Posted on 10/28/2002 4:07:45 PM PST by scouse
Sunday, October 27, 2002
St. Louis — Michael Lynch doesn't live in the Twilight Zone, although he's spent enough time there to pay taxes.
A skeptical Lloyd Silverman said his century-old home didn't qualify as haunted, but he'll listen to Lynch's theories on how — and why — a picture "jumped" several feet from the wall one night.
"It's not a function of belief or disbelief. Quite simply it's something the average person doesn't think about," said Silverman, a film producer and lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis.
Lynch has investigated paranormal activity with a St. Louis team called Para-Vision for the past decade. The team, with Lynch as its leader, claims to be among the first to develop cameras that videotape ghosts.
Entities — the industry term for ghosts, phantoms and angels — are not visible to the naked eye and exist on different frequencies, Lynch said. That's why, he explained, Para-Vision's cameras record them with halogen and infrared light at the desired frequency.
"If anything, it's more scientific than horrific. Demons and monsters prowl the night. Most ghosts are just consciousnesses with nothing better to do," Lynch said.
On-screen, you won't see a smiling Casper. Instead, small white blobs bounce around with varying speed.
Lynch searched Silverman's home two weeks before Halloween, using his Extreme Vision 101 glasses. The glasses are connected by cords to a camera hidden inside Lynch's rubber-lined black vest.
Para-Vision investigates about two cases a month, through word-of-mouth referrals. The team doesn't eliminate ghosts like "Ghostbusters" but they'll tell you what you have. Removals are subcontracted out to a dowser — someone Lynch says makes the environment less ghost-friendly by moving a chair or making minor changes. Para-Vision takes donations for house calls and appears frequently on late-night radio shows.
Michael Lynch uses ghost detection gear to inspect a painting that reportedly jumped off the wall in a home in St. Louis. Lynch has investigated paranormal activity with Para-Vision for the past decade in St. Louis. The team, with Lynch as leader, is the first to develop cameras that videotape ghosts, which go unseen by the naked eye, he said.
The four crew members hold parapsychology doctorates from Celestial Visions School of Metaphysics in Boca Raton, Fla. A handful of schools nationwide offer such degrees.
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Well! It ain't no H'Oxford or 'Arvard mind you,but it's as good as H'Eton
Oh, so it's very scientific. There's no such thing as "halogen light". Light created by heating a filament that's enclosed in a halogen gas is the same as any other light. "Desired frequency" just means the color of the light. "Infrared light" would just make the ghost warmer.
A man stood on the side of the road hitch hiking on a very dark night in the middle of a storm. The night was rolling and no cars passed. The storm was so strong, he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly he saw a car come towards him and stop.The guy, without thinking about it, got in the car and closed the door only to realize that nobody was behind the wheel. The car started slowly. The guy looked at the road and saw a curve coming his way.
Scared, he started praying, and begged for his life. He hadn't come out of shock, when just before he hit the curve, a hand appeared through the window and moved the wheel. The guy, paralyzed in terror, watched how the hand appeared every time before a curve.
The guy gathered strength, got out of the car and ran to the nearest town. Wet and in shock, he ran into a cantina and asked for two shots of tequila, and started telling everybody about the horrible experience he went through. A silence enveloped everybody when they realized the guy was crying and wasn't drunk.
About half an hour later, two guys walked into the same cantina, and one said to the other. "Look, that's the character who climbed into our car while we were pushing!"
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