Phenomena Encountered: The Magazine Issue 7 | Page 5

“We went to Waverly Hills last year, my team and I we didn’t get anything hardly. This year went we went back we were lucky. We caught some shadows. Each and every one of us had some kind of personal paranormal experience. So, yeah you can’t duplicate anything in the paranormal at all."

He then goes into his views of the growing popularity of paranormal ghost hunting show that have re launched the paranormal world back into the main stream and how they have affected the everyday paranormal investigator:

“The shows are really a double edge sword, when I say that ‘m going to say the pros first. They have gotten the paranormal more into the mainstream. People, in my opinion, more apt to talk about their personal experiences at their home or at their office and they don’t necessarily have that stigma of being kooky or crazy or anything like that. That is the pro side of it. The con side of it, is that some people think that after they have watched a couple shows or a season that qualifies then to be a paranormal investigator. It doesn’t, there is a whole lot of things that one must learn if they want to get into the field. Like, how to do you protect yourself; how do you protect your home. Use your equipment properly.”

Although, George does his upmost to conduct his investigations in an intellectual manner and to show respect all the spirits that reside at a location. He also encourages his team to use low tech approach:

“Everyone is running around with those K2 meters, and things like that. They are spending thousands of dollars in the field when there is really no need to buy all this stuff. I personally like the low tech avenue when doing an investigation. Jamie has her camera that she use to take the pictures with. She has a nice $600.00-$700.00 camera set up. We have a camcorder that has night vision capability, and everyone on the team has a digital recorder. That is as high tech as we get on location. I also like to use pendulums when I am out on an investigation. I know that pendulums are only about 60-80% accurate, but I feel the low tech approach, especially when you are dealing with an entity that has been at a location for let’s say a century. The pendulum is really easy to understand as opposed to ‘Come up here and touch the flash light, make it blink three times for yes and four times for no.’ That’s a little bit farfetched for me.”

The idea of using a pendulum very much caught my attention. He explained to me that he only brings out the pendulum when he has a personal and spiritual experience. He explains in dept on how he incorporates the pendulum as a tool in his investigations:

“The technique that I use, the pendulum is only yes or no, I start out with rocking the pendulum back and forth and straight to me; clockwise for yes and counter clock wise for no. Then I asked three questions: May I ask a question? Can I ask a question? Should I ask a question? If I get a ‘yes’ for a question then I move on to the next. If at any time I get a ‘no’ response I stop, because that is the Spirit World telling me ‘This is a bad time to try to communicate with the pendulum. I ask the three separate questions: May I ask a question? As in do I have permission to speak with you? Can I ask a question? I can talk with you just like we are on Skype, but that doesn’t mean I have your permission to ask you a question. Should I ask a question? Sometimes you shouldn’t ask a certain question and the Spirit World will let you know that.”

As analytical as he is, George understands this field does have a spiritual effect on people. Going into these locations can really put one’s very soul at risk for oppressions, attachments, and in rare cases possession. He is fully aware that he and his team need to do everything they can to protect themselves on location and when they all go home. George does not align himself with any religious institution he believes in a higher power great than all of us. He then goes on to share how he protects himself spiritually before an investigation.

“Different team members do different things. We don’t do a group prayer or anything like that, but I encourage everyone to say something in their own mind or to yourself: ‘No one can follow me, no one and attack me, I am protected by insert deity name. I personally bring along with me, my