Investigation Procedures: Analysis of Paranormal Activity (Part 4 of 5)

Any paranormal investigation is only as good as the data collected and how well it is analyzed.  Some groups do a lot of their analysis on location as it happens, such as Discovery Channel’s Ghost Lab.  This has a lot of advantages in that you can quickly determine a course of action, or an area of higher priority.  You can also readily debunk claims by being able to recreate activity while still on the site.  If you get a shadow figure you can quickly refute or substantiate it by recreating it in the very location at the same time and with the exact same environmental factors still in play.  The down side to this is that if you’re spending all your time analyzing the data as you collect it, you’re lengthening the investigation cycles and the potential for missing activity increases.  Find a happy medium ground and maybe mix it up with a little on-the-fly and a little post-investigation analysis.  Do what works best for you and your team.

Read on at: http://paganpages.org/content/2010/11/across-the-great-divide-11/