Author: james

The older I get and the more time marches on, I find that the author Philip K. Dick to be our true prophet. You may know him from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which became Bladerunner, or A Scanner Darkly. P.K. Dick was always asking the question, “what is real?” Most of the time his conclusion was, very little.

While we’re still in the planning stages for our first investigation I need to ask the question. Because all I have to go on concerning paranormal investigation is the brief conversations I’ve had with active groups, and all those paranormal TV shows.

Mari hates it when I call them “paranormal porn.” I admit, it’s for the shock value, but I think the analogy is spot on. In porn people really are having sex. It’s just that no one actually has sex that way in real life. I suspect the paranormal TV shows are like that. No one really investigates the paranormal that way.

You don’t need to turn off the lights. You don’t give much credit to sketchy, ill-explained devices. You don’t scream out whenever you hear a bump in the night. At least I hope not. Like I said, I’m having a hard time figuring out what’s real these days.

One thing that gets on my nerves, and I see paranormal groups on Youtube and those creating the equipment doing this – playing up the “spookiness.” Why would you give yourself a preconception that what you are going to experience should be seen as something to be feared? Why make REM Pods out of creepy dolls and music boxes? For the lols? I’m not here for the laughs. I’m here to actually learn something about the nature of these beings.

Then there’s the folks who run haunted attractions. The ones who charge a fee to let a group investigate a place that has regular phenomena. I have no problem with this. In fact, we plan on doing some of that as a learning experience. Why not go somewhere well established to hone your skills at investigation?

I have heard reports of some of these places manufacturing phenomena. Like making a REM Pod go off through radio interference or planting audio devices to fake EVPs. I’m sure that happens. But I would like to believe it’s an anomaly. That most of the folks who run those events don’t do that kind of thing.

What I have seen more commonly is haunted attractions adding “spooky” props. A creepy doll here, an old tricycle there, even some fake blood splatters. If you’re reading this and run a haunted attraction, please stop doing this. We don’t need you to help color our perceptions about what’s going on. We’re not here for thrills.

Let’s all defy expectations. We don’t need to do it like they do it on Discovery Channel. Defy spookiness. You can have fun, but no one’s going to take you seriously with those kinds of antics. This is not Scooby Doo.

The online world seems to be tailor made for posturing. We find honesty to be more interesting. We’re old enough to know that we are good at some things, maybe more knowledgeable than our peers in certain matters. But the honest truth is, we have never investigated a location with paranormal activity.

Sort of….

We have yet to have our first “paranormal investigation.” We have not been invited or scheduled an investigation of someone else’s home or business. We have never worked with a business or homeowner to investigate their property. We have never interviewed a witness. We have never gone to someone else’s place, set up cameras and audio recorders, and documented paranormal activity.

That’s not to say we don’t have experience with paranormal activity. You see, we generally do it from the comfort of our own home. Using our occult knowledge, we call in spirits, document them with video and audio. Communicate with them using ancient methods and modern devices. We have a pretty good idea how these things look and behave in a controlled setting.

We’re not ashamed of having never investigated a haunting or sighting. Everyone starts somewhere. I think coming to this vocation later in life is a good thing. It gives us a perspective with wisdom. We invite you to take the journey with us. Learn with us. Grow with us.

We do have experience to offer. We hope you stay tuned to learn about our methods and see how we employ them. Midwest Spirits has been a long time in the making. We have plans. We’ve thought this thing through. We know we’re going to take the best of what we can learn from others and add our own special talents to the mix.

If you’re interested in our occult experiments, check out my Scroll of Thoth Youtube Channel. Especially this video detailing our communication with a being we know as Ahzs.

We’re new here, but we are part of an ancient tradition. Throughout history there have been those who communicate with the dead and other types of spirits. We are of that line. Take the journey with us.