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Local Sources of Ghosthunting Information by Melissa Martin Ellis Share Email Print Tags No tags are currently set for this article. To add a new tag Log in or register Historical societies have valuable information Discuss confidentiality with your client Take neighbors' stories with a grain of salt Click here for The Everything Ghosthunting Book After searching for records on the Internet, looking through microfiche in the library and historical societies, and investigating records at City Hall, what else can you do to research an active haunting? Small communities may not have a historical society, but usually there is still a local historian. Ask around, but don’t be discouraged if no name comes up. The local newspaper or library may be able to give contact information for the local historian, who is often an amateur history buff or a retired history professor. Advertising and Canvassing Running an ad in the local newspaper or posting a query to message boards for the area may turn up leads to events in the past. It doesn’t have to be a large ad or even refer to ghosts directly. You merely need to say you want to talk to someone who has knowledge of a particular address at a particular time. Neighbors and former neighbors are often happy to come forward to tell you what they have heard about a haunted location. Sometimes they will know how to reach former occupants of the house who may have experienced something during their time at the property. These days, people seem more relaxed and tolerant of the paranormal. There is more acceptance of it by the mainstream, so many people are actually eager to speak of their experiences. Interviews with these people should be conducted with the same care and courtesy as those with the primary residents who called you in.
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by Melissa Martin Ellis

Historical societies have valuable information
Discuss confidentiality with your client
Take neighbors' stories with a grain of salt
Click here for The Everything Ghosthunting Book

After searching for records on the Internet, looking through microfiche in the library and historical societies, and investigating records at City Hall, what else can you do to research an active haunting? Small communities may not have a historical society, but usually there is still a local historian. Ask around, but don’t be discouraged if no name comes up. The local newspaper or library may be able to give contact information for the local historian, who is often an amateur history buff or a retired history professor.

Advertising and Canvassing

Running an ad in the local newspaper or posting a query to message boards for the area may turn up leads to events in the past. It doesn’t have to be a large ad or even refer to ghosts directly. You merely need to say you want to talk to someone who has knowledge of a particular address at a particular time.

Neighbors and former neighbors are often happy to come forward to tell you what they have heard about a haunted location.

Sometimes they will know how to reach former occupants of the house who may have experienced something during their time at the property.

These days, people seem more relaxed and tolerant of the paranormal. There is more acceptance of it by the mainstream, so many people are actually eager to speak of their experiences.

Interviews with these people should be conducted with the same care and courtesy as those with the primary residents who called you in.