In our last post we mentioned that with residual hauntings nothing could be done since the entity doesn’t really know about its existence or yours.Intelligent hauntings pose a different set of challenges, first there is the trouble of proving that it actually is intelligent. To do this an investigator would have to collect enough evidence that shows clear responses to questions or commands that are not coincidence and then follow up with a second line of questions that yield the same level of response.

The next challenge is deciding how to handle the situation. It may be possible to communicate that you do not wish to be bothered but be careful how you express your request. Some groups may tell you to demand that they leave and that you must make it known that this is “your house” or that they are dead
and need to move on. I have a serious problem with this mainly because it is not proven to work and may be dangerous. When you yell at anyone, living or dead, you run the risk of making them angry. For this reason PPS will not in any way provoke anything that may be in your house, after all we get to go home after the investigation you still have to live there. Other groups will insist on getting clergy involved, this typically only works with non-human or demonic entities, so it probably will not work either.

What it all comes down to is that this used to be a person and may still reason like one. Your best bet may be to communicate with it in a calm non-threating manner. If it retained any of its humanity it may listen or it may just be comfortable where it is and not want to leave. If it does stick around after asking it to leave at least you won’t have to worry about it being angry.

Yesterday I posted about how PPS should not be thought of as ghost busters since we cannot claim to be removers of ghosts. I mentioned that the evidence and type of haunting will dictate the direction we take in order to resolve our client’s fears. A lot of times what seems like a sign of a haunting or malignant spirit may actually be explained by natural causes. This is why we don’t speculate on the type of haunting or course of action until a full investigation is complete and all evidence is analyzed. Which brings me to my main point of discussion for today, Residual hauntings.

A residual haunting is Any haunting where spirits are seen repeating the same actions, behaviors, or movements over and over again in the exact same way. It is most often compared to a tape that plays in a continuous loop and the entity has no knowledge of the individuals or environment around it. In this type of haunting nothing can really be done to get rid of the spirit since the “tape” will keep playing over-and-over again whether somebody is there or not. Some people believe that helping the spirit by telling it that it is no longer living that this will help it “move on.” This has not been proven to work as many still encounter the same experiences. This of course does make sense since the entity has no knowledge of your existence it would not be possible to communicate and telling it to move on would be as effective as telling your DVR (VCR for you older folks) to willfully leave your home.

There is an impression that paranormal investigators are in fact “ghost busters” this of course is inaccurate and conveys a belief that we will come in with proton packs and other fancy equipment and leave with your ghosts in tow. True, during our investigations we will bring in equipment but this is to document and capture evidence of your reported activity rather remove the ghosts from your home.

Once it is determined that a house is haunted we will then provide some options on how to handle the situation.  As we’ve mentioned before hauntings fall into several different categories and how we proceed will be based on what the evidence shows.

Over the next few days we will post how PPS proceeds with different types of hauntings.

I came across an article Here about a ghost tour in Picton, New South Wales Australia where a photo take by a woman appears to show 2 children. The photographer and others swear that no children were present during the tour. According to local legends it is believed that the photo shows David Shaw and Blanche Moon who died 60 years apart and adds to the myriad of ghost stories that surround this part of Australia.  Renee English, who took the photo said:

“When we were standing at the bank looking into the Cemetery I was just snapping away and making jokes about the whole thing and asking when the ghosts were going to come out, I know that when I took that photo there was no-one else in the cemetery. The only people we saw were a family of four about 10 minutes later but those kids were clinging to their parents the whole time.”

Picture taken January 9th at St Mark's Cemetery in New South Wales

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Its been almost 3 weeks since the launch of our new website and you are probably wondering what we’ve been up to. We are preparing for the upcoming year, organizing our upcoming cases and deciding which experiments we would like to conduct this year. We have a few cases lined up but they are still in the preliminary stage so we will not post any information regarding those cases until we decide if an investigation is needed. We will also be finishing up some of our open cases, it is our policy not to post any evidence until our clients have a chance to review it, once we hold our “reveal” then we will post any evidence captured during an investigation.

Along with the investigations and experiments we will also be analyzing our visitor’s audio, video and pictures. If you have something you would like us to look at or listen to you may use the email link under the contact menu. We will accept most audio and video formats as well as all image formats. Please include in the email if you would like us to share the picture/video/evp and our analysis on our website. We of course will honor any requests to keep any or all of your information private.

I would also like to ask our readers to share your paranormal experiences, these may be stories that have happened to you or someone you know or even something that you made up, but please tell us if it is true or false. I will start making monthly posts containing a mixture of true and false stories and it will be up to our readers to decide which is which by voting, answers will be revealed the following month.

So start thinking about your experiences and stories for February, any responses I receive after the stories are posted will automatically be pushed to the next month.

Happy New Year from Pasadena Paranormal.

2009 was an exciting year with an increased caseload and some new members joining our team and our first major out of state investigation. We also began conducting some experiments to support some of the theories about the paranormal.

Hopefully we will have an even better year in 2010, we already have a few cases in the works and should have more information about them in the coming months. There will also be more experiments this year as well.

We decided to start the new year with a new and improved website, with this new version we hope to expand our web awareness by further integrating into the social networking universe. This site is now linked directly to our twitter, facebook and myspace accounts and any comments posted to our posts can be shared directly on your facebook wall with a simple check box.

Our contact pages have changed slightly, now you will be able to ask a question that will appear on our FAQ or you can send us a private email with a file (picture, audio, video) to be analyzed.

Thanks to all of our supporters out there we hope you enjoy the new site and if you haven’t done so sign up to receive email alerts whenever we add new information.

-PPS