Twitter: #FollowFriday #FollowEveryday

Twitter lets you find out and share what’s happening and talk about it. It is all about collaboration and people talking amongst themselves. Twitter allows users to write and publish brief text updates that attract others with similar interests.

Twitter has quite an active paranormal and ghost hunting community, ranging from those fascinated with unexplained phenomena to real-life ghost hunters to paranormal TV celebrities. [Read more...]

Paranormal States: 4 Interesting Articles about of the state of the Ghost Hunting Community

One of the biggest reasons for the existence of the Paranormal Research Groups, is to promote cooperation, communication, and camaraderie between ghost hunting teams. Our teams are proof that competing groups can work together. We have also had the pleasure to meet many more groups from across the country and the world who are also willing to do the same.

It would be irresponsible of us, however, to paint the picture that everyone in this field gets along the same way as we do. We just can’t deny the reality of the current climate within the paranormal community. Every team who is part of the Paranormal Research Groups have encountered many other individuals and teams that have taken advantage of their willingness and kindness to help others in this field. This has obviously not kept us from uniting or working together with others. It has, however, made all of us a lot more careful about when we do so.
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Steve Fernino interviewed on Paranormal SWAT Radio

Paranormal Swat RadioOn Monday January 11th, 2010, Steve Fernino, the Director of Paranormal Research Groups and CT Soul Seekers team member was featured as a guest on Paranormal SWAT Radio.

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Gather effective evidence by knowing what NOT to do

Since putting up the Paranormal Research Groups Standards, Guidelines, and Ethics, we have gotten tons of questions about them. Particularly, there has been a focus on the Evidence Gathering section and why we view these items as important. [Read more...]

CPEAR featured on A&E’s Psychic Kids

psychic-kidsParanormal Research Groups team members from C.P.E.A.R. (Connecticut Paranormal Encounters and Research) appeared in an episode of A&E’s “Psychic Kids” that aired on Tuesday, Dec. 29th, 2009. The show, now in its second season, follows young psychics as they attempt to come to terms with their supernatural gifts. [Read more...]

DoingItLocal.com features CT Soul Seekers at Carousel Gardens

doingitlocalParanormalResearchGroups.com is proud to mention that one of our member organizations, The CT Soul Seekers, were featured as part of a month long blitz on the paranormal in October, 2009 by DoingItLocal.com. Doing It Local is a Connecticut-based news website with a focus on local community and entertainment. Many of their videos are also regularly featured on the Connecticut Post’s website and on CNN.com.

On Friday, October 23rd, 2009, CT Soul Seekers did their final investigation in the infamous Carousel Gardens Restaurant in Seymour, Connecticut before it was sold. They were joined live by a team from DoingItLocal.com, including producer and videographer – Stephen Krauchick, interviewer – Brian Smith (formerly of WPLR Smith & Barber fame), and assistant – Alex Krauchick. [Read more...]

CT Soul Seekers: Ghost-Busted – Vandals Haunt Paranormal Group in Naugatuck

The following article originally appeared on the front page of the Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 edition of The Republican American. It was written by Michael Puffer.

Whether she’s creeping along through dark hallways in search of ghosts or taking pictures of glowing orbs in cemeteries, Nicole Hall, 33, doesn’t scare easily.

That was clear when Hall, of Naugatuck, and her new team of paranormal investigators were confronted by something that went smash in the night at Gunntown Cemetery around 1:30 a.m. Monday. A vandal challenged the five-person team in the dark Naugatuck cemetery, smashed windows of Hall’s 2001 Ford Explorer and took off, she said. [Read more...]

CPEAR: Paranormal Researchers Not Afraid of the Dark

The following article appeared in the Thursday, August 20th, 2009 edition of The Middletown Press. It was written by Weekend correspondent, Diana Carr. The original article can be found here.

There are people in the world who are not afraid of things that go bump in the night. In fact, they welcome them. And for them, Mike Mafera and his fiancee, Carrie Kerns, founded Connecticut Paranormal Encounters and Research (CPEAR) in January 2008.

Comprised of 13 members, it is described as “a Southington, Connecticut-based not-for-profit paranormal research group looking to help those in need of answers, help, and guidance in dealing with paranormal activity as we further our own knowledge and collect concrete proof of hauntings.” [Read more...]

Can’t we all just get along?

ghostbustersIt is truly amazing to us to see how isolated many ghost hunting teams are. There are so many out there that go out of their way to avoid others in the paranormal field. In fact, we have all personally witnessed those individuals that were excited to talk with us until they found out that we were also Paranormal Investigators. It is our hope that this collaboration of teams will change that by promoting unity and teamwork within the Paranormal Investigative community. [Read more...]