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