What do you do when you offer your services without a fee? Make not one but three trips to a location. Then you get very little evidence that there is paranormal activity... Nothing in photos, nothing in video however you capture a very clear and usable EVP? Do you deem the house haunted or just a momentary passing through of a spirit?

It is very hard to tell a family that you have not found what they had hoped for but still you have to give your assumption over the investigation.

We had one such investigation and honestly had it not been for the fact that the people were so nice we would not have returned after the pre-investigation. We took notes, we had several emails from them and a long detailed letter of the happenings within the house. So we went with their explanation and only obtained a small piece of evidence. We took them what we found, we showed them videos and we informed them them that we had not found anything in the photos. Directly after this visit Al our Founder of the group sustained an injury which laid him up for a while... He tried to go over evidence but since he was on pain medication, he did not want that to affect his judgment. Then I had to deal with an abuse situation of my elderly parents in a nursing home, which drove us to a move from Illinois to Indiana. There were several interruptions to the going over of final evidence. We tried to stay in touch and we even urged them in their impatience to find another paranormal group to look into their situation. (As it is sometimes that different investigators get different outcomes.) We finally got a summary to them of our findings, I wrote an article based on the notes, recordings, emails and letter that was obtained from them. I then hear from a family member who claims it was never said... and Oh Yes It Was... we have it directly from them. We would never publish anything about what a family had told us, unless we had documentation from them to back it up. The email was very ugly and accusatory!

So then, "What do you do?" Well I tell you what we are doing. We have kept their documents available for reference and we move on from here. My feelings are that we did not give them the answer they wanted so they are going to find someone who will... Their choice... It just makes me very glad that I keep good records!