Investigator
By AL J. Vermette
Paul Dale Roberts is a man with a mission. He seeks out all that is
paranormal hiding in the shadows and brings them into the light. Creatures
of myth and legend are what this true ghost and monster hunter tracks
down and makes real
AL: As a hunter of ghosts and other creatures of the night, please tell our
readers about the things that you do?
Paul: I investigate all things paranormal. Since I have been writing paranormal
stories for H.P.I. (Haunted and Paranormal Investigations) of Northern California, it
has opened many doors for me with all things considered paranormal. I place my
paranormal cellular hotline number with all of my articles. You can't imagine some of
the phone calls get!
AL: When did you first start investigating ghosts and other worldly critters'?
Paul: I accidentally got into paranormal investigations. I have always been a
freelance writer and was writing a story called S.P.I.T. (Sacramento Paranormal
Investigations Team). I did a Google Search to make sure that no one had that
name and found S.P.S. (Sacramento Paranormal Society). I contacted them and
they asked me to join their group. SPS was very dysfunctional and they eventually
disbanded. Julie English, an investigator with SPS moved on with a group called
HPI. One day Julie calls me and said that she can invite me on the National Hotel in
Jackson investigation, that this investigation was open for everyone. I said to myself
"what the heck, I might get a good article out of this." When I got to National Hotcl, I
introduced myself to Shannon 'Ms. Macabre' McCabe, the President of HPI and told
her I was a freelance writer. She grabs my arm and says..."I love thc press". My first
article about the National Hotcl was published on 16 ghost websites and 2 British
magazines. Shannon was impressed and kept me on as an Assistant Organizer,
Paranormal Investigator, Scout, Ufologist, Cryptozoologist and of course
Ghostwriter. I have been with them ever since and have written more than 40
articles tor them.
AI.: When you investigate a haunting do you go alone or do you have a team
backing you up?
Paul: We have core members, about 15 of us. We have outside HPI members,
about 175. When I do scouting missions, I open it up fo anyone in HPI, so I have lots
of people backing me up. With the 15 core members, it's broken up in 3 teams. I'm
kind of a floater. I go from one team to another. so I can write the story.
AI.: You said that you have with two female werewolves once. Please tell
us about that and other creatures that you have interviewed?
Paul: Dead Pete, he claims he was a zombie for 6 months of his life. He called me
and said that he went on a vacation to Haiti. He got involved with this cute Haitian
girl. When he broke it off with her and started dating another Haitian girl, she got
mad and told her shaman father who stuck a hypodermic needle in his arm while he
was in a nightclub. He became paralyzed, was aware of his surroundings and buried
alive. He was dug back up and used as a slave for 6 months picking sugar cane.
He claims that to this day, he still has lesions on his arms. I have also interviewed
assorted vampires, witches and a numerologist. I have done scouting missions to
Mt. Shasta to investigate UFOs, Bigfoot, the last of the Lemurians, fairies and
everything else that is supposed to be up in that mountain. We did see some UFOs
in the night skies, we captured some UFOs on film during the daytime. We also
heard a loud screech, that could have been a Bigfoot. I met a third werewolf called
the Mundane. When I met her at Starbucks, she was easy to spot. She wore a
t-shirt that read "A Animal'. She wore a wolf ears headband. She also wore a
pendagram ring. She had lots of hair on her face, arms and legs. She looked at me
startled and said..."how did you know it was me?" It didn't take a rocket scientist to
figure out she was the werewolf girl. The other 2 werewolf girls called themselves
Katrina Kanine and Lolita Moonshadow, they were quite the characters!
AL: When looking into a new case to investigate how do you find them'?
