Windy City Paranormal

Windy City Paranormal: Perelman

Thesis: Our company knows that ghosts probably aren’t real, but we will hunt them for you anyway because it’s cool to believe that they do exist.

 

Home page: http://windycityparanormal.com/index.html

Premises:

Facts/Truths

Supposed Probable Data- They state that they come to investigate the “alleged cases of paranormal or unexplained activity”. They also say that they will investigate whether it’s from “natural causes or it is truly paranormal.”. This is saying that there is not real proof that there are ghosts, but they will investigate just incase they find something awesome.

Premise Modifiers:

            Presence

Repetition- All throughout the home page it repeats a lot about putting the clients mind at ease about things that MIGHT be paranormal activity. It says it in six different ways just on the home page that the cases seem to have natural causes before any alleged paranormal activity.  

Quasi-logical Arguments:

            Autophagia

Retort- They claim to be paranormal investigators… but right there on the home page it says “taking information from the legitimate investigators that have gone before us in this field”. They know they aren’t “legit” and are stating they aren’t right up front. They want to be professional, but they are not doing a very good job at it.

           

Evidence:  http://windycityparanormal.com/evidence.html

Premises:

            Facts/truths

Supposed. Probable Data- All of their data is probable data. It is paranormal things, none of this is concrete. Even they state that it is not an exact science. Everything is based off of things that might be happening, even if it is “caught” on a recording or in a video. Any number of things could have caused sounds and movement, but it’s just fun to that that it was from paranormal things.

Premise Modifiers:

            Presence

Time: making it feel urgent- I feel that all of the things they have recorded and are presenting as probable data is presenting a sense of urgency. Keeping you on edge of what you’re going to see or hear. And it makes you want to watch/listen to all of them.

Interpretation

Interpretive Schemes- I think this is a good example of this modifier. They really do limit the room for interpretation in the evidence presented. Its all weird sounds and things moving in recorded content. So it’s either natural, or paranormal, and the fact that they want you to believe that it is paranormal makes it all the more relevant.

Establishing the Structure of Reality:

            Example

Single- in the recordings presented as evidence, a single noise is said to be useful enough to prove true that there is indeed paranormal activity. Such as the man’s cough in the recording where there are only women present. That cough could have been anyone’s. Or buzzing in an old building. Ever think about bugs? Or a noise coming from outside or down the hall?