Waiting to watch Zak and team hit their first site ever again!

Will be watching Ghost Adventures to see how Zak, Aaron and Nick make it through the night at the only place they bailed out of during an all night investigation...at the Old Washoe Club and then the Chollar Mine.  My Mom and I watch these a day late so we can have some time to watch our favorite shows together.  Although I am banned from pointing out things I think are fishy or how Steve Gonsalves is a bully in my opinion on Ghost Hunters or any show.  I imagine it can get annoying, but I do hate people being hypocrites or try to pull the wool over people's eyes in order to make some money.

  I'm dirt poor, but I wouldn't profess to be a medium or invent things just to get cash on tv at the expense of others.  I know, I know, you are saying, yeah, but you would if you got the chance and were shown the money "Show me the Money!"...BUT no...  I couldn't do it, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night telling people their loved ones who had passed are speaking through my "spirit guide" and do cold readings while guessing the most obvious things or putting things out there that happen to anyone..."does anyone have a mother who left them as a child? Then passed without talking?  There's bound to be someone out in the audience who had this happen...then you have your target..."She would like to ask for your forgiveness"  sure, play on their feelings...  It makes me sick to see these people do it, and then see guys like Montel Williams fall for their scheme and give them airtime. 

 As P.T. Barnum said, "There's a sucker born every minute."  I hate to put it in that term, I feel bad for the people who are taken in by professed psychics, especially ones who would put kids in terror, just to try and get another paranormal television show going, with him "guiding" these kids to the next level, or whatever.  When I see kids all under the age of 10, terrified and this guy trying to get a show off their terror, it makes me mad.  As far as I know, this show was not renewed, and I hope it stays that way.

 Anyway, here's to watching Ghost Adventures, myself, with a grain of salt and hefty skepticism, but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy it like I enjoy Ghost Whisperer...although "Love" Hewitt is much better on the eyes.  Sorry, I do see those women out there admiring Zak in his T-Shirts...who cares about the show? lol, it's all in good fun.  Hopefully, I will be able to comment on the revisit to the Old Washoe Club, looks interesting!  Will they bail again, will a brick fly? Some already know...not me :)

Sorry for lean times

 I know, I know, I need to post more often... But when you are trying to manage more than one blog and get tired easily, it can get tough at times.

 I've found the latest show, Ghost Hunters Academy, nothing more than a rehash of visiting sites that they have investigated before...now going to the Buffalo Main Train station, not sure it's official title without peeking and I would have to turn the monitor back into my TV....the downside of having an HDTV double as your monitor.  But going to these same spots while doing nothing more than beating the enthusiam out of these kids is kind of sad if you ask me.  Some don't like the "medium", I don't really believe in mediums myself, although I do love the Television Show with Patricia Arquette!  But then I love Ghost Whisperer too, so sue me..lol.  But back to "Academy"  These poor kids, who want to learn how to "Properly" ghost hunt, as if Jay and Grant's word on Ghost Hunting is the Bible, do NOT deviate outside the party lines or get punished...just makes me NOT like this show.  I don't believe it will get picked up as a new franchise, at least I hope not.  When early on in Ghost Hunters, it was absolutely verboten to investigate by themselves, Steve and Tango send these "students" out on their own all the time.  Makes no sense whatsoever.

 They also bring in their preconcieved notions about other people..ie. the "medium" although I  don't believe, I WOULD give her a chance, with no hidden prejudice against her, who knows, she may make me a believer!  But she's gone now, who would have guessed that....first night, send her out alone, making snarky remarks about her beliefs.  Now if it was the official rule NEVER to investigate alone, and in the very first Eastern State penitentiary episode, they get all over this guy for doing it, yet, when Brian and the Camera man get spooked in the "DUDE, RUN" controversy, no one said anything about them staying together, if the cameraman ran, was Brian supposed to stay with him? Or was he supposed to keep on investigating, leaving that guy to his own devices?  Yet Steve throws this girl into the scariest part of the Ft. Mifflin area, the dungeons that were found, alone!  She doesn't investigate to their standards and wonder why....

 The same thing happens with the new girl, heck, they make her cry on the show, "Crying? There's No Crying in Ghost Hunting!" except when you are a sound man who gets hit with his own bag...OR you are trying to get on a jet to go investigate overseas.  Do they realize what hypocrites they are being? Meh, Probably.  Now as I had suggested on forum chat, why don't they use animals?  Now all of a sudden, we have a new show on Animal Planet regarding animals and the paranormal....

