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Bruce: So if I had weird happenings in
my house, would I just give you a call?

L’Aura: We don’t have a phone number.

The best way to contact us is to send an
email that describes what’s happening.
Usually I call or simply write back with

specific questions that allow us to
characterize the events as paranormal.

Questions like: do you have small

children who suddenly have imaginary If we decide to dispatch a team, before
friends or do you have pets that bark at we can begin, there’s paperwork to do
something which can’t be seen? and we sit down and ask the base
questions while recording everything.
We look for things like: do your pets
We try to establish a baseline. We ask
stay out of a certain room? Have you
questions about the person’s health and
noticed a certain spot being cooler than
habits. Such things as mental illness in
the rest of the house? When people
the family, diabetes, wearing a hearing
answer the questions they often add
aid, or glasses and contact lenses.
that they’ve gone through and
exhausted all the normal channels. Even if the person doesn’t take their
medication on time, or other personal
Residual haunts have a pattern to them.
factors are involved, there still may be a
Sometimes spirits have an emotional
legitimate reason to investigate. That’s
connection to a particular family
why it’s important to begin by setting a
member. We look for evidence of the
baseline. I ask for a chronology of events
hauntings occurring at the same time
that begins with the first time something
daily or nightly. Some hauntings are
unusual was noticed to the moment I
recurring and are similar to an audio or
walk in the door.
video tape. They have no intelligence;
they simply play themselves out and the We begin with a walk-through so that
haunting is over. we can identify where events may have

taken place and also where the optimal
place to set up equipment is. When the
investigation is over, we undertake an

extensive history of the area and