The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness. ( Albert Einstein - The Merging of Spirit and Science)

Portland Paranormal Society has no religious affiliations but we are still required to make sense of what we have collected.   Have we really found proof of the afterlife?  What would this mean when it comes to acceptance of faiths and beliefs? (click here to continue)

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We receive numerous requests to go on an investigation with us and request that we investigate their location. I would like to take some time to respond to all of you and write out some general guidelines I use. (click here to continue)

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There are no hard and fast rules on how to create a paranormal society but I tend to separate paranormal societies and groups from another based a few things. These are what I consider some fundamental choices when forming a paranormal society or group. (click here to continue)

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All right time to geek out a bit here. So what we are attempting to do is gather information about things that go bump in the night. Paranormal is actually an umbrella category but we will use it for simple unexplained phenonmenon aka ghosts.

On the graph on the left there in yellowish there is a area that we tend to focus on when investigating. We could be looking into x rays and gamma rays but measuring such high intensity waves requires highly specialized equipment, I don’t believe there is a field adaptation yet.

Starting right around Ultraviolet Radiation we come into the first visualization area of wavelengths. Specialized cameras can detect almost all of these wavelengths. Portland Paranormal Currently on Investigates with Infrared and visible light. Eventually we would like Thermal but it’s cost prohibitied.

Finally near the much larger (simpler) wave forms we have the sound. Using various audio recording equipment you can easily cover this in the field.

Now let’s go a bit into theory of manifestation. When I’ve gone and done investigations I have found that you can go to a place and catch nothing on video or anything but some how you catch something on audio. Why? I believe it’s going back to the energy premise of being. The fact being that something needs to draw energy from somewhere to manifest and in doing so the least amount of exertion of the drawn energy would be in radio waves. The are simple and easy to create.

As you move closer up the spectrum you move up in the amount of energy, until you get visible light. Visible light requires a lot of energy and thus we don’t get as much on the visible light as we do with audio. This is also interesting because a visible representation actually communicates less then a audible communication.

Bottom line if you don’t have a camcorder start with listening to the audio!

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Hello, I’ve now had several people come to me and say that I’m putting up non-evidence. I want to make it clear that the gallery is the complete raw investigation photos. Anything seen in the gallery has not been labeled as “paranormal” it’s just a place to store all investigations materials.
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