Scientific Approach to Investigating

by Shanon Ping


Let’s think out of the box for a moment, has anyone ever used a ghost detector? How about foolproof evidence of the existence of ghost? There has never been a piece of equipment made that could prove that ghost are real. As a group HPR uses a scientific approach to paranormal investigating, however the equipment we, and most other groups use, were never designed to find a ghost. I believe that groups need to focus on and use what this equipment was designed for, taking baseline readings, under scientific control, to obtain verifiable data of the environment you are in. The more data collected and recorded the better. Maybe someday enough factual evidence can be recorded to explain how and why our environment (emf, temps, humidity, barometric pressure, moon phases and such) can affect how people perceive what they believe to be paranormal activity.


So how exactly can we get answers by applying equipment during investigations? I mean, if we are not looking for a specific reading on our equipment that tells us there is a ghost, then what are we looking for? By using equipment we hope to monitor and document as many known variables in the environment as is possible with the available resources. Should we be left with any data not explained away by known causes, it remains as an anomaly. This anomaly in my opinion is deserving of further research and investigation. Only if new data can be found about the anomaly should there be a theory formed that would speculate the most plausible source of said anomaly. Not just data but quantifiable data, and not just a theory, but a testable theory based upon facts. It is these facts that we prove, or more importantly disprove reports of hauntings.

To sum things up I, just like all investigators, want to find answers to the unknown.  During the course of our many investigations we have found some incredible evidence to prove, in our opinion, paranormal activity of a location. Keeping this in mind we must continue to strive to become better in our investigative techniques.




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