So you think that you know where there is a paranormal occurrence going on or that a place you frequent is the home base for a type of haunting. What’s next? You could possibly search the Internet or the local phone book to try to find a paranormal investigator who will come assess the situation and then hopefully will aid in the removal of the spirit or at least in figuring out what the spirit wants and why it is choosing the specific place involved in the investigation. However, these professionals can be expensive, hard to find, difficult to get or transport to very rural or isolated places (which unfortunately is a very common trait of these events or hauntings), and cut off from their employers once they get the basic information they need about the incident. If you do not have the money required for trained and certified paranormal investigators for your issue or if you just wish to try to investigate yourself so that you can begin to rack up your own experiences or reach out to the supernatural realm that you have an innate interest in, there are certain protocols you can follow which will help make things smoother. One of the main things that sets professionals apart and aids them in their jobs is the equipment they bring with them and then use in the field. If you intend on performing your own investigations of paranormal events in your immediate area or even around the world on many occasions or over a significant span on time, investing in the purchase of these high tech, special devices is very advisable since you will be needing to use them in every occurrence you look into and documentation of these investigations will help you better train yourself and provide proof to any serious doubters that are in your immediate social circle. Take a look at the basic paranormal investigator’s tool kit and the devices you will most certainly be needing if you are going to analyze the merging of the supernatural realm with the mundane human world.
Digital Camera
Almost every person in the modern world is in possession of some type of digital camera whether as an independent device or as part of another instrument like a cell phone or MP3 player. However, you will want to invest in a decent digital camera for your paranormal investigations. Since digital camera allow for more subtleties to be picked up in the field of the camera’s lens system and the accompanying software with this type of camera allows you to look even closer to the pictures you do take by playing with the exposure and coloring settings to get clearer evidence of your paranormal encounter. You will want a camera that has a memory large enough to hold at least 300 pictures though so that you do not have to restrict yourself when faced with several supernatural variations in your immediate area. Keeping the camera on manual settings also will prove helpful as it will let you prevent the shutter system from being open longer than is necessary and give you more control over the camera’s focus. Just be sure that the speed settings and flash are correct for your environment as the wrong ones will cause anomalies in the photographs that are not related to the occurrence.
Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Meter
Since many spirits or beings that interact with humans on the mortal plane do not have the power or perhaps desire to physically show themselves, you will need other tools to see them or to determine how they are working with or acting upon the environment. Many paranormal entities can hide themselves from humans while dealing with physical objects in the human realm but cannot keep their own electromagnetic fields concealed. Therefore, attaining an electromagnetic field meter would be very useful in the case of a being that has been interacted with but not seen. A Trifield meter is the best for these investigations as it can discern fields from electric and magnetic sources in addition to the detection of microwave emissions. This tool also proves helpful in pre-analysis studies to determine if the occurrence is actually paranormal or simply a natural or man-made phenomenon since those sources need to be ruled out before further work is conducted. A EMF meter or Trifield meter can easily monitor these origins since natural electric sources do not rise and fall along the meter as often as man made ones do.
Laser Thermometer
One of the most common characteristics of a paranormal event is the feeling in the atmosphere. Many people who encounter supernatural beings try to describe the sensations in the air that come along with the presence of the entity. Yet, other than the sensitivities felt by first person eye witnesses there can be actual data collected to support their claims. The easiest type of this data to gather is the temperature in the air. Whenever a spirit is present rooms will have cold spots or entire areas that experience a sudden drop in temperature. A thermometer is very handy in these situations, but rather than a normal temperature gauge like the one on your front door you will be much happier to possess a more high tech device. A laser thermometer can immediately store large amounts of data that can be later uploaded to a computer for analysis. Since they do not need to be constantly hooked into the computer you will be using though, they are very convenient to have around even on the most last minute investigations. The looking into of temperature variations is very useful when comparing other collected evidence from the events to determine paranormal interactions.
Digital Audio Recorder
Electronic Voice Phenomenon (also known as EVP or white noise) is one of the most common ways that spirit beings reach out into the mortal realm. To better collect data of possible EVP during your paranormal investigation you will want to have a digital audio recorder on hand. The recorder then needs to be placed in an open area to more easily pick up voices or sounds that have no known source and will not be confused with the natural noises of the area. Listen to the recording individually by yourself before letting your other team members listen to it by themselves as well. Each of you should take your own notes (making sure to mention any natural noises you hear as well) then compare later with the team members hearing the recording without knowing what the other people heard to inadvertently influence their own ideas of the sounds.
Night Vision Capable Video Camera
While digital cameras are great for your investigation and collecting their own individual data, an actual video camera has its own special uses and can be left to constantly record rather than relying on you catching something at the exact moment in time that it happens. This video camera proves more useful when it has night vision so that it can pick up things not seen by the naked human eye in the dark places generally occupied by these beings. Digital video recorders (DVR’s) are also very helpful in that you can hook several different camera lenses to a single recorder and therefore record a single place or occurrence from various angles that provide different feedback to give a more complete picture.
Author: Brooke Windsor Copyrighted © paranormalhaze.com
