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Sunday, November 29, 2009
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11-28-09 EMF-HYPERSENSITIVITY
There is nothing most misguided in this field than what people call ‘EMF Hypersensitivity’. The PLA goes in to peoples homes, and we hear the client talk about living in a ‘fear cage’, and all the words that you hear on the TV shows.
Let me tell you something, EMF Hypersensitivity (which I will hereby refer to as EMF-H) is one of the most over-diagnosed things in this field. Let me explain.
Years ago, a certain ghost hunting TV series started up, and they started spewing certain terms that are now common in the field; EMF-H, Fear Cage, Matrixing, and so forth. Then, everyone under the sun decided they wanted to be a ghost hunting, since they too can get rich and be on TV, so they too started using the same terms. Mind you, most of these terms were used only by this show in-group. Most of these terms were not, at the time, generally used by anyone outside of the team. This is fine, I myself have a few terms I use within the group simply to describe things. This is normal, and most groups do.
So, with that said, the term EMF-H as well as others were now being beamed in to peoples homes, and absorbed by the minds of those who dreamed of sitting in a haunted basement and having an experience. When, of course, in actuality, you sit in a basement generally bored out of your mind as nothing usually happens.
So, now, we have groups who are going in to peoples homes telling them their hauntings are not real, it is actually caused by high EMF. When, as far as I am concerned, they have no business to even discuss that with the client, except in extreme circumstances.
Everyone and their uncle talks about the ‘proven’ medical studies about high EMF and how it actually can cause skin irritations, delusions and irritability. The problem is, the ‘proven’ medical studies are not so proven after all.
There are two studies that I am aware of that have ‘proven’ EMF-H, and both of those studies were not scientifically conducted. Neither of them performed a ‘blind’ test. Meaning, they told the people they were testing what they were doing, and what they were looking for!
Since this is the case, the people were most likely sitting there waiting for the effects to happen, and reacted like how they thought they should. People reportedly saw ghosts, felt that people were standing right next to them, and one woman even claimed to have seen God! The whole test was a joke. These are the tests that are quoted when these ghost hunters say there is something to EMF-H.
On the flip side, there are two tests that I know about that were blind tests. They told the participants nothing of what they were doing or what to expect. Not a single person reported an experience.
Ware does that leave EMF-H? The same place ware we found it. There is no reliable scientific evidence that it even exists.
This isn’t to say that I don’t personally believe that there may not be something to it. I believe in ghosts for goodness sake, the idea that it isn’t possible that EMF-H is a legitimate possibility is absurd! However, I can’t help but feel that it is the most overly diagnosed issue in the paranormal field. If the TV shows were to be believed, practically anyone who lives in a high EMF area is hypersensitive. If that is the case, then why aren’t people who live under power lines, or next to substations seeing ghosts, or even God, every ware they look? The idea that anyone without a Phd in a medical science is diagnosing people with EMF-H is unprofessional, and completely irresponsible.
Now that I am getting off my soapbox for a bit, PLA had a great Thanksgiving, and congratulations to PLA members Christine and Peter on their recent engagement. I know if you have your way, you will be married and honeymoon in the most haunted location you can find!
This time of year generally slows down a bit for us, just less people calling and emailing us as they are away from home shopping or visiting family. With this, it gives us all a much needed chance to catch our breath. Generally everything picks up just after the New Year. Even so, it has been a great year for us, and I am to say PLA is stronger now than anytime in our existence. We start the New Year with a strong base for members, and a good list of clients behind us.
As we plan this years Mount Hood Ghost Conference, I am happy to report we will be there in full force, and many of us will be guest lecturers. I hope to see you all there!!
Dave Galvan
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
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11-3-09 "Keep on Rock’n in the Free world...." I know it has been far too long since the last time I have written here, but a lot has been going on here at PLA HQ. Not only did we just get over our busy season, a number of cases that have fallen our way because of that, but myself and my family did battle with the dreaded H1N1 flu that is going around. Lots of runny noses and coughs that mommy and daddy have had to deal with, not to mention our own illness, which for me has been a month and a half long process. I hope everyone out there is smart enough to get vaccinated against this before they actually get it.
