OK, SO THE VAMPIRE THING IS BIG.  THE GHOST THING IS EVEN BIGGER.  WITH THE AMOUNT OF GHOST HUNTING GROUPS ON THE RISE, IT IS NO WONDER THAT PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO CASH IN ON THIS WAVE.  HISTORIC SITES LIKE "PRISONS" AND "ASYLUMS" HAVE TURNED TO SUCKING BLOOD OUT OF ANYONE WHO WANTS TO USE THEIR FACIITIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF GHOST HUNTING OR PARPANORMAL INVESTIGATIONS. 

BECAUSE SOME OF THE BEST SITES ARE IN THE CONTROL OF VARIOUS COUNTY GOVERNMENTS, THE BATTLE TO GET IN AND NOT GET GOUGED IS BEING WAGED ON EVERY FRONT.  THE CONTROL HOWEVER LIES WITH MANY SHORT SIGHTED COUNTY EMPLOYEES WHO EITHER DON'T DO THEIR JOB WELL OR USE THE POWER TO BOLSTER THEIR OWN SELF-ESTEEM.  IT MATTERS NOT THAT CERTAIN GROUPS(GHOST SOLDIERS IS NOT ALONE HERE) HAVE GIIVEN THEM HELP PROMOTING VARIOUS EVENTS AROUND HALLOWEEN OR THAT THOSE PEOPLE PAID OUT $300 TO TRAVEL TO AND HELP WITH FUNDRAISER EVENTS.  BURLINGTON PRISON IS ONE SUCH PLACE.  AFTER GHOST SOLDIERS INVESTIGATED AND GOT MORE EVIDENCE THAN ALL THE OTHER TEAMS WHO HAD BEEN THRU THERE, THE PLACE BECAME KNOWN FOR ITS GHOST'S EVEN MORE!  THE WORD GOT OUT AND IT BECAME A POPULAR PLACE TO GHOST HUNT.  SO NOW THE COUNTY HAS BROKEN ITS PROMISS TO ALLOW US TO FULFILL OUR PROMISS OF TAKING THE WINNER OF THE GHOST RAFFLE ON A GHOST HUNT.  THIS IS THE SAME AS FALSE ADVERTISING AND EMBEZELLMENT OF FUNDS, AND IS NOT GOOD BUSINESS!!!  I GAVE UP MY TIME AND MONEY TO HELP THEM WHEN NO OTHER GHOST ORAGNIZATIONS WOULD COMMIT TO THE HALLOWEEN SCAREYARD.  NOW, SOME MONEY HUNGRY COUNTY EMPLOYEE HAS HIS HAND IN THE TILL.  THEY ARE BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS THEM BECASUE THEY ARE WATCHING PLACES LIKE EASTER STATE PENN AND WEST VIRGINA LUNATIC ASYLUM CHARGE OUTRAGEOUS PRICES FOR THE CHANCE TO SPEND A FEW HOURS WANDERING AROUND THEIR EMPTY BUILDING!

WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT THESE BLOODSUCKERS?  NOT MUCH, EXCEPT DO NOT GIVE THEM THE PLEASURE OF MAKING THEIR SITE FAMOUS OR BUY GIVING THEM LARGE SUMS OF MONEY FOR NOT MUCH IN RETURN.  GHOST HUNTING HAS BECOME AS COMMERCIALIZED AS CHRISTMAS AND IT IS TOO BAD.  THERE ARE STILL SOME NICE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO AREN'T TRYING TO MAKE A BUCK OFF GHOST HUNTING, BUT MORE AND MORE WE SEE THESE TINY BRAINED MEDIOCRE IDIOTS OUT TO SCREW THE LITTLE GUY.  ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT THEM IS THAT KARMA COMES AROUND AND IF YOU LIVE LIKE A BLOOD-SUCKER, YOU WILL DIE LIKE A BLOOD-SUCKER.

