WCP Founder Blog

Loooooooooooong time

2010-05-31T17:29:00.000-07:00

Well its been a looooooooooooooong time since I've last posted. The team has taken on a new look in personnel changes and restructuring of the team. We have improved quite a bit since I last posted. Look for us on Youtube for a couple of videos and some new stuff coming up.

We had a good couple of investigations at Melrose Park, Il in Late April and early May. The first night as quite but the second was, lets just say we were pleasantly surprised.

We are trying new techniques and have already found a great formula for a more efficient set up and tear down for our investigations. WCP is constantly improving our investigation methods to make our efforts more productive.

In our attempts over the last year to find someone to help us cleans homes for the people in dire need. I have run into some-one completely by accident and this person does religious house cleansing.

We are looking forward to the next investigations. So if you have a problem with your home or place of business contact us by e-mail at Help@windycityparanormal.com

Thanks for your time and Happy Hunting,

Vinny

Intro to the Paranormal

2009-10-26T18:28:00.001-07:00

WCP was asked to do an Intro to the Paranormal seminar at the Poplar Creek Library on OCT 29th starting at 7pm

the address is 1405 S Park ave. Streamwood, IL 60107

Parking is across the street.

Thanks for your time and Happy Hunting,

Vinny Morgan, Founder of Windy City Paranormal

New Movie

2009-10-26T18:21:00.000-07:00

I as well as a lot of Paranormal groups around the country, was email this from a P.R. firm...

Hello Vinny,

Universal Pictures has just released a couple film clips and a featurette that I thought would be of interest to your readers.

To watch the clips, please go to:

MSN:

“Dr. Tyler tries to remember what happened during her abduction” film clip

http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-trailers/?g=c4f4b09c-fddd-4bc7-ab26-7a96439655df&icid=MOVIES2>1=MOVIES2

Yahoo:

Featurette that describes the different kind of encounters with extra-terrestrials

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810064790/video/16249215

MTV:

“Dr. Tyler is put under hypnosis by Dr. Campos to see if she can remember who abducted her and where they took her” film clip

http://www.mtv.com/videos/movies/449384/milla-freaks-out-in-the-fourth-kind-exclusive-clip.jhtml#id=1624688

Please feel free to share the clips and featurette with your readers on your site. If you have any questions or would like any more information, please feel free to let me know.

Thanks,

Jane

This film looks good I hope it is. It is rumored to be very close to actual accounts.

Thanks for your time and Happy Hunting,
Vinny Morgan

2009-07-23T08:00:00.000-07:00

HELLO AGAIN,

Sorry It has been a while since my last post. I have been working a lot, which is good.

I have some exciting news. WCP will be getting its first radio interview on MIDWEST PARATALK RADIO August 13th. The show starts at 10pm EST 9pm central. Please check it out.

Gregg Cable and Joni Bennett do a great job on the show. And I'm excited to be a guest.

Also WCP is looking for a few new members. so just email us at info@windycityparanormal.com and we'll email you an application. just fill it in and email it back to us.

If you need an investigation, log on to our website at www.windycityparanormal.com and click on CONTACT FORM on our home page. And we will get right back to you.

Thank you for your time and Happy Hunting,

Vinny

2009-06-11T12:05:00.001-07:00

Wow 1 year old

2009-06-11T11:53:00.000-07:00

Wow its been since March when I've had enuff(I know its spelled wrong its just something I do) time to do one of these.

Waverly Hills went great got some good footage and EVPs. We will post them on our website soon.

Well WCP (WINDY CITY PARANORMAL) passed its one year mark on April 13th 2009. Congrats Team on a wonderful job, I could not have done it without you.

New New New.

2009-03-26T04:04:00.000-07:00

Hello again from Windy City Paranormal.
Well first off let me Welcome Marv, Julie, Ed and Patty once again.

During our last investigation Marv and Julie did a great job. Marv showed the kind of patience we are looking for and asked very good questions during the EVP sessions. Julie jumped right in and preformed well and also had very good questions for the EVP sessions.

We all voted on the new font for The Team and picked our currant font.
Its kind of similar to the font used by UFC (A Mixed Martial Arts league) but still very different, go check it out at our NEW WEBSITE www.windycityparanormal.com.

