Can paranormal experiences be mapped? If they could, what patterns would be revealed? Are the most haunted places simply ghost magnets, or are they instead populated by the living whose upbringing involved practices and oral histories that carry a hint (or totally reek) of the mystical and otherworldly?
Ghost story aficionados Khairunnisa and Izni will attempt to answer these and other questions with their project, tentatively titled “Ghostly encounters: Mapping paranormal experiences in Brunei Darussalam” by geotagging ‘true’ paranormal stories about Brunei that are published on a popular website (details held for now) and then using GIS to reveal and analyse the resulting distribution of ghost experiences, in addition to analysing the stories themselves and hopefully interviewing their authors.
This methodology is similar to (and partly inspired by) the one employed in the production of the Zombie map of the world by a team of Internet and visualization researchers.
Khairunnisa and Izni hope to feature this unfunded project in the upcoming 11th Borneo Research Council conference to be held here at UBD.
If anyone has comments or tips, feel free to get in touch!
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