Ok, this has been bugging me for some time now.
I go and read alot of paranormal message boards and one of the more popular ones out there seems to have alot of this going on. Someone will give their account of a supposed paranormal event.
Here is an unrelated example of this:
"I was sitting in my living room a few nights ago and I was watching TV when all of a sudden I heard one of my kids toys go off on its own. I didn't think much of it but 20 minutes later it happened again. Could this be a ghost setting off this toy?"
The reply by most people to these goes STRAIGHT to paranormal causes rather than rational thinking. I'm not kidding, people give answers like "well this entity that is setting off these toys doesn't seem like it's harming anyone, have you thought of bringing in a priest to bless the place?"
You can't be serious?? from a toy that went off on it's own, people are suggesting clergy to come to a residence and bless a home for that?
First and foremost, look into the logical explanations of whats happened. Could this be a motion sensored toy? are the batteries in this thing dying and this is a mechanism that tells you of this? did your child just get done playing with it and it's on a timing sensor to get it to come back and play again?
There are 100 ways and counting of reasons why this toy went off on its own but people will throw paranormal around like it's water.
This is the problem with our field. Everyone wants EVERYTHING to be explained by the paranromal that they forget to use their common sense in these situations. If paranormal is used to explain everyday occurances in every situation then its lost its entire meaning.
This is another reason why people second guess the use of paranormal investigators because there are groups and individuals that will suggest paranormal only or most of the time rather than using their common sense.
If you are a potential client of ours, rest assured we are going to use every single, however remote explanation is out there to find out what is going on in your home or business. I, personally, will not accept paranormal off the bat and neither will our group. This is why our equipment that is brought along is catered to the debunking of paranormal rather than the proving of it.
EMF Meters - Help us to show where there are energy leaks in the home that can have health related causes.
Temperature gauges - help us to figure out why you got that cold spot, a drafty window most likely..
Cameras of all sorts - after we go back and review them we can find explanations for the sounds in your attic (animal)
People forget there are a number of logical reasons why something has happened. Going to paranromal causes right away is not only wrong, it gives the homeowners a false sense of what may really be happening.
IF and this is a big IF... there is something paranormal happening, with our group you will know it to be the case cause we will have expensed every hypothetical reason to prove the otherwise first.
People who don't, give this field it's bad rep and also give people in need a false sense of fear.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
To be or not to be?
Evidence - Again
So who is to say evidence is evidence? do we really take this person at their word or do we use caution when accepting potential evidence as proof?
Here is the problem with evidence. Most evidence is presented by one person, who was the only one around at that time and is claiming this is proof of paranormal. How are we to know this? We weren't there, we can only speculate what really happened. Only the person who is presenting the evidence really knows what happened and do we trust them enough to take them at their word for it?
If you are any type of investigator you need to take all evidence with a grain of salt. If you don't believe what is presented to you, it's ok. As an investigator you need to be skeptical of things presented to you and "investigate" into the possibilities of what happened. If a police detective took one look at a murder scene and a bystander he's never met before came up and said "this person fell onto that knife sticking out of his back", does the detective write off the incident as an accident right away and call it case closed? Or does he know to trust his instincts and do his own investigation into what happened by digging deeper to find out that the bystander owns a knife shop, had an argument with the murder victim and eventually stabbed him in the back with a knife that had his fingerprints on it?.
I think you can see my point. This isn't police work but it is very close to it. Take caution when accepting things right off the bat. Not everything is what it seems. Do your own analysis and make your own conculsions based off of fact, not what someone is telling you is fact.
So who is to say evidence is evidence? do we really take this person at their word or do we use caution when accepting potential evidence as proof?
Here is the problem with evidence. Most evidence is presented by one person, who was the only one around at that time and is claiming this is proof of paranormal. How are we to know this? We weren't there, we can only speculate what really happened. Only the person who is presenting the evidence really knows what happened and do we trust them enough to take them at their word for it?
If you are any type of investigator you need to take all evidence with a grain of salt. If you don't believe what is presented to you, it's ok. As an investigator you need to be skeptical of things presented to you and "investigate" into the possibilities of what happened. If a police detective took one look at a murder scene and a bystander he's never met before came up and said "this person fell onto that knife sticking out of his back", does the detective write off the incident as an accident right away and call it case closed? Or does he know to trust his instincts and do his own investigation into what happened by digging deeper to find out that the bystander owns a knife shop, had an argument with the murder victim and eventually stabbed him in the back with a knife that had his fingerprints on it?.