VAMPIRES ARE BIG RIGHT NOW, AND WITH THE PROLIFERATION OF MOVIES AND TV SHOWS ABOUT THEM, IT SHOWS HOW DEEP THIS STORY RUNS IN OUR MINDS.  i AM ABSOLUTLEY SURE THAT THERE ARE BLOODSUCKERS AMONG US, WHO HAVE NO GUILT OR REMORSE AND PURPOSELY GO OUT TO CAUSE HARM.  YOU MIGHT KNOW SOMEONE WHO FITS THAT DESCRIPTION, BUT THE REAL VAMPIRES CAN BE TRACED BACK TO TRANSYLVANIA, OR CAN THEY?

ONE OF THE EARLIEST STORIES OF VAMPIRES CAME FROM IRELAND. THESE STORIES GO BACK FOR CENTURIES.  ABRAHAM(BRAHM)STOKER WAS IRISH AND WAS INFLUENCED BY IRISH FOLKLORE.  SO IN 1897 WHEN HE WROTE HIS NOVEL "DRACULA", IT RESEMBLED THE DARK WOODS,  AND SMALL VILLAGES FULL OF SUPERSTITIOUS PEASANTS IN HIS NATIVE IRELAND.

ONE OF THESE TALES THAT HE DREW FROM WAS THE "FIR GORTA" (MAN OF HUNGER), AN EMACIATED CREATURE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN A SPECTRE AND A FAIRY, TRAMPED THE IRISH ROADS WITH A STAFF IN ONE HAND AND A SMALL METAL BEGGING CUP IN THE OTHER.  AT THE BACK DOOR OF THE HOUSES IT PASSED, IT WOULD RATTLE THE CUP AND MAKE A FAINT CALL FOR ALMS.  IF THOSE IN THE HOUSE IGNORED THE SOUND AND DID NOT LEAVE A COIN OR A PIECE OF FOOD BY THE BACK DOOR FOR HIM, SICKNESS AND PERHAPS DEATH WOULD DESCEND UPON THEM. 

AT THIS TIME TOO, THE DULLANHAN, AN AWFUL HEADLESS HORSEMAN, THUNDERED OVER THE NIGHTBOUND IRISH COUNTRYSIDE, WITH DISEASE UNDER HIS CLOAK, INFECTING HOUSEHOLDS HE PASSED.  TUBERCULOSIS WAS RAMPANT AND THIS DISEASE CAUSED THE PERSON TO TURN A DEATHLY PALE AND TO COUGH UP BLOOD.  SOUND FAMILIAR????  SO BRAHM STOKER WAS INFLUENCED BY HIS SURROUNDINGS AND BY STORIES OF OLD TIMES. HE KNEW THAT VAMPIRES DID INDEED WALK AMONG US!

I was going thru a Harpers Weekly antique newspaper i have from 1862, and inside I found a story about the paranormal.  It was reported from England in April of that year, about 3 men in a limestone quarry and it was titled:

"BURIED ALIVE!"

I will eventually put it on our website in full, but here's what it said:

During a violent rain and thunderstorm, the three had taken cover in a small cave they had dug out of the hillside to store things in.  They also used it as a shelter.  One day during a sudden storm, they were forced to take refuge in the cave. Two of the men were in the back trying to stay away from the effects of the lightning which seemed to be all around them.  The other man, Aldham, taken to being a quite man of religion, sat at the entrance to the cave a started reading from his bible.  "Tho I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...."  at that moment there was a terrible crash as a tree above them was struck by lightning and fell over covering the entrance to the cave and burying the men alive in limestone and chalk.  Because the two men were in the back, a portion of the roof which fell in, made a great hole above them, so that air was able to reach them.  Eventually they were dug out, except for Aldahm who was not so lucky.  When they dug him out he was alive but in a comma.  They took him to his house and the doctor made him comfortable but there was little they could do.  His two friends came by to see him and a few days later, Thursday, they met with the other members of their bible study group at one of their homes.  Just as they started to read "Tho I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...." in walks Mr. Aldham, their friend, only he is mostly transparent.  He walks in and sits down in an empty chair.  Their is a long pause and no one wants to say anything in the room.  Aldham says: "I shall fear no evil...." and finishes the verse, gets up, turns and walks thru the door to the back yard.  When they gather up the courage to open the door, they can see all the way down the road and their is no one in sight.  Just then, the church bells ring tolling the passing of their friend Aldham, a few miles away.  They all knew what it meant and one guy looked at this time piece, it was 6:20pm.  Later they found out he had died at exactly 6:20pm.

