Not Everything is as It Seems

 

If there is one important lesson that I have learned in my 18 years of paranormal investigation, it's that having an open mind is a must.

When clients call me and request an investigation, I spend as long as possible with them on the phone in order to get as complete a picture of what might be going on in their house or business.

Once my team arrives on scene for the preliminary investigation, there is another question and answer session as we start the process of figuring out if what the client is experiencing is paranormal, caused by man made objects or if the client may be experiencing health issues.

With a 100 question questionnaire, we cover as many possibilities as we can. Those questions range from what the client does for a living, to relationship issues, to what type of activity is occurring, and other questions. We also have them describe the activity in detail.

While a team member asks the questions and takes note another team member is walking through the building noting locations of furniture and other items as well as electrical/EMF levels in the building.

I won't bore you with all the details but it's a very thorough preliminary.

Fast forward to the actual investigation and after looking at all the possible causes for the activity, we conclude that yes, there is a ghost or an entity in the building. The task is then to figure out what or who we are dealing with.

There is a lot of ghost investigation shows on TV that focus on negative or what appears to be demonic activity. The unfortunate thing about that is that people are influenced by these shows and automatically think that activity in their house or building is demonic.

Now, when I started investigating 18 years ago, the majority of the ghosts in homes were deceased family members. Clients actually thought they were being visited by family members. But because of the TV shows that has changed.

I have a newsflash! Not everything is demonic.

According to the mediums on my team, when we die, we keep our personalities. For example, if you are an angry person, chances are you will be angry as a ghost. My team has conducted investigations where the alleged demon turned out to be a ghost trying to act like one in order to scare the people in the building.

I'm not saying there are no demons because those cases do pop up but they don't pop up as frequently as TV would have you believe. A lot of the negative cases turn out to be human ghosts who are angry for one reason or another.

A good example of that happened on a residential investigation. The investigator had a necklace with cross attached around her neck. During the investigation, the cross started to rise by itself until the necklace and cross were hanging in mid air horizontal to the ground. It not only surprised the investigator but scared her as well. The team shaman determined that it was not a demon or dark entity. It was a man who had died many years ago on the property and was not happy with the family that was living in the house. He wanted the inhabitants to think he was a demon so they would leave.

There was another case where a client swore up and down that there was a demon in the house. As I walked through during the preliminary investigation, I noticed that the client had blessed items like crosses and religious icons on the walls in every room. I asked the client if any of the icons or crosses had fallen off the walls. When the client said they hadn't, I knew there wasn't a demon. If there had been, then those religious articles would not have stayed on the walls. Again it was an angry person trying to make the family believe he was a demon.

That's why not everything is as it seems and it's very important that a paranormal team does a thorough job and investigates every possibility for the activity that the client is experiencing. That includes looking at natural or man made things that could be causing the activity. High EMF is a perfect example. It can cause headaches, hallucinations and other things that affect the brain.

The main thing to remember is that the client sought you out to help find answers to what they are experiencing so it is your job to sort everything out.