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It seems the world of the paranormal has become more of a social event than a scientific or sincere investigation. We are doing our damn-est to bring you what we have recorded, documented and witnessed first hand over the past few months. Do we turn things around in a short period of time, no. The simple answer is this, “we want to make sure we follow as best we can to the scientific method and our real-time experiences.”

coffeepot_sm-3708954These experiences can be complicated, not only that they can be emotionally and physically traumatic. We are doing out best to bring you well produced versions of what we experienced so you can have as accurate of a portrayal of what the investigators went through as well as any of those who were with us. That takes some time, particular with necessary personnel changes and being respectful to those who had traumatic experiences during the investigations.

Within the next week or two you will see clips from what we are working on now. Three NEW investigations done, while we continue to press for more to investigate. It is important that everyone recognizes that those who participate in these cases are not only doing scientific, paranormal, and scientific work but are experiencing REAL physical and emotional trauma at times.

Not every investigation, but it happens and has happened wiships_wheel-150x150-3015942thin the course of our last few investigations. All of our participants sign waivers to give the Krewe a chance to use whatever we film, but we are a family. Unless our family is comfortable sharing our experiences from the investigation, we will not move forward until/unless they do.

Thank you for your patience with us, your support, and your encouragement.

-@PARANOLA

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It seems the world of the paranormal has become more of a social event than a scientific or sincere investigation. We are doing our damn-est to bring you what we have recorded, documented and witnessed first hand over the past few months. Do we turn things around in a short period of time, no. The simple answer is this, “we want to make sure we follow as best we can to the scientific method and our real-time experiences.”

coffeepot_sm-9818917These experiences can be complicated, not only that they can be emotionally and physically traumatic. We are doing out best to bring you well produced versions of what we experienced so you can have as accurate of a portrayal of what the investigators went through as well as any of those who were with us. That takes some time, particular with necessary personnel changes and being respectful to those who had traumatic experiences during the investigations.

Within the next week or two you will see clips from what we are working on now. Three NEW investigations done, while we continue to press for more to investigate. It is important that everyone recognizes that those who participate in these cases are not only doing scientific, paranormal, and scientific work but are experiencing REAL physical and emotional trauma at times.

Not every investigation, but it happens and has happened wiships_wheel-150x150-2964621thin the course of our last few investigations. All of our participants sign waivers to give the Krewe a chance to use whatever we film, but we are a family. Unless our family is comfortable sharing our experiences from the investigation, we will not move forward until/unless they do.

Thank you for your patience with us, your support, and your encouragement.

-@PARANOLA

We are busily trying to manage our personal business/lives and working on setting up the investigation schedule for the first quarter of 2013. We have paperwork in progress for a large site, a well known but as of yet investigated alleged haunting at a dance hall, and the first of a series of investigations we will be doing for alleged hauntings in the French Quarter.

2012 ended up being less productive than we had anticipated. We are all disappointed with that. Many of the PARANOLA Krewe experienced devastating personal losses and illnesses. The hurricane didn’t help much, happening right around the time we had 3 investigations set-up. (We are hoping to reschedule those for this coming summer.

Thank you for your patience and the PARANOLA Krewe wants to thank you for your support and special thanks to those who came out to see those of us who were at ComicCon 2012 New Orleans!

We are looking forward to a great 2013 and we wish you one as well!

-The PARANOLA Krewe

If you live in New Orleans and would like to join up with our ‘krewe’ please do so here:

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Holt Cemetery Investigation:

chip02-4586060The event was held at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel on Orleans St. in NoLa. The talk was divided into four parts. The first part consisted of Chip Coffey talking about his life and family from childhood on to present day and how his childhood relates to his new book, Growing Up Psychic. The second part involved Chip talking about work he has done including Paranormal State and Psychic Kids and included some brief clips from episodes such as the infamous “I am six.”

chip01-7420800In the third section Chip randomly picked people to ask him questions either as a medium or a psychic. There were a lot of questions about loved ones who are now in spirit. After the third section the people who only bought basic admission tickets left. VIP and Super VIP then had their pictures taken with Chip and everyone received an autographed copy of Growing Up Psychic.

The fourth section was a brief investigation of the hotel’s ballroom in which we were permitted to record and use the KII and the Mel meters. Chip utilized the mini mag-light technique.. if you have never tried this technique it is worth a shot. Interesting that Chip picked up on children spirits while no one in our group had the slightest intuition of any children being around. One of my favorite parts of the evening was when Chip raffled off his scarf.

bourbonorleans-150x150-3768720Sadly, I did not win but I did donate $20 to NoH8 and animal rescue organizations. (^_^)

Overall a very interesting night. We did manage to get our name out there so I would not be surprised if our next investigation stems from this night in some fashion.

