Gear to hear or see ghosts
If I had to pick my all-time favourite paranormal investigation equipment, top of the list would be my SLS (Structured Light Sensor) camera, a video camera that shows spirits as stick figures. During one investigation at an historic stately home, we picked up a ghostly figure crawling on the floor. There had once been a fire in the building, so it could have been some poor soul trying to escape.
My second go-to device is my dictaphone, which allows me to record spirit voices I may not hear at the time. Once, at a ghost hunt in a castle, a guest told us she’d seen the spirit of a woman. ‘I wonder where she is now,’ the guest said. When I played back the conversation on my dictaphone later, you could clearly hear the spirit say: ‘Behind you’.
Spirits’ voices can also be heard on spirit boxes, which scan radio frequencies to allow spirits to speak using white noise. During an investigation at an old football stadium, the spirits’ banter coming over the spirit box in the dressing room was so funny we were howling with laughter.
Mobile phone lights are very harsh, so I couldn’t manage without my torch, which I need for finding my way about in dark venues.
Other essential bits of kit are EMF and K2 meters, which detect changes in electromagnetic energy and so light up or bleep when spirits are near.
Like most ghost hunters, I absolutely adore my paranormal paraphernalia!