PAGE A8, KEIZERTIMES, DECEMBER 27, 2019
Local spook hunter hits it big time Choirs at Capitol
in Travel Channel’s Ghost Loop
By LAUREN MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Chris Califf, a Salem lo-
cal, will be joining a team
of paranormal experts as the
researcher and tech advisor
in the Travel Channel’s new
eight-episode series, Ghost Loop.
As defi ned by the show, a ghost
loop is a supernatural phenom-
ena in which paranormal enti-
ties terrorize the living in the
same place over and over again.
In the series, the team will at-
tempt to break the cycles of
trapped paranormal activity and
bring peace to the living and
the supernatural by drawing
out each spirit through re-cre-
ating trigger environments. The
process involves examining and
researching each property and
then formulating a plan they
believe will stop the hauntings.
The researching feeds into
Califf ’s love of history.
“With any good haunting
there’s defi nitely even more in-
credible history,” he said.
His favorite part of the show
was traveling across the nation
and absorbing the unique pasts
of each location.
“The civil rights stuff is kind
of what hit me the hardest, es-
pecially when we were down
south,” he said.
Prior to working on the
show, Califf had done ghost
hunting related work for local
access television and promo-
tional videos for Youtube and
various other places on the in-
ternet. “They [Travel Channel]
talked to some of my peers and
thought I was a great fi t for the
team,” he said, which is how he
got his place on the team.
Califf started ghost hunting
when he was 18 years old,“I
Submitted
Eric Vitale, Sean Austin, Kris Star, Chris Califf and Matt Lytle comprise the Ghost Loop team.
some of the gear, sometimes it’s
just a prettier new case to hold
all the gear,” he said.
Califf said he couldn’t pick
a single favorite episode as he’s
proud of all the segments the
team has fi lmed, “I’m proud of
every family we’ve been able to
help.”
Califf looks at breaking
ghost loops as a way to help
people and spirits.
“That’s the biggest thing I
want people to take away from
this program is that our pur-
lost my father when I was a
young man. This is kind of my
way of trying to fi nd him and
reconnect with him,” he said.
Aside from researching the
past, Califf also collects data on
the present. The team uses any-
thing from infrared thermom-
eters, night vision cameras, and
spirit boxes to observe and con-
tact spirits.
Over the years he’s seen
the ghost-hunting technology
change.
“There is some evolution in
pose is not just to help the spirit
cross over and fi nd its way, or
answer that historical question.
It’s to help people that are deal-
ing with things that: one, they
don’t understand and; two, they
don’t have a way to get out of,”
he said.
KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings
Music-makers from McNary High School (top) and Whiteaker
Middle School (above) fi lled the Capitol rotunda with sounds of
the season Friday, Dec. 20.
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