It’s 3 AM, you’re awakened by the noise of doors
slamming, the sound of tapping on the walls, and you see hallway lights flicker
off and on. You get out of bed and find
you’re the only one in the house. You try to reason what just took place and
all you can come up with that is that it’s a ghost. A bit frightened, you
decided that maybe it’s time to call your local ghost hunting group to come
over and investigate.
Who are you letting into your home? Are they
trained? Do they really know what a ghost is? Or a demon? Do they think that
demons and ghosts are interchangeable? Are these ghost hunters convicted felons
or child abusers? Maybe you’ve asked for the ghost hunters’ credentials and are
told you have nothing to worry about. But do you?
They find something and things calm down and
everything goes back to normal — for now — until one day when you’re surfing
the internet and you notice photos of your home on that paranormal group’s
website. You also find those photos on other related sites. Those local ghost
hunters have published the findings of your case on the web! Did you give
permission for them to do so? You also might discover that they’ve made money
off your case, using it in a book and/or video was used to pitch a show idea.
They’ve also done lectures at paranormal conferences, where the team leader was
paid to give a presentation of your case, but you never gave permission for any
of this. Not only were you unknowingly exploited, you weren’t compensated.
On the other side of the spectrum, maybe you want to
be a ghost hunter, a paranormal investigator, or a demon chaser. You watch
Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, My Ghost Story and other paranormal shows. You
listen to paranormal radio, and read everything on the subject. You have a
Facebook page, a Twitter page, and a YouTube account. You’ve spent hundreds, if
not thousands of dollars, on a variety of gadgets — but does that really make
you a ghost hunter?
You decide to take a class that will lead you to
being a certified ghost hunter. It’s an online class and it’s the equivalent of
about 10 hours of field study. To get your certification, all you need to do is
read a book, take a test, and get a photo ID. After accomplishing these things,
you receive a fancy looking certificate that says you’re a certified ghost
hunter. Who certified the people who certify you? Can you cover the topics
about the paranormal in a few hours?
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1 comment:
That's really frightening, to place your trust in a paranormal group or deliverance minister and later have that trust betrayed or contact abruptly severed...even after they promise they'll never abandon you or betray your trust. There really needs to be a code of ethics for this profession. Kirby, have you ever thought of starting your own paranormal version of "Angie's List"?
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