WHEN TRYING TO GET INFORMATION FROM A SPIRIT, IT IS NOT ALWAYS EASY.  YOU MIGHT GET A GOOD EVP OR TWO, BUT YOU NEED TO GET MORE SPECIFIC NAMES AND DATES TO GO FORWARD.  IT TAKES THEM A LOT OF ENERGY TO SPEAK ON YOUR AUDIO RECORDER AND EVEN MORE TO MANIFEST INTO AN ORB OR SHOW THEMSELVES VISIBLY.  SO WHAT DO YOU DO TO GET SPECIFICS LIKE A NAME OR A YEAR?  WELL THE BEST WAY TO AND EASIEST WAY FOR THEM TO GIVE YOU INFORMATION IS BY USING A PENDULULM.

USING A PENDULUM, ALTHOUGH IT SOUNDS A LITTLE SKETCHY, IS ACTUALLY A PROVEN WAY TO GET DETAILED INFORMATION.  THE FIRST TIME OR TWO I SAW THIS DONE, I THOUGHT, HOLY COW THAT IS SO FAR FROM SCIENTIFIC, IT CANNOT POSSIBLY BE REAL.  BY USING A QUARTZ CRYSTAL, WHICH CAN HOLD ENERGY, (THEY ARE USED IN WATCHES), ATTACHED TO A LINE OR STRING, CAN GET YOU THE DETAILS YOU NEED TO FURTHER YOUR CASE.  A PRODUCER FRIEND SHOWED ME HOW SHE USED IT WITH A SHEET OF PAPER WITH LINES RADIATING OUT FROM A CENTER POINT AND AT THE END OF EACH LINE THERE IS A LETTER OR NUMBER OR WORD.  WELL THIS TURNED OUT TO WORK SO WELL, THAT I HAD TO INCORPORATE IT INTO OUR INVESTIGATIONS.  THE PAPER, EACH TIME YOU FOLD IT UP TO CARRY, DOES NOT UNFOLD AND LAY FLAT, SO I MADE SOMETHING NEW, A PENDULUM PAD.  THIS IS THE SAME BASIC PRINCIPLE AS THE PAPER BUT IT ALWAYS LAYS FLAT WHEN YOU NEED IT.  WTIH THE LETTERS ARRANGED IN A CIRCLE AROUND THE CENTER, SOME PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME THAT IT RESEMBLES A "OUIJA BOARD" OR "WITCH BOARD". 

THE ONLY THING THEY HAVE IN COMMON IS THAT THEY BOTH HAVE LETTERS AND NUMBERS ON THEM, THAT IS WHERE THE SIMILARITIES STOP.  IN DESINGING THIS I KNEW THAT THIS WOULD BE A POTENTIAL PROBLEM FOR SOME PEOPLE.  IT SEEMS THAT USING A "OUIJA BOARD" CAN OPEN YOURSELF UP TO ALL KINDS OF BAD THINGS AND SPIRITS OR DEMONS THAT WILL DO YOU HARM.  SO I PURPOSEFULLY MADE THIS "PENDULUM PAD" DIFFERENT.  FOR STARTERS IT DOES NOT SAY "WITCH BOARD" ON IT.

BY WRITING WORDS LIKE "WITCH" ON SOMETHING, YOU ACTUALLY GIVE IT POWER THAT THE OBJECT DID NOT HAVE BEFORE.  BOARDS WERE MADE OUT OF WOOD ORIGNIALLY AND LATER FROM PAPER OR CARDBOARD.  MY PENDULUM PAD IS MADE OUT OF RUBBER AND PLASTICS.  WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?  WOOD CAN TRANSFER ELECTRICITY, OR ENERGY AND EVEN HOLD IT FOR A TIME, RUBBER CANNOT, IT IS A POOR CONDUCTER OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY. SO THE TWO THINGS THAT GIVE A "OUIJA BOARD" ITS POTENTIAL TO HARM, DO NOT EXIST WITH THE "PENDULUM PAD".
SO A "BAD" SPIRIT WILL ATTATCH TO A "OUIJA BOARD" BUT CANNOT DO THE SAME TO THE RUBBER PAD.

WHILE I KNOW THAT MANY SCIENTIFIC TEAMS WILL SCOFF AT THE IDEA OF USING THE PENDULUM AT ALL, WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING THAT WORKS FOR PARANORMAL INVESTIGATIONS AND IMPROVES YOUR CHANCES OF SUCCESS IN REACHING OUT TO A GHOST, THEN YOU NEED TO SERIOUSLY CONSIDER THAT THING.  I HAVE CONSIDERED THIS AND WHAT IT COMES DOWN TO IS THAT IT JUST WORKS, PERIOD.  AND IF YOU ARE NOT TRAINED IN THE PARANORMAL, THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE MESSING WITH IT IN THE FIRST PLACE! BUT FOR THE TRAINED GHOST HUNTER, THIS IS THE EASIEST WAY TO GET INFORMATION!

Unfortunately in the world of paranormal investigations there are many groups out there who get their "training" from watching one of the shows on tv.  The problem with that is that none of those guys gets any evidence.  Hmmmm.....I wonder why?  Might be the approach.  No, I take that back, it is the approach.

Now, if any of you are fishermen, specifically fresh water fishermen, who go after illusive trout, then you know the approach to the fishing hole is everything and if you mess it up, you lose and will not get anything.  THe same is true for ghost hunting.  If you mess up the approach, you will not find what you are looking for.  If you go by TV, you will see this approach done wrong over and over.  What does it take to do it right?