 We now have a former member of Ghost Hunters come out and talk about the show pretty candidly, but when called to task, she tries to blame the interviewers for what she said?  On another show, during a live halloween broadcast, we actually have a guy throw an emf detector and not realize he was caught dead to rights?  So much so, that people who are watching the show all text in or e-mail in, hey! That dude threw the darn thing!  And poor Zak and company were so excited about Sparky, the Parabot.  Where was that ghost he promised to catch, anyway?  This section isn't going my way...I better try a diversion..whoops, where did that camera come from?  Then Zak and Aaron in the recap show, have to  show all these highlights of the show, where I've heard they hunted on the wrong floor for Lily...the random radio word reciever...(local cb or ham operators having a blast...lol) (I really don't know how the thing works, but does it get ghost voices? I doubt it.)  Yeah, I'm pretty cynical at this point, after years of watching Ghost Hunters (Mainly the skinny guy with hair) trying to fool the average person..and to my surprise, the average person, is kind of gullible!  They have a cult following now to the point where they don't even have to defend their actions, they let their minions do it for them.  Just stay away from the grape kool-aid you guys...

 Ah well, I've lost my head of steam...I'm tired of going from forum to forum that advocate these guys and point things out, like the lamp cord at Myrtle Plantation, in the "slave shack" built in the 60's...1960's...lol.  I just hope they have trouble sleeping at night knowing what they are doing to people who want to believe so badly, that they save places at the table in case the guys show up.  I may get negative comments, but with only 300 hits so far, I doubt it...I can ramble all I want and not worry about how many "fans" crawl out of the woodwork to tell lil ol me to shaddup. :)

 

Joe Nickell's blog newsfeed added

 Joe Nickell, a paranormal investigator/skeptic, who also has a website http://www.joenickell.com/ , and has been called the modern day Sherlock Holmes or compared to Scully from the X-Files in his efforts to explore the paranormal and point out "hinky" things that were claimed to be paranormal.  He also has many other careers which you can explore on his site such as poet, author and private detective. He's a multi-talented person who happened to get into exploring the paranormal.

  I would like to point out his interview granted to Stephen, a member of The Skeptical Viewer website, where his podcast with Joe Nickell is posted.  This interview is great and should be a good listen to the paranormal skeptic or just those interested in the paranormal. He is a person along the line of James Randi, who is famous for debunking psychics and mediums, although Mr. Nickell has expanded his paranormal debunking to cryptozoology, ghosts, crop circles and other phony people out to hoodwink the public.

 Here is the link to his interview, please enjoy it and take time to check out the Skeptical Viewer website, which primarily concentrates on recent television "documentaries" on the paranormal and pointing out possible alternative explanations to the events seen on these shows.  Please be aware that almost all of the people who contribute to the Skeptical Viewer website do believe in the paranormal and have had paranormal experiences, but don't want people to be fooled by these shows which use pseudo science to attempt to find ghosts with emf detectors, etc.

 Joe Nickell Interview on Skeptical Viewer Podcast: http://www.skepticalviewer.com/2009/11/16/sv-podcast-021-joe-nickell-interview/

Ghost Hunters-Pensacola Lighthouse

Maybe we should call this episode, the "Pensacola Camera Light" as the episode did focus a lot on Grant's infrared illumination light turning off and on, apparently using the switch no less.  Do we add this to the "Grant List" on the http://www.skepticalviewer.com/ website?  We couldn't see what Grant was doing with the camera as we weren't shown up close shots, one of them occuring when the light was on, directly at the crew camera, hiding any movement and another was conviently behind Jason's noggin!  This episode was really hyped during last week's episode, but memorable, not really. I didn't get to watch Ghost Hunter's Academy yet, but I imagine it will be another show of Steve berating these people interested in learning the paranormal.  He acts like everything Ghost Hunters does is written in stone, no other way of investigating the paranormal is correct.  Their way or the highway, if it includes a dodgy collar pull...I will take the highway anyday.  Why Jason won't speak for Grant on this issue is troubling, he did "inspect" the collar, so why does he always say "Ask Grant" when it comes to that issue?  Just sounds like deflecting any possible poo that hits the fan when the truth comes out so it doesn't hit him.  But the fact will always remain, he did check out the collar and the collar did move a strange way when he patted him on the back.  Grant seems to be backing up and trying to go with the "it might have been my earpiece" bit..if he had been wearing an earpiece though all the halloween live episodes before and was wired up before the episode, he would have known how it acts and how it might feel like a tug.  But an earpiece causing him to flail one arm and almost lift a foot if he didn't actually do so (the overacting was very bad), normal people wouldn't have left one arm in their pocket, they would have pulled it out to help in case of a fall, plus he did it more than once, the overacting bit when the collar was pulled downward, not towards the back, he also says "look at the infrared where the ghostie (well, he didn't say that) pulled!" But that was just the part of the jacket that was next to his neck exposed after the pull, of course there will be heat there, and if a ghost, wouldn't it be colder, since they often feel cold spots?

