EMF by Chad Stambaugh

Paranormal investigators often have a couple of EMF meters in their investigation kits and will use them for a variety of reasons. The most favored theory is the one that suggests a high level EMF suggests a ghost is present.

Paranormal researchers will often take ‘Base Line Readings’ of a supposedly haunted building. They will often measure things like the temperature and the electromagnetic field in each room or area using an EMF meter. Then during the rest of the investigation they will continue to take readings to see if they rise or fall in the different areas and will make note of such fluctuations.

These fluctuations are often attributed to spiritual energy manifesting itself or are, at least, noted as odd. However, unless you take these base line tests and monitor the EMF levels in the building over a long period of time, it’s pretty impossible to be able to know if a reading is anomalous or not.
Also, magnetic fields are physical fields produced by electrically charged objects. The electric field is produced by stationary charges and the magnetic field by moving charges or currents.

EMF is often described as being a static field.  One that does not charge or fluctuate over time, thus a suddenly higher reading must be anomalous, whereas, in fact, it does change over time, but very slowly. When fluctuations in the EMF are detected at locations that are reputed to be haunted it is more likely and probable that the fluctuation is caused by items in the building that are electronic or things that are electrically or magnetically charged, rather than the spirits of the dead.
Experience Inducing Fields or ( EIF's) are simply fields that have experience inducing properties. Current evidence suggests that EIFs are varying magnetic fields with low frequency and a moderate intensity/amplitude.

EIFs overlay any existing ambient and static magnetic field present in any certain areas.  This would probably be the geomagnetic field itself (the magnetic field that is constantly present at the Earth’s surface and in which we are subject to continuously), something that is considered as static but actually does change over long periods of time.

Solar flares and solar winds can have major effects on the geomagnetic field, depending on the suns activity day to day.  Also, these types of magnetic fields are not considered to be very important in inducing hallucinations in any way, and EIFs, if present, would most likely appear as fluctuations on top of the local static field.

EIFs are not caused by or contributed to by household appliances that are powered with electricity from DC or main supply.  EIFs also do not cause everyone to hallucinate when they have been exposed to high levels of EIF for a long period of time. Only around 25% of the population shows an increased susceptibility and this is usually due to increased neuronal instability in certain regions of the brain.

This is another theory that ghost researchers use and another reason they use EMF meters on their investigations, however, it’s also worth noting that these EIFs are not detectable with your standard EMF meter.

Chad