What is Proof to You?

Have you ever had a paranormal experience? Maybe you saw something that you could not quite rationalize away. Maybe you felt a phantom hand touch the back of your arm as you were walking down a cold dark stairway. Was this proof to you of a ghost? Or was it simply a psychological response to an ordinary occurrence. When GWRIP goes into a location looking for ghosts, we are not just looking for personal experiences, we are looking for recordable hard data. We want proof on various instruments and media sources so we can analyze it and present it to others for examination.

Any hard evidence we collect is going to be in the form of either visual or audio. We may receive a direct answer to a question on an EVP or we may get a high EMF reading that seems to move around a room. To us this is interesting, but these occurrences by them selves are not the kind of "proof" we generally seek. We want multiple recorded occurrences that we can correlate to other events. What does that mean? Simple, think about it like this. If you are in a supposed haunted location and are conducting an EVP session in which you get a direct response to a question you asked you may think that's proof of something paranormal and although it may be impressive you will always have the skeptics who say it was nothing more than a passing jet or someone in your group sneezed etc. As a ghost hunter you will always have the skeptics and you must remember that is not always a bad thing. It's easy to debunk a single occurrence such as that lone EVP and in fact you should always look for the possibility of a common explanation rather than a paranormal one but what if you caught more than just that lone EVP?

Think about the same situation only this time you are going to use not only an audio recorder, but also a video recorder and you are going to be taking EMF readings and calling them out regularly especially if they reach above baseline you are going to make this known audibly. Now suppose upon your review of the evidence you find a correlation between that EVP and an EMF spike or something anomalous like a door closing on your video. This is much harder for a skeptic to tear apart. If you have multiple anomalous occurrences and have gathered your evidence in a professional manner then you must conclude that it is likely to represent "proof" of something. What that something is however is left for further review and follow up investigations.

Good hunting,
Ron