• When psychics are also paranormal investigators

    When psychics are also paranormal investigators, do you think they are swayed by spirit to locations where other psychics were mistakenly institutionalized? In captive times of medicated stupor and submission

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  • Please Proceed

    When considering matters of the afterlife, Do we see our current culture steering toward horror or harmony? While observing the current plethora of saturating paranormal soup du jour, Why not

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  • The Ghost of a Salesman

    What does $1,237.33 US dollars, 39 people, and two ghosts have in common?  Well, the long and the short of it is people were swindled out of their money by

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  • i, Empath

    Do you believe empathy is a real phenomena? While the purest form of the word simply means “showing an ability to understand and share the feelings of another “, in

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  • It’s All About Protection

    I thought, that having spent the past 25-plus years advocating, promoting, encouraging and educating about the prevention of HIV, and how important protection is, surely the subject of protection and

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  • Let The Dead Be Dead

    A recent tragedy in the Paranormal field brought this topic to mind. When someone dies, tragic or otherwise, the standard procedure for their spirit is to leave or become disconnected

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Is It Haunted?

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We have all heard the question “is it haunted?” Clients want to know our opinion in the field. Someone on a television gives his or her opinion weekly. There are even persons and groups running about that will “certify” a location as haunted for whatever that is worth.

It might surprise you to find out that I generally don’t like the term. It might surprise you even more to find out WHY I generally don’t like the term.

I don’t like the term because it is subjective and hard to measure.

I think that nearly every place is haunted.

Now before you start accusing me of misleading clients and assuming that all of those “orbs” in my pictures are spectral beings flitting about the countryside, let me explain.

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Let The Dead Be Dead

buzzardsA recent tragedy in the Paranormal field brought this topic to mind.

When someone dies, tragic or otherwise, the standard procedure for their spirit is to leave or become disconnected from their worldly body, take a quick look around, and then proceed in an orderly manner to the nearest exit into the next world.

It is not unusual for the spirit to want to hang out a few days for any number of reasons. They may be upset that they died before they were finished with life. Often they are in denial of their circumstances. It may be something as simple as wanting to comfort their loved ones or to get one last message across to the living. I suspect that some just stick around just to see who shows up for the funeral. Despite the endless possibilities, the point is that in death – as in life, we all find a lot of excuses to not follow instructions.

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Definitions

dictionaryEvery now and then I come across something in the paranormal field that takes me beyond the typical “I disagree” or “That’s just silly” to a rousing “Who do they think they are?”

Let me preface the following by explaining that I tend to be a bit of a purist when it comes to words. Words have meaning. Someone unilaterally deciding that a word should be redefined tends to bug the piss out of me.

Also, at the risk of sounding hypocritical, I get very tired of persons or groups implying that they are authorities in this field without producing the evidence to support such a claim.

I would like to make it VERY clear that I do not claim to be an expert nor an authority in the field of the paranormal. The goal of my writing and speaking engagements is to encourage people in the field to think for their selves, question what they have heard, and to learn as much as they can from as many sources as they can.

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The Party

This must be my week for strange and vivid dreams.

This one is particularly hard to piece together so please bear with me. When I do these journals I write down the broad themes and then try to fill in the details as they pop into my head. I know it makes my writing style a little “jerky”. This dream had a lot of seemingly unrelated elements.

Last night I went to a party. It felt like a reunion, but I only recognized a few people.

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Autumn On The Farm

I probably won’t be much good to anyone today as I FARMED ALL DAMNED NIGHT.

I had a very vivid (if factually muddled) dream last night. I suspect it reflects some things that have been in the back of my mind more than any message that might be buried in it, but here goes.

The location was “the farm” in late autumn. This farm pops up from time to time in my dreams. It is based on the farm where I grew up. Most of the geographical features are there, but it always has these glaring anomalies that separate it from the real place.

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Fact Checkers Wanted

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A while back I sort of got sucked into a conversation on Twitter about a piece of evidence in particular, but about skepticism in a broader context.

Let me see if I can set this up without boring you. My friend, Jim Malliard of the Malliard Report was working on a project where he would post “paranormal standards”. Of course the format of Twitter doesn’t leave a lot of room to elaborate on what is the idea and reasoning behind the standard.

One particular post said something to the effect that one still picture isn’t evidence. I took it to mean that because a single picture is a moment in time with no supporting data to reflect the conditions and environment present that it will always going to be an unreliable and easily dismissed data point.

Someone decided to argue the point by posting a picture that they had taken (presumably on a cell phone) that in his or her opinion obviously contained a shadowy demon-looking pig-man thing of some sort.

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Pareidolia: Cry Wolf

Pareidolia: Misperception in which vague or random images or sounds are misinterpreted as meaningful patterns.

cloudEarly in 2014 on a Friday Night Paranormal I-Con episode, I had a spirited, but civil, discussion about a piece of evidence that a guest had centered a lot of time and analysis around and presented on his web site.

My thesis was NOT that there was nothing to be found in the photograph in question. I even offered that I found one feature of the photograph very interesting and probably would have placed it on my own website for further examination and discussion  had it been mine. My point was that if we spend enough time (several days according to the guest) looking a picture, pareidolia (or matrixing if you prefer the pop-culture term) was likely to take over, and our minds are programmed to find any number of patterns that we might interpret as recognizable images that we will then feel obligated to circle in red.

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Things to come…

Welcome to Phase II

If you haven’t been here for a while, you were probably expecting to find a (outdated) collection of posts about my radio shows and the occasional opinion piece about the state of paranormal research.

pageSome of you may have even taken time to review some of the “evidence” I collected over the years. Still others were just checking out my Paranormal Event Calendar.

All of those items will return eventually…well, not the calendar or radio stuff – that’s at my new Paranormal Filler web site.

I decided it was time to change the course of iHuntGhosts.com. I am returning it to its original purpose. It started out as a review and blog site. A place for me to ramble on about my passion for the paranormal field.

Over the years, numerous people have asked me to write: anything…a blog…an article…a book. I love writing but I just could never keep the momentum going. I hope that this site will give me a place to organize my thoughts and put them into words.

Wish me luck.

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