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Storyteller's Cabin |
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Part Two - Hell Hole |
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Part Three - The Hunt |
Q: Have you ever investigated a supposedly haunted location, only to find that there's another explanation for the haunting? If so, what do people commonly mistake for ghosts?
A: Most people, believe it or not, seem kind of disappointed. Most people don't want to hear that they don't have a ghost. That's a big reason we don't charge - cause we don't want anybody to expect results just because they paid money. We think wiring is a problem - there was one house where there was a tiny gas leak, something they needed to know about anyway, and that's why they felt strange in a certain area. Sometimes nausea is another symptom of a haunting, because an entity seems to pass right through a person. And when it does that, it makes people sick. If that's happening in one area only, check to see if you have a gas leak, and if you don't, then you might have an entity.
There are other cases where people thought ghosts were driving them insane in the house, and what it really was was limestone - which we have a lot of in Georgia - rubbing together because we're not in an area where we get seismic activity. And it was producing a high pitched tone that was driving people crazy, and especially the dogs - one had jumped over a fence and had accidentally hung himself. So sometimes there are explanations, but whether it's gas or limestone rubbing underneath the house, you need to know about those things.
This photo was taken near a haunted farm in Lawrenceville, Georgia. GHHT members reported "prickly" and "electric" sensations near the barn. See the orb? Q: Tell us about the scariest place you've ever investigated? A: The scariest place I ever investigated was a house in Norcross, Georgia, where a bunch of us had to sit on a bed in the dark. And we were trying to recreate a scene in which these little girls had seen a woman walk into the room. And we did simultaneously see a gray shadow walk from the hallway through the bedroom - I mean, every hair on the back of my neck was standing straight up - and into this bathroom. We called the family and we looked in the bathroom, and we would see a silhouette of a woman with almost 1960s flipped up hair. And in our pictures, we get balls of light there. That was scary - because it looked like a human, it was a shadow, it was in the dark, we could see her outline and her hair, and there were over ten people there seeing the same thing. It was incredible to see something that everyone else was seeing. Q: How can someone take a picture of a ghost? Are there certain conditions that must be met? A: Not really. It seems easier to get them at night. We get more of them in cemeteries than in homes. The higher speed film you're using, the better your chances of catching something that's going fast, which they do seem to move at a pretty quick clip. You can get them in the day in haunted places, just not as frequently as at night. It's a big misconception that you can only get mist or globules or balls of light at night - you can certainly get them during the day. And something you need to look for - you need to make sure it's really recorded on the negative. If it's a mist, you have to make sure that it isn't something that goes over the negative and into the border of the negative. If it goes over into the border, it's probably a film flaw. And you need to make sure it's not a lens flare, and that you weren't shooting toward the light. So if you're careful about ruling those sorts of things out, and once you have what's actually recorded onto the negative, then you may have an anomaly there that could be a ghost.
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