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1. Always look at your client first.
Psychologically speaking we all have
traumatic events that we have endured,
and depending how items have been
handled or not handled can cause events
triggered in the home by behavior
of others or events that can release
psycho kinetic energy bursts that
can mimic haunting events, but in
reality are a person or agent or agents
release of energy into the area or
areas that may be of significance
to the issue from the agent or agents.
Sometimes the client may manifest
phenomena upon themselves and this
is usually attributed to an internal
issue or a metaphor of the issue (
if they have a low self esteem or
feel guilty maybe its a S for Sinner
or they feel that the need to be punished
so they may manifest welts like belt
marks from childhood). Sometimes a
rape may be played out again visually
if there are intimacy issues with
the clients and they may manifest
a past rape's marks or bruising. Its
all subjective.If this is the case,
then counseling is in order and have
a professional make that call, and
if that professional has deemed this
not the issue then look at your clients
complaint and see if your dealing
with an Intelligent Haunting or a
Residual Haunting. An Intelligent
haunting is a persons conscience that
has survived the death process for
whatever reason and will react with
the people in the environment. This
is usually by movement of items, hiding
items, audible or visual phenomena,
and so on. This is not a whole person
as its not a complete memory of the
person, its more of just shards of
memories, so you need to determine
who you are dealing with and see what
the limitations are, and find out
why they are there. A reputable medium
can facilitate this. Remember to get
names , dates places and events for
historical confirmation, and again
always visually and audible document
everything. A Residual Haunting or
Place Memory in a location are stored
events that are either tapped into
by us during the right circumstances
and played back or a medium taps into
these when they're on site and draws
from this. This is usually caused
by strong emotions or actions being
absorbed into the area and held there
over a period of time. These events
are always the same thing and DO NOT
DEVIATE from the event played.
2. EMF BACK GROUNDS - Always map your
locations EMF backgrounds and update
them between 15 to 30 Min's of every
hour. This will give you an accurate
hot spot location for investigation
as well as being able to physically
see if there is a correlation between
an area of manifestation and agent
or agents. This will be apparent if
there is an emotional outburst of
the client at the time of the backgrounds.
Never provoke the client to get this,
be passive and only let TRAINED Personnel
deal with people on this level. If
your are not trained call some one
who is.
3. EVP Controls - When recording EVP,
always use 2 mediums on site. The
focus is evidence and if you have
2 analog and digital recorders capturing
EVP at the same time and its the same
response, then you have SOLID EVIDENCE.
If you place your recorders in an
area to just record without doing
a Q and A, always have a camera overlooking
the room with the recorders in the
shot, so you can verify if someone
is skewing data. Controls are a must.
When going over your EVP results use
the controls as reference to verify
your pulled samples first to see if
there were any outside influences,
then when grading your samples, NEVER
tell the people listening your thought
of what it says. This is an audio
cue and that person hearing your opinion
first before they do can and will
cause them to not only think that's
what they are supposed to hear, but
takes the objectivity from the person
and makes that what they might hear.
Always poll it and report those results.
When presenting to the client let
them hear it first and get their take
on it then give them the results of
your poll afterworld. It will be more
professional and objective that way.
There is nothing wrong with pulling
an EVP Sample and not getting a message,
sometimes that just happens so just
report it as a "SAMPLE that was
inconclusive", Its still an EVP
but it will save on the over filtering
of it and adding to the millions of
robot sounds on the net. Not all are
listenable so take that pressure of
of you.
4. Camera Controls - When leaving
video cameras in an area to record,
always seal the area and if there
is a door to close to the area, do
this and place a PIR( passive infra
red) warning device outside of the
door to notify you of an intrusion
or place a security camera to cover
the area so you have the location
controlled as well. This way the team
knows if someone broke the seal and
skewed data or was just going in to
move cameras. Always announce yourself
as well as your intent for the record
of the investigation as well. Always
use a analog and digital camera on
site so you can capture phenomena
on both mediums. Same concept as the
2 EVP recorders that it gives your
evidence strength if its caught on
both, but here is the kicker. If you
get something on film, the manufacturer
can look at it and verify the shot
and stock on a killer shot, whereas
the Digital medium will always be
questioned because of the programs
that can photo shop images. Remember
being Hi-Tech sometimes has its drawbacks.When
using a SLR camera (35 mm ) have your
camera shop develop all of the film,
and look at your prints when you pick
them up. Anything that is weird looking
ask about processing flaws then, and
have them reprint it if it is. When
using your Digital Camera and capturing
a paranormal shot, always keep it
in its original file and use its EXIF
reader to show the settings of the
shot, aperture, F-Stop and so on.
