Ghost Hunters Tech Guide: Visual

Visual applied science for spotting a glimpse of the afterlife comes in many forms. Whether its a shadowy figure captured in a photo or a burst of movement on infrared video, some of the almost intriguing evidence of life later on death is visual. Who can forget the entity that leaned over a railing and peered downward at the Ghost Hunters in the St. Augustine Lighthouse?

Hither are a few of the visual devices used by the Ghost Hunters team.

aneElectron Multiplying Photographic camera

Close-up of the Electron Multiplying Camera

Brandon

Brandon, Tech Specialist: "The Electron Multiplying Camera is a very sensitive, scientific piece of equipment that is typically used by the digital imaging scientific community to record photon events. The theory is, if ghosts and entities are manifesting, and they are in our globe, information technology is happening through photon events. We've adapted that to our research and had some really successful results with it."

Daryl

Daryl, Co-Lead Investigator: "It'due south such an amazing slice of equipment and, thanks to Brandon reaching out to the field and getting it for the evidence, information technology takes investigations to another level."

Mustafa

Mustafa, Researcher/Historian: "We had the Electron Multiplying Camera in the boarding house in Arizona, and and so correct beside information technology was a 4K resolution standard digital camera. And this phenomenon was going on at the aforementioned time as the cameras were there. What showed upwardly on the Electron Multiplying Camera was basically the generation of calorie-free. Lite was beingness generated from somewhere—it was an energy source, but it wasn't being picked upward on the digital camera. If you put that footage side-by-side with what nosotros had from the 4K photographic camera, one camera shows something, one doesn't. It'south truly remarkable."

Brandon

Brandon, Tech Specialist: "This device is giving us a very scientific look into the possible mechanics of how ghosts are manifesting. I think that's a very important point to make."

2Data Logger

A data logger taking measurements in a room

Brandon

Brandon, Tech Specialist: "Data loggers are special devices that we employ to document and record all environmental atmospheric condition of the areas we are investigating. The data logger records electromagnetic fields (EMF), temperature, humidity, pressure and vibration. When nosotros document a change in the surround nosotros try and correlate that with any unexplainable data collected visually or audibly."

Kristen

Kristen, Co-Lead Investigator: "The information logger is astonishing considering it records temperature changes, humidity changes, vibration, and EMF. This helps us to detect what was going on in the environment during a possible encounter"

Grant

Grant, Team Leader: "These devices tape environmental data including temperature, air pressure, humidity, EMF, and motion. These permit usa to go ecology baseline readings of a location so we can more easily recognize anomalous interactions. Then, we tin potentially utilize these anomalous interactions to try to communicate with an entity."

3 Tri-Field Natural EMF Detector

An EMF detector detecting electromagnetic fields

Kristen

Kristen: "The Tri-field is one of the most sensitive devices out there that picks upwards a change or fluctuation in the electromagnetic field of an area."

Grant

Grant: "This device is useful because, like many of these devices, it tin can be used to help find potential entities, but likewise to disprove claims of paranormal activity. The human body produces magnetic fields 5000 times per cell, per 2nd. If nosotros are looking for essentially disembodied human personalities, that EMF procedure should continue. In theory, EMF detectors can find anomalous EMFs that can support claims and use them to collaborate with an intelligent entity. On the flipside, known man-made high EMFs tin cause people to feel anxious, agitated, or but creeped out. Using this device to search for those high EMFs can disprove claims of paranormal action."

4 4K Infrared Cameras

Brandon uses an infrared camera to spot GHOSTS!

Kristen

Kristen: "The IR video camera allows us to peradventure see and record an entity that may non be able to exist seen by the naked eye."

Grant

Grant: "Many reports are visual. An infrared (IR) camera tin can meet in very low light conditions. The anomalies we are typically looking for are either a nighttime shadow or a faint calorie-free. The best way to increase your chances of catching either one is to plow off as many lights equally possible and use infrared. That manner yous can still run into the nighttime shadows and the faint lights volition be brighter than normal."