Investigating

Over the years I have run across, met, worked with some amazing people in the paranormal world.  I'll admit some are completely full of shit and are only in it for money & or fame not the science of actually trying to explain or help the spirits or the clients.

I've studied various way of investigating, from just researching a location and clients, doing psychological reports on the clients, interviewing to all out investigating using various equipment and also antagonizing entities and spirits, which is something I do not recommend.

I have found the best way to investigate a location is, if you yourself have never been there and had any sort of experience(s) there is to just sit back and let the person or people who have do it for you.

Think about it, if you have never been to the location before and are investigating off what you have been told about it you are pretty much going in half cocked.  You really don't know the extent of what goes on there.  You are not who the entity/spirit responds to.

I like to interview the witnesses, do my own sort of mini investigation.  Set up the equipment then let the client do the work.  Ok, Ok, some may not think this is a good way of being "scientific" but really it is.  That is exactly what being scientific is, set up the equipment and watch as the client has their experience(s).

There was a huge case I believe in the 70's,  where the woman claimed she was visited by a Incubus each night. That woman from the house (the 2nd she lived in & had the same experience). Placed her in a sealed lab room and recorded her experience. It was turned into a movie, The Entity, which was based on a true story and on the book, written by Frank Defelitta and published in 1978. Defelitta's book detailed the purported experiences of Doris Bither in Culver City, California.  Bither was battered and raped repeatedly by unseen forces, ghosts or demons intent on harassing and abusing her.  Is the Entity a true portrayal of events? Paranormal investigators witnessed first hand strange phenomena that convinced them that something was going on, but what.  Was it all reflexes to something imagined or was an entity actually doing the things she said.

We will never know unless there is more actual scientific investigations.  I know that it would be more than boring to watch a show like Ghost Adventures for mere scientific purpose, I mean Zak Bagans wouldn't take his shirt off....or would he.  I for one would love nothing more than to see a show devoted to watching an actual client on hidden camera as they experience the spirit activity in their environment. 

It would once and for all possibly answer the question(s) as to if it is real or made up in someone's psyche, then again, you never know what you might capture on cameras that are running 24/7 for a week.