This will give that shot credibility.
The minute you save it as a jpeg ad
so on, you destroy this file and you
cannot give the needed information.
When getting feedback for your video
and photo data, again poll for the
answer and do not point out the phenomena
so you get a good response. REMEMBER
ORBS ARE 99% FALSE, so look at them
case by case and analyze the hell
out of them. They are just not looked
at as credible evidence.
5. Historical Information: This needs
to be looked over by the lead investigator
only, and have him direct the activities
that need to be covered. Again the
data needs to be clean and the less
the team knows and the evidence shows,
the better as they have no idea and
cannot be questioned on it because
they had no PRIOR knowledge, the evidence
spoke for them. Also if your using
a medium, please do not show ANYTHING
to them. They are to just show up,
give their reading and go. The less
they know the stronger the evidence.If
a whole group knows the case file,
then there is no data control and
a possible group conscience could
make things happen in the home (IE
Phillip experiment where Toronto Society
of Psychical Research made up a back
story an object named Phillip, and
over 2 weeks to discuss Phillip and
gave it energy to later have phenomena
caused by the group.)
6. Mediums - Always monitor your medium
with EMF and Temp Gauges during their
readings, para psychologically the
showing of a atmospheric change( temp
change), EMF flux, and audio or visual
capture of this not only can show
how PSI ability can affect the area,
but during a paranormal event, can
verify their experience. Always have
at least 2 mediums to go through and
area. This way one will confirm the
other at different times. Will validate
their usage and sometime will even
get more information for research
and validate data from technical data
gathered. Monitor your medium for
exhaustion and emotional status, they
sometimes will get wrapped up in their
work and need you to pull them when
they get too tired or get to connected
to an emotional issue. When this happens
pull them from the area and let them
re cooperate. There is no embarrassment
in this and its just good medium management.
Always TEST your medium at a place
you have done allot of work, and make
a checklist of what you want them
to look for, the more hits the better
the accuracy and the more the medium
gains the trust of the team. Too many
people make mediumistic claims for
personal gain or monetary gain and
are frauds. So protect you and your
team.
7. Client Backgrounds - Its important
to know the intent of the investigation
when dealing with your client, so
always run a background check on them
as well as the historical background.
If it shows they are in foreclosure
of the home, maybe its to get out
of the home or to use this as a "Book
or Show" for money or other purposes,
so always ask them why they contacted
you and share with them your findings.In
a professional manner of course. If
you suspect this either make sure
you have paperwork to protect your
work or if you feel its not something
that is beneficial, its OK to walk
away, not all cases can be worked.
If your client has a mental issue
(either they have shared that with
you or a professional has shared this
with you with the clients permission)
then maybe a counselor is in order
and they can call at a later date.
Have a professional also do a med
check to see if there are hallucinatory
issues with the client. Allot of medications
will cause visual and audio hallucinations.
There are just allot of variables
other than just assuming that the
client is truthful, sometimes they
are not trying to not be truthful,
just influences make their perception
skewed.
8. Investigation Definitions - Make
sure you cover with your client the
difference between a TV investigation
and a Real Life investigation so they
know the time and energy involved.
The more they know, the more they
understand and the less frustration
you will have. Communication is always
the key to success. Set your boundaries
with your client at the beginning,
let them know office hours for contact,
time durations for reports, and when
needed, expiration of covering the
case. Some clients will become clingy
or take advantage of you if you do
not set boundaries and can have you
on the phone all night or constantly
call on data results,so be careful.
You have a life too.
9. Compensation - Do not be afraid
to ask for compensation on gas or
lodgings on long trips. I know there
are allot of teams out there that
do not charge for services and that's
cool, but you have the right to re
cooperate some expenses, as film,
batteries,development,fees for research,lodgings
at the Motel 6,gas at 4 bucks a gallon
in some places all add up. So its
OK to charge a flat gas fee and lodging
fee as long as you cover it with your
client and present receipts. If they
want your services, its their responsibility
to do that at the very least. If you
work out cents per mile that's good
too. Just call them and let them know
what the starting mileage is and let
them verify the stopping mileage so
they get a warm fuzzy on the agreement.
