3-06-2011 Updates...

It's been a while since we added anything here update wise, so I guess it's time to write, lol!
So much has happened since I wrote the below entries.
Through all this time we've continued investigating great locations and have helped people with ghost and spirit activity while on ghost hunts.
We appeared on television on the Tori and Dean show last March.
We began our radio show on 7-02-10 at http://blogtalkradio.com/claranormal.
Later we were offered our own TV show which was pitched but not picked up.
We helped a little bit with organizing the first ever SoCalParaCon.
Our group grew in October, shrank in November, then grew explosively in late December.
We've worked helping to put together a couple of TV shows in various capacities, none paid, talked to some producers about some projects, and things like that.
In other words, everything we do has been an ongoing concern. We've gone on many great ghost hunts and taken on some great, and puzzling paranormal investigations.

Now on the media attention, let me explain a couple of things.
Just because the media knocks on our door (and occasionally vice-versa) doesn't mean we're sell-outs. We will always have the highest possible standards in regards to our evidence collection and presentation. 99+% of what we get in the field is discarded for one reason or another, and we'll never change that in order to make a good presentation. Helping people is our first priority, and collecting real proof of ghost and spirit activity is what we seek. If the attention comes, great, and if not, we're still doing what we love.

The paranormal field is a lot of fun. We meet up with some of the most impressive people who happen to be in this field, clients and other groups alike, as well as people of various beliefs and opinions. So many of these people are razor sharp smart, have incredible sense of humors, are innovative and are a pleasure to work with. Altruistic too, in that none of us make money doing this. If a paranormal group charges for their services, they are generally looked upon as pariahs, scam artists, so none of the reputable groups charge for their services. However, this "hobby" is not a cheap hobby.
Equipment costs money. Travel costs money. Some locations charge for entry, the best of which can be very expensive. So what to do, hmmmm. Costs money, don't charge.
A ghost hunting crew can simply eat the costs, which is what almost all of us do, or they can recycle what they are already doing for their clients or themselves and present their findings it to the general public in the hopes of offsetting their costs. This can be done by writing a book, creating YouTube videos which may earn them adsense income if their videos do well, or they can land a TV contract.

Each year hundreds of people and groups do in fact vie for a scant handful of TV show openings, and even the fact that dozens of shows are developed each year, very, very few ever make it onto the air, leaving so very many people and groups without a TV show and the prospect of earning an income while enjoying their hobby. That's just the nature of the beast folks, the entertainment industry. There's only so many time slots, only so many shows, and only the best and / or most lucky make it onto the air.
One thing to remember about TV shows based the paranormal field is that first and foremost, it's entertainment. Advertisers, producers, stations and networks must turn a profit or the shows go off the air. This leads many to believe that these shows make things up, fabricate evidence, and maybe some do, but I have never seen this happen. Everyone we have worked with is top notch, A+ people, and I have yet to witness anything untoward on a filming. Granted, I haven't seen a lot of them, but the point is that I myself have never witnessed chicanery of any sort.
We will never "sell-out," and just as I know that we do not present fake evidence, my sincere hope is that none do. Ever.

Paranormal State Exposed?

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