 This is what gets me, they see these solid heat emitting apparitions (the same amount of heat as a person who is alive), which is supposed to be the "holy grail" of ghost hunting, but they don't chase it?  Now during this year's Ghost Hunter episodes, we see that "Samual Mudd House" apparition featured during "next week on Ghost Hunters, or Next On Ghost Hunter" promos, Jason didn't pan to the left real far like he says he did, and why, if it was that close, did they stop and study the video (which they could have done later) and not chase the darn thing?  And why wasn't it featured in the reveal, but now used in these promos?  This is what makes these guys charlatans and the fact they are making loads of money on the show plus GH merchandise  as well as personal appearances, taking money from hard working people who want to believe so badly in them, disgraceful.  This is my opinion of course, and how they can sleep at nights is beyond me, all a believer in them has to do is watch the Myrtle's Plantation episode and pay attention to the scene in the "Slave Shack" watch the lamp cord, which is hanging straight down, with Grant a ways away from it, then in next scene the cord is hanging at about a 45 degree angle, defying gravity with Grant right by it, arms crossed and the cord appearing to go straight into the hand under Grant's right armpit.  I knew something smelled funny at that time...and it wasn't Grant's armpit (I don't think).  Very strange indeed.

Ghost Lab episode, Dallas Texas

It was two towns in Texas that were investigated by Ghost Labs in the episode I saw yesterday, again, a day late to be able to have some time with my mom.

 One was a restaurant, the Catfish Plantation in Waxahatchie, Tx that had alledged moving silverware and chair rearranging themselves.  The Klinge brothers seemed to find some evidence of that happening with a butter knife on video, but as they themselves said, they couldn't be sure that it hadn't been loosened accidentally by a member of the team.  There also was a spoon that moved off camera, but again they said that wasn't evidence due to the fact it wasn't caught on video.  I did forget the moving sliding door, that was the most interesting, it appears to slide in and out of a slot in the wall, another angle appeared to show no one around, but as all angles weren't visible, I can't count it as paranormal. But interesting none the less. What impressed me was they were at the site three days and only caught that knife moving, no evps or hooded apparitions on infrared cameras, like some other teams. 

While mentioning that, I can't believe they use that Mudd House "apparition" on the Ghost Hunters intro!  They didn't even present it to the site owner in the final review! Also, with the Donna LaCroix interview on GhostDiva's webcast has sure caused a fuss, even though apparently, Donna didn't want it to be taken that way in later communication with various sites.  It even caused a fight on a certain blog where I do have to take the Ghost Diva's side on the matter.  Sadly, that blog's owner even caused potential danger to a former paranormal investigator, despite his good intentions. 

 But back to Ghost Lab, after their three day investigation at the inn, they went to a hotel in Dallas, where the highlight of the investigation, was to ask "Smiley" a ghost supposedly haunting a certain room, permission to enter (I believe 702, will have to check and edit this later, with hotel and inn names as well), before the magnetic key card would work.  This happened several times, don't ask, the key card don't work, ask Smiley if they could come in, the door opens easily with the keycard.  If I remember right, this investigation, besides having that coincidence, which could be said not to be one as it was reported to happen all the time, who knows, yielded only an evp, which wasn't very good.  I do have to say, Ghost Lab does have the disclaimer that their evidence is real before the show, and with finding very little during investigations, not a bunch of things as in other shows, I tend to believe they are trying.  Whether or not they will give in to the "we want ghosties in most investigations, and good ones! mentality, is yet to be seen.  I do have to say that you have to put up with one of the brother's zealousness (a little like Brian on GH) a lot.  It is like Brian Harnois (who I wish the very best, he didn't ask for all this put on him and the alledged hassling by certain people), you either like him or you don't.

 But to Brian Harnois, Donna LaCroix and Andy, I wish you guys the very best, I heard  things weren't going as well as you would have liked at this point, it may or may not be true, but I want you guys to know you were appreciated by your fans, and all I can do is wish you good luck in the future, I know you didn't want to end up part of a controversy, at least that much is true, and I hope the fans hold only good feelings and well wishes for you.

Waiting for daily GH and GHA Viewing

Well, I'm waiting to watch last night's Ghost Hunters and Ghost Hunters Academy with my mother, we have a set time to watch them every Thursday...it's usually too late for us on Wednesday Night.

