When a "paranormal" experience is explained by a realistic cause this is known as debunking. Listed below are some classic situations which amateurs call "paranormal" when in fact they are likely easily explained by day-to-day life.
First you need to understand that I am not an educated scientist (nor do I ever claim to be), and my knowledge comes from years of reading and on-hands experience. I won’t be using fancy scientific terms to describe things and my definitions aren’t always textbook. I am but a simple man with a wealth of knowledge I wish to share.
Second, you need to understand that a paramount paranormal investigation goal should be to identify those “occurrences” (known henceforth as a “response”) which cannot be explained by what we living humans understand as “everyday reality”.
You (known henceforth as a “living human”), as a paranormal investigator, are aiming for identifying and defining evidence of “explained” versus “unexplained” responses in your investigation of the environment (or space, known as a room, house, field, or whatever). There is a different portion of the investigation that later identifies and defines “intelligent” versus “environmental” responses.
To make it easier you will note I have referred to "paranormal" entities as either a "ghost" or a "poltergeist". This article is not about defining the differences between the various things in the paranormal world so much as identifying and differentiating them from day-to-day occurrences.
Understanding Intelligent versus Environmental responses and changes-
A living human walked over and with their hand pushes a door into a closed state – this is an “intelligent” response to something in their physical environment (an open door).
A living human walked over and with their hand physically pushes a window into a closed state and behind them a door physically slams closed. This is likely an “environmental” response to their physical action (the closing of the window). In this occurrence an undetectable or even detectable ‘draft’ or change in air pressure in the room changed the environmental conditions in the room causing the door to close (for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, Newton’s Third Law of Motion).
A closet door in a room, where all windows and doors are closed, slides open, as a living human sits across the room on the bed. The nature of the closet door sliding open or closed is an “explained” response until the source of the movement of the sliding door is not known or explained. This is how the closet door is designed to function after all.
The living human gets up from the bed, walks over to the closet, and confirms that there is neither wires attached nor another living human hiding inside. A sliding door, will, by its very nature, seem to defy gravity and cease to function, as it is understood to, despite changes in air pressure in an environment.
A sliding door will not slide open or closed because of a draft of wind passing through the space. The action of the sliding door above (opening), without physical assistance from wires or living humans, becomes an “unexplained” response to the known visible physical environment.
This is when a living human would ask the “ghost” to open or close the sliding closet door again (or further). If something moves the sliding door it could be concluded as an “intelligent” response by a “ghost” to the investigator’s request, or, at the very least, identified as an “unexplained” response to a non-physical change in the environment. Sound waves created by your voice will never be strong enough to slide open or closed a closet door.
Remember that asking “can you do that again?” when a sliding door is already open will not likely get an “intelligent” response from the “ghost”. You can’t ask a “ghost” to open a sliding door that is already open anymore than you can ask a living human to. If you want a “ghost” to re-open the sliding door (or “do it again”) you will first have to physically slide it closed or ask the “ghost” to “close the closet door”.
Footsteps, footfalls, thumping, knocking and creaking sounds-
A “footstep”, when a living human raises their foot in the air and places it back down on the ground creating a sound dependent on the surface their foot was placed (usually only distinguishable by the naked ear if it is wood, concrete, metal, plastic or glass. Stepping on sand, dirt, water, or similar terrain surface will only create infrasound vs audible sound).
A “footfall” is just another way of describing a footstep. In some countries footfalls are still used to describe foot traffic in a mall or store.
“Knocking” is the “thump” of an object or limb of a living human striking a surface (commonly wood, metal, plastic or glass, and each with their own distinctive sound). When you rap your clenched fist (knuckles) against wood it will make a thumping sound, when you do it against the flesh of your leg it may make a slapping sound.
“Creaking” is the sound that comes from stepping on an old wood floor that has shifted or separated from the structure supporting beneath it. Creaking can also describe the sound when you sit on a bed or in a chair where the wood of the furniture has started to dry out and separate from each other. A door can creak when it opens or closes, this is common when the hinges are rusting or dried out (requiring a little WD40 lubricant) or the frame of the door has shifted, and the door is now off-balance.
These all can be caused by several common everyday sources. The foundation and structural wood or metal frame of the building settling (a structure, even one built on concrete, will continue to settle or sink for the life of the structure); improperly anchored water pipes in walls and rafters; unsecured or warped floorboards (over time nails and screws work themselves loose causing the boards to lift apart from the structure beneath); exterior wind causing windows to rattle (when the caulking or sealant between the glass and frame has aged or come out creating a gap) or shutters to flutter and knock; exterior wind moving the branches of trees and shrubs causing a scraping or slapping sound against the structure.
