Ghost are real, says a Lakefield-based haunt scene investigator, who claims to have proof.
Paranormal investigator Cameron Bagg will be making a stop on his Canada-wide Ghost Revelations Tour at the Collingwood Public Library on Sept. 23.
In his 35 years of investigating paranormal activity, Bagg has amassed a large collection of what he says is photographic evidence of ghosts, which he will be bringing with him on his Collingwood tour stop. He’ll also teach attendees how to capture their own ghosts on camera through a digital spirit photography demonstration.
“I’m going to blow their minds open,” Bagg told CollingwoodToday in an interview this week. “I’m out to prove ghosts and spirits exist.”
Bagg recalls his first experiences with ghosts date back to 1988 when he moved into a new apartment with his then-wife.
“In this apartment, I developed these feelings of paranoia. When I would go to bed at night, I had feelings of being watched,” he said. “I thought it was just because it was a new building.”
Over time, Bagg started to see a pattern where between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., he would wake up to the sounds of dishes being rattled in the sink, or sounds of a coffee cup being placed on a table.
“My ears would perk up and I’d run down the hall expecting to find somebody... but there wouldn’t even be any dishes in the sink. It was a weird phenomenon,” he said.
After two years of strange occurrences escalating to physical experiences of feeling touched or items moving around the apartment, Bagg says a eureka moment came when he had a family member visit.
“As we opened the door and stepped inside, a female voice clearly said, ‘Cam?’ There was nobody there. It was weird. My niece heard it too, so it wasn’t just me,” he said.
His many experiences in that apartment led to Bagg starting to do haunt-scene investigations. To date, he has participated in more than 1,000 investigations. He uses equipment such as a digital camera, a digital audio recorder and an electromagnetic frequency detector.
Bagg doesn’t always work alone. Sometimes, he’ll collaborate with psychic mediums on his work.
Describing himself as a skeptic, Bagg says he’s always trying to come up with rational explanations as to why strange things may be happening before assuming the answer is ghosts, but is driven by a need to help others.
“I like to help families when they’re being troubled by spirits in their homes,” he said.
Whether they’re skeptics or believers, Bagg hopes attendees who turn up to his Collingwood stop keep an open mind.
“Whether a person is a believer in spirits, or they’ve had an experience, I can answer any question they bring to the event. Even if a person is a skeptic, but at least open-minded, they’re going to see what I’m saying is the truth,” said Bagg.
The Collingwood stop of the Ghost Revelations Tour will be taking place Saturday, Sept. 23 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Collingwood Public Library in Community Room C. Tickets are $25 and are available through Eventbrite here.