Oot and Aboot with Some Canadian Skeptic

Well, I have some ideas.

1) I can treat it very credulously. I wouldn't hide it from this blog at any stage....if they were really wise, they would do that kind of research before taking me at my word. I would effectively be lying only to them. Which still makes me a liar, but I think a greater good will be served, and I'd get some great footage from it (and I definitely would record it). I could easily concoct a huge elaborate story full of the vagaries that we all know to the point of tedium. I'm a good enough actor that I don't think I'd break character. If professional wrestling and taking 7 power-bombs to the head didn't make me break my concentration and character, I doubt this would.

2) I can treat it with faux-credulousness. That is, I can approach it like I was sort of curious, but was scientifically literate. A sort of weak-agnostic. I could approach it like I truly WANT to believe (which isn't untrue), but I know enough about the brain, cameras, energy, and electromagnetic fields to be able to stop them in their tracks at every turn. I could end their "investigation" with an air of relief. "Ah! I was so worried! I thought that all this shit would be going on....turns out it was all in my head, and I have a bit of a dust problem! Thanks so much for helping me realize how little there was to all this spooky-hocus pocus!"

3) I could treat it like a skeptic, who brings in these people purely because a loved one showed grave (ha!) concern, and I was doing it for their sake, not mine. Oh, sorry, she couldn't be here (my hypothetical wife). She's working right now. Poor thing was up all night last night and I love her so dearly that I feel I should do just about anything if it will ease her state of mind, even if I don't believe in it, and why the hell are you waving the EMF detector around like that? It's not a PK meter for god's sake!


I don't like to be a liar, but I hate this kind of stuff quite a bit too. I've always carried with me a bit of strange suburban envy of the people who live in big cities, and have access to this stuff on the constant. Peterborough has a culture of believers, but I don't think it's any larger, or more active than any other small, university town in Ontario. It's awfully average. Here, something is basically dropping in my lap, and I'm hesitating. All because I don't want to be a liar. But I still would love to do this. Suggestions?







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