PSI of Oregon - Brandon McElwain: Senior Investigator/Tech Assistant
Arriving from Bakersfield, California to North Bend, Oregon early in 2011, Brandon is one of the newer members of PSI of Oregon.
Brandon's interest in the paranormal began at a young age. When other children were sleeping with the lights on and closet doors open for fear of the bogeyman Brandon was constructing plans to catch the unknown monster living under his bed. Although employing all of the methods an 8 year old could use to catch this elusive beast he was never able to entrap him. From that day on Brandon's fascination with all things unknown grew. With this desire came the need to know how things worked mechanically, and to try to understand the "Why's" and the "How's" of pretty much everything that crossed his path.
When asked what the best part of an investigation is Brandon responds with "To me every investigation is like a new puzzle and I want to figure out the missing pieces of it."
You can visit Brandon on Facebook and Twitter by following the link below, or shoot him an email by clicking HERE!
In some Midwestern states of the United States, the bogeyman scratches at the window. In the Pacific Northwest, he may manifest in "green fog". In other places, he hides or appears from under the bed or in the closet and tickles children when they go to sleep at night. It is said that a wart can be transmitted to someone by the bogeyman.
In many countries, a bogeyman-like creature is portrayed as a man with a sack on his back who carries naughty children away
According to an online etymological dictionary, the word Bogeyman dates to the 16th Century, wherein the word was coined in English using the Scottish Gaelic root "bogle," meaning "ghost."
The boogeyman has a nearly endless number of incarnations, as anything frightening or repulsive will suffice. The monster is usually said to live under a child's bed or in the closet and to appear at night, although in some regions of the United States, he scratches on the window of a child's room. Usually, the boogeyman is more or less humanoid, although he may be much larger or smaller than regular people. He is often dressed in black and may carry a sack or basket with which to kidnap children. Some cultures believe in a female, witch-like equivalent of the boogeyman.
