Has anyone tried using smoke during an investigation? Like using a fog machine for indoors or outdoors, maybe building a small fire if outside and then using a bright light so the camera can film. I know a lot could be contributed to matrixing but I'm wondering if anyone has tried and gotten anything.

It might be interesting to use a fog machine during an EVP session and see if it gets any results.

I haven't – but I know groups who have. I think it is an interesting idea, for sure.

The one that someone suggested to me that I think is brilliant us using that metal pin art – see if you could get an imprint…

I've had another suggest using something like a little Japanese rock garden and see if the spirit can manipulate the sand.

The cheap little smoke machine I have doesn't put out much smoke. I guess you could use an incense stick as well.

What I was wondering about doing was asking the spirit to manipulate the smoke somehow. Of course make sure the room is sealed off without a draft, have fans turned off and the AC unit off. Just use video to record the smoke and see what happens. Like I said in the first post, matrixing would be a really big factor in it but it still would be something to try.

A strobe is something we are experimenting with. I have a UV one that we used at our last investigation. We didn't find anything but we will keep on trying.

So far the only thing it did was make the veins in our arms light up. I need one of these on the ambulance.

We'll keep trying.

There are some that prefer using a black light as opposed to an IR light. I've never used one unless the strobe and clip light that says it's a UV light is actually a black light.

actually, considering what Becky said, smoke almost seems like a form of scrying.

I can see that. I hadn't thought of it that way but yeah.