Who ya gonna call... ghosts hunters!

PW been asked on numerous occasions what a real ghost hunter should have when they investigate a haunting?
PW is staffed by more of the scientific type and would suggest that anyone coming into your home be bonded and insured. There are several online services that will provide you a quick check of their background as well! Such as Instant Background Report . This service will quickly let you know if you have a con artist crook or a decent person!

Most hauntings, PW can say from experience, come from gases leaking through the house as well as loose plumbing, wiring and floorboard! The imagination can play a lot of tricks on you when you let it.
However, not all hauntings come out to be those items! Gases leaking through are normally in older houses that maybe build over ancient swamps such as the cases in Washington DC. Mix swamp gas along with DDT and Cleaners over centuries and you've got a powerful cocktail!
Loose fixtures under, around and within the house can also contribute to noise interpreted as a ghost. Go around and shake a few things to see if their loose. You may find that set of footsteps you thought was a ghost.

Let's say you've done all that and nothing is loose and gases aren't present! There's one last item. Telescoping vibrations from other buildings and under the street.
Older neighborhoods sometimes have entire housing rows that are built on older structures foundations. Those foundations were crushed and used for a base layer. Over the years, whenever a bus, truck or car hit it just right, you could get all sorts of sounds out of it including moans, screeches and whispering noises.

Ok, you say! Say it's not any of those things as well? A good ghost hunter should have EVP and EMF Meters. These meters actually are used to measure electromagnetic fields thrown off by electronic devices. Ghost hunters use them because they claim it picks up on a spirits presence. Oh, one thing we forgot to mention! A transformer hooked into your house wiring throws off the same EMF as a "spirit." Some older houses have these transformers all over the place to compensate loads in the wiring. The Electro-Magnetic-Force from these (a.k.a., Eddie Currents) can feel like someone is watching you! Remember, you're brain is an electrical device that responds to such currents.
You could test this by holding the meter next to an electric socket and it should spike when it gets close. The person or ghost team should bring plenty of batteries as well as portable audio recording equipment that can be carried with them as well as place strategically through out the structure.

Phantasmagoric World also recommends that the person or team bring Wireless Camera equipment along with recording devices. The person or team should bring an Infrared Camera as well to detect and record events as they investigate the house.
One thing that PW has noticed is that a majority of Ghost Hunters and teams don't consider is Radon Detection Equipment.
Nor do they consider Poison Detection Equipment !
These last two pieces of equipment will eliminate 90% of the supposed hauntings for what they really are, which is some form of psychotropic reaction to low level toxins in the building.

Should psychics be brought in when investigating? That's a touchy subject. As we've stated above, since we're mainly staffed by scientists, our bias is toward No!

There's a phenomena called Mass Hypnosis whereby others can be suggested into believing something that may or may not be really happening. Some psychics talk themselves and others into believing there's a ghost when there's no evidence of such.

And finally, comparison shop and get references! Be the Skeptic! True ghost hunters in our opinion should be spending more time disproving a ghost than proving it!

Thanks for your attention and time!
Phantasmagoric World