The Thames Society of Paranormal Investigations (TSPI) has had a busy October. However, this is nothing new. A paranormal society can be at its most active during Halloween. One could imagine the types of emails, phone calls that we receive when folks see the autumn leaves start dropping in New England. Ghosts, ghouls, and goblins are on everyone's mind, not to mention the horror movies and ghost hunting shows that are in heavy rotation this time of year. Many people love this time of year, and we are no different. By the time October hits, TSPI has already been planning events for months. It ..read more

During the quarantine, we all have been spending loads of time at home. How many of us previously spent our days at work. Unless you have been hitting up the local grocery store or Walmart, you may be reading this from the comfort of your living room. Before, COVID-19 most of us were spending our evenings blissfully unaware of what goes bump in the night, or what may be strolling the hallways of your home in the afternoon (maybe your dog or cat may already know). You start to notice the weird noises your home makes. As I write, I am listening to Zuul, the Gatekeeper of Gozer, knocking around i ..read more

In this blog entry, I wanted to quickly cover a common question that I get asked about paranormal investigations. The question is "Why do we always see 'Ghost Hunters' searching for spirits at night?" Since this question comes up A LOT, I just wanted to quickly explain why... Work, Work, Work, The easiest answer is this. For most of us paranormal investigators, we have full-time jobs that take up our time during the day. This leaves only the evening hours for us to practice our trade. Many of us wake up the next day pretty knackered from a long night of investigating. Some of us actually wil ..read more

Naturally once paranormal investigating took me by storm and I joined the Thames Society of Paranormal Investigations- TSPI the incorporation of my love of photography soon followed and I set sail into uncharted waters into the world of paranormal photography. This led me to develop a paranormal photographing technique called The Sutera Process. Photography in general has been a passion of mine since the mid-nineties stemming back to my High School Days taking photography classes with manual SLR cameras. Those were the days when you had to roll your own film and process it yourself in a dark ..read more

How many of you have heard of a few famous haunted theaters or maybe legends surrounding haunted theaters in your area? There is a good reason for how frequent this phenomena occurs. Theaters are places that generate great passion from the actors which spills out into the audience. The sheer amount of energy created in a building no doubt leaves behind a few impressions or may lead the spirits to linger. The paranormal has become so synonymous with the theater that many superstitions and traditions revolving the supernatural remain in use today. Don't Turn Out That Light! Theaters often leav ..read more

Dont's 1- Don't assume everything you see or hear is a ghost. If you assume everything is a ghost. You will walk around your home in fear. 2- Don't yell, provoke or scream at the spirit that could be in your home. It may make things worse. 3- Don't attempt to do your own investigation. Leave that to experienced investigators or ghost hunters. Spirits can become attached to you and then things will most certainly go downhill. 4-Don't ignore that you have a spirit. Ignoring it, won't make the problem go away. 5- If someone in your home says they saw a ghost, and you don't believe in ghosts. Don ..read more

That overwhelming feeling that you are being watched; the sensation that you are not alone although no one is in sight; that “6th sense” that many of us have experienced at one point or another…It can cause the little hairs on our arms to stand up and our heart to beat just a little bit faster. The majority of people believe that there is a world unseen, a spiritual plane perhaps coexisting with our physical world. These feelings however, do not constitute evidence. That being said, they are also not to be ignored. These perceptions originate from something…some stimulus we cannot easily inte ..read more

In ancient Rome, the people of the time believed in spirits called Lemures. They were thought to be benevolent spirits of deceased loved ones who couldn't afford a proper burial and were now restless. If one was not interred, in a tomb or cremated and placed in an urn, the soul could not cross the River Styx which is how the living passed into the world of the dead. These ghosts would come at night to terrorize the living. Although it is a term mostly used in antiquity Lemures are commonly used in tabletop RPGs as well as fantasy based characters of literature and video games. "Mense Maio mal ..read more

In the course of running a paranormal team, you get a lot of questions from clients that have never had a paranormal encounter before. Most of the time, it leaves people really confused, scared and just generally freaked out. All these are normal reactions to the average person. Especially, that most people can live their whole life without so such as a trace of a ghost. Which, leads most of my clients questioning their own sanity. Luckily for them, there are other people out there who also have witnessed this type spiritual phenomenon. And for those people living in Connecticut, they can cal ..read more

After years of discussion and planning, my team the Thames Society of Paranormal Investigations has created our very own web series that revolves around some of our cases. It's really satisfying to see a project you put your heart and countless hours of work into blossom, into reality. It's titled "TSPI Presents: Into the Black" and our first episode is located in Windham, Connecticut in the United States. The place is over 200-years old mansion and our client was gracious enough to let us film our experience so we can present it to you. As always our first priority is to assist our clients ..read more