What Ghostbusters got right. (Clue: Nearly everything)

Since the late 1800s, people have been into Paranormal Investigation, but one thing brought it into the public eye and renewed everyones thoughts on the Paranormal. The 1984 comedy-horror-action film Ghostbusters.

Everyone knows something about Ghostbusters, it's part of New York's culture now and that ain't going away pretty soon. But what people don't usually realise is how much of an effect it had on the world of the Paranormal Investigators. Ghostbusters created the craze, but how much did it really get right?

Well, writer Dan Aykroyd, the guy who plays over-enthusiastic paraphysicist Dr. Ray Stantz, was descended from Paranormal Investigators and claims to have seen ghosts himself. (Although he never calls them that, he refers to them simply as "Unidentified Lights") This should give you a clue on where the idea came from.

Ghostbusters also got critical appraisal from psychologists, according to Harold Ramis in "The Making of The Real Ghostbusters (Awkwardly presented by Rolf Harris). The science of Ghostbusters, especially The Real Ghostbusters, which was a Kid's Show! Talk of theories about other Universes and particle destabilisation and other unproven scientific concepts had surprisingly large grounds in real scientific thought!

Ghostbusters however did not get everything right. There is no "miracle" way to detect the paranormal like the PKE meter. We have to look for effects, in a similar way to the detection of black holes. The existence of Ectoplasm is highly doubted, with ONE convincing piece of evidence, whereas there being a myriad of types in Ghostbusters. Finally, famous ghost sightings are compiled into a guide, known as Tobyn's Spirit Guide. No book exists that is comparable to Tobyn's (yet).

So there you have it. Sorry about the large gap, but the next post is ready and will be uploaded later today. Be sure to check back tomorrow as well for more! The exams are finally over and we at Ghostguard can get back to videos! See you then, and Happy Hunting!

The Return of Ghostguard!

Sorry we've been gone for a few weeks. Exams and that have stifled our time for investigating the otherworldly! But now, as half our exams have been completed, this blog will be back in a action! This week there will be four posts, not including this one!

Firstly, we have a post dedicated entirely to Ghostbusters! Then we have another Local Legend underway, this time describing the Promenade Couple of Aberystwyth Prom. This will be followed by a new series, which I'm keeping under wraps for now and then a review of the K-2 EMF Meter I received back in January which has now been field tested in a haunted location!

Be sure to check us out on Youtube, although we haven't uploaded anything new, and won't until every exam is finish in early June.

Happy Hunting guys, and don't forget to check out the Paranormal Database on GOOGLE+ for more Paranormal Escapades from us, our allies at Creepy Seven Paranormal and many others, quite a few of whom are in Mexico. See ya' around!

SOMETHING STRANGE IN THE TESCO CAR PARK

Ghosts can come up in various places, from the ordinary castles and homes to discotheques, but a recent sighting from Dafydd has possibly come up with the winner of the weirdest manifestation area award, the Aberystwyth Tesco car park!

The ghost was a Class 3 or 4, of a girl in vaguely 1990s-sounding clothes from the description Dafydd gave me. He made eye-contact with her, and thought nothing of her, until three seconds later she vanished. I have been in the Car Park and know there is no way a person could be completely out of sight at that location. The person must have been a ghost, who dematerialised after being seen by Dafydd. Unfortunately, he didn't realise the girl was a ghost until it had disappeared, so obviously he wouldn't have any photos!

Now, I'm tempted to go back there and investigate, this time with our equipment of EMF Meters and Voice Recorders, to see if we find anything!

Anyway, this will be the last post for a while, as we have a lot of exams at the moment. This has severely limited our time for both investigating, writing these posts and answering Quora questions. I'll still answer Quora questions, and do the occasional post, but nothing big, like new videos, until the end of June. There should still be some activity though, so don't stop viewing the blog! It'll all be for our benefit!

See you in June, and Happy Hunting!

Ghosts in the Land of Ice and Fire.

Now, I have not posted for about three weeks, sorry about that. However, I do have a valid reason for it. I have been in Iceland! I was there doing both ordinary Iceland and Paranormal related activities, having some cross into both categories. I'm tempted to do a Venn diagram of that, but I'll wait until after the post...