Paul: I leave my cell phone number and email address with all of my articles. You
would be surprised on how many calls I get about possible places to investigate. I
don't think I will ever run out of places to scout out. As a paranormal investigator, I
use the same system of any type of investigator. I have ears on the streets. I have
my informants. When I get a tip, I go through my roster of scouts and set the
scouting mission in motion. Let's look at a few of my scouting missions with some of
my best scouts. Jennifer Baca - Michele Stump - Cherie Vincent - these scouts went
with me on the Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento scouting
mission to discover if there were residual haunting activities at the crime scenes of
Richard Trenton Chase. In one abandoned home, we took pictures of what
appeared to be white mist. Holly Delaughter took me to the haunting activities at
Curtis Park, where a woman was murdered and raped at a tennis court. Holly is a
psychic and she felt the presence of an entity at this location, we stopped by a
haunted home on Donner Street and picked up voices on our Listen Up Sound
Enhancers. Athena Quinn and I investigated the Historic Sutter's Fort and across
the street we picked up EVP's at an old church. Debbie Talani and I did the
Asevedo Residence and Fulton's Underground Restaurant. We captured many orb
pictures at the Asevedo Residence and Debbie captured a lot of good EVPs of a
little boy talking and of a man talking, saying things like "I got you now!". Some of
my other great scouts have been Angel Kesti, Stephanie Belson, Donna Reynolds
and Chris Grissom. We scouted out the Leger Hotel which is reported to be very
haunted and the crime scene areas of Leonard Lake: and Charles Ng in Wilseyville.
We captured a strange white misty light near a bush of the Leonard Lake: crime
scene, this picture was taken by Holly DeLaughter. We investigate many serial killer
crime scenes like Dorethea Puente, San Francisco Zodiac, Gerald & Charlene
Gallegos. Randall Woodfield aka the I-5 Killer and Roger Kibbe aka the I-5
Strangler. We will soon be going to some Oakland cemeteries to investigate
possible residual haunting activities at the Peoples' Temple Guyana victim's graves
and Elizabeth Short aka the Black Dahlia gravesite. I once visited Napolean
Bonapartes' grave and Billy the Kid's grave and even went to Tombstone's OK
Corral. but unfortunately when I w'ent to these places, I wasn't a ghosthunter yet. I
would like to go back to these places and see if I can obtain any evidence of
paranormal activity.
AL: Was there ever a time in a case that you thought that you have gone too
far or had bitten off more then you could chew!
Paul: Hmmm. At Folsom Cemetery, I was talking on the electronic audio recorder
and asked if there was anyone in my car. When I played it back, it was a deep male
voice and it said "yes". Then when I was walking around this cemetery with HPI
paranormal investigator/vampire Cherie Vincent. Yes, she is a vampire of sorts, she
has 2 bite mark tattoos on her neck and has studied vampirism. Cherie is a nice
vampire, but that is another story. Where was I? Oh ya, while walking around the
cemetery I asked to be touched. In 5 seconds my leg starts bleeding, there is a hot
sensation. A bruise forms and later I look and the bruise is in the shape of a thumb.
Very creepy. I saw my first full body apparition of a woman in Marysville. It was a
distinct shadow, you could see the head, torso, arms and even the fingers. My jaw
was agape in astonishment, I was holding my camera, but I was so petrified, I
couldn't snap the picture. When the apparition disappeared I yelled out... "did you
see that?" The 3 women next to me didn't see anything, because I spoke to late.
AL: Please tell us about the creatures that you have encountered over the
years?
Paul: Once I thought I saw a sea serpent looking creature in the Sacramento River
at 3am, when I was walking my dogs Pika and T-Rex. I didn't think anything of it and
posted a small story about it on the Internet. Come to find out 2 SMUD employees
saw the same creature 2 days later on a hot afternoon. I have seen 6 UFOs in
formation over Ft. Jackson, South Carolina. Besides witches, zombie, vampires,
ghosts, shadow people and possibly hearing a Bigfoot, I haven't encountered any
other creatures.
AL: Have you even found a case that was set up to fool you or be a fake?
Paul: Yes, in Berkeley, the couple that lived in the house thought their home was
haunted by a demon. We sort of came to the conclusion through our interview
process that they were mentally unstable. Of course, I get prank calls, like someone
saying they are with the O.S.I.R. (Office of Scientific Investigation and Research)
and another prank call where someone says that they are from a secretive:
paranormal investigation team called L.I.T. (Logistics Investigation Taskforce) and
that they want me to investigate a demonic haunting. Come to find out it was my
own cousin pulling a prank on me. I will kill him at the next family reunion!
AL: For those of us who would love to hunt monsters. how would we go
about it?
