Support for the Haunted

This page will give you some guidelines on questions to ask a paranormal group before you choose them, what makes a group credible, and what kinds of groups you should avoid.

1. Make sure you have looked at the group's website, specifically looking for their code of ethics and investigation procedures. If these things can't be found, e-mail them and ask for these two things.

2. One of the things you should look for/ask is "Does the groups charge money?". This means for anything. A group should never charge you any amount of money at all, or request that you make a "donation". If they accept donations that's fine, but they should never outright ask or require one.

3. Before choosing a group, be sure you know exactly what an investigation with this group involves. Are you allowed to stay on location, or do you have to leave? Do pets need to be removed from the property? How many people will be in the home/location? How long will they be there? What are their methods of investigating? etc.

4. It may be a good idea to ask the group for some past client testimonies. You can call or e-mail people who have worked with that particular group before and inquire about the group and the investigation.

6. Find out how long the group has been around and what kind of experience they have. You wouldn't want a group with only a few weeks or months of experience. One year is a good minimum, but it's alsoa good idea to know how many invesgtigations the group has completed.

Also, just because a group has been investigating for 10 years or 15 years, that does not necessarily mean they are any better than a newer or younger group. They could have only done 5 investigations over that time, while a younger group has done that many in a month.

7. Make sure that the group does not claim to be "certified". There are no such things are experts or certified investigators in the paranormal field.

8. From what perspective do they investigate from? Are they skeptics, believers, or a mix of both belief and skepticism? Do they use a religious perspective?

Make sure that your beliefs aren't going to conflict with those of the teams. If you aren't Catholic, you probably wouldn't feel comfortable having a Catholic-based team investigate your home; if you are Catholic, you probably wouldn't be comfortable with a group of Wiccans investigating your home, etc.

There are, however, groups out there who, no matter their religious beliefs, investigate from a non-religious perspective, and many groups try to look at everything from the point of view of both a believer and a skeptic.

9. Any good group will do some form of debunking. This simply means before they conclude something is paranormal, they will first look for any other explanation.