Metro Paranormal Investigations

[Matt Tiza]

If this were a class mock election and you could pick a place that isn't rumored to be haunted, but one that you'd expect to be, what would it be?

For my example I read a story on the internet the other day, and, given the level of emotion here, I'd expect the house where it occurred to be haunted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete-encased_high_school_girl_murder

We actually had a very similar occurrence happen at my high school when I was a student there which, surprisingly, received almost no media coverage.

Of course, tragedies happen every day, but hauntings seem seldom. There have to be links to which sites are haunted and why that we don't understand yet. Being able to predict which sites have the greatest chance of being haunted would be one of the greatest advances in this field.

[MPI-Tech]

My first thought would have to be structures or sites where there was a large concentration of persons exposed to constant stressful conditions - prisons, hospitals, mental wards, etc. The huge amount of mental anguish and energy at these places while they were active (should) tend to create conditions perfect for hauntings. Waverly Hills would be the best-known example of this line of reasoning. The problem is that there really isn't enough of a reporting pool from which to draw conclusions - there are vastly more 'haunted' homes and businesses than closed-down prisons and hospitals which have been investigated. Perhaps one day we'll be able to draw more conclusions about this.
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Chris "LED" Cloud
MPI Equipment Manager
Keeper of the cables / lord of the lumens
<i>Blinding MPI members since 2006</i>

[Matt Tiza]

It seems like most closed down prisons, hospitals, and mental wards all over the country are rumored to be haunted. Eerie places always get that reputation. I like the way that you think as strong emotion seems to be a common thread among places rumored to be haunted. Perhaps this is just an assumption that we, the living, make?

[MPI-Tech]

At this point all we can go on is assumptions. We can't define what spirits are, let alone what energies they may be composed of. How can you monitor something you can't even define? That's the primary difficulty facing this field.
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Chris "LED" Cloud
MPI Equipment Manager
Keeper of the cables / lord of the lumens
<i>Blinding MPI members since 2006</i>

[Matt Tiza]

Hey, the paranormal is new territory, but then again it isn't. Aristotle and pretty much everybody up to Isaac Newton had no idea about the laws of nature, psychics, chemistry, etc. The idea of atoms, molecules, cells, and certainly DNA that we all accept and take for granted today were completely oblivious to the average person back then. I'd bet that a lot of that stuff would have fallen into the same category as pseudoscience back then.

Our position as paranormal investigators today is no different. We have to find new tools and techniques to understand what we cannot directly observe or explain. I'm beginning to think that our current electromagnetic methods may not be able to characterize the paranormal realm.

It's an exciting time where we are going to break ground into what the paranormal is really all about. I wouldn't be surprised if we have to develop completely new concepts along the way to justify our observations. Observations are the basis of science. Right now we have many alleged observations of paranormal activity across the world throughout history. We didn't invent this stuff. It's universal. We don't yet have the means to measure or record them, but we do have the groundwork observations that will form the bases of our new theories to explain paranormal activity.