After watching “Ghost Hunters” and YouTubers Sam and Colby, science teacher Larry Hautzinger decided that he and his son Daniel would attempt to hunt ghosts as well.

“I’ve always kind of wondered about the law of conservation of energy,” Hautzinger said. “They did an experiment back in the day with a dying man. Once he died, all of the sudden, his weight changed just a little bit. What is that? Is that his soul leaving? I’m not sure.”

Hautzinger visited ‘The Conjuring” house–infamous for inspiring the horror movie–last October in Rhode Island. The house is notorious for haunting the Perron family in the 1970’s and the exorcism gone-wrong of their daughter.

“We didn’t have any outright occurrences, but Daniel did. When he walked through the front door his neck started to hurt,” Hautzinger said. “One of the guides said it’s common and a spirit is trying to attach.”

Recently, Hautzinger stayed the night at the Trans-Allegheny lunatic asylum. The Trans-Allegheny is a post Civil War mental hospital which closed its doors to patients thirty years ago but stayed open for tours and overnight haunted experiences.

“It was awesome,” Hautzinger said. “While we were in this one ward, we turned off all the lights for about twenty minutes. When we had turned the lights back on, a wheelchair had moved about 25 feet and none of us heard anything.”

Hautzinger suggests that anyone who wants to get into the hobby should be patient as well as careful while first starting out.

“You’re not always going to get stuff, not every place has something,” Hautzinger said. “But there are also places which have not so nice things out there, a kind of almost demonic type of thing. And if you mess with the wrong things, bad things can occur.”