Anyway, as I only left Keflavik and arrived back in Aber yesterday, I though I should tell you about some Icelandic ghosts. Most of the Icelandic ghosts originate in Norse Folklore, such as their concept of the Hidden People, who live in a pocket dimension of sorts. Icelandic people are allegedly the most superstitious people in the Western World, so they do have people who still believe in these old tales, like the tales of King Arthur in North Wales. The story claims these Hidden People are the descendants of Adam and Eve (After the original settlers turned Christian anyway.) who were placed into this pocket dimension (For lack of a better term) as not to displease god.

More recently, a ghost has been sighted on one of Iceland's beaches, very near the famous "Black Beach" of Vik. This ghost has not been "seen" in the traditional sense, or been detected by EMF or any other kind of device, but has been caught on photo. Although no photos of the ghost itself exist, mysterious footprints has been reported on various beaches, but mostly in the area of Vik. Iceland is a famous seafaring nation, so perhaps these are the ghosts of long-dead traders or raiders.

Unfortunately, no ghosts have been reported in either of the hotels I stayed at, which could be taken as both a good or a bad thing! However, as Google only brings up Paranormal articles in my news-feed, I have heard about a party (For lack of a better term) of Class 5 free-floating vapours manifesting in an English night club! Ghosts at a discotech! What more could you want?

That's it for this week/month, and I will be posting "Overtime" to make up for the four or five odd posts I've missed out on. I would have done it over there, but the internet is quite patchy. See you on Monday, with an interesting experience from on of our very own members of Ghostguard! See you then, and Happy Hunting!

LOCAL LEGENDS

As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, the new local legends is on the mysterious "The Plane".

Now, the plane is another ghost, but one with a difference. The plane is, unsurprisingly, the ghost of a plane which crashed in the Plynlympon mountains in Ceredigion. The inhabitant was Army Air Corps pilot Xenephon E Eugenedes, who crashed,  and died, in 1945. The plane wreck is still lying around on the side of one of the mountains, despite many parts being stolen or vandalised.

Nobody is sure when The ghost started appearing, but I guess it wouldn't have been long after the crash occurred. A witness named Paul Jay saw the plane and expected to see the crash through his rear-view mirrors, but it simply disappeared.  I do not know when this sighting was, or of any other convincing sightings. It's possible it may not manifest anymore, but that would seem surprising.

A good topic to think about is whether the ghost of Eugenedes remains in the plane, as a Class 3 ghost himself, or if the plane "flies itself" for lack of a better term. It's also possible his ghost is separated from the plane, and is possibly wandering around Plynlymon looking for a way back home, although as he has never been seen, I doubt this.

The following link takes you to a website on Xenophon Eugenedes, which I got some of my information from.

https://xenophoneeugenedes.weebly.com

I hope you enjoyed this Local Legends post, as I noticed they aren't actually that popular! I'm not going to stop doing them though. So goodbye and Happy Hunting!

EXPANSION AND SOME OTHER NEWS

Greetings Paranormal Fans! This is going to be a medium-sized post on our recent expansion, plus some other news regarding ghosts and such.

Firstly, we have expanded into things other than the paranormal. Dafydd has recently mentioned something about sound videos on murders, of both the mysterious kind (Which I personally am interested in) to some that are simply gruesome. (which I find slightly too terrifying.) Whether we'll have any videos on these in the future or not has not been decided, but I'd say there will be. Watch this space!

Secondly, our videos on Ceredigion Museum have begun, and after we finish, we'll upload them. This will still take a month or so, and I apologise for this long wait between videos. Hopefully it won't happen again. All three of us have exams you see, so we have had to stop our Investigations to study and revise for them. It many go down to one post a week, but probably won't. I'll keep you informed on this blog.

Thirdly, Ghostguard will soon be going to a public event! Near us lies Llywernog Silver Lead Mines, which used to be mines back in the 1800s. They hold a bimonthly event (This year anyway...) under the name "Paranormal Investigations" so we decided to go. If you're around Ceredigion in the middle of May, then why not turn up? It sounds pretty good, if you ask us.

That's all the news we have, be sure to check back on Tuesday for a new Local Legends on "The Plane." That's all for now, Happy Hunting!