My Next Thought...

It’s late... again. Burning the midnight oil as usual when I thought that it's been a while since my first and only write up for this site. I guess the old saying is correct "life happens". So a couple times a week I'll pick up one one of my many books of case studies, whether it's Ontario specific, across the ocean following the exploits of the Ghost Club or leafing through Loyd Auerbach's ESP, Hauntings,and Poltergeists, trying to make sense of it all. It's that one big question that's "haunted" every paranormal from the humble beginnings of this field, "what are we missing?"

I've got an investigation coming up this weekend at a private residence and I'm really quite looking forward to it. It could have some interesting things going on this will be my first "real, hands-on" investigation, not the "popping into Mackenzie House or Fort York for a tour" type of investigation. The issue is this. We'll set up night-vision cameras, tape decks for EVPs, take lots of photos and readings, but in the end, what do we have? Lots of photos maybe if we're lucky some anomylous images we can't explain. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to experience that "tap on the shoulder" or the "pushed by unseen hands" type of thing but how can we really quantify what transpired?

I'm not really looking forward to going to my day job tomorrow. I find it tedious and monotonous (actually, I'm finding the whole industry that way). I'd love (if there was some way to afford it) to investigate ghosts and hauntings full time, just for a little while. To sit down with scientists and technicians from various fields of research and brainstorm on things that haven't been done yet. Wouldn't that be great? Really put some major thought into this. I realize that the interest is in the researching and accumulation of data but there has to be an eventual outcome to all of this, not just some fly-by-night television shows! I've toyed with not-for-profit idea, worked with other local research groups, contemplated even going back to school to take course that could somehow be applied to the parapsychology/paranormal field. What to do?

For now it seems, anyway, to keep prodding along, gaining experience and learning what's already been tried and when the opportunities present themselves (sorry, my little bit of envy of the  Hauntings Research Group and their private sponsor) to grab the bull by the horn and run with them. In the mean time, if you have any suggestions, drop me a mail. Maybe you can shed that needed light.

Happy Haunting

Steve S.