Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Richard Southall, author of Haunted Route 66. I was impressed with the recent blog about the different types of paranormal investigators. I feel that it is important to determine why a person would enter this field. That being said, it's also important to differentiate between the different types of hauntings that can be encountered. Over the years, I've discovered that most hauntings can really be divided into three categories—ghosts, spirits, and entities. GhostsGhost hauntings are actually "recordings" or "impressions" of an event that has taken place in the past. Unlike spirits, there is no sentience or intelligence behind a ghostly

Haunted Route 66 author Richard Southall has a guest blog post on The Huffington Post, detailing his new book and the research he conducted while writing it. The Huffington Post is a Pulitzer Prize-winning news website and blog, offering news and personal views of politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interest, and local news. Visit The Huffington Post to read the full blog post.

You never can tell what you're going to capture on camera, and a Denver man definitely captured something unique on his video camera. He had set up his camera in a Denver suburb and aimed it at the Denver skyline. When reviewing the footage, he saw a blip of something, and when he slowed it down, he saw an unidentified flying object. He shot more footage around the same time every day and captured more antics of this UFO, which can't be seen by the naked eye. Wanting to know more information, the man sent the footage to a local television station. The station enlisted the help of an aviation expert to examine the reported UFO footage. The expert was baffled. He had no idea what was

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Deonna Kelli Sayed, author of Paranormal Obsession and So You Want to Hunt Ghosts?. Ghost hunting has undergone a tremendous shift over the past decade. In the past, parapsychology and the metaphysical dominated various discussions around hauntings. Today, the influx of ghost shows has changed the way everyone talks about the spirit realm. This is particularly true in the way paranormal investigators approach their fieldwork. In So You Want to Hunt Ghosts? A Down-to-Earth Guide, I identify four main “approaches” to amateur paranormal investigation, although many teams and investigators embody a little bit of each one. However, most