Despite having a very scientific mindset to the paranormal, I considered myself to be a partial empath.
This is what scares me about trying to ghost hunt. I feel pretty deeply and can pick up on emotion pretty strongly. However, I’m also used to creaky old houses, animals and pet noises, etc. so I figure a lot of these sounds investigators hear and attribute to spirits would be passed off as just an old house or a hot water system expanding and contracting with temp changes.
I’d love to hear more about your experiences. You mention before or after this reply that you got some good EVP recordings. I get with how shitty people and the internet are, not wanting to share videos, but would you share the most intriguing EVPs?
Don’t be scared about logical explanations debunking everything. To be honest, 95% of all the evidence I’ve personally collected could be explained away. To me, it’s only solid evidence if I can’t come up with an alternative explanation. It’s one of the reasons I stopped doing still photography on hunts, 100%, and I do mean 100%, could always be potentially dust, bugs, tricks of light, etc… The video I spoke of on another comment that seems to be unexplained, I still have doubts due to someone walking by moments earlier with a flashlight, but my first team ran with it and claimed it was a ghost immediately. They also claimed many photos of “orbs” to be spirits, but it’s just too easy to say it could be dust. In the years I hunted, I might have a grand total of 5 minutes of EVPs that I couldn’t explain, or were at least in tandem with emf readings, questions, temp drops etc… I never got conclusive video or photos. My best unexplainable evidence are my personal stories, but someone will always come along and say I made it up, or mental illness or whatever, I can’t prove it to someone else.
I still had lots of fun, and I don’t discourage anyone from doing it. My standards for hard evidence are very high and I believe everyone’s should be. Every time I see someone online post a photo of orbs and claim they are ghosts really hurt the field in my opinion. Too many people go into the field being Mulder, and not enough are Scully. Be skeptical, explain as much away as possible. The stuff left over is what’s interesting and worth studying.
As I stated on another comment the evidence I have up is tied to doxable information and I keep Lemmy separate from everything. I will work on stripping that info out and repost it at some point.
This is what scares me about trying to ghost hunt. I feel pretty deeply and can pick up on emotion pretty strongly. However, I’m also used to creaky old houses, animals and pet noises, etc. so I figure a lot of these sounds investigators hear and attribute to spirits would be passed off as just an old house or a hot water system expanding and contracting with temp changes.
I’d love to hear more about your experiences. You mention before or after this reply that you got some good EVP recordings. I get with how shitty people and the internet are, not wanting to share videos, but would you share the most intriguing EVPs?
Don’t be scared about logical explanations debunking everything. To be honest, 95% of all the evidence I’ve personally collected could be explained away. To me, it’s only solid evidence if I can’t come up with an alternative explanation. It’s one of the reasons I stopped doing still photography on hunts, 100%, and I do mean 100%, could always be potentially dust, bugs, tricks of light, etc… The video I spoke of on another comment that seems to be unexplained, I still have doubts due to someone walking by moments earlier with a flashlight, but my first team ran with it and claimed it was a ghost immediately. They also claimed many photos of “orbs” to be spirits, but it’s just too easy to say it could be dust. In the years I hunted, I might have a grand total of 5 minutes of EVPs that I couldn’t explain, or were at least in tandem with emf readings, questions, temp drops etc… I never got conclusive video or photos. My best unexplainable evidence are my personal stories, but someone will always come along and say I made it up, or mental illness or whatever, I can’t prove it to someone else.
I still had lots of fun, and I don’t discourage anyone from doing it. My standards for hard evidence are very high and I believe everyone’s should be. Every time I see someone online post a photo of orbs and claim they are ghosts really hurt the field in my opinion. Too many people go into the field being Mulder, and not enough are Scully. Be skeptical, explain as much away as possible. The stuff left over is what’s interesting and worth studying.
As I stated on another comment the evidence I have up is tied to doxable information and I keep Lemmy separate from everything. I will work on stripping that info out and repost it at some point.