The ‘Haunted Astoria’ project went off well, with our investigation of Pier 39 in Astoria. We captured a lot of residual EVP’s and had a fun time with the locals. Being 20 feet above the Columbia River helped with the ‘Shimkus Effect’, and giving how popular the PLA table was at the ‘Paranormal Fair’ that was on October 24th with all the results and findings certainly was a treat for me and my team.
Now that the busy season is over, we immediately head in to the dead season. The calls and emails tend to dry up in the months of November and December, and pick up right after the New Year. This is fine by me, to be honest, as I have hours of video I still need to review, and two books I am writing simultaneously. I almost welcome the quiet right now.
I am working on a project currently, which I hope to tell you more about in the future, that will be a lot of fun if it comes to fruition. There isn’t much to talk about currently, but if anything happens, you can be sure that I will let you all know. Have a great Thanksgiving!! Dave Galvan
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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9-22-09 The Shimkus Effect
There have been many discussions in this field about how to increase paranormal activity in a location, either for better or for worse. Recently, with the help of my good friend Carrie Shimkus – who runs a group in Massachusetts called MAGIC ( www.MAGICghosts.com) – I have stumbled upon a way that seems to make activity increase. Carrie and I were once discussing a location she has been investigating, and how there have been a TON of activity there that she has recorded. She casually mentioned that there is a stream that happens to run threw this property. I casually reminded her of the paranormal belief that when there is naturally running water there is more activity. A lot of people believe that to mean some kind of Wiccan philosophy of Mother Earth and all that. Well, the next words that came out of her mouth practically changed the way I investigate.
She told me of a theory she had; if spirits, ghosts or whatever you want to call them are energy, which is why we can measure certain things on an EMF meter, then if there was extra water in the air it could make the energy easier to manifest.
The thought was a simple theory, yet one I never considered. If you were sitting next to a body of water, be it a lake, or a stream, you are going to have more water vapor in the air. Why wouldn’t the energy that manifests into something that we can record, or even notice, be more abundant? It would certainly explain why lighthouses seem to be a trove of activity.
I decided to call this the "Shimkus Effect", and then I went to do an experiment.
I purchased an humidifier from my local Goodwill for ten bucks and brought it to my next investigation; a private residence on the east side of Portland. The humidifier was in full use that night, and I wasn’t disappointed. It appears that I was able to capture a large amount of what appears to be residual EVPs. Without further ado, I took the humidifier on a second investigation, this time in the suburbs of Portland, and had the exact same thing happen. The amount of residual EVPs were noticeably larger in quantity then average. I had a third investigation, which was rather impromptu, at the Oregon Coast. I didn’t bring the humidifier with me, as we were investigating on the down-low since the owner of this hotel didn’t want us to attract attention. I simply brought my recorders and my camera. As it turned out, we didn’t need a humidifier, the hotel was 200 yards away from the Pacific Ocean.
The amount of residual EVPs were enormous! I have never personally been in a location that has had so many residual EVPs. At this point, I believe that my experimentations have given us enough decent findings to make this public. While I certainly will agree that the results are far from conclusive, the Shimkus Effect has made me a believer in this particular theory.
It also begs a question; does added moisture in the air make it easier for residual energy to be recorded? If it is a foggy night, and an act of violence happens, would the moisture in the air make it easier for the residual energy of someone screaming being heard a dozen or so years later? Personally, I can’t see why not. If it works one way, it most likely will work the other way as well.
It should be noted that all the EVPs that I have recorded using the humidifier and the Shimkus Effect has brought us are what I believe to be in the ‘residual’ category. There is no evidence thus far that this helps in what we call ‘intelligent’ hauntings, however I will still be experimenting with the humidifier.
With that said, I would like to announce here that the PLA will be participating in the ‘Haunted Astoria’ event on October 24th, and I would like to invite everyone to attend. I will be giving more details half way threw October. As for us, we will be heading back out to the basement of that haunted hotel at the Oregon Coast on September 25th, and you can be sure that I will report any more findings that I think could be the result of the Shimkus Effect.