You can also see a new section for News where there are article on how to find the best equipment for the best price and you can email me vinny@windycityparanormal.com if you have any suggestions or great sites to find bargains, hard to find equipment, sites for do-it-yourself people, or if you have good books to read suggestions drop me a line all suggestions will be credited to the person that emails me so leave your name and/or group you are with plus a link to that group.There will be more articles on the way so keep checking back.

An expanded Team area with bios and photos.

On the way is a very cool evidence area Aaron can tell you more on that, but for now our evidence area does play some audio from a few of our investigation.

In the Link page we would like to welcome 4 new friends of WCP they are Ghost-Mart, PACT (Chicago Paranormal And Conspiracy Team), Ghostland Society, and our Very good friends from Philly TAPRI (Tri-State Paranormal Research And Investigations)they would like me to pass along a message and Link. HELP SAVE FORT MIFFLIN!!!! www.bonemasterstudios.com They are trying to raise money to keep a little known but fascinating Historical location up and running. You have seen TAPS go there on an investigation so please help.

WCP now has an open forum to talk about the paranormal. We will be exchanging Ideas and theories as well as advice to all who needs it.

We have a support area for anyone having a hard time dealing with the strange things that may be happening in their lives.

WCP is trying to expand our site while still having K.I.S.S.(Keep It Simple Stupid) navigation to the its website.

I would like to Thank Aaron and Blitz productions for such a beautiful site. Blitz productions also offers services for anyone who need a new site or web hosting. WCP DOES NOT RECEIVE ANY MONEY FROM THIS. This is Blitz productions a separate entity all together from WCP. They do great work as you can see from our Website.

Once again check out www.windycityparanormal.com and check out our forum as well.

Windy City Paranormal gives you full access to our website. With useful information on the paranormal as well as help via investigations or just advice, I hope we hear from you.

WCP is looking to make good friends with the rest of the paranormal community and to help people deal with their paranormal situations.

Thanks for your time,

Vinny

2009 IS HERE

2009-01-28T08:31:00.000-08:00

Hello all, I'm sorry for not updating my blog sooner but with the holidays and both me and my wife getting that super flu going around I've been busy with family stuff or in bed sick.

With this new year we have new changes for WCP. We will try to stand out in the public eye a bit more. One way is our font, you know, the style of lettering we use for our logo.

There are a lot of groups out there that use the same or similar fonts as we do. Thus we need to change our font to something more original to differentiate ourselves from the crowd.

We are not trying to seem better than any other groups by doing this but we are trying to show our own identity.

So over the next few weeks as we tweak the contents of www.windycityparanormal.com, We will alter the look slightly.

Don't worry, we will not change the easy to navigate format of www.windycityparanormal.com we will just add more information to it so you can learn more about us and our tech, methods, and also for new groups or even established groups looking for certain information, we will provide it.

Any groups from this field of paranormal research or individuals with information you would like to share on techniques or new equipment or even some good books to read. Feel free to email your suggestions to me at vinny_lavada@yahoo.com, be sure to add your name and if you are with a group add there name too I will post on our site who gave me the information on what.

The credit will go to the people who brought me the information. I may not be able to respond to all the suggestions I get but know that I have read them and add the ones that are useful to others in the community. For those that have sent us website information on a subject or product and you have a better place or one just as good I want to hear about it.

That is all for now. I'll be looking forward to hear from you.

Thanks for your time, Happy Hunting.

Vinny

Some people wonder why?

2008-11-21T07:24:00.001-08:00

Some people wonder why, about a lot of things when it come to my Team. Windy City Paranormal Is adding members? Why, they already have 5? Windy City Paranormal is adding members from another team? Why would you want people who were in another team wouldn't they be considered outcasts?

Well let me put it this way. It's my Team and I can do what I want. Or is it what I need? Most of us don't have a 9 to 5 job. We need some people that do and some that don't. some clients have a sched. that is more suited for a weekDAY investigation than a weekEND investigation, thus the need for Teammates that can do that type of sched.

We added some team members from other teams because either they just didn't like they way things were going or that they were never allowed to go on an investigation.

Or is it that these people are not outcasts its just that they didn't have team chemistry. Whatever the case maybe I hope they find a home with Windy City Paranormal.

