Ghost hunter

When the Halloween night is near, the themes of paranormal phenomena are brought up and spread. However, with a ghost-hunting detective like Joe Nickell, this is a daily affair.

'Most people who call themselves ghost hunters pursue their own tracks without knowing' , NBC News quoted Nickell, an American, the author of the book on ghost science. 'If they go into a house that is suspected of being haunted and stirred everywhere, they should not be surprised to capture many monstrous images (due to dust flying in all directions) ,' Nickell said. The images above, mostly spherical, are actually looming reflections underneath the camera flash, created when dust particles float in front of the lens. The heavy noises that ghost hunters actually heard were mostly the footsteps of team members scouring elsewhere in the compound. The mysterious details on the thermal photographs explained are the traces that real people have left when leaving.

A ghost in Shutter in 2008 - (Photo: Twentieth Century Fox)

The pursuit of rumors to find the truth is not easy, but the things that make people creepy are attractive to ghost hunter Nickell. Ghost stories only take a few minutes, but opening an investigation about it can be a long journey. Nickell, once a private detective and professional magician, collaborated with magazines such as the Skeptical Inquirer and joined the Commission on Investigation of Discrimination since the 1970s. 'I'm in haunted houses. more than Casper (a cute ghost character), ' Nickell said. But in fact, the job of "hunting ghosts" is extremely hard.

In the book Science of ghosts, Nickell recounted many adventures around the world. The first haunted house he investigated was Mackenzie in Toronto (Canada), where many people pledged to see demons appear above their beds, or strange steps while no one was home. According to Nickell's conclusions, the demonic illusions they saw were dreaming during waking, a phenomenon that made people see images while half asleep and half asleep. As for the sound of footsteps, Nickell spotted it coming from an iron staircase at the house next door. The mysterious sound they heard was the voice of a cleaning staff late at night. And what Mr. Nickell pulled out in the first case was that he wanted to investigate to come to the place, scouring every corner as if it were a crime scene.

Nickell also works with his grandmother, who thinks he has the ability to communicate with the dead, such as John Edward. In this regard, he thinks those people may be obsessed with bizarre ideas, or simply liars. However, ghost hunting detective fully respects many people's beliefs about ghosts and life after death. According to him, it is because we do not want those who love to die. And of course everyone has the right to believe what he wants to believe.