Would you allow your child to go ghost hunting at an early age?
We see it more and more every day, young kids are jumping into the paranormal fever that has grabbed a large percentage of the world in the last 5 or so years.
Parents do not seem to be at all concerned with their kids going “ghost hunting”. Why not?
Could it be the lack of knowledge on the subject of the paranormal? or could it be that they just consider it harmless fun, since the majority of adults do not believe in ghosts?
There was a story last week from the Prattville Progess, an Alabama news site, about a mother that had granted her daughter’s birthday wish of going “ghost hunting” for her birthday. The 11 year old is apparently swept up in the “ghost hunting craze” and wanted to do some EVP work like the members of TAPS, from her favorite show, Sci-fi’s Ghost Hunters.
“I wanted to go ghost hunting for my birthday,” said Barber, who enjoys watching the television show “Ghost Hunters” on the Sci-Fi channel.
Quick knew her young daughter had a fascination with the paranormal.
“(Emily) has been interested in ghost hunting,” Quick said. “There are some ghost shows we let her watch, but we don’t let her watch them all. She just had a real interest in ghost hunting.”
Her mother, Renee Quick was not a believer in ghosts. That is, until her daughter Emily manage to capture some EVP recordings. The story from the Prattsville website is alarming in many ways. I understand that there are parents out there that are not at all concerned in what their children occupy their time with, but dabbling in the paranormal is something not to be taken lightly.
I’ve been reading and research the paranormal for more than 20 years. It’s not that long of a time frame since I just turned 30. At 10 years of age, I only read the stories and collected them. Not fictional ghost stories, but real documented paranormal cases. The difference is that I was aware of the dangers that came with the territory. No, I never had anything happen to me. Maybe because I was too careful (chicken) to actually investigate claims. Or maybe it’s because at an early age I read about cases of poltergeist hauntings that involved human contact, or cases of spirits following people home.
Relaxing on the master bed where ‘Mr. Davis’ used to sleep, Emily Barber and Shelby Cox demonstrate how they recorded the ghostly voice when they spent the night of Mily’s birthday in hopes of receiving a visit from beyond source: Prattville Progess
Why have we gone from treating the paranormal as a taboo subject, to a comfortable subject at a dinner table? When did this change happen?
Renee quick cannot be called a bad parent for letting her child dabble in the paranormal, but can we say that she does not have her child’s best interest if Renee herself does not believe in the paranormal?
I would have to answer with a “Yes”. I don’t believe in demonic possession, but does that mean that I disregard any claims and/or warnings? No. Just because I don’t believe it does not mean it does not exist. I’m careful regardless. Just in case!
So now we see a new generation of children taking up ghost hunting as a thing to do for fun. Their parents know that ghosts don’t exist, so they are not worried and chalk it off as harmless kid fun.
Is it really harmless? Cases like “The Entity” remind us of the dangers of the paranormal. Poltergeist and apparitions have been know to mentally scar individuals. Can you say that you are prepared to deal with a haunting or spirit if it followed your child home? or worse, attacked your child?
I know that not all parents think that way, but there are some that disregard the paranormal. What are we to expect in the near future when more and more young kids break into abandoned homes and try to conjure up the dead? More hauntings? more poltergeist activities reported? or more physical confrontations between the living and the dead?
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