Shaun Underwood (PROFILE INFORMATION)

Shaun Underwood

Parapsychologist, Ghost Detective

Using Science Methods Investigating Ghost And Hauntings

I have been working with the paranormal now since 1994 and I have worked with some of the best researchers and investigations teams across UK europe and also some of the worst teams known to this business. I have worked and researched some of the UK's most haunted locations etc: Castles, Manor Houses, stately homes, War and battle sites.

You name it, I have investigated it. I have come across many types of paranormal activity in my time. Sometimes I fear it and sometimes i love it but NEVER once have i run from it. I have worked and swapped research notes with my dear friend Mark Turner, Founder and lead Investigator for Ghost Finders, Scotland.

My greatest inspirations throughout the past 20 years have been Peter Underwood (Ghost Hunter and Author), Harry Price (Psychic Investigator), but most of all my parents for helping me to make the dream of doing what I love real. They have been the biggest support anyone could ask for throughout my professional career. They are the reason I continue with my research with the passion and determination I carry with me today.

I started researching the paranormal as a hobbies way back in 1994 and after three years I became so hooked on this that I started my own team up. After three years of working and working hard I started to learn much more by reading books and watching others that had done this line of work for many years. Peter Underwood has been a paranormal book writer and Ghost Hunter since the early 30s in the Harry Price years. In 2000 I started to follow closely Dr. Ciarán O'Keeffe (Most Haunted Fame). I watched him very closely and studied him and Peter Underwood very closely and their methods of how to investigate. Many years had passed now and I was running my second team TR.I.P.A UK with my dear friends Tim Iddin & Helen Sanderson. Also I had now started working full time teaching across the United Kingdom & Europe in Haunted Locations as a paranormal Researcher and under taking paranormal tours and events for the public of a way to fund the scientific Investigations run by Team T.R.I.P.A UK now known as team Underwood.

I started many part time college courses in the hope I could learn as much information as I could about this line of work but in fact there really nothing that can help you apart from you spending as much time as you can out there researching & Investigating. I started working with some of the best Paranormal Investigators and researcher across the UK such as Mark Turner (Ghost Finders of Scotland) who has shown me many things that I never found from reading book on E.V.P,. Thanks to him and other that in time I will thank on this website in due course. In 2009 I took some time out from my work as I found myself becoming sick due to the fact I was working seven days and nights per week on very little sleep.

Now I ‘am back working fulltime again but this time I ‘am only working five days a week rather than the full seven days lol. I ‘am undertaking a paranormal Radio show right looking at the paranormal world from a scientific angle such as ghost, E.M.F field, E.V.P and ultrasound etc: Its not a easy field to get into, although it’s easy to start up being a ghost hunter or a paranormal investigator buts to be good at it you must read, watch and learn as I find there is so many team now working around the world that base their teams on how the they see it done on the TV. Just take note people when I see that ghost hunting / paranormal researching is not how you see it done on the TV. It’s not all bangs and doors slamming. My dear readers in truth its long cold dark nights in some cold dark damp castle room for at times up to 12 hours with nothing going on.

I ‘am not one for writing about ones myself’ Yeah that's why I rather pay someone to write for me and about me. So here I find myself at my desk thinking of what would be best to write about as I know it will not make a hold load of scene anyways. Well here goes everything' I have always been into the paranormal right from the word go since being a small boy and in 1990 I started reading more books on the subject of ghosts and hauntings from Peter Underwood and Harry Price. Then in 1994 I started going out to a few small castles around my area with a flash light and notes book and pen with very old 35mm camera (lol). Now when I think about this and the things I used in the very beginning its a wonder I’ve got as far as I have today. Twenty years on and I’ve worked with some of the UKs leading paranormal research/investigations teams ,Radio Media and a few Magazines Yes also some of the UKs worst teams that seem to think that TV ghost hunting show were sent from God and that's how they should base their investigations on. OK let’s not get me started on what I think about TV shows (lol). So I started Teesside Research Into Paranormal Activity UK I think around 1999 and back then things were somewhat better because of (again) TV has killed of any FREE locations.

