Dark World: Into the Shadows with the Lead Investigator of the Ghost Adventures Crew by Kelly Crigger, Zak Bagans Page B
Authors: Kelly Crigger, Zak Bagans
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and I feel like I’m more sensitive to the presence of paranormal energy. Again, I do not claim to be psychic, but I believe that the best tool a paranormal investigator has is his (or her) body, and that it gets more in tune to the paranormal activity the more often it gets immersed in it. It’s like learning a language. You can study Spanish in school, but it’s not the same as being dropped off in the middle of Bogota, where you have to learn the language to survive.
I can’t stress enough the importance of training your senses. What you see on TV is two-dimensional representation of a four-dimensional world that the paranormal investigator experiences. I firmly believe that the human body can detect the presence of spiritual energy better than most electronic devices.
Some would say this is pseudoscience, but I want to challenge that assertion. Why can’t the body be relied upon as a detector? Why is it so easy to dismiss goose bumps and chills as a product of the mind? Why do we discount the feeling that someone is watching us as the mind playing tricks on us? I will admit that fooling the brain is possible, and I have read about the effects of EMF on the mind. I even read a medical report that suggested the doppelganger effect is caused by stimulation of the left temporoparietal junction of the brain (I would not know what temporoparietal was otherwise).
I can buy that in a setting where there are electric currents and EMFs, but what about when I’m alone in an abandoned barn in Ohio and there’s nothing that could cause that stimulation? When I hear someone behind me, smell their musk, and feel their breath on the back of my neck—three senses sending me alarm signals at the same time—how is it that my brain is playing tricks on me?
I say this—after six million years of evolution, is there anything else more in tune with the planet than the human body? We grow muscles to withstand fourteen pounds of air pressure per square inch at sea level. We develop senses to detect changes in wind patterns and know when a storm is approaching. We can hear threatening footsteps approaching and feel the stares of an angry ex-girlfriend as her eyes burn a hole in our back. We have millions of nerve endings in our skin to feel our environment. In short, we evolve. We become more in tune with the world, like birds that use the Earth’s magnetic field to help guide them on their long migration or mammals that can feel winter coming and prepare for hibernation. So when my body tells me there’s a spirit present, I trust it.
An experience at the Stanley Hotel bolstered my confidence in the human body’s ability to detect paranormal activity. We were in the hotel’s carriage house and to be honest, we were having a pretty uneventful investigation. It happens sometimes. For hours I had not gotten any EVPs and had no personal experiences. The whole night was going sour, when I decided to bring in Bill Chappell (a complete skeptic) and several devices he engineered.
Bill built a double histogram that uses simultaneous thermal imagery and sonic emanations to detect any disruptions in the local EMF. The sonic waves are used the same way sonar is used to map the ocean floor and the thermal imagery detects changes in temperature. We were all standing in the hotel’s carriage house when I suddenly got a hit on my body. I felt a very cold presence and the hairs on my arms and neck raised up. Everything I knew was telling me that something was with us.
At this exact moment, Bill Chappell got a reading on his instruments that something unseen was in the room and moving. On film we captured a mist move and moments later we recorded a few disembodied voices. As I moved around the room, the apparition moved with me and my body continued to register that I was not alone.
Bill not only saw this spirit move with me on his instruments, he also saw an apparition with his own eyes. It had enough mass to block out our thermal camera and
I can’t stress enough the importance of training your senses. What you see on TV is two-dimensional representation of a four-dimensional world that the paranormal investigator experiences. I firmly believe that the human body can detect the presence of spiritual energy better than most electronic devices.
Some would say this is pseudoscience, but I want to challenge that assertion. Why can’t the body be relied upon as a detector? Why is it so easy to dismiss goose bumps and chills as a product of the mind? Why do we discount the feeling that someone is watching us as the mind playing tricks on us? I will admit that fooling the brain is possible, and I have read about the effects of EMF on the mind. I even read a medical report that suggested the doppelganger effect is caused by stimulation of the left temporoparietal junction of the brain (I would not know what temporoparietal was otherwise).
I can buy that in a setting where there are electric currents and EMFs, but what about when I’m alone in an abandoned barn in Ohio and there’s nothing that could cause that stimulation? When I hear someone behind me, smell their musk, and feel their breath on the back of my neck—three senses sending me alarm signals at the same time—how is it that my brain is playing tricks on me?
I say this—after six million years of evolution, is there anything else more in tune with the planet than the human body? We grow muscles to withstand fourteen pounds of air pressure per square inch at sea level. We develop senses to detect changes in wind patterns and know when a storm is approaching. We can hear threatening footsteps approaching and feel the stares of an angry ex-girlfriend as her eyes burn a hole in our back. We have millions of nerve endings in our skin to feel our environment. In short, we evolve. We become more in tune with the world, like birds that use the Earth’s magnetic field to help guide them on their long migration or mammals that can feel winter coming and prepare for hibernation. So when my body tells me there’s a spirit present, I trust it.
An experience at the Stanley Hotel bolstered my confidence in the human body’s ability to detect paranormal activity. We were in the hotel’s carriage house and to be honest, we were having a pretty uneventful investigation. It happens sometimes. For hours I had not gotten any EVPs and had no personal experiences. The whole night was going sour, when I decided to bring in Bill Chappell (a complete skeptic) and several devices he engineered.
Bill built a double histogram that uses simultaneous thermal imagery and sonic emanations to detect any disruptions in the local EMF. The sonic waves are used the same way sonar is used to map the ocean floor and the thermal imagery detects changes in temperature. We were all standing in the hotel’s carriage house when I suddenly got a hit on my body. I felt a very cold presence and the hairs on my arms and neck raised up. Everything I knew was telling me that something was with us.
At this exact moment, Bill Chappell got a reading on his instruments that something unseen was in the room and moving. On film we captured a mist move and moments later we recorded a few disembodied voices. As I moved around the room, the apparition moved with me and my body continued to register that I was not alone.
Bill not only saw this spirit move with me on his instruments, he also saw an apparition with his own eyes. It had enough mass to block out our thermal camera and
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