With this, being my first official blog on here, I’ll try to be brief and concise. My long winded tirades about the paranormal will come later (watch for my book--of which this is a very condensed version of what's included in the prologue). To begin, I’d like to tell everyone a little about myself and about how I got interested in ghost hunting.
Like a lot of ghost hunters in the past five years, I got my idea to form an actual group from the shows on television. Before that, I had no idea how to go about looking for spirits or what equipment to use. However, unlike many, I didn’t have a life changing personal experience as a kid that motivated me to find out what it was that I saw. Granted, I’ve always been an oddball. In the second grade, I wrote (and illustrated) a story about aliens invading the earth, and the Army’s attempt to stop it. From there it went on to mystery stories about haunted houses in the fourth grade and an interest in cartooning in middle school.
[As a side note, I had a library book I’d borrowed called “Cartooning the Head and Figure” by Jack Hamm. After thumbing through it and renewing it for a couple months, it finally got misplaced, and I had to pay for it. Eventually, I received the book as a birthday present and used it for a while until that copy mysteriously disappeared. I don’t know if that was paranormal or just childish absentmindedness, but I took that as a sign to stop cartooning and pursue another path in life.]
Granted, my dad swore that the house we lived in when I was kid (and am renting from my mom now) had some kind of ghost in it. He was always misplacing things and getting the feeling like someone was watching him while he was downstairs at his work bench. Now, that work bench is where I have my computer workshop, and I too feel like someone's over there. However, I know why. The EMF in that particular area of the house is a bit higher than normal. The electric is grounded to copper pipes that run overhead.
In the 7th & 8th grade and partway into my freshman year, I was heavily involved in Dungeons & Dragons. Some would say I got obsessed and went a bit overboard, but at least I wasn’t one of those that went on a “quest” into the real world. After being in high school for about 6 months, I was introduced to heavy metal music and then Stephen King. D&D started taking a back seat to reading everything I could get my hands on by Mr. King. It was at that point that my journey into the world of the weird began.
So I’ve always been interested in strange and horrific stuff. Since graduating high school and going to college to get a creative writing degree, I’ve gotten myself interested in technology and computers, audio recording and editing using Sonic Foundry Sound Forge, and doing web design stuff. Between all of that, and my love of writing (which has never really left me), going out, looking for ghosts, utilizing high tech, writing about it, and putting up a website is a natural progression.
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