/x/ - Paranormal

To go looking for something may not help much. Odd things like demonic/ghost or shadow people activity will find you easier than you will find them. Some people are outside all the time and haver never seen an alien or UFO. Cryptids is a regional phenomenon, so prepare to travel.

The easiest thing for you to do is use a ouija board or some other method of attempting to summon something.

I'm curious if anyone on /x/ actually owns ghost hunting gear. That stuff can get expensive.

>>34516

Well its not like its hard to go to a place that is rumoured to be haunted.

I guess I just think we're not putting in the effort we should.

>>34517

I don't have any place near me that's known to be haunted. The road trip wouldn't be hard, just time and money I don't have. I'd like to travel out to some paranormal hot spot one day.

>>34513

I went to visit my mum's old house once. She said it was haunted, and other family members confirmed it. According to their stories, objects often moved on their own, and sometimes they saw a strange man dressed in black who appeared and disappeared on the road in front of them. Unfortunately, when I got there, I found the house was being restored (it's an old building) and there was no way to get in. Maybe I'll try again someday.

I also went looking for fairies a few times in the wooded areas outside my city, but nothing happened. Once summer is finally over and there aren't so many people around any more, I'll probably try again, but this time I'll go at night. I totally agree with you that we should be more active.

>>34516

There's always the option of trying to summon something, but I think you have to be careful with that stuff. The actual summoning is only part of the process; you also have to banish the entity at the end, and do it properly. Even if you do everything right, things can go wrong. I've heard expert summoners warn beginners of 'psychic backlash', which is basically unintended negative consequences that start manifesting when you mess with the occult.

I don't own any ghost hunting gear, although I'm not sure what you mean by that. You can go ghost hunting with just a camera and a tape recorder, which we all have. Now, if you're talking about thermal imaging cameras, well yeah, those cost thousands of dollars (you can get them or make them for cheaper, but they have terrible resolution). You probably don't really need them though.

The guy in this video, for example, has spent $40 for all his equipment.

>>34526

He meant the equipment is under $40, individually. The Polaroid light on his list is $44 though, maybe it went up since the video was made. I don't know why he put the plastic folding table on his list. lol

In my mind though, I was thinking of stuff like good quality EMF meters, high end night vision, and various advanced gear. In a related video to that one, some guy was complaining about all ghost hunting gear and methods. While he did make sense saying that a ghost has no reason to show up on EMF or on night vision, he has to remember it's about interaction between a ghost and the world. There's a certain type of subatomic particle that was never directly detected, only indirectly from making some elements glow. I can't say that a ghost would indirectly affect objects anymore than directly since I'm not really into ghosts but it's just something to think about. Although I think I've been physically affected twice in violent ways from something in my old house. We've had objects break as if smashed, not fallen either.

>(you can get them or make them for cheaper, but they have terrible resolution)

If you own a camera that takes filters, you can buy filters that block out visible light. You need to take apart the camera to remove the sensor filter that's designed to block IR and UV. This is added to cameras to make colors more true to the human eye, because sensor calibrations is easier when dealing with visible light only. Removing the inner filter is popular for astrophotography because it makes nebulae and galaxies appear more.

>I've heard expert summoners warn beginners of 'psychic backlash', which is basically unintended negative consequences that start manifesting when you mess with the occult.

I've heard something similar about ouija boards. It summons from your subconscious more, so if you think something scary will happen, then that's what you're going to attract.

>fairies

Do you live in northern Europe? Fairy folklore is pretty interesting, wish I had good book on the subject. The new /x/ library might have something related.

>>34534

>Although I think I've been physically affected twice in violent ways from something in my old house. We've had objects break as if smashed, not fallen either.

That must have been a rather scary experience. I wouldn't be able to feel safe in my own house after witnessing something like that.

>Do you live in northern Europe? Fairy folklore is pretty interesting, wish I had good book on the subject. The new /x/ library might have something related.

Italy, actually, but I can't blame you for assuming that I was from Scandinavia. We don't seem to have a strong tradition of fairy folklore, or maybe we do but nobody has bothered to study it. We've been Christians for much longer than the nordic countries, and the influence of the Church has been felt more strongly here due to geographical and political reasons, so that probably has something to do with it. However I've read modern accounts by seemingly rational people who claim to have seen them, and if they're nature spirits, it makes sense that they'd be found pretty much everywhere, so I keep hoping to see one someday.

Yeah, the library has quite a few books about faeries, in the Paranormal section (The Celtic Twilight and Walker Between Worlds are also about faeries and elves).

No, but mostly because I'm 90% sure I live in a haunted house.

>>34545

Where did the ghost touch you, anon?

>>34536

I was reading An Encyclopedia of Fairies - Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures last night. I was expecting something similar to tales of Icelandic elves, not fairies that capture people for slavery and human sacrifice. Celtic fairies seem to be like dark elves. British isles has some crazy folklore too.

>>34546

No where but shit's always happened around here.

Like my mom used to use a Ouija board, still have it somewhere in the garage but since I know jack about the paranormal I figure that'd be how it started.

As a little kid I always heard things moving in the house, once I heard someone whispering outside my door. Personally I chalk it up to parents being weird, but worth a mention since it kept me up for like a week.

Got worse when we expanded the house and cousins moved in. Not like bad, just more noticeable. Dogs started to bark at nothing more often, the only cat at the time had a tendency to meow at nothing (Very strange, she was a quiet cat), we all heard footsteps at night and such.

One night I was kept up by a weird lantern we had hanging on a tree, had it there for a while but it suddenly started reflecting light off the glass. Just enough to stand out in the darkness and we never could figure out where the light was coming from. Stayed for like a year, during said time I saw a series of four lights (White, Green, Red, Yellow in that order) seeming to either spin around or vanish in a spinning pattern.

Ghost pretty much confirmed when the cousins took a picture in front of the foyer mirror and they caught a bald guy trying to dash behind them in the mirror. Unfortunately I know she deleted the picture since she don't fuck with no ghosts.

And now its me and my sister, cousins moved out. We both hear moving inside the house now, including the upstairs which nobody ever goes to (Dad doesn't like to climb up, Mum can't). Sometimes we hear really loud and clear scratching coming from up there. Once I went up there to check it out thinking it was an animal but no, scratching until I opened the door then silence. Nothing but some weird slide marks on the floor like when you drag your bare foot on a wood floor.

Oh and occasional knocking on the doors/windows. Once I had a visiting cousin who saw a white hand slap on the bathroom window while she was showering (Got like those thick blurry glass block windows).

So yeah. Think its haunted, but pretty harmless.

>>34547

A point that some authors like to make (and that probably needs to be made) is that in Britain people used to refer to fairies as the good folk, the good neighbours; not because fairies had a reputation for being nice, but for precisely the opposite reason. Using innocent-sounding names for something that's actually very dangerous was a way to exorcise the fear.

>>34549

Have you ever thought of using some kind of equipment to document what's happening?

>>34552

As said, someone did get a picture but I don't have the money for anything more than a regular camera and my phone.

I look for the glowing orbs when walking at dusk or dawn. I see them most at those times and started keeping an active look out for them about two years ago. I'm certain they are attracted to a flickering light by the road that I pass. Also a main city feed hydro line that cuts through the field, I see them there so much that started going around it so as not to disturb them.