The Paranormal Blog

It's been a quiet Hallowe'en on the ghostly front this year... and mercifully so!

Usually, around this time, we're absolutely inundated with media requests and people wanting to "join up" and become ghost hunters or the like for the "Hallowe'en Season". (This latter thing is why Toronto/Ontarioghosts removes our exams between late August and December! Many people neglect to understand that we're looking into things all year round, not just the last two weeks of October!)

This year... well...

We have had SOME media requests... but no where NEAR the levels of the previous five or even ten years!

In fact, it's been oddly silent in the papers, television news, and even radio media in terms of ghostly doin's at all! (Thanks VERY much to our team, especially Robin, who've handled what stuff has come in!)

Odder still is that although the media's "taste" for ghosts has dropped, their appetite for cryptozoology seems to have grown in it's place...

I suppose it's the circle of fickle media paranormal interest... Since the big reality television "ghosts and spirit" shows are losing ratings, and the new cryptozoological reality teevee shows are starting to gain traction and seem to be eating more than a bit of the old ghost-show audience, the news media has shifted focus...

My guess, crypto will be big for a while, then ufology, then ghosts again... it seems to be the way... but it will probably be a number of years before we see media interest like we did three and four years ago... well, save the crypto team at PSICAN!

...and oddly enough, for me, that's okay!

...because what's been nice is that we're getting the "Hallowe'en Level" of interest from witnesses and people visiting the site, and the reports are indeed rolling in as well as photos, audio recordings, and all sorts of "experient details"... this is despite the lack of media coverage from the usual suspects and outlets this year.

So, it's been nice... I can read, answer, and study things... I was even able to do some site updates and edits and start the preliminary work on a rather important and significant study we're a part of...

...and I get to spend a nice, quiet, non-stressful, happy, not-being-bothered-by-last-minute-media-requests Hallowe'en!

It's actually quite lovely... and appreciated... and we're thankful...

In closing, Sue and I hope you're All Hallow's Eve celebrations this evening are happy, fun, and safe this year.

P.S. - Same thing applies as the post below... This was a bit of an anomalous post, and although we dodged (as did - apparently - many others in our field save the crypto bunch,) the media onslaught, as stated, a lot of you (and others) did send in your reports... and we DO read, watch, listen, and view them all and respond to every one of them. Betwix me and thee, that's a WAY better way of spending an afternoon and a few days as opposed to being asked by reporters and whatnot over and over again, "What's the scariest place in Toronto?" or "Where's the best haunted house we can visit?" while they contemplate asking if you'll sing The Ghostbuster's Theme to open their segment on you.