I.C.P.I.R.
International Community For Paranormal Investigation & Research

Paranormal lecture, big party in Bisbee

By Coley Ward
AZSTARNET


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There are paranormal investigation teams all over the country. Christy Necaise's team is one of them. Necaise, who lives in Surprise, formed the International Community for Paranormal Investigation and Research in 2002. Since then, she's hunted for ghosts and other unexplained phenomena in a number of old homes and businesses. On Saturday, Nov. 1, she will give a lecture on paranormal investigation as part of Old Bisbee Ghost Tour's Haunted Halloween and Paranormal Weekend.

Necaise recently talked to Caliente.

How did you get interested in paranormal investigation?
"I had an interest in ghosts all my life. One day, I was watching a team online that was investigating an abandoned hospital. It was on a Web cam and I just thought it was so cool."

You just stumbled upon a paranormal investigation on the internet?
"I had just had a baby and I was bored and I typed ghosts into the computer and that's what came up."

What makes you qualified to do paranormal investigations?
"At this point, experience. But anybody can learn what I know. Pick up books and read and get out there and investigate."

Do you make money doing investigations?
"We're doing this to raise money for historical preservation, to keep old sites up and running. One site that we're working to save is the Pioneer Living History Village in Phoenix."

What's the difference between paranormal investigation and ghost hunting?
"Paranormal is defined as anything that's unknown. All of the investigations that we've done pertain to what people would think of as ghostly activity. That doesn't mean that that's all we would investigate. UFOs, anything that's unknown we would investigate to find a rational explanation for what's going on."

Have you ever seen a ghost?
"Yes. I've been touched. I've been slapped. And I have seen them. I caught one on film at the OK Corral in Tombstone. . . . It's so rare that you're going to get a picture of a full-fledged apparition. The fact that I had the situation totally controlled and I knew there was nobody in the room with me was pretty powerful."

What kind of equipment do you use to investigate the paranormal?
"We use electromagnetic field detectors. There's a train of thought . . . out there that ghosts use high levels of electromagnetic energy to manifest. There's another theory that if you're getting high levels of electromagnetic energy, that is a ghost manifesting. I haven't made up my mind yet, but I do know that electromagnetic energy can affect the human body. It can give you a rash, make you depressed or hallucinate. It can make you nauseous. All sorts of things."

Do you have a sixth sense that helps you detect electromagnetic energy?
"I don't know that it would necessarily be a psychic thing. . . . Electromagnetic fields affect every body differently. When you walk outside it may seem hotter to you than me. My group puts very little credence into anything that deals with a subjective opinion."

How do you minimize subjectivity in your investigations?
"I've developed strict rules and protocols to ensure that the data that we collect (are) done under the highest standards possible."

What's it like to investigate the paranormal?
"When you're in the dark your body gets excited and sometimes sees things that aren't there. I teach people how to look for those signs in their body and control them so they can be unbiased observers."


Coley Ward
AZSTARNET
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