No this isn’t about TB. It is about the fact that when the weather makes its major turn here we all get sick. I think everyone we know is sick. It has slowed us down but it sounds like all the founding four will be at Chip Coffey’s ‘Coffey Talk’ for the Super VIP.

In other news, we are still fighting through audio from Holt Cemetery. We have some great EVP and the SB-7 Spirit Box session should more or less be done as one whole clip. There is ‘deep voice’ no, not @paranolajoe and who we believe is someone from two different graves we were next to in the cemetery.

We have a very dynamic collection of investigation venues we are working on, including closed churches, to a firehouse. (Must say I am partial to the firehouse.) It’s hard to get places to shut off off the power and let people roam through it, but we have some very convincing people.

There has been a decision and someone will get a ticket paid for to the Chip Coffey ‘Coffey Talk’ to hang out with us, all the founders should be there plus maybe more.

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PARANOLA is a paranormal research and investigation team that focuses on the Greater New Orleans Area exclusively.

Our main goal is to process and document paranormal activity. We focus on researching thoroughly including adhering as close as possible to the processes of the scientific method.

Our Future Plans:

Our future is a bright one with some very talented people working to bring a resource to the Greater New Orleans Community. Through our investigation, documenting what we find and what you find, as well as working to create a New Orleans-based and Greater New Orleans focused forum for locals and visitors alike who have experienced the paranormal in our great city.

We will begin shooting our investigations in the most commonly believed haunts in our city to places you’ve never known existed. Those investigations will then be posted so you can comment, question, and share your insight with us.

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You can find the video on our Vimeo TV channel:

http://tv.paranola.com

Or here is a direct link to the video:

It seems the world of the paranormal has become more of a social event than a scientific or sincere investigation. We are doing our damn-est to bring you what we have recorded, documented and witnessed first hand over the past few months. Do we turn things around in a short period of time, no. The simple answer is this, “we want to make sure we follow as best we can to the scientific method and our real-time experiences.”

coffeepot_sm-8205210These experiences can be complicated, not only that they can be emotionally and physically traumatic. We are doing out best to bring you well produced versions of what we experienced so you can have as accurate of a portrayal of what the investigators went through as well as any of those who were with us. That takes some time, particular with necessary personnel changes and being respectful to those who had traumatic experiences during the investigations.

Within the next week or two you will see clips from what we are working on now. Three NEW investigations done, while we continue to press for more to investigate. It is important that everyone recognizes that those who participate in these cases are not only doing scientific, paranormal, and scientific work but are experiencing REAL physical and emotional trauma at times.

Not every investigation, but it happens and has happened wiships_wheel-150x150-1963880thin the course of our last few investigations. All of our participants sign waivers to give the Krewe a chance to use whatever we film, but we are a family. Unless our family is comfortable sharing our experiences from the investigation, we will not move forward until/unless they do.

Thank you for your patience with us, your support, and your encouragement.

-@PARANOLA

We had a chance to investigate two very unique locations and ended up with two very different results.

As we have made it clear before, we go into a location and if something or some things happen that we cannot explain we do our best to document them. However, we also go in without any expectations of having anything happen at all, and if we are unable to experience anything we make it clear that we did not on that particular night experience anything. As for the two investigations we did in roughly 3 days earlier in May we ended up with very easily documented and what we considered to be uncommon occurrences.

One very dramatic incident was what we are referring to a as an oppression. From the time we arrived at this particular location one of our team was experiencing being touched on her leg repeatedly over the course of a few hours. She ultimately ended up being more or less put into some sort of trance (for lack of a better word) and the video very clearly shows the progression of this happening.

With the second investigation, we experienced activity with a REM Pod that seemed to indicate a direct response to dozens of questions. These questions were being asked by someone who worked at the location and what indicated to us as being her father who had passed nearly 10 years earlier. It was very emotional as she would ask for specific responses, ask about specific events, and the REM would respond accordingly. Needless to say there were many tears and it was a much more positive feeling we all left with than the first of the two investigations.

We wanted to bring you up to date and let you know these are being worked on, the hours of video is being edited, audio is being analyzed, and it will be posted as soon as we feel we have them right.

Thank you to those who allowed us to investigate and participate.

