The objective of this section is to have a free-for-all market for ghosts paraphernalia.
It’s also a section to share any kind of ghost-related stuff that is digital and you want others to enjoy, use, or otherwise benefit from.
If you are a publisher or merchant of ghost-related affiliate products or similar types of businesses you can post your promotions and list your products here for free.
This website doesn’t take a cut from any purchases that originated on this website, other than the ones posted by the webmaster himself. Because of that reason, there is a catalog system in place for use by the community. Yet, there is not an e-commerce one available. No products are sold directly on this website.
What can you promote or review in this section? All kinds of ghost hunting and other, general, ghost-related goods, products, and services.
In this section, you can not just advertise and link to e-commerce portals or sales pages for the items mentioned in the previous paragraph, but you also can publish your reviews of said items. Moreover, once you review a product or service, anyone else in the community who also purchased or used it can also give it a star rating.
Ghost Hunting Gadgets
Purchase any of the best-selling ghost-hunting items. In this section, you can post reviews and rate ghost-hunting paraphernalia.
Examples of Electronic Ghost-hunting Gadgets
Ghost Box
The ghost box is one of the most popular, if not the most popular, electronic gadgets to detect and communicate with ghosts. The essential principle of a ghost box is that it creates a high frequency by means of zapping through radio signals.
The resultant white noise is believed to be a conduit through which ghosts can manifest by means of an EVP. There are ghost boxes that develop improvements upon this simple concept. One well-thought-out is the ghost box that not only zaps between frequencies to create white noise but also makes use of the speeches in each frequency to construct phrases and give answers.
Ghost Detector
They may be also called ghost meters or ghost finders. Ghost detectors come in diverse flavors. A commonplace example would be a smartphone app that detects ghosts by means of the phone’s sensors. Examples of smartphone sensors that can be exploited by a phone app ghost detector: ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, accelerometer, GPS sensor, pressure sensor, compass, and gyroscope.
Ambient Thermometer
This is a ubiquitous, simple gizmo with a very big offer of different types and not a niche ghost paraphernalia item. Very useful in situations that a ghost or group of ghosts are known to make the ambient temperature fluctuate. Or for haunted places with suspected cold spots.
Barometer
Like the ambient thermometer, a big and varied offer of barometers with more or fewer features is available.
EVP Catcher
A device that allows for not only listening to an EVP but also record it. A glorified ghost box, if you will, with a session recording feature.
EMF Dosimeter
Can measure different variables of the electromagnetic environment.
Motion Sensor
Dedicated tool to detect motion. It may trigger by different motion cues, like vibrations, visual, etc.
Night Vision Camera
Can record clear movies and take useful pictures at night, without any source of light present.
Infrared Camera
Can record clear movies and take useful pictures of the infrared spectrum, a spectrum of light invisible to the human eye.
Is not just that these kinds of tools are useful, but they are food for thought on what could be achieved in the future to augment paranormal investigations and the haunt for proof of the existence of ghosts.
Ghosts Products and Services
You can post any advertisements, squeeze pages, sales letters, landing pages, or any other ghosts-related marketing material in this section. When doing it, please refer to the Ads and Marketing Policy page to read the advertisement types available and their style guides.
You can post affiliate marketing promotions on this section, among many other kinds of marketing content.
But it doesn’t matter the kind of promotion you come up with. You must follow the guidelines and let us know the merchant or network you’re promoting products or services from. That is because this is information that has to be disclosed in the disclaimers of the website.
Also, please disclose the nature of the marketing content in the content itself, if you are an affiliate marketing publisher, I supposed you already know how to do this.
Here I’m not going to go into detail about how many ghost-related verticals and niches exist but they certainly are a lot. A very superficial list would be, ghosts-themed furniture, ghost-themed home decor, apparel, crockery, or amusements.
Media About Real Ghosts and Real Haunting
There is limited potential to gain knowledge on ghosts based on direct experience. That is because ghosts are an uncommon experience to have.
Enter media about real ghosts and haunts. These kinds of sources of information can give you solid training on the subject. At the very least, they can give you a hell of a fun time, and sometimes creep you out more than any horror movie could ever do.
Books About Real Ghosts
You can find all kinds of books about ghosts. From generalist books with sensational illustrations that have their things to say (albeit most of them being geared towards young readers), to encyclopedic works that approach the subject from a pseudo-scientific point of view.
Books are great to learn, yes, but there’s a drawback. When you read a book about real ghosts you are adding to your baggage of knowledge, a bit of, or a lot of, the author’s outlook on the subject matter.
This is not bad in itself. Yet, some of the postures in these books may be inferior to what a posture on ghosts that has both theoretical and practical knowledge of them has the potential to reach.
Because of that, if you’re learning from media about real ghosts in general, and from books about ghosts in particular, then it’s of the essence to be able to have wide cultivation on the subject. This means that you never stop educating yourself on the subject. You never stay with an opinion, but continuously evolve your own based on what you learn from others.
