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Paranormal unity will never work

I am sad when I hear people talk so highly of these fraudulent television shows and have no idea what real paranormal investigation is about. It breaks my heart that people have no idea where our field came from or how it was started. When I talk about important names that helped mold the field into what it is today such as The Fox Sisters, D.D. Home, J.B. Rhine or Harry Price and I see this look of confusion on the faces of these new age “Ghost Hunters” my stomach turns. It’s seriously like a person who is an electrician having no idea who Benjamin Franklin is. So if one doesn’t know the history on what they are doing, how can they be taken seriously? Believe it or not the field has been around since before 2004, it was around before Jason and Grant, before Ryan Buell and the rest of paranormal television. Actually the field has been around before television, imagine that.  Even today most people in this field have no clue about amazing researchers who are alive such as Loyd Auerbach and Dean Radin. 

Like I said earlier this field is becoming a joke, there are very few groups out there who are actually doing real paranormal investigations. I know teams that will go into a residence for 2 hours and call it a wrap and will find something out of nothing and try to pass it off as evidence. For example I worked on a case where an individual handed me a CD-R full of 75 EVP’s (Electronic Voice Phenomena) that were caught within the first 5 minutes of the recording from a previous investigation done by another team. It was totally 100% bogus. People in this field want so bad to find evidence, it has become a race to see who can have the best piece of evidence, that it actually is blinding people into believing they have found something that isn’t there. A friend of mine, James Randi told me “It’s a need to believe” and that’s exactly what it is a need to believe, and what it’s not is research. 

So let us take a look at that phrase real quick “It’s a need to believe” which honestly makes perfect sense to me now. If you look at tools that are being created/invented in the field now maybe some will understand what I mean. For instance the Ghost Box, recently I was in Chicago for a ghost conference where someone did a lecture on the authenticity of this device. For those who don’t know what it is, it’s simply a radio that never stops scanning the different channels, many call this the sweeping method. Supposedly you will get direct communication from spirits when talking to the device. Let’s stop and seriously think here, the first rule in paranormal investigation is use logic, which is more logical you’re hearing different fragments of words and piecing them together yourself, because that’s what our brain does or that we are really talking to ghosts on a broken radio? There is a device out there called the Ovilus which is nothing more than a circuit board that spits out different words people associate with the “haunted” location. For instance a woman dies at a location and the Ovilus spits out the words “dead, dead, woman, dead, dog, car, dead” people will say “oh my god the woman is dead and she had a car and a dog.” I have seen this before, and again it comes down to what James Randi’s said “the need to believe.”

So why can’t unity work?  Because the number of inexperienced investigators who are to egotistical to ask for help outnumber the serious researchers 25 to 1 easily. I love the idea of paranormal unity, before that happens how about we work on paranormal honesty. Passing off dust as spirits, camera straps as vortex’s and smoke as ectoplasm can’t happen anymore. Stop spending 250 dollars on crap equipment like the Ovilus and stop speaking into 700 dollar broken radios. This field needs to be destroyed from within and rebuilt; otherwise we will just continue giving scientists something to laugh at. 

Still I am waiting for people to send me clips of what they have caught when using a ghost box; I will gladly eat my words. Thank you for reading. Feel free to email me at Toledo_paranormal@hotmail.com