 I was a little disappointed with Ghost Hunters Academy, first, I think they should go to new sites, not rehash old sites that the Ghost Hunters have already investigated.  Also, am I the only one who thinks that Steve is a little hard on these people?  It seems he's getting the Jason mentality down already in my opinion.  I would like the show to be a little more positive, not negative as it's started out...instead of teaching, they criticize.  I know teachers that were jerks never really got through to me, but teachers that took the time to explain things calmly, without sarcasm in their voice, as well as pointing out the positive aspects of what I had done, got through to me much better.  Tango seems to be a little better at this aspect, although I haven't seen last night's episode.  A good example is the girl who claims to be psychic and wanted to go into the building (last week, Ft. Mifflin), without history to taint her feelings.  Steve ragged on this, but I think all should go into buildings that are alledged to be haunted without knowing all the things that have been reported before.  This is a blind study and would put more credibility to things they found that agree with the history (provided they didn't know on the side), much more.  Knowing what's alledged to have happened on a site, could give the brain some subliminal weakness to see what was said to be haunting the place.  Going in cold, you don't have that, and if they come out saying they heard voices saying "I'm Joe" for example and later find out a guy named Joe died there, would be far more convincing to me.

Re: Extreme Paranormal

 There is a very good commentary on this pathetic show at http://whofortedblog.com/ . It is very insightful and a great commentary on how the paranormal themed shows are getting out of hand.  If Judas Priest can be sued (unsuccessfully) for alledged subliminal messages on one of their albums causing a suicide, just imagine what A&E is setting themselves up for with this show.  As the editor who commented on the above mentioned blog states, this show is very dangerous.  All it takes is a few kids attempting to recreate these stunts and get injured for the proverbial excrement to hit the fan.  Please take time to read this great article, in case it moves down the line, I will post the direct link, I am also going to add a newsfeed from their site at the bottom of this page.  Having just found the site, I think it's yet another good site for the skeptic or those who wonder just what is going on in these paranormal shows.  Although lately, they have concentrated on weird news, rather than bashing on shows as many sites have now started to do, I think their taking the time to point out the stupidity of the actions on the show as a public service in itself noteworthy.  It's sad that one of the members of the Extreme Paranormal "Stooges" was a part of the history of their blog, the writer of the article being a former friend before they parted ways on good terms, he does feel the need to give his honest opinion of how this show is dangerous as well as a blight on paranormal investigators in general.

 When I watched this show, sadly only now getting around to voice my opinion, I too felt this wasn't a show worth watching.  I hope that it's two show run is the last we will see of this show.  I felt myself wanting to laugh at most of the situations, except the "blood ritual", although supposedly edited not to show the whole ritual, I do think there will be some who try to recreate this situation.  I can see only harm coming from this, if not just the self-inflicted injury itself, to accidental burns and deep cuts and infection.  And that's only the medical side effects, who knows the psychological effects this can have on young people?  Can't be good, that's for sure.  As it is, all the other paranormal show's members are distancing themselves from this show as fast as they can, I don't blame them.

 Here is the direct link to the article; http://whofortedblog.com/?p=828

Re: Japanese blinking dog shirt...hoax.

There's a video clip on youtube (I will post the link so you can judge for yourself), which alledges to show a sweat shirt a guy was wearing, that had a cartoon dog picture on it apparently blinks. I say on the comments that after I watch it and pause on the blink, you can see where the eyes have been airbrushed during the blink, which was just a quick animation of the eyes. There was a comment after that which stated, "Oh it was on TV, it couldn't be fake"..yeah, and the dinosaurs on Jurassic Park really exist. They also state you can't see any alteration of the eyes, I just made a screen capture of the video at that point, you can clearly see where the two eyes have been altered. But will this convince that person? I doubt it, as I've said before, people so want to believe in the paranormal, they will even believe something as silly as a cartoon dog blinking on a video. Sure, it's a fun video, but is it real? No. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUDravpPno4&feature=email   Look for yourself, play it at full screen, pause during the blink as I have, you can clearly see the alteration.  People want to get a sick kick out of making other people believe in their hoaxes, I can name a few guys who specialize in this activity.  But here's the proof, fake as a 13 dollar bill.

