Dayton Paranormal-Historical Project
why does the DPP exist? to take notes. the DPP collects physical evidence such as video tape, the DPP cannot answer all questions, but exists to help the ghosts, sounds, feelings. . . strange animal or ufo sightings, government scandal. . .
if it's not normal, the DPP is interested in investigating additional reading recommended:
we do not "clear" houses. we are not psychics.
audio tape, historical accounts of activity, etc., for record
keeping purposes only. the evidence is reviewed and the
findings turned over to the client.
people of the Miami Valley and surrounding areas work
through what can be unsettling circumstances.
and documenting your report.
what does history have to do with paranormal investigation?
it might be strange to learn that people claim to see apparitions
and hear odd noises in various buildings at our local sinclair
community college, but history comes into play when one learns
that the college is built on the site where dayton government
used to hang horse theives and other criminals -- you've got a
ghost story there which has "evidence" in accurate historical
data. (naturally the chicken or the egg theory applies here. . .are
there ghost sightings because the history is known, or did the
history cause ghosts.)
are we to accept historical data as causation or as necessarily
being related to paranormal activity? the DPP's stance is NO.
we are into researching the history of each investigation site,
however, because we enjoy it, it preserves our culture, and it
may actually be relevant and useful -- hence the "historical"
part of our namesake. do a quick poll for yourself by asking if
your own house is haunted. it is no surprise that it is not. did
anyone ever die in your house? not surprisingly (to us), most
locations are NOT haunted. perhaps also not surprisingly, most
locations have not seen a death. coincidence judgement is up
to you. even if someone did die in a location, it doesn't mean
that the location will be haunted. you might find the coincidences
interesting, though. . .we do!
information about an investigation site's history allows us to
draw documented correlations and make comparisons to things
like amount of activity, variety of activity, persons' names, was
there a nuclear accident there, etc.. this is some of the few
quanitifiable data which can be measured and recorded most
anywhere. we'll take all we can get. the hole in this type of
correlatory evidence is that most of the data we could compare
history with, such as EVP , is not accepted as legitimate.