To do it right it is simple.  People respond much more positively to someone they do not know when that person approaches them correctly, is polite and treats them with diginity and respect.  It is so simple and it works.  Well ghosts are people too, just not in the physical form, but they respond the same way to the correct approach.  It works everytime!

You can spend thousands of dollars on equipment and if you do not use respect and dignity when you encounter a spirit, that money is useless and so is your equipment.  The biggest sign that you are not on a professional level is whistling.  The next biggest sign is yelling "here ghost" or clapping your hands.  In alot of places, this will get you thrown out right away.  You call a dog by whistling, not people.  By that action you are showing disrespect and doing the oppoiste of what you need to be doing.  Same thing with clapping, that is what you do with a dog.  It is easy to pick up the bad habits of someone on tv who is bluffing their way thru, and hard to accept the fact that politeness counts!

Once you figure this out and stop whistling and provoking ghosts, all of a sudden you find that they are more interested in talking to you!  I kid you not.  This works better than anything we have tried and produces results everytime.  We have even had a ghost from a location that we investigated previously, tell another paranormal group that they wanted to talk to the "ghost team. the two nice guys, Doug and Pat".  That is real proof right there, as this guy has not talked to anyone and has made things real bad for new paranormal investigators in this building!  One new guy was told this and ignored the advice given and a few momnets later was taken out of the building by a stretcher and some paramedics as he felt like he was having a heart-attack!  True story.  So the next time you are invited to go on a ghost hunt, remember, you get alot more by being polite and not by whislting and yelling here ghost!

WHEN HUNTERS GO AFTER THEIR PREY, THEY MAKE SURE THEY KNOW AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE AFTER.  PARANORMAL INVESTIGATING STARTS THE SAME WAY.  YOU HAVE TO DO THE RESEARCH AND FIND OUT AS MUCH AS YOU CAN IF YOU WANT TO CONNECT WITH A SPIRIT WHO DOES NOT KNOW YOU FROM ADAM.  MANY GROUPS FOCUS ONLY ON THE "HUNT" AND SPEND LITTLE TIME LOOKING INTO THE HISTORY OF THE SITE.  THIS IS A MISTAKE.  WHAT WE HAVE FOUND IS THE MORE YOU CAN IDENTIFY WITH THE SPIRIT, THE EASIER IT WILL BE TO TALK TO THEM.

NOW THERE ARE ALOT OF GROUPS OUT THERE, EVERYWHERE FROM TEENAGERS WITH A FLASHLIGHT GOING INTO A CEMETERY, TO THE HIGH END GROUPS USING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY AND DOING THE "HARD" WORK OF RESEARCH, AND THEN THE EVEN HARDER WORK OF GOING THRU ALL THE POSSIBLE EVIDENCE.  THE CEMETERY PEOPLE KNOW THAT THEY ARE INTERESTED IN GHOSTS, BUT HAVE NOT TAKEN IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL, WHICH IS FINE IF THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.  BUT GHOST HUNTING FOR THE SAKE OF GHOST HUNTING IS A DEAD END, NO PUN INTENDED. WHAT DO YOU DO TO GET TO THE NEXT LEVEL. RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE EXAMINATION TAKES HOURS AND HOURS OF TIME AND EVEN THO I AM WORKING A FULL TIME JOB, I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME GOING THRU VIDEO AND AUDIO GATHERED JUST TO FIND A FEW EVPS, OF CATCH AN ORB FLYING ON THE IR CAMERA.  ONE GUY WHO CALLS HIMSELF A "SCIENTIFIC" PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR HAS NOT GOTTEN A SINGLE EPV(HE CAN'T EVEN SAY EVP)IN THE 2 YEARS HE HAS BEEN INVESTIGATING.  THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE GUY WHO IS ONLY IN THIS FOR THE GLORY, NOT THE WORK. EVERYONE WANTS THE BIGTIME, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO WORK FOR IT.

RECENTLY WE WERE ABLE TO VISIT THE LANDON HOUSE IN URBANA MARYLAND, THANKS TO CRAIG RUPP AND JOHN CURLEY(HAPS-HARRISBURG AREA PARANORMAL SOCIETY).  IT HAS ONLY BEEN 4 DAYS SINCE WE INVESTIGATED AND I AM NO WHERE NEAR DONE WITH GOING THRU THE FOOTAGE AND THE AUDIO, BUT AS I DO I AM PRESENTING IT HERE SO THAT OTHERS CAN SHARE IN WHAT WE HAVE FOUND.  UNLIKE MOST GROUPS, WE WORK WITH OTHER GROUPS, LIKE HAPS, AND IT PAYS OFF WITH SITES LIKE THE HISTORIC LANDON HOUSE, WHERE JEB STUART STOPPED AND HELD HIS FAMOUS "SABRES AND ROSES BALL" IN 1862, JUST DAYS BEFORE THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM.  KEVIN DOLAN HAS A GOLD MINE ON HIS HANDS AT LANDON HOUSE AND AS THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, HE WELCOMES OUR INPUT.  THAT IS WHAT MAKES HIM SUCCESSFUL, THE FACT THAT HE IS WILLING TO WORK WITH OTHERS!  SO IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SITES AND GROUPS TO WORK WITH, THEY ARE OUT THERE, BUT JUST LIKE GHOSTS, YOU CAN FIND EVERYTING FROM GOOD ONES TO BAD ONES AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN!  SO NEXT TIME YOU GO INVESTIGATING, KNOW YOUR PREY!