Equipment for Seeking Ghosts

Someone asked me the other day what type of equipment do we use to find the Ghosts that we talk about on our site.

We use standard everyday equipment: compass, videocamera, digital camera, voice recorder, and our eyes. Shortly we'll be expanding our equipment with more high tech goodies. One major thing that we like to do prior to visiting, is to learn as much about the site as possible.

For example, we have a site we like to visit, The Mimico Asylum for the Insane (now closed, and operating as a Humber College location). We'll read up on it as much as we can before going, so that we know where to find the ghosts or where to go where there have been recent sightings.

That said, we can't exactly trapse into this location. Humber College, it's been said, has not been very inviting to people looking for ghosts on their property and won't give people access to their buildings to look. We don't encourage breaking any laws to do this, so we prefer to stay on the outside of the building and doing our research from there. Not exactly the best place to do it, but we have had some success in locating some unsuual activities. So far we haven't had any problems with the Security there, and we don't want any either...so we do everything in the open so that if a camera sees us, they (Security) can see us and realise that we're not up to anything unusual.

Now, if you want to see the insides of this building, you can check this link here. There's only a couple here. The people that took these are called "Urban Explorers". Check out their site for more details.

Finally, it appears that the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital (old grounds) have finally been demolished with the exception of a couple of buildings. Take a look here for photos from the old hospital which was said to have been haunted by several spirits.

We never got a chance to investigate this location, however, after speaking with locals in the area, they have said that that place had more ghosts than you could shake a stick at. The UE site by far, has the best collection of pictures and documentation about the old buildings. There's no point in visiting this site - houses have been built on top of the old buildings now.