1. ESTABLISHING CREDIBILITY IN PARANORMAL INVESTIGATIONS Greg Lawson authorgreglawson@yahoo.com

2. CREDIBILITY  Recency Effect Displaying Credible Personality Traits Establishing a Quality Work Product  Primacy Effect Identified as a Ghost Hunter Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

3. INVESTIGATIVE APPROACH  To Support a Haunting Immediately employ ghost detecting measures to locate, record, and identify paranormal activity  To Investigate an Occurrence Qualify witness(s) and the phenomenon by eliminating explainable defects in witness perception Purpose

4. QUALIFYING YOUR EXPERIENCER  Personal Characteristics Personal Presumptions  Physical Limitations Sensory Deprivations  Mental Wellness Cognitive Dysfunctions  Chemical Impairment Legal / Illegal  Hoaxers Motivation?  Eye Witness Reliability Memory Encoding

5. QUALIFYING YOUR PHENOMENON  Time of Day & Illumination Day, Night, Dusk, Dawn  Weather Conditions Hot, Cold, Dry, Wet  Visual Conditions Clear, Cloudy, Foggy  Audio Origination & Location  Location Structure / Open Air  Anomaly Natural / Man-made Other…

6. DRAWING THE CONCLUSION  Experiencer Qual: Credible / Unreliable / Undetermined  Phenomenon Qual: Misinterpreted / Natural Occurrence / Other…