Are you tired of the same “ghost hunt” mentality you hear about and see on paranormal reality TV?  Are you becoming bored with the same guest speakers at conferences and conventions?  Do you want to learn something different about fieldwork, research, and documentation?  Do you want to think “outside the box” of the “paranormal”?

We are now booking for speaking engagements, field demonstrations of theory and methodology at haunted locations, and consultations on “spectral traces” encountered at sites.  We can talk to your group, organization, committee, etc about:

• * archaeology and ghost research;
• * “ghost excavations”;
• * the anthropology of “ghost culture”;
• * ethnographic installation and the post-excavation “reveal”;
• * differences between historical re-enactment and contextual/resonating cultural scenarios;
• * “ghost script” development and storyboards;
• * the difference between EVP sessions and an Ethnography of Communication” (E.O.C.);
• * material cultural engagements – linking the physical and social sciences (P.O.P. = Participate-Observe-Perform)

We have more than 35 years of experience in archaeology, anthropology, and ghost research; and a significant background in film, TV, documentaries, and theatre.

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A Few Simple Words…

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This is a website for serious investigations not casual “ghost hunters”.  We research “new” cases of interactive past presence and material remains through a layered archaeological sensibility.  We test ‘old’ haunting uncertainties through an ethnographic sensitivity.  In order to substantiate past “subjective” claims of an interactive haunting, we use experimental field techniques in all our investigations.  This helps us improve our methodology and field practices.  Ours is a combined research center, test facility, and consulting agency that serve both academic and investigative endeavors.  We also offer workshops, seminars, and a “field school” for serious beginners, and those investigators who want to use our theories and field methodology.  Please view our list of courses, seminars, and field school options.  We are readily available to speak at your event or meeting and we can accompany you on your investigations as a consultant.  We do not “certify” investigators, nor do we declare a location to be haunted without extensive and exhaustive research and excavations.

With word, image, and sound this website transfers you to the excavation experience of a trained archaeologist who unearths interactive past cultural presence.  It is also an ethnographic journey by an experienced field anthropologist into the many worlds of diverse “ghost cultures”.  The past material remains are exposed and manifest through the skills of an actor (with extensive film, TV, and theatre experience), who is immersed in (and enacting) various participatory and performative roles during the execution of cultural contextual scenarios in the excavation process.

We as “ghost excavators”, search for (and uncover) an unfolding time at haunted locations in specific symmetrical socio-cultural (multi-layered) spaces.  This involves a trans-cultural experience of excavating various past “ghost cultures”, as the field of excavation itself becomes an ethonographic medium for the acquisition of individual stories, past knowledge, and diverse social behaviors.

This website, and its contributors and investigators, propose the field of “ghost excavation” as a flexible, alternative approach that is critical for the emergence of interactive past presence at particular locations.  At these sites of excavation, the past-present- and future occupy one node of symmetrical space.  Here, a dialogue of mutual communication is created where beings (from the present) complete (from a continuing past) the interpretation of other beings life and death unite in an emergent future within the excavated spaces of this “ghost archaeology”.

Please contact us at cuicospirit@hotmail.com to set up a booking.