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It is common belief from non-researchers, that this field of investigations, is thrilling and exciting, often with quick reference to a film, you know the one, ‘Ghostbusters’ but one of the more funnier questions whilst attending an investigation, is when they ask us where our backpacks are, to which a witty reply is much deserved “Oh we left our Dysons at home”, although obviously we don’t have devices to trap ghosts in neither do we have nuclear accelerators on our backs, which of course would be illegal.

In reality paranormal investigations are rather monotonous, with many unfruitful hours spent on location, out of all the investigations I’ve run or attended personally I feel around 97% are non paranormal related after further investigation, common causes of potential activity may include pipe work in the house, faulty electrics, settling of the house, amongst many other logical reasons. Now the other 3% of experiences without logical explanations is fascinating and even more so when you’ve managed to capture such evidence and data to reanalyse at a later time.

Personally I feel that 3% can be worthwhile, but those of you thinking about getting into this field should really think if that is worth it for you, if we’re truly honest with ourselves you may attend 100 investigations, for 10 or 15 hours at a time, and do something equally as interesting as watching paint dry.

Lets keep in mind that the paranormal can be rather fictitious, with hundreds, maybe even thousands of different unproven theories and types of types of ghosts, some of which include recordings/stone tape theory, anniversary and poltergeists.

There are two main types of research spiritual or scientific, different researchers will use either a mixture of both, or dedicate themselves to one area. If your out in the field for you own proof, then no scientific methods are necessarily needed , however if your hoping to make a breakthrough in paranormal research then pretty much everything has to have a scientific foundation.

Again because the paranormal is not a proven science, in order to become truly scientific would cost millions of pounds. All paranormal research in it’s current state is taunted by false readings due to many factors such as breezes, dust, piping within the house, electrical factors, amongst many others.

The only way to run a true scientific study in my opinion, is to create controlled conditions, lock the whole location down, create a vacuum as such around the location, eliminate all factors which can create false readings, no human interaction, you must run outside filming and data logging, in reality this isn’t possible especially in cases of private residence without mass amounts of funding.

There are certain inventions which can help to eliminate such things as dust and other airborne particles. There is a group based in the USA, whom developed an add-on to their video recording equipment thus eliminating contamination from dust i.e. orbs. Their system named D.E.V.A., or Dust Eliminating Video Apparatus works by creating a dust free-zone approx 6inches from the lens itself.

Quoted from OKCGC

”After using DEVA for only a short time, we noticed a marked improvement. Dust would still appear, but instead of appearing as round orblike balls of light, it was more oddly shaped and definable. So we tried something just a bit different.

We quit using the hotshoe mounted IR extenders on our Digital video camcorders, and started using the detachable HVL-IRC Sony IR extenders. By placing these approx. 3 feet from the camera lens, we found we could effectively eliminate 100% of dust orb phenomenon.

During this entire time, we were quite certain that SOME orbs were indeed paranormal, but distinguishing them from the dust was the problem. After continuous DEVA use for 3/4 of a year, we have yet to see any more flying orbs.”

Their latest version DEVA 3.0:

There are many forms of research that goes on behind the scenes which would be impossible to compile in this article alone. If you have any inventions please feel free to let us know and maybe even compile a detailed article for submission.

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We would like to thank Oklahoma City Ghost Club LLC (OKCGC) for their excellent work and allowing us use of their photo’s. If you want to find out more about OKCGC and their research please visit their website:

http://www.okcgc.com

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