{"id":15947,"date":"2012-02-09T01:05:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T04:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=15947"},"modified":"2012-02-09T01:05:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T04:05:39","slug":"air-force-officer-turns-ghost-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/air-force-officer-turns-ghost-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Officer Turns Ghost Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an unusual official article, Air Force Public Affairs documents the interesting hobby of Capt Stan Maczek, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123287206\">resident ghost hunter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Maczek is] not sure what to call himself &#8212; ghost hunter, spirit seeker, paranormal investigator &#8212; but he&#8217;s sure this is the most exciting hobby he&#8217;s discovered yet&#8230;<!--more-->He also plays golf and the guitar, but paranormal investigating has pretty much captured his attention during the past six months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Naturally, he and his partner in ghostbusting have the equipment they need:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The investigators carry an electro-magnetic field detector, what some folks call a ghost detector, but Maczek said it just reveals whether an electro-magnetic field is present or not. They also use Burger&#8217;s infrared camera, which presents a green-tinted image and allows the investigators to shoot in dark rooms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently asked for a quote, Maczek&#8217;s squadron commander applauded his community service:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I encourage our entire 1st SOPS team to find ways to get involved with our local community to make a positive impact,&#8221; said. Lt. Col. Mike Manor&#8230;&#8221;Although some people may be skeptical about this type of research, I&#8217;m sure there are many within our community who are equally interested in Maczek&#8217;s work.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article has spawned an interesting set of comments on the AF.mil site, including a couple comparing their activities to members of the military with a religion.\u00a0 One of the more interesting comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t cross the streams.<br \/>\nDr. Egon Spengler, NYC<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unusual official article, Air Force Public Affairs documents the interesting hobby of Capt Stan Maczek, resident ghost hunter. [Maczek is] not sure what to call himself &#8212; ghost hunter, spirit seeker, paranormal investigator &#8212; but he&#8217;s sure this is the most exciting hobby he&#8217;s discovered yet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2857,2860,2,2858,2859],"class_list":["post-15947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-ghost","tag-mike-manor","tag-military","tag-paranormal","tag-stan-maczek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}