ghostmap.us
Welcome
Record your investigations for the world to see.
Ghost Map is a public file of paranormal investigations. A team goes out, writes the night down, and puts that case on a map of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The pin is not a rumor and it is not an advertisement. It is the record of a watch that already happened.
This is not a catalog of haunted places, and it is not a phone book of ghost-hunting groups. Those already exist. A place can be famous and still have nothing filed on it. A team can be listed and still have never put a night on the map. Here the investigation is the thing that counts.
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The case is the post
When a member files, the public gets the write-up: where, when, who was in the room, what the team says happened, and what they were willing to rule out. Photographs sit on the case. A short EVP can live here too. Longer audio, video, and a finished PDF stay on the team’s own hosting, linked from the page so a reader can open them.
The color of the pin says what was actually attached. A report alone is one color. A photograph, a clip, or a video changes it. Several kinds of evidence together change it again. You can see, before you open the case, whether there is more than a paragraph.
Another team can later work the same place. Their case does not start a second pin. It joins the first. The location keeps every filing, whoever walked in the door.
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What the map is not
Famous Haunts is a separate shelf. Those pins are well-known places and the stories already told about them. They are not a team’s finding, and they are not an endorsement. A filed case on one of those places is a different thing, and it is marked as one.
Investigator desks are how a client finds a team. The desk is a name, a service area, and a way to write them directly. It is not the work. The work is the case. Ghost Map does not investigate with them, does not vouch for them, and is not their agency. Read the affiliation note before you hire anyone from a desk.
Private homes are plotted at the city, not the door. A residence does not get a street address or a picture of the front of the house. A public building can be exact.
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Talk is not a filing
WHISPERS is the board. Anyone can read it. Only a current member can post. Each team’s desk opens a topic. Each place on the map opens one too. A post there is conversation. It does not become a case, and it does not move a pin.
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Who can file
Anyone can read the map, the cases, the haunts, the resources, and the board. Filing a case, and posting on WHISPERS, takes a membership. One account covers a solo investigator or a whole team. The launch gives every account 6 months at no charge, once. No card is taken. When those months end, membership is $25 a year. Nothing renews by surprise.
Blank field sheets and a written way to run a case, from the first call through the report, are on the resources page. Use them or bring your own. The map takes the filing either way.