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D
o you hear bumps in the
night? Does your hair stand
on end when you walk
into a room? Maybe you feel as if
someone is watching you or perhaps
you think you see someone out the
corner of your eye, but when you
turn to look no one is there?
What you may be encounter-
ing in those unsettling moments is
a ghost. So before you go running
out of your house screaming, let’s
take a moment to talk about ghostly
encounters and those that investigate
this phenomena.
A ghost is believed to be the spirit
or soul of a person who has remained
on Earth after death. When a ghost
has taken up residence in a location, Whether investigating a residual or intelligent haunting, researchers should possess a
it is referred to as a haunting. basic set of tools to use.
There are two different ways in
which a ghost inhabits a location.
The most common type of haunting electrical appliances to turn on and can help you get started.
is a residual haunting, which is typi- off, to hear voices our sounds out of It is held that ghosts are electro-
fied by ghostly energy that is static nowhere, or to be touched, tickled, magnetic in origin and they create
or goes through a number of move- stroked, or even shoved. These these fields when trying to manifest
ments over and over again. It can be ghosts often reflect the personality of into this dimension. The energy that
likened to watching a movie clip that an individual, even after their death. is given off by a ghost causes disrup-
repeats itself or a record album that With this type of haunting, the aroma tions in the location’s magnetic field,
has a skip in it, causing the needle to of flowers, perfume, cigarette smoke, thus making it detectable by special-
jump back to an earlier point on the or other scents that are associated ized equipment and psychics alike.
album and begin again. with the individual are often detected. Because the presence of a ghost
The second classification of So whether you think you are can be detected by specific types of
haunting is the classic haunting, in being haunted by a ghost and want to equipment, a ghost hunter can be-
which the ghost displays intelligence have a group of trained professionals come well equipped with a number
and interacts with the people in the come to your home or are interested of affordable pieces of equipment,
environment. It is not uncommon in investigating all that goes bump in many of which you may already own.
during a classic haunting for items the night but don’t know where to From basic to advanced, there
to be moved around, for lights or begin, here’s some information that are many different types of equip-