This past weekend I was interviewed for an Internet radio podcast done by The Ghost Society.

I am not bragging. In fact I am extremely flattered anytime that someone even asks my opinion, let alone wants to record it for posterity.

But as much as I enjoy giving interviews (and I have only done a couple), I am reminded of why the written word is my medium of choice. After the interview I spent the rest of the day wishing I had said this or that and knowing that there were many things that I could have said better.

They strayed from their usual format of concentrating on one topic per show. According to them, this was because I show passion for so many topics in the paranormal field. I suspect it was in reality an attempt to keep me from droning on about any single topic for the entire hour and boring them to death.

We touched on “paranormal unity”, equipment, what got me interested in the paranormal, presentation of evidence, and the like. They probably purposely steered me away from such topics as dowsing, auras, and spiritual protection as to not make me come across as a raving lunatic and to hold onto their target audience of science-leaning investigators.

One thing that I glossed over was that I feel strongly that everyone that claims to be a paranormal investigator (or ghost hunter or researcher or whatever) should get out of his or her box and search out and join at least three or four paranormal community sites.

These sites give us insight as to what our peers are saying and doing. Whether we agree or disagree with each other is not as important as being aware of what others are finding and doing that works or doesn’t work.

We can hone our debunking skills at such sites as MyPara and itsHaunted. It is always easier to debunk someone else’s evidence than our own because we do not have an emotional attachment to it. With “no hounds in the race” it is much easier to dismiss a shadow because of a similar shadow elsewhere in frame. It is much easier to dismiss an EVP as noise when you weren’t the person asking grandma why she is stomping about the attic. But that mental exercise of debunking someone else’s evidence sharpens our eyes and ears to our own data.

I also wish I had remembered to issue my usual challenge for every team to invite another team to join them once a year on an investigation. Such networking can be an educational experience for all involved, no matter who is the more educated or experienced.

The list goes on.

The show will not air (do Internet radio shows “air” or would “cast” be more accurate”) until next month, so I do not know if I was an interesting (beyond the way a monkey flinging feces at the zoo is interesting) guest or not. Hopefully I was, and I will get the opportunity to share more of my thoughts in the future.

There is just so much more to talk about.

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