I have watched several videos by seasoned investigators who are still swayed by “footsteps” or “knocking” sounds. Even expert-level experienced investigators should openly challenge the validity of these sounds before declaring them to be “paranormal”. A single footstep is almost never “paranormal” especially when you find yourself in an opportunity to compare it to the sound of several footsteps running across a room, down a hall and up or down a flight of stairs.
The best way to debunk this is to openly ask for the source to repeat the sound while investigators remain as physically still as possible. One of the ways I have seen investigators prompt an “intelligent” response from a “ghost” is to ask it to answer a pattern of physical knocking. You should understand though that not everyone, including “ghosts” knows that the riff “Shave and a haircut” ends with “Two bits” or two knocks.
The best test you can perform is to ask a “ghost” to respond to a universally recognized pattern of knocking, “what comes next?” knock once, knock twice, then wait for a “ghost” to knock three times OR try the reverse, knock four times, knock three times, then wait for a “ghost” to knock two times. You are listening for an “intelligent” response to your question.
A single knock is rarely accepted as an “intelligent” response to a request for knocking unless it immediately (within a second or two) follows a verbal request for the “ghost” to “knock once”. But one must realize that a single knock, even when immediately following a verbal request for one, could still be debunked as an “environmental” response (the foundation or wall settling somewhere in the structure). Therefore, seasoned investigators ask a “ghost” to repeat several knocks “can you do this?” Knock, knock, knock, expecting the “ghost” to knock three times in response.
If something is "walking around" you are going to hear it again at some point and know that you or your team are not the source of the sound. You need to accept, however, that even if you believe everyone is standing still a floor or piece of furniture can still bend, creak, groan or knock just from atmospheric conditions in the room or minute subconscious movements by the living humans.
In older homes you can be standing in one room and by shifting your weight on a wood floor cause the floor to creak or groan out in the hallway. You need to look at houses when they are being built to understand how interconnected floors, walls and ceilings are and how pressure on one part of a floor can cause a response on another part of the floor or ceiling below.
The sooner you accept that you can never possibly stand or sit “perfectly still” the sooner you begin to identify the common ambient sounds from those that may be paranormal in nature.
Disembodied voices, crying, calling out, moaning, screaming -
A “disembodied voice” is when you hear a voice with your ears, but no living human spoke or whispered near you to be identified as the source of the voice.
However, you must understand that no matter how healthy or young you are your ears (more accurately, your hearing) and mind can create the effect of disembodied voices. This condition is known as ear rumbling (creating a water or wind rushing sound in your ears that your brain misinterprets as speech). Water flowing through pipes can create all sorts of sounds from whispering to screaming as well that your hearing and brain may mis-interpret as voices.
Therefore, digital voice recorders and microphones on video equipment provide the best evidence, allowing other people to hear what you may have heard. Radio interference (white noise), living human voices from other rooms (carried by or echoing through ventilation ducts), and the mingling of a variety of sounds creating white noise (movement, water, wind, etc.). These recordings are referred to as EVPs (or Electronic Voice Phenomenon) and are further defined into Classes, Class A, B, C, D based on their clarity, strength and ability to be interpreted or understood by the listener.
When is a “disembodied voice” not a disembodied voice? When people are in the building or location with you or passing by on the street. Know your environment. And when someone is walking or talking outside be sure to mention that in your video, it’s always good practice to debunk things before your viewers do.
Photographic orbs (those round circles or balls in the photograph you just took)-
Different from those orbs witnessed by the naked eye. The refraction of light on a lens is a very common cause for an orb. You need to learn your equipment and how common orbs occur with your camera before announcing to the world that you captured an orb.
A camera flash or infrared beam of light can interact with dust or other airborne particulate, as well as reflective surfaces, birds, insects, precipitation (rain, sleet, fog) and high humidity levels (creating moisture in the air). I have recently discovered that the Samsung S20 FE camera is notorious for creating a distinctive blue orb in photographs taken toward the sun, no flash required. As technology improves unfortunately so to will the occurrences of false mechanical readings of our natural world.
It has been commonly understood that a “flurry” or “snowfall” like appearance of orbs is likely dust or structural debris and not a paranormal event. If a living human physically hits an object (such as a pillow, or ceiling tile, or broken section of plaster) there is going to be dust or debris in the air.
