When I started visiting these locations, I did not expect that I would see a spirit because I am a skeptic. However, my mind was not closed for the possibility. I am firmly convinced that these locations, chased or not, had received their reputation because people had experienced something there. Perhaps it was the layout of the building that disoriented people and they put them on. Perhaps it was a location where external sounds could be seen for the sound of rattling chains or footsteps in it. They can even be creaking old buildings with many sounds that can be misinterpreted.
So I was convinced that by placing myself at these locations, I would experience the same stimuli and psychological signals. I was sure that I would experience the same things as those who reported paranormal activities in these places – even if it was not caused by the spirits of the dead. But exactly 101 studies later I didn’t have all this. Where are the creaking floorboards and the tricks of the eye, the doors that hit in a depth? I wonder: what are these ghost hunters who experience that they can mistaken the paranormal?
This is a spooky experience of the textbook and exactly the kind of things I expected to experience at other locations. Again, I am not saying that this was the spirit of a dead person – although it could have been – but even if it was my eyes that played tricks on me in the dark, the psychological impact of the building, or a fabrication of my imagination, this was exactly the kind of thing I expected to give ghost locations.
I am not on my way to see a spirit about these studies. For me, experiencing the “inexplicable” is the ultimate goal. By putting myself in the shoes of researchers who came for me, I hoped to experience things that they could not explain. After 101 investigations this happened exactly once in Woodchester Mansion. Am I unfair? Are my expectations too high? Is one meeting in a hundred a good success rate? Again, I remind you that these locations, known as the most chased in the country, will be said to provide weekly experiences.
Last weekend I visited what I would say is one of the top five most ghostly locations in the UK. That claim is purely based on the number of people who visit and claims that they have experiences there. It is one of the places in the country where you are statistically most likely to experience something that can be paranormal, or at least for the paranormal. We have not experienced anything. Even with an open mind there was nothing that I could even start to consider as a paranormal. This was a location that I had visited before. All in all, I probably spent almost 40 hours there, and for me it has always been the same – I experience nothing that can be interpreted incorrectly even as a paranormal.
Spirit -Boxes are devices that quickly scan through AM and FM radio frequencies, resulting in eruptions of static and radio broadcast. The belief is that spirits can manipulate the radio spectrum to pass on a message. This is a ghost hunting method that I don’t use, because I don’t think the spirits of dead people have the opportunity to modulate a radio wave to cod a sound. I personally believe that this is nothing more than the power of suggestion and expectation – people who hear what they want to hear.
EVP recorders also expose researchers to vague sounds that can also be misinterpreted as Spirit Voices. It is a commonly used method with a digital audio renderer to ask all the spirits that are present to answer questions. Their voices cannot be heard at the time, but when playing, researchers often find what they consider as answers to their questions. This is another method that I am skeptical about, because ordinary sounds like someone who shuffles, rustles a jacket, or even the light movement that holds the recorder, can sound very different when playing and almost impossible to identify. These sounds can also look like moans, growls, whisper and even complete sentences.
Another type of tool that often produces results for others are apps and portable devices with speeches or phoniek that are able to spit words out. The belief is that spirits can influence the choice of words using the sensors of the device or telephone – things such as pressure, humidity and electromagnetic fields. Again, I have a problem with these tools, because I cannot accept that a dead person has the ability or knowledge to communicate in this way. They should know exactly how to influence one of the sensors to select the words they want to communicate.
The last way people experience what they believe as a paranormal activity, and perhaps the most difficult for me to replicate, his personal experiences. Many people report that they feel a negative energy, weird vibes or cold cold shivers in certain rooms or locations. Researchers, among other things, perceive cold places, tactile sensations, goose bumps and shivers. I am not a tendency to get afraid of ghost yachts. I do not personally understand what a negative atmosphere is, and I am not the type of person who feels physical sensations. I say hesitantly that in this case I am not suggestive enough. So this way of experience is closed to me.
Perhaps the next step for me, if I want to experience what others experience, spend a night with the use of nothing but EVP recorders, Spirit Boxes and Word Bank apps. The problem with this approach is that although a knock, a bang or something that is thrown is an unmistakable event, the meaning of a word or sound, or its meaning by one of these methods, is open to interpretation. Although it may experience me what other ghost hunters have, it will not offer the kind of unmistakable evidence that I am looking for.
