Maine Ghost Hunters values the privacy of our website visitors. Our team website exists to collect and share data. If you would prefer to remain anonymous regarding any information you share with us on our website, please understand this before engaging with maineghosthunters.org.
Please do not use this form to request an investigation. If you’re looking to request an investigation please use the “Investigation Request Form” page.
The Maine Ghost Hunters mission is to share our passion and knowledge for local history and spiritually active environments.
Our team assesses locations for paranormal activity with a primary approach via a skeptically based method and, when available, a secondary approach via a “sensitive” or psychic based method. If paranormal activity is found we will do our best to resolve the situation in a way that is acceptable to those involved, while prioritizing the best interests of our clients at all times.
Who are we? We’re a group of members with varying degrees of skill and knowledge in our individual areas of primary interest. Technically speaking, we have a solid knowledge-base regarding the hardware and software components used in our investigations. Each of our members have studied for years regarding matters of the paranormal, either by the written word, casual personal experience, or organized “group” investigations. Maine Ghost Hunters investigators are well versed in the attraction, dangers, and awe of the paranormal – and the unknown. We’re fully educated, equipped, and prepared to deal with those concerns on behalf of our clients.
What separates our team from other respected paranormal investigation groups in the State of Maine? We offer support that exceeds the singularly focused task of simply giving you our opinion on whether or not your home is haunted. We aren’t solely at your service for a paranormal investigation; we’re at your service to help you come to terms with the realities of why you sought our assistance in the first place. Our goals are to collect data to the best of our ability on your behalf; to offer that data to you in a way you can understand and best handle emotionally, spiritually, and psychologically; and to help you come to a resolution that suits your needs as an individual, family, or group.
Maine Ghost Hunters places skeptic-based methods and means ahead of psychic intervention because we know, all too well, that the logical physical-facts approach, is very likely how you live your day-to-day life. We engage our services on your behalf with the understanding that if you were open to imploring the skills of a psychic you wouldn’t be asking our skeptic-based organization to verify, with collected data and evidence, whether or not your home, or the environment in question, contains paranormal activity. Plainly spoken in MGH terms; “the ‘psychic validates the skeptic” not the other way around, which leaves little room for clients, peer groups, and the “profession” as a whole, to question the validity of our findings. The audio and visual evidence we present to you will almost certainly withstand; the tests of time, fads of future ghost hunting procedures, peer review, and paranormal skepticism, alike.
If we can meet all of these standards for you, to the best of our collective ability, then we can consider our involvement in your paranormal experience to be “a job well done”.
We receive “requests for membership” from interested persons on a routine basis and while we’d love to add new members regularly, this just isn’t possible. We will undoubtedly open the application process again in the future, so if you think you might be interested we offer the following considerations:
When Maine Ghost Hunters begins the process of accepting membership requests our first concern for potential applicants is whether or not their submitted skill-set can fill a void within the MGH organization.
Are you a great investigator? Super. But we already have a core team of highly qualified investigators. MGH has no current openings for our investigation team, nor do we ever for entry-level membership.
Maine Ghost Hunters is a client-centered organization. This means our primary concern is not the investigation of haunted locations, but the clients that live or work within these haunted locations. It’s because of this we find solid reasoning for extensive training of new members to our non-investigative processes and protocols long before we consider bringing any particular team member into the fold of our investigation core.
We are very well aware that people join paranormal investigation groups to go on ghost hunts in client locations, but Maine Ghost Hunters doesn’t consider this approach to be client-centered. We consider this approach to be ‘ghost hunter’ centered, and this is an unnecessary risk to our clients, a concern which MGH team leadership is simply not willing to compromise. If someone joins the Maine Ghost Hunters ranks they’re doing so primarily because they have the skills to meet the needs of our clients; not primarily to go on ghost hunts. This is often a turn-off for individuals inquiring to join our ranks, and that’s exactly why this is an MGH standard. We establish from the start, with potential incoming members, that Maine Ghost Hunters is highly protective of our clients, their privacy, and safety, and we will not waiver in our commitment to uphold these essential values.
Potential candidates of above positions will possess the following skill set(s):
The above criteria is just a wordy way of saying we value applicants who thirst for experiencing Maine state history first-hand, and who are equally as excited to engage in paranormal investigation opportunities from inception (ex. research and documentation, location scouting, proposing location suggestions) to completion (evidentiary review, client presentation, closing cases) with a primary motivation to help propel Maine Ghost Hunters in a forward direction.
The Maine Ghost Hunters “team member” experience is all encompassing. It is not a hobby, nor is it a “club” anyone is able to join simply because they have interest in paranormal and a little time on their hands. MGH’s presence in our communities is focused on client needs, not investigation experiences. It is taxing on our time, money, and resources and our clients are blessed to know that every active member of Maine Ghost Hunters is excited to be a part of it. “New member” applicants should already share this passion for our team mentality and expect a fully involved – time consuming, challenging, and task oriented – team member experience before considering whether or not they will be a good fit within our group dynamic.
It’s a lot to ask from members of a volunteer organization, we know this and we fully understand if you find it a bit much for the level of involvement you’re willing to dedicate.
Much of the experience listed above can be obtained by participating in public paranormal investigation opportunities. We suggest looking into public access locations in your area that host ‘ghost hunting’ experiences. There are many groups offering these experiences which use social media, like Facebook, to advertise their paranormal events. Be sure to know what your investigation fee is going to fund, as ghost hunters helping to raise donations for historic locations are serving a different population – and end-goal – than those who are pocketing your fee after they pay for the venue they’re renting to host the ghost hunt.