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Informing Our Community

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:01:24 +0100

Though general acceptance of the possibility of ghosts and other unknown phenomenon have increased throughout the world,some are still quick to call our particular field of study "Quackery" or "Nonsense". Sadly I do not feel at least at this time we have the "Ultimate Proof" of the existence of ghosts or a haunting . This is a field of study that has yet to be quantified and the parameters are vast . The data we have been able to collect however is most impressive indeed.
I have spoke at many venues and look forward to sharing our thoughts , experiences and techniques with our community and those interested in the field of parapsychology and paranormal studies.
We at T.P.R.S. strongly discourage anyone paying for investigative services or training.And it is of the utmost importance that all laws are upheld involving investigating ANY public location.

Poltergeist

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:40:40 +0100

Poltergeists, their name derived from the German poltern (to knock) and geist (spirits), are generally defined as mischievous and sometimes malevolent spirits. Reports of poltergeist activity typically feature raps, bumps, thumps, knocks, footsteps, and bed shaking, all without a discernible point of origin or physical reason for occurrence. Many accounts also report objects being thrown about the room, rains of dirt or other small objects, vile smells, furniture being moved, and even people being levitated or assaulted. Historically, poltergeist activity was ascribed to the devil, demons, or witches; such activity has also been suggested to be an unconscious use of psychokinetic abilities. Although skeptics argue that all such phenomena can be explained through physical mechanisms, or fraud, many continue to believe in spiritual or parapsychological causes.

Characteristics of poltergeists

The most commonly reported type of poltergeist activity is generally a combination of loud, unexplainable noises and the movement of objects. Objects can include everything from rocks to household appliances. Movement can occur on a small scale, or may involve the moving of large, heavy objects or the violent hurling of smaller ones. Electrical disturbances, such as the turning on or off of appliances or lighting, can also occur. In some extreme cases, poltergeists have been reported as violently attacking their victims, including sexual assault.
Poltergeists are classified according to have five levels of activity:
Level 1 , called "Senses Attack," involves cold spots, strange noises, and a feeling that one is being watched. Pets may behave strangely, and odd smells or offensive odors may be noticed.
Level 2 , called "Communication," is an increase in activity over Level One. Noises become more definable, turning into whispers, shrieking, moans, or giggles. Cold spots become cold rushes of air, small objects are thrown, and small marks may appear on walls.
Level 3 , called "Electrical Control," involves the turning on and off of appliances, disturbances happen with telephones, and windows and doors open and close and lock and unlock. Unseen hands may grab or touch people, and furniture may move.
Level 4 , known as "The Trickster Stage," is even more violent. Objects disappear or move violently, and sometimes burst into flame. Apparitions and voices appear, violently threatening people with foul language. People feel dizzy or nauseous, and may be physically attacked.
Level 5 is known as the "Danger Level," and is the highest energy level. Biting, scratching, punching, and even sexual assaults may occur. Kitchen knives or other deadly weapons are aimed at people, and blood may appear on the walls, floors, or ceilings. Where previous activity was frightening, level five activity is actually life-threatening.

Poltergeists are said to cycle through the above levels, which may take days, months, or even years. After level five, the poltergeist is said to go into a kind of dormancy, until eventually activity begins again with Level One.
Poltergeist activity is usually considered to be temporary, sometimes lasting as little as a day or two. Unlike ghosts, poltergeist activity is usually centered around an individual, not a place, and is generally more destructive.evil, demons, and spirits
Poltergeist activity was commonly thought to be the work of devils or witches. An account from the late 1600s describes a "Stone-Throwing Devil," or "Lithobolia," that plagued a New Hampshire family. Objects both inside and outside the home were moved, rocks were thrown violently about, and the family members were personally attacked. An elderly neighbor was said to be suspected of witchcraft.[8] Particularly in superstitious times and/or cultures, witchcraft and demons were blamed for most poltergeist activity, as well as instances of crop failure or sickness.
The idea of poltergeists as demons, however, is still present in much of Christian theological thought; some Christians believe that, since human dead are either in heaven or hell, and unable to roam the earth in the afterlife, poltergeist activity must be the work of demons. Proponents of this theory argue that poltergeist activity has strong evidence of a conscious intelligence, and that the nature of poltergeist attacks is often annoying, malicious, and sometimes viciously dangerous, and is intended to confuse, bewilder, and frighten victims.

