Steven LaChance Blog

I’ve been noticing something since The Architecture of Shadows came out, and not everyone is comfortable with it. I understand why. For a long time, the paranormal has been framed in a way that makes people feel like it can be figured out. You bring in the tools, you run the investigation, you collect what you think is evidence, and you walk away with a sense that you understand what just happened.

But what if you don’t? What if what people are experiencing isn’t just one thing at all? What if it’s trauma, memory, environment, the body reacting, the history of a place, and maybe something else we don’t fully understand yet, all happening at the same time? That doesn’t fit neatly into a device or a single explanation, and it doesn’t give you a clean answer, and I think that’s where the discomfort comes in.

But what if that is more of a delusion than truth? What if you don’t know? What if none of us do? That’s much closer to the truth than a pseudo sense of authority.

And that’s the part that hits. Not because anyone is doing anything wrong, but because it challenges something deeper. It challenges the idea that this can be measured, explained, and wrapped up in a way that gives us control over it, because the truth is the idea of control over something we don’t fully understand is foolish and at times dangerous.

So maybe what I’m really asking is something simpler than all of that. Maybe I’m asking all of us to humble ourselves a little and check our egos at the door.

I’ve been doing this for twenty five years, and I didn’t come into this with a camera crew or a plan. I came into it because I was trying to survive what was happening in my own home, and everything that followed came from that point forward, walking into other people’s lives when they were going through it too and trying to understand what they were dealing with. When you’ve lived it that way, your perspective changes, because you stop looking for quick answers and you start paying attention to patterns, to people, to what these experiences actually do to someone over time.

What I’ve learned is simple, even if it’s not easy to accept. The moment you think you have it all figured out, you’ve stopped paying attention. This was never about proving anything or handing out answers. It was about being honest about the fact that we don’t have them, and maybe the real shift is getting comfortable enough to admit that instead of forcing something into a box just so it makes sense.