The camera became portable.

And the archive expanded faster than ever before.

Online platforms removed the distance between investigator and audience entirely. No network approval. No broadcast schedule. Only the decision to enter—and to record what happened inside.

These investigators often work with smaller teams, sometimes alone, returning haunted locations to something closer to their original state: quiet, unscripted, uncertain.

Their work exists in immediacy.

Locations are explored, documented, and shared within days—or hours—of investigation. Viewers witness not just the place, but the act of discovery itself.

This has created a new relationship between haunted sites and those who seek them out.

The investigation is no longer distant.

It is participatory.

And in many cases, ongoing.

The archive is no longer fixed.

It is alive.