Photographic anomalies, shapes, blurring or flashes of light -
Your camera's incorrectly set exposure can create anomalies. One of the most common is the blur when an object in the view of the lens moves at a rate faster than the exposure (someone running in a race or car driving past). Long exposure times with little ambient lighting has been known to cause blurriness and ghost-like images in photos.
Reports of "ghosts" caught on digital and analog images, have been harder to debunk when the exposure time is faster.
Moving shadows and the absence of light in a particular space-
A "shadow person" is best identified as a shadow which is positioned or moves independent of any structural support. When you walk across a room past a bright light your shadow is projected on the floor, furniture and walls behind you. In the case of a "shadow person" the shadow stands much as your physical body does and there is no projection against the floor, furniture or walls around it.
Moving light sources, including flashlights, vehicle headlights streaming through windows, and smaller light sources (smartphone illumination, LED lights on electronics, wristwatch illumination, etc) can cause shadow movement in infrared lighting environments.
Swinging doors, windows and cupboard doors opening and closing-
This "ghost" has been incorrectly reported many times on paranormal investigation videos. Just because a door opens, or closes does not mean a paranormal entity is the cause. Minute indoor drafts, negative air pressure created by other doors / windows opening or closing elsewhere in the location, uneven or unbalanced floors, doors, and door frames can all cause a door to open or close seemingly without cause.
And know that if you did not capture the door opening or closing in full view of a camera seasoned investigators and viewers of your investigation are not likely to believe it was "paranormal". Therefore, static cameras have become popular during paranormal investigations, gathering evidence from rooms (or spaces) which are not physically occupied by a living human.
The best thing you can do to educate yourself is to walk around your home and try opening and closing a variety of doors, windows, cupboard doors and appliance doors.
I recently saw a video where an oven door opened, and was caught on a static camera, while the investigator was in another room. While this does not rule out the use of string or fishing line to pull open the door from an off-camera position I know, from years of use, how it is not likely the oven door would just fall open. Many ovens have hinges that allow the door to be opened part way (about 1/5th) open (allowing the heat to vent from inside) then full open, but unless these hinges are really worn out it still takes physical force to start the door opening enough that gravity can take over. A newer oven will not likely have the issue of old, rusted or defective hinges.
A cupboard door which is opened by force (quickly) can swing to its full extent and then just as forcefully swing closed again. This is the common response of a door reaching its physical limit and the hinges allowing it to return to its original state. It doesn’t mean a “poltergeist” did not open the cupboard door to begin with, but it might not have closed it as well.
In Conclusion-
As mentioned above your goal should not be to define the “paranormal” but instead identify the “unexplained”.
So many things can cause sounds which are not “paranormal” but may be present in the investigation area. These include, but certainly are not limited to air conditioners, fans, space heaters, electrical appliances (including televisions, radios and record players), touch lamps, incandescent and LED lighting, Wi-Fi signals (not just from your smartphone), vehicles passing by on the street, people talking loudly while walking past on the street, and so much more, which may be beyond your control. Know your environment.
Through years of “unexplained” responses the field of study will continue, hopefully, to define what is commonly “paranormal” and what is not. Just because someone has a popular YouTube channel or paid position on a television series does not make them an “expert” in all things, it just means they are more “experienced”. For example, I have been working in the retail sector for 35 years now and you will never hear me refer to myself as an “expert” or “knowledgeable of all things retail”, retail like paranormal investigating is always changing and evolving.
A key to any analysis of evidence gathered is teamwork.
A single living human can be affected by their physical environment and thereby draw conclusions that are inaccurate (the result of emotional such as fear, anxiety or apprehension, or by physical changes in the body such as a leg cramp, ringing in the ears or too much caffeine or not enough sleep, and, of course, inexperience). Therefore, investigators use several devices to record or document their environment and all investigators (from amateur to experienced) call on third parties to “debunk” their evidence wherever possible.
The age and experience of third-party observers is a tool not a discouragement, you might never have heard a record player needle scratching across a vinyl record, or the sound water makes as it tickles through copper pipes, or the whistling as heat passes through duct work followed by the knocking as the heat stops and the metal begins to cool. Through teamwork you gain knowledge. Don’t fear constructive criticism, it will help you grow from an amateur to expert level investigator in far less time and save you from some personal embarrassment.
