Ghost Hunting

If there's something weird, and it don't look good. Who you gonna call?

Whether you believe in ghosts or not, it is an inescapable fact that ghosts fascinate the human race. With many different cultures around the world holding as a central tenet some form of life after death, it is perhaps inevitable that human beings should have created the idea of ghosts and imagine them to be the spirits of the dead.

English literature is full of ghosts. From such classics as Dickens' A Christmas Carol, where the ghost of Jacob Marley converts Ebenezer Scrooge from his miserly life, to out and out ghost stories, which have no more motive than to scare the wits out of the reader, ghosts in their various forms play a major role. And ghosts are an important part of folklore worldwide.

But literature is only one area where ghosts have entered popular culture. Television has used the ghost effectively in its programme making - take the recent example of the revived 1960s series Randall and Hopkirk (deceased) - and, of course, the cinema has not held back, with such oeuvres as Bill Cosby's Ghost Dad, the latterday classic Ghostbusters and, going back more than a few years, David Niven ascending an escalator in A Matter of Life and Death.

But, while ghosts on television and in the cinema tend to have something of a knockabout image, the ones that people say they have encountered in real life are entirely different. Whether the reason is because we get a sharp reminder of our mortality, 'real life' ghosts tend not to have entertainment value to those who encounter them.

Ghosts are reported as taking many different forms. One form, popularised in comic books, for example, is the white sheet with two black eyes. But the more traditional apparition is, well, ghostly: the wispy eminence passing with ease through walls; or the cavalier doomed to tread the halls and corridors of a stately house, carrying his head under his arm.

Wherever you live in Britain, there are local ghosts; often associated with unfortunate circumstances. One of the more famous hauntings is on Blue Bell Hill in Kent, not far from New Electronics' office. On a particular stretch of the road leading up Blue Bell Hill, there have been regular reports of a young woman who walks out in front of cars and, from the driver's point of view, is run over. However, in each case, when the driver got out to check for a body, there was none to be found. In each case, the girl has turned and stared at the driver before the car runs over her. In one case a man claims that on driving past that particular hill he looked in his rear view mirror to see a girl in his back seat, on turning around she had vanished.

Believe what you will about ghosts, but the fact remains that the overwhelming number of sightings have been made by individuals and the only evidence there is for those ghosts is the word of those who saw them. It may be that ghosts are shy, like New Electronics' house ghost, because they don't appear with any great frequency in front of more than one observer. And the new fangled art of photography has not helped either. Whilst many 'photographs' of ghosts have been published - either in books or, more recently, on the internet - few have real credibility.

So, are ghosts a figment of the imagination or is there something more to it? With the Ghost Hunting gift you can finally find out for yourself!

The Ghost Hunting Experience

Take this spine chilling experience and you'll be guaranteed a spooky night to remember. From the minute you enter the Psychic Workshop till the time you take the Post Investigative Discussion you'll be on tender hooks and be sure to have a night to remember. The night includes five amazing steps. These are:

• Psychic Workshop - The investigators on the evening will work to give a reading using Psychometry or perform a task using dowsing rods or a pendulum. The medium will also attempt to contact someone from the other side.


• Ghost Hunting Kit Demonstration - Next you will be shown the tools of the ghost hunter's trade. They will include an EMF meter, NID, Canum, Hygrometer, Laser Thermometer, Dictaphones and an Infra Red PIR Motion Detector. Each team will receive an equipment pack to record your findings throughout the evening.


• Ghost Walk/History Walk - This is your chance to have a good look around the haunted property. The Medium, who will have no prior knowledge of the property whatsoever, will give out information on the energies they are feeling in the property. A local Historian will try to validate the information given with what they know about the property.


• Vigils - Now you begin your own hunts for paranormal phenomena. In small teams led by an experienced member of staff, you will move around various hot spots at the property, recording findings using your investigation pack.


• Post Investigation Discussion - After the vigils all the teams will discuss and compare their results of their vigils, in particular to note any similar occurrences between teams, that's assuming of course that you have made it through the night!

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Ghost Hunting

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