Paranormal Experience

I love being able to feature good posts from writers looking to share. It may be just a tiny bit early for Halloween, but the idea of the paranormal is not limited to a particular time of year and can be found year round. There are even several television shows that have become quite popular that are centered in the idea of the paranormal. Ghost Hunters has been on for several years, and I believe it ranges into several countries now. From what I know of it, it has quite a following. With that I offer the following guest post.. just in time to get you started thinking about the upcoming Halloween holiday!

My Evening With Two Paranormal Investigators

A few years ago near Halloween, one of the local newspapers for which I freelance wanted to do a scary story to coincide with the holiday, and I was assigned to interview two paranormal investigators. We met at a bridge that was supposedly haunted, and I had one of the most interesting evenings of my entire life.

These were two women who had studied paranormal psychology and had all kinds of equipment to detect movement, changes in temperature and so forth, and I actually ended up taking them quite seriously. Typically, I don’t tend to believe in hauntings or anything paranormal, really, but they were quite convincing as I started to interview them.

I began by asking them how they got started as paranormal investigators, and they told me their whole story. They had become friends largely because they both felt that they could connect with “the other side” and decided to explore how far it went.

They began to read on the subject and investigated a number of area locations that were rumored to be haunted, and they had actually been featured on a couple of television shows that had to do with hauntings and the paranormal.

They both had day jobs and said that they did paranormal investigation as mainly a hobby, but both very much considered themselves to be paranormal investigators and took it very seriously. They appreciated the fact that I was not laughing in their faces, as well, because they said a number of newspapers had and added that I was the first reporter to actually talk to them.

As the story of the haunted bridge went, a teenager was killed and thrown into the creek below the bridge. At night, if you go under the bridge, you can supposedly hear heavy breathing and crying, and you get the sensation that you are being watched.

As I watched the two paranormal investigators set up their equipment, which included a camera and recorder, I realized that while I may not totally believe in what they were doing, they certainly did, and that I could not say with absolute certainty that the bridge was not haunted.

We stayed out there for a number of hours and never heard any heavy breathing or crying, but there was one thing that the paranormal investigators discovered that I found particularly unsettling. Right at the place where a memorial had been created for the boy above the bridge, the temperature was about 30 degrees colder than anywhere else.

I would not have believed it if I had not seen it with my own eyes, but I did, and needless to say, after a few more questions, I was ready to leave.

I wrote a very popular story that received a great response from the local community. The two paranormal investigators I interviewed were extremely happy and grateful for the story as well, and I have since written many others. I can definitely say that my evening with those two investigators is one that I will never forget.