I think you can see my point. This isn't police work but it is very close to it. Take caution when accepting things right off the bat. Not everything is what it seems. Do your own analysis and make your own conculsions based off of fact, not what someone is telling you is fact.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Skeptics vs. Believers
There is a fine line when it comes to being a skeptic or a believer in the paranormal world. Unfortunately there are too many of the extremes of either one out there.
Hardcore Skeptics even faced with large amounts of undeniable evidence will flat out not believe what they are hearing, seeing or even feeling. They will always come out with the off the wall excuse to rationalize what has happened...."swamp gas that reflected off the surface of venus that collided with mars and bounced back to earth made me see that black shadow run past me".
Then there are the Hardcore believers who no matter how reasonable the explanation, it is always paranormal and a ghost, demon or orb hid their keys on them... when in fact it was probably their 3 year old son or daughter.
The fine line is a cross between the skeptic and the believer rolled into one package. These are the types of investigators that are needed. People who can decifer between logic and the unexplained, rule out the scientifically explainable vs. the paranormal phenomina. Many people claim to be apart of this category but in reality they are on one extreme or the other.
To have the best of both worlds you need to learn or already know when to say there is too much evidence pointing in one direction and either present it as confident evidence of a haunting or just the opposite, that too many variables could have made this happen and not present it as evidence no matter how cool it looked. Alot of people will pass up solid evidence cause they can't get past their own stubborn belief system and many other people claim too much to be paranormal because they are desperate for the cool factor.
What I can't fathom and maybe it's just me but if there are 3 different very explainable reasons why this bit of evidence can be naturally explained, why people still press the issue that it's "real" evidence. Why take the public humility? To be in this field you need to have the belief that there will be that day when you have such clear evidence that you can sit their and confidently present it to the public and say look at this, look at what I found and gosh darnit if it isn't the best evidence ever to prove the paranormal.
Well because of both extreme sides, evidence will forever be scrutinized by the masses. We could have already seen proof that ghosts and paranormal really do exist but because people take it to the extremes, we'll never know what is reality and what is not.
think about that when presenting your case to the world, can this possibly further hurt the field indirectly by putting something that could have been human tampered out there as evidence?
food for thought.
Hardcore Skeptics even faced with large amounts of undeniable evidence will flat out not believe what they are hearing, seeing or even feeling. They will always come out with the off the wall excuse to rationalize what has happened...."swamp gas that reflected off the surface of venus that collided with mars and bounced back to earth made me see that black shadow run past me".
Then there are the Hardcore believers who no matter how reasonable the explanation, it is always paranormal and a ghost, demon or orb hid their keys on them... when in fact it was probably their 3 year old son or daughter.
The fine line is a cross between the skeptic and the believer rolled into one package. These are the types of investigators that are needed. People who can decifer between logic and the unexplained, rule out the scientifically explainable vs. the paranormal phenomina. Many people claim to be apart of this category but in reality they are on one extreme or the other.
To have the best of both worlds you need to learn or already know when to say there is too much evidence pointing in one direction and either present it as confident evidence of a haunting or just the opposite, that too many variables could have made this happen and not present it as evidence no matter how cool it looked. Alot of people will pass up solid evidence cause they can't get past their own stubborn belief system and many other people claim too much to be paranormal because they are desperate for the cool factor.
What I can't fathom and maybe it's just me but if there are 3 different very explainable reasons why this bit of evidence can be naturally explained, why people still press the issue that it's "real" evidence. Why take the public humility? To be in this field you need to have the belief that there will be that day when you have such clear evidence that you can sit their and confidently present it to the public and say look at this, look at what I found and gosh darnit if it isn't the best evidence ever to prove the paranormal.
Well because of both extreme sides, evidence will forever be scrutinized by the masses. We could have already seen proof that ghosts and paranormal really do exist but because people take it to the extremes, we'll never know what is reality and what is not.
think about that when presenting your case to the world, can this possibly further hurt the field indirectly by putting something that could have been human tampered out there as evidence?
food for thought.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Here comes October
Baseball playoffs, football getting back into full swing, paranormal junkies coming out of the woodworks... ah yes the joys of October :)
i'll be watching my cubbies make it down the stretch this year and hopefully getting their butts back into the big one (and winning!)
the Bears... well what can I say, they are the Bears.. I still love em though.