Extreme Paranormal to air Tonight on A&E

Well, it looks like yet another paranormal show has been thrown into the mix with Extreme Paranormal airing on A&E tonight. It's another in several new shows to cram the airways with paranormal themes, joining Ghost Lab, Celebrity Ghost Stories, Ghost Hunters Academy to name a few. It's like everyone is joining the bandwagon on the paranormal. Yet another television trend like westerns, then detective shows, the age of comedies II (1970'S), the Night time Soaps, the Family show genre like Family Ties and The Cosby Show, then Reality Game Shows recently, the Million Dollar Night Time Game Show, Criminal Science and now Paranormal joining the likes of Ghost Whisperer, Medium to the Paranormal Docu-Soap Ghost Hunters and the ilk. We shall see if it's yet another "try to fool them for the cash" type show or will we finally ever get a skeptical Ghost Hunting show? We now know that Ghost Hunters wasn't was the type of show it was made up to be. I'm talking a real, for darn sure, skeptical bunch like Scooby and the Gang to go and pull the sheet off of whoever was under it at the Eastern State Penitentiary. Heck, we can see the leg and shoe, why would a ghost be under a sheet anyway? Even a black, silk type? I guess I'm a glutton for punishment, I have the DVR set to record the darn thing. At least it's only set for 2 episodes (for now, but if they get a decent audience, who knows, yet another series?).

For those interested in a synopsis, go to www.a&e.com, look under shows for extreme paranormal. If interesting, I may comment on it tomorrow.

Please vote

At the right you will find a poll on whether or not you believe in ghosts, please take a little time to voice your opinion. Even though I'm a skeptic, we all should be skeptical of what we see on television of course, including the "Docu-Soap" Ghost Hunters, who appear to be number one on the list of controversial shows. Many things over the years on the show have caused many to question the validity of the show. The fact that it was changed from Documentary to Docu-Soap does say a lot. I also wonder why they haven't rushed to claim the $1,000,000 prize of proof of the paranormal put up by the Amazing Randi. Seems if I had proof, I would run to claim my prize!

Now we have Ghost Hunters: Academy to look forward to viewing and check out what Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango have to offer the paranormal community with college students joining the hunt. I read it was set for 6 episodes, I guess to see how it goes..usual for new shows to check out if they will click with the viewers. Ghost Hunters has passed 100 episodes and now is in syndication, viewable on other channels than Sy Fy. So maybe Jason and Grant will call it quits while somewhat ahead. It seems every year there comes a new problem with their evidence. At the moment, it's the window question in the Meatloaf episode, could the water bottle have been moved from outside by someone removing the storm window and lifting up the inside window and move the bottle from sink to toilet? The fact that the inside window was up when it was down when the bottle was placed on the sink and up when it was discovered on the toilet, does say something is wrong, it seems there is no reason for that window to be up. I can only guess whoever moved the bottle forgot to put the window down when replacing the storm window. You can find video of this on YouTube and decide for yourself.

New newslink

I've added a link to the Television Shows part of the Forum at TheSkepticalViewer.com website.  This is a great site for debate on paranormal shows and whether or not the show portrays real paranormal evidence.  NOTE: The discussions here and on the main blog are to be civil and respectful for the other's beliefs.  Just because one of us may find something fishy and voice our opinion about it, we don't want to force views on other people, but just show alternative explanations or a good debunk, or even agreeing on some surprising things some of us may have seen.  There is also a forum topic for adding your own paranormal event.  I would also invite anyone to submit their paranormal experiences here as well.  Your post will be checked to see if it's suitable for all viewers before being added to blog.  Want to make sure the site stays child friendly.

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Panama Creature Update

It would seem there is yet to be forthcoming evidence on the "Panama Monster".  However, it seems that many people seem to think it's a sloth.  I thought of this as well, with the head shape and all, but at first, I didn't notice the shots of the feet of the creature and yes, there appear to be three claws, which would put it in the 3 toed sloth variety.

As to whether or not these teenagers actually killed it, I don't know, it has no hair, it's tongue is swollen in decomposition, there don't appear to be any eyelids and it does have nipples which makes it a mammal.  Could it be that the sloth is actually a sloth fetus?  I don't know, the body apparently was never recovered, so there goes our dna tests, as well, on Wikipedia, in the Montauk Monster article, another animal decayed found on a beach a year previous, and just as conveniently, body missing, is claimed to be a crytpzoological find, it was mentioned (with citation needed) that several biologists identified it as a sloth.  As to how it's hair is missing, they didn't know and did say that there did appear to be some hair on the body in some areas.

 A major conjecture I saw was that the sloth drowned and since their bodies are covered with hair that has algae growth on it, it may have been picked at by fish, I know, kind of far out there.  But it's feet to appear to be consistant with that of a sloth as well as the shape of it's head.  It's tongue just may be swollen out of proportion from decay and as well, modifications to the body may have been made.  It all seems kind of convenient that the body is gone now doesn't it?  Same with the supposed Montauk Monster...

