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A strange thing has happened recently…
Groups are more concerned with making a name for themselves than actually helping the clients out with their problem. Case in point, we investigated a location this weekend that was a private location. Whether or not we found something while doing our research, it is up to the owner to determine whether we have the right to publish our findings.
What worries me is the ongoing trend for groups to ‘prove themselves’ by show the evidence they have captured while on location. I understand the draw to such thinking. When I first started my group, I too wanted to share with everyone just how good we where at getting results.
However, early on we came across one home owner who did not want us to publish our findings to the world. The funny thing was that they were my family. Why wouldn’t they want us to post our findings? Didn’t they want to help me build my group? Didn’t they understand just how important it was for me to show other potential clients that we had some real world experience and have captured evidence?
The truth is that publishing those findings wasn’t in their best interest if they ever thought about selling the property. Let’s just say for instance that we had a Bill Bean experience where the home was taken over by demonic forces causing his entire family to be broken apart. If I was able to capture proof of ‘dark forces’ involved at a location and I published it for the world to see, it would be hard to keep that information from a potential buyer to that property at ANY time in the future.
Remember, the information would be available for years to come!
Here are some things you might not think of when posting the results of your investigations:
- This is the clients personal property so don’t publish the address of the location
- Images and video of personal property expose the client to risk of theft
- Images and video of the owner may give the owner frustrations from those in their community
- Publishing results of a certain location can hamper the ability to sell the property in the future due to the real estate laws
So, I encourage you to think before you publish the results of the investigation. I would also encourage that you share the potential risk of publishing the results to your clients.
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Dark Forces by Bill Bean
Actually, my group almost never publishes our findings of private or residential locations, for the reasons you cited. We do regularly publish results from public locations and we are willing to share results from private locations WITH OWNERS PERMISSION with other groups. But that is NEVER our call; always that of the owners.
In fact, we tell then yup front that the results will go no farther than to them unless they explicitly tell us differently. In other words, we don’t even ask them if we can publish the results. We let them bring it up first.
Wizardwayne,
I am glad your group follows basic commonsense. It is amazing what is being put out there these days.
Professionalism is being replaced with a virtual show and tell.
Thanks for posting.
jeff
I agree. It seems that for too many groups, the goal is NOT to help the family/owner/workers/whoever of the building or location in question but rather to see who can find the most outrageous or scary evidence. That is not why i got into this field.