Personal Attacks and Egos in the Paranormal Field

I have been involved with the paranormal research field for what seems like an eternity and one thing that seems to have remained constant throughout my career has been personal attacks from others, either not involved in the field or worse those who are. Some are just non-believers who feel the need to shoot down those who do believe while others are simply researchers who feel they are the greatest thing to hit the field since Harry Price.

We clean our guest book nightly from insults and comments that are anything but constructive, simply because someone does not believe in ghosts. This is a very childish thing but ask any researcher and they will most likely have similar stories. The forceful non-believer has been around since who can remember and in truth they provide us with fuel to remain professional and not stoop to that level.

However, this article is not about that, it is about a worse kind of attack, or shall we call it an attitude, that has impacted the field in the worse way and continues to do major amounts of damage with minimum effort. That is personal attacks from other researchers. As of the last 2 years a stigma has developed in which some researchers and teams feel the need to hide their findings or charge for them. Claiming they have proven what none of us have been able to prove. This is ridiculous in that it makes us all look like money grubbing ego maniacs and really is not needed in a field like ours, which is ridiculed already.

There are teams and researchers who claim to have the “facts” of paranormal research and that these are the truths behind our field. Let me remind you that a year ago the vortex was a truth, now we are realizing that it is merely a camera strap or strand of hair. This field is young and new information will circulate quite frequently, so how is it these people have the “facts”. Granted some sites and researchers list facts that have remained constant in the field and that to me is fine and most useful. It is when a researcher list something like all ghost have dark eyes, that gets me because that information can not be valid if other researchers find entities with bright eyes.

Sites online find themselves feuding and in essence a great deal of the field has become a competition that makes the field look unprofessional and lacking in respect for our fellow researchers. The egos in the field have grown so much and really that saddens me. It seems too many people do this research for notoriety and fame when they should do it for a million other reasons. I will elaborate on this topic more in the near future.