But you wrote that people paid you to figure it out.
Do you tell your customers you've never figured anything out, your success rate is zero percent, and you've never seen a ghost after a decade of trying?
Of course and that’s why they hire me, to find explanations for what’s going on.
People want to be reassured that there is nothing spooky going on.
My last job I was hired by a nice young couple who had just moved into a newly built house in Northern California.
They were worried it was haunted because every night they would hear footsteps going up and down their stairs.
But they had just bought it so couldn’t move.
I showed up and asked if they could leave for a couple days and they did and I began my investigations.
Sure enough the first night I heard footsteps going up and down the stairs.
I investigated the entire house but couldn’t find anything that would cause it.
So I got a set of wind chimes from my car, put them upstairs and opened some windows to get a breeze.
When the breeze hit them it sounded normal but when I got to the stairs it got noticeably louder.
Apparently the way this new house was constructed was designed in a way that echoed and amplified sound in certain areas
So I used a ladder and investigated the outside of the house and sure enough I found a little access hole.
I go into the room where the access hole was and start searching and when I open the closet I see a raccoon sleeping.
Apparently the raccoon was living there and when it would run around its footsteps would echo and be amplified at the stairs location.
I informed the couple and they called animal control or something and probably got the hole fixed but they were so happy I solved their problem.