...and then what?

The hot thing to do these days is "ghost hunt"...we who know what we are doing, prefer the term paranormal  investigations. Everyone with a few dollars and a little nerve can get in on the excitement, which is fine...to a point.

The past 30 years or so , I have spent learning about the paranormal. I am not just talking ghosts and haunting, but all of it. Energy work, healing, cleansing, the psychic world, belief systems of the world, ancient religions, other beings (like black shadow people, earth spirits) ley lines, dowsing, and on and on and on.
There is so much there that is interconnected and effecting other aspects  of each other.

When you go to a home to investigate, just getting a noise, an EVP, or seeing a shadow, doesn't tell you a thing. Seeing these things doesn't even mean a home is haunted, and if you provoke activity, the place may not even be haunted at all! You have to know or find out many things. First, is there a haunting, a genuine haunting? I have said many times, every house has a spirit or two. We carry them with us all the time in the form of guides. When people say their kids are talking to their invisible friends, it doesn't necessarily mean "ghosts", it could well be their guides. We cannot ever enter a building and there not be a spirit in that building since we carry them in all the time.

When we decide there is something going on, it still doesn't mean a haunting. A haunting requires consistent and continual activity that stays at the same level or increases, otherwise you simply have had spirit activity, or paranormal phenomenon.

Then you have to fine tune that a bit, for example, is the activity intelligent, residual, poltergeist , nature spirits or negative? You need to know how to figure all this out, and better yet, you need to know WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT.

When families are scared or having issues, just leaving that night saying "Yup, it's haunted" doesn't help them.
You have to be able to advise them or directly help them. You need an expert, someone who has been studying and experiencing things for a long time. You need people that understand the other side, how it works, the levels, the types of energy that can come through, and how to address that.

Too many people watch TV, go on a few organized hunts and then fancy themselves "ghost hunters", they go into people's homes, stir the pot and leave. This helps no one, it sometimes gets some EVPs for the investigators, but that is about it. The family isn't helped, and the activity may actually worsen.

When Uncle Joe who has passed is wandering around the house at night, that is fairly easy to address. What if the person were a suicide? What if it is non human? What if it is Nature Spirit activity or poltergeist activity? Do you know what to do? If the answer is "no" don't be leading , or forming a "ghost hunt group". Learn from experienced people. The ones who know how to handle each eventuality are rare. The ones who know how to figure out what is what aren't exactly easy to find either. People who walk around with a camera and a voice recorder are a dime a dozen.

Remember, when Zach Bagans goes into a site, he isn't there to help a homeowner solve their issue, so don't be like Zach.

My husband and I make sure we help people. Our group Paranormal Research and Investigation, Ohio Valley, knows how to investigate and how to help. We know how to figure out what is what and what to do about it. We know how to cleanse and bless the area in different ways. I always think it is funny when people say something like they held up a cross and told the spirit to get out. First of all, human spirits don't care what you are holding....evil stuff will take more than that, and what if the entity is non human or maybe a Jewish spirit? People watch too many movies that they think are informative.

I have said it before and will say it again....learn from knowledgeable people who have been successful in solving issues over a long period of time. Watching all the shows and going to established sites with groups does not a paranormal investigator make!

Be safe out there!





Peshaui Wequashimese




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