Don’t ever be afraid to say, “I don’t know what this is”.
If you made it all the way down to the bottom of this article, thanks for your time; please take a few more minutes to follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel today through our Linktree directory.
Kevin M. Klerks
Paranormal Investigator & Researcher
Second, you need to understand that a paramount paranormal investigation goal should be to identify those “occurrences” (known henceforth as a “response”) which cannot be explained by what we living humans understand as “everyday reality”.
You (known henceforth as a “living human”), as a paranormal investigator, are aiming for identifying and defining evidence of “explained” versus “unexplained” responses in your investigation of the environment (or space, known as a room, house, field, or whatever). There is a different portion of the investigation that later identifies and defines “intelligent” versus “environmental” responses.
To make it easier you will note I have referred to "paranormal" entities as either a "ghost" or a "poltergeist". This article is not about defining the differences between the various things in the paranormal world so much as identifying and differentiating them from day-to-day occurrences.
Understanding Intelligent versus Environmental responses and changes-
A living human walked over and with their hand pushes a door into a closed state – this is an “intelligent” response to something in their physical environment (an open door).
A living human walked over and with their hand physically pushes a window into a closed state and behind them a door physically slams closed. This is likely an “environmental” response to their physical action (the closing of the window). In this occurrence an undetectable or even detectable ‘draft’ or change in air pressure in the room changed the environmental conditions in the room causing the door to close (for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, Newton’s Third Law of Motion).
A closet door in a room, where all windows and doors are closed, slides open, as a living human sits across the room on the bed. The nature of the closet door sliding open or closed is an “explained” response until the source of the movement of the sliding door is not known or explained. This is how the closet door is designed to function after all.
The living human gets up from the bed, walks over to the closet, and confirms that there is neither wires attached nor another living human hiding inside. A sliding door, will, by its very nature, seem to defy gravity and cease to function, as it is understood to, despite changes in air pressure in an environment.
A sliding door will not slide open or closed because of a draft of wind passing through the space. The action of the sliding door above (opening), without physical assistance from wires or living humans, becomes an “unexplained” response to the known visible physical environment.
This is when a living human would ask the “ghost” to open or close the sliding closet door again (or further). If something moves the sliding door it could be concluded as an “intelligent” response by a “ghost” to the investigator’s request, or, at the very least, identified as an “unexplained” response to a non-physical change in the environment. Sound waves created by your voice will never be strong enough to slide open or closed a closet door.
Remember that asking “can you do that again?” when a sliding door is already open will not likely get an “intelligent” response from the “ghost”. You can’t ask a “ghost” to open a sliding door that is already open anymore than you can ask a living human to. If you want a “ghost” to re-open the sliding door (or “do it again”) you will first have to physically slide it closed or ask the “ghost” to “close the closet door”.
Footsteps, footfalls, thumping, knocking and creaking sounds-
A “footstep”, when a living human raises their foot in the air and places it back down on the ground creating a sound dependent on the surface their foot was placed (usually only distinguishable by the naked ear if it is wood, concrete, metal, plastic or glass. Stepping on sand, dirt, water, or similar terrain surface will only create infrasound vs audible sound).
A “footfall” is just another way of describing a footstep. In some countries footfalls are still used to describe foot traffic in a mall or store.
“Knocking” is the “thump” of an object or limb of a living human striking a surface (commonly wood, metal, plastic or glass, and each with their own distinctive sound). When you rap your clenched fist (knuckles) against wood it will make a thumping sound, when you do it against the flesh of your leg it may make a slapping sound.
“Creaking” is the sound that comes from stepping on an old wood floor that has shifted or separated from the structure supporting beneath it. Creaking can also describe the sound when you sit on a bed or in a chair where the wood of the furniture has started to dry out and separate from each other. A door can creak when it opens or closes, this is common when the hinges are rusting or dried out (requiring a little WD40 lubricant) or the frame of the door has shifted, and the door is now off-balance.
These all can be caused by several common everyday sources. The foundation and structural wood or metal frame of the building settling (a structure, even one built on concrete, will continue to settle or sink for the life of the structure); improperly anchored water pipes in walls and rafters; unsecured or warped floorboards (over time nails and screws work themselves loose causing the boards to lift apart from the structure beneath); exterior wind causing windows to rattle (when the caulking or sealant between the glass and frame has aged or come out creating a gap) or shutters to flutter and knock; exterior wind moving the branches of trees and shrubs causing a scraping or slapping sound against the structure.