This is a true story from the past and was not a made up tale.  Their are names, dates, and specifics that make it surely true.  It was tucked away in the paper next to ads for pistols and roller skates(yes they had roller skates in the civil war). 

The first time i tried to crossover a spirit by myself, I felt quite unsure about myself.  It is normal to have doubts about something new, especially if you can't see the dead or hear them in your head.  I have heard things and caught flashes of images at times, but I have not learned how to turn it on as well as I would like.  So I use a DR-60 EVP recorder, the best frontline source of feedback.  A few days ago, Doug and I had been discussing a sould that followed him home and was trying to get his attention.  WHen he used his DR-60 to contact the spirit, he at first thought the guy was angry or threatening.  I convinced him that he was just excited and to try to get more information.  Well he did.

He got some pretty clear "help me" and "won't you help me please" responses.  So I said to Doug, "this guy saw you and knows you can help him, so try to cross him over yourself, you got nothing to lose."  So after a few suggestions, Doug got more EVP's and even verified answers using a pendulum.  The ghost was pretty excited!  So Doug started the process and after about 30 minutes, he felt a breeze go past him and felt the calmness return to the room.  When he tried his pendulum, it did not move.  When he tried to get an EVP, nothing.  He had done it!!!  It wasn't easy but he held fast and did not give up and by doing this helped a soul get to see his family again.  Now that's how you start a new year!!!!  You start it with your FIRST CROSSING.

THE WEEK AFTER CHRISTMAS CAN SOMETIMES BE A GHOST WEEK.  SOME PEOPLE TAKE OFF UNTIL JANUARY AND SOME PEOPLE WORK. IT IS A TIME OF REFLECTION.  A TIME TO LOOK BACK AT THE YEAR AND THINK, WOW, WHAT THE HECK DID I ACCOMPLISH?  THERE WERE GOOD TIMES AND BAD TIMES AND LOTS OF IN-BETWEEN TIMES.  BUT THAT'S WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT. THERE ARE HIGHS AND LOWS AND WITHOUT THOSE YOU WOULD HAVE NO FRAME OF REFERENCE TO KNOW HOW TO FEEL.  WELL GHOSTS DON'T HAVE A GHOST WEEK.  THEIR "GHOST WEEK" LASTS ALL YEAR LONG.  THEY HAVE NOTHING BUT TIME TO REFLECT UPON WHAT THEY DID OR DIDN'T DO.

I KNOW WHAT I DID OR DIDN'T DO THIS YEAR, AND I DON'T NEED TO MAKE ANY RESOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE MY NEW YEAR.  I GAVE UP MAKING RESOLUTIONS A LONG TIME AGO.  I DO NOT MAKE PROMISSES I CANNOT KEEP AND THE ONLY ONE I HAVE TO ANSWER TO IS ME.  SOME PEOPLE MIGHT SAY WHAT ABOUT GOD? WELL, GOD DOESN'T RELY UPON US FOR MORALE SUPPORT OR VALIDATION.  NO ALL-POWERFUL BEING NEEDS TO BE WORSHIPPED, IT MAKES NO SENSE!  GOD'S EGO IS NOT AFFECTED BY WHAT WE DO, HE STILL LOVES US ALL NO MATTER WHAT.  BUT WITH THAT SAID, HE DOESN'T MIND A LITTLE HELP.  THIS YEAR I HELPED CROSSOVER A FEW SOULS.  IT IS ONE OF THE MOST SATISFYING THINGS YOU CAN DO.  I DID NOT MAKE A DIME ON IT EITHER AND COULD CARE LESS.   I HELPED SOULS WHO HAVE BEEN STUCK HERE REUNITE WITH THEIR FAMILIES AND TO ME THAT IS THE BEST PAYBACK ANYONE COULD ASK FOR. 

