The world of the Paranormal is a fascinating place and once
people get involved it is very hard for them to walk away from it. I have for
as long as I can remember been interest in all things unexplained, as a child I
used to watch Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World on the TV every week and it
used to fascinate me so much.
When I was about 13 a strange incident happened to me that I
have never been able to explain, although I can not say with all honesty that
it was paranormal I have never been able to find the truth behind what
happened, this just made me more and more interested in mysteries and the
unexplained. Once I could drive I started visiting places that were supposed to
be haunted and I started doing a small investigation on my own, I visited many
battle sites around the UK, I would take a old Dictaphone recorder with me and
I would walk around recording all the time I was there to see if I could pick
anything up. Although I never really caught anything I could say was paranormal
doing it this way it did teach me a lot on how to do research on the sites and
put me in good stead from when I started doing group investigations.
I am not the type of person who on an investigation if
something happens jumps up and says it must be a spirit or a ghost, although on
investigations many strange and unexplainable things have happened, until I see
a ghost I can not say they exist, what I try to do is investigate all possible
natural causes for what ever it was we experienced and I would say about 70% of
the time we can find natural causes for it, but that is not always the case and
I would not say the 30% where we do not find natural causes are caused by something paranormal.
Everyone is different and have different beliefs so what
they experience may be different to what you and I experience, some people are
more sensitive and are able to pick up on the spirits of those that have past,
I am not one of these, I have never felt the presence of a spirit or felt that there is something there in any of the places I have investigated but I have still experience
things I can not explain and many things happen on investigations for which I can find no natural cause.
It is something you have to try for yourself, most the
people who come on an investigation say they are hooked and want to do more
investigations. So why not give one a go, all you need is an open mind.
Graham