Beyond the Realm:
Paranormal Investigators
Beyond the Realm Paranormal Society (BRPS) bridges the gap between life and death in the weathered town of Evansville, IN.
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he non-profit organization investigates suspected paranormal activity in residences, businesses and forgotten buildings; traveling anywhere within a 100 mile radius of its headquarters. The four year old company is now on its 468th case. Despite the surging requests for their esteemed expertise, BRPS won’t see just anyone. Potential clients can expect to undergo a background check, and will need to provide multiple witnesses to ensure the case’s urgency. Their team is prepared to stay on a case from a few weeks to a few years. As a whole, the company keeps in mind a few goals; to understand the origins of the haunting, to explain the activity to the resident and to stay with them for emotional and “spiritual” support until the client is ready to go back to their normal routine. I spoke with Danny Owens, founder of BRPS and paranormal adventurer of over 15 years, to gain further insight:
News4U (N4U): What kind of tools do you use in the investigation? What kind of staff is required to be on-board? Danny Owens (DO): I believe that the best tools are my team. We as people can pick up on emotions better than some kind of device. However, we use digital recorders to do EVP (electronic voice phenomena.) We also have I.R. cameras (infrared), [and] EMF detectors to measure the amount of electromagnetic fields around the home or business. 6 | October
2012 • www.evansvillemediagroup.com
N4U: Have any paranormal occurrences “followed” you or any of your staff into their normal lives after being on a case?
DO: Yes! When we do an investigation we always do a prayer
before starting, and also after the case to ask that nothing will follow us home. However, some things do follow us home. They attack our loved ones. Some have very dark dreams and strange feelings of [being] lost or alone. This is hard on us as a team that does this regularly, but we do have safeguards in place to keep this from happening.
N4U: Is there a strong philosophy about death that influences the business and those that are a part of it?
DO: No, each person has their own reason [to] search for what
is unanswered in their own life. We set out to prove that life sometimes does occur after death. But I don’t think I can say it influences us to do what we do. We do what we do to help the families that are living with this on a daily basis; the ones that have gone to their church and found no help, [the ones] that have gone to their doctors to be put on pills to stop the haunting. The truth is that it’s not in their head, it’s in their house. They feel that they have no one to turn to and that they are alone and that the world has shut its door on them. This is what influences us to do what we do. And yes, to learn the truth of what is really out there and what is not. —Jacqueline Greenberg