People in the paranormal field spend a lot of money on stuff. We buy cameras and meters and recorders in our quest for information, but I suspect few of us spend much on learning how to improve and expand our investigations or our understanding of the history behind the haunts.

The Ghost Hunters Research Guide To Free Internet Resources is not a book every paranormal researcher needs to have. It is, however, a book that SOMEONE on EVERY paranormal team SHOULD have. By this, I mean every paranormal team should have a person or people whose responsibility it is to gather information on the persons and places encountered in our investigations. This book is for them.

I admit that I have never been very good at digging for facts. I usually just pick a topic and find a book or two that covers it. This is fine for broad categories of information, but it usually won’t get me the precise information that can help validate or dismiss the stories that are always associated with the paranormal.

There is always a history. The trick is to find that history.

The Ghost Hunters Research Guide is designed to steer you to the best, accurate, and most informative web sites available for finding history. It tries to guide you down avenues of information that you may not have thought of or knew was available.

Elizabeth Eagan-Cox’s book straddles the line between “how-to guide” and resource list quite well. The book is full of web sites that you may not even know exist. Because some of these sites can be a bit overwhelming or even cryptic, the author even includes directions on where to look for the information on particular sites that a paranormal researcher is likely to be looking for.

This book will not solve all your problems. There is no single “everything” site for history. This book is simply a tool that we armchair detectives can use to save us a trip or two to the library. But make no mistake, the book instructs you to go to the library on occasion.

So, my recommendation? If you are interested in the historic research side of paranormal investigating, you need this book. If that’s not your thing, but your team is serious enough to have someone whose job that is, they need this book.

What if you are not interested in the history behind the paranormal and no one on your team is either? Just keep watching those TV shows.

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