On my Team we respect one another and their ideas. We have them involved with one part or another in the Team's business. Whether it's running the myspace.com/windycityparanormal page for the Team or Research or Audio or Marketing.

Windy City Paranormal is the some of its parts. We all do our share and when it comes to Teamwork we all pull together. I never wanted a team of drones I wanted a Team of independent, smart, hardworking individuals that work well together as well as alone. With each passing day I really do think we are growing in that direction.

Thanks for your time and Happy Hunting,

Vinny

New Team members

2008-11-14T16:52:00.000-08:00

Well hello again. I have a couple of announcements, the first is we have 2 new WCP Team members in training. Melissa is one she has her first investigation coming up really soon. I'm excited for her. I know she will do great.

Ed is our other new WCP Team member in training. Ed has experience with another group but never had the chance to do many investigation so He comes to us. And we are happy to have him.

The second announcement is that we will be getting a 7th and final member to the team real soon. We have about 5 people we need to interview to see if they will click with the team. The person will go through the same training as everyone else. equipment use, technique and theories about the paranormal and on investigation debunking will be a hands on type of training.

Thanks for your time and Happy Hunting,

Vinny

Can I get a Tissue

2008-11-10T15:36:00.000-08:00

Wow 3 years without the flu and I think its making up for lost time.
Halloween, an historic election of a lifetime, and a great case with no video evidence but good audio. We are heading into a follow up investigation. We are going to set up more audio in hopes that we can collect even more evidence.

My team is looking forward to Waverly Hills. Brian has been reading a lot of good books and passing them along to us to read. Cherie is doing some research on a place in Chicago proper. Aaron is in the process of updating the website with a couple new features and I can't wait to see them.

Speaking of new features we have a couple of tricks we will try at Waverly Hills. I can't talk about it now I want to see if it works first, and if it does work, then it will be something that we will continue to use on future investigation.

Thanks for your time, and Happy Hunting.

Vinny

MY TEAM = MY FRIENDS

2008-10-08T15:03:00.000-07:00

Have I mentioned how great my team is? Oh yes, I have ,but not in a while.

Well let me just say my Team rocks they are learning faster than anyone could expect. Getting better and better with each investigation.

A man that makes mistakes has to not only live with the mistake but also right the wrong when ever possible. I made a few mistakes and when I needed a friend when I needed to be forgiven, my team was there for me. They encouraged me to be the man I am and admit my mistakes and make up for them. I don't judge them and they didn't judge me. Thanks Team!

This last investigation we had was the most active to date. We all had personal experiences at this location. Aaron, Brian, Cherie and myself had a blast. more fun than we could have ever anticipated at this location. We are going back soon with our new trainee Melissa I hope its even more active than last time.

Thanks for your time,
Vinny,
Founder of Windy City Paranormal

Central Indiana Paranormal.

2008-09-14T15:11:00.000-07:00

Well our first joint investigation is done and it went great. The team of Central Indiana Paranormal was a top notch class act. We would love to work with them again some time.

Special thanks to Diana, Josh, and Kristy. We really enjoyed working with you. We had just as much fun talking to you as we did on the road trip down to Indianapolis. It was a blast.

The evidence review is almost done and we will post any findings on the news section of our website. Don't worry the clients gave us full permission to do so.

Thanks for your time and Happy Hunting,

Vinny

9-11-01 to 9-11-08

2008-09-11T20:42:00.000-07:00

As you may have read in my other posts, I work for an airline. 9-11 used to be a happy occation for my family it was my mom and dads aniversary. But now its bitter sweet. I'm one of the lucky ones I'm still here.

My heart and prayers go out to all the people who lost their lives on that day as well as the family and friends of those people.

Seven years, and it only seems like yesterday.

God bless America and her people!
Vinny

OLD SCHOOL vs. NEW SCHOOL vs NO CLASS

2008-09-01T09:33:00.000-07:00

There has been a lot of talk over the last 5 years about old school "ghost hunters" vs new school "ghost hunters", But I have a problem with the groups that just have NO CLASS.

Its one thing to not respect the ones that have gone before you in the field(aka new school), but to not respect anything or anyone for the sake of their own pseudo superiority; Well that just shows they have NO CLASS no matter what school of thought you have.