Dave Galvan
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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For the passed few years, the ghost hunting phenomenon has sky rocketed thanks to all the TV shows that have been on all the cable networks. For better or worse, there have been new blood brought in to the field, and new blood makes things more exciting. More theories, more inventions, more ideas have come out within the passed decade in this field then any other time, and the new blood have given us all reason to investigate harder and even question our own devices and methods for hunting.
There are bad apples in every bunch, and while groups have popped up thinking that this is easy (granted it’s not hard, but running a group is not all it’s cracked up to be). These groups tend to stay around for six to nine months, and then disappear in the woodwork like roaches in a sleazy motel. I hate to sound negative about any other group, but I have run across far too many amateurs in this field who have no business hunting mice, let alone ghosts in a stranger’s house.
This is all thanks to the TV shows out on the market today. The problem with these shows is, they are about as real as Pro Wrestling.
I know, I know, I have admitted to a love of wrestling in the past. Why should I compare? Simply because what you see is not all that it seems to be. It is what they call in the wrestling biz as a ‘work’. Some people say ‘fake’, but I am not in a position to be that strong with my language. Today’s blog, I will be discussing some of the TV shows, what I think of them, and how they compare to what ‘real’ ghost hunters do.
There is a fun British show called ‘Most Haunted’. This one I find amusing simply because there is this funny British woman who walks around in the dark, asks questions and then screams. The show really isn’t worth watching for the serious investigator, except they visit places in Europe that I would love to visit some day, and probably never will. The history alone is worth your time, if you can take the camp.
The most popular paranormal show on TV these days is ‘Ghost Hunter’s’ on the SyFy Network. This is the show that started it all for the most part, and is the one that gets most people in to thinking they can hunt ghosts. This show is fascinating when it gets going, the problem is that it takes forever to actually get going. There is usually a preface to the investigation, with two Roto-Ruter guys cleaning a hairball out of a drain (strangely enough, you never actually see them really working on anything. They are usually standing over a drain, or a pipe or something holding a wrench) when they get a call from an attractive looking woman saying they have a new case in some place across the country and they need to leave tomorrow. The situation is so ludicrous it’s laughable. Are we to believe that these two guys can just make a phone call, and then get enough time off from work (without getting fired, no less) and then just hop in a minivan and travel across the country for what they seem to show as being a one day journey? Are they able to miss that much work, and not have to worry about missing out on their health benefits?
After you get passed this initial, and poorly written, opening sequence, which always feels like it’s out of a bad porno, you get to hear a little bit about the case they are going to. After which, you then see them go to the place, and investigate. The rest of the episode is generally treated in a documentary style complete with investigators talking to the camera when necessary, and cuts to post-investigation interviews describing things they saw or experienced
The investigative process is my favorite part of the show. Quite frankly, it always seemed to me to be the less rehearsed, least ‘worked’ part of everything about this show. The horrible acting aside, it has been a show that has been a rock in this field. It has gotten more people interested in the paranormal then any other show created for television.
With that aside, it pains me that this show is not as real as it may seem on the surface. Those of you who have seen the footage of the ‘haunted jacket collar’ from last year’s Live Halloween show know what I am talking about. If a group is so desperate for results that they will obviously ‘work’ evidence on a broadcast, then reality TV just went out the window, and we now have an episode of 90210 or WWE Smackdown! I also tend to get a little annoyed by what I believe to be action by the network of putting younger, more attractive people on the show, and taking people who are average looking and throwing on a few layers of make-up to make them more appealing to the viewer. This is not real, nor is it real life. I find it insulting to the viewers intelligence, and I dislike the pandering.
After the Jacket collar incident, I rewatched some other episodes of the show, and I came to realize that some of the evidence that they have gathered is a little ‘convenient’. One time, a full figure of a human was spotted on a thermal camera that walked in front of it, then turned around and walked back ware it was then hidden by a wall. This image seemed waaaaaaaaay too much like that of a live person to be an apparition.
The other popular TV show at this time is called ‘Paranormal State’, and while it is rather entertaining as a show, it is far from accurate as to what ghosts hunters actually do.
The group, Paranormal Research Society, or PRS as they like to be called, travels this country fighting demons, battling curses, yelling at ghosts and just standing around looking pretty. If ever there was a show ware everyone doesn’t look old enough to purchase beer, and was pretty enough to be on TV it is ‘Paranormal State.’
