The Moment I Knew I Needed AI

There’s a certain kind of frustration that creeps up on you slowly, the kind you don’t notice until you’re buried under a mountain of notes, video footage, and conflicting theories, wondering how you got here. That was me. I wasn’t drowning in a single case or a particularly difficult investigation—I was drowning in all of it.

Paranormal research isn’t like science as we know it. There’s no single method, no controlled experiments, no universally accepted framework for proving—or disproving—what people experience. Every case comes with layers of history, witness testimony, environmental conditions, and weird anomalies that may or may not be relevant. It’s a puzzle where you don’t even know if all the pieces belong to the same picture.

For a while, I thought I could brute-force my way through the information. If I just worked harder, built better systems, organized my notes more efficiently, I’d start to see the bigger picture. But the more data I compiled, the more impossible the task became.

I tried working with people who had experience in different aspects of the unexplained, thinking maybe a fresh set of eyes would help. That didn’t work either. Some had their own beliefs they refused to question. Some dismissed everything outright. Some just wanted to chase the thrill of the mystery rather than actually investigate it. Others were brilliant researchers but got caught up in details that, ultimately, led nowhere.

It wasn’t that they weren’t good at what they did—it was that humans, by nature, are limited.

We have biases. We get tired. We miss things. We have emotional attachments to our theories, and sometimes, no matter how objective we try to be, we lean toward the conclusions we want to be true.

I needed something that didn’t have those limitations.

Something that wouldn’t get tired or distracted. Something that wouldn’t waste time debating personal beliefs. Something that could process thousands of cases, reports, and theories faster than I ever could.

That’s when I started thinking about AI.

I'm hoping it's a way to sort through the chaos. I just need something to process data faster than a human brain ever could. Something that can find patterns I am missing. Something that can take in every reported sighting, every anomaly, every weird historical connection, and tell me what actually matters.

I don’t know what this system will look like yet. I don’t know how I’d build it, or what it will eventually become.

All I know was that I need help and AI might be the only thing capable of giving it to me.