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The FIVE energies are WOOD, ASH, EARTH, METAL & WATER...
The FIVE Primary Colors: BLUE, RED, WHITE, BLACK & YELLOW....
The FIVE Senses: SIGHT, SMELL, TASTE, TOUCH & HEARING.
The FIVE GHS Members: DEAN, TIM, MARK, NICK & GEORGE
The FIVE energies are WOOD, ASH, EARTH, METAL & WATER...
The FIVE Primary Colors: BLUE, RED, WHITE, BLACK & YELLOW....
The FIVE Senses: SIGHT, SMELL, TASTE, TOUCH & HEARING.
The FIVE GHS Members: DEAN, TIM, MARK, NICK & GEORGE
The following conversation was held at WGUL radio in May, 2009.
Due to unexpected temporal anomalies, some portions were originally broadcast in June of 1954.
Interview already in progress.
Mark: … I call it “spurious emissions”. I think I fried your amplifiers doing it, though.
WGUL -- All that smoke can’t be a good sign. I’m still hearing bells... are we still on the air..?
Mark: I’ve never been able to try that with the power from a radio station. They had to have heard us that time. The question is ‘when’ did they hear it.
Dean: Maybe we should get back to the interview?
WGUL – OK, has anyone on your team ever caught a ghost? You know, like in “Ghost Busters”?
George: God, I hate that question.
Mark: I’ve caught more colds.
WGUL -- What would be the most extreme phenomenon that you have experienced?
Nick: The most extreme thing I have experienced is a story of mine that hardly anyone believes. When I was two weeks old, I was pronounced dead due to a congenital heart defect. Needless to say, I was operated on successfully. The doctors had been able to save my life. To this day, I stand by the fact that I can recall this experience and have seen the “other side” with my own soul. This imprint has left a mark on me that has allowed me to better appreciate what I experience while researching the paranormal.
WGUL -- I would imagine that after experiences like that, there wouldn’t be too many things left that frighten you guys.
George: Well, I’m not sure if I’d say that I never get frightened. Sure, most ghost hunters deny ever being scared while on a hunt. They’ll admit to being startled, but never to being frightened. I’ll admit to it, though. I’ve never run, but I have been in situations in which my body, my autonomic responses have told me to be scared. Personally, that’s one tool I like to use whenever qualifying something as paranormal. If our gear can’t identify the event, but my body is telling me to be scared…
Mark: … you might be a sissy.
WGUL -- How about the rest of you?
Tim: I have never been frightened by anything unseen. However, if the investigation is not in a controlled environment, such as a cemetery, or an abandoned building, I do become fearful of running into actual people or animals, or… ‘ahem’…the cops.
Dean: Never frightened. However, I have been startled. The mannequin at the Jailer’s Inn, turning a corner and seeing my own reflection in a mirror… these types of things catch me off guard. There was one attic that I never wanted to go up into- not sure why, but I did.
Nick: I do have a fear of heights and spiders. While on an investigation that was loaded with spiders, I kept running into every cobweb in the place! Not only could I feel the webs, but I constantly thought that I could feel the spiders crawling on me. Fortunately, I’ve never yelled aloud while on an investigation.
Mark: No, you just cry yourself to sleep after the hunt.
WGUL -- Does it help to have a belief in ghosts in order to do this kind of work?
Tim: I haven’t always been a believer in ghosts. Around 2005, my sister introduced me to the possibility of paranormal phenomena. I started having an open mind about the subject, and the more I researched it, the more it intrigued me. What interests me most about ghost hunting is researching the history of a location and linking the ghostly phenomena to someone who had significant ties to the place long ago.
WGUL -- How does that kind of interest in the paranormal turn into joining a team?
Dean: That’s a tough question, but I think it just comes down to having the drive to do it. I remember capturing an EVP when I was a kid, only to find out later that it was a friend talking. Nonetheless, I recall the steps I took to figure it out. More recently, I would watch the ghost hunting shows on TV and I started debunking a lot of their claims. The thought of starting a team just came into the picture.
WGUL -- Do ghost hunters have heroes?
Nick: Egon, hands down. His scientific approach to the subject is one to learn from. Plus, if I could come up with half the gadgets that he did, Ghost Head Soup would be investigated by the local government offices… more than they are already, of course.
Interview already in progress.
Mark: … I call it “spurious emissions”. I think I fried your amplifiers doing it, though.
WGUL -- All that smoke can’t be a good sign. I’m still hearing bells... are we still on the air..?
Mark: I’ve never been able to try that with the power from a radio station. They had to have heard us that time. The question is ‘when’ did they hear it.
Dean: Maybe we should get back to the interview?
WGUL – OK, has anyone on your team ever caught a ghost? You know, like in “Ghost Busters”?
George: God, I hate that question.
Mark: I’ve caught more colds.
WGUL -- What would be the most extreme phenomenon that you have experienced?
Nick: The most extreme thing I have experienced is a story of mine that hardly anyone believes. When I was two weeks old, I was pronounced dead due to a congenital heart defect. Needless to say, I was operated on successfully. The doctors had been able to save my life. To this day, I stand by the fact that I can recall this experience and have seen the “other side” with my own soul. This imprint has left a mark on me that has allowed me to better appreciate what I experience while researching the paranormal.
WGUL -- I would imagine that after experiences like that, there wouldn’t be too many things left that frighten you guys.
George: Well, I’m not sure if I’d say that I never get frightened. Sure, most ghost hunters deny ever being scared while on a hunt. They’ll admit to being startled, but never to being frightened. I’ll admit to it, though. I’ve never run, but I have been in situations in which my body, my autonomic responses have told me to be scared. Personally, that’s one tool I like to use whenever qualifying something as paranormal. If our gear can’t identify the event, but my body is telling me to be scared…
Mark: … you might be a sissy.
WGUL -- How about the rest of you?
Tim: I have never been frightened by anything unseen. However, if the investigation is not in a controlled environment, such as a cemetery, or an abandoned building, I do become fearful of running into actual people or animals, or… ‘ahem’…the cops.
Dean: Never frightened. However, I have been startled. The mannequin at the Jailer’s Inn, turning a corner and seeing my own reflection in a mirror… these types of things catch me off guard. There was one attic that I never wanted to go up into- not sure why, but I did.
Nick: I do have a fear of heights and spiders. While on an investigation that was loaded with spiders, I kept running into every cobweb in the place! Not only could I feel the webs, but I constantly thought that I could feel the spiders crawling on me. Fortunately, I’ve never yelled aloud while on an investigation.
Mark: No, you just cry yourself to sleep after the hunt.
WGUL -- Does it help to have a belief in ghosts in order to do this kind of work?
Tim: I haven’t always been a believer in ghosts. Around 2005, my sister introduced me to the possibility of paranormal phenomena. I started having an open mind about the subject, and the more I researched it, the more it intrigued me. What interests me most about ghost hunting is researching the history of a location and linking the ghostly phenomena to someone who had significant ties to the place long ago.
WGUL -- How does that kind of interest in the paranormal turn into joining a team?
Dean: That’s a tough question, but I think it just comes down to having the drive to do it. I remember capturing an EVP when I was a kid, only to find out later that it was a friend talking. Nonetheless, I recall the steps I took to figure it out. More recently, I would watch the ghost hunting shows on TV and I started debunking a lot of their claims. The thought of starting a team just came into the picture.
WGUL -- Do ghost hunters have heroes?
Nick: Egon, hands down. His scientific approach to the subject is one to learn from. Plus, if I could come up with half the gadgets that he did, Ghost Head Soup would be investigated by the local government offices… more than they are already, of course.