THIS YEAR STARTED OUT WITH PROMISS, AND IT WILL END IN PROMISS.  DESPITE THE BAD PEOPLE N THE WORLD, I STILL BELEIVE THERE IS MORE GOOD THAN BAD.  THE HARD PART IS TELLING WHO IS GOOD AND WHO IS BAD.  SOMETIMES ITS EVEN HARDER TO SEPERATE YOURSELF FROM THOSE BAD OR NEGATIVE PEOPLE, JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE KNOWN THEM FOR ALONG TIME.  BUT IT IS TRULY A WISE MAN WHO CAN SAY "I WILL NOT BE A PART OF YOUR NEGATIVITY TOWARDS OTHERS ANYMORE".  WITH THIS COMES A NEW SENSE OF REBIRTH, A NEW SENSE OF SELF, AND A NEW DEDICATION TO NOT LETTING THOSE FEW AFFECT YOUR POSITIVE INFLUENCE ON THE WORLD.

ALOT OF PEOPLE WONDER ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTMAS.  I KNOW MOST PEOPLE THINK THAT IT HAS BEEN AROUND FOREVER AND IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE BIRTH OF JESUS AS WELL AS THE GIVING OF PRESENTS BY ONE SANTA CLAUS, HELPED BY HIS ELVES.  WELL CHRISTMAS AS WE KNOW IT IS A CONGLOMERATION OF HOLIDAYS MESHED TOGETHER OVER CENTURIES INTO WHAT WE HAVE TODAY. 
THE ORIGIN OF SANTA AND HIS ELVES CAN BE TRACED BACK TO GERMAN FOLKLORE OF THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES.  IN THOSE DAYS, TRAVEL THROUGHT THE DARK FORESTS OF GERMANIA IN THE WINTER MEANT ALMOST CERTAIN DEATH, NOT FROM THE ELEMENTS, BUT FROM CREATURES ALONG THE ROADS THAT WOULD POUNCE UPON TRAVELERS AND KILL THEM.  THE TOMTIN IS ONE OF THOSE CREATURES.  THEY WERE SMALL MANLIKE CREATURES WHO AT ONE TIME MIGHT HAVE BEEN LINKED TO WOOD MYMPHS AND TREE SPIRITS OF THE FOREST.   THEY WERE GIVEN TO ATTACKING AND EATING THE FLESH OF TRAVELERS AND WERE THE LEAD ELEMENT OF A TERRIBLE MAN CALLED "NACHT RUPERECHT".  NACHT RUPERECHT WENT ABOUT THE COUNTRY AND WOULD PEER IN ON PEOPLE THROUHG THE WINDOWS, SEEING IF THEY WERE UPHOLDING THE TRADTIONS OF NATURE WORSHIPERS.  HE WORE RED(THE COLOR OF BLOOD) TO TERRORIZE TRAVELERS AND IF THEY HAD NOT OFFERED RITUAL SACRIFICE TO HIM, AND THEY WERE "BAD" HE WOULD KILL THEM AND EAT THEM.  IF THEY WERE GOOD, THEY WERE REWARDED.

