Thanks. I enjoy her videos.I'd imagine so. I follow Caitlin Doherty (Ask a Mortician) on You Tube and have her semi-autobiography "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"* which is very good. She pointed out that the biggest hurdle to pass was the revulsion of dead bodies. She didn't mention being worried about feeling a tap on her shoulder ...
* Available online, highly recommended.
‘Who you gonna call?’: Fife-based Scottish Paranormal team wins ghost hunting series award
by Michael Alexander
December 4 2020, 8.00am
Scottish Paranormal, a paranormal research team based in West Wemyss in Fife, has been awarded Silver for the best Ghost Hunting Series (Facebook) in the annual Higgypop Paranormal Entertainment Awards.
Higgypop was created in 2006 and has grown to be one of the largest websites dedicated to the paranormal and is now the number one site for reviews of paranormal TV.
The Scottish Paranormal Team comprises of Ryan O’Neill, Greg Stewart, Ally Reid and Kyle Stewart and has over two decades of verifiable experience.
Team members have appeared on several television shows including Brew Dogs, Help! My House Is Haunted, Most Haunted, Tough Gig and behind scenes of Ghost Hunters International (Scotland) and are also established authors of both paranormal and historical books.
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Cool. One of our friends (Chris Halton) has had some of his ghost investigation vids picked up by the Amazon Prime channel, the first one made available to view, rent or buy yesterday. For people who moan about most paranormal investigators looking like goths, Chris looks like he's time travelled from the 1940s. More importantly, he knows what he's doing.
I read an interesting point of view in a book on the paranormal a few years back, the writer was speculating that football grounds could meet the criteria for future hauntings because they contain thousands of highly emotionally charged fans watching the games so this energy in theory could be 'recorded' and re manifest itself in the future, no deaths needed.
Proof that he knows what he’s doing please?
Fuck. Sunderland has to be the biggest hotspot in Britain then if bitter disappointment and anguish causes these phenomena.
If that's a sincere question from you out of a desire to find out and decide for yourself, I can pm you his contact details so you can talk with him. Would you like me to do that?.
I know you're joking but I wonder if only negative emotions like bitter disappointment and anguish and similar are the only triggers for paranormal phenomena or if any heightened emotions could do the trick?.
Well. Firstly he have to work out and prove if there is any form of paranormal activity at all in the first place.
Yep, he's happy to debunk on location. I've worked with airy fairy investigators before which is why I think this thread is a valuable one. Chris Halton is sober in his approach instead so not a 'ghost hunter', he investigates to see if there's any paranormal anomalies or not instead . He's gathered a lot of evidence but if he had proof of the after life, he'd be a world famous billionaire by now and the churches around the world would probably see a massive leap in attendance. So no, he hasn't got proof. He is, however, ploddingly methodical.
I applied for a grant from the SPR once. Part of the work would have involved setting up a web site with different recordings (including the same recordings at different compression rates and recordings at the same time with different sampling rates). People would then listen to them and report what they thought they heard. Head of the grant group liked it and then he died and the new head wasn’t interested. Subsequently money was given to someone else for a very similar project.
If heightened emotions do it, surely wedding centers would be likely location for hauntings. The happiness of the bride and groom, the tears of joy of the parents, the disappointment and anguish of the in-laws.
You could be right. I've read loads of reports about laughing being heard in abandoned places and poltergeists are often described as mischievous more than malicious. Having said that, most of the possibly haunted places our crew have been to have a legend of an unhappy or tragic history and we have to ask ourselves why always the depressing back story?
I'm guessing here, but maybe because people tend to relive bad experiences more often, trying to figure what they did wrong. Or of course one of the other common ideas is that people return trying to relay some message that they felt strongly about.
Annoying that you didn't get to investigate your theory. Do you know what the findings were from the person that got the grant?
Not been written up yet, so no.
Whenever I watch that Zack fella it seems to me like he has an unhealthy obsession with Demons!
Someone once posted on one of his talkbacks "And in this episode of Ghost Hunters, Zack Baggans tries to find a pair of pants that fit". Made me laugh anyway.
I've never investigated anywhere with him personally but people I've worked with have. He was (understandably) a bit excited when his videos recently got picked up as TV broadcast quality. Me and him have been having private conversations about using late 80's small portable battery operated TV sets in a 'white noise' way because we're curious that the places we've visited independently that provide good EVP results on our digital sound recorders might also provide good visual anomalies on one of these small TV sets. The advantage of using this low tech is that, of course, TV networks don't broadcast anymore on the wavelengths those sets were designed to pick up so, in theory, any images displayed would/could be clean of external pollution factors.
