As a founder of a Paranormal Group and an investigator, you hit on some key points. However, 90% of investigations are completely explainable. The shows you see sensationalize the Paranormal and make it sound like it is easy.. A 1 hour show can take them 2-8 weeks just to get what you see in that hour. A normal non televised group normally gets a call, a premlim if done with the clients before an investigation is even considered. HIstory of the home, history of the family, asking the clients to keep a journal for 2- weeks will all help aid in deciding whether to follow through with the investigation. My own group, once decided sends in a medium first to do a walk through. Making notes of hot spots or questionable areas so we know where to set up cameras. Once in, lights are turned out and it begins. On average a home owner will only allow us up to 8 hours, which reall is not much time to make a solid determination but you have to respect their wishes. Once all the data is collected, my team will each analyze every sound/video clip over and over. This can take up to a month since most groups have working joes as volunteers. We come together, discuss the findings if any and write a full report and make an appointment with the client to review it. I have condensed what all really happens. :) What I do resent it being compared to the Televised shows. Clients expect you to find things, whether it be paranormal or not because this is what they see on TV.
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Thanks for the upvote and he comments, I appreciate them.
I think a piece of my interest in writing this article stems from the fact one of my neighbors hired a paranormal investigation team, and I happened to run into them (almost quite literally) as I was leaving for work one morning. Thanks for taking the time to share what goes into an investigation which is not made for TV.
Full disclosure- in one of the source materials I chose not to use, they spoke at length about how in the reality TV investigations, the subject family/individual/etc. are generally pressured to follow a script r scripted response. Clearly the subculture series I write is not about pushing a specific editorialized viewpoint, and I could not find a corroborating source, so omitted it.
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