October is notorious for people looking for groups to join, usually never to be heard from again (until next year that is). We have a good system in play to weed out the fly by nighters. I'm sure we will gather a few very good individuals out of it but I am very positive we are going to get our share of one timers. I'd use different wording but I have to remember this is public and not private.
The good thing will be a solid rotation of members so that if 2 or 3 of us can't make it, we'll have a solid team of 4 regardless to go. Most of the investigations we will do will only require 4 people anyway.
That brings me to my next point. October also see's a rash of people contacting about investigations but also, never to be heard from again either. We are looking for serious people who have serious needs and problems in regards to the paranormal. Remember, we can disprove almost everything we come across and sometimes we are left with good evidence that can't be disproved and has to be taken into consideration. People who are bored will contact us and waste our time and it's tough to weed those out cause we are here to help the general public and how can you decifer who needs help more than the other? You really can't, so you have to investigate almost all of them to genuinely help. You can see how a prankster or jokester can waste our time and someone elses who really could have used us instead?
with that in mind, Have a happy and safe Halloween folks and I'll chat soon!
i'll be watching my cubbies make it down the stretch this year and hopefully getting their butts back into the big one (and winning!)
the Bears... well what can I say, they are the Bears.. I still love em though.
October is notorious for people looking for groups to join, usually never to be heard from again (until next year that is). We have a good system in play to weed out the fly by nighters. I'm sure we will gather a few very good individuals out of it but I am very positive we are going to get our share of one timers. I'd use different wording but I have to remember this is public and not private.
The good thing will be a solid rotation of members so that if 2 or 3 of us can't make it, we'll have a solid team of 4 regardless to go. Most of the investigations we will do will only require 4 people anyway.
That brings me to my next point. October also see's a rash of people contacting about investigations but also, never to be heard from again either. We are looking for serious people who have serious needs and problems in regards to the paranormal. Remember, we can disprove almost everything we come across and sometimes we are left with good evidence that can't be disproved and has to be taken into consideration. People who are bored will contact us and waste our time and it's tough to weed those out cause we are here to help the general public and how can you decifer who needs help more than the other? You really can't, so you have to investigate almost all of them to genuinely help. You can see how a prankster or jokester can waste our time and someone elses who really could have used us instead?
with that in mind, Have a happy and safe Halloween folks and I'll chat soon!
Saturday, September 6, 2008
RE: Stereotypes post.
Ok, It has been pointed out to me that I may have been unfair in the comments I made in that post. Let me clarify what I wrote. When I said "Roadie" types I was speaking generally of the people or groups who don't bother to clean themselves up or act appropriately when on investigations.
Now, the unfair part was that I basically made it seem that EVERY one who dresses that part does that, untrue and my apologies for making it seem that way.
I know some people who LOVE nothing more than to rock out with metallica and let their shoulder length head of hair loose when the time calls for it, at the same time though these people know when to tone it down and act like a grown up and be professional.
What the post was directed towards are people who don't know when it's time to act their age or be professional.
I tend to ramble sometimes and it gets the best of me. What is coming out in my head may seem differently written on paper (or posted) than what it was originially intended to mean. I do however know when to write a rebutle or clarification and can own up to it If I truley believe I may have said something to an injustice. Unless of course I firmly believe what I wrote to be fact :).
sorry for the confusion.
Now that all my RANTS are out lol, I should be able to get back on track with the nice posts!.
BTW, we have our Indianapolis investigation this upcoming tuesday and then we have our carpentersville investigation on the 22nd of this month... Things are looking up on our end!
Aaron
Now, the unfair part was that I basically made it seem that EVERY one who dresses that part does that, untrue and my apologies for making it seem that way.
I know some people who LOVE nothing more than to rock out with metallica and let their shoulder length head of hair loose when the time calls for it, at the same time though these people know when to tone it down and act like a grown up and be professional.
What the post was directed towards are people who don't know when it's time to act their age or be professional.
I tend to ramble sometimes and it gets the best of me. What is coming out in my head may seem differently written on paper (or posted) than what it was originially intended to mean. I do however know when to write a rebutle or clarification and can own up to it If I truley believe I may have said something to an injustice. Unless of course I firmly believe what I wrote to be fact :).
sorry for the confusion.
Now that all my RANTS are out lol, I should be able to get back on track with the nice posts!.
