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 …
In 1985, SGHA was created by five people.
Two were very skeptical; two were hardcore believers and somewhere in between
was me. The idea of this group was to utilize these different viewpoints,
skeptic and believer, to investigate haunted places from a perspective that
could lead to an unbiased conclusion. The believers became the "ghost
hunters" while the skeptics became the "investigators." From day
one we have never believed that ghost hunting and investigation were the same
things, so the different terms were used to differentiate between the two kinds
of methodology. This was essential as each group approached the mystery
differently and had different criteria. While I have participate in both elements of SGHA, I eventually found that I enjoyed the "investigator" side.
The
goal of the investigators is to attempt to identify and/or replicate any
natural or manmade causes of the reported phenomena, search for alternative
explanations and to challenge the findings of the ghost hunters. This was the intellectual side of ghost hunting that was more fulfilling and interesting.
In the beginning, when it was
just the five of us, everything ran well. Our friendship enabled us to
communicate despite having different worldviews and objectives. However, when
the group began taking on new members, several issues started to cause
problems. To be quite honest, the issues were often on the side of the
believers who thought that their perspectives on specific investigative issues
were being prematurely dismissed by armchair skepticism. This was eventually
solved through the addition of new by-laws or modifications to the group's
operational procedures. However, I was the acting President of the group, which meant that I had to represent both sides equally. The result is that most people identify me more as a ghost hunter, a believer, rather than a skeptical investigator who is still uncertain if the paranormal exists. Still the ghost hunting side is there and here are my blogs about it.
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