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I was born in 1954 in Suffolk, Virginia. In 1961, I had an experience occur when my grandfather died. He showed up in my bedroom and told me goodbye essentially, and I found out the next day that his time of death was at approximately the same time. Creepy and impactful on a young boy. But I never forgot it and vowed to one day understand what had occurred. My family moved to Delray Beach, Florida in the fall of 1963, and that is when I really began my active interest in the paranormal. In 1965, my next door next door neighbor, Fred W. Grosstuck, a retired college professor and pattern maker, gave me a book called "Adventures in the Paranormal", essentially a collection of short stories of events from all over the world that were scientifically unexplainable. Fred also introduced me to Fate magazine. I then proceeded to read every book about the paranormal I could get my hands on. I participated in the exploration of his first "haunted house" at the age of 17 in Boynton Beach, Florida with my best friend and our dates. Been hooked ever since.
2. I see that you are the Executive Director at the Scientific Paranormal Investigative Research Information and Technology a.k.a. SPIRIT. Can you tell us more about what SPIRIT does?
We are a group of scientists who all have day jobs in our disciplines but share a common belief that the paranormal is actually normal, just not understood.
6. How do you believe this will lead to evidence being harder to falsify?
Well I think you didn't mean this question how it comes across. Evidence has to be falsifiable in order to be valid evidence. Falsification is part of the criteria. But if you mean validity of the evidence, it is a huge leap. The data is stored in software that has checks and balance algorithms that prevent you from altering the evidence. Meaning if the values do not add up, it rejects the data. So the data is pristine in its proprietary format. Meaning simply, what you see is what you got, and you can't alter it artificially, either accidentally or on purpose. So the data is tamperproof while in its proprietary format. It makes it harder to share, because the software is required by those who wish to view it, but it’s doable. Most scientists have access to that type of software if they do analytical comparison work though. Most para teams do not. The software is expensive. Most teams use freeware, which is open source and not very tamper-proof.
7. If you could give advice to a person wanting to become a Spectrologist what would the advice be?
I love questions like this. Whether you mean the definition in science of spectrology which is from Chemistry and Physics meaning the science of spectrum analysis in any or all of its relations and applications or the folkloric terminology of spectrology which is the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions, the advice is the same. The study of anything outside of the normal is a multidiscipline study. We have electrical engineers, chemical engineers, biomedical engineers, forensics specialists, acoustic engineers, audio engineers, meteorologists, astrophysicists, quantum and particle physicists, analytical specialists, psychologists and psychiatrists and more working on these issues. Read. Go to school. Study. Do. That's the formula for making a discovery and understanding the discovery you make.
8. Is there anything else you would like to share with the paranormal community?
Only that since my entry into the field as a serious researcher in 1976, I have seen good and much bad occur in the field. People need to realize they are being looked at and scrutinized for their work. If their work fails to hold up to scrutiny, then they have failed in their job. The field today is known for its pleasure seekers, glory hounds and haters. NO serious discovery has emerged from the current formula. None. Zero. Zip. Yet the scientific approach is yielding results daily. We know more about the human consciousness today than we did when the current TV fare of offerings premiered. Yet...those shows are still doing the same old dramatic nonsensical crap that continues to baffle any serious researcher in the field, like talking to boxes and flashlights and using instruments with blinky lights to act as a type of electronic Ouija Board. That is a formula for FAIL. Nothing but raw speculation comes from this, such as residual haunts are due to the rocks having memory, or energy storage that is somehow triggered by some feathery realms source. A wormhole on the other hand, would explain it as the visual observance of the holographic boundary of a wormhole connecting two places in time. That's right, observing the past through a sort of window in time. A solution both feasible and provable with math. Case rested.
Our goal is to understand it, and define the scientific processes that are involved with it. Our current areas of study are EVP, Wormhole formation, the psychic-medium-empathy mechanic and fibromyalgia research in gifted individuals. We are also studying the Observer Effect in paranormal occurrences in order to determine how much of it is based on human intent and interaction, and how much of it is environmental. We research by observing, constructing a hypothesis, and experimentation. We do not analyze other teams’ evidence, and we do not take on people to experiment on. We do assist other teams with our gear in known active locations in order to determine cause.
3. Can you please explain briefly in laymen’s terms the “Wormhole theory”?
Essentially a portal of sorts forms. This portal affects the environment in such a way that the only scientific explanation is an Einstein-Rosen bridge, or wormhole formation is occurring. Information then emerges from that wormhole in the form of Electrical energy (EMF) and mechanical or acoustic Energy (Audible Voice Phenomena or Emerging Acoustic Phenomena, as well as telekinetic activity, such as force. There are many forces in play, and they are local forces with a non-local source, meaning they originate outside our planet, and probably our universe.
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