I've been ghost hunting since March of 2005. I didn't have experiences prior, I've just always been interested in things like ghosts, UFOs, Big Foot, etc. For a long time I thought nobody would take me seriously because I didn't have any experiences, but I think it actually allowed me to think outside the box better because I didn't already believe.

After being unable to find a group to join in my area that I liked, I decided to try to start my own group. I went on some messageboards and found some people who were interested. We had our first meeting at my house to meet everyone and start making plans. Our group was called East Central Wisconsin Paranormal Investigations (ECWPI), and we had our first investigation at a metaphysical store in Oshkosh.

My second investigation was at JFK Prep in St. Nazianz. I wanted to do a good job so I contacted other paranormal investigators in Wisconsin and asked if they would help us out, and they did. The investigation was only supposed to be two nights but it became an ongoing investigation that lasted three months. Through JFK Prep I got a lot of my training and I also started to become networked with other groups in Wisconsin and to get invited on their investigations. I also got interviewed for the show Scariest Places On Earth, but the show was fake. After telling them a story about an experience I'd had, my interviewer asked me, "Okay, can you tell me it again, but can you word it like this?" They also kept trying to get another investigator from our group to say that the place was evil and you shouldn't go there. They ended up not using any of our interviews for the show.

ECWPI disbanded after a little more than a year. Getting a group started isn't as easy as it sounds. Nobody knew each other when we first started, and over the course of a year we found some people lost interest or they just didn't stay active, one guy I had to remove, and some of us just developed different methods. And there were also too many people in the group and we had to rotate who got to go. So we split into two separate groups but it was on good terms and everybody is still friends.

Four of us from ECWPI started Heartland Paranormal Investigations (HPI) in Manitowoc with one of our consultants from the old group, and my old co-founder started Fox Valley Spirit Hunters in Oshkosh. I was on nearly 20 investigations as a member of ECWPI and HPI, including occasionally getting invited along on investigations with other groups. You can read about all my previous investigations here.

I started to get really interested in the science of ghost hunting and went back to school for Psychology. I'm working on my second major in Psychology at UW-Milwaukee right now, and I've also taken classes in Parapsychology with Loyd Auerbach. (For more info about Loyd Auerbach and the classes I took, click here.) I'm not impressed by someone who boasts that they have a certificate in ghost hunting or parapsychology because my feeling is that ghost hunting isn't a proven science and you can't get certified in it. There are no experts. So I just consider this as some classes I took and I'm going to continue to do more. Unfortunately no one offers a degree in Parapsychology anymore so you just have to major in a science and take classes and attend seminars where you can find them and build your own major.

In 2007 my girlfriend (now wife) Amanda moved up here from Florida, and since she had already been ghost hunting for eight years we wanted to to be in a group together. The group I was with, HPI, didn't want to add more members and then have it be like the old group where we had to rotate who got to go, so that is why we decided to start our own group together.

In 2010 our group was contacted by Curt Strutz for a new TV show called "Paranormal Generation". At first we almost passed because we didn't want to sellout and be just another ghost hunting show putting out misinformation and faking evidence, but we decided to just meet with him and we ended up being really impressed. We met in the Sheboygan Falls library and talked for an hour and a half about all the things that are currently wrong with paranormal television, and they wanted to produce a show that was more "real".

"Para Gen" began as a cable access show airing in the Chicago suburbs and on Youtube, and is now on two dozen cable access stations across the country as well as four Internet-based TV channels. In 2011 it was awarded "Best New Series of the Year" by the Ghost Tales Network.