Ghost Hunting and Paranormal Investigating has lately become a very popular hobby of interest of late. With all the Ghost Hunting and Paranormal related Television shows popping up, such as Sci-Fi's Ghost Hunters and destination truth, the travel channels America's Most Haunted, the new blood shows such as A haunting, Paranormal State, and the Ghost Adventures, the interest has spread worldwide.

 

All though this new interesting hobby for some is thought to be rather new, the truth it isn't. Groups have been forming and participating since the early years of Civilization, even the widely known Thomas Edison even had a love and interest in investigating the Paranormal such as Ghosts. Thomas Edison claimed he had indeed created a way to communicate with the Spirit World. Today this would be front page news on all media outlets if he were alive today and released this information, but unfortunately this was then, but now the new popular television shows have collected a respectable following and new groups are forming all across the world, riding the coat tails of this new era.

 

All types of people now venture out to places people once strain away from, experiencing the sudden rush of fear, and the possibility to catch some indisputable evidence to share with their friends, family and thanks to the creation of the Internet, the world. Most of these new hobbyist take the challenge of finding the ghostly truth, with out the knowledge to give themselves the best chances of ghost hunting success.

 

 Lack of knowledge is not something that should discourage one to pursue the art of ghost hunting and Paranormal investigating, simply, even the most experienced investigator has a lot to learn. Knowledge, tricks, strategies, and experience goes hand and hand. Investigating the Paranormal is in itself a deep and unknown realm that has a lot to be discovered. In truth we may never know the true answer's until we ourselves have passed on to the afterlife. 

You may have seen my submission of a picture that was taken in front of a local Walmart Super center. If not, the photo is below this article. If you click on the image and zoom it in, you will see a faded, almost see through figure wearing standing next to the brick wall. I was lucky enough to catch this figure, only because I always travel with my digital camera, since I know that the chance to land a shot of something that is Paranormal is usually unexpected, and I never know when you'll get lucky.

 

Tip#1:

 

Don't by shy and take your camera were ever you go. When you reach your destination and have a little time to spare, take some pictures of buildings, alley's, and so on. Who knows maybe you'll catch something special.

 

Back to the Walmart ghost shot. Even though I know that this entity or being was not visually present at the time I took the photograph, the problem, I can't prove it. As a common practice that I like to use which I call the “Three Shot” which is the technique of taking three quick photographs in a row as quick as possible, or as quick as the camera will let me. This strategy gives me three quick back to back shots. If I'm lucky enough, such as I was with this Walmart Photo, I'll catch something usually in the middle picture. This also gives me the idea that the amount in between shots is not enough time for something to walk in and out of the shot.

 

This technique also gives me a easier way to review the evidence, If all the three shots I took at that Walmart would of contained the same figure, it would of meant that their was actually a Human standing in that location, but there wasn't anyone their at the time of the picture, and the other two of the three shots had nothing. I was excited, but I realized that I made a mistake, my photograph's did not contain a photo stamp of the time and the date, thus not giving me the opportunity to present this photo with the timestamps imprinted on each photo, showing that these three pictures were taken in a certain amount of time, which could have giving me enough to dismiss the chance of someone walking into the shot, but I didn't.

 

Ghost Hunting Tip #2:

 

If your camera has this option, make sure your camera is set up with the time and date stamp feature, thus eliminating your opportunity for your evidence to be dismissed in the critic world, and creating a very substantial chance that your evidences will be regarded as true substantial evidence of the paranormal. Even if you do not use or try the “Three Shot” Technique, having a the date and time of day your ghostly image was shot, could in turn be useful for future investigations.

 

Tip #3:

 

If can afford so, buying a night shot camera will allow you to take pictures with out flash. Taking night pictures with out flash will help you identify a true orb is one should show on the picture. If there is no flash for something to react with, then how can it be dust right?