to investigate the paranormal. This can
be a very dangerous thing. There are many documented cases of people being very
seriously injured and even killed, in their quest for ghosts and such.
Don’t fear! It’s
not the ghosts that hurt them. Most of
the injuries are caused by the amateur ghost hunters fleeing the spot where
they may have seen something! They often
run off in the dark and trip over both seen and unseen obstacles.
Here’s some advice for would-be ghost hunters. Seek out the aid of an expert. I have two people of the highest quality that
I can recommend to you.
Laurie Champion of Florida is a veteran in the ghost hunting and paranormal field. She is the Director of Hostile Haunts https://www.pinellaspascoparanormal.com/ On the website you will find an enormous amount of interesting materials as well as the contact number for Laurie and her people. They are fearless investigators and ghost hunters who will aid you in your quest. They are not entertainers! They are investigators. If you want a good ghost story, read one somewhere but don’t contact Hostile Haunts for one. Contact the group if you are experiencing paranormal situations. They can help. Laurie’s contact information is listed on the website. Her group handles dozens of investigations every year in a fairly large part of Florida. Laurie is also a published author and her books are widely available. Contact her for more information.
If you’re located in New England, contact Andrew Lake of Greenville Paranormal, http://www.greenvilleparanormal.com/ located in Rhode Island.
I met Andrew in 2013 when we were both involved in the filming of the award winning documentary (now on Amazon Prime) ‘The Bridgewater Triangle’.
Andrew is a no-nonsense, serious investigator of all things
paranormal. Very knowledgeable, he has
several books available. His contact
information is listed on the website.
If you are not in
Florida or New England, I don’t have any sources for you, but here are some
tips if you have a situation that does need investigating. If the area of your
interest is a location that may possibly be haunted. DO NOT GO THERE AT NIGHT….before you begin,
you should examine the scene in the daytime.
‘Case the joint’ as they might say in a horror or gangster film.
Learn the landmarks.
Learn the escape routes so well that you can locate them blindfolded,
for in effect if you have to flee in the dark of night, in a sense you will be
blindfolded. Having a mental map of the
area is your best defense if you begin to have feelings of fear and panic that
often occur on a ghost hunt, even when there are no ghosts present.
Remember, the only thing scarier than an empty cemetery
at midnight, is a cemetery at midnight that is full of ghosts! I don’t really know what that means but I was
trying to come up with a snappy ending.
I guess I failed. But you will
not fail in your ghost hunt if you contact Laurie or Andrew, or if you keep
your head while exploring your haunt.
-0-
No comments:
Post a Comment