Ghost hunters came to the forefront with the advent of social media and ghost hunting has become an industry, not unlike the ones offering products and services for more normal infestations, like for instance pest control.
I used that example because the industry of hunting ghosts and demons is analogous to the one in the hunt for little vermin that make our abodes miserable.
The histories, objectives, methods, and results of the different ghost hunting teams and communities may be different, but the fact that all of them are engaged in an activity that is apt to raise the eyebrows of many makes them deserving of attention.
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Ghost Hunting as an Investment
Many of the utensils and tools in the home-brewed hunt for ghosts are rather common objects that don’t require a considerable investment.
In decades past, even if you had the money to invest in ghost hunting technology it wasn’t that easy because there wasn’t a big industry dedicated to producing that kind of product, like right now.
If you have the imperative need to hunt a ghost, including all the meanings the word hunt may imply (proof, communication, eradication, etc), but you don’t have a budget to invest in expensive electronic equipment, there is a long list of techniques you could employ to at least get your ghost hunting process started.
You may want to achieve proof of something that you experience in plain sight, like a poltergeist, for what you would need only to record with a common (not infrared) camera. A tripod and a good set of batteries being the only things you need in such a case, these three common items are an example.
Then there are a lot of other alternatives that you may already have, like a cheap pocket MP3 player to record strange noises or other cheap devices for measurement, like dousing rods, or resources for attempting to unmask a hoax, like talc powder.
I think that ghosts are something too precious to not invest in adequate scientific devices, but still, your budget shouldn’t be a constrain to at least get a start as soon as you can.
Necessity is the mother of invention, and I guess there are many techniques yet to be discovered to, in some way, come up with definite proof or relevant data that can be used as a baseline from which to improve the ghosts-studying process.
Ghost Hunting as a Disruptive Technological Arms Race
While we still have a long way to go to achieve tools like Hollywood’s ghost binding weapons, and ghost containment devices, we can’t deny that in the last years the progress in this niche has advanced by leaps and bounds. I doubt that the technology we see in movies like Ghostbusters will someday be achieved; at least not in the current technological era, I think.
Yet, I see a great room for improvement, with a lot of technological ghost-hunting inventions that are yet to come, that might be much easier to develop than the ones one sees in movies, yet not less astounding and revolutionary.
Now you can choose from an overwhelming choice of different gadgets, some of them integrating two or more ghost-hunting functions.
Examples of electronic ghost-hunting gadgets:
- Ghost Box
- Ghost Detector
- Ambient Thermometer
- Barometer
- Ghost Finder
- EVP Catcher
- EMF Dosimeter
- Ghost Meters
- Motion Sensor
- Night Vision Camera
- Infrared Camera
Be Happy Because Ghost Hunters are Myriads
The first thing one needs to know about global ghost hunting outfits is that they are lots, and continue growing. As far as I have seen by now, there are oodles of both independent and sponsored ghost-hunting communities, teams and groups.
Here is wishing that they will endure and fulfill their ghost hunting objectives. I can sincerely wish that to all those engaging ghosts with new technologies and other powerful and costly resources in the search for proof or any other ghosts community-related to make name, fame, and fortune out of it.
If you reading this as a ghost hunter yourself, seriously, I wish you the best in your undertakings and that you’re able to thrill us later on when you share with us what you achieved in your search for truth and objective proof of the existence of ghosts.
Ghost Hunters on Social Media
From what I’ve seen the two main platforms to find ghost hunters content organically are YouTube and TikTok. A simple search and you’ll be presented with some of them immediately.
YouTube is where you’re going to generally find the most serious type of researchers. TikTok has a lot of ghost-related audiovisual content but, while not downright pedestrian, it has a more casual/amateur quality.
You certainly can outreach to ghost hunters and network with them in other ways in super-nodes like YouTube, still, this area of the website aims at providing a home for all kinds of ghost hunters, based on a site solely dedicated to ghosts.
When you go searching for ghost hunters and haunts media on YouTube you must keep in mind one thing, though. Watch out for people on YouTube still honoring (or still ripping off, depending on how you see it) the gimmicky movie The Blair Witch Project, and the bland situations in the Paranormal Activity movies, with ambiguous ghosts content that doesn’t specify on its description as being a purely fictional work.
I mean by this that there are several fictional works on YouTube that pass as real ghost hunting vlogs. But in fact, they are fabricated audiovisual media belonging to the mystery genre. They just mimick reality programs and real ghost hunters vlogs.
I must admit that one I watched a night/morning when I was very tired and had skipped sleep took me unaware and I believed I was watching something real for like two or three episodes.