 Although the recent poisoning of a creature which is now frozen in a taxidermists shop, which was claimed to be a Chupacabra, that appears to me just to be a dog or dog/coyote crossbreed with the mange, a condition that causes hair to fall out, however, there is a body to do dna testing on it.  If it's allowed, I will give the taxidermist some credit, if not, he's in it for the bucks or 5 minutes of fame...I only say 5, because internet fame is much more fleeting.  Remember, CNN in their video said they would keep tabs on the Panama Creature story, but after the initial report. Nothing.

 I used to be much more interested in cryptozoology as a teenager, soaking up Bigfoot and Loch-Ness Monster reports, as well as UFO's.  However, cryptozoology has fallen a rung or two, with old myths solved as hoaxes and new creatures found under skeptical circumstances.  I guess Destination Truth will have to carry the torch for this subject and if I see something of interest, I might follow up on it.  As for it's recent "Swamp Ape" episode, I had been reading about it since those old days in the late 70's (for me), Missouri's version...etc.  We even had sightings in Northern South Dakota back then, everyone wanted in on the Bigfoot action.  If anything comes of this Panama Monster business, I will post an update. Til then...think sloth, think sloth, think sloth, think sloth....sorry, had to mess with you a bit, hopefully, you don't read aloud!

It appears the MacNeil House Ghost Hunter episode is still active..

I recieved this in my e-mail, it appears the MacNeil House Ghost Hunters controversy is still rippling through the paranormal community. Scifake.com will be posting an interview with Mr. MacNeil today, when it will be posted, I'm not sure, it may already be up.

Confirmed: Tomorrow, an exclusive interview with a TAPS (Syfi GH) disgruntled client Leigh Macneil! MacNeil House episode!

Late last night we had the pleasure to speak to Leigh Macneil. You may remember Leigh from last week's Ghost Hunters episode titled the MacNeil House. Last night's conversation was not an interview; however, it was more like a "get to know you" rendezvous and the conversation was always friendly. We joked about family, neighbors and or course we poked fun at TAPS. Not on personal level; however, we both did agree unequivocally the show is becoming more humorous and a parallel demonstration of absolute buffoonery due to the allegations of fakery and deceit. In addition, I was surprised to learn Leigh is not a fan of GH and it was they who contacted him! Because of Leigh's tone (demeanor), I was harvesting the impression Leigh was angry about issues involving allegations of trickery (the clock) and misleading information. I told him I was not surprised since I have heard many of the horror stories involving Pilgrim Films, SyFy and TAPS (e.g., publicizing client personal information and faking evidence to pacify advertisers ). The interview will be published tomorrow since we want to give Leigh an opportunity to be thorough with the answers. In the meantime, watch the episode and you can decide. Oh, one last comment and then we'll watch the episode. Pay close attention to Leigh's lovely wife Renee as she explains to the team (during the tour) about the clock. She clearly states the clock mysteriously activated at 3 AM twice; however, during the investigation the clock is magically activated at 2 AM. Did the team screw up and set the wrong time?

Link To Post: http://scifake.com/?p=1906

Link to Site: http://scifake.com/

A very funny site I wish I had found earlier for the paranormal skeptic

After finding a page where "disillusioned" clients of Ghost Hunters, I guess I can't really call them clients, since I found out they the homeowner is contacted by Pilgrim, the producing company, contacts THEM, not they contacting Ghost Hunters as depicted in the show.

This site contains some play by play of some episodes as they were watched by a person or persons who make some quite hilarious commentary to the episode. You have to read them to see, kind of hsrd to explain, like why Jay and Grant keep trying to pull fast ones over us.

It is http://theouijaboard.wordpress.com/

I will also put a link on the link list, but as far as I got reading tonight, it is a bit old, late 2008, will read more tomorrow, but appeared the more disillusioned they got, the less they wanted to watch. The main page has "collar-gate" debunks on it, didn't see much newer, but the old posts were a riot to read.

Wow, what the heck is it??

A creature found in Panama City, Panama has people baffled for the moment, it may be a fetus of some sort, but there is a lot of speculation as to what it is. DNA tests will have to be done, it may be a mutated fetus of a normal animal, suffering from deformities, but was allegedly alive at the time of it's discovery by 4 teenagers, who threw rocks at it. Time will tell, will try to keep up to date on this one!

