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:tracey royce About seven years later I was back in New Zealand reading a ghost book about a family from America that had been in the same situation as I had. They had seen the curator in the chair, parked in the car park and by the time they got to the house it was shut. They were about to leave when a worker met them and because they had come so far, allowed them to view the house. The family casually mentioned how cool it was to see the curator sitting outside in period costume and the worker told them that they hadn't seen the curator but Shakespeare's ghost. One of his favourite past times was to sit in the chair reading books as the sun was setting. I must have given my parents a near- heart attack when I read that." Glamis Castle in Scotland is next on her list of international haunting hotspots to hit and in New Zealand, Kingseat Hospital in Karaka has peaked her interest. Kingseat is a former psychiatric hospital that is considered to be one of New Zealand's notorious haunted locations with over one hundred claims of apparitions being reported, as of 2011. Today the residence is home to the Spookers Scream Park attraction… however this scare inducing activity doesn't appeal to Tracey. The standard stock start out kit for a paranormal investigator would consist of electromagnetic field metres that read both AC and DC currents, digital camera, digital voice recorder and a torch. If you can afford them infrared cameras, thermal imaging cameras, laser grids, infrared illuminator lights and electromagnetic field pumps would also be used. "We've picked up some recordings that could not be attributed to anyone in the room at the time," Tracey explains. "But the tapes are highly sensitive so whatever activity is happening outside of the building needs to be taken into consideration." Tracey's most commonly experienced forms of paranormal activity include lights flickering on and off, kettles boiling, televisions turning off on their own accord and people finding things have moved unexplainably. Doors slamming, footsteps being heard and the sensation of being watched are other frequent experiences. In every instance Tracey seeks to find a mundane explanation for what may be happening… even if that means debunking a haunting that a client has wanted to believe. "Thanks to our knowledge and advances in science we are beginning to understand the effects on the human brain with regards to electromagnetic fields. A lot of reports from people feeling that they are being watched can be traced back to high electromagnetic fields because it is believed that these interfere with the firing synapses of the brain, much like smell. People will smell cigar smoke or a whiff of perfume that cannot be traced back to anyone else. Thanks to science we are able to put earthly, mundane explanations that can be attributed to ghostly activity. "The majority of people are unaware that we are available to help. They go about thinking they're going crazy. We don't judge, we investigate." www.quantumfoundation.webs.com How to become a paranormal investigator: • Don't quit your day job! Paranormal investigation can be a fun hobby but there are very few people that can make any kind of living out of it. Be realistic and enjoy your new hobby while maintaining a job that can actually pay the bills. • Do your homework. Read everything you can on ghosts, poltergeists, UFO sightings and any other kind of paranormal activity. • Join a local paranormal investigation group. • Invest in some equipment. At a minimum, a respectable paranormal investigator needs a camera, a notebook, a tape recording device and a flashlight. • Start investigating. Go to a site where paranormal activity has been witnessed or recorded and get exploring! 24 | www.hermagazine.co.nz