When you’re ghost hunting, dowsing rods can be very useful, especially at outdoor sites such as haunted cemeteries and battlefields. Many ghost hunters consider them essential ghost hunting equipment. With simple, homemade dowsing rods, you can identify potentially “hot” (very active, haunted) areas. Rods like these can also help you locate areas with false anomalies,…
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Pendulums – Do They Work for Ghost Hunting? (Why I Changed My Mind.)
This article is from a 2012 investigation near southern New Hampshire (USA). Since then, I’ve changed my mind about using pendulums for ghost hunting. Mostly, I recommend them for baseline research at a site. That is, using ghost hunting tools and devices to rule out natural and normal explanations for what only seems like paranormal…
Homemade EVP Devices?
I’m fascinated by things that are emerging from mad scientists’ labs… or at least the kitchen tables of kindred spirits (no pun intended) who think like I do. Here are a few odd, recent discoveries: I’m not sure what to think of the Super Beacon Auto-mapper Crystal Quantum Radio. (I try never to dismiss anything…
Using a Compass to Measure EMF
This article about EMF and hiking compasses has been updated from my 2003 original. Can an inexpensive hiking compass detect EMF as well as a $50+ EMF meter? Until around 1999, I dismissed the idea of using a compass during ghost investigations. Instead, I relied on other ghost hunting equipment. However, a series of tests…