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Historical Ghost Investigations Part I: Kimo / Therapy

Coming soon … Radford’s new book

Ghost investigations often feature in television shows and other media. Typically, these amount to people wandering around at night with EMF detectors, talking into the darkness and jumping at shadows and noises.

But how does one do a scientific paranormal investigation? On this first half of a two-part MonsterTalk, the hosts review two past ghost investigations (Ben Radford’s “Kimo Theater Ghost” and Dr. Karen Stollznow’s “Waverly Hills Sanatorium” investigations) and discuss some of the techniques that can help solve such cases. What steps are common to this type of research? Learn more this week on MonsterTalk.

In this episode

• Picking what case to investigate
• Finding case-zero
• What phenomena is being reported
• How many witnesses
• Identifying and contacting witnesses, or getting primary research
• Corroborative evidence
• Evidence which falsifies
• Research, research, research

Music

• Monstertalk Theme: Monster
  by Peach Stealing Monkeys
• Intro Music: Vampire Organ
  by Jeff Rosiana

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