They will look at the device intently and ask, focused, with intensity: “Is there anyone here with us right now?” Prior to this, viewers watching a show will learn about the lurid claims surrounding a location: a young woman who was murdered, for instance, or a grizzled man with a mean streak who’s been known to terrorize visitors by appearing when they least expect it so they fall down the stairs to their doom.Īn investigator will stand a few feet away from the REM pod, allow the tension of silence to fill the room. In such shows, Investigators will set these down and invite entities to come and interact with the REM pod as a means of beyond-the-grave communication. Or, if you ask a ghost you suspect is with you in the room to touch it, and the REM Pod sounds off, boom, you’ve got yourself spirit communication. Presumably, if there’s a ghost living out its afterlife, strolling through the halls, and it just so happens to brush past one of these pods, it’ll go off. If you hover your hand near one, or touch the antenna directly, the device will beep loudly and lights on the pod will shine, indicating where the source of movement originated. If you’ve watched a so-called “ghost-hunting” show, you’ve probably seen an investigator lay down a cylindrical device adorned with blinking lights, a small speaker and an antenna known as a REM pod. It’s not all charlatans trying to make a quick buck off people’s grief.īut there are some serious problems - beginning with the technology problem. There are many people in this industry who, like half of all Americans, believe seriously in paranormal investigation. More than 50 percent of Americans believe ghosts are real, and a belief in some kind of life after death is a globally recognized phenomenon that is cross-cultural and dates back thousands and thousands of years.
But I’ve also seen how people intentionally fake evidence of the paranormal - and how they utilize devices that are, to put it bluntly, not worth the plastic they’re 3D-printed with. Through that work, I’ve attended events and investigations at locations many investigators wait years to cross off their bucket list. I’ve also been able to launch my own series, Haunted Discoveries, which I made with co-star and founder of the American Paranormal Research Association, Brandon Alvis. I’ve been fortunate enough to be featured on what is considered the gold standard of para-investigative TV shows: A&E’s Ghost Hunters. I’ve been studying and investigating the paranormal days before my 18th birthday - more than half of my life. And that’s because it was difficult to suppress the secondhand shame I’d feel from seeing a lot of the methods highlighted in popular programs, almost all of which are plagued with false positives. There was a time in my life where I would have rather been caught watching porn than tell people I’m a paranormal investigator.
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