Their investigative process is more mediumilistic. Meaning, why they do use some equipment on their investigations, they don’t tend to rely on them as much as they do their psychics and mediums. The main problem, as I see it, is they always get it right. I personally don’t believe a person of psychic abilities can always be correct 100% of the time. I am a stay-at-home father these days. I spend my day literally changing diapers, day in and day out, nothing but diaper changing, and even I can’t get it 100% perfect 100% of the time. While the psychic walks in to the house, he/she always tells Ryan that he has never discussed anything about the home with them. This appears to be the truth, however, I have it on good authority that the psychics are normally in town days before the filming is to begin, and that they do get briefed on the location prior to showing up; including having a hand drawn map of the home with notes of the activity written in the margins.
The show also likes to do things at what they call ‘Dead Time’, which they consider to be 3:00am, however it is generally filmed at 1:00am. That is fine and dandy, I never really noticed a difference between 1:00 and 3:00am anyway, but why even mention it anyway other then add to dramatic effect?
I was watching the show one time, and I must admit I was enjoying it. I was really getting in to the show. My wife came home, and sat down to watch it with me, and then after a few minutes she said, ‘Why does it feel like I am watching a movie?’. The question was very valid. The whole show, from beginning to end, didn’t feel like a reality program. There was no documentary feeling, or no feeling like we are watching people from afar. What it felt like was that there were 3 cameras on each person getting everything said from the proper angle, everyone was speaking with articulation and no one was talking over each other. I understand the concept of editing it in such a way to not make it look like it’s off PBS, but the whole show felt so....dare I say....scripted. Not every moment of every show feels like that, but a large portion of it. People don’t act like this in ‘real’ life. When people talk, they accidently talk over each other, or cut each other off when they talk. It’s not normal for people to simply talk like they are being fed lines.
Every episode generally ends in a happy ending. PRS is able to come up with a answer to their question, and are always able to get rid of what is there. I hate to break the news to people outside the field, but this is totally not real!! Sometime, you are able to get rid of what is there. Sometimes you are not. Sometimes you are able to get rid of it, only to have it come back. Getting rid of ghosts is not like spraying for cockroaches. There is no easy fix. You don’t just spray some ‘Raid’ and the ghost is gone. If it was that easy, people wouldn’t need to call people in my line of work. They would be able to drive to their local Walgreen’s and purchase enough ‘Ghost-Repellent’ to make their lives easy, and I would be outside all night long looking for UFO’s.
The show is entertaining enough, it’s just not ‘real’. It doesn’t feel real. It feels like the WWE.
I think I have spent enough time on my high horse. Let’s get back to our regularly scheduled blog.
We recently drove to the Oregon Coast to spend a few hours within the basement of a hotel. Please excuse the vaugeness of my description, however the owner wishes to keep things on the ‘DL’. Like usual, the photos that were captured revealed nothing but a lot of dust in the air. However, the EVP’s were amazing! A lot of residual sounds, voices in the background, and angry spirit that was fighting with a member of my team, and one that was crying in pain in the old boiler room. It was an amazing time that we had in there, and I consider myself luck that we were called to go.
In the meantime, there is also some fun news in the Autumn front; we have two cases we are actively working on and it looks like we will be spending some time in Astoria soon. I will update you more on that news as it becomes available.
Now that September is upon us, the kids go back to school and our streets become a little more quieter. A know a lot of people out there who might be looking for something to do, and they may have some free time on their hands. Consider this; take a garbage bag and walk to you local cemetery and clean up a little trash. Nothing major, just pick up the cigarette butts off the ground, and the trash that blows in off the street. It is nice when we remember our loved ones enough that we clean up after them even after death.
Have a great September!
Dave Galvan
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Saturday, August 01, 2009
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8-1-09 “California here we come....!!”
