Alan Browns book Ghosthunters of the South-comments

spiritseeker57 · New Entity Joined: Oct 13, 2006 Posts: 9

Has anyone read Alan Brown¹s new book ³Ghost Hunters of the South. Brown interviews paranormal investigators from Alabama, Georgia (yes, Patrick Burns), Virginia, NC, SC, Mississippi, Louisana, Tennessee and Kentucky. The interviews were conducted over the phone and he used a basic questionaire format for each team, i.e. what kind of equipment do you use, how many in your group, most interesting investigation, etc. After intervewing all these teams and even going on a few investigations , Brown comes to the conclusion that he does not believe that there is anything paranormal, that everything has a scientific explanation. His final chapter offers explainations for EVPs (random noises confused with voices), full body appraritions (electromagnetic fields have interfered with your brain) and says that the findings of paranormal investigators cannot be accepted as valid proof without undermining the very foundations of scientific method (you can¹t reproduce this in a lab). It just seemed like he interviewed all these people and won their confidence and then basically said you¹re all full of crap. I loved the interviews with these groups, they gave some fascinating stories about some of the cases they¹ve worked on but I just got the feeling that Mr. Brown only wrote this to cash in on the popularity of paranormal investigations. Oh, and he also said that T.A.P.S. was known for faking evidence and that most groups didn¹t have any respect for their findings. I¹m just curious to see if anybody else has read this book and what they thought.
Marie

Fayelle · Mist Joined: Jun 07, 2006 Posts: 246

Well everyone is entitled to his or her opinion on things.....Thank goodness for free speech Smile

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It's ok though its not like it will hurt the every day paranormal investigator....Most of us are used to disbelief and skepticism.....

I have heard too many EVP's that are clearly not noises that I mistook for something else, I am not sure where that little girls voice came from I truly thought I was alone maybe I am blind or the electromagnetic field blocked my vision from seeing her.....Too many are clear and precise hehe.....The AVP's as well....Oh well sometimes being Fox Mulder has its downfalls Very Happy

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Heaven knows I understand the effect electromagnetic fields have on me, there are many days I wish they would just leave me alone....My head and ears would thank me for the silence, and my balance would be happy to go back to stable Smile

darn dizziness knocks me over sometimes......10 Neurologists and otologists decisions on my hearing, and neurological function could tell you its not me....Stupid normal test results anyway "grumble, grumble".....

If only, if only some of the FBA's I have seen were simply that.....It would be a relief since then I wouldn't have to struggle with the horror of some of those sights.....(some of them are pretty graphic Smile

) I am not sure where my mind gets some of those outfits though, wow I knew I had a great imagination but wow who would have thunk it.....

Ah T.A.P.S. wow if only it were easier being in the spotlight....You know you have to be faking it because its all too strange to be real....Oh wait a minute I thought that truth WAS stranger than fiction....ok now I am confused Very Happy

......It's ok, another day another set of comments and another moment in time that could have been spent on something else...... Very Happy

Fay