When trying to Verify a Story it is often Very Hard to do so

 As  I write about  The Paranormal , True Crime , Accident's , Explosions and other story's I try to get them as accurate as possible  and try to get 2 forms of verification. Otherwise i present them as speculation.

But there is a big problem some times all I can find is a newspaper article  and that's where the problems start .

Even back in 1800's  Reporters where not always on the up and up and would make up things about story's 

just to sell papers .So only having one source  about an incident that happened is a problem.

to be able to say with 100%  something actually happened you should have at a minimum of 2 sources and 3 or more for best results.

 

Of course this is not always possible even in today's modern 24/7 news world.

Reporters often get story details wrong . Especially KDKA Radio and TV  here in Pittsburgh .

Even national News services as CBS, NBC etc can not be trusted.

So what can you do when you have only one source?  you can say alleged  , not verifiable, Supposedly

an event happened.  and leave it up to the reader to form an opinion which I often have to. 

Which is a shame . But that's the problem when you have people presenting and writing about paranormal incidents that allege they actually happened when there is nothing to it like the Congailier Mansion  on Pittsburgh's North Side which was a totally fabricated story presented as fact. 

Then when you have story's like the Demon House on Brownsville Road  now a B&B and they have presented no proof  what are you the reader to think? 

Plus al the UFO and Big Foot fakers out there it does not help when trying to present good solid story's and evidence and have people believe you.

I will always strive to present and get as accurate I can when writing story's for this blog.  

But when I can not back it up I will let you now so.