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About Us
Seeking Beyond Paranormal, Est. 2023
We are small team of paranormal enthusiasts-turned-investigators based in Huntsville, Alabama. As enthusiasts, we started out wanting to travel to the country's most haunted locations and experience them the way they were meant to be experienced. Not only would it be a fun and unique way to get out and travel, but it would give us meaningful and personal connections to this world we've only ever seen in popular media over the years. However, our first event was enough to light the spark for becoming our own team of paranormal investigators.
David Reimer, Founder
Growing up, I had almost zero knowledge or interest in the paranormal. I had some understanding of what
an afterlife was and what spirits were supposed to be, but beyond some dogmatic knowledge from Catholic school
and knowing what scary movies were, the paranormal just wasn't anything that was on my radar. I couldn't even
tell you if I believed in any of it or not, it just wasn't a topic I put any energy into. Then in 2004,
a little TV show called Ghost Hunters debuted and changed my whole perspective on things.
It was really intriguing to see what they were doing, how they were doing it, and why.
In college, I began to actually experience some paranormal occurrences. My first notable experience was a floor lamp in my old bedroom turning itself on at 2am right above my head, and then turning itself off a few minutes later. The following day my parents would reveal all sorts of activity they've experienced in their house (and continue to experience today!), and I began to pay attention. After college, I experienced more activity in my own home, where I began keeping a journal of the experiences. I would even go on to have an experience involving a close friend that passed away, which really cemented my beliefs and turned the paranormal into more than just a casual interest. That journal would eventually grow to be an 11-page Word document, and it is my hope to seek out more experiences and continue that documentation with Seeking Beyond.
Jessica Reimer, Founder
When I was growing up, my parents and I were Buddhist and switched to Metaphysical Christianity, each of which
gave me a broad perspective of the world, the afterlife, and everything in between. I've always been fascinated
by the supernatural and paranormal, mostly through fictional books and movies. My interest in the paranormal
specifically developed when the TV show Ghost Hunters came out. That interest grew even more when
my sister Sherrie joined a ghost hunting team in Kansas, the Wichita Paranormal Research Society,
which is part of the worldwide TAPS Family.
Before we founded Seeking Beyond Paranormal, I never experienced anything definite. I had occasionally experienced a glimpse of something or heard an unusual sound, but nothing that couldn't be explained away. I am hoping that our adventures and investigations allow me to experience something that is, without a doubt, paranormal.
Olivia LaRose, Historian
I grew up knowing that Spooky should’ve been my nickname instead of whatever I was called as a kid. I loved to binge shows and read
books all about ghosts, vampires, aliens, all sorts of supernatural beings. I couldn’t tell you why I was so interested in it, I just
knew that I wanted to surround myself with the occult and supernatural all the time! I’ve never experienced a paranormal encounter before.
I’ve been on haunted tours and have taken pictures of houses and saw little glowing orbs on camera, but that’s about the extent of what
I’ve witnessed. And even then I think they were floating aphids or moths.
I am about as skeptical as you can get!! I research and study paranormal encounters simply because I love it. I’m always the first one to suggest the house settling or mold exposure, but I really want to be proven wrong and experience something on my own, without any crazy equipment or cameras or attempting interaction first. I’m a feature writer by trade, and if I can get one good personal experience to write about, I would be the happiest person ever.
Grant Pethel, Investigator
My upbringing was rich with eye-opening experiences. My parents put great effort into exposing my brother and I to the world
and its various contents, taking us around the globe, from Ireland to Australia to Mexico and more. However, we were never very,
well, spiritual. One might expect this out of a family where the father is a physicist and the mother is an engineer. But truthfully
it was because we valued sleeping in on Sundays a little more than going to church.
That's not to say I wasn't interested in the supernatural side of life. Far from it, I adored the idea of a world full of ghosts and spirits. Of magic and curses. Like many of my ghost hunting peers, I sat my happy butt firmly on the couch every time Ghost Adventures would air on tv. I thought they had the coolest job in the world, well, perhaps tied with Steve Irwin. Despite my enthusiasm for every EVP and mysterious occurrence featured on my favorite paranormal investigation shows, my father taught me to be a skeptic. As much as I loved what was going on, I would be remiss to not consider that Ghost Adventures is a tv show, and a tv show needs to make money. However, my father didn't just teach me to be a skeptic, he taught me how to be a good skeptic. Blind doubt is just as bad as blind belief. Just because my favorite paranormal tv shows can't be trusted as honest ambassadors of the spiritual world, that doesn't mean there isn't something real to the phantasmic. In fact, if we consider the heavy-handed impact that the concept of spirits, demons, ghosts, and the like have had on all human cultures across time, well, it would be stranger than ghosts if nothing was going on. So, something is clearly up, but the question is what.
For the record, I still don't believe in ghosts, or at least in the way that most people describe them. What I do believe is that people experience something they call ghosts. And while Ghost Adventures might not be very honest about their experiences, the large majority of people are. As of writing this I am on the cusp of earning my degree in Psychology & Anthropology at the University to Alabama. I am an experienced researcher with three different studies on route to publication, and it is my current goal to geek out about being a paranormal investig- ahem - to seamlessly integrate sound research methodology practices into Seeking Beyond Paranormal. So that when we find a ghost, we know damn sure that we did.
Dan Davis, Investigator
My interest in the paranormal began at an early age, watching shows like Unsolved Mysteries and In Search Of.
Growing up, I lived in homes that were rumored to be haunted, though I never personally experienced anything out of the ordinary—or at
least nothing I recognized at the time. For many years, my curiosity stayed limited to what I saw on television. That changed
when I began attending Bigfoot and paranormal conferences. What started as casual curiosity quickly developed into a genuine
passion to learn more and take a closer look at the unexplained. These experiences encouraged me to move beyond simply being
an observer and to become more directly involved in paranormal research. While I have not yet had a personal experience that
I can say with certainty was paranormal, I remain open-minded and committed to the search for answers. I believe every investigation,
whether it produces clear evidence or not, helps us grow in our understanding and brings us one step closer to uncovering
the truth. By joining Seeking Beyond Paranormal, I’ve taken the next step in that journey. I look forward to contributing
to the team, learning from every case, and continuing to approach the paranormal with curiosity, respect, and a balanced
perspective guided by the evidence.