With the recent warm weather and the downside to hunting ghosts during the day anyway, it has been a rather quiet summer for the PLA. However, with the coming of Autumn, it looks like business is about to pick up! If you follow us on either Twitter or my personal account on Facebook, you no doubt have heard about our West Coast Tour coming up in November. If you don’t follow us there (shame on you!) then you probably would like to know more. In early November we will be starting up in Washington state and driving down I-5 to investigate anyplace and everyplace we can. We have three places scheduled already; Manresa Castle in Port Townsend, Queen Anne Hotel in San Francisco, and the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena. All these locations have documented hauntings in the past, and thankfully have been known to be ghost hunter friendly. Regardless, I have been very excited setting up these investigations for the group and I hope to schedule at least one more investigation on our tour. If anyone has any recommendations, please email me at the link below. I had a wonderful dinner the other night with Jeff Davis ( www.ghostsandcritters.com) and his wife. While discussing the current state of ghost hunting in the Northwest today, he mentioned to me about some of the groups out there that tend to be rather territorial. These are groups that, for some reason or another, don’t want other groups coming in to their area and investigating. I had a bit of a laugh with this, and thought to myself, ‘How does someone claim exclusive rights to a Hotel?’ Well, it seems to me that too many groups are a little big for their britches, and need to be taken down a notch or two. With that said. I think I should mention that even more experienced groups seem to take themselves too seriously. I recently left IPI over a dispute over free thought, mostly based on a blog I wrote here some months ago criticizing certain paranormal groups for being unprofessional. It seemed that a certain IPI member didn’t like my wording of it, and complained to IPI, which in turned started a whole argument about my issues with these groups. After it was all said and done, I decided that I didn’t want to be a part of an organization that not only puts up with these amateurish groups, but seems to encourage their existence. So with that, I decided to turn in my user name and password. This explains why you no longer see the IPI link on each of the pages. I hope everyone has done well with the recent heat wave here in the Northwest. I look forward to blogging about our next scheduled investigation going on in Late August: a haunted cottage. Paranormal State did an episode there once, and from what the home owner tells me, one of the regulars ran out of the place freaking out about what she witnessed!! Looking forward to it!! Have a good one!! Dave Galvan
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Saturday, August 01, 2009
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8-1-09 “California here we come....!!”
With the recent warm weather and the downside to hunting ghosts during the day anyway, it has been a rather quiet summer for the PLA. However, with the coming of Autumn, it looks like business is about to pick up! If you follow us on either Twitter or my personal account on Facebook, you no doubt have heard about our West Coast Tour coming up in November. If you don’t follow us there (shame on you!) then you probably would like to know more. In early November we will be starting up in Washington state and driving down I-5 to investigate anyplace and everyplace we can. We have three places scheduled already; Manresa Castle in Port Townsend, Queen Anne Hotel in San Francisco, and the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena. All these locations have documented hauntings in the past, and thankfully have been known to be ghost hunter friendly. Regardless, I have been very excited setting up these investigations for the group and I hope to schedule at least one more investigation on our tour. If anyone has any recommendations, please email me at the link below. I had a wonderful dinner the other night with Jeff Davis ( www.ghostsandcritters.com) and his wife. While discussing the current state of ghost hunting in the Northwest today, he mentioned to me about some of the groups out there that tend to be rather territorial. These are groups that, for some reason or another, don’t want other groups coming in to their area and investigating. I had a bit of a laugh with this, and thought to myself, ‘How does someone claim exclusive rights to a Hotel?’ Well, it seems to me that too many groups are a little big for their britches, and need to be taken down a notch or two. With that said. I think I should mention that even more experienced groups seem to take themselves too seriously. I recently left IPI over a dispute over free thought, mostly based on a blog I wrote here some months ago criticizing certain paranormal groups for being unprofessional. It seemed that a certain IPI member didn’t like my wording of it, and complained to IPI, which in turned started a whole argument about my issues with these groups. After it was all said and done, I decided that I didn’t want to be a part of an organization that not only puts up with these amateurish groups, but seems to encourage their existence. So with that, I decided to turn in my user name and password. This explains why you no longer see the IPI link on each of the pages. I hope everyone has done well with the recent heat wave here in the Northwest. I look forward to blogging about our next scheduled investigation going on in Late August: a haunted cottage. Paranormal State did an episode there once, and from what the home owner tells me, one of the regulars ran out of the place freaking out about what she witnessed!! Looking forward to it!! Have a good one!! Dave Galvan
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
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7-1-09 “Oh Say Can You See.....”
