Methods for investigating using EMF meters.
Everyone has heard about EMF from Ghost hunting shows, etc. But not too many people understand what EMF really is.
EMF Defined:
The electromagnetic field is a physical field produced by electrically charged objects. It affects the behaviour of charged objects in the vicinity of the field.
Everything gives off a EM field. You emit and manipulate the EM field of your couch when you sit on it, the Doritos that you are eating have a measurable amount of EM radiation, everything that you see has some form of Electromagnetism that is detectable in one form or another. There are a few ways paranormal researchers use EMF meters to detect supernatural forces. How do you do it?
First, you get a baseline reading of your surroundings. Start by walking around the room and writing down and mapping the room. TV's Speakers, Microwaves, Clocks, Computers, Nuclear reactors, and anything electronic that can be plugged into the wall will give a noticeable reading,Then document the reading for each and plot it on your diagram of the room. Then walk to spots where the EM contamination from those electronic devices do not interfere with your readings. Document your highest and lowest readings for the room and choose a spot, free of interference to measure later.
Then when you return for your investigation, you should know what readings you should have for each spot.
Lets say you choose a spot in the center of the room as your reading spot. The baseline reading for your spot is .03 Milligauss. Sit in this spot and place the meter where you can read it clearly. If there is an entity in the vicinity, the belief is that the meter will register a fluctuation in the constant of the EM field.
So lets say that you have finished that bag of Doritos, and all of the sudden your meter spikes from .03 to 4.9 and jumps around from there for about 30 seconds, then stops.....What now?
Well, think to yourself what could have caused the meter to go crazy when I am just sitting here? Go back to basics.... Check the room again, are all of the readings on electronic devices the same as before? Document the time and check with your colleagues later. It's possible that someone started up the microwave, turned on the tv in the next room, or something else which caused the meter to move. If all of your groupies are accounted for, and nobody was at fault, what could you have done to make the meter move yourself? Did your cell phone go off at that time? Did you place a 2 way radio near the meter? If not, then it seems more likely that it was an anomaly than interference from a near by source.
Now when checking your evidence, such as EVP recordings, Video, and Photos taken at that time, (and you should have been recording these at the same time) compare with the time of the EMF spike. If you pick up something to go along with the meter spike, such as a floating librarian standing next to you on the video..... then that goes a long way to help prove that it wasn't just a fluke.
To make a long story short.......
"everything gives of EMF, find out the normal level so you can find out what isn't so normal."
I hope this was semi-informative.
-Tim Davis
CPIA Director
EMF Electromagnetic Fields