OVER TIME, THE CHURCH IN ORDER TO BRING NEW MEMBERS LIKE THE DRUIDS AND CELTS INTO THEIR RELIGION, TOOK THIS STORY AND MADE IT INTO A MORE  FRIENDLY ONE.  TO GET RID OF "NACT RUPRECHTT", THEY CHOSE ST. NICHOLAS TO REPLACE HIM AND THE TOMTIM BECAME HIS HELPERS(ELVES).  THE FEAST OF ST. NICK WAS IN LATE DECEMBER AND SO THIS WOULD BE A GOOD CHOICE FOR CHRISTMAS!  IT ALSO OCCURRED SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DRUIDS WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION THAT LASTED A WEEK! ST. NICK AND HIS HELPERS STILL TRAVELED THE COUNTRY DOING THE SAME THING, WITHOUT THE KILLING.  THE CHRISTMAS TREE IS ALSO A LEFT-OVER FROM THE DRUIDS WHO WERE NATURE WORSHIPING PEOPLE.  SO WE TAKE A LITTLE FROM SEVERAL FOLKLORES AND MIX THEM IN WITH THE BIRTH OF JESUS(WHICH MOST SCOLLARS NOW AGREE WAS IN SEPTEMBER)AND THIS IS HOW YOU DESTROY THE RELIGION OF YOUR ENEMY WHILE BOOSTING YOUR OWN.  SO THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE ONE OF SANTA'S ELVES, REMEMBER THAT HE WAS ONCE A BOOD-THIRSTY KILLER CALLED A TOMTIN!

THE SHADOWMAN OR SHADOW PEOPLE, IS A TERM GIVEN TO A TYPE OF ENTITY THAT APPEARS AS A BLACK SHADOW TO THE HUMAN EYE.  I HAVE ONLY SEEN ONE ONCE, IN THE ALTOONA RAILROAD MUSEUM BASEMENT.  DOUG AND I WERE DOWN THERE AND AS WE TURNED AROUND, I SAW A DARK FIGURE PEEKING OUT FROM BEHIND AN PARTIAL WALL.  WHEN HE SPOTTED US LOOKING HIS WAY HE DUCKED INTO WHAT I THOUGHT WAS A ROOM.  AT THE TIME WE WERE LOOKING FOR AN INVESTIGATOR WHO HAD GONE OFF ON HIS OWN, LIKE HE HAD DONE BEFORE AND WAS MISSING.  I IMMEDIATLEY THOUGHT THAT HIS WAS HIM AND THAT I HAD SEEN HIS BLACK JACKET AND HE WAS PLAYING A GAME WITH US.  SO I RAN(LITERALLY) DOWN THIS HALL TO CONFRONT HIM AND WHEN I TURNED TO GO INTO THE ROOM, IT WAS JUST A CLOSET AND NO ONE WAS THERE!  OF COURSE THIS WAS AS WE WERE SETTING UP A CAMERA IN THAT HALLWAY, SO I DID NOT GET IT ON VIDEO.  LATER, WHEN WE WERE OUTSIDE, DOUG TURNED AND SAW HIM AGAIN(OR ANOTHER ONE?) WALK PAST THE END OF THE BUILDING AND DOWN AN ALLEY.  HE RAN TO THE END OF THE BUILDING AND WHEN HE TURNED TO LOOK DOWN THE ALLEY, HE WAS GONE!  THERE WAS NOT ENOUGHT TIME FOR A REAL PERSON TO HAVE MADE IT DOWN THE ALLEY, SO, WE WERE LEFT WONDERING.

IN NOVEMEBER, WE WERE INVESTIGATING A MANSION IN PENNSYLVANIA AND WERE IN THE BASEMENT DOING EVPS, WHEN MATT CAUGHT A SHADOWMAN ON VIDEO!  HE DID NOT SEE IT AT THE TIME, BUT LATER THAT NIGHT(3AM) WE REVIEWED THE FOOTAGE AND SURE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE A SHADOW WALK IN FROM ANOTHER ROOM AND STOP IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA!!!!  HE WAS WEARING A BRIMMED HAT OF SOME SORT AND THEN HE DUCKS UNDER THE CAMERA.  THIS IS THE REAL DEAL.  THE CAMERA WAS A  HIGH DEF SONY AND WE WERE IN INFRARED MODE, SO IT WAS SEEING THE HEAT SIGNATURE OF THIS GHOST.  SINCE GHOSTS TAKE ENERGY FROM THE AIR AND CAN MAKE THE SURROUNDING AIR COLD, HE APPEARS AS A DARK SHAPE.  NOW THERE IS NO ONE SHADOWMAN, THERE ARE MANY SHADOW PEOPLE.  BUT NO ONE HAS EVER CAPTURED VIDEO OF ONE AS FAR AS WE KNOW AND THE EVIDENCE WILL STAND UP TO SCRUTINY AS NOT BEING FAKED.  SO IF YOU ARE INTO PARANORMAL INVESTIGATING, REMEMBER TO KEEP YOUR CAMERA ROLLING AND MAYBE YOU WILL GET THE ILLUSIVE SHADOWMAN!!!!!

