an alternative dream job

One of my top dream jobs would be to be an independent paranormal investigator in a small town.  I don't believe in any of the phenomena but they are really cool as stories.  Especially UFO stuff.  Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster and stuff like that, also ghosts, are somewhat less interesting.  William Gibson's short story The Gernsback Continuum has an interesting treatment of paranormal sightings as pop-cultural semiotic ghosts.
I also am intrigued by political conspiracy theories.  These I find much more chilling because they are based on series of events and people that in many cases are real.  Many conspiracy theories, while not likely to be true or explanatory as wholes, have threads of true history running through them.  It's interesting to unravel these and think about why the theory developed.