If you are going to investigate a house that you believe was haunted, what equipment would

you bring?

If you're on television, you'd bring a whole set of electronic gizmos and thermal cameras

under the presumption that ghosts have very specific known characteristics that can be

detected.

Or, if you were science-minded instead, you'd start with the basics, rather than completely

skipping that step.

A science-based ghost hunting toolkit is coming up today on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

A science-based ghost hunting toolkit.

I don't want to make you feel old, but believe it or not, it's been more than 11 years

since the Skeptoid episode on ghost hunting tools of the trade, in which we looked at

the electronic gadgetry used by television ghost hunters.

Back then, when there were so many copycat ghost hunting shows on the TV networks that

bill themselves as science channels, it was almost like an arms race to see who could

bring the fanciest, most expensive looking gear into these supposedly haunted locations.

Some even went so far over the top as to have guys outside in vans set up with TV monitors

to look like they were on a mission-impossible spy operation.

It got so far past the point of absurdity that it became a parody of itself.

So today, we're going to look at how this might be done better.

What a ghost hunting toolkit might look like, it's based on science, rather than on TV

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