All We Have is Our Word by Chad Stambaugh

When all said and done, all I really have is my word. I can document the hell out of something and get nothing. Maybe there is a moment when I turned my head, then the camera moved and I captured something. Does that mean I can't use that as evidence? You never know when you are going to get something and I have to be able to make a judgment call on whether or not to present that to my client. When capturing what I consider to be legitimate evidence, I have to be able to say that the evidence I am presenting to you is something I believe to have paranormal meaning. Maybe I cannot explain why this happened, but I can say, "This is what I have captured." Can I ever say 100 percent that I have proof? Of course not! The only things I have are my experiences from doing investigations and then my personal knowledge based on those experiences. 

We should never say that we have proof. We only have evidence of something anomalous. My experiences are going to be different from yours, therefore, we may not come to the same conclusion that something is paranormal.


At the end of the day, all I can say to you is I was there and I know what happened. 

These reasons are precisely why I started my own group -- certainly not because I felt that I was right or wrong. Any evidence and experience is just based on my take of the situation per my personal experiences. 

Like most serious investigators, I never take these things lightly. For example, I have taken thousands and thousands of pictures and yet, I have very few that I would post on my site. However, there are people who may look at my evidence and say, "Nah, that cannot be real." On the other hand, I must insist that the pictures have some merit based on how we take and document our photos. We ask questions like: was it taken under perfect conditions? Probably not. Sometimes, however, there are pictures that are just so weird I have no idea what they could be so I post them anyway and ask others what they make of it. There are times I capture questionable anomalies so I will post that on my site and indicate that I am not sure about it. I ask others what they think.