What do you mean? You ask? I mean the kind of individuals or groups that just like to tear everyone and everything down. They have forums or invade other forums and spit their venom onto the world. Making fun (more like insulting) others just to make themselves feel better about their own short comings.

We at WCP have seen this first hand over the last month pertaining to people asking for help on forums. Hell I've seen it from the receiving end of it in the past.

I'm not saying I'm perfect. I use the term "orb chasers" to describe groups and/or individuals that still think specks of dust are "ghosts". But I have never attacked anyone specifically or repeatedly on any forums. I've used it in blanket statements like "are they orb chasers?" or "the orb chasers of the world." So you see We are all guilty on some level, but to constantly attack and PM(private message) an individual looking for help or some one defending that distressed individual, and in some rare cases hacking websites and forums, then that shows NO CLASS.

So lets all have some Respect. I know I can't control forums that are run by groups. But on open forums don't attack the people looking for help. If you don't believe them, then don't respond. And for all of the people saying "but what about spirited discussions?" Thats fine, as long as the name calling and the ridicule stays out of it. If you can't make a statement without a personal insult then shut up.

Remember you maybe a tough guy on the keyboards but in the real world there are leaders, followers, and mavericks. And for the leaders and mavericks we are tough mentally and physically, but you will never see us abuse or harass others just because we can.

Thanks for your time and Happy Hunting,
Vinny, Founder of Windy City Paranormal

ps. I've been know to be a maverick all my life.

Circle of Paranromal Life

2008-08-27T08:22:00.000-07:00

Sorry I haven't wrote in a while but busy life comes first...Like I have said before I'm high touch not high tech. its a Mancow quote and I like it so I use it.

Things are starting to come full circle. The things I believed in that my former group didn't, are helping WCP. Community, compassion, and just out right honest friendliness without strings.

We are preparing for our Hardest cases. Negative Entity type cases. Its very stressful for the client and we understand that. We know our limits and know we needed a little back up.

We put a call for assistance out to other groups, and in the true meaning of community they came through.

In one case we help one team with research on the area and in turn are doing a joint investigation with that team Northern Alliance of Paranormal Investigators. It will be there second investigation at this home, and the first for us.

The second case is out of state and there are a lot of nasty things happening so we reached out to a lot of people; from Native Americans, Shawn, and elders Joe and Martha(they have been invaluable). Also we reached out to 3 different groups for help, in the area that we are going to. Central Indiana Paranormal and a member from PGR-IN that is an ordained Minister with 18years of experience in this field. Plus a member of the Nightwatchers Kevin, a.k.a. TheWindWizard. All have been very supportive and a great help.

We are mentally and physically prepared for these cases. We hope to help these people come to grip with the situation. Send the families and our Teams your prayers.

Thanks for your time, and Happy Hunting.

Vinny

NEED FOR PRAYERS

2008-07-28T07:56:00.000-07:00

I've recieved an e-mail from a fellow investigator for prayers. E-mail as follows.

Central Jersey Paranormal Research Group

Hello All:

I am sorry I don't write much but we are here to help anyone of our friends that need help. But this time I need all your Help. My daughter Rachael was involved in a almost fatal car accident thurs. night. She is at Shans hostiptal in Jacksonville Fl, and I an stuck in NJ. Any pryers you could send her way I would greatly thank you for. She has a fractured skull, jaw, nose, pelvis, and deep laserations and separation of a knee and a neck injury's, so any prayers you could send would help.

Thank you,

Michael and Kathy

CJPRGROUP.

I've been in a serious crash and have lost friends in the past to car crashes it is a hard thing to have to go through. but with your prayers Rachael will hopefully be able to fully recover.

I know our (WCP) prayers are with Michael and his daughter and family.

Wheaton investigation

2008-07-18T18:40:00.000-07:00

Hello all and thanks for checking us out.

Well let me start by saying I'm proud of my Team!

They did great. We are going over the evidence for a second time and any finding will be posted soon. Our client gave us full permission, although that may not alway be the case, the clients infomation is alway kept confidencle unless a relise is signed.

We are looking forward to working with Northern Alliance of Paranormal Investigators for our next investigation.

