{"id":313,"date":"2007-06-26T15:02:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T19:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2007-06-26T15:03:50","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T19:03:50","slug":"ghost-hunters-document-spirit-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2007\/06\/26\/ghost-hunters-document-spirit-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost hunters document spirit world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- #   include virtual=\"\/asp-bin\/wd_full_list_elisting_generation.asp\" --><!-- *** --><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\"><!-- subheadline -->Two Durangoans publish book, photos <!-- end subheadline --><\/p>\n<p><!-- COUNTER: 192 COUNT:7 --><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\"><!-- date -->June 26, 2007<!-- end date --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"><!-- byline -->By Patricia    Miller  <!-- end byline --><\/span> <span class=\"ragline\">Arts &amp; Entertainment Editor <!-- ragline --><\/span>\t <!-- COUNTER: 192 COUNT:16 --> \t \t \t \t \t<script src=\"http:\/\/durangoherald.com\/js\/slide_show.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 254px; display: block\" id=\"inlineBox\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline; width: 254px\" id=\"primaryContainer\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"mContainer\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 252px; height: 267px\" id=\"imageContainer\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start imagebox --> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/durangoherald.com\/arts_entertainment\/images\/ae070626_1a.jpg\" style=\"display: block; opacity: 9.9\" alt=\"One of the few hostile spirits the Richards met was this man who appears above his gravestone. The authors only identify the cemetery as in Northern California. The spirit was said to be still chasing his wife who he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d murdered in the 19th century. Some thought he was angry because he had a heart attack soon after the murder.\" xwidth=\"252\" xheight=\"267\" credit=\"Photos courtesy of Michael Richard\" height=\"267\" width=\"252\" \/> \t\t\t<!-- end imagebox --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-transform: uppercase\" id=\"credit\">Photos courtesy of Michael Richard<\/p>\n<p id=\"infoBox\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"infoBoxHeadline\"> Review<\/p>\n<p id=\"infoBoxText\">     <em>  <\/em><em>They Call Me &#8220;The Ghost Guy&#8221; by Michael and Susan Richard, Lulu.com, 107 pages, 71 paranormal photographs, $17.95 paperback or download at LuLu.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">init();<\/script> \t\t \t \t<!-- body -->      Durango&#8217;s ghost guy says he now makes a living from spooks. He sells his paranormal    pictures to collectors and, with his wife, Susan, has self-published a short memoir <em>They Call Me &#8220;The Ghost Guy.&#8221;<\/em>   <!-- COUNTER: 192 COUNT:45 --><\/p>\n<p>As for the division of labor, Mr. Richards is the paranormal photographer. Mrs. Richards    takes backup rolls of photos to check results and has written most of the book.  <!-- COUNTER: 192 COUNT:53 --><\/p>\n<p>The book contains 71 black-and-white photographs, most of which have white blurs in them.    The Richards&#8217; claim is that the blurs are pictures of spirits. Should we pay attention to their claim?  <!-- COUNTER: 192 COUNT:61 --><\/p>\n<p>Who knows? One thing the Richards could have done to help their claim would have been to    print the pictures on glossy paper so they would show up better. But this still begs the question of what the blurs    are in the first place.  <!-- COUNTER: 192 COUNT:71 --><\/p>\n<p>A whole posse of 958-pound gorillas lumbers around the book. First there are the basic    questions of whether spirits exist and, if so, what they look like. Then there&#8217;s the question of Photoshop. Mr.    Richard said by phone on Sunday that Mrs. Richard had colorized one photo so it would show up better, but no other    picture had been altered.  <!-- COUNTER: 192 COUNT:83 --><\/p>\n<p>As for technique &#8220;only two types of film, high speed and infrared, will give me the detail    and dependability I demand,&#8221; they write. &#8220;You can, however, get interesting results with regular film. I have also    found that manual cameras are best.&#8221; After a shoot, Mr. and Mrs. Richards send their film to separate labs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/durangoherald.com\/asp-bin\/article_generation.asp?article_type=ae&amp;article_path=\/arts_entertainment\/ae070626_1.htm\">[[[MORE]]] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Durangoans publish book, photos June 26, 2007 By Patricia Miller Arts &amp; Entertainment Editor &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Photos courtesy of Michael Richard &nbsp; Review They Call Me &#8220;The Ghost Guy&#8221; by Michael and Susan Richard, Lulu.com, 107 pages, 71 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2007\/06\/26\/ghost-hunters-document-spirit-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}