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Why Paranormal Group Team Members Fail

When you spend a few hours on location you can collect an enormous amount of evidence.

Add all the equipment you record data on (cameras, video, audio) and multiply that by the number of hours you were on location and that is a fair estimate of the number of hours at MINIMUM, you will have to spend reviewing the evidence.  You can see why the thrill of ghost hunting just got its first buzz kill.

Over the years, we have found that most people want to go on the ghost hunt. Few will take on the responsibility to review evidence. You can say you must in order to be a part of the group, however that is a whole other post.

The reason why most people get eliminated from our group and the reason why we have chosen to be a small paranormal team is simply we only want people who will take on the responsibility and own the review of the data collected.

I don’t need ghost groupies

So why don’t people rush to review the evidence? ENORMITY

Enormity doesn’t mean really enormous.It means I will suffer through long hours of boredom.

The problem with enormity of data collected is that people often put it off. It takes effort. Enormity should thrust us forward and want to tackle new obstacles in earnest to find proof of the paranormal.  All it does is cause us to procrastinate.

Show us too many digital audio recorders, and countless hours of footage to review, you’ll just get people running out the door.

What is the solution: Go SMALL

If you’ve got a small, finite sample of evidence for review, people will gladly help. This allows people to feel they have contributed, while not having to undergo a herculean task. People like to feel they are a part of a team and can take part of the credit. People like to win.

If you got a hundred hours of evidence to review, people will hide from you. Aim for small segmentation of evidence and people will come out of the woodwork to help.

Not fair, but true.

I posted an article on evidence review at Ghost Hunting Evidence Review

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