Recently more and more newspaper inches are dedicated to the pursuit of research into the inexplicable, but it seems that some paranormal researchers do not like the media that they label “ghost hunters”. Is this just supernatural snobism or is the term ghost in a blemish in this area of research?
If you ask someone who likes to be called a ghost hunter, they will tell you that a ghost hunter and a paranormal researcher are exactly the same. Those who called themselves paranormal researchers and do not like the term Ghost Hunter are those who define the differences between the two terms.
Paranormal researchers claim that ghost hunters are nothing more than casual hobbyists who look at paranormal from a superficial position. They start ghost hunt for recreation, leisure or entertainment, so it is sometimes said that ghost hunters spot and bring a negative perception to the field.
Where as paranormal researchers or researchers say that they take the entire subject much more seriously and want to find a reason for a statement behind supernatural events.
These same supernatural buffs say that if they call themselves paranormal researchers instead of ghost hunters, the general public takes them more seriously. However, it must be reminded that, depending on which survey you are reading, only a third of the UK population believes in spirits, so the majority of the audience will have little respect for everyone who hunts spoken, regardless of what they call themselves.
So, who is right? Let’s see how the dictionary defines these contradictory terms …
ghost – A appearance of a dead person who is assumed to appear or manifest for the living, usually as a vague image.
hunt – Look for someone or something.
paranormal – Indicate events or phenomena, such as Telekinese or clairvoyance that lie outside the normal scientific understanding.
to research – Conduct a systematic or formal investigation to discover and investigate the facts to establish the truth.
Looking at the definitions next to each other, there is a difference. Are you determined in search of spirits, or do you conduct a systematic investigation to establish the truth behind the paranormal? But this is really only semantics, in both cases these supernatural search trying to find evidence that spirits exist.
It does not matter which term is applied, it is about people who visit a spooky location and are looking for evidence. This can simply use your own senses to see something strange, or the use of electronic ghost yachtgadgets. They can also try to communicate with spirits using an Ouija board and try to capture the paranormal in a photo or video form.
There are countless examples of fairly well -known people who like to label themselves as a paranormal researcher who runs ghost hunt for members of the public. If they took their label as a paranormal researcher so seriously, they would conduct paranormal research, no ghost yachts.
Conversely, there are many respected paranormal researchers who are quite happy to get a ghost hunter, especially when they appear on the media.
Some say that the hunt suggests that all spirits are malicious and intend to harm us, and that ghost hunters visit spooky locations to try to catch the mind – this looks more like ghost.
If you have ever been to a ghost hunt, you know that it doesn’t matter who leads it for a moment, the goal is to never detect and get a spirit back. The purpose of a ghost hunt or research is to prove the existence of spirits and to determine a logical explanation for non-paranormal events.
So, we throw back to the original question … is this just supernatural snobism or is the term ghost in a blemish in this area of research? Well, if someone who writes about the paranormal, it seems to me nothing more than snobbery. When I write, the two terms are very interchangeable, if for no other reason that the use of alternative variants of a term means that I can prevent repetition in articles.
At the end of the day we all have the same goal. It’s just that some researchers are good and some are bad. It is their methods that must be questioned, not their title. It is completely acceptable to call what you want. I personally use the term ghost hunter when I refer to myself. I tell people “I’m going ghost” or “I’m going on a ghost hunt”.
