Paranormal Forensics: SPIRITS of St. Petersburg

Paranormal Citings blogger By Paranormal Citings blogger
on February 01, 2011 at 8:00 AM, updated February 03, 2011 at 8:47 AM
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I believe that this, in part, what Patrick Burns was doing in his cable TV show on the former Court TV. The topic is interesting, and the SPIRITS of St. Petersburg has toyed with the idea. The outcome would be interesting, as long as the team is not liable for information found (lawsuits are crazy these days).

I let the discussion of paranormal forensics go with the SPIRITS team for a bit. The issues that came up were these:

Would the paranormalist be allowed to speak in court? Probably not. However, if he had an EVP stating the name of the murderer, or giving some clue, perhaps it would allow detectives a lead in the case. The general belief is that paranormal investigators would be support characters only, and that any evidence obtained through them would not be allowed in court.

Read SPIRITS’ January post
Information Protocols

This brings up a question from me: since paranormal investigation is NOT regulated, and it is not accepted as a true science (pseudoscientific), what would happen if the defense found out how the information was obtained? Would this be dismissed due to the illogical nature of the case?

Police methods are very carefully done, with much documentation and official guidelines. Neither of these exist for paranormalists; would this have an impact? Even if the data was carefully documented and observed, I think the last question, the notion of the paranormal, would be a problem unless the evidence was some sort of empiracle data. Perhaps a team, investigating the site, discovered an item left behind by the killer by chance -- ie, a button, a smudge, a piece of fabric, etc. Since this was discovered through observatory means, I would imagine that it would be allowed into evidence. However, this would also bring up the question -- why was the paranormal group at a crime investigation scene, and what was their connection to the police? Would that alter the case?

We have been at a location with a double murder, and attempted third murder, took place. However, the entities that were there, while powerful, revealed very little information other than being upset at their deaths. Information researched by the team did not seem to find anything further than the police had found. I was astounded that the property owners described how they had to clean blood and brains from the walls/floors when they rented the property after the murders. They also found bullet fragments left behind by both killers and police. They did notify the police but nothing came of it.