A Field Guide to Ghost Hunting, Survival, and the Unexplainable
 
This isn’t your average ghost-hunting handbook. This is a paranormal field survival guide for real investigators, cautious beginners, spiritual sensitives, fearless skeptics, and those unlucky enough to realize their new apartment came with a roommate from 1873.
 
Written in a unique “living style” — blending practical field methodology with sarcastic realism and unnerving humor — this guide is your companion through the haunted, the hidden, and the horrifying.
 
Inside Volume I:
👻 Part I: Foundations of Paranormal Investigation
Explore belief systems across the world, the history of spirit encounters, and the psychology behind why things go bump in the night. Learn what makes a haunting... and what might just be bad plumbing.
 
🎒 Part II: Field Methods & Techniques
Get step-by-step guidance on investigation prep, walkthroughs, communication protocols, and what NOT to do unless you want a ghost to rearrange your kitchen drawers. Includes rituals, protections, gear tips, and why “don’t provoke” isn’t just good manners — it’s survival.
 
🔧 Part III: Tools of the Trade
Break down basic to high-tech equipment, DIY build options, and the science (and pseudoscience) behind each tool. With gear lists, real-use cases, and spiritual workarounds when the batteries mysteriously drain.
 
🗣️ Part IV: Communicating with Spirits
Learn how to ask the right questions, how not to offend the dead, and what to do when the spirit answers back — in Latin.
 
📂 Part V: Documentation & Evidence
Field journals, chain-of-custody logs, photographic protocols, and the golden rule: “If you didn’t record it, it didn’t happen.”
 
🕯️ Part VI: Spiritual Protection, Cleansing & Recovery
Protect your team, your gear, your sanity, and your soul. From grounding and sigils to spiritual detox after something follows you home.
 
Includes:
⚠️ Investigator Code of Conduct (How not to get haunted or sued)
🧾 Field-tested checklists and journal templates
📓 Case files, real-world notes, and the dangers of ghost-hunting on gas station sushi
🧠 A balanced look at skepticism, science, and the paranormal’s favorite phrase: “Well, that’s weird…”
 
Created by the Positive Paranormal Investigators Guild and dedicated to paranormal legends Bill Murphy and Anita McMillan-Murphy, this book blends technical precision, spiritual respect, and darkly comedic honesty into the only guide that dares to say:
“Belief without evidence is dangerous.
But evidence without belief is incomplete.”
 
Whether you're a believer, a skeptic, or just someone who keeps hearing footsteps at 3:07 a.m., this guide has one message:
 
You’re not alone.

(Even when you really, really wish you were.)