How to become a Ghosthunter?

Question

I am such a HUGE fan of the show on Si*Fi Ghosthunters. and also have alwasy been very into ghosts. I have always wondered how you start ghosthunting?

If there are any can you share your experiances, and how you started and why?

Answer 1

An_gel_O and Cindy are the most accurate and level headed and you should take their advice on getting started. I wont repeat their suggestion because they mirror mine what I would like to prompt you to do and others is to not only investigate cemeteries but catalog them! Yeah I know its sooooooo boring to be out in a weed covered bone yard doing tombstone rubbing's but this is so vital for genealogy and history. Many family cemeteries, church cemeteries and a lot of little ones that don't have a huge corporate monster behind it have fallen through the cracks, people who knew about them and took care of them have passed.

Factor in knuckle dragging retards who vandalize head stones and other idiocy, we as a nation are losing a very real connection to our past. Whats more by showing an interest and respect for their resting place, you just might get a little thank you from the residence in form of EVP or photographic evidence.

I would like however to add a old time suggestion that I dont know if its even possible to get anymore. But one tool thats been used with success if the old 35 mm camera with actual film...whoa archaic! If you go this route it would be nice to be in a group, ( and please do you homework on any group you associate with), so while one is doing digital, you can be doing celluloid and as a bonus if you can locate it, infrared film in the 35 mm camera! Okay I have rambled enough!

Answer 2

I was an inadvertant ghost hunter. I've always been fascinated with the paranormal and had a lot of friends who wanted me to come to their house because they had "A ghost".

The equipment you need is very basic. A camera (preferable film but digital will work) a tape recorder and an electronic thermometer. A vidoe camera is nice, too.

The know how you need is pretty basic, too. You need to be curious about how tihngs work. When you enter a house to hunt for a ghost, you should probably go in with a fair amount of skeptisism. First you have to eliminate the obvious. Is the noise caused by a settling house, is the smell a dead rat in the wall? Is there air in the plumbing? Is that cold spot caused by an air conditioning vent?

Never research the history of a house before you go in. Go in blind. if not, you will make all sorts of assumptions - if you know a little girl died of typhus in the house - your really going to look for evidence of that.

Once you eliminate all the natural, obvious answers then start with the supernatural. I know it would be disappointing to find out your cool ghost is really a family of racoons nesting in the attic, but it's much worse if someone else's finds it out after you've been in the paper. :)

Now, your going to go through every room in the house and take photos - some with flash and some without. Carry the thermometer with you and pay attention to any place the temprature drops radically - 20 or more degrees. Get everyone out of the house for an hour and turn on the tape recorder, then you can take it to a professional sound tech to see if you got any evp. Develope the film - your looking for odd lights, streaks or manifestations - particularly near cold spots.

After you get all this - it would be nice to get a Psychic to walk through the house. make sure they don't know the houses history. Then you can compare the history of the house to their findings - and your own. If you have a cold spot and some EVP and photos of activity from the upstairs bedroom - then you find out a child died of Typhus there - your on to something.

Answer 3

I started by searching on Google for "ghost hunters" and found several local groups to join that way. I then bought a couple of EMF meters, a spot thermometer, night vision camera, and an Olympus digital voice recorder from Radio Shack (which I highly recomend...the $60 model gives you lots of record time.) I've gotton some EVP in my own home that scared me so much I started sleeping with the lights on.

Go to LEMUR.com and get to know Joshua P. Warren. He's the expert on this stuff and is very level-headed about it all. He's not like some of the wackos out there like Sylvia Browne. I highly recommend his excellent book "How To Hunt Ghosts." And the website has an incredible video available that shows an unseen force knocking over and rolling an EMF meter on a chair! Very convincing evidence of a ghost in my opinion!

Good luck! I hope this helps.

Answer 4

I'm against the idea of ghost hunting. I hate it. I'm not sure there are such things as ghosts, and if there are, I think it's very disrespectful to the dead to make a mockery out of their endless pain.

Answer 5

Hmmm... I limit myself to the couch when it comes to ghost hunting. Listen or visit coast to coast a.m.. It has ppl calling in and guest hosts who hunt ghosts all the time. Paranormal, alien visitations, etc. Pretty trippy stuff.

p.s. stay away from oija (weegee) boards.

Answer 6

I believe the TAPS website has advice on how to get started.

Answer 7

Just get some high-tech equipment and find some gullible people

Answer 8

How to go about it depends on your particular "gifts". However they make themselves known to you, is how you would look for them.

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