DIARY OF A GHOST HUNTER

So after being active in weekly ghost hunts over the last few months it is now a case of getting more and more bored as the days go on. What do I do now? I am itching to get out there - do I need to sneak into a cemetery for goodness sake? Must I stand outside one of our heritage locations with a REM POD and K2 meter? Do I lock myself into a room at a hotel just for practice? And then...is it as much fun when I don't have a group of newbie ghost hunters along for the ride? Well, there is not much I can do about it right now. But I do want you to know that I am suffering ghost hunting withdrawals. I need to hug my parastalkers and my ghosties too!! Being in lock down means thinking about things very differently. Now connecting is via social media. Our local sites are all shut and we cannot enter. It's only been a few days and to be very clear - I am having a whinge, but I cannot complain. I am safe at home and we have enough food and entertainme

Well here we are! To say that I have been stopped dead in the water is an understatement. To say that I am giving in is the total opposite of what is truly happening. So many things that have been worked on in secret in the background can now have their time in the spot light and it's funny how, for me, even though there is now virtually no money coming in from tours, I am being given space to be creative and to think outside the square or haunted house. EVENT CANCELLED has been the Mantra of the last week. I run a business that relies on sites being open. I provide Ghost Tours and Paranormal Investigations. When those sites are closed due to Corona Virus, I do not have much else I can do. Isaac Butterfield did us the great service of bringing a team of people and hosts to film a small documentary at Maitland Gaol  - telling the story of it's history of hauntings and legends. So, in the darkness of all of the event cancellations we have just had a wonderful Y

So, quite an interesting thing happened tonight when we were at the Great Northern Hotel doing our third investigation there. The Great Northern Hotel has been standing since the 1860's and prior to that the Shop Inn was one of the earliest established licensed Inn in Newcastle. So it's bound to be haunted right!!! What is ITC -  The term Instrumental Trans-Communication (ITC) was coined by Ernst Senkowski in the 1970's to refer more generally to communication through any sort of electronic device such as tape recorders, fax machines, television sets or computers between spirits  or other discarnate entities and the living. We came down to the third floor to do some ITC experiments the group was split into two smaller groups.  Half the group went into a room for an SB11 experiment modelled on the Estes experiment seen on a favourite paranormal show, where part of the group puts on headphones and listens to the SB 11 as it scans through radio

I am a ghost hunter. I go into homes where there is alleged ghostly activity to help the people dealing with what they believe might be paranormal. I certainly don't know everything but I have a fair command of the topics I talk about. I have been in the field since I started doing psychic readings over 20 years ago. Much has changed. But much has not. Some of what has changed has not been favourable. Kids are very open to much more than we think they are. They do know the difference between what they see in a movie and what they believe to be reality most of the time. They do have a marginalised capacity to understand what happens in different situations due to their age and circumstances and the behaviours of the adults in their lives. They are much more open psychically but this diminishes quickly in most cases once they start school and their head space starts absorbing a different quality of information. Most parents believe their children to special and gift