Paranormal Research and “What If…?”

Almost all of my paranormal research starts with “what if…?”

I’ll bet your interest in ghosts, etc., began the same way:

What was that thing I heard/saw? And what if ghosts are real? Everyone says that house/battlefield/cemetery is haunted. What if they’re right? Ghosts can’t be real. I won’t believe in them. But what if something really is going on, at that “haunted” site?

My “what if…?” questions seem to multiply, like wire coat hangers in the basement wardrobe. Or dust bunnies under the...