Individual entities:

Some believe poltergeists may be the confused, lost, or angry spirits of the dead, unable to move beyond the "earthly plane." One version of this belief posits that poltergeists originate after a person dies in a powerful rage. Another theory postulates that ghosts and poltergeists are nothing more than "recordings" from persons no longer present. When there is a powerful emotion, in death or life, a recording of such an energy is then "embedded" in a place, or in the "fabric of time" itself. This recording will continue to play over and over again until the energy embedded disperses. Others believe poltergeists simply exist, like the "elementals" described by occultists.
Some poltergeists have seemingly had distinct personalities and the ability to articulate themselves, which suggests some sort of self-awareness and intent. Practitioners of astral projection, such as author Robert Bruce, categorize a number of beings that exist on the astral plane, and report the existence of unfriendly astral life forms, called "negs," who have the ability to harm as well as cause objects to move during psychic attacks.

Poltergeist agents:

The observation that poltergeist activity often occurs around an "agent," or a person that seems to act as a magnet for the activity, has led to the idea that the agent may well be the one responsible for the activity. Many parapsychologists believe that poltergeists are really unconscious psychokinesis, or PK. The term "RSPK," or "Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis" is used to describe such a phenomenon. Agents are most often young; many are pre-pubescent. In the 1960s, researchers at the Psychical Research Foundation in Durham, North Carolina, studied 116 written reports of poltergeist activity, and came to the conclusion that children and teenagers used subconscious psychokinetic (PK) abilities to express hostility without fear of punishment. Children were not aware that they were causing the disturbances, but were generally pleased that they occurred. Interestingly enough, poltergeist activity can stop once the child goes through puberty, as in the case of Eleonore Zugan.
In the case of the Miami Poltergeist, poltergeist activity only took place when the disgruntled employee Julio Vasquez was present. A Cuban refugee, Vasquez was unhappy in his job, was often depressed and angry, and had recently attempted suicide. On days Vasquez did not work, all was calm, but when he was present, and particularly if he was experiencing strong negative emotions, the poltergeist activity was frequent. This suggests that the mental state of the agent can influence or create poltergeist activity.
Spontaneous PK is often the result of stress or emotional disturbances. Activity often centers around adolescents, as adolescence is a stressful and emotionally trying time of life. In many poltergeist cases, there are particularly strong mental issues in an agent, such as the case of the Macomb Poltergeist in 1948, where a teenager named Wanet McNeil moved with her father to Macomb, Illinois, after her parents had gone through a bitter divorce. Wanet was unhappy with the situation, did not like the farm, and wanted to see her mother. Small fires began breaking out on the walls and ceiling, igniting the curtains in each room, and engulfing a bed. Fire investigators found no flammable compounds in the wall and were mystified. Over 200 more fires broke out, eventually burning the house to the ground. Fires continued in surrounding structures. The events were later explained through a confession by Wanet that she had started the fires with kitchen matches, even though brown spots that soon burst into flame were observed by many people when Wanet was nowhere nearby. The girl went to live with her grandmother, but her emotional issues apparently continued as she grew older; later in life she was jailed for petty theft and prostitution.
Other teenagers who experienced poltergeist activity and entered therapy resolved their issues, ceased to be troubled by paranormal activity, and went on to live happy, fulfilled lives.

