In this next story, the focus is on creepy careers.

Teens OnQ Host Brant Mack reports.

[Music Plays] It's not a TV show or a really bad dream.

These are real life jobs for people who like to factor some fear into their career.

[Music Plays] But before we tell you about the first career we have to ask you one question.

Do you believe in ghosts?

Is there anyone here who'd like to speak with us?

We'll be able to hear you through our tape recorders.

Laurel Black is a professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

So she's an interactive, conscious spirit, and she teaches a critical writing about paranormal activity.

As part of the research, students often join Laurel and her other passion as a ghost investigator.

[Music Plays] What we're doing is investigating rather than hunting because these aren't prey.

These are people.

They just don't have bodies.

We're all ghosts with bodies as far as I'm concerned.

They try to capture photos of spirits, which Laurel says turn up as orbs of light.

See that bright white spot?

See, we frequently gotten pictures of orbs right around that back closet.

Right up there.

Teams also record audio of ghosts who are trying to communicate with the living.

Mr.

Marshall, is it true that you killed yourself because you were afraid of the shame of losing all of your money in your business?

EVP is shor for Electronic Voice phenomenon.

It's when you get on a tape recorder or a video recorder, an anomaly.

It's a voice or a sound that you cannot account for.

[Static Plays] These are some EVP.

Laurel has recorded on ghost investigations [Static Plays] Laurel says young people are especially sensitive to detecting paranormal activity.

Oh, no, that's a nice one.

That's moving.

Two teenagers have an enormous amount of energy, and one of the things we know is that ghosts need energy.

And my experience is that the energy that teenagers give off attracts spirits.

[Music Plays] Do a web search on haunted Pennsylvania, and you'll come up with over a million hits if you want to start investigating them.

Laurel has this advice.

We're not likely to find the kind of scientific evidence that you would get from a laboratory, and so you're going to need to be able to back up your work with something else being broadly based in not just science, but also in anthropology and folklore would be very helpful.

And so that's historical research.

That's some scientific theory that could explain what you're getting.

So if this thing starts spiking and beeping, it would mean that some kind of energy field is passed by.

And it's also the ability to retell that story in a way that makes sense to people.

I haven't been scared yet.

Can you give us your names?

I've been made a little nervous every now and then.

I have been touched.

I have had something run through my hair, but I'm not afraid of anything yet.

Our next career is one teensy weekly on television.

Right here.

It's crime scene investigator.

But is real life CSI work anything like the job they portray on TV?

On television, you'll see them going to a crime scene.

But crime scenes are usually always clean, and there's not a whole lot of blood involved.

We go to crime scenes.

They're actually gruesome.

You see, the worst that can happen to people?

Literally, the smell alon a lot of times is enough to make you want to turn around and run.

This department handles more than 3500 calls a year, ranging from simple break ins to homicide, and they process evidence for every one of them.

Evidence takes lots of forms.

The crime scene investigators process vehicle and firearms involved in crimes, create computer generated composite images of criminals, reviewed surveillance video, and they work in the crime lab to develop fingerprints.

[Film Developing] Once they have the evidence, then they write the report.

You have to be meticulous with your reports, because a lot of times, what you're doing at the crime scene comes up in court two three, four years down the road.

And if you didn't pay attention to the detail back then, it's going to hurt you on the stan when you're testifying in court.

What you did in the fiel and how you documented your case could very well lead to somebody innocent going to jail.

Or it could lead that guilty person walking free.

If you think you have what it takes to make it as a crime scene investigator, you can start to prepare.

Now, those are points of identification.

It start as much as you can with biology, chemistry, getting the fields like that in order to work in our crime lab.

And then if you go to college, you get in the fields like criminal justice as a starting point on the call.

The reality between the job and the TV is two totally different things.

So you have a victim, somebody that's been killed.

We go in and work a crime scene.

We're trying to find out who the killer is.

The victim can no longer speak for themselves.

What happened?

Well, the evidence we go in and we collect a lot of times can speak for the victim.

[Music Plays] Maybe real life crime scenes are a little too real for your taste, but you're very comfortable with the kind of stuff Hollywood dishes are.

If so, you could be the perfect candidate for our final job.

Filmmaker specializing in horror movies.

What I personally like about horror movies is I like a movie that you can leave, and it has a lasting effect on you.

Something that you know you'll go home at night and you don't want to get out of your car, or you want to run into your room.

You feel it's actually achieved its goal and scaring you.

Glenm Syska is an independent filmmaker, and he's on the set of one of his horror films, Five Day Rental, about a cheating husband who finds more than he bargains for when he tries to return a rented video.

The thing is, I mean, I always wanted to be a movie maker, but I never knew how it was done and I didn't know where to go to find out how it was done.

I always thought you had to go to Los Angeles or New York, but you don't have to head to the coast to learn this craft.

Pennsylvania has over 60 universities, art schools, or specialty film schools offering filmmaking degrees.

Glenn attended one in Pittsburgh as the director.

Glenn created storyboards, auditioned actors, hired crews, rented equipment, and marketed his movie to independent film festivals.

Glenn also directed the special effects makeup action.

Sometimes you see a movie and the gore doesn't bother yo because you can tell it's makeup and the way it's shot and the way it's filmed.

It seems like it's a fun ride and you can separate yourself from it.

I wanted it to be more disturbing.

As a director and producer.

Glenn also managed the budget.

Extremely important because he was using his own money to make the film.

Filmmaking require excellent creative communication and business skills on the set.

But when you see a final product, you like the effort and the expense pays off, and you realize that that kind of excitement that you got out of that, you kind of crave that.

I don't know how else to explain it.

You want to have that feeling again.

That sounds like great advice for any career.

If you want a job that offers thrills and chills and put serious effort into developing the skills, and you'll be sure to succeed in your favorite creepy career.

[Music Plays] There you have it.

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