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deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains sits the brookdale in an abandoned lodge with an eerie past venture inside brush aside the cobwebs and you'll find a doll and teddy bear tea party carefully arranged for a child but this child hasn't lived here for a hundred years in the late 1800s a young girl named Sarah died here after falling into the creek that runs through the main dining room it said that her ghost still haunts the lodge the tea set and toys are so-called trigger objects used by professional ghost hunters like Gloria young to try and attract spirits have you ever spoken to sarah no I've heard her laugh though but young also relies on off-the-shelf technology to conduct her paranormal research because we don't know how to detect those or how things work and that's why we have such a vast array of stuff that is regular everyday stuff you can buy on a shelf at the local electronics radio shack we asked young to show us her best ghost tracking tech first up a spirit box a modified radio which is supposed to give ghosts a voice it will do an am/fm sweep I have the radio frequencies in the area and if you're patient enough and ask the right question it will answer you Young says she once heard her name through the spirit box but that's why I like this because you know you can use it you can believe it you cannot but when I heard my name I'm going okay there's something to this Geiger counters measure radiation they normally click at regular intervals but irregular or frequent clicks could be interpreted as a ghost responding to your questions is anybody there is anybody here investigators also consider electromagnetic field to be a sign of ghostly presence and measure it with REM pods k2 and try field meters so what range would this be in for a paranormal activity 3 and above to try to capture visual evidence young sets up specialized video cameras like this full-spectrum camera and what this does is pick up every single color so if you see somebody say out of the corner of your eye and you point it towards it will pick up whatever that entity or anomaly is but Young's prized possession is her thermal imaging camera see how it's still vaguely kind of red reddish yellow yeah that's at those tables right over there right and it shouldn't be that way it should be cold cold cold in here well most of the gadgets range from 20 to 200 dollars this is the priciest at 5,000 which made me wonder could a low-tech Ouija board do the job nobody should use those oh really really why cuz Ouija boards are things that you can play with and they're fun yeah if you open a door that you don't know how to close sometimes it brings through things you shouldn't be playing with I wish ten-year-old me had known that okay exactly ten-year-old me believed in ghosts adult me is more of a skeptic just don't invite me to any spooky tea parties in Brookdale California I'm SI me das cnet for CBS News