South Florida ghost hunter still searching for truth.

"Until I find the answer I'm looking for, I'll continue banging my head against the wall."

He is definitely not an extraneous dupe! With a Bachelor Degree in Criminal Justice from Columbia State University, a two year degree in Drafting and Design, this ghost-hunt-hobbyist named Brian Roesch is working now on graduating with proof of life after death.

"I'm tired of praying to a God that I only believe exists," he says, "I want to know that God exists, and that our lost loved ones are really with us all the time."

The only reason why this ghost hunter from the southern tip is interested in ghosts, is that he hopes to find the truth. "If ghosts exist, then I can relax knowing this. I can finally realize that my deceased friends, grandparents, pets, etc., are where I will be in the near future," he says. Brian has written and published two books about ghosts. Hunting The Dead Methods of Ghost Chasing and Another Sixth Sense The Fort Lauderdale Story. He also has a website titled Haunted Fort Lauderdale. Fort Lauderdale is the city he is from which is located in Broward County, Florida.

Brian embarks on cemeteries, hotels, hospitals, etc., with a clustered quantity of paranormal apparel---cameras, EMF meters, tape recorders, etc., congregating as much evidence as possible to achieve that personal answer he is searching for.

"If ghosts do not exist...well...I can live with that. If ghosts do exist, I can live even more with knowing that," he says.

"The most famous paranormal corporeal captured on film and also discoursed about are Orbs. What are these balls of transparent light we find in photos taken in allegedly haunted places? I won't tell you I know the answer to this question. No one has the true answer to this question yet, but that's part of the job of researchers and investigators.

One of the leading theories concerning what orbs are and the one that I lean towards the most is that they are not the spirit at all. The orb is the energy being transferred from a source (i.e. powerlines, heat energy, batteries, people, etc.) to the spirit so they can manifest. This may not even be a conscious thing the spirit is doing, just a natural way they get their energy. This would explain why the orbs are round balls. According to the laws of Physics energy being transferring like that would assume is natural shape of a sphere. This theory can also be tied into the EMF readings during spirit activity. Always approach things with a bit of skepticism, so when I saw all these websites start showing off these photos as ghosts, I was just as weary as most of you---I just had to try it for myself. I took a 35 mm camera that I had used regularly for two years in all types of lighting and weather and had never gotten an orb or other unexplainable photo before and went out with a few seasoned field investigators on a cemetery investigation. One of the investigators was psychic and he pointed out a few areas we should take photos, so I did. I also heard footsteps walking up behind me and I turned around quickly and took photos of the empty air. When I got my photos developed, I had these orbs and fog in those photos that I was told to take, as well as the footstep ones. All my other photos were normal. Coincidence? Who knows??!! Since we do not know what orbs truly are, just that they seem to be found mainly in areas where there is ghost activity, I will tell you what they are not. On a normal investigation there are about ten people using ten different cameras, 35 mm and digital, and many speeds and brands of film. They all get their film developed at separate places. Let's say only half of these investigators get some orb photos. Are these water spots or dirt on the lens? That would mean that five people all had similar dirt on their lens and all five did not clean their lens either. Are these orbs film processing errors? Well the 35 mm cameras all had their film developed in different locations and used different film so that is very unlikely. The digital cameras can't have film-processing errors. I am aware that some people feel that the orbs on a digital camera are an error in the digital processing of the image.

When that error does occur in digital photos, the objects tend to be square in nature, not round and they cannot be semitransparent, the pixel behind would have to be corrupted also. I will not even address the precipitation theory, no legitimate researchers takes photos in any form of precipitation. What about dust and dirt being stirred up? Can that be the cause of the orbs? If that were the case, I would think that there would not be normal photos in a sequence of photos from the same camera and location. All of the shots in a sequence should have the dust or dirt in it. We find that most orb photos do not appear in consecutive photos. All photographers present should get orbs if it is dust being stirred up as well. These are just a few things for the skeptics (like myself) to think of when they are condemning an orb photo as a fake or fraud and some things for investigators to consider when checking their photos for positives."
But for Brian, he says,"Until I find the answer I'm looking for, I'll continue banging my head against the wall."