Antietam Paranormal Society

One of the most asked questions we get is "What do you do?". While this question can be answered in many ways, we know that many people just want to know what we do on our investigations. I wrote up a description years ago that I shared on Facebook and this blog includes a lot of that information. Each paragraph represents a step, stage, or just a little tid bit of information about how Antietam Paranormal Society approaches investigations. While ghosts and spirits know no time, A.P.S. investigates during the evening and night hours. Our decision to do our investigations in this time is due to our members availability and the decreased contamination during the night hours. When we first arrive at a location we like to take the team on a walk through so that they have a good lay of the land so to speak. We are able to point out camera/ voice recorder locations and familiarize them with any hot spots or safety hazards. Once this is complete our members break off into teams: equ...

In the spring of 2008 three friends sat around a computer with a gleam in their eye and a palpable excitement. Mulling over the name that little did we know would carry us through 15 years of paranormal research.  Jeremy, Ryan, and myself were best friends. Our children grew up together and remain friends to this day. We had lasagna night on Thursdays and we hung out many of the weekends. We met at an amateur rodeo in Williamsport, Maryland in 2001. Jeremy was a bullfighter and Ryan was a rider. In those days we chatted about a lot of things but one of the interests that we all had in common was the paranormal.  In the early days we had MTV's Fear, which was a series that strapped a camera to a person's chest and sent them out alone in a dark, haunted location. I would have to say the match struck at this point lighting a mediocre fascination into a full blown flame. A few years later we were introduced to Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures. While Ghost Adventures was edgy and...