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October 2026 lilbrary presentations return for another season of lively multi-media presentatioins on "ghost hunting" from a skeptical point of view (but not a cynical one!). Free admission and open to the pubic. Note: Portions of this presentation may not be too sophisticated or scary for young children.

When and where?

Oct. 13, 5:30-6:30pm

Ghost Hunting 101 with Pacific Paranormal Investigations

Del Mar Public Library

1309 Camino Del Mar, Del Mar, CA 92014

honoring the heroes of

skeptical inquiry

Apophenia: A natural psychological tendency in which patterns are discenred in random information, apophenia is the basis for other perceptual phenomena, such as pareidolia, auditory matrixing, confirmation bias, and divination. Critics of EVP frequently rely on apophenia as a catch-all explanation for why listeners identify anomalous voices in the audio medium and see ghosts in the photographic findings. Conscientious paranormal investigators, however, are vigilant self-observers and use skeptical thinking and the peer review process to avoid incidents of apophenia in their findings.

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File Naming Protocols

If you’re an amateur paranormal researcher, and you’re sharing your media and data files with others, then you are obligated to name your files with data that catagorically identifies its content and assigns it a unique address in your database. Furthermore, an investigative group trying to build its own paranormal library of evidence must, out of necessity, use a system of file naming protocols to make cataloguing possible, and, in the case of client outreach, protect the privacy of your client....

PPI Podcast #12: Halloween Night (2011)

We join members of Pacific Paranormal Investigations during a fireside chat on Halloween Night. Karl Sherlock, Brian Miller, Debra Page and Larry Page discuss the origin of Jack-O-Lanterns, animal ghosts and the state of paranormal reality television in a casual and spontaneous conversation.

Recorded: October 31, 2011

Length: 00:22:53