SOME GHOSTS HANG AROUND BECAUSE THEY ARE NOSEY.  SOME HANG AROUND BECAUSE THEY DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE FREINDS OR FAMILY.  AND SOME HAVE UNRESOLVED ISSUES.  A MAN  WHO BUILT HIS OWN HOUSE AND WANTED IT TO PASS DOWN TO HIS HEIRS IS ONE OF THOSE GHOSTS.  HE IS BEING SELF CENTERED, LIKE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE TODAY.  NOW, HIS CRABBYNESS AND STUBBORNESS IS CAUSING OTHER PEOPLE TO HAVE PROBLEMS.  NOW HIS NEGATIVE ENERGY IS HURTING A YOUNG CHILD.  THATS WHERE WE COME IN.  I HAVE VERY LITTLE TOLERANCE FOR ANYONE WHO CAUSES HARM TO CHILDREN, WHETHER IT IS THROUGH NEGLECT AND NON-PARTICIPATION IN A CHILDS LIFE, OR IN THIS CASE, A MEAN OLD MAN WHO DIED AND CANNOT LET GO OF HIS ANGER.  SO NOW, UNLIKE OTHER GROUPS, WE ARE ABOUT TO DO BATTLE WITH THIS OLD GUY.  WHEN I SAY BATTLE, I DO NOT MEAN A PHYSICAL CONFLICT.  OUR BATTLE WILL BE TO RID THE FAMILY OF HIS NEGATIVE ENERGY, AND THAT MAY MEAN ACTUALLY HELPING THIS GUY DEAL WITH HIS ISSUES AND CROSS OVER.  WHETHER HE WILL GO PEACEFULLY OR NOT IS YET TO BE DETERMINED.  BUT WE DO NOT RUN FROM A FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN THIS BATTLE BECAUSE WE DO NOT GIVE UP!  THE WAY TO BATTLE NEGATIVE ENERGY IS TWO FOLD: 1 DENY THEM ENERGY FROM THE FAMILY, AND 2, USE LOVE, NOT FEAR OR ANGER TO DEFEND THE FAMILY.  SO MANY PEOPLE LIKE THE SPIKE HAIR GUYS GO INTO A PLACE AND YELL OR TAUNT THE GHOSTS.  THIS IS WRONG AND SHOWS A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE PARANORMAL.  GHOSTS WANT TO ANGER YOU OR CAUSE YOU TO BE AFRAID.  THE NEGATIVE ENERGY GIVEN OFF BY ANGER OR FEAR IS WHAT THEY FEED ON.  WE ACTUALLY HAD AN EVP OF A "BAD"GUY WHO TOLD US WE HAD FED HIM WITH OUR FEARS.  THAT WAS THE DAY I REALIZED THAT MOST OF THESE "BAD" GUYS ARE JUST BULLIES AND THE ONLY WAY TO TAKE AWAY THEIR POWER IS TO STAND UP TO THEM AND NOT SHOW ANY FEAR.  ITS LIKE A DOG WHO CAN SMELL FEAR, THESE GUYS WANT MORE.  SO IF YOU HAVE A GHOST IN YOUR HOUSE, TAKE CHARGE.  LET THEM KNOW THAT THIS IS YOUR HOUSE, AND YOUR TIME AND THAT THEY HAD THEIR CHANCE.  TELL THEM THAT IF THEY STAY THEY ARE GUESTS AND MUST ABIDE BY YOUR RULES AND IF THEY CANNOT THEN THEY MUST LEAVE. BE STERN, BUT NOT ANGRY, IT IS THE MOST EMPOWERING THING YOU CAN DO.  THEN CONTACT A GROUP LIKE US, WHO WILL WRAP UP THOSE UNRESOLVED ISSUES.

