I have started editing videos for SGHA’s 30th anniversary and the experience of finishing the first couple of them has left me feeling nostalgic today. Paranormal investigation teams can experience quite a bit of turn-over in the membership over the years. It is difficult for a group to find people with the correct focus, attitude … Read moreSGHA Membership Nostalgia
The celebrate our 30th Anniversary, we are creating a series of videos about various memories and events that have happened over the past three decades. The video series kicks off with this one. When SGHA was formed in 1985, its membership was soon composed primarily of members of the U.S. Armed Forces. This gave us … Read moreSGHA, 30th Anniversary, Ghost Hunting in Japan in 1989
This tutorial covers techniques for image analysis that are helpful in determining whether or not a photo has been edited / tampered in any way. Analysis of EXIF files and image quantization tables are covered. Both techniques will also work for images manipulated with “ghost photo” apps.
This year we celebrate our 30th Anniversary! Is there a question about us that you would like to have answered? What would it be? Several of our team members will answer your questions on YouTube next month. Send your questions to ghost(at)sgha.net Stay Tuned….
Paranormal phenomena, events that cannot be explained by existing science, are regularly reported in medicine. Surveys have shown that a majority of the population of the United States and Great Britain hold at least one paranormal belief. Information was retrieved by MEDLINE searches using keywords ‘paranormal’ and ‘psychic’, and from the author’s own collection. Reports … Read moreParanormal phenomena in the medical literature sufficient smoke to warrant a search for fire?
Prince was a friend to Harry Houdini and Hereward Carrington and they all had exposed the tricks of fraudulent mediums, however, unlike Houdini both Carrington and Prince believed some mediums were genuine. According to the psychical researcher Robert Ashby, "Prince remained highly skeptical of PK and other physical phenomena, but felt that there was no doubt at … Read moreDr. Walter Franklin Prince, Ph.D. (1863 – 1934)
Yet another explainable photo. http://krqe.com/2014/10/27/supernatural-figure-captured-in-el-kookooee-photo/ This is a lens flare (reflection) of the burning podium off the lens. The color is off and it is up-side down due to refraction. If you invert the " El Kookooee" and overlay it against the podium and the fire it's an exact match. Lens flares are often considered to be paranormal … Read more‘Supernatural’ figure captured in El Kookooee photo… yeah right…
From 1850 to 1854 he filled the position of assistant in the college, and soon embarked upon original work, not in organic chemistry where the inspiration of his teacher, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, might have been expected to lead him, but on new compounds of selenium. These formed the subject of his first published papers … Read moreSir William Crookes (1832 – 1919)
Oliver Lodge was born in 1851 at Penkhull in what is now Stoke-on-Trent, and educated at Adams' Grammar School, Newport, Shropshire. He was the eldest of eight sons and a daughter of Oliver Lodge (1826–1884) – later a ball clay merchant at Wolstanton, Staffordshire – and his wife, Grace, née Heath (1826–1879). Sir Oliver's siblings included Sir … Read moreSir Oliver Lodge (1878 – 1955)
"Solving a Haunting" lecture was given for the City of Albuquerque Open Space Summer Series, 2014.
This article discusses the factors that need to be analyzed to determine the credibility of a witness of a paranormal event. http://www.sgha.net/articles/WitnessCredibility.pdf
Have you taken the ghost tour in Old Town Albuquerque? Were you taken into the small chapel there and told the story of the "Lady in Black"? Were the names of Cody Polston and SGHA dropped abit excessively by the tour guide? Perhaps you were even referred to this site? Well, the Vice President of SGHA … Read moreThe chapel in Old Town Albuquerque that actually isn’t haunted.
While we normally do not cross post thing from Ecto Radio we are this time because we were involved with it. Can there be an honest peer review of research done by ghost hunters? We placed ourselves into the middle of a Facebook group circus known as Worst paranormal to shown the controversy and unprofessional … Read moreWorst Paranormal Peer Review
Some of you may have been wondering about the XMic research project that has shown up at a couple of the ghost hunts over the last year or so. This research project is designed to look into the possible origin of EVP’s from electromagnetic (EM) fields hitting the microphone and converting into an audio signal. … Read moreEVP Experiment
We have a new page on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/southwestghosthunters There are allot of photos and other information in there that we do not regularly post on our website. Check it out!
Cody's latest book is now available for preorder. Old Town Plaza has been the center of Albuquerque community life since the city was founded in 1706 by Governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdez. Historically known as the crossroads of the Southwest, and reflecting an amalgamation of Spanish, Mexican and Native American cultures, Old Town Plaza has … Read moreGhosts of Old Town Albuquerque
We have had allot of requests for shirts and the like with our mascot Grim on it. So we have set up a store that has all kinds of goodies. Everything from mousepads, drinkware and bags to bumper stickers and license plates. Click the link below to check it out! SGHA Gear Page
Our site was down yesterday. It should be fixed now. Some hackers in Russia managed to force a 404 redirect from dreamhost sites to their site in Russia. They messed it up though. None of their code actually executed so while annoying, no one was actually in danger.
