Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by M. Belanger, author of several titles, including The Ghost Hunter's Survival Guide, Walking the Twilight Path, and the new Dictionary of Demons: Expanded & Revised.
Let's face it. Demons are the low-hanging fruit of paranormal reality television, the over-used "gotcha" guaranteed to keep folks glued to the screen between commercial breaks. Even outside of TV-land, far too many paranormal investigators toss out the word "demon" the instant they encounter something they deem negative, usually defining negative as something they themselves personally find frightening or unsettling.
But there are plenty of reasons why non-demonic spirits