How to Hunt Ghosts

Posted on July 16th, 2009 by Carmelia

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Hunting ghosts may sound fun, but it can lead to a lot of false conclusions and bruised kneecaps if you’re unready, both internally and externally. If done with careful preparation and consideration, any evidence of ghosts you capture will be hard to refute. Here’s how to get started.

Look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if you can really handle the possibility of getting face-to-face with a real ghost. Being a cowardly ghost hunter will make more trouble than you realize. Not only will you be panicking and getting scared at the smallest noise, you might cause trouble for other people in the hunting team or neighboring people in the vicinity. You’re there to investigate, so buck up and make sure you’ve got the spine to actually go through with it.
It’s best to work with a team if you’re going to go ghost hunting. There are a lot of things out there that can cause you harm in the night, and not just ghosts! Work in pairs, and keep each other in sight while hunting ghosts.
Visit the site where the ghost hunting will take place. If the place is unoccupied, make sure that you contact the owner or the proper authorities about your intended ghost hunt. You don’t want to be arrested because of trespassing in the middle of the night.
At the site, familiarize yourself with the area and its surroundings. Take note of stairs, trees, broken pavement, dead falls, loose floorboards or anything that may potentially cause an accident. Remember, ghost hunting takes place at night time, so you should minimize the possibility of falling down and hurting yourself as much as possible.
You may want to do a little research on the area where you’ll be conducting your ghost hunt. Research can mean something as simple as asking the owner for the basic history of the area or reading up on what the area used to be. Some ghost hunters put off research later as to not bias themselves on what they might see or encounter during the actual ghost hunt. It’s really up to you.
Decide on what time you want to do your ghost hunt. The dead hour or the time from midnight to dusk is said to be the best time, but night time in general is a good time for ghost hunting.
Go to the area while it’s still daytime and establish “headquarters” in one part of the house. This is where your team will regroup after the hunt or in case of an emergency.
Get your gadgets ready. You can use video cameras, digital recorders, digital thermometers and EMF meters as a start. Assign one gadget to one person. Make sure that they are all fully charged and have spare batteries, if needed.
Agree on how you will go around the area and how long the ghost hunting will take you. Agree to meet in your headquarters on a certain time.
Go around the house and record as much as you can. If you’re using the digital recorder, make sure you leave as much dead air to allow the disembodied voices to speak in your recorder.
After the ghost hunt, go home and review all your recorded data. Keep an open mind, but be skeptical about anything strange that has happened. Try to find logical explanations behind strange occurrences. If there are none, then congratulations, you may have recorded evidence of a haunting!