Ghost Hunter Equipment
There’s a publishing house that has been publishing pragmatic books for children, teens, and young adults in many countries, for around two generations now.
I’m talking about the British Usborne Publishing Ltd. The first book about ghosts I did read, ever, was either the first or second edition of Christopher Maynard’s “The World of The Unknown: Ghosts”.
It’s a generalist work, and for grown-ups, it may work only for those that are completely new to ghosts. Also, it’s not a book, per se, because technically, it doesn’t fulfill the minimum fifty pages that a publication requires to have to reach the book category.
It’s part of a series and I think all the three in the series, bound together, would make a decent book. Still, for some reason, each was published separately. Anyway, this book had a couple of pages dedicated to starter equipment for a ghost hunter.
Again, we should consider this is what a ghost hunter toolkit looked like two generations ago and it’s hard to compare its simplicity with how technical, integrated, and sophisticate a ghost-hunting toolkit can become nowadays. Also, consider that it was from a series for young readers.
Christopher Maynard’s Ghost Hunter Equipment
- Electronic gadgets to register ambient temperature and humidity changes, air drafts and ghost-produced vibrations
- Spreading an agent, like flour, to detect finger and footprint activity and unmask a hoax.
- Recording accounts of two or more eyewitnesses.
- Thermometer
- Grid paper to draft a blueprint of the place to investigate
- Notebook to record sightings
- Black sewing thread. To create traps in doorways and adhesive tape to seal doors and windows to detect a false ghost
- A good photographic camera
- Barometer
- Sound Amplifier
- Infrared Camera
- Sound Recorder
- A secondary camera on a tripod. Or otherwise set somewhere with an easily remote-activated shooting device, to shoot from any position
- Measuring tape, to measure the relative position of objects with one another and later check if they moved
- Animals, like a dog, a rat, or a serpent, to detect an unseen ghostly presence
You can easily obtain most of these items. It’s kind of outdated, but at the end of the day, it’s a basic toolkit that has many elements that don’t require a lot of product research prior to purchase.
Cursed Items
Do you have an item that you are dead-sure (no pun intended) that is inhabited by a ghost, that has a ghost bound to it, or that is otherwise haunted or cursed?
This is the section where you can get rid of it, and make some coin in exchange. If you promote the sale of your cursed object here, you do it with the peace of mind that your potential buyer will know well in advance what she or he is getting.
Anyhow, you will have to refer to the Cursed Item for Sale Listing Policy below if you want to sell one of those items.
Haunted Objects
This is what John and Anne Spencer have to say about haunted objects in their classic book “The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits”:
Haunted objects are not really very much different from haunted places except that they are moveable. There are many reports of haunted skulls, cars, planes, and even one haunted, cottage shaped biscuit container.
What is useful in these cases is that such objects will tend to change ownership over a period of time and if a series of subsequent owners all report the same sort of phenomenon then there is some evidence for an objective rather than subjective reality.
The problem is always that it tends to be one investigator who puts together the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle and he may construct it according to his own predetermined wishes.
At least the investigator is dealing with a physical object that he can position according to his own plan or the witness’s suggestions and can then conduct the usual types of investigations depending on what has been reported.
If the object is credited with having caused a particular visual apparition then the investigator can set up his equipment accordingly. Obviously since it is possible, in these cases, to be present when the event actually occurs, then the usual recording equipment should be ready at all times.
Cursed Object for Sale Listing Policy
Do you want to promote a cursed object on this website? If you do, then please create a glossy listing, from 400 to 1000 words. Disclose the following info points:
- Object hard data: type, brand, condition, year of manufacture, origin.
- What entity you think or factually know is haunting it.
- If the object has a biography, like a known trail of unfortunate events, then also add it to the listing.
Other ghost-related paraphernalia that won’t fit in any of the previous three categories. From home decor to charms and amulets used to keep ghosts at bay. You can promote anything with a ghost theme in this section.
Selling, Renting, or Sub-letting Haunted Places
Selling or renting a haunted abode without warning the new owners or tenants of the attached haunt(s) is unethical. By withholding such vital information the landlord or seller is making a disservice to the tenant or buyer.
There are many cases of persons or whole families buying a home and then having to move out. They move out because they couldn’t cope with the distaste that meant to them having to deal with a haunting.
Nevertheless, in the U.S., there are state laws that mention paranormal activity directly as something that needs to be disclosed by the seller before selling the property.
At least four states (Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, and New York) do mention paranormal activity at the state law level.
Around thirty estates (not including the four named previously) require a stigmatized property disclosure.
Probably real estate companies operating in these states must include a clause in the stigmatized property seller disclosure form. Stigmatized Property is real estate jargon. It is to classify a property in which there have occurred either a suicide, accident, or a murder.