Paul: Do your research, know where that monster is located at, where it is sighted
frequently. Watch Sci Fi Channel's Destiny Truth or History Channel's Monster
Quest, understand the type of instruments and equipment they use to detect the
presence of a monster, such as the El Chucacabra. A lot of ghost hunters watch Sci
Fi Channel's Ghost Hunters and observe the investigation techniques of TAPS (The
Atlantic Paranormal Society). By watching, reading, studying and doing the proper
research, anything is possible and you will find your way to becoming a superb
paranormal investigator. I have studied demonology before I was even a
paranormal investigator and I plan to do some demonologist work soon and write an
article in regard to this topic for Haunted America Tours. I also work as a staff writer
for Haunted America Tours. which is now the #2 ghost site in America.
AL: What do you think about ghost hunters that are shown on tv shows
such as the one on the Sci/Fi Channel and are they for real or just looking
for a fast buck?
Paul: TAPS seems pretty much on the money, but I have seen other paranormal
shows. where it seems like the show is scripted. As soon as I feel the show is
fraudulent, I immediately stop watching. I do not like charlatans period, it makes the
ghost hunting industry look bad. The group I am with, H.P.I., Haunted and
Paranormal Investigations of Northern California has a motto, "we seek the truth". If
you ask me if I truly believe the werewolf girls are real werewolves. I can't prove that
they aren't, but I will relate their story as they told the story to me and let you the
reader decide.
AL: What is the one case that you would love to check out and have yet to
do so?
Paul: I interviewed a lady that claims she was abducted by 'grays'. That was an
interesting story and I would love to do more interviews with abductees. I truly want
to investigate the Skin Walker Ranch, which could be a portal to other outworldly
dimensions.
AL: Of all the things that you have investigated over the years, what was
the one thing that most stands out in your mind and why?
Paul: At a Placerville cemetery, I heard on my Listen Up sound enhancer a little girl
say 3 words. There was no little girl around. Nancy Bradley, Psychic to the Stars
told me to walk 4 steps to my right and I saw a grave of a little girl. Nancy was right
on the money. When I was walking back to Nancy's vehicle, a van emblazoned with
Gold Rush Ghosts, the name of her husband's ghosthunting group. I heard the little
girl say..."hey!" It was as if she really wanted to say something to me.
AI.: So what creature is on your next list to hunt?
Paul: I went to Stonehenge and looked at the surrounding areas for crop circles and
found none. I went to the Tower of London and Dublin Castle, two very haunted
places and I found nothing, except when I walked into the caverns underneath
Dublin Castle and could only walk so far, because I felt this strong feeling of dread. I
went to Alcatraz, Folsom Prison, San Quentin Prison hoping to encounter a ghostly
presence and found nothing. So places that I longed to visit because of the
reputation they carry in regard to the paranormal, I found only disappointment, ut I
can go to a place like a mansion in Marysville and see my first full body apparition. I
think creatures come to the investigator, instead of the investigator going to the
creature. If I purposely seek out a creature, I won't find it, but when I am not really
looking it, it will find me. I didn't expect to see anything in Marysville, but I did and
boy was I shocked. The next creature on my list would probably be the Fire Worm of
Mongolia. I have been to China, Hong Kong and Macau, but have always longed to
visit the home of Genghis Khan. I would like to see the Fire Worm with my own eyes.
AI.: How can our readers find out more about you and your next case?
Paul: I have my own website www.jazmaonline.com I drop all of my rough draft
stories in the forum. I also drop off my rough draftss at www.hpiparanormal.net
Ghosts and Stories website gave me my own page at:
www.ghostandstories.com/paul.html and of course being a staff writer at Haunted
America Tours, you can find my stories at www.hauntedamericatours.com Of
course, you can always Google my name: Paul Dale Roberts and find a lot of my
stories that way. I also have a movie in production and you can find about the movie
at:
www.darksilhouette.com If people want to get a hold of me about a possible
investigation, they can call me on my cellular paranormal hotline at 916-203-7503.
They can also email me at: www.JazmaPika@cs.com Some of the paranormal
publications I
have been published in are: Doorways Magazine, Paranoia, Beyond, Haunted
Times, Sacramento News & Review, Atlantis Rising, Nexus, Fortean Times.
following interviews
Interview with Phil
Herman, Film maker
Interview with Jeff
O'Brien, Screenwriter
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