-The PARANOLA Krewe

We are busily trying to manage our personal business/lives and working on setting up the investigation schedule for the first quarter of 2013. We have paperwork in progress for a large site, a well known but as of yet investigated alleged haunting at a dance hall, and the first of a series of investigations we will be doing for alleged hauntings in the French Quarter.

2012 ended up being less productive than we had anticipated. We are all disappointed with that. Many of the PARANOLA Krewe experienced devastating personal losses and illnesses. The hurricane didn’t help much, happening right around the time we had 3 investigations set-up. (We are hoping to reschedule those for this coming summer.

Thank you for your patience and the PARANOLA Krewe wants to thank you for your support and special thanks to those who came out to see those of us who were at ComicCon 2012 New Orleans!

We are looking forward to a great 2013 and we wish you one as well!

-The PARANOLA Krewe

chip02-3696387The event was held at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel on Orleans St. in NoLa. The talk was divided into four parts. The first part consisted of Chip Coffey talking about his life and family from childhood on to present day and how his childhood relates to his new book, Growing Up Psychic. The second part involved Chip talking about work he has done including Paranormal State and Psychic Kids and included some brief clips from episodes such as the infamous “I am six.”

chip01-3980552In the third section Chip randomly picked people to ask him questions either as a medium or a psychic. There were a lot of questions about loved ones who are now in spirit. After the third section the people who only bought basic admission tickets left. VIP and Super VIP then had their pictures taken with Chip and everyone received an autographed copy of Growing Up Psychic.

The fourth section was a brief investigation of the hotel’s ballroom in which we were permitted to record and use the KII and the Mel meters. Chip utilized the mini mag-light technique.. if you have never tried this technique it is worth a shot. Interesting that Chip picked up on children spirits while no one in our group had the slightest intuition of any children being around. One of my favorite parts of the evening was when Chip raffled off his scarf.

bourbonorleans-150x150-2026683Sadly, I did not win but I did donate $20 to NoH8 and animal rescue organizations. (^_^)

Overall a very interesting night. We did manage to get our name out there so I would not be surprised if our next investigation stems from this night in some fashion.

PARANOLA

It seems the world of the paranormal has become more of a social event than a scientific or sincere investigation. We are doing our damn-est to bring you what we have recorded, documented and witnessed first hand over the past few months. Do we turn things around in a short period of time, no. The simple answer is this, “we want to make sure we follow as best we can to the scientific method and our real-time experiences.”

coffeepot_sm-2325792These experiences can be complicated, not only that they can be emotionally and physically traumatic. We are doing out best to bring you well produced versions of what we experienced so you can have as accurate of a portrayal of what the investigators went through as well as any of those who were with us. That takes some time, particular with necessary personnel changes and being respectful to those who had traumatic experiences during the investigations.

Within the next week or two you will see clips from what we are working on now. Three NEW investigations done, while we continue to press for more to investigate. It is important that everyone recognizes that those who participate in these cases are not only doing scientific, paranormal, and scientific work but are experiencing REAL physical and emotional trauma at times.

Not every investigation, but it happens and has happened wiships_wheel-150x150-3749022thin the course of our last few investigations. All of our participants sign waivers to give the Krewe a chance to use whatever we film, but we are a family. Unless our family is comfortable sharing our experiences from the investigation, we will not move forward until/unless they do.

Thank you for your patience with us, your support, and your encouragement.

-@PARANOLA

We had a chance to investigate two very unique locations and ended up with two very different results.

As we have made it clear before, we go into a location and if something or some things happen that we cannot explain we do our best to document them. However, we also go in without any expectations of having anything happen at all, and if we are unable to experience anything we make it clear that we did not on that particular night experience anything. As for the two investigations we did in roughly 3 days earlier in May we ended up with very easily documented and what we considered to be uncommon occurrences.

One very dramatic incident was what we are referring to a as an oppression. From the time we arrived at this particular location one of our team was experiencing being touched on her leg repeatedly over the course of a few hours. She ultimately ended up being more or less put into some sort of trance (for lack of a better word) and the video very clearly shows the progression of this happening.

With the second investigation, we experienced activity with a REM Pod that seemed to indicate a direct response to dozens of questions. These questions were being asked by someone who worked at the location and what indicated to us as being her father who had passed nearly 10 years earlier. It was very emotional as she would ask for specific responses, ask about specific events, and the REM would respond accordingly. Needless to say there were many tears and it was a much more positive feeling we all left with than the first of the two investigations.

We wanted to bring you up to date and let you know these are being worked on, the hours of video is being edited, audio is being analyzed, and it will be posted as soon as we feel we have them right.

