More ghost hunt questions, ethics.

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I received a few ghost hunt questions in the mail over the past few days. They all come down to me answering one, and that answers them all. The "one" question was from a person starting a group out west (hope I can join you some day!), and it is about group guidelines. They asked what guidelines are important. There are some that are important with our group, and they are ones that can easily be applied to any group anywhere. You may have to set up separate guidelines that are specific to your group or area.

Aside from the common sense guidelines, like:  be sober, don't carry weapons, don't destroy property...there are a few we have that not everyone follows, but I recommend.

1) No flashlights are ever used for communicating. I have written a few times on how using a flashlight is just going to give you a false read, especially if it is the twist type. ANY object that is not turned all the way off, totally and securely, will eventually arc and turn on , ie flash. You will think you are getting spirit responses and you are getting physics, pure electrical engineering.No paranormal result at all.

Use a voice recorder, Medium, Ovulus, but don't use a flashlight. Use it to see your screen on your devices,or what just fell,  and that is about it.

2)No provoking. Many times clients need to live in the place you are investigating. The last thing they need is the spirit that has been bothering them getting riled up , upset, and causing MORE issues.

The second part of that, is that if the spirit needs to be stirred up to respond, it isn't haunting anything. You cannot honestly go to a location, never get a response and verify it is haunted. Sometimes people are haunted, and the activity can follow them. Make sure you are doing a valid investigation by not causing or skewing the results by your presence and activity.There are spirits all around us all the time, that doesn't mean we live in a haunted house.

Haunting means focused, prolonged activity. Not "we just riled it up" activity.

3) No trespassing. You would think this wouldn't need to be said, but the fact that amature ghost hunters are crawling all over property, that they do not have permission to be on, has caused some places to literally lock down and not allow anyone on site. This ruins it for everyone, and it is illegal to trespass! The property, even if abandoned, belongs to someone. It can be a family, a trust, the county, or state, but someone owns it.

You can destroy property that is fragile, you can also run into homeless people who may not be very friendly or sane, get hurt by falling through rotted floors, or bump into a meth lab complete with pit bulls and a drug crazed man with an assault rifle. It isn't worth it.

4) No rituals. Your rituals are yours, not the spirit's , not the property owner's, not everyone's. It is NOT your job to cleanse it unless asked by the owner. It is not your job to use methods of bringing spirits in, like seances, and oiuji board use.

When you need to do a ritual to make yourself safe, you need to do that privately before getting to the property. You don't do it at the property, or in view of anyone. Imagine a scared homeowner seeing you go through a protecting ritual. It will scare them and make them have less faith in you!

When you are afraid and feel like you have to go through a whole ritual everytime you do an investigation, you have the wrong hobby.

Do not, unless asked by a homeowner , set up any barriers or protection. One group I read about sets up angels at each site.... well they think they do, it isn't an angel's job to watch over a site. They may come, but they don't stay. They have a complex set of jobs and they have to do with people, not haunted sites.

Then there is the fact that if I am a Native American, Muslim, Taoist, Buddhist, or even Jewish spirit and you set up angels around me, I am going to be more than a little upset and follow you home and haunt you for being so pompous, self righteous and ignorant. It isn't your job to alter the energy of a site. You can CLEANSE it and let it become what it will become, but it is NOT your job to determine what energy it will have, that is up to the people living there and the Universe. Not you.

5) Get a waiver signed (confidentiality). Make sure that you know if the person asking you to investigate (and there better be one), will be OK with the site name or their name being published or not; pictures and recordings being released or not; information about the investigation being released or not. Some are OK with full disclosure, some are not. Some will say it is OK to use it in presentations and teachings, but not using the address or name. Make sure that is clear and it is strictly followed. When they want confidentiality, no one should post on Facebook "We are going to an investigation in an old house in Smithville tonight". People may guess, or worse yet, think you are going somewhere you aren't, and cause issues at that home! They may call the family "crazy", or come and make noises turning your investigation into a circus.


There are many more that are common sense that I have published here before , like carry extra batteries, never be alone, have the best equipment you can afford, never run and scream...but these are really very important.

Remember that we live in a world where people do things that seem like a good idea at the time. Make sure that your group is trained and has regular meetings so that they act and react without thinking and making bad choices, they fall back on training. Make sure that you have quality people in your group, and if they fail to come to meetings, and training classes, oust them. It isn't worth the issues and possible law suits. Happy hunting!





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