About The Ghost Education & Research Center

GERC was founded in April 2001 to document and research claims of paranormal activity and try to study the phenomenon as it happens. Some of the questions being researched are: How exactly are objects picked up and move on their own? How much weight can an entity pick up? Does the sound of disembodied footsteps suggest an entity has weight? What is the body temperature? Does changes in weather have an affect on the frequency of paranormal activity?

These and many other questions are being researched by GERC to not only gather hard evidence of paranormal activity but to understand what is happening in peoples homes & offices. Many people "ghost hunt" but not many people are doing research.
This website is designed to help anyone who is interested in learning more about the paranormal by using a grounded scientific approach which leans not to either side of the spectrum of hard core skeptics or even hard core believers but rather a neutral and open minded approach to investigating... an objective approach of letting the evidence, not one's beliefs or opinions dictate the facts about what is real.

We take extraordinary measures to be a credible and well trusted source of information by constantly challenging what we know. We challenge ourselves and others to "prove us wrong" by not blindly accepting what we say as fact but to take the information we provide and do your own research, come to your own conclusions not based on religious upbringing or common belief but on what the evidence says.

To put it another way....

If our evidence says (1) plus (1) equals (=) what we think is (2), we're going to show you how we gathered both pieces of evidence (1) to come up with our theory ( there is no conclusion when studying the paranormal) of how and why we got the number (2).

Skeptics would argue that (2) doesn't exist and therefore we're a bunch of idiots for even suggesting that there are any other possibilities other than (1) and would proudly boast about it in a magazine self titled.

On the other hand, hard core believers would say that (2) exists just because and there is no need to prove how it came to be... it just is courtesy of the mother ship or divine being or even the easter bunny. Who knows?

Regardless what we believe, we have a pretty good idea we know the answer is (2). We don't know how it came to that point and before we can make any claims, we need to have the other pieces of the puzzle (1's) and make sure we got the right info in the right order so we can do the math and better understand what exactly is paranormal activity.

That's why we have been doing this over 7 years now because it is REAL. Not a figment of your imagination, not a piece of science fiction. Things do go bump in the night and when they do, we're there documenting it, studying it and asking why?

Steven Wolff
Founder, The Ghost Education & Research Center