In 2007 I started an open Uni course on parapsychology and after allot of hard work and many a late nights reading, studying I got my diploma Great I get to have letters after my name now if I so choose to lol "NOT". I feel so cool! (NOT).Trust me when I say it’s been a long four years getting to where I am now and i long 20 years investigating ghosts. I’ve worked from the top of Scotland to the bottom on England and these past four years working in Europe alone at times without my team has been hard in countries like Ukraine ,Norway, Germany, France, Holland, Poland etc: and I’ve loved every moment of it. Investigating Ghosts can take it out of you when you’re doing this work seven days a week and up to 16 hours daily and two years ago I hit a place in my life where I never want to end up again. One Sunday morning I just got up out of bed after a nights work and went to walk to the bathroom when I had a mass pain in my chest, Well yes it was bad. I had to have a operation due to poison that had got to my heart valve and made me very sick. Well everything is OK now and I ‘am back working fulltime' Well five days a week and not the full seven (lol).

When you live and breathe the paranormal like I did it takes over your life in ways you would never even notice. As much as I love my work and my research I have to stop from time to time and just take a look stop myself from been taken over by everything. Many people say to me now' Shaun you have NO LIFE! they tell me and when I think about what point there trying to make me see then I see that they are right but my work is my life. Yeah it would be great to find a women that holds ghost research close to heart like myself then maybe I could have the best of both worlds(lol) or maybe not ,as Iam not that lucky.

Many people ask me for help on where to start when doing any investigating or just the research, I just say listen, watch and read but no matter what others teach you about ghosts that fact is you'll learn your own way. Just stick in and you'll know soon enough weather this line of work is really for you or not. Watching TV ghost hunters and will not teach you anything but to be A GOOD FAKE.

Well I just hope I've not sent you to sleep and if your reading these last part then good, you’re still awake!!

If you need to know anything then please just drop me a line anytime and if I can help teach you can teach me something new then email me please. The paranormal is always changing and the investigators must change and learn with it. There is not one man or a woman that knows everything about the paranormal (ghosts) as there is always something new with each passing day to learn.

I just want to prove to myself that I can for fill a lifelong dream. I am willing to train or help and advice any upcoming new team or person to understand everything that you'll need to undertake a role in the paranormal investigations world. There are today so many people and teams watching far to much TV and just heading out to their local church yards or grave yards to hunt ghosts. They have NO PLANS, NO IDEAS and no damn clue to what they are dealing with. Come on people do your research, learn, and then investigate. TV is killing everything with regards to ghosts and the paranormal. I should not really call myself a paranormal investigator as I DONT do anything else other than GHOSTS and the field of research that runs alongside.

TV shows such as GHOST HUNTERS etc: have just made my research so much harder, even now is a GH (ghosthunter0 P.I (paranormal Investigator. They just pick up a video camcorder and away they go rushing off into the dark looking for ghost and all things bump in the dark. Get a bloody grip!!!

I know not everyone is like me and using my methods but my methods are tried and tested and 20 years in the making. Just seems that now everyone can see and feel ghosts. Everyone’s making money doing events, OK!! Let’s just get one thing clear, I also do events but my events are to teach the public the right way' yes my way but they use my way to suit their way. Can me mad but it really does make me very angry to see these so called team in the UK & US giving the dedicated people and team a REAL BAD NAME.

Well if you are a time served person such as myself then you know what I’ am talking about. I am here to learn other and try to teach them basics about ghost in the hope that this will set their path in the study of everything haunted and ghostly.

All my research and work is now dedicated to two three women that made a big difference in my life. My Mum, My Granny Alice Mulcaster and last but fair one of the greatest. My Angel Mary. Angel made me understand those things don’t come knocking on your door, that life is a gift and something that we all should love no matter what. I will miss you deeply. You’re always in my heart and you are the keeper of my soul.

Shaun Underwood Ghost Detective


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