10. Always be professional, provide
permission paperwork, your references,
your Driver's license for ID purposes,
professional dress, remember you are
not just representing your team, but
the perceptions of the field to some
clients, and if you show up with allot
of piercing, tattered clothes and
unprofessional demeanor, you make
the field look bad a well. The more
these occurrences look like everyday
happening, then the drama will settle
down, and people will start to feel
more comfortable with the happenings.
If you do not have the experience
to handle the case, either refer it
to a team that does or bring a consultant
team to help, its the only way to
learn and make sure the case is done
right. There is nothing wrong with
knowing your teams limitations, and
its will only help the team grow in
the long run. Always protect your
client from the media and lookie loos,
keep location confidential and never
post their information. This makes
YOU responsible for anything that
might happen, so if THEY want to talk
about it, let THEM. KEEP IT OFF YOUR
WEBSITE, remember its your responsibility
the second you step in to help them
and they will treat it as such, so
be confidential, ethical and private.
Do not draw attention to the home,
as they client has money invested
in a mortgage and may even have children
and have to live there AFTER you leave.
This is why I have always stated to
wear business casual clothes and NO
TEAM PARAPHERNALIA as the neighbors
do not need to know your clients business.
TEAM functions and Promotional functions
are cool. Again you do not want the
headache of the client blaming you
for anything you did not cause. Do
not cause your client fear. I can
not stress this enough. Do not get
wrapped up into the drama and be objective
at all times, remember your there
to figure this out, so be open, but
if they are experiencing physical
phenomena to them, calm them down
and look at the events prior to the
event and figure out the trigger.
Its usually poltergeist phenomena
caused by an internal issue or an
agent causing stress to the person
receiving and they in turn manifest
the physical part of it. Watch your
equipment for fluctuations and bring
in a professional to deal with this.
It can be dealt with by a Hypnotherapist
or LPC once they are open to the help.
With the growing of the community
due to paranormal enthusiasts, its
always a good practice to keep an
eye out in your community and make
yourself available to train the newer
people so the clients always get knowledgeable
help as well as it keeps your load
down to not have to do re-dos. I hope
this information helps and if I can
be of further assistance please let
me know.
About Peter James Haviland A.C.C.H.
Clinical Forensic Hypnotherapist
Co-Host Parahub Radio
www.parahub.org
Field Investigator Office of Paranormal
Investigations
www.mindreader.com
Co-Founder of Paranormal Research
Organization
SE Texas Area Rep for American Ghost
Society
www.prairieghosts.com
President/Lead Investigator of Lone
Star Spirits Paranormal Investigations.
www.lonestarspirits.org
Member of the AAEVP
www.AAEVP.com
Peter Haviland is a Nationally known
and respected paranormal investigator
with over 20+ years experience in
the field. He and his team, Lone Star
Spirits Paranormal Investigations
have been documented in well over
10 + books as consultants and contributors
over the last 11 years to many authors.
He and he team have been on National
radio shows,National Tv shows and
internet radio programs as well. Peter
has spoken at colleges,conferences,and
local events spreading not only his
experiences and the teams findings,
but entertaining the audiences with
a combination of humor and audio/visual
presentations that have always gotten
a positive feedback. Peter is a Forensic
Hypnotherapist,Clinical Hypnotherapist
and works with his clients to identify
and remove issues that cause poltergeist
phenomena in their homes, with a great
success. He is also the president
of LSSPI, a parapsychologist,a investigator
with the Office of Paranormal Investigations
for Loyd Auerbach, a co-founder of
the Paranormal Research Organization
with Loyd Auerbach and many other
national parapsychologists,a Texas
Area Representative for the AGS, and
is a co-host with Ruffhouse and Parahub
Radio (www.parahub.org) .He also teaches
paranormal classes and is working
on a book due out in 2009. Peter and
Lone Star Spirits are available for
conferences, please feel free to contact
them @ info@lonestarspirits.org .
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