CH A PTER ONE WHAT ARE GHOSTS t was just another night on the job for the staff of Everyday Paranormal First the ghost hunters set up their equipment Then they spread out On this night they were investigating the Myrtles Plantation This large mansion in Louisiana was built before the Civil War Care takers and visitors reported seeing ghosts Some said they heard sounds of children crying Some thought they felt hands tugging on their pants legs Nothing happened until 2 00 AM Then ghost hunter Barry Klinge waiting in the dark in the main house felt a big drop in temperature A cold spot moved over him His instruments showed a drop of almost 40 degrees He smelled cigar smoke and per fume He was startled when a rock skittered across the floor and bumped into a wall Brad Klinge Bar ry's brother waited in the old slave quarters on the
WHAT ARE GHOSTS Ghost hunters believe that the Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana is one of the most haunted houses in America property Brad suddenly felt a hard strike on his back When he turned around no one was there The team members of Everyday Paranormal first look for scientific explanations for the spooky events that hap pen during their investigations Open windows can cause cold spots Curtains can hold smells for decades Voices can carry in the stillness of night The Klinge brothers carefully reviewed the data they collected that night They found that most of the events could not be explained They deduced that there were ghosts at the Myrtles
INVESTIGATING GHOSTS AND THE SPIRIT WORLD Paranormal investigators use talcum powder as a trap to capture evidence of ghostly footprints TYPES of GHOSTS People who believe in ghosts say that they are the souls of dead persons that appear in some form to the living Many societies perform funeral rites to help souls travel to the afterlife so they will not return to haunt the living Ghosts are considered to be para normal beings This means that they are outside the range of normal experience or scientific
WHAT ARE GHOSTS For hundreds of years believers and nonbelievers have debated whether or not ghosts exist Those who think that all ghostly events can be explained by science are called skeptics According to descriptions or depictions pro vided by believers there are several kinds of ghosts A human looking figure that can be seen is called an apparition For instance some visitors to the White House have seen a hazy Abraham Lincoln in the bed room named after him One such visitor was Queen Apparitions are buman looking figures that appear to be dead people coming back to haunt the
