Methodology

QUESTIONNAIRE/INITIAL INTERVIEW

Phantom Detectives gives all prospective clients a questionnaire over the phone before we visit our client’s location. Our questionnaire that we have developed normally takes 15-20 to
administer. It serves as a dual-purpose questionnaire. Once we have our clients tell us the claims of activity, it allows us to gather information about the paranormal activity/history of the location. Based upon the information that the client gives us over the phone, we can determine if this location is worth investigating. Most importantly we need to ensure that a member of PD is entering each of our client’s environments along with respect.

Furthermore, we may also need to be able to determine if the reported activity may stem from a mental illness or drug/alcohol abuse. Many people often think they are experiencing some form of paranormal activity when under the influence of alcohol. But based upon our questionnaire we will decide if a visit to the site is warranted. The team is also asking our clients to monitor activity for a few weeks to report back to us until we can get to the location.

If we do not think that the location warrants an investigation, we will let you know. However, if PD decides to investigate, we will set up a mutually acceptable
time to come to your location. Our initial interview process normally takes between 30 mins to 1 hour to complete. After that we will take baseline readings of EMF Fieldsmand for CO2 levels. Our investigation team members will tour the location to determine the size
and scope of where the activity has occurred. It will allow us to create a road map for a future investigation at our client’s location. In addition we also interview as many eyewitnesses to paranormal activity as possible. Getting first- hand accounts of any paranormal events will allow us to better plan for an investigation. Then we will be able to set our cameras up in locations in those areas where activity may have taken place.


After we complete the initial interview with the client, PD will decide whether an investigation is warranted or not. If we decide an investigation is needed, PD will discuss possible times/dates for the investigation. Our group will explain in detail how we will conduct our investigation protocol.

HISTORICAL RESEARCH

After Phantom Detectives has decided to do an investigation of your property, we will go to local town halls to conduct historical research on the property. However, if you know of any
history relating to your property prior to the investigation, or any tragic events please fill us in. That will be greatly appreciated by every member of the team.

Clues from historical research of the property will give us direction on where we can concentrate our research to assist you. Many times, it may be very well impossible to confirm any reported deaths or events at specific locations. PD is mainly looking for any clues that might explain the paranormal activity at your property. Our Lead Investigator/Tech Manager/Director of Client Relations Rick Warner is always inventing new investigation techniques into our protocol, along with team Director/Founder Joshua Chaires. If you
have any trigger objects that may be tied to past events at the locations, please inform us as quickly as possible.

INVESTIGATION

PD normally arrives for investigations at various locations between 6:00 and 7:00 PM EST. Sometimes we may set a different time to arrive at a location, if the business or home has only a
select time of availability. Our Founder and Director Joshua Chaires will discuss upon a time that is mutual to all parties. PD normally investigates locations until around 3:00 AM. If extra time is needed to continue to
investigate, we will inform you as quickly as possible.

To ensure our investigations have integrity PD requests that you please remove all pets from the property entirely for our members' safety. This will allow our team not to accidentally walk on your pet while in the dark investigating. We please ask all human residents of the property be removed for every team member's safety. If a specific member of the property needs to stay, we will please ask them to sit near the command center or in an unoccupied room so we can properly conduct our investigation to the best of our abilities.

Phantom Detectives takes our investigations very seriously, and we want our clients to understand we aren’t here for entertainment. Sometimes PD may request the presence of one or
more members of residents of the property that will be taking part in the investigation. In our opinion this will be extremely helpful in providing us with information about the claims of activity. But we will need to limit the number of people at an investigation. PDLLC will also limit how many investigators they will bring to ensure this as well. For every additional person from the property PD will bring one less investigator.

Our Director and Lead Investigator will then begin setup of equipment immediately if we have already been to the location. If we have not been to the location, we will ask for a tour to determine where the activity is located. Once we know where the activity is located, we can set up our NVR security system in those areas. We always do a baseline investigation first and foremost to get EMF readings first. Every investigation we do is always done with the power turned off which will help us remove excess EMF fields or to block up
windows where light may come through.

Every client has the right to decline this request. If that is so we will conduct our investigation with the power on at the client’s request. After the investigation is wrapped up, we will breakdown our equipment and start reviewing evidence the next business day.

EVIDENCE REVIEW

PD will start going through evidence from the investigation within several days of the investigation. We please ask our clients to be patient as we go through a lot of audio/video within a
given investigation. For example, for a single 6-hour investigation we will have 4 cameras and at least 6 digital recorders which means we will have 60 hours of evidence to review. Every team member has full time jobs, families, houses, children, and other commitments.

Rest assured we will promise our clients that we will go through our evidence as quickly as possible to ensure we aren’t missing anything. To go through an entire 6–8-hour investigation we request that you give us four weeks to check every piece of equipment. Once we have completed our findings, we will publish a report on our website that our followers can read of the evidence we capture on a given investigation. Most clients are open to us posting the results of the investigation on our website, but we will never reveal the identity of those clients.

FINAL REPORT/CLIENT FOLLOW-UP

PD will be generating a case report from every investigation that we conduct regardless of if we obtain evidence from that investigation or not. Our team comes from a very skeptical point of
view. This report generated will document everything we did during the investigation from the time we arrived, to the time we left. Once we obtain evidence a copy of the case report will be included with our meeting with the client. We can bring these reports to our clients or we can email them and discuss it on the phone with them. Phantom Detectives LLC want to ensure that all of our clients ask as many questions as possible Afterwards we will always be there to
answer any questions that may come up. PD is just an email or a phone call away. Our clients are very important to us, and we will never leave you hanging.