Examples Of Bad Evidence and phenomena that we do not accept

On this page you will find examples of the types of non-sense evidence that is produced by the hobby and charlatan ghost hunters that currently dominate this field of research. We've included some photographs of our own that we took to demonstrate how easy it is for these types of ghost hunters to produce something for their web sites and their clients.

In order not to violate any copyrights, we do not place other investigative groups photographs or videos on our own site. Instead, we simply insert hyper-links that will take you directly to their sites. And for the lawyers who might think about accusing us of slander or defamation, let it be known that all of the opinions stated on this web site are based entirely on evidence and information that was freely and willingly placed on the internet for people like ourselves to visit, view, and scrutinize. We hereby freely partake of that right to offer our professional criticism. To show our gratitude, we are more than honored to drive as much traffic as we possibly can to these web sites via the included links so that the rest of the world can ponder the credibility of the evidence so graciously provided by our esteemed colleagues.

Credible Paranormal vs. Ghost Hunters International's "Ghost girl at the Gratz Park Inn". Patti Starr, in our opinion, is the very definition of a charlatan "ghost hunter". She produces some of the most obviously faked or naturally occurring phenomena as her evidence of the paranormal. It's these types of "ghost hunters" that have made paranormal research the very definition of the term pseudoscience. She even makes a living off of duping people into believing her brand of evidence and methods, as evident from the "certified" ghost hunting classes, seminars, and home study courses she teaches at the tune of a few hundred bucks a pop.... not to mention the Ghost Hunter Store she operates where you can buy her books, tapes, and other nonsense. And just for the record, we forumalted these opinions based on the evidence she freely posts to the web for people to view and we freely partake in my right to scrutinize. Anyhow, the photo at the Gratz Park Inn is just the tip of her husband's finger, just as the picture above is the tip of my finger. We highly recommend you thoroughly inspect her long list of evidence.

Credible Paranormal vs Angelsghosts.com and the Ghost Chasers of San Antonio. On the Angels and Ghosts web site, you will see a couple of photos of so called "paranormal orbs" that were captured by this San Antonio bunch. Orbs are the most freequently submitted evidence of the paranormal, as well as the most damaging to the cause of the serious researcher. Orbs are nothing more than photographs of particles that float around in the air. They could be dust, rain, snow, bugs or pollen, but the main-stream ghost hunting community will present them as evidence regardless of common sense. If you try to educate them on this issue, they will insist that there is a way to differentiate between dust orbs and genuine spirit orbs, usually citing a difference in colors or frequency of occurence on a succession of photographs. Well the picture above is of a very beautiful and colorful orb that was floating around a court house meeting room. Note the beautiful color. It took only one snap shot to produce this orb.

Credible Paranormal vs Paranormal Plus - Be sure to read their mumbo-jumbo. Just like these guys, we used a digital camera that metered itself for a low light condition while we took photographs of some lamp posts behind the shack, and the head-lamp on Dustin's head. According to the article, "energy ribbons" and "astral fires" came on the scene with the advent of the digital camera. That is because the digital camera IS what produces this anomoly. Paranormal researchers like this person know this is nothing paranormal, but they still present it as such.

Another common piece of evidence presented by the main-stream ghost hunting community as representations of something paranormal is the ectoplasmic mist. Miller's Paranormal Research website demonstrates this belief structure, which can easily be validated by visiting random websites of other paranormal teams. The mist will show up quite regularly in that search. The bad news is that these photographs are usually intentional or misinterpreted by investigators who want to believe in ghosts so badly, that common cigarette smoke or condensation from the photographer's breath is deemed to be proof of their existence. Jimmy demonstrates how easy it is to produce this effect while he was taking a smoke break on a recent investigation. Click this link to view Miller's Paranormal Research's evidence.

During the investigation of the Sullivan House at Old City Park, we recorded what some of us thought to be someone or some thing whistling in the background of this house. Two investigators were inside sweeping for e.v.p's and neither reported hearing this whistle. A few weeks later, we investigated a train museum where we somehow recorded what sounds to be the exact same whistle. We thought about it for a while and came to the conclusion that it had to be an issue with the recorder that was producing something that sounds very much like a person whistling. The only common denominator between the two recordings was the recorder itself. We have since found several more instances of this same whistle on this particular digital voice recorder and have come to realize that there are many audible anomalies that show up in recordings on digital voice recorders that sound like whispers, coughs, grunts, and moans. This new understanding of this recorder will definitely assist in the debunking process of future investigations.

Below are the two pieces of audio in question. The first one is the Sullivan whistle that is quite audible. The second is at the train museum which is a little harder to pick out. It happens at about ten seconds in.

Whistle Recorded In the Sullivan

Whistle Debunked

This photo demonstrates a phenomenon called matrixing. It is the brains ability to pull out familiar images from a textured surface. In this photo, a face can be seen in the lower right hand corner of the window on this old train car. It is simply the bends and folds on the fabric that are producing this effect. To our brain, it looks like a human face.

This photograph also represents the matrixing phenomenon. This demonic face peering at us from the darkness was actually just a bush being illuminated by a lamp post. We used a low light setting on our camera to blur the contours of the bush, enabling our minds to see whatever seems to make sense of the chaos.

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I thought this was a perfect example to show how someone can easily make a convincing piece of video evidence of something paranormal. This example is extraordinary because it is something that we all know to be fake and obviously not paranormal, but otherwise perfect.

Tisk Tisk. You know what? Eighty percent of our investigations give us nothing in the way of paranormal phenomena. Twenty percent gives us phenomena that we could not explain. That may not seem like much in the TAPS world, but it suits us just fine. You can rest assured that whatever seemingly paranormal phenomena we document, is true and genuine. No smoke and mirrors. We've tried and tried to give these guys the benefit of the doubt, but our hypocrisy only goes so far.

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