So you have all heard of the TV shows such as Ghost Adventures, Ghost Hunters
and Most Haunted
.
But have heard of another amazing show called Dorset Ghost Investigators the team behind DGI are Glen and Ahmed, and they set out 3 years ago to prove if ghost exists or not.
Over this 3 year journey they have gone from using basic equipment to up to date state of the art equipment, all in their quest to prove if ghosts are real. Including devices like the Ovilus, Spirit Box and Thermal Imaging (FLIR) camera. I urge you to go and chek them out. The great thing about the show is its raw nature, its not your typical edited polished production, its simply ghost hunting in its element with one goal to see if ghosts exist or not.
You can find our more about them on their website http://dorsetghostinvestigators.tv/ Where can I watch episodes of Dorset Ghost Investigators?
At present you can't watch DGI on any normal TV channel, but you can watch ever episode in full, all 90 of them on YouTube via the DGI channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/dorsetghost
So fire up you tablet, laptop, phone or computer and give DGI a watch and don't forget that you can now watch YouTube on your big TV using lots of different devices, from the Sky Now TV box or Roku Streamer, to your games console and the Google Chromecast.
So what are you waiting for, go watch Dorset Ghost Investigators now, and I promise you you will love it and they are going to be the next big thing in Ghost Hunting, mark my words.
Ok so as you already know I am not a professional ghost hunter and dont own any of the cool stuff most of you reading this will have such as EMF meters, EVP recorders and alike. Although after doing several mini investigations with my brother, it became apparent that I needed something to be able to provide some information about the experiences we were having.;
So after trawling the internet for dayas on end, I found a program called Ghost Radar, this is an awesome program and with a little research after your hunt actual shows information that is true. Please check out my other posts about Ghost Radar
So what is the problem?
After doing only a handful of investigations and getting loads of photos and information both from personal experiences as well as stuff that Ghost Radar was showing. I started to note things down using my Blackberry as well as taking photos, and then when I got back home I had to make sense of all my notes, photos and everything else and find a place to organise my findings.
Firstly I started putting notes into Outlook using the calendar, adding as much as I could whilst trying to make sense of it all.
Let me tell you this was not easy.
The Solution
A friend of mine said they were using a software pack known as 'The Plan' by a guy called Dennis A. Batchelor to track and record all their findings, this piece of software apparently could even create a professional report about your hunt, making meetings and follow ups a whole lot easier. You can also keep track of everything from photographs to EVP recordings.
This sounded like the perfect solution, so I headed over to the site to download the software, thinking like ghost radar it was free, but it wasnt, its actually about £10 or $19.95. I was hesitant at first, but I figured that for the sake of £10 it looks like it could safe me loads of time in recording my hunts, and if its good enough for professional ghost hunters its good enough for me. So I bit the bullet and bought it.
My Thoughts
I have to thank Dennis for writing as amazing program, as he is a ghost hunter himself it is written with all the areas common on most ghost hunts, such as anything you hear, see, smell, feel or taste not to mention the way you record things such as photographs, evp and all your notes.
So I recommend 'The Plan' to anyone, as it has made my ghost hunts not just more fun but a whole lot more rewarding as I find that as I record my hunt in the program its actually reminds me of things that happened, as the input screens are very specific unlike Outlook :)
So please go and check out 'The Plan' you wont be disappointed
OK so I have been looking over the internet and been finding it kinda hard to find any ghost hunting groups, especially in my local area near Richmond, North Yorkshire. So I thought I would do this post and put a shout out for any ghost hunting or paranormal groups out there.
Now heres what I would like you all to do, if you are part of or know of any ghost hunting or paranormal groups anywhere, not just local to me here in Yorkshire but anywhere at all UK and overseas, please give details in the comments and a link to the website or as much contact info as you can.
When I mentioned to thephotographer about the cool application Ghost Radar, as he mentioned that they hear things in the studio sometimes, doors closing and such. So I fired up Ghost Radar and what do you know it started showing results, so he downloaded it and is having a bit of a play. Now I never thought anything of this and just closed the application (or at least I thought) and got on with stuff.
Now about an hour ago my other half Becky, who is a model by the way check out her on FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/beckymagsonmodelling and whos shoot it was today, shouted upstairs that Ghost Radar just went off and said the name Joseph, now I honestly thought I turned it off, but I guess I never.
now I want to put this out there to my fellow ghosty peeps, our kitchen is really cold and now Ghost Radar shouted the name Joseph. So do you think my kitchen is haunted?
I decided that as I enjoy prefer Ghost Hunters and TAPS to open a store dedicated to everything they do, so after loads of list building I have created an Amazon store dedicated yo my favourite ghost hunters Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson.
Please buy something from the store to allow me to keep on with my ghostly blog and to allow the great team at TAPS on continue their great exploits.
Ok so there we were my little brother and I sitting in my front room, just waiting around for the other half to finish making the tea on a dark Saturday night, when the subject got on to ghosts and ghost hunting. We are planning a bigger night ghost hunt and my little bro said that we should check out the local church, I had never even been in this church so though hey why not.
Now the only problem is the that this local church St Cuthberts is directly opposite my house, in fact as I write this I can look into the graveyard. So I was kinda hoping that is would be a peaceful and quick hunt, although although my window looks over the graveyard and not being that afraid of ghosts, kinda works both ways for me.
So we headed over the road and into the church grounds, and to be honest there was not really much happening, but we had the camera with us and fired off a few shots, there was nothing on these shots to make us think there was paranormal happenings a foot.
But as always I had my trusty Blackberry Torch with me and on it I always have Ghost Radar, and this started to show a few words, but not much else.
So we headed into the church itself, great think about rural churches is that they are open most of the times, on entering the church it was so dark we could not even tell what we were walking on.
As you can see we were walking on carpet. So we walked around the interior of the church not being able to see. Yes we know we should have brought a torch with us but we didn't :(.
So as we walked around the church, the Ghost Radar on my phone went mad, showing all sorts of things and showing words like Cry, Fall, Job and each time it went off we snapped off a photo.
On one occasion we think we have some nice orbs, pay particular attention to the middle top and left, as we think the others are reflections from objects in the room, but cant see what could be causing these two.
We have counted out the ones to the left and right as simple reflections, but cant see why the two in the middle are there. All thoughts welcome as always.
Now we continued this process, each time Ghost Radar said there was something we took a photo, and sadly nothing else inside the church showed up.
So we headed back outside, and again Ghost Radar showed us the same set of words Cry, Fall, Job, however on one occassion I was checking ghost radar and we took a shot, what looks like an orb showed up near my hand.
We wondering around the graveyard and took some more shots, and we think that it seemed we were getting a bit more activity, more orbs and ghost radar working well.
Check out between the third and fourth headstone in the following shot, we think its an orb, and before you say its a gravestone we checked and there are no headstones behind at all.
Now the next shot we took was when Ghost Radar was going really mad, loads of blips on the screen and the word Cry constantly on the screen. If you check out the gravesstone in teh middle and look to the left of it you can see what we think is an orb.
So as you can see although it was a quick ghost hunt we think we have found some good stuff, and I have a done a little bit of research and there was someone who died when the church was built. Maybe connected maybe not, but interesting all the same.
I do suggest though if you are doing a ghost hunt, don't do it too close to home, kinda thankfully on this time we saw onyl possible orbs, but I think if we saw more I might be included to move house.
, Ghost Hunters
and Most Haunted
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