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October 2025 lilbrary presentations return for another season of lively multi-media presentatioins on "ghost hunting" with from a skeptical viewpoint, including high-tech pseudoscience, skeptical inquiry, critical and thinking pitfalls like cognitive biases. Free admission and open to the pubic. Note: Portions of this presentation may not be suitable for very young audiences.

When and where?

Oct. 21, 6-8pm

Kensington Branch Library

4121 Adams Ave, San Diego, CA 92116

Oct. 28, 5:30-7:30pm

Paradise Hills Branch Library

5922 Rancho Hills Dr, San Diego, CA 92139

honoring the heroes of

skeptical inquiry

Eyewitness Testimony: Many subscribe to the old adage, "Seeing is believing," but eyewitness testimony is among some of the more unreliable findings admitted into any investigation. Paranormal investigations are no exception. Although clients provide personal accounts of activity as part of the Prelim process, investigators cannot use these as findings. Rather, they must depend on a combination of their own personal accounts and the documented findings they capture on the investigation. Even the eyewitness testimony of investigators remains the most subjective and least reliable form of findings in the report. It is significant only if there are correlations between subjective experience and documented findings, or patterns among independent reports of experiences.

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Statements of Permission

Statements Written by David Hanson

Professionalism in the field of paranormal investigating is a bit of an oxymoron because we’re not really professionals. We’re amateurs, even if we get paid for it and publish books about it. Those who bring expertise to the field do so usually by way of other professions, and even those who tout being pros on TV are primarily reality television professionals or actors outright. Because of our amateur status, then, we’re all actors of a sort....

Interview with Debra Page

PPI Case Manager Debra Page gave this interview for a journalism student at Grossmont College who was interested in paranormal investigation. The interview took place in April 2013.

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