Its hard to believe what a great and crazy year it has been for the GMPS team. We started out with a few cases that needed to be moved due to snow. Having the girls from Stevenson following us around filming us for there school video that ended up being "GMPS: Debunking the Myth" that you can see on our web page. The Spring found us doing two workshops that came out pretty well, seeing we had never done one before. We became a part of the Paranormals team run by Brian Dude Run him self. We also failed to make it as a TAPS Family team, cause they seem to be far more worried about if teams web pages have something on them that sounds like another teams web page instead of picking a team based on field experience and how well one works with there clients and what level of help they bring to them. And God help the team that has a "creepy" picture on a ghost page. But at the end of the day we find that being our self's and being who and what we are go far beyond what they are about. Hell they don't even know that the local teams that are suppose to be with them are gone.We also sadly ended up getting in a bit of a disagreement with a local team. What over you might ask? To put it simply it was over a client that we both took on. And when you have two teams that investigate in different ways, you get what we had here. Outside of what I know from the client and there own web page, I know very little else and feel that it was a matter that could have best been worked out had clearer heads prevailed.
We also found our self's on a episode of the show "Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal". It was a fun wild ride that I never dreamed would have happened to us. And I don't think that any of it sunk in until the night Chip and the kids were filming with me at the house used on the show. We were in one of the bedrooms and it dawned on me that not only was I really filming on that show but I was working right next to Chip. The kids on that show were so much more then I could have ever dreamed of as well. I have never met kids that were so smart and really seemed to have a gift. They really did pick up on things in that house that they really could not have known before hand. Some of which did not even make the show, and outside of what I knew about the house from our investigation there, some of it was new to me and there was no way that anyone on the show knew about it. So yes these kids may have changed my mind abit on psychics. And they have become the first ever to get a honorary membership in to the GMPS team.
As far as investigations go, we had so many cases this year that I am sure that we doubled what we did in 2009. Some of them were very haunted and others not so much. But that is the way of this business is. For the first time this year we caught a shadow figure go past a camera, a teddy bear fly out of a closet with no one in the room, had a documentary filmed and shown in Public about us, and even topped our most collected EVP's from one location in one night. Yeah it totaled 31 for a span of three hours. And at the same investigation something locked a door on us and dropped a heavy whisk about half way across the kitchen from where its kept. Also for the first time ever for the GMPS team, we hosted a public investigation in Laurel MD that by all accounts went very well.
By fall now only did we do another workshop but we were also asked to be a guest at a Special Kids Halloween event in Carroll County which ended up being on the front page of the local news paper.
We also lost some team members along the way this year. No they did not die, but life outside of the team made it necessary for them to leave. And while we will miss all who left, we did also bring on a few that seem like they will work out well and we are always looking for others to join the team.
The winter was just as busy so far for us as the rest of the year has been. With our last revile done just days before Christmas, we already have 2 cases lined up in Jan 2011.
Who knows what 2011 will bring for the GMPS team. But I wanted to thank all of you who follow us online here, facebook, twitter, myspace, our web page or where ever else. And the GMPS team wishes you the very best for 2011 and beyond.
Bill Hartley
Founder/Lead Investigator
GMPS
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