I have watched several videos by seasoned investigators who are still swayed by “footsteps” or “knocking” sounds. Even expert-level experienced investigators should openly challenge the validity of these sounds before declaring them to be “paranormal”. A single footstep is almost never “paranormal” especially when you find yourself in an opportunity to compare it to the sound of several footsteps running across a room, down a hall and up or down a flight of stairs.
The best way to debunk this is to openly ask for the source to repeat the sound while investigators remain as physically still as possible. One of the ways I have seen investigators prompt an “intelligent” response from a “ghost” is to ask it to answer a pattern of physical knocking. You should understand though that not everyone, including “ghosts” knows that the riff “Shave and a haircut” ends with “Two bits” or two knocks.
The best test you can perform is to ask a “ghost” to respond to a universally recognized pattern of knocking, “what comes next?” knock once, knock twice, then wait for a “ghost” to knock three times OR try the reverse, knock four times, knock three times, then wait for a “ghost” to knock two times. You are listening for an “intelligent” response to your question.
A single knock is rarely accepted as an “intelligent” response to a request for knocking unless it immediately (within a second or two) follows a verbal request for the “ghost” to “knock once”. But one must realize that a single knock, even when immediately following a verbal request for one, could still be debunked as an “environmental” response (the foundation or wall settling somewhere in the structure). Therefore, seasoned investigators ask a “ghost” to repeat several knocks “can you do this?” Knock, knock, knock, expecting the “ghost” to knock three times in response.
If something is "walking around" you are going to hear it again at some point and know that you or your team are not the source of the sound. You need to accept, however, that even if you believe everyone is standing still a floor or piece of furniture can still bend, creak, groan or knock just from atmospheric conditions in the room or minute subconscious movements by the living humans.
In older homes you can be standing in one room and by shifting your weight on a wood floor cause the floor to creak or groan out in the hallway. You need to look at houses when they are being built to understand how interconnected floors, walls and ceilings are and how pressure on one part of a floor can cause a response on another part of the floor or ceiling below.
The sooner you accept that you can never possibly stand or sit “perfectly still” the sooner you begin to identify the common ambient sounds from those that may be paranormal in nature.
Disembodied voices, crying, calling out, moaning, screaming -
A “disembodied voice” is when you hear a voice with your ears, but no living human spoke or whispered near you to be identified as the source of the voice.
However, you must understand that no matter how healthy or young you are your ears (more accurately, your hearing) and mind can create the effect of disembodied voices. This condition is known as ear rumbling (creating a water or wind rushing sound in your ears that your brain misinterprets as speech). Water flowing through pipes can create all sorts of sounds from whispering to screaming as well that your hearing and brain may mis-interpret as voices.
Therefore, digital voice recorders and microphones on video equipment provide the best evidence, allowing other people to hear what you may have heard. Radio interference (white noise), living human voices from other rooms (carried by or echoing through ventilation ducts), and the mingling of a variety of sounds creating white noise (movement, water, wind, etc.). These recordings are referred to as EVPs (or Electronic Voice Phenomenon) and are further defined into Classes, Class A, B, C, D based on their clarity, strength and ability to be interpreted or understood by the listener.
When is a “disembodied voice” not a disembodied voice? When people are in the building or location with you or passing by on the street. Know your environment. And when someone is walking or talking outside be sure to mention that in your video, it’s always good practice to debunk things before your viewers do.
Photographic orbs (those round circles or balls in the photograph you just took)-
Different from those orbs witnessed by the naked eye. The refraction of light on a lens is a very common cause for an orb. You need to learn your equipment and how common orbs occur with your camera before announcing to the world that you captured an orb.
A camera flash or infrared beam of light can interact with dust or other airborne particulate, as well as reflective surfaces, birds, insects, precipitation (rain, sleet, fog) and high humidity levels (creating moisture in the air). I have recently discovered that the Samsung S20 FE camera is notorious for creating a distinctive blue orb in photographs taken toward the sun, no flash required. As technology improves unfortunately so to will the occurrences of false mechanical readings of our natural world.
It has been commonly understood that a “flurry” or “snowfall” like appearance of orbs is likely dust or structural debris and not a paranormal event. If a living human physically hits an object (such as a pillow, or ceiling tile, or broken section of plaster) there is going to be dust or debris in the air.
