Introduction

There is a plague in the paranormal community; a sickness that is detrimental to the validity of our field. It occurs when researchers and investigators use myths and legends as the basis for their investigations. This is not to say that there is no truth in local tales; I believe that many of these stories have some small fact to them. What are those facts? That is what we need to find out. What is the generally accepted history at the haunted locations around the world? Does the evidence gathered coincide with the history or does it offer us more of an explanation into what happened in the past? The answers to these questions is what I seek to find by looking beyond the ghostly legends to the facts that made the legend and the haunting. The truth behind the mysteries. When we dispel with the imaginative folklore and tall tales, we may just find a legitimate platform to make our case on. Because if we have evidence with no basis in fact, then we have little to promote for the field.