Ghost Hunting Tips & Equipment

In this category there are several options equipment-wise each with certain benefits and disadvantages. Good old analogue tape recorders/dictaphones are excellent in terms of EVP capture as the frequency range captured is wide and the recordings are usually hiss-free however using tapes is quite frankly a pain and you can forget about putting your results on your pc unless you own the necessary equipment.

The most essential piece of equipment really for the ghost hunter is a good torch. You are going to be in dark conditions for long periods, some locations do not have power and the last thing you need is not to be able to see where you are going and suffer the consequences of that! We recommend a good quality regulated LED torch.

Paranormal Nights use a digital projector that can link to our site PC. The projected image is suitably large and this allows our guests to see previous footage and experience presentations on our insight events.

Two way radios or walkie talkies as they are better known are crucial on our paranormal investigations for several reasons. Number one is our groups are frequently seperated so we need to be in ready contact with each other. Reason number two is that we need also to be in contact from a health and safety point of view. Walkie talkies are not always needed on your investigations but they are well worth investing in for sure!

Here we are only going to recommend these type of temperature meters because they do not employ a projected beam of any sort. Unlike fluctuations in an EMF field we ourselves perceive temperature change though we are also equally prone to simply believing an area to be cold or suddenly go cold so we need to verify our perception.

The assumption is that paranormal activity can be registered as spirit energy harnesses electro-magnetic energy and therefore EMF meters have come into play. There are degrees of refinement and field ranges in the models available and some models are especially tailored towards the paranormal investigator by having backlights and covering the specific EMF fields most relevant to paranormal activity. Side Note – If there is a group of you it is not necessary for everyone to have an EMF meter, it’s distracting having multiple meters registering fluctuations in vigil conditions.

Filtering down from their development for military and security forces there is a readily available range of see-in-the-dark equipment. Generally the equipment available achieve this function by two different methods and these are firstly by using a special chemical agent applied to a cathode tube to amplify existing light and secondly by using the same system we mentioned in the camcorder section, that is they employ an infra red light source and have the ability to view in this spectrum.

We’re going to start by saying that before the use of these you should be familiar with their safe practice. What you do by using these boards or by using other portal devices is essentially open a gate through which any entity may pass and much like the personalities we meet in life it is possible to encounter both good and bad, dependant on your outlook, that is why it is necessary to have protection in place.

These usually come as two slightly different types. The first type consists of two parts, one an emitter and one a receiver. An infra red light beam is emitted between the two parts and if this is broken an alarm will sound. This barrier-beam type is useful for locking off areas or perhaps even placing in amongst a group on vigils and passively monitoring the unit to see if the beam is disturbed.

If you are serious about your ghost hunting then it would be a well to invest in a digital camera of reasonable quality. We say this for several reasons, firstly although images worthy of a closer look can be caught with say your mobile phone camera they are as yet inferior to a dedicated camera and most images from mobile phones are usually too poor to allow detailed examination.

Laptops are now a crucial piece of equipment for Paranormal Nights on our ghost hunt events. Laptops allow us to view/manipulate on a larger scale any images and footage caught by ourselves or our guests.We can also use laptops to connect to the projector(s) to show post and pre vigil footage on the fly and even host purpose made presentations by using the laptop with projector and speakers.