Ghost Hunters Union County Courthouse

I just have to say that Jay and Grant totally mistated the fact that there was no exit for the apparent "ghost" to get through. If you look closely, there are two colums in the bookshelves on the left of the screen. Right after the second column, there is an aisle where someone could go...I watched the footage over and it appears the "ghost" made that turn right before it reached the second column, through the aisle that went to another row of bookshelves. I find it odd that they would state such a thing when it's right in front of our noses.

Also, they stated that the "ghost" appeared to be female, when in both my and my Mother's opinion, we both thought it was a man. We are watching in HDTV on a pretty large screen, so again, to say something like that when it's totally subjective, is pushing it a bit. When something like that, which is far back away from the camera, to say this and that about it, when you cannot back up for fact that it is, totally leads the viewers and probably the "clients" into believing what they want you to believe.

But after looking again and again, there IS a place for the "ghost" to exit the scene, right after the second white column on the left for the viewer, and the image sure does look like to me, that it turns right, our left, into that access aisle. There also is a portable podium there, although you cannot see this in the night footage, you CAN see the second column.

But as many of you probably don't know, they really aren't plumbers as well. This was even stated by Roto-Rooter, that they are not employees of Roto-Rooter in Rhode Island. Jason does have a one year apprentice license, but Grant doesn't even have that. And don't you think you would want licensed plumbers working on your pipes? Especially when installing devices that may use natural gas to heat water? Or how about properly installing vent pipes? I mean, all the home renovation shows I've seen, contract out licensed plumbers to do the pipework and install hot tubs and such, I wouldn't want to be electricuted by an improperly grounded hot tub!

So let's get real, and remember, although it's now Scy-Fy...it was the Science-FICTION channel.

Latest Ghost Hunter Episodes

I just have to say that the latest Ghost Hunter episodes have been very disappointing, especially the Samuel Mudd House episode. This so called "spectre" was totally someone out of position or in my OPINION, someone trying to get away with something, now WHO, is to be debated.

Jason and Grant, even in the following week, "chased" the sounds and noises they heard or the images they saw off camera. But when this huge anomoly goes across their FLIR camera, they fiddle around rewinding the thing, Jason claims to have scanned left a good distance...no not really, you can still see the light in the background, then goes back, and a bit later goes about 45 degrees to the left.

Why didn't they chase the thing? The natural human response when seeing something like that, and you have been chasing ghosts for years and years, would be to run after it!! Yet they were totally blase about the whole thing, rewinding the camera to look at the image and just rant on how amazing it is.

They said they couldn't see or hear the "apparition" but the crew cameraman was well behind Jason and Grant to the point where the "apparition" would be out of range of it's IR ability. We have Jason leading the way, Grant well behind him and the crew cameraman well behind Grant. It was obviously a SOLID object, because the FLIR device cannot measure air temperature between objects, it can only measure the temperature of the solid objects that reflect heat (Even though something is cold, it is still emitting heat, the only way it couldn't, would be to be at absolute zero, when movement of atoms stop. It's this movement of atoms that cause heat. The faster they move, the more heat they emit).

But very seldom does the Ghost Hunters crew mention that the FLIR device catches only heat or reflected heat from solid objects only. But they have mentioned it a few times. So if a client chooses to believe that the object is a ghost possibly wearing an old time bonnet and is vaporous, they never say "Oh no, it has to be a solid object for the device to see it" bringing questions into the client's mind, "well, how can a ghost be solid, if it's just energy?" That would probably not be aired on the episode. Anyway, these "apparitions" they catch with the FLIR device, even the one dancing a jig at Ft. Mifflin I believe, all have to be solid objects, ie. people. Like why would a ghost peek around the corner? After it just came out and danced a jig? If it came out to dance a jig, it's obviously not afraid to show itself, so why peek around the corner? Bah.

I also have to question EMF devices. This is a bunch of hoo-hah. I went and got an MRI, (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) which produces a magnetic field that would probably fry the EMF devices they carry, the technician told me it produces into the thousands of gauss, while these EMF detectors measure milligauss. It also would be the ultimate fear cage, would it not? Yet the only thing that really bothers people is the claustrophobia. The confined space. There is no sign that says you might experience "itching, paranoia, feelings of being watched or dread, or even hallucinations" and you are in this field up to and over a half hour. Yet this EMF claim says that some people experience it immediately if not over some time. But yet we have to remember that this is just a very small emf compared to the emf the MRI device makes, remember, this thing uses so much magnetic energy to see our muscles and tendons and soft tissue unlike x-rays. The technician I talked to also said no one experienced those effects, except for those with masses on the brain or brain injuries who might have hallucinations due to the injury. How many of you out there have had an mri? See any ghosts? If EM Fields also help ghosts manifest, you would thinks they would all be sitting around an MRI device like those waiting for Whoopi Goldberg in "Ghost"!

