planet goth... haunted house
the dining room
A sudden blast of cold air makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. Is that breathing you can hear? A flash of lightning briefly illuminates a white foggy shape.
Frozen to the spot with fear, something brushes past your knee and suddenly you can move – fast. Despite the rain you find yourself outside wondering what to do next. Then you decide. You are going to try and catch a ghost.sceptics
To convince the sceptics that there really is a ghost in your house, you’ll need hard scientific evidence. The first thing requirement is a camera to capture the ghostly apparition. But will that be enough?
images
Photographs can be altered and images can be distorted when the film’s being developed. Can you be sure of keeping the camera steady as the ghoul sweeps past you?
To produce convincing photographic evidence you’ll need to set up a number of cameras around the room all taking pictures simultaneously to produce images of the ghost from many angles. If you have a video camera, a ‘live’ action shot would be even better. But how close dare you get?
audio
No matter how good your photographs turn out to be, they’ll not be enough on their own. To gather audio evidence, you’ll need a tape or digital recorder. Does the ghost have a message for you? Is it trying to make contact? Or is it just floating, oblivious to the living world around it?
psychics
One of the best pieces of ‘equipment’ is claimed to be a psychic. Some psychics claim to be sensitive to apparitions and can point out places where they exist even though there’s nothing visible to the eye. With the aid of a psychic, you can be ready with all the equipment before your own senses tell you to run from the room screaming.
temperature
Even though the investigators can’t see anything themselves, they have discovered that temperatures can drop by tens of degrees Celsius and the magnitude of the magnetic field can increase to around 100 times the normal background field. So a thermometer, an infrared camera for tracking temperature changes, and a magnetometer to monitor the magnetic field would be handy.
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