Here are a couple of photos from our thermal camera. One was taken randomly to just get a base reading of the room we were in. The other was taken because one of our investigators walked into the doorway you can see in the image and stated "wow, that was a cold spot you could really feel" so we took another snap of the image. Do you see the cold spot? In thermal imagery, you have different palette colors. Our team uses "white hot" because that is the easiest to distinguish hot/cold spots from each other. If white is hot, then the blacker it is, the colder it is. Now do you see the cold spot?

If you head over to our Facebook page you can see these images in a larger format and can interact with others about what you might be seeing. There is no trickery involved. It's just two thermal images, one taken when one of our investigators thought he experienced a cold spot, and the thermal camera verified he indeed did experience that.

Presentations coming up!

As always, during October, our team is asked to put on several presentations around Cincinnati. This year, that area has grown to include Adams County and Columbus, Ohio. Here's a quick list of the when and the where if you'd like to join in the discussion.

Tuesday Oct 6th Blue Ash Rec Center, 7pm Blue Ash, Oh
Friday Oct 9th Robot Inside Arts and Crafts Center, 630pm, Sharonville, Oh
Monday Oct 12th Mt Healthy Public Library 6pm, Mt Healthy, Oh
Saturday Oct 16th Adams County Public Library 2pm Peebles, Oh
Wednesday Oct 21st Harrison Public Library 630 pm Harrison, Oh
Wednesday Oct 28th Adams County Library 530 pm, Seaman, Oh
Friday Oct 30th Media Investigation Columbus, Ohio (not open to public)
Saturday Oct 31st, Media Investigation Cincinnati, Oh (not open to public)

Come out and say hello!

Funeral Home Investigation

A former funeral home in Cincinnati has been re-zoned for residential and is currently being remolded. Several of the construction people, and the new homeowners, have been talking about odd ball experiences. We've been invited for a Thursday night investigation of this location, which was a funeral home as recently as 2 months ago. Looking forward to the investigation!

Canines in the Paranormal

Sophie @ Bobby Mackeys

Have you ever investigated with a canine? You've seen Maddie from TAPS and even those lame GAC guys once. However, there is a far more thorough method in using canines that offers a whole new insight, and not just seeing if the dog barks.

We're going to go ahead and give away our secrets that differentiates ourselves. It's never before been seen on TV, and if you see it on TV after today, well it's just how this field is. No one gives you credit for being original, but then wants to try and make money off of ya.

Anyway, don't just walk your dog around on a leash and see if it barks or something. Build a harness (like we did) and put a video camera with night vision on it, put an EMF meter that beeps on it, put a voice recorder (for EVPs and to hear if the meter ever beeped) and put a 2 way radio with the mic keyed (tape or something).

Now send your dog out into the investigation area all by itself and let THEM be the investigator. Then you don't have a human's natural tendency to overreact to something, to fake something, whatever.

Then take the dog out with you while you investigate as a trigger object. Get your dog to play with a ball or something, do tricks Then offer a spirit the chance to play shake with the dog or to throw the ball for the dog to fetch. Offer to let someone pet your dog.Tell them to be nice to the dog or you'll let the dog bite them. Monitor your EMF readings, EVPs, etc during this time.

So as you see, just using the dog on a leash to see if they bark or something is only one VERY small part of how effectively you can use a canine during an investigation. We've been using dogs for years, far more than just about anyone else. They are great investigators.

Thermal camera for your smart phone? Yep..

There is a new player in the thermal field called Seek Thermal. They make cameras that attach to your smart phone (Android or iPhone). As a Certified Level 1 Thermographer, I (Dave) bought one of these to test out. The results so far have been impressive, and this Saturday it goes on its first investigation with us. Check out www.dtig.net on Sunday night after 6pm to read about how it works for us, battery life on the phone, any evidence it might capture and much more. At left is a coffee maker doing its thing, taken with the Seek on a Samsung S4. Did I mention it only costs $199, and that includes shipping?

Investigating an elementary school

Last year our team was invited down to a local elementary school to investigate with the students, staff and some parents. It was a reward for students for doing a research project and having perfect attendance. We had some interesting experiences, and the kids did all the EVP work, and working the EMF meters.

We've been invited back, we have some new tools we're going to try out and we'll see how it goes again. Looking forward to going back!