BTW, we have our Indianapolis investigation this upcoming tuesday and then we have our carpentersville investigation on the 22nd of this month... Things are looking up on our end!
Aaron
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
LAST RANT OF THE DAY I PROMISE!! lol
Audio evidence.
why is it that even when audio evidence is plain as day, there are people who will hear something COMPLETELY opposite of what is being said? I know the mind can play tricks on hearing and you can and will matrix some sounds out there into something else, I am though under the assumption that everyone knows basic english? sounds and pronunciations that we have all heard since we started to talk, yet there are people out there who if a clear as day voice on a recording said "I'M OVER HERE" they would make out "TWO IN THE CLEAR" ?????? Of course that is not a real case scenario at the moment, it's to prove a point.
I have worked in audio for over the past 15 years of my life, I have distinquished different sounds and pronunciations and have a mental database of what sounds are and can either reproduce them or find logical explantions for them, hence my specialty in this group. I am usually the first person to debunk audio and rarely am I one to claim I have audio as evidence unless it is clear as day and can but understood and not accounted for in the form of another person in the place. In a nutshell I'm a hard person to get and EVP past without scrutiny, So when I do hear something, 99% of the time I give it the stamp of approval, it is paranormal.
I guess i'm getting sick of the so called "experts" I have been finding left and right, whats even worse are the "orb chasers" who I have classified as a person or group of people who claim anything and everything to be paranormal right down to what they ate for breakfast. Most of the time they have audio of themselves talking on the phone and claim it is ghostly, or they have a video (cough cough) of a guy swatting a bug while laying down and then seeing the bug fly away and calling it a paranormal anomoly... yea, it's paranormal that the mosquito wasn't smarter than the people calling it a ghost!
I can't wait till I get all my thoughts together and write a book.
why is it that even when audio evidence is plain as day, there are people who will hear something COMPLETELY opposite of what is being said? I know the mind can play tricks on hearing and you can and will matrix some sounds out there into something else, I am though under the assumption that everyone knows basic english? sounds and pronunciations that we have all heard since we started to talk, yet there are people out there who if a clear as day voice on a recording said "I'M OVER HERE" they would make out "TWO IN THE CLEAR" ?????? Of course that is not a real case scenario at the moment, it's to prove a point.
I have worked in audio for over the past 15 years of my life, I have distinquished different sounds and pronunciations and have a mental database of what sounds are and can either reproduce them or find logical explantions for them, hence my specialty in this group. I am usually the first person to debunk audio and rarely am I one to claim I have audio as evidence unless it is clear as day and can but understood and not accounted for in the form of another person in the place. In a nutshell I'm a hard person to get and EVP past without scrutiny, So when I do hear something, 99% of the time I give it the stamp of approval, it is paranormal.
I guess i'm getting sick of the so called "experts" I have been finding left and right, whats even worse are the "orb chasers" who I have classified as a person or group of people who claim anything and everything to be paranormal right down to what they ate for breakfast. Most of the time they have audio of themselves talking on the phone and claim it is ghostly, or they have a video (cough cough) of a guy swatting a bug while laying down and then seeing the bug fly away and calling it a paranormal anomoly... yea, it's paranormal that the mosquito wasn't smarter than the people calling it a ghost!
I can't wait till I get all my thoughts together and write a book.
Evidence
I find it hard to take evidence seriously when all you are presented with is 8 seconds of footage and 4 seconds of evp.
how am I to know what took place prior to that? what was the scenario? did someone sneeze 2 seconds before that supposed evp clip? whos to say it wasn't the echo of that sneeze that just so happened to sound like a voice responding to a question?
same thing for video evidence, what exactly am I looking at? you've given me 8 seconds of footage but I have no clue if 2 seconds prior to that someone turned on a flashlight or walked into the middle of the frame making it look like you caught something.
No one is ever going to know the full situation of what you caught but at least give them a fighting chance at debunking the thing or not. Give a few minutes of footage prior to what you catch and even after what you catch so that you get the full picture... THEN isolate what you think is evidence into that 8 seconds or however much time it is and let people come up with their own conclusions or suggestions. There will never be conclusive footage if all we ever get is a few second clip of audio or video.
I see alot of investigators present this type of stuff as rock solid evidence of a haunting. They can give you the scenario verbally all day and all night but it makes no bit of difference if you can't see it yourself. Who is accounted for? is there other footage that shows investigators in different locations? did your dvr just so happen to pick up a cat roaming around earlier in the night or even after this evidence? anything along those lines can immediatly toss suspect evidence out the window and move on to the important stuff that has no explanation.
