For the longest time I was scared of the paranormal, I had several experiences that terrified me of such experiences. When I was five or six years old, I was allowed to watch both The Shining and Poltergeist. These movies scared the crap out of me. I also grew up Catholic, and during one of our first communion classes, the teacher told all of us that there were evil spirits in the world, and that if you ever came across one you would die. So needless to day growing up these experiences shaped my view of the paranormal. I had several small paranormal instances growing up in my teens and twenties. Usually experiences of fear and dread where there shouldn't be, and it probably didn't help that I was scared of the dark. My wife got me to go on our first paranormal to Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, KY, mainly because we were going to be meeting some of the celebrities from the paranormal tv shows. After spending the night investigating in the dark, I realized that paranormal investigations were not as scary as I thought them to be. From that night one, I have been hooked on paranormal investigating, and started a team with my wife.