| In the old hit movie Ghostbusters, the team ultimately | | | | walkie talkie and says, "Turn off the microwave |
| got shut down for their usage of unlicensed nuclear | | | | antennae and the radio and lets get down to business." |
| devices. In a perfect world, we wouldn't need to | | | | I mean seriously, there are probably as many |
| license nuclear devices because people would police | | | | approaches to doing investigations as there are teams |
| themselves and be responsible. In our world, there is a | | | | doing them. We met with a local writer, well known |
| definite need to track nuclear devices of all sorts. We | | | | chap with a newspaper column and all that, and we |
| wouldn't want people inappropriately trapping innocent | | | | got along famously. He nodded as we explained our |
| ectoplasm, now would we? | | | | equipment and our code of conduct and praised our |
| Seriously though, the subject of having some sort of | | | | professionalism. "But", he said, "at the end of the day, |
| certificate has come up in some paranormal circles | | | | you really just need to put all that stuff away and trust |
| and well it should, but what would that mean and really, | | | | your gut feelings." That doesn't get you any displayable |
| how could you set standards and implement it? After | | | | proof. |
| a lifetime of interest and a few years of conducting | | | | We've all had the investigations where various |
| investigations, I have come to the conclusion that there | | | | members of the group say things like the hair on their |
| can be no real standards for what we do, unless they | | | | neck stood up in a certain area, or they felt a coldness |
| are ethical standards. | | | | pass over them, but unless the measurements are |
| A skeptic, a medium and a psychic walk into a | | | | captured somehow what do you have? Some teams |
| supposedly haunted house. The psychic says, "This | | | | are satisfied with reporting their personal experiences |
| place has a lot of energy." The medium says, "I can | | | | at a property and some home and business owners |
| hear the voices from the past." The skeptic keys his | | | | are content with that, but others want 'proof. |