Heres how I see it, if there is even the slightest possibility that evidence can be explained and that possibility can be recreated or even matched then you don't have evidence. Give me that video with the guy dressed in a period suit who you can see through and is walking up the stairs... thats solid evidence, not an orb (bug, dust), strange noise in the wall (pipes).
hence another reason no one takes evidence or investigators seriously as I posted below in "stereotypes". The footage that people present to the world is half ass crap most of the time. Not to mention the fakers out there who get kicks out of faking evidence and calling it real. It's no wonder no one believes evidence and is so quick to dismiss it without taking the time detail through it.
Then there is the "know it all's". They know it's a fake just by looking at it and aint nothing going to change their mind. They don't even try and have explanations, they just call it a fake based on their "extensive experience". Well let me be the first to tell you, no one is an expert in this field. How can you expert something that can't be (hasn't been) proven to exist??? Like the Warrens (god i'm gonna get myself started here!). These people go around saying that demons are everywhere and their ONLY proof is their gut feeling......... anyone see something wrong with this? They scare people into believing them and then perform rituals to "rid" them of demons. HOW CAN YOU PERFORM A RITUAL ON SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN'T PROVE EXISTS??? who exactly came up with the ritual and has it EVER been proven that it works? No.
Use your own belief system folks and come to your own conclusions and most of all, realize that almost 90% of "paranormal activity" can be explained by natural causes.
how am I to know what took place prior to that? what was the scenario? did someone sneeze 2 seconds before that supposed evp clip? whos to say it wasn't the echo of that sneeze that just so happened to sound like a voice responding to a question?
same thing for video evidence, what exactly am I looking at? you've given me 8 seconds of footage but I have no clue if 2 seconds prior to that someone turned on a flashlight or walked into the middle of the frame making it look like you caught something.
No one is ever going to know the full situation of what you caught but at least give them a fighting chance at debunking the thing or not. Give a few minutes of footage prior to what you catch and even after what you catch so that you get the full picture... THEN isolate what you think is evidence into that 8 seconds or however much time it is and let people come up with their own conclusions or suggestions. There will never be conclusive footage if all we ever get is a few second clip of audio or video.
I see alot of investigators present this type of stuff as rock solid evidence of a haunting. They can give you the scenario verbally all day and all night but it makes no bit of difference if you can't see it yourself. Who is accounted for? is there other footage that shows investigators in different locations? did your dvr just so happen to pick up a cat roaming around earlier in the night or even after this evidence? anything along those lines can immediatly toss suspect evidence out the window and move on to the important stuff that has no explanation.
Heres how I see it, if there is even the slightest possibility that evidence can be explained and that possibility can be recreated or even matched then you don't have evidence. Give me that video with the guy dressed in a period suit who you can see through and is walking up the stairs... thats solid evidence, not an orb (bug, dust), strange noise in the wall (pipes).
hence another reason no one takes evidence or investigators seriously as I posted below in "stereotypes". The footage that people present to the world is half ass crap most of the time. Not to mention the fakers out there who get kicks out of faking evidence and calling it real. It's no wonder no one believes evidence and is so quick to dismiss it without taking the time detail through it.
Then there is the "know it all's". They know it's a fake just by looking at it and aint nothing going to change their mind. They don't even try and have explanations, they just call it a fake based on their "extensive experience". Well let me be the first to tell you, no one is an expert in this field. How can you expert something that can't be (hasn't been) proven to exist??? Like the Warrens (god i'm gonna get myself started here!). These people go around saying that demons are everywhere and their ONLY proof is their gut feeling......... anyone see something wrong with this? They scare people into believing them and then perform rituals to "rid" them of demons. HOW CAN YOU PERFORM A RITUAL ON SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN'T PROVE EXISTS??? who exactly came up with the ritual and has it EVER been proven that it works? No.
Use your own belief system folks and come to your own conclusions and most of all, realize that almost 90% of "paranormal activity" can be explained by natural causes.
