There have been reports of questionable equipment activity involving a particular “Western New York Paranormal” group and its members which have been witnessed parking near alleged scenes of paranormal activity while pointing what has been described as a “parabolic dish microphone” at suspected private homes without first notifying the family before driving off after a period of time.
Some paranormal groups have been reported to use handheld parabolic dish microphones to supposedly pickup and record evp activities.
Wikipedia provides the following information:
A parabolic microphone is a microphone that uses a parabolic reflector to collect and focus sound waves onto a receiver, in much the same way that a parabolic antenna (e.g., satellite dish) does with radio waves. Typical uses of this microphone, which has unusually focused front sensitivity and can pick up sounds from many meters away, include nature recording, field audio for sports broadcasting,eavesdropping, law enforcement, and even espionage.
Unfortunately the ideal that any paranormal group would be witnessed parking a short distance down any road in order to point a “parabolic dish microphone” towards any private residence is both illegal and highly suspicious.
Victims of this particular “Western New York Paranormal” group had contacted us with their findings and thus had requested that we publicly notify others to be aware that such abuses of privacy were taking place.
Should the public see anyone using this type of device in an inappropriate manner such as pointing the device at any private residence or business without their awareness or authority to forward such information to local law enforcement.
Thank you.