Ghost hunting is the process of investigating locations said to be
haunted. A ghost "hunting party" will involve 4-8 individuals
who work as a team to collect evidence of paranormal activity. Ghost
hunters usually record data in a scientific manner, making observation
using electronic equipment of various types, such as; EMF Meters,
digital thermometers, infrared and night vision cameras, handheld
video cameras, digital audio recorders, and computers. Organized teams
of ghost hunters are also called paranormal investigation teams. "Real
ghost photos - real ghost stories." you decide!
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Some of these Top 100 Most allegedly haunted places
are known for their haunted cemeteries, houses, buildings, Roads,
hotels, & battlefields and churches. And in some cases a city
may be listed and in other spots a haunted hot spot. Please feel free
to use this as a Paranormal Travel Guide when planning your
next haunted destination ghost hunt or vacation. There are literally
thousands of haunted places around the world, and this list only compiles
a small number of them.
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information site; our information is only as reliable as readers'
contributed ghost and haunted reports. We assume no credit for your
adventures, and accept no liability for your misadventures. Use common
sense. Read our ghost hunting recommendations. Before visiting any
"haunted" site, verify the location, accessibility, safety,
and other important information. Never trespass on private and/or
posted property without permission from the proper authorities.
Critics of ghost hunting say there is
a total lack of scientifically testable and verifiable evidence in favor
of the existence of ghosts, despite centuries of interest in the subject.
And of course a personal experience that the person who encounters a real
ghost or proof never forgets.
Ghost hunting is
practiced by many paranormal investigation groups
whose members sometimes promote their findings on
the web as proof of hauntings. These findings are
generally challenged by skeptics as wishful thinking,
pareidolia or the product of scientifically unsound
practices and beliefs. Critics question ghost-hunting's
methodology, particularly its use of instrumentation,
as there is no scientifically-proven link between
the existence of ghosts and cold spots or electromagnetic
fields.[
The Ghost Club, founded
in London in 1862, is believed to be the oldest
paranormal research organization in the world. Famous
members of the club have included Charles Dickens,
Sir William Crookes, Sir William Fletcher Barrett
and Harry Price.
Early "ghost hunter" Harry Price In the
mid 1880's, William James, philosopher and founder
of the American Psychological Association and brother
of Henry James suggested applying scientific method
to paranormal questions such as the existence of
ghosts or spirits. He found allies in England such
as Alfred Russel Wallace, Cambridge philosopher
Henry Sidgwick and his wife, Eleanor, Edmund Gurney,
and others to form the core of the Society for Psychical
Research to collect evidence concerning apparitions,
haunted houses, and similar phenomena. The investigators
gathered case studies, attended séances,
designed tests of claimants' veracity, and ran what
came to be known as the Census of Hallucinations,
which counted apparitions of persons who were said
to have made spectral appearances on the day they
died.
Similar investigation into hauntings was undertaken
by Harry Price through London's National Laboratory
of Psychical Research during the 1920s, and later
in the 1950s and 60s by American independent researchers
such as Hans Holzer and Ed and Lorraine Warren.
Other paranormal and parapsychological investigators
like Loyd Auerbach, Christopher Chacon and William
Roll were each independently conducting field and
laboratory investigations in the 1970s and 80s,
long before reality TV cast a spotlight onto this
subject matter.
Ghost hunting is nothing new, it just
takes a deep interest in specters, spooks
and shades to get the ball rolling. The
search for ghosts to many die hard's is
more of a proving ground for those that
wish to see if there is more to life then
just our daily existence. Others now a
days seem to do it for the kick of just
getting scared.
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Ghost hunting among part-time hobbyists
began to be popular in the late 1970s with the founding
of the Chicago area Ghost Tracker’s Club,
which became the Ghost Research Society (GRS) in
1981. The popularity of the Ghostbusters movie of
1984 may have boosted the proliferation of such
"ghost clubs".
GHOST
HUNTING SAFETY GUIDE:
How to hunt
for ghosts the safe way: Safety tips from
different ghost hunter groups, web sites and
authors and paranormal investigators.
In the last decade, the term "paranormal
investigation" has increasingly been adopted
by hobbyist and professional groups who do not investigate
any other aspects of the paranormal such as Extra-sensory
perception and Psychokinesis, but whose sole purpose
is ghost hunting.
