Taken from Daily News Brooklyn http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2008/03/04/2008-03-04_brooklynbased_paranormalists_will_clear_.html
Brooklyn-based paranormalists will clear out your ghosts for $20 an hour
BY STEPHANIE GASKELL
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, March 4th 2008, 4:00 AM
Egan-Chin/News
Samantha Ramirez (left), Sal Cicconi (center) and Sergio Ocasio have formed Brooklyn Ghost Investigations.
Not surprisingly, they are fans of the 1984 film 'Ghostbusters.'
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It's Ghostbusters, Brooklyn-style.
A team of self-made paranormalists is offering to come over to your house in the middle of the night to chase away any unwanted spirits.
"I'm fascinated with the supernatural," says Sal Cicconi, 27.
Cicconi, along with Sergio Ocasio, 20, and Samantha Ramirez, 18, have plastered Brooklyn offering their services for just $20 an hour.
Their business plan is a bit unorthodox, but then again, so are they.
"When I was a kid, I had this ability, this gift," Cicconi said in an interview in the trio's East New York apartment. "When I was 10 years old, I started to see things - spirits and ghosts."
The three, who call themselves Brooklyn Ghost Investigations, are otherwise unemployed.
Their only client is a Red Hook man who said he had two ghosts in his apartment.
Cicconi and Ocasio went to the man's apartment and waited until 3 a.m. - the witching hour for paranormal activity - to see if they could talk to the ghosts.
"I caught something on camera," Cicconi said.
"It looked like two lights moving around, like the spirits were playing with each other."
"We tried to get them out of there," he said.
The two used a homemade Ouija board to try to coax the ghosts into talking to them - with no luck.
"Sometimes, spirits are afraid to talk or to show themselves to us," he said.
Not surprisingly, the three are big fans of the 1984 classic "Ghostbusters."
Having no formal training, they also watch Sci Fi Channel's "Ghost Hunters" and A&E's "Paranormal State" for tips.
They say business has been a bit slow - but maybe that's not such a bad thing.
sgaskell@nydailynews.com
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Twenty dollars an hour, to do what most of us will do for free???
And they use a Ouija board to communicate with spirits and boogeymen??? Not the brightest crayons in the box, IMO.
Anyone else disgusted, outraged, and or petrified by this group and what a detriment they are to those who approach the paranormal more seriously and scientifically?
Feedback welcome as always.
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