A new beginning..

So I’m not really sure how people start these things off. I guess I could start with my name is Lindsay, I’m 23 years old, & I run a bottle exchange warehouse. In my free time, I like to work online, read educational books, watch documentaries, travel (even if it’s only to go home for the weekend), draw, and I recently started chasing ghosts. Yes, you read that last part correctly. I recently have gotten into the field of paranormal investigating. I guess I could start this with that story, since I get asked that a lot. How did I get into this?
                My interest in the things unknown started when I was around 12 years old. There was a show on TV about spontaneous human combustion that had caught my attention. Once it was over, I needed to know more. Was it really possible that people just burst into flames suddenly with seemingly no cause? So I jumped on the internet and found there were actually a number of cases of deaths that were linked to such a thing. Being 12 years old, that was a scary thought. It was scary to think that out in the world there were people just burning to death, from fires that had apparently started from within them.
                I spent the next few years then finding out and learning about other things people had no answers for, and for the unexplained and puzzling in general. It ranged from the loch ness monster, to Bigfoot, to aliens and ufos, to ghosts, to cults, to even unexplained cold case murders. Anything that didn’t have an answer intrigued me. I had found myself always wanting to know about ghosts and beyond death more than any other topic though. I had eventually gained an interest for forensic science and wanting to be a crime scene specialist. I wanted to be the person who found answers where no one else could, and to give people peace from these answers. That, and I had a genuine interest in science in general (minus physics) and the human anatomy. I eventually slacked off a little and didn't get the marks required for such a field.

Then when I was 17 I was flicking through the channels one night, and I fell across the show “Paranormal State”. After watching an episode, I was shocked. I couldn't believe the possibility that there were people out there who shared this same huge interest with me, so much so they had dedicated their life to it. As soon as the notion was in my head, I remember thinking ‘That’s it, that’s what I am going to do someday’. So I basically spent most of my free time for the next few years doing my research. I learned about equipment used, different scientific theories, & haunted places & stories all over the world. Any show on the paranormal that held any validity I watched episode after episode to learn techniques. I had never started making my own group back then because I knew I would eventually move on from my hometown.

About three months ago, opportunity knocked. My mother had just moved to Moncton, and life in my hometown had reached a breaking point. I needed a change. So with about a days notice I quit my job (which they were very understand about.) and I packed up my car with what I could fit in it, and away I went. A few weeks after arriving and getting myself a job, I was in shoppers with my mother when something caught my eye on the front page of the newspaper. A local paranormal group was getting together. Well if there was ever a time I believed in fate, this was it. So I attended the first meeting. I was surprised how many people shared the same interest in such a controversial topic. After all was said and done, I introduced myself in hopes of making a good impression, because after all this could be the start of a dream come true for me. You can imagine now how excited I was when they messaged me to meet with them early before the next meeting! After an interview, I was accepted. I am now a paranormal investigator with the Greater Moncton Paranormal Society :) (GMPS for short). So far people have shown quite the interest in the group, with a few newspaper articles, a couple radio shows have contacted us, and a few public places and a few residential places have already contacted us for investigations. I don’t think I’ll be climbing on a plane anytime soon to travel the world to visit haunted castles, but every great adventure has to start somewhere!