Here is a three-page feature on ghost hunters in South New Jersey. Amateur paranormal investigators are a specialty subject area of mine and I found a laundry list of thing wrong with this report. Similar reports will appear in every newspaper between now and Halloween, ghost hunters’ busiest time. Team spirit: Ghost groups get closer | Courier-Post. The South Jersey area has more than 500 practicing ghost groups, surely enough for the region’s spirits. And two organizations — South Jersey Ghost Research and South Jersey Paranormal Research — have a special history, having evolved from bitter competitors into comrades. “The paranormal community is a lot different than it used to be,” said Dave Juliano, head of Mount Holly-based South Jersey Ghost Reseach . “It was very territorial back 10 years or more, maybe because there were less groups, but now it’s much more of a community.” I previously could only safely estimate that there were “well over 1000 groups” in the U.S. Since I couldn’t possibly count them all, I was being conservative. I don’t know where the reporter got this 500 number in south Jersey alone. But they have proliferated. There is certainly a market for them. Most are [...]
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