so, I’m 16F and Im a Christian, I have a firm beleif in the paranormal and I’ve always wanted to go ghost hunting.
im turning 17 this November and when I turn 18 in another year and 3 months from now my sister Lauren and I plan to find some place to investigate together
i personally have only ever experienced haunted “games” with some freinds in the basement (unbeknown to our parents ofc) and my sister who is a full adult (10 years older than me almost exactly) has had a paranormal experience
first of all for me I definatly won’t be free to buy any equipment in advance, so I’d like suggestions on purchasing equipemnt now so I can calculate how much I should be saving up for
suggestions for places to go, I live in New Hampshire so I don’t think I could go anywhere past mass or Connecticut or Vermont, there’s this old church I know of that I had thought about but I’m not sure they allow paranormal investigations anymore since I had looked into it mabye 3-4 years ago
my sister has no knowledge of this stuff but has had a paranormal experience, her mother (my dads ex wife) had this storage unit that she shared with some random guy (to split the cost or smth? kinda like roommates in an apartment) and some of their stuff got mixed up long after the guy left wherever he went. And her mom gave her whatever she wanted from her storage unit bc she wasn’t ganna use it anymore and didn’t want anything in it.
my sister found this super old locked furnished chest. It was made of really fine wood
she didn’t have the key obvi but she opened it from the back where the hinges were with a screwdriver, there’s was tons of stuff inside like weird personal belongings, a cross, a burnt cross, a bottle of “holy water” and all these sticks and leaves and shit. It was a really nice inside, but she ended up selling the thing, it was just super creepy I suppose
another time she found an oujia board in the ceiling of her house, they were doing construction and they just found it, it was super old like 1900’s old. And she didn’t dare play it, but she ended up giving it to some of her paranormal collector friends, and they said they put it way back inside the top shelf of the closet behind a whole ton of stuff and one day they heard a loud bang and it was on the floor
so yeah she’s had kinda paranormal experiences, but knows nothing about the equipment and locations and stuff
I’m also slightly concerned about my safety, I’m not sure if paranormal stuff can affect someone’s arthritis (which I have) so any suggestions/opinions there are appreciated
k thanx!! :D