So I am having an interesting time these days. I was recently let go from my job – though I don’t really care as I hated the job anyway. However, I do seem to miss the weekly (and I do mean ‘weakly’) income it gave me. Be that as it may, I have spent my time split between the PLA and watching my two little girls. They are too young for school, or any other type of pre-school. So, Daddy gets to be their daily protector and provider, while my wife slaves away in the office. This has given me a chance to work on some projects. First of all, you can purchase our new book Paranormal League of America Presents: Researching America’s Haunted Locations; A Paranormal History is now available for sale, and it will also be available on Amazon by mid-July. I am working on a second book now, and it shouldn’t take as long as the year it took to write this first one......though who knows. Be-that-as-it-may, I encourage everyone here to purchase 5-6 dozen copies of the book. I have worked out a discount for readers of this blog; type in ZWFQEPVM in the discount code box, and enjoy $2 off the cover price. This price should be good for the whole month of July. As it stands, we have two investigations coming up; one out in Zig-Zag, on 40 acres, all outdoors (taking 10 people with me on that one) and the second one in August, in what some people consider to be the most haunted house in Oregon. I have heard from the home-owner that when Paranormal State came out and filmed there for three nights that one of the regulars went running out of the house freaked out by what she was experiencing. She never did go back in the house I might add... This investigation will be done in August. I’ve been spending my time putting new equipment together recently, and I want to make sure it is working 100% before I make the six-hour drive to this house. Man-alive, do I wanna get something good!! I will let you know how they all go. Have a safe 4th... “Mr. Cemetery” Dave Galvan
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
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6-3-09 "You Say it’s Your Birthday!!"
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PLA!!!!
It was one year ago this month that a few of us gathered around a table and signed all the legal documentation to merge our groups into a giant super-group. At that table, the PLA was formed.
With that, I plan to give you the ‘State of the Paranormal Registered Non-Profit Address’
*Ahem*
Everything is great.
Seriously, we have more work now then we ever had (so much I had to give two cases to two other groups), we have been appearing on a variety of radio shows, had articles appear in magazines, been asked to speak at conferences, making plans for a couple of ‘paranormal getaways’, been asked to join IPI and the new Paranormal-Alliance, and most recently, was offered a TV show which I turned down.
Ya, I turned down a TV show that offered a ton of money for my group to be featured in it. I need my head examined....
But besides that we are working on a couple of projects (of which you will learn more about in a month or so). Being in PLA has been very exciting, and yet a lot of hard work. Most people think this is an easy thing to do, but running a paranormal group is not all it’s cracked up to be. The fun part, the investigating, is only about 10% of the work. Rest of the time you are marketing, doing whatever you can to pay for new equipment – or trying to replace equipment that has been lost/stolen/broken – publicizing your group and trying to have intelligent conversations with people about ghosts., which can be a chore by itself.
For the month of May, we had 384 hits to the web site, every ware from Europe to India to Brazil. All across America and Canada as well. The word has gotten out; PLA is a group that people respect.
In the meantime, we are all busy with our upcoming investigations. I will keep you updated on that when the happen.
Have a great day! Dave Galvan
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Friday, May 22, 2009
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5-22-09 “She’s 68 but she says she’s 54.......”
Since Wensday it seems that everything good has been happening. I have been offered to give some speeches out of state, I have gotten a couple of calls from people wanting us to go to their haunted house, and my 6 year anniversary with my wife is coming up. When the sun comes out, it really comes out!!
So while I come up with a new list of clients, it appears that one of them is up in Canada. This is great, however I have never ventured out of the country before, nor do I have a passport. From what I understand, they are annoying to get, not to mention have to pay for.
And for those who follow the interweb, feel free to add us to your myspace, as well as Twitter (under P_L_of_A) and FaceBook (Don’t have a company listing there, just my personal account, ‘Dave Galvan’)
Looking forward to seeing Star Trek soon. I hear it’s rather good. I’m a big nerd at heart, so I’ll let you know what I think.
Either way, Working hard on a few projects right now. I will let you know more when I can.
Dave Galvan
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Friday, May 08, 2009
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Hello,
To read my latest blog, please vist www.paranormalleagueofamerica.org
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