My name is Ashley
Brooks. I'm the folklorist on haunt me,
which basically just means
that I study people's beliefs.
I study lore and legend,
kind of differing from the history
of a location, more getting into
what makes people believe the things
that they do and how that can alter their
perception of a location. And also.
The perception of the
investigators as they move through
the building.
I use a lot of different tools,
both metaphysical and scientific.
So yeah, I'm a really big
fan of the Spirit box,
which we're going to get to soon on.
The spirit box is really cool,
and especially when coupled
with the Estes method,
it's a really unique way of. Getting.
Answers from spirits. That is,
sometimes when you're
listening back to an EVP,
it's really easy for the human ears
to kind of hear what you want to hear.
And so the cool thing about the S
method is that when you put on,
you put on these noise canceling headphones,
you cover up your eyes and one person is
in that kind of blind and deaf spot and
they are listening to the spirit box,
which is cycling really fast
through radio stations and creating
this sort of channel of energy.
And so the other investigators
are asking questions and that.
Person can't hear those questions,
but they're answering them and
or sometimes they're answering
them because they recite
what they hear on the radio
station as they're listening.
And I really like that method.
It's. Very unique.
I also really enjoy using music and sound,
tuning forks, different instruments.
I find that it's really cool to
connect with different spirits,
different locations especially
like finding out what the
traditional music was of their time,
maybe connecting in that way and also using
tones and vibration to reach spirits.
My I I think that the access method has been
my favorite just because when it works, it's.
It's really incredible.
It doesn't always work.
Sometimes it's just sort of garbled stuff,
but when you when it hits.
It's it can be really. Stunning.
My favorite memory of the Estes method was
at the Hinsdale House in upstate New York.
We were there last summer in 2021,
and time went under the Estes method.
And this is we had been at this
location for a couple days.
It's one of the more haunted
locations in the United States,
and we had encountered some spirits who
we thought maybe wanted to leave that place,
but they felt trapped.
So I actually did a guided meditation.
With them while Ty was in the Estes method,
so he missed the whole meditation
he was completely.
Enveloped in this headbone and
blindfold world.
But he was answering me.
He was responding to the music, even,
and he couldn't hear any of it.
When he came out,
he had no idea what had happened,
but it was so.
Moving to see that reaction in real time.
My favorite thing about investigating is
getting to go in all these places that
I might not be able to see otherwise,
I've gotten to go to some bougie.
Amazing places in the state of Maine
and beyond and getting to explore
with a few of my best friends is
awesome and you just never know
what's going to happen.
It could just be an adventure
where you're walking around in
a building and maybe.
You know,
a couple things happen but
nothing really notable.
Or it could be just a completely
life changing experience.
You just kind of never know.
And I I like the role of the dice of that.
I think that in beginning to do haunt me, I.
Realized that there were so many places
that I didn't know anything about,
so many hauntings I didn't
know anything about,
and threw up uncovering all that history.
I mean, we've barely scratched the surface.
We've been doing this for 10 years,
so it's one of those things.
I feel like you could keep exploring
the state of Maine for a lifetime and
you wouldn't even get to everything.
I think there's a lot of preconceived
notions about paranormal investigation and.
I really like our teams.
I think we try to cut through all those.
We're really.
More concerned with.
Making a place better than what we
found it that's been like an ongoing.
Theme and motto for us.
And we want to connect with
whatever's there so that we can
help to raise the energy or to
assist the spirits if they need it.
We're not really interested in just getting
the evidence for evidences sake or for,
you know, trying to make a flashy show.
We are not about that.
We would much rather connect on a
human level to whatever lies beyond.