What equipment or other-worldly talent do you use . . .

I have no special equipment nor do I have any particularly useful gifts. I enjoy stories of the paranormal experience and I am always interested in any kind of "proof" people can present as evidence of things which are not getnerally accepted as fact.

I have a strong sense of intuition which I have learned to listen to since when I failed to pay attention I sorely regretted it. I am pretty sure following my "gut" has saved my life on more than one occasion ...
When I was 16 I was out with a friend and her boyfriend. They were joking around about throwing me into the harbor we were parked near. They attempted to pull me from the car and I fought them. After a while my friend saw me getting upset and stopped, her boyfriend had a look on his face that truly disturbed me and he wouldn't stop coming after me even after I kicked him in the face. I never stopped fighting until my friend finally got him to leave me be. Something about this guy scared the hell out of me. I insisted that they take me home imediately. They did.
I never hung out with my friend when she had her boyfriend with her again. he REALLY creeped me out!
A month or so later, my friend's boyfriend was on the cover of the local newspaer. He had been arrested for sexually assaulting, murdering, mutilating, and nearly decpitating a young girl who fit the physical description of someone like me - my height and weight with my same build, eye color, hair color and length of hair.
Thank goodness I trusted my feelings or that girl could have been me.

The only paranormal stuff in my life nowadays is that occasionally my father who died six years ago pays me a visit. Usually when I am with my daughter, out of nowhere I will sense his presence and smell his cologne. It makes me happy when I notice he's around and I say hello and tell him he is missed before he fades out again.

When I was a young girl I had a very strong gift which seems to hve gone away... I was able to pick the winners of horse races either by having the name of the winner come to me in a dream, or by looking at a list of the horses names and getting a "vibe". I made my dad a nice chunk of change with that gift! I even picked some winning lottery numbers. I sure wish I had those gifts now that I'm old enough to gamble! LOL

I mainly stick to using 'scientific' equipment (okay, a digital camera and a digital voice recorder in my case, being the only two equipment that I own). I kind of shy away from using mediums, psychics, and all that. Have you ever seen the show Ghost Hunters? I basically take that kind of approach with trying to gather evidence. The kind that I can show even to skeptics. When it comes to looking for the paranormal, just "feelings" isn't enough to cut it for me.