Today on the Grave Talks, Ghost Hunting with Dr. Brian Parsons.

Dr. Brian Parsons is the director of Ghost Hell, which is formerly Ohio Paranormal Investigations Network

and has been investigating

ghostly claims since 1996.

He's written six books, handbooked for the amateur paranormal investigator, ghost hunter,

How to Become a Successful Paranormal Group, as well as Betty's Ghost, A Guide to Paranormal

Investigation, and several other books pertaining to the investigation of ghosts.

He employs a unique methodology to ghost hunting of client-centered investigation that utilizes a skeptical foundation.

Psychology, advanced interviewing skills, parapsychology, spiritualism, as well as the ghost

excavation methodology. It very much breaks the mold of what you would see on paranormal

investigative television shows. Brian joins us on today's episode of the Grape Talks. Brian, I'm going to

start out with a very, very broad stroke question.

How do you classify something as being paranormal when we're talking about ghosts?

Well, I'm not so much a fan of the classification systems that I see a lot of people talking about

or writing about putting in books or blogs and

on television shows and all these other things. I think we're trying to do what we normally do

and like what scientists do. They like to classify things based on different either DNA classifications

or what they eat or what they do. And I think we're getting, as far as the ghost aspect is concerned, I think we're getting a

little too carried away.

We're putting the cart before the horse.

You know, let's figure out what ghosts are first or how we can connect with them or how

we can interact with them in a logical manner instead of kind of a pseudo-scientific or subjective manner

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