Caused by physical forces:

Some scientists have proposed that poltergeist activity has a physical explanation. Ionizing radiation, geomagnetic activity, static electricity, and electromagnetic fields can all affect the physical environment. Researchers use photography, temperature recording equipment, tape recorders, and other electronic equipment to investigate alleged paranormal phenomena. Seismic activity and meteorological conditions are also taken into account, along with other natural activity like subterranean water movement, in order to determine a natural and scientific cause for poltergeist-like activity. Sophisticated arrays of sensors are used to obtain the most accurate data surrounding poltergeist activity.
John Hutchinson claimed that he created poltergeist effects in the laboratory, using a variety of sources of electromagnetism. Hutchinson claims to have levitated objects, started spontaneous fires, distorted metal, swirled water inside containers, broken mirrors from 80 feet away, and made metal white-hot without burning any surrounding materials, all using equipment hooked up to a standard residential electrical supply.
Naturally, science has not been able to explain all poltergeist phenomena. While proponents of a paranormal explanation view this as evidence supporting poltergeist activity as paranormal, those who support the physical causes theory tend to believe that science will likely be able to someday explain them.

THEORIES :

Historically, poltergeists were often thought to be manifestations of the devil or demons, or the work of witches and sorcery. Modern research tends to put poltergeist activity into several main categories: Individual entities (either malicious or simply mischievous), unconscious psychokinetic activity, and physical explanations (such as electromagnetic forces). Additionally, some purported poltergeist activity is nothing more than fraud.

