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    Ghosthunting for the Sensible Investigator; first edition
    Ghosthunting for the Sensible Investigator; first edition
    Ghosthunting for the Sensible Investigator; first edition
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    Ghosthunting for the Sensible Investigator; first edition

    By Romulus Crowe

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    Are you a ghost hunter or a gadget collector? Do you really want to find proof of life after death, or do you just want to spend money on electronics? This book shows what you really need to start up as a ghosthunter. Not too much equipment, but a lot of common sense, persistence and a sensible approach to the investigation of the paranormal. Don't blow your budget on unneccessary equipment, don't waste night after night in pointless locations. Read this first. Then lose the gadgets, and find the ghosts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRomulus Crowe
    Release dateNov 21, 2011
    ISBN9781466177994
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      Ghosthunting for the Sensible Investigator; first edition - Romulus Crowe

      Ghost-hunting

      for the

      Sensible Investigator

      A guide for those who wish to avoid the failure and derision

      that plagues the gullible ghost hunter.

      Romulus Crowe

      Independent Researcher into the Paranormal

      The contents of this book are the reasoned opinions of R. Crowe, and do not necessarily reflect those of any of his past or current employers or associates.

      First edition. First published in print and PDF in 2006.

      Copyright Romulus Crowe, 2006.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      http://romuluscrowe.blogspot.com/

      Contents.

      Reasons for failure

      Where to find dead people

      Equipment, essential and otherwise

      Deep and meaningless.

      Avoid the Infrared

      A healthy dose of cynicism

      Mediums

      Calling for protection.

      The darker spirits

      Consideration costs nothing

      Reruns and originals

      Setting up –Beware of the Normal

      Trigger objects

      The last word

      Photographs

      The Bass, with surrounding graveyard

      Swansea town centre

      The derelict castle south of Ayr

      The essentials

      Orbs in an aquarium

      A likely location

      All photographs, including cover image, copyright Romulus Crowe.

      Reasons for failure

      The simple truth is: Most ghost hunters are idiots.

      Consider this: If you were to go bird watching, if you go hunting or fishing, if you decide to track down a rare species of animal, what do you do?

      Do you barge into the forest, demanding the creature come out and show itself? Do you go in as a group, armed with cameras and lights, and trailing yards of cable attached to a plethora of electronic equipment? Do you attempt to provoke the creature into appearing?

      If you do, what do you consider the chances of the creature you seek stepping out of the undergrowth and posing for a photograph?

      How likely is it that shouting and splashing will induce a fish to bite your hook?

      How close will you get to the deer/rabbit/whatever you are hunting if you insist on shouting out to it, long before you see evidence of its presence?

      With that in mind, put yourself in the ghost’s shoes for a moment. Here, of course, I mean the true ghost—the spirit of a departed human—as opposed to the ‘replay’ type of apparition. Those are not spirits, not ghosts in the true sense. They are recordings. Impressive, but they prove nothing as far as an afterlife is concerned.

      So you’re a ghost. How? That’s right, you died.

      Remember that. Ghosts are dead people. Say the last word again. People.

      It infuriates me to see ghost-hunting books refer to the spirit as ‘entity’ or ‘it’. It enrages me to hear TV-addled mediums refer to the ‘male presence’ they have ‘detected’. The spirit is a man or a woman. Dead, but not gone, and certainly not degenerated into some sexless, indeterminate

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