I’m not going to deny the big benefits that publishing their content on a big portal like YouTube has for a ghost hunting outfit, but also I’m not going to leave untouched the subject of why it would be also beneficial for ghost hunters to create backlinks to their ghosts and ghost hunting content on YouTube or TikTok, or elsewhere, on this site.
Haunted Places
There are many very common places that ghosts haunt, and these types of places are at the top of the list:
Haunted Houses, mansions, and other dwellings
Probably the most common type of haunt is the ghost of somebody haunting the place where the person died or a place to which the person was attached.
Haunted Hotels
A very common type of place to find ghosts. Far too many persons pass by hotels and similar accommodation establishments. They don’t just pass, but also die in that kind of place.
It’s a fact that people die in the most unexpected and unlikely places, and the occurrence of dying while vacationing or otherwise inside the circuit of the hospitality industry is far more common than you would think.
Add to that the factor of persons that carry an endowment of ghosts around with them, going to such a place, and having the good fortune of shedding one or two that decide to stay.
A situation like that is fortunate for the carrier of ghosts, not for the place he or she visited since the entities that were left in the place do compound with the already settled infestation to make the place even more haunted.
Haunted Hospitals
Hospitals are places that reek of suffering, pain, and death. Such a source of negative energy is like a giant beacon for all kinds of neighboring entities.
Obviously, to that astral disadvantage of the place, you have to add all the souls that left their bodies there and couldn’t move on and still haunt the place.
A place where it’s likely to encounter ghost activity even more than a hospital is in an abandoned hospital. There have been many stories, reports, and proof through the years of how easy is to catch something in an abandoned hospital.
Other Likely Haunted Places
These places, which aren’t that obvious for the ghost hunter to make the connection, generally harbor the lowest common denominator types of entities; the ones trying (and sometimes achieving) to go through the veil and produce an effect on the living persons.
- Lonely Crossroads
- Forests
- Cemeteries
- Abandoned Places (e.g., ghost towns)
Then you have other types of places, that aren’t as obvious as the ones above:
- Bars, Pool and Bowling Parlors
- Games/Amusement Arcades
- Gambling Rooms
- Abattoir areas and Butcher Shops
- Wine Cellars and Taverns/Groggeries
Perhaps the ghosts in the second category are a more common kind that didn’t die violently. Maybe they were wronged or otherwise left their mortal coils with important work left undone.
Still, they share with the first category the fact that they did not move on. That makes them no less worthy of study, even if they are probably less interesting, and decidedly more noxious and dangerous to the researcher.
Haunted Places Near You
There are many reasons why you might be searching for a haunted place nearby where you are. You might want to see and visit the place. You might want to conduct your ghost-hunting experiments there. Or you might want to go there to attempt to catch proof of the existence of ghosts.
Whatever your reasons are, you need a good resource where you can do a search and get results in a fraction of a second.
Hopefully, someday, the Ghostpedia on this site will be adopted by the haunted places global scene for anyone to register their confirmed haunted places
Still, that is way down the road, and before even I came up with the idea, I knew there were websites and apps dedicated exclusively to serving a directory of haunted places.
Until such day, a very good and no-nonsense example of a haunted places directory site is hauntedplaces.org.
It’s only for directions to haunted places. Maybe one of the drawbacks of hauntedplaces.org is that it supports only the USA, Australia, Canada, and the UK. It’s a very neat site for what it is, but it would have been much better if it did allow listings from any place in the globe.
Are you a Ghost Hunter?
If you are one, or if you form part of a ghost hunting team, you’re invited to post on behalf of your ghost hunting outfit on this website. You can post anything related to your ghost hunting endeavors.
Reports
Have a report of a ghost hunting session? You can share it in this section.
Photos
If, in a ghost hunting outing, you took pictures that show some kind of evidence of the existence of ghosts.
Videos
Same as photos, but if you are going to post a video, don’t upload it, embed it from somewhere else, like for instance, YouTube.
Promotions
Do you have any promotions about your ghost hunting team to spread? You can post them here, even if they are promotions of your ghost hunters website.
Advertisements
Only if the advertisement is about products and services related to ghost hunting itself. If you have a ghosts-related product or service that doesn’t involve ghost hunting or ghost hunters directly, like for instance a ghost hunting tool, then please use the Ghosts Paraphernalia section to post your advertisement
Event Invitations
If you need to promote a ghost hunting event, then this section is for you.
Classified Ads
Any kind of classified advertisements related to ghost hunting and ghost hunters. Job calls, help wanted ads, ghost hunting team required ads, etc.