The Energy Injection Experiment

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:37:30 +0100

It is generally accepted as fact that paranormal activity and its intensity is directly
related to the amount of radiated energy in the environment. This is reflected by
the effects of Space Weather (Solar Flares, Geomagnetic Storms, Solar Wind,
etc.), The draining of batteries during a paranormal event, and the momentary
interruptions of power (such as flickering lights). While there is little written of
formal experiments proving the case for energy influence, we want to attempt to
find a demonstrable correlation. To do this, we chose to use a Tesla Coil to inject
massive amounts of energy into the air at a reportedly active site.
The Tesla Coil is most likely Nikola Tesla's most famous invention. It is basically
a high-frequency air-core transformer. By using standard house voltage as a
supply (120 Volts AC) it steps the voltage up to extremely high levels. Voltages
can and do get to be well above 1,000,000 volts and are discharged in the form
of electrical arcs. Tesla Coils are unique devices in the fact that they create
extremely powerful electrical fields just by operating. Some of the larger coils are
reported to wirelessly light up florescent lights up to 50 feet away. Due to the
effect of the devices field on ionized gas, even burned out tubes will glow, as
long as the tube has not lost its integrity.
In operation, electrical energy from the secondary and toroid is transferred to the
surrounding air as electrical discharge or arc, creating heat, light, and sound. The
electric currents that flow through these discharges are caused by the rapid
shifting of quantities of charge from one point (the top terminal) to other areas
(nearby regions of air). Tesla Coil discharges are formed as a result of
displacement currents, as pulses of electrical charge are rapidly transferred
between the high voltage toroid and nearby air space (called space charge
regions). Although the space charge regions around the toroid are invisible, they
play a dictating role in the appearance and location of Tesla Coil discharges.
As the spark gap fires, the charged capacitor discharges into the primary
winding, causing the primary circuit to oscillate. The oscillating primary current
creates a magnetic field that transfers to the secondary winding, bringing over
the energy into the secondary side of the transformer and causing it to oscillate in
conjunction with the toroid capacitance. The energy transfer occurs over a
number of cycles or periods, and while there is some loss, most of the energy
that was in the primary side is passed into the secondary side. The variable is the
greater the magnetic coupling between windings, the shorter the time required to
complete the energy transfer. As the energy intensifies within the oscillating
secondary circuit, the level of the toroid's RF voltage dramatically increases,
causing the air surrounding toroid to undergo dielectric breakdown, creating the
famous corona discharge. As the secondary coil's energy increases, larger pulses of displacement current
ionize and heat the air at the point of initial breakdown or the Tesla Horizon as I
call it. This forms a very conductive mass of hotter plasma, called a leader, that
blasts outward from the toroid. The plasma of the leader is considerably hotter
than the corona discharge, and is significantly more conductive. The leader
scatters out into thousands of thinner, cooler, spider web-like discharges (called
streamers). The streamers, resembling electrical arcs, appear to be a bluish fog
at the termination point of the more luminous leaders, and it is these streamers
that actually transfer the charge between the leaders and toroid into the nearby
space charge regions. The displacement currents from the streamers feed into
the leader, keeping it hot and highly conductive.
In a spark gap Tesla Coil like the one we use, the primary-to-secondary energy
transfer process happens at typical pulsing rates of 50–500 times/second, and
are adjustable in rate by “tunning” the gap. The previously formed leader
channels never get a chance to fully cool down between pulses due to the
frequency of the pulse. Therefore on successive pulses, newer discharges can
build upon the hot pathways left by their predecessors. I call this “Blazing a
Quantum Trail” This causes incremental increases of the leader intensity from
one pulse to the next, lengthening the entire discharge on each successive
pulse. By repeating the pulsing, the discharges grow until the average energy
that's available from the Tesla Coil during each pulse balances the average
energy being lost in the discharges as heat, light and sound. At this point,
dynamic equilibrium is achieved, and the discharges have reached their
maximum output power level. This combination of a rising high voltage Radio
Frequency field and repetitive pulsing are ideally suited to create long, wiry
discharges that are significantly longer than expected from output voltage levels
alone. These discharges appear as filamentary multi-branched arcs which have a
purplish blue color. On the other hand, high energy discharges create thicker
discharges with fewer branches, and are pale, luminous, and almost white in
appearance. Additionally, they are much longer than the low energy discharges,
because of the increase in ionization. An indication of operation is the strong
smell of ozone and nitrogen oxides permeating the environment adjacent to the
device while operating. The important factors for maximum discharge length are
identified as voltage, energy, and still air of low to moderate humidity (below 65%
for our purposes).
Keeping all this in mind, we set out to determine if increasing the energy in the air
would have any effect on paranormal activity. The site chosen has a history of
moderate paranormal activity and is a private residence. The house is over 150
years old.
The equipment was set up and initial readings were taken in the area that was
being tested. Some stray EMF patterns emerged, but there were no significant
spikes to indicate any activity was occurring. We did manage to find a cold spot
about two feet off the floor near the set up area. The site showed elevated
environmental levels for Ion counts and alpha radiation.
We energized the coil and ran it at full power for three minutes. The resulting
energy surge was pegging all of the sensors and meters being used to monitor
the event. We temporarily shut down all sensing equipment until the coils was
deenergized. The result was immediate.
There were several loud thumping noises, several migratory cold spots,
numerous EMF spikes, and an increase in photographed Unified Field Plasmoids
(None were present prior to energizing the coil). We did not capture any
intelligible EVPs, but frequency of recorded phenomena verses what was heard
by the ear increased dramatically. It appears that energizing the air in the room
where the activity reportedly takes place, caused an increase in activity. This is
by no means proof positive of a definite correlation, but it is promising, none the
less. Of course, we will have to repeat this experiment many times to determine if
the data is real or artifactual.

Founder and Lead investigator for The Tristate Paranormal Research Society

Sharing our experiences with the community

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:32:48 +0100

For so many years people have been afraid to mention experiences they've had with other worldly phenominon or ghosts because of the reaction they would recieve from their communities. Now the television has been flooded with shows about ghost hunters and those searching for answers to one of mans most common questions.Is there life after the death of the body. The Tristate Paranormal Research Society are not "ghost hunters", nor can we always provide every answer you are looking for. We are researchers in the field of paranormal studies.

We will explain what we are able to as well as explain our theories as to the "why". However, you must remember this is a field that has yet to be defined and truly quantified so to say we are experts would be an untruth. Our years of experience have given us a broader range of data to draw hypothesis's and theories.

Respecting the confidentiality of our clients is of the utmost importance.That being said, we will be sharing our case logs on this site as well as the data collected. We welcome you to take a journey with us, into the unknown.

sincerely,

Deb