Stereotypes
Why is it that when you find a group of investigators their web pages and myspace and so forth are decked out it ghostly gouly type stuff with blood dripping off of it and heavy death metal or hard rock music playing in the background? I mean what the heck. It gives the impression that the only people interested in the paranormal are of the goth type origin. I have nothing against anyones beliefs or music tastes (unless it's polka then we got issues!) but it seems that everywhere you turn most groups have that stereotypical atmosphere around them. I mean I am 28, a club DJ who just so happens to make his living in the clubs (very well I might add) listens to dance music, wears polos and business suits and golfs religiously yet if I was in a lineup consisting of myself and someone with an ozzy shirt on with long hair and a goatee and a few arm bracelets and asked which one is a paranormal investigator... resoundingly people would pick the band roadie next to me without hesitation.
This is part of the reason I like TAPS, J and G are normal guys, Grant plays the piano and creates his own classical music and Jason.... well he's jason who happens to like rock (from what I can see) but doesn't dress like he's about to headbang all night and get stinking drunk off whiskey.
I am HUGELY interested in the paranormal and love to investigate it. Looking at me in the real world though you wouldn't think it. It's the ones who have skulls, bones and blood dripping off their websites that give that stereotype about investigators. Why can't more groups have a professional classic look to their websites or even the attire they wear? This field gets a very bad rap cause of stuff like that and most people do not take it seriously cause they think if you investigate or are interested in the paranormal you must be attracted to the dark side of things. Not true at all!
Now granted this rant may seem a little out of line but if you understand where I am coming from you may see why I say this. People hesitate or even shy away from the paranormal cause of people like this. They neglect to seek help cause they don't want what turns out to be the equivalent of a band roadie in their house who looks as if they could run off with the family silverwear. This field needs more professionalism and business mentality. That means cleaning up your act, not using metalica's hardest songs on your webpage to signify the return of satan and so forth. I've managed for two corporate giants and I firmly believe you dress for the amount of success you want. Why can't investigators do the same? Maybe then we can start getting some respect and when you go out in public and people ask what you do, they won't snicker at you and think differently about you and make stereotypical remarks.
Just cause i'm a paranormal investigator does not mean I am into death metal or worship the devil. I have curiousities just like everyone else does and I am searching for answers.
Now if I came to you with a resounding bit of evidence that caught a ghost smack dab in the middle of a video camera and that band roadie i've already mentioned came to you with the same exact evidence, who are you more likely to believe? the clean cut guy or the one who looks as if he could be chewbacca's cousin?
Like I said before, I have nothing against the way people want to dress, look, smell or even present themselves publically but if you want to be taken seriously then give us a reason to take you seriously. Who knows, maybe clients will WANT to refer you to their friends who need help instead of being embarrassed at who they brought in to help.
This is part of the reason I like TAPS, J and G are normal guys, Grant plays the piano and creates his own classical music and Jason.... well he's jason who happens to like rock (from what I can see) but doesn't dress like he's about to headbang all night and get stinking drunk off whiskey.
I am HUGELY interested in the paranormal and love to investigate it. Looking at me in the real world though you wouldn't think it. It's the ones who have skulls, bones and blood dripping off their websites that give that stereotype about investigators. Why can't more groups have a professional classic look to their websites or even the attire they wear? This field gets a very bad rap cause of stuff like that and most people do not take it seriously cause they think if you investigate or are interested in the paranormal you must be attracted to the dark side of things. Not true at all!
Now granted this rant may seem a little out of line but if you understand where I am coming from you may see why I say this. People hesitate or even shy away from the paranormal cause of people like this. They neglect to seek help cause they don't want what turns out to be the equivalent of a band roadie in their house who looks as if they could run off with the family silverwear. This field needs more professionalism and business mentality. That means cleaning up your act, not using metalica's hardest songs on your webpage to signify the return of satan and so forth. I've managed for two corporate giants and I firmly believe you dress for the amount of success you want. Why can't investigators do the same? Maybe then we can start getting some respect and when you go out in public and people ask what you do, they won't snicker at you and think differently about you and make stereotypical remarks.
Just cause i'm a paranormal investigator does not mean I am into death metal or worship the devil. I have curiousities just like everyone else does and I am searching for answers.
Now if I came to you with a resounding bit of evidence that caught a ghost smack dab in the middle of a video camera and that band roadie i've already mentioned came to you with the same exact evidence, who are you more likely to believe? the clean cut guy or the one who looks as if he could be chewbacca's cousin?
Like I said before, I have nothing against the way people want to dress, look, smell or even present themselves publically but if you want to be taken seriously then give us a reason to take you seriously. Who knows, maybe clients will WANT to refer you to their friends who need help instead of being embarrassed at who they brought in to help.
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