Photographic anomalies, shapes, blurring or flashes of light -
Your camera's incorrectly set exposure can create anomalies. One of the most common is the blur when an object in the view of the lens moves at a rate faster than the exposure (someone running in a race or car driving past). Long exposure times with little ambient lighting has been known to cause blurriness and ghost-like images in photos.
Reports of "ghosts" caught on digital and analog images, have been harder to debunk when the exposure time is faster.
Moving shadows and the absence of light in a particular space-
A "shadow person" is best identified as a shadow which is positioned or moves independent of any structural support. When you walk across a room past a bright light your shadow is projected on the floor, furniture and walls behind you. In the case of a "shadow person" the shadow stands much as your physical body does and there is no projection against the floor, furniture or walls around it.
Moving light sources, including flashlights, vehicle headlights streaming through windows, and smaller light sources (smartphone illumination, LED lights on electronics, wristwatch illumination, etc) can cause shadow movement in infrared lighting environments.
Swinging doors, windows and cupboard doors opening and closing-
This "ghost" has been incorrectly reported many times on paranormal investigation videos. Just because a door opens, or closes does not mean a paranormal entity is the cause. Minute indoor drafts, negative air pressure created by other doors / windows opening or closing elsewhere in the location, uneven or unbalanced floors, doors, and door frames can all cause a door to open or close seemingly without cause.
And know that if you did not capture the door opening or closing in full view of a camera seasoned investigators and viewers of your investigation are not likely to believe it was "paranormal". Therefore, static cameras have become popular during paranormal investigations, gathering evidence from rooms (or spaces) which are not physically occupied by a living human.
The best thing you can do to educate yourself is to walk around your home and try opening and closing a variety of doors, windows, cupboard doors and appliance doors.
I recently saw a video where an oven door opened, and was caught on a static camera, while the investigator was in another room. While this does not rule out the use of string or fishing line to pull open the door from an off-camera position I know, from years of use, how it is not likely the oven door would just fall open. Many ovens have hinges that allow the door to be opened part way (about 1/5th) open (allowing the heat to vent from inside) then full open, but unless these hinges are really worn out it still takes physical force to start the door opening enough that gravity can take over. A newer oven will not likely have the issue of old, rusted or defective hinges.
A cupboard door which is opened by force (quickly) can swing to its full extent and then just as forcefully swing closed again. This is the common response of a door reaching its physical limit and the hinges allowing it to return to its original state. It doesn’t mean a “poltergeist” did not open the cupboard door to begin with, but it might not have closed it as well.
In Conclusion-
As mentioned above your goal should not be to define the “paranormal” but instead identify the “unexplained”.
So many things can cause sounds which are not “paranormal” but may be present in the investigation area. These include, but certainly are not limited to air conditioners, fans, space heaters, electrical appliances (including televisions, radios and record players), touch lamps, incandescent and LED lighting, Wi-Fi signals (not just from your smartphone), vehicles passing by on the street, people talking loudly while walking past on the street, and so much more, which may be beyond your control. Know your environment.
Through years of “unexplained” responses the field of study will continue, hopefully, to define what is commonly “paranormal” and what is not. Just because someone has a popular YouTube channel or paid position on a television series does not make them an “expert” in all things, it just means they are more “experienced”. For example, I have been working in the retail sector for 35 years now and you will never hear me refer to myself as an “expert” or “knowledgeable of all things retail”, retail like paranormal investigating is always changing and evolving.
A key to any analysis of evidence gathered is teamwork.
A single living human can be affected by their physical environment and thereby draw conclusions that are inaccurate (the result of emotional such as fear, anxiety or apprehension, or by physical changes in the body such as a leg cramp, ringing in the ears or too much caffeine or not enough sleep, and, of course, inexperience). Therefore, investigators use several devices to record or document their environment and all investigators (from amateur to experienced) call on third parties to “debunk” their evidence wherever possible.
The age and experience of third-party observers is a tool not a discouragement, you might never have heard a record player needle scratching across a vinyl record, or the sound water makes as it tickles through copper pipes, or the whistling as heat passes through duct work followed by the knocking as the heat stops and the metal begins to cool. Through teamwork you gain knowledge. Don’t fear constructive criticism, it will help you grow from an amateur to expert level investigator in far less time and save you from some personal embarrassment.
Don’t ever be afraid to say, “I don’t know what this is”.
If you made it all the way down to the bottom of this article, thanks for your time; please take a few more minutes to follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel today through our Linktree directory.
Kevin M. Klerks
Paranormal Investigator & Researcher