GhostLand Society

Despite the lack of scientific evidence that proves the existence of paranormal phenomena beyond a shadow of a doubt, more than half of all Americans believe in the existence of spirits or paranormal activity. For many people, it’s important to consider the possibility of life after death and to remain open to alternate realities. As [...]

There are a lot of opinions across many teams about the paranormal in general. For the most part the paranormal community seems to be  moving forward as a whole. Just like anything that opinions play a part in, the paranormal community has its extremists on all sides thus making it debatable on how fast we [...]

We hear this a lot as paranormal investigators and maybe we have even said it ourselves, “Based on the paranormal activity, this place is haunted”. It seems that in the paranormal world, these two terms are almost interchangeable but the reality is they are not. You could have paranormal activity but not have a haunting. [...]

The paranormal world is filled with good, trusting people who are looking for answers. Unfortunately, a few con artists are happy to provide those answers… for a price. Let’s talk about con artists in general, and what to look for in the paranormal field. Paranormal Con Artists Con artists are inventive. They see an opportunity, [...]

Due to childish actions of other tour providers in the Chicagoland area, GhostLand Society will not be running any tours for the St Valentines Day Massacre.  Although we will miss doing our 4 hour tour it is giving us time to come up with a different tour which we will be offering in the near future. [...]

In today’s economy businesses are struggling to keep their doors open and a ploy that is being used is haunted sightings, a good example of that is a hotel here in Illinois not far from the Illinois / Wisconsin border.  This hotel has had its fair share of problems over the last 20 years with [...]

I have the great privilege of instructing a class at Harper College in Palatine, IL in the Spring. It will be a classroom and hands on training with equipment with opportunities of investigating haunted sites. The school itself recently introduced a Paranormal class and it’s been a success. They are offering this class again in [...]

We are not going to reveal which groups and the name of the show however, these groups were on a paranormal show who challenges them on evidence gathering. Now it every well can be the groups that lost are just bitter but we were informed that the additional camera crew in tow to record the [...]

With major shows being caught faking their evidence like Sci-fi channel’s “Ghost Hunters” and A&E’s “Paranormal State” in order to boost their show’s ratings, it becomes apparent the path that paranormal/parapsychology research is heading to. Most people you talk to will simply dismiss ghosts and just say it’s nonsense (if you’re lucky), the rest of [...]

Hoaxing claims of the paranormal have been around since the dawn of photography and is nothing new.  Some TV shows have taken so far with hoaxing “Evidence” that it has giving true investigators in the field a major black eye. Below we will give you a bit more information into this subject. Remember  groups in [...]