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This week, there’s a chill in the air. Thanks to the internet, and with pseudo-scientific resources like digital recording equipment becoming ever more available at consumer level, there's probably never been a better time to be an amateur paranormal investigator - especially if you'd like to swap stories and tips with like-minded individuals. As a primer, Ghosts Central contains everything you need to get started in ghost-bothering.Presented in a wry, matter-of-fact manner you can find out about everything from why a ghost might manifest as a bad smell, to “instrumental transcommunication” – the idea that spirits may communicate with the living via modern technology, including computers. "Communication typically occurs on Windows machines", it says, which stands to reason as ghosts find Apple's “finder” interface notoriously frustrating. Once you've thoroughly investigated your computer for any text files of supernatural origin, you might like to continue your online ghost hunt at Library Ghost, where you can monitor a number of webcams located in an American library, possibly staring into the low resolution images for hours until you're convinced you've seen a face or a bit of mist. If you're ready to take paranormal scrutiny into the field, The Shadowlands Haunted Places Index lists loads of anecdotally haunted locations across the UK. Once you've spotted something you might like to then share your experience at Ghost Village, which boasts a thriving community and regularly publishes “encounters” submitted by visitors. Finally, for anyone about to take up ghost hunting, a word of caution: ghosts are dangerous. At least they are according to the Spiritual Science Research Foundation, who seem to blame ghosts and other supernatural beings for, well, pretty much everything. Like eczema, for example. And that's no surprise as, according to their statistics, there are ten times as many ghosts on this planet as there are humans. The SSRF has even created an illustrated guide to types of ghosts. Now that might sound dangerous: you're probably worried about being possessed when you look at the pictures. But rest assured, each hand-drawn picture is enclosed in a "protective border" (red line) which "counteracts any harmful frequencies that the pictures may emit". Is it just me, or has the internet got rather chilly all of a sudden?
David Thair
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 useful linksinstrumental transcommunication www.libraryghost.com shadowlands haunted places index ghost village spiritual science research foundation
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