Exciting? Scary? Real? Fake?  These clips from the SciFy Channel's Ghost Hunter's show the best of drama filled television.  Let's face it, without "evidence" of ghosts, there would be no drama and that would make terrible television.  The work that Cano Davy and New York State Paranormal Research is involved with looks very little like what you see on television, and it is a lot less glamorous.

Cano shared that when he and his group investigate paranormal activity, it involves not just long, tedious hours spent in incredible dark places, but it also involves countless hours of review of evidence after the fact.  However, before the hunting of the haunting can even begin, a lengthy investigation must first take place.

Co-founder of the group, Marcus Zwierecki, says that they are first made aware of a possible case by receiving a phone call from a distraught potential client.  The first job of NYSPR is to assure the person that they are not going "crazy, for lack of a better word."  Then a member of the group meets with the person to conduct a "face-to-face interview in order to gain more information."  The next step in the process, sends NYSPR off on a fact finding journey about the past homeowners and the history of the property and land.  They often find that their best resources are historical societies, local librarians, and other people who live around the property.

Once all this preliminary work has been exhausted, only then can NYSPR schedule an investigative appointment, that will usually take about "four or five hours."  The investigative appointment consists of video tape footage of the hunt, which will later be view, reviewed and viewed some more to determine whether or not there is actual paranormal activity or just something that can easily be explained.

Zwierecki says that much of what you see about paranormal activity on T.V. is about creative filming for entertainment purposes.  They take 7 or 8 hours of filming and have to cut it down to a one hour show, so of course they are going to edit the investigation to make it seems "as if around every corner something is going to jump out at you."  Zwierecki says that NYSPR's work does not resemble anything of what you see on television and the group takes their work very seriously.

"We are dealing with people's lives here in which it is not a an entertaining or laughing matter . . . We respect every client as if they were a family member . . . " Marcus Zwierecki.