Beyond Investigation Magazine: Live Paranormal Investigation Broadcast, Friday, Oct 9th 9pm PST

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) October 9, 2009 -- Join the BIM Team tonight for a Live Paranormal Investigation Broadcast (Friday, Oct 9th at 9pm PST). The team will be investigating a private residence in Orange, CA. The family reports hearing a woman's disembodied voice, footsteps, items being placed and showing up elsewhere in the house.

The BIM Team will broadcast the entire investigation live via the internet. Viewers can watch, listen and chat with the team while the investigation takes place.

Team members Patrick Wheelock, Brian Patton, Steve Sonntag, Chris Bown, Geri Patton and Joe Williams will conduct the investigation. All radio traffic and microphones will be broadcast along with all of the video footage.

Go to www.Beyondinvestigation.com to watch, listen and chat with the team.

At BIM, objectivity is the rule. Through thoughtful, context-senstive, data collection that leads to meaningful analysis, BIM strives to employ scientific methodology in order to improve processes, reach authoritative conclusions, and hopefully achieve real discoveries.

Being "objective" doesn't mean that BIM ignores so-called "sensitive" people (psychics, mediums, etc) or has built a wall of separation against them. In special circumstances, BIM has worked with such resources as a source of data, not as a source for answers. We're working in a field of research largely ignored by the main-stream scientific community and we don't have the luxury to ignore potential sources of data. It's all an unknown, and nothing is beyond investigation.

Innovation

In our effort to maximize the meaningfulness of our end result, we try to find ways to improve the quality of everything we do, all the data we collect, and the analysis we perform. The only way to do that, especially with a limited budget, is to innovate. Early on, we came to 2 conclusions regarding HOW we conduct investigations: 1. The more people we have investigating, the more data can be detected in real-time, and 2. The more people we have investigating, the more contaminated the evidence becomes.

To solve the paradox of "too many people, not enough people", In January of 2005, we went live with a program called "VPI", or "virtual private investigator". A VPI can be anyone with an internet connection anywhere in the world. BIM Research and Development built a simple "text chat" system with a HTML/Javascript client that displays still shots from 4 of the video cameras deployed onsite. BIM can also webcast live audio from the site and other real-time data to VPIs like temperature graphs. By making this data available online and allowing offsite VPIs to interact with the onsite team, a VPI can alert the onsite team to an event so the onsite team can focus its data gathering. With the VPI program, everyone watching a live investigation is actually a participant.