Optimal Times and Places for Paranormal Investigating

10/23/09

When and where does one perform a paranormal investigation? Are there specific places? Are there specific times? Some investigators think so. Tried and proven experience has shown that location, weather, and time of day may play a part in setting the stage for a successful investigative experience.

Paranormal Tours- If you're lucky enough to live in an area that has a history of hauntings, odds are tours of the famous haunted hot spots are an attraction. You may not be lucky enough to see or document anything on the tour, but you may be allowed to perform an investigation at another time.

Historic Sites- Are there historic buildings in your vicinity? Boom town era sites? Civil war era or other historical military locations? How about a place that has an Old West history? Do you live anywhere a famous battle took place, a famous crime? Places where pioneers came through or settled? These may be potential locales for an investigation. Check your local library. You might uncover some little known local tragedy or a bit of local history.

Not everyone lives close enough to Waverly Hills Sanatorium or Alcatraz. You might have to think about possible locations that have some type of significant history where human tragedy, trauma, or devastation has occurred.

• Hotels, bars, or restaurants around since the Wild West era or longer. How about the gangster era?
• Old shacks, buildings from these eras.
• Location where there once were cattle drives or where cowboys and gunslingers hung out.
• Abandoned hospitals, clinics, prisons or jails.
• Western town or other historical attraction put together with relics of the past.

There doesn't always have to be trauma involved. Sometimes there is someone who doesn't wish to leave their home,workplace or a favorite location.

Above all do not invade private property without permission, enter any condemned buildings, or investigate alone.

Places that have high concentrations of quartz, limestone, magnetite, and even graphite are believed to have a history of paranormal phenomenon.

Quartz has very unusual properties. It wil develop a potential electrical charge if exposed to mechanical stress. This stress could be from nature, machinery...so if it can potentially hold a charge, it can potentially release that charge, however small. This mineral also has the capability to transmit UV and IR wavelengths. This is why quartz is used in electronics. Perhaps a source for the paranormal to extract energy?

Limestone has been touted to be in abundance at some haunted locations. However some experts don't buy into this theory as it is comprised of organic material. Perhaps because it has organic material, it may be acidic, and therefore a good conductor of energy.

Magnetite is a mineral that as its name implies, is magnetic. If you hold a magnet to this rock, there will be an attraction.

Graphite as well is magnetic. Many a school kid has seen what happens with hairy pencil shavings and a magnet.

These minerals are in abundance all over the country. Some regions have higher concentrations of one over the others. What are the geological formations in your neck of the woods? Are there buildings made of any of these minerals. Have buildings been constructed with bricks or stone blocks from another location?  These minerals are said to record events in time.  If once used for a prison or a hospital perhaps, and that building is torn down and these mineral rich bricks or blocks are reused, they might contain information from the past. 

John Hutchison is an inventor from Canada.  As seen in this video below, using strong electromagnetic and radio waves, he has been able to duplicate a poltergeist effect.  This may explain what energy sourcs are required for such an event to occur but still does not explain why sometimes they occur and sometimes they do not.

Thunderstorms - Is it just a coincidence that there is always thunder and lightning in a horror movie? Perhaps not, paranormal investigators claim that there is increased activity during a storm. What is it about thunderstorms that could cause this?

The moisture in the air and on the ground makes them highly conductive. All environments are now       positively electrically charged. Electrical current discharges in the form of lightning; in the clouds, in the air and to the ground. As seen in this National Geographic video, the lightning meets with the ground current and causes a type of explosion. This environment provides a potential energy resource. Supercell thunderstorms are not the only sources of this energy. Snowstorms provide electrically charged environments as well, only to a lesser degree.

 Water - Whether it be rain, snow, a lake or stream, water is conductive of current.  So this provides another means of potential energy for possible paranormal sightings.

12:00 or 3:00? - Some believe that these are the haunting times. However, many people experience hauntings at any time of day or night. Ghosts don't come out on cue. If there is a high amount of activity it will occur regardless of the time. Entities that like to interact with people will do so because people are present. Residual hauntings are bits of recorded history that play over and over and are oblivious to time.

Cemeteries- Generations upon generations feel that graveyards hold a sense of creepiness. Is it only because of what they are and what they contain? Many cemeteries around the country make claims of having paranormal activity. Are they haunted because of the desecration some of them have endured? Is it residual grief from the funeral process? The fact that they are full of decaying organic matter (which leads to acidity) means they are a potential energy source for manifestations to occur.

So are you getting a sense of where to start your investigation? Have your cameras, recorders and other equipment ready? Wherever you start just remember to stay safe!