Learning How to Photograph Ghosts & Spirits in Kingston

Published on: 2013/02/23 - in Entertainment Featured

On February 23, between 2pm and 4pm, haunt scene investigator Cameron Bagg is bringing his para-photography workshop to Kingston’s The Purple Door Books & Gifts. The event’s focus is to help participants capture their own photographs of the paranormal.

Bagg reports capturing photos of ghosts, spirits, angels, aliens, nature spirits, energy portals, shadow beings, animal spirits, orbs of interest, thought forms, and a mothman.

His workshop will include a slideshow of these photographs, as well as a demonstration on using a camera to capture the paranormal and a spirit photography session with participants. The workshop is interactive, and will include a question and answer segment.

Bagg says that living in a haunted apartment in 1988 started his interest in the paranormal, and reports he has uncovered a spirit frequency that leads him to believe that spirits respond to a frequency associated with laughter as opposed to grief or fear.

Paraphotography lead Bagg to this discovery. He would take a photograph of a participant against a black background just after asking them a question; participants who answered a funny or silly story had more orb-like energy present in the photograph, while participants who were sad, serious, or grieving had almost no orb presence in the photos.

Kingston is no stranger to ghosts, as can be gleaned from haunting stories about Fort Henry or 2011 poll that revealed our city is a conductor for paranormal activity.

Famous Kingston resident Dan Aykroyd also counts himself as a spiritualist, in large part due to his upbringing on the family’s property on nearby Loughborough Lake. Aykroyd spent his childhood summers on the property purchased by his great-grandfather Samuel Augustus Aykroyd in the mid-19th Century.

Samuel Augustus was a mystic who even corresponded with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, on Spiritualism. His grandson – and Dan’s father – Peter Aykroyd believes that Dan’s upbringing in this environment inspired the 1984 hit Ghostbusters. In 2009 Peter released A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Séances, Mediums, Ghosts and Ghostbusters.

Bagg’s workshop runs February 23rd from 2PM-4PM at The Purple Door Books & Gifts, situated at 376 Barrie Street (map).

Tickets are $30 at the door, or can be purchased by calling The Purple Door at 613-542-0823. Participants are encouraged to bring their cameras.

See also: Kingston This Week’s “Paranormal investagator to explore city’s haunts

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Photo (tinted from B&W version): Cameron Bagg – “Bottom Feeders”, an example of interaction with energies.