MANY OLD HOUSES HAVE ATTICS.  IT IS WHERE ALOT OF STUFF GETS STORED AND WHERE SOME GHOSTS CHOSE TO HANG OUT.  NOT THAT THEY DON'T LIKE BASEMENTS EITHER!  BUT FOR SOME REASON, ATTICS ARE A BIG HIT WITH GHOSTS.  ON A RECENT INVESTIGATION, WE WERE ABLE TO CONTACT A SPIRIT IN THE ATTIC AND AFTER A GREAT EVP SESSION, THIS GUY FOLLOWED US AROUND THE REST OF THE HOUSE!  THIS IS NOT UNCOMMON, AS GHOSTS ARE CURIOUS TOO.  WE WERE THEN ABLE TO USE THIS SPIRIT TO HELP US CONTACT OTHER SPIRITS IN THE HOUSE AND TO VERIFY WHAT WE WERE PICKING UP!  ONCE THEY REALIZE THAT YOU DO NOT POSE A THREAT, THEY WILL SLOWLY WARM UP TO YOU AND EVEN HELP WITH THE INVESTIGATION!  UNLIKE OTHER TEAMS, WE DO NOT TAUNT OR DISRESPECT GHOSTS, NOR DO WE CURSE AT THEM OR THREATEN THEM.  WE TREAT THEM WITH COMMON COURTESY AND RESPECT, AND THEY RESPOND!!!!  WE GET SO MUCH MORE EVIDENCE THIS WAY, IT IS A WONDER HOW SOME OF THOSE GUYS GOT ON TV.  IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THEY ARE AFRAID, INEXPERIENCED AND RUDE.  YOU KNOW WHO I AM TALKING ABOUT.  IT JUST GOES TO SHOW YOU THAT PEOPLE ARE SO HUNGRY FOR PARANORMAL SHOWS THAT THEY WILL WATCH ANYTHING.  THESE GUYS ARE IMMATURE AND UNSKILLED.  SO THE NEXT TIME YOU WANT TO FIND SOME EVIDENCE, SHOW A LITTLE RESPECT AND IT WILL GO ALONG WAY TO FINDING GHOSTS IN THE ATTIC!

Friday can be a truly great day, especailly if you have a paranormal investigation lined up for Saturday!  The anticipation of investigating a new historical site that no group has ever been allowed to explore is filled with excitement!  Our team has a way of finding things where ever we go and I am confident that this location will be no different!  It seems that after interacting with ghosts so much, we develop a signature of sorts that other ghosts can see.  It tells them that we have been in contact with other spirits and some even know ahead of time that we are coming!!!  This I find most interesting. 

What we do different than other groups is that we approach every hunt with a respect for both the living and the dead.  We treat the ghost as we would treat a fellow human who was alive.  Ghosts respond to this.  Think about it.  You are dead and no one has attempted to make contact with you in 100 years.  One team comes in with spike hair, putting on a show and making drama out of every noise, and then screams and yells at you.  The other team comes in, introduces themselves and politley asks to talk to you.  Which are you going to chose?  Its not hard.  But you can't blame the wannabees out there.  But unlike a passionate investigator, they are in it for the fame or money.

Some tv shows thnk they can throw a bunch of money and producers at a team and get real evidence.  They are wrong.  We can take a $30 piece of equipment and find more ghosts in 15 minutes than they can in 26 episodes!  We can because we put ghost hunting first, and making a tv program second.  Our cameramen are also trained paranormal investigators.  This helps so much in understanding what is happening on a site that it is one of the reasons we are sucessful.  But in the end, sharing our passion for ghost hunting with other people is what makes us happy.  Happy Friday.