Check out Aarons blog he went on vacation to my home state of PA and went to a couple of very interesting locations. I hope he caught somthing!

Thanks for your time.

Vinny

First Blog

2008-07-08T12:12:00.000-07:00

Hello I'm Vinny, the Founder of Windy City Paranormal.

I'm more into the interpersonal relationships than the internet relationships, but I'm giving this blog thing a go.

What got you into this?

that's a question I get a lot. I think all investigators do, if not all the time, at one point or another.

And I think all of us can answer that question in one word, curiosity.

We are all curious, most have had a personal experience, some of us started with a fascination for crypto zoology, and some just have always been fascinated with ghosts. I'm part of the crypto zoology people. That has always been a passion for me since I was 14. Reading everything I could get my hands on, or watching shows on TV or listening to radio shows about the unexplained in the world of animals. This happens to be a very impractical hobby for most people, not to mention an extremely expensive one.

I've also liked ghost stories and always looked for logical reasons for the things that happened, But the only ghost hunter that i've ever known about were those jokes of hunters that were seen on some cheesy shows around Halloween or on IN SEARCH OF where you looked at the people doing it and think "What the hell, are they serious? That could have been a thousand things causing that noise".

But I Digress. Then came a show called GHOST HUNTERS on the Sci Fi channel and I thought heck let's watch. So my wife and me curled up on the couch and began to watch. It was the first episode and we loved it. This was not the run of the mill ghost hunters we were used to seeing on TV but regular people, not some overly dramatic fake sensitive, they didn't hold a seances or readings. They used high tech devices that I've only thought of for electrical work or security surveillance.

So as soon as the show was over I ran (literally) to the computer and logged on and looked for the TAPS website. OMG!!! There were people like me. Other groups like TAPS. Over the next couple of years my interest grew until I finally logged into the 18+ forum on the TAPS website. There I found a groups just getting started that I thought I would do well in and asked to join. After 6 months I got "a kick in the complacency"(thanks for the qoute Capt. Picard) I needed.

I found my smile again as they say. And I returned to the old Vinny. The Vinny of drive and determination returned. I haven't seen him since 9-11-01; I think a lot of us around the country lost a little somthing that day. You see I work for an airline as a flight attendant and I lost my confidence and drive that day. I just wanted to go home every day and sleep. The only thing that kept me going was my wonderful wife. I would draw energy from her, she would help me through some very rough patches in my life and for that I'm forever in debt with her.

After a while of what seemed like banging my head against a wall with my old group I was getting ideas in my head of starting my own team, and when it was clear that my ideas of being nice and sharing information with other groups openly and creating a TEAM instead of just a group were clearly not appreciated with in the group I was in; I left to start my own group but I wasn't alone. Others felt the same way and a couple of those people came with me (Cherie and Brian), Cherie left before me but I kept in contact with her, and Brian left with me. Then I picked up another former members of the other group. He had the same dream, He left earlier to start his own group. He later decided to come and join my team, only after being asked a few times. lol...That was Aaron, I didn't go to him right away because I wanted him to keep his dream alive too, but I needed him to complete my team so I asked him.

My Teammates are great, they all bring something to the team and have ideas and thoughts and no one is ridiculed for them, and we all respect each other. We help each other in any way we can. We are growing close and becoming good friends. And with this crew it's easy.

CHERIE is an excellent researcher and has a passion for it. Not to mention she is one of the most thorough people I know. She is irreplaceable.

AARON is our audio and video expert, that's what he does for a living. Not to mention a great web designer and music producer. Look for his new song to come soon don't worry we will post it here or on Windy City Paranormal's Myspace page when its completed, I'll let him tell you about it in his blog.

BRIAN I write about him last because he is the glue of the team his sense of humor in life and practicality of thought for the paranormal makes him the utility man on the team he is smart and learns things quicker than I've seen of anyone in any thing i've seen in years. And he is the kind of man to come right up to my face and tell me I'm wrong. Whether I am or not. lol...

That is me, that is my team, and I hope this brings you a little comfort in knowing who we are; specially if you're here seeking help. Take comfort in knowing we are real people. We are passionate, funny, strong, and independent thinkers, and we want to help.

Thanks for your time,

Vinny