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Resources
Shops, schools, tours, research desks, and things to watch. Ghost Map does not sell these, run them, or vouch for them. Nothing here is a professional recommendation. The links leave this site.
Investigative procedures
A general recommendation for how a team can run a case, from first contact through the written report. You can download it and use it as written along with the Field Sheets.
Investigative proceduresThirteen steps. Interview, permission, mapping, the watch, the dormant hour, the final sweep, and the report back to the client. Four pages.Field sheets
Blank forms to print and fill. Provided by Ghost Map. A completed sheet is your record. It is not a finding until you file the case, and it does not make Ghost Map part of your team.
Investigation sheetSite, permission, who was there, gear, what happened, and the ordinary causes you considered. Two pages.EVP recordFive clips. Question or passive watch, who spoke, what review heard, and what you ruled out before you call it a voice.Witness interviewThe account in their words, then whether they already knew the legend. Do not use it with a minor.Equipment
GhostStopInvestigation gear, built and sold by a shop in Lynchburg, Virginia. Meters, recorders, spirit boxes.Amazon — equipment searchMeters, kits, and recorders from whoever is selling them this week. Read the reviews. Compare before you buy.B&HA working audio shop. This is where a field recorder and a decent microphone come from, if you want the boring tool that actually captures a clip.
Education
University of Edinburgh — Koestler Parapsychology UnitThe Koestler Chair sits in the psychology department. Final-year modules, postgraduate supervision, and a public online introduction.University of Northampton — EECSExceptional Experiences and Consciousness Studies, inside psychology. The undergraduate module is Parapsychology and Anomalous Experiences.University of Virginia — Division of Perceptual StudiesA research unit in the School of Medicine, founded in 1967. Survival, near-death, and other extraordinary experiences. Not a ghost-hunting course.Udemy — Investigating the ParanormalCindy Little. Hauntings, equipment, witness interviews, and historical research. About three and a half hours.Udemy — A Comprehensive Course in Paranormal InvestigationsNicole Walters. A long beginner-to-field course on how a case is run, including gear and evidence review.Udemy — Parapsychology for Ghost HuntersCindy Little. A short look at how the academic field connects to hauntings, apparitions, and poltergeists.Udemy — Demonology 101Bishop James Long. Infestation, oppression, and possession, taught as demonology rather than a ghost hunt.Udemy — more coursesA live search. New classes appear and old ones vanish. Read the instructor before you pay.
YouTube Training (for review)
Record an EVP — Nick Smith-KoblitzWhat an EVP is, active and passive recording, microphones, tagging, and review. Watch it as one investigator’s method.EVP recorder tips — Ghost Hunting 101A short, old tutorial. Batteries, turning off voice-activation, and knowing who was in the room. Practical, not proof.YouTube — how to record an EVPA live search. New videos replace old ones. Judge the recorder, the room noise, and whether anyone is selling you a box.YouTube — ghost hunting tutorialsA live search of how-to videos. Treat every one as something to review, not as training Ghost Map stands behind.Ghost tours
Books
Live Amazon searches, books only. Ghost Map did not pick the titles.
GhostsA search for ghost books.Ghost huntingField guides, case books, and how-to titles.DemonsDemonology, possession accounts, and the arguments around them.PoltergeistsThe noisy-house cases, separate from a quiet haunting.ParapsychologyThe academic shelf, when you want the research instead of a hunt.Research
Society for Psychical ResearchFounded in 1882. A journal, a library, and the free Psi Encyclopedia. The oldest body still doing this work.Parapsychological AssociationA professional group of researchers. Affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1969.Rhine Research CenterDurham, North Carolina. The old Duke lab. It still publishes the Journal of Parapsychology and teaches online.Chronicling AmericaThe Library of Congress newspaper archive. Search the town, or the name a psychic gave you. A death that never made the paper is not rescued by a feeling.Find a GraveCemetery records. If a story or a sitting names a person, the grave, the year, and the cemetery either exist or they do not.Sanborn mapsFire-insurance maps. Rooms, stairs, and what stood next door. A claim about a wing that was not there in that year fails on the map.Wiseman — what a haunted room actually doesBritish Journal of Psychology, 2003. Hampton Court and the Edinburgh vaults. People reported more in the spots with a haunted reputation. The reports also tracked lighting and local magnetic changes. A feeling in a room is not a biography of the dead.Psi Encyclopedia — psychic detectionA psychic names a fact, then the file is searched for a match. Controlled tests did not beat people guessing. Vague lines were the tell.Psychic archaeologyA psychic points at a site, then a dig finds something. A hit that a person who knows buildings could have guessed is not evidence.YouTube — fact-checking a location claimFor review only. Watch whether the history was told before the psychic spoke, and whether a vague line got tightened afterward to fit a record.
Dowsing
Psi Encyclopedia — DowsingThe Society for Psychical Research account. Water and metal, then map dowsing, and why parapsychology treated it as a possible psi effect. William Barrett’s papers start in the 1890s.Dowsing: a review of the experimentsGeorge P. Hansen, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 1982. The lab work. The results do not agree with each other.American Society of DowsersFounded in Vermont in 1961. A practitioners’ society: water, lost objects, and what they class with parapsychology. Not a university lab.British Society of DowsersFounded in 1933. The UK society, with training and a journal. Same caveat: a guild of dowsers, not a research finding.Amazon — dowsing, books onlyA live search. Field manuals sit next to the skeptical books. Read which is which.YouTube — dowsing rods on an investigationA live search of how-to videos. Watch the hands. A tutorial is not evidence, and Ghost Map does not endorse the method.
Ghost Map is not affiliated with any shop, school, course, tour, society, or channel named on this page. The investigative procedures PDF is a general recommendation Ghost Map provides. The other links are here for review. They are not professional recommendations. Check them yourself before you spend money, enroll, or copy a method.