Thank you to those who allowed us to investigate and participate.

-The PARANOLA Krewe

Our January investigation was the Southport Music Hall located at the parish line between Jefferson and Orleans just off of River Road. This location has a very interesting past. Things ranging from the original building burning down in the early 1900′s, mafia ties involving Carlos Marcello, and many other unique traits. You will learn all about them when we release the show in the next few weeks.

I wanted to share an experience I had today while talking with a representative of a former owner of the property. We were discussing the logistics of setting up an interview to talk about their time in the building on the phone. We both were using mobile phones. I was located in a parking lot where I was idling in a parking spot, while he was in his home.

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This is what I saw.

After chatting briefly about the property and what would be the best course of action and time frame to get the interview taken care of, we began discussing some of the EVPs that we had found and what other people over time had claimed to experience over the years. As we began to discuss the power of repetitive ceremonies and their seeming ability to lend power to an environment even if not being done to conjure such things, I realized my phone had gone to a black screen with the gray ‘Apple’ logo (an iPhone5) and that our call was cut off. My immediate thought was that my battery must have been low and it was shutting off. In all of about a second I was back at the dialing pad. My phone hadn’t shut down, I didn’t need to unlock it, it just blinked, disconnected him and put me back where I was.

I tried calling him back and got his voice mail, I tried a few times over the next 5-10 minutes and repeatedly had received his voice-mail. In time he called me back and said his phone and apologized saying his phone had died. Our phones blinked out at the same time, while discussing the investigation and setting up a time to talk to gather more information.

I can say I have never had anything like that happen before, not once. Just wanted to share that oddity. You never know with electronics, but that was some very curious timing.
@paranolajoe

We have done the obligatory exterior shots, some creative ones, and basically laid the groundwork for this investigation. The day after we will let you know how it went, but what we can say is that this involves the Mafia, prohibition, secret tunnels (yes in New Orleans), Masonic Rituals, and the mighty Mississippi River.

We will be missing some of the Krewe but we have some new members to introduce to you as well.

Hopes are high, expectations low… as any investigation should be looked at.

What we find or do not find we will share with you. Also, this is a place the public has easy access to, so we will be looking for anyone with personal experiences to contribute with comments!

Thank you for your support and 2013 is going to be a VERY busy year.

-PARANOLA

We are pleased to announce we have our first confirmed date of 2013 locked in as of Saturday December 29th, 2012.

This has great potential with multiple independent sightings of an apparition, objects moving, and various other possible paranormal happenings. In this case, as we prefer, we will be the first professional organization to investigate this location.

Once the event is done we will let you know when it will be available for viewing on our Vimeo Channel:

http://tv.paranola.com

We are busily trying to manage our personal business/lives and working on setting up the investigation schedule for the first quarter of 2013. We have paperwork in progress for a large site, a well known but as of yet investigated alleged haunting at a dance hall, and the first of a series of investigations we will be doing for alleged hauntings in the French Quarter.

2012 ended up being less productive than we had anticipated. We are all disappointed with that. Many of the PARANOLA Krewe experienced devastating personal losses and illnesses. The hurricane didn’t help much, happening right around the time we had 3 investigations set-up. (We are hoping to reschedule those for this coming summer.

Thank you for your patience and the PARANOLA Krewe wants to thank you for your support and special thanks to those who came out to see those of us who were at ComicCon 2012 New Orleans!

We are looking forward to a great 2013 and we wish you one as well!

-The PARANOLA Krewe

We invite you to take a look at our video from a @PARANOLA investigation we had shot in a private residence in the Garden District of Uptown New Orleans. It is long and not polished up, what you see is how things happened. Future episodes will be cut down to highlight anything we believe is worth note, but this gives you an idea how tough (tedious even?) how full SB-7 and Ovilus sessions can be.

It was a fairly quiet night but, even so there are things that might be of interest.

We had a good turn out down in the French Quarter for our June @PARANOLA meeting. There was also a lot accomplished, despite the sing along at the piano bar.

Members will have two opportunities for equipment training sessions in July, during the week of the 8th and the week of the 15th.

Investigations will begin to be scheduled during the month of July and we plan to move forward unrelentingly from there. We thank you all for your support and PARANOLA members new and old we look forward to seeing you in July!

We would like to invite you to subscribe to our channel on Vimeo. Right now there is just the test shoot we did a few months ago that was based on our investigation of New Orleans, LA’s Holt Cemetery.

But so much more is to come…

Subscribe so you don’t miss anything.

https://vimeo.com/channels/paranola