PARANORMALISTS BLOG—
WE HAVE LIFTOFF!
Hello, Paranormalists fans (and my mom)! So here’s our site’s first blog post. I know, I know, it’s been a long time coming—almost three months since the launch of the site—but I wanted to get everything in order. And the investigation team had some business to attend to—namely, investigating paranormal phenomena in this great city of Portland, OR. We’re your local ghost-banshee-psychic hunters. And we’re real good, even if we are only in high school.

With that, I’d like to give a shout-out to NO ONE AT MY SCHOOL. You all suck. Love, Jinx.

Anyway, I digress. Here’s a recap of our findings so far. I’m not going to lie, they were a little disappointing.

HAWTHORNE DISTRICT
We had a tip-off that a warehouse in the Hawthorne district was haunted. I had JUST gotten my EVP and my EMF monitors (EVP = electronic voice phenomena—soooo cool! It can detect voices on different frequencies. And EMF means electromagnetic field. Like, if there’s lotsa energy radiating from a place. Mine has a temp gauge too, so I can tell when the ghosties come near. Please don’t faint from the coolness.)

Anyway, the investigation team went and checked it out. I could only stay out to midnight (lame!), but that was enough to know that the warehouse WAS haunted. By skaters who partied there. The only EMFs I found were the ones generated from being yelled at.

EVP: Nada

EMF: See above

Video: Doesn’t matter. Though we could have busted a bunch of underage drinkers.

Temperature: You know, hot. It was freaking July.

Verdict: So not haunted, it hurt.

Before the next outing—BARBUR TRANSIT CENTER—I overheard some bus drivers talking about how sometimes the buses started up on their own overnight. How cool is that? This time we needed an overnight. And because I have the strictest parents in the world, I couldn’t do it. (I need to figure out something.) Investigator 2 took the lead on this (even though we decided he’d be the “get rid of the ghosts” guy) and stayed overnight with my babies (I mean, equipment). And guess what? Not one bus started up.

People lie. Ghosts don’t. This is why I like the dead.

EVP: Jackson (I mean, Investigator 2) snoring

EMF: Blerg

Video: Bus drivers drinking coffee

Temperature: Guess

Verdict: Really not haunted

Disappointing, no? For a city that’s supposed to be pretty full of paranormal activity, I’m bummed. Paranormalist fans, help us find the haunted here!! I KNOW they’re out there.

But for now, keep believing, keep seeing, and keep checking back while I tweak the site. And remember, the Paranormalists “SEEK THE TRUTH AND FIND THE CAUSE!!” (What do you think of our new tagline? Cool, huh?)

—Investigator 1 (Jinx)