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If you look back on the original plans of the companies. We’ve also worked with sound
house, or the building, you might find that recording companies to allow us to be able
wall originally was a doorway. That helps to record something in a certain frequency
you figure out the relative time the and then play our voices on the same
haunting originated. frequency to attempt to communicate.
We’ve also been on the forefront of creating
Then there are the poltergeist haunts –
infrared systems to record things in zero
which are nothing like the TV show. There
light.
are cases where ghosts can work together –
like moths coming to a lantern. Most of the A lot of people ask, “Why do you
time it’s a child and they’re manifesting it investigate in the dark?”
themselves. Most of the time it’s a female
Most claims of paranormal activity occur
child and they’re living in a high limestone
between the hours of 8PM and 4AM. That’s
deposit area. For some reason that
because when people are home, they settle
amplifies poltergeist activity.
down, and they claim to see something
When you have an intelligent haunt, like if when it’s dark. We’re filming at night
you or I passed, they fall into different because they claim to see shadow figures or
types, and some don’t require a ghost. figures that emit their own light. In low
We’ve done investigations where we light, we’re using IR because it makes it
captured audio of someone who seems to be easier to catch one of those things.
living a normal day in their lives, but in
Most claims happen from fall into the
their own time. They’re able to hear us and
winter because most people are spending
we’re able to hear them. So somewhere
more time in their homes. The weather is
there’s an overlay in time. They’re going on
cooler and the air is drier due to heat
with their lives and we’re going on with our
turning on and that takes moisture from
lives and, for whatever reason, the
their floors, their doors, things of that
circumstance is that we’re somehow able to
nature. That creates popping sounds that
hear each other.
sound like people are walking across their
That’s not really even a ghost. It’s just, for floor when nobody is even there.
whatever reason, there’s an overlap that
Bruce: Nobody claims about ghosts outside
allows us to hear each other.
because they’re outside?
Bruce: How much of this technology can
Jason: We do get some claims. We’ve
you credit your organization in developing?
investigated claims of phantom deer on the
Jason: We’ve worked hand-in-hand with highway system that seem to be emitting
Flir on their thermal image equipment their own light at two or three in the
development. We worked with EMF morning. It occurs at an area of the highway
