\nWell I would imagine so! If you have a spirit, demon or elemental energy that has made their home in an object and then some curious folk puts your abode under a 3D scan, it\u2019s like knocking down all their security walls and totally messing up their safety nets. They are going to create some havoc for the machines and possibly the people trying to get close to their safe haven. I would imagine in a few cases with this new scanning machine, there have been some fairly angry reactions and maybe a little blood drawn?
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\nWhat is causing all the commotion is the world\u2019s first haunted object 3d scanning project and it is definitely confusing ghosts and other entities while trying to produce paranormally-active prints. The Traveling Museum of the Paranormal & Occult, the world\u2019s only mobile museum of haunted artifacts, launched the first ever initiative 3D scans, creating a database of paranormally active objects. \u201cIn hindsight, I guess we should have anticipated this,\u201d occult museum director Greg Newkirk says, \u201cbut when it comes to working with haunted artifacts in new, unexplored ways, you never know what\u2019s going to happen. We\u2019re attempting something that\u2019s never been done before, laying the groundwork for future study of paranormally-active objects. There are going to be quirks we can\u2019t see coming.\u201d Launched in February, the project has seen the founders Greg Newkirk and Dana Matthews scanning cursed idols, self-burning Ouija boards, drums used to summon voodoo-spirits and even a haunted mask with a habit of kickstarting out-of-body experiences.
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\n The project is the first of its kind, combining the study of supernaturally-influenced artifacts with cutting-edge technology. But now that the project is four months in, the museum curators are discovering that it\u2019s hard to teach an ancient spirit new tricks. \u201cSome objects just don\u2019t want to be scanned,\u201d Matthews says. In particular, he is speaking of a large African idol that just does not want to be scanned and has a history of causing intense nightmares. \u201cIn the case of \u201cBilly\u201d, (his nickname) he kept literally putting up a wall in front of his face every time we tried to scan it. We had to sit down and conduct an EVP session with him to find out he was just concerned about the scanning process; he didn\u2019t understand what we were trying to do with him.\u201d Once the process of performing a 3D scan was explained to the idol, along with the duo\u2019s reasons for conducting the scan, Matthews says that \u201cBilly\u201d finally allowed his image to be catalogued. In all, the process of scanning the haunted artifact took over thirty hours, most of which the curators say account for negotiations with the attached spirit. These types of strange hiccups aren\u2019t uncommon, Newkirk says. \u201cWe\u2019ve had equipment malfunction in bizarre ways, artifacts mysteriously go missing before we can scan them and just two weeks ago, we went to print a 3D duplicate of a haunted mask we\u2019ve named The Fetid Face and it completely melted the printer. It destroyed the equipment.\u201d Okay, going to take a pass on this paranormal experience!\n<\/p>\n