Do you have unsettling experiences in your home? Do you hear bumps in the night?

Who you gonna call?Ghostbuster Bob Schaeffer and the Blue Mountain Paranormal Society.Schaeffer, 37 of Lehighton, is the founder and director of Blue Mountain Paranormal Society. He is an investigator of paranormal activities when he's not fulfilling his duties as director of the Behavorial Health Association.He became interested in the paranormal after a couple of experiences when he was younger.He had a girlfriend who gave tours at the historic St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Jim Thorpe. He often paid for a tour to be with her. One day she showed him a slate stairwell."About halfway down, an upper body apparition of a woman was there. I believe it was Mary Packer Cummings. My girlfriend quit that day, and we never talked about what we saw."Another time, he visited his grandmother four days before she died. She thought he had brought his girlfriend and told him she was beautiful. He didn't have a girlfriend at the time and had brought no one with him. But she described the girl to him. He believes she had seen an angel.It pushed him over the edge to do what he does ... help people understand something they can't understand and help them deal with it and cope with it."Sometimes we turn into spiritual counselors. They may be frightened and need to find an answer to what it is they are experiencing," he said.People will call or email him that something has been happening. BMPS will then do a preinvestigation to determine what is occurring.First they look for a rational explanation.If none, a group of about four or six BMPS 14 members will use scientific methods, audio and digital equipment to see what a client is experiencing.They use an electromagnetic field detector. A spirit will try to manipulate the equipment to be heard. Old wiring can also cause high levels of EMF, which can make you feel queasy and cause a sense of dread, which could be what is causing the client to feel there is a presence.Electronic voice phenomena are sounds found on electronic recordings that are interpreted as spirit voices that have been either unintentionally recorded or intentionally requested and recorded."It's like a dog whistle. The frequency is too high for our ears. It records what is too high or too low for us to actually hear, about two decibels too high or below what we can hear. We call it a disembodied voice. We hear it but can't see it," Schaeffer said.Filming with infrared equipment, a spectrum, can see what our eyes' rods and cones can't normally see.He keeps track of the weather and moon phases. Schaeffer said there is an increase in activity during thunderstorms because there is more electricity in the air, and more electricity is good for spirits to grab.He said there's usually increased activity when a new child arrives in a home."After the investigation, the fun starts. We listen to all the audio and watch videos," Schaeffer said.BMPS has held many investigations at Broney's Hotel in Mahoning Valley where they have used an ovilus, designed to take wavelengths of EMFs and convert them to audible words."The very first day we went to Broney's Hotel, another member and I were taking pictures. Later when we played back the audio recorder, we heard a man laughing," Schaeffer said.The investigation at the Little White Church in Palmerton was an interesting case. One of the investigators was standing in the pulpit. He asked, "How would you feel if I gave a sermon without being an ordained minister?" The audio recorded the response of "No respect."At a home in Palmerton, the owners had seen a shadow moving across the living room. They set up an EMF and a camera. The EMF let off one beep, and Schaeffer saw a shadow move across the window."If we feel there's something going on we offer the services of our medium, Michelle Gallagher, to cleanse or help the spirit cross over. It's left to the discretion of the owner. Some people like living in a haunted house," he said.At a house in Palmerton, Gallagher told the spirit of a little girl to go into the light. The audio picked up the word, "Mommy," as if she had seen the spirit of her mother in the light."I don't know how this works, but there is something there after we die. That's the good news," Schaeffer said.The group has done some investigating in Maryland at the Shoreham Hotel, Beach Walk Hotel and the Langford Hotel, the oldest still-standing structure in Ocean City."There is definitely something in the attic and basement there."Schaeffer and his team do public investigations. That's where the public pays to visit a place such as the Langford Hotel or Broney's Hotel, operate some equipment and hope to see, hear or feel a visit from a spirit."We keep no money for ourselves. We'll buy equipment with it and the rest we donate. We've donated over $10,000 so far to organizations like the Carbon County Friends of Animals, Palmerton Area Historical Society, Jim Thorpe Historical Society and Zion UCC's food pantry. We charge nothing of our private clients. I think that would cheapen what we do if we charged them," Schaeffer said.Whether it works or not, it gives the homeowner peace of mind.A woman's husband had died and all she wanted to know was if he was still there. They asked him to let them know. When the audio was checked, a man's voice was heard to say, "Hi, Deb." It was the wife's name."It was very emotional for everyone there," Schaeffer said.To learn more about Blue Mountain Paranormal Society, visit its website at

www.bmparanormal.com, like them on Facebook, email

bmps@ptd.net or call 610-554-6011.