If this new show coming out, Ghost Lab, uses EMF devices, I might have to question that as well. They are claiming to come out and do the most scientific evaluations of ghost hot spots. I do like the fact that the GHI team does use a camera that also utilizes the ultra-violet spectrum instead of just the infra-red (heat). Remember that the ultra-violet and infra-red are just a very small part of the radiation field, which also contain x-rays and gamma rays as well. Just different wavelengths of radiation. Gamma rays being the most destructive. There are also alpha and beta rays. Forms of radiation not quite as powerful as Gamma rays, but will kill you if exposed enough. It's hard to remember that light is just a part of this radiation spectrum, including infra-red and ultra-violet, we just cannot see them. Infra-red will burn you if too close to a campfire, ultra-violet will burn you if out in the sun too long and no sunblock on you. Anyway, you can get better information on radiation, which light is a part of, on wikipedia or elsewhere on the web. As for the MRI, read up on this, the only possible skin irritation may come from older style tattoos with a lot of iron oxide (red) used in them. At any rate, I think my rant is done for the day...and as you can see, been neglecting this blog for a bit, just a lot of health problems and such, but the latest GH episodes just made me want to speak out, and thinking about the MRI that I had compared to EMF detectors.

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Paranormal State: The Tillie Pierce House

The last Paranormal State I watched, far more interesting than the GH self-plug of their own "Ghost" Hotel or Inn, was of the Gettysburg, PA Tillie Pierce House. This house saw action in the Battle of Gettysburg as a "field hospital" kind of a M.A.S.H unit in the most basic of ways considering it was almost 100 years before the Korean War, amputations without anesthetic was common, Doctors trying to amputate limbs in seconds to minutes to keep up with the battle wounds and just to make it as quick on the patient as possible. We've seen pictures of the battlefield and all the bodies, although we cannot take all the pictures at face value, there was a photographer who did move bodies to make the sight even more gruesome, not sure if this was Gettysburg or Bull Run, but it did happen.

But the fact does remain, this was a horrific battle, and if anything could leave lingering paranormal activity, this could. But it also makes me ask the question, why don't we hear more about other major battlefields around the world? You would think Okinawa, where the forced suicides of many of it's own civilians by the retreating Japanese Army, which itself had lost over 100,000 soldiers to the Allies (plus the 42,000-142,000 civilians killed by Japanese who forced them to fight, killed for speaking a different dialect or suicide) to the over 12,500+ Allied deaths, would be a prime spot for paranormal investigation. However, the people of Okinawa have different thoughts about the paranormal and messing around with the paranormal, as we saw in a similiar Japanese reluctance to even talk about it in a Destination: Truth episode about the suicides under Mt. Fuji. We have to respect those wishes.

But back to the Tillie Pierce House, this investigation starts out with research on the Tillie Pierce House as well as Tillie Pierce, who was just 15 it turns out when the battle occurred, this is a big burden for such a young lady, she saw things someone her age shouldn't have had to see, but sadly, this happens. Our neighborly psychic Chip Coffey shows up but doesn't seem to have all the usual information that he has when he comes to some places, maybe too many to remember in Gettysburg. Obviously a female being involved is a good guess as it's the Tillie Pierce House and her picture is visible inside the house, the fact that a lot of people died there was a pretty obvious observation as well, but there were no names and such as he usually has. However, I do respect the tone he took in respecting these passes souls.

There were about 3 incidents that happened that may have been paranormal, all do have some possible explanations though. 1. The moaning heard, no mention of the wind is made, although the furnace is checked, sounded strangely like when you blow air over a soda bottle, maybe same effect over a vent pipe? Still pretty creepy, not an EVP as you could hear this as it happened. 2. The door moves behind the big bearded guy, one of the cameramen I believe, but he's a big dude like myself and may have inadvertly bumped it causing it to hit the wall, with guys like us, don't take much of a bump to get it moving and not notice it, he was close enough, but who knows. I don't really like to say someone is pulling something off unless I know THEY know they are pulling something off...like Grant and the moving lamp at Myrtle Plantation. And 3. The mysterious moving soap bottle, the only person who could have possibly done this was again the camera guy. If he did it, he's pretty quick with the hands, it was also done when Ryan yelled "Stop" or "Don't Move!" He then said he thought he possibly saw a shadow person. Now a "shadow person" why is it different than an apparition? Does it appear only on solid surfaces? Or is it just a dark shape in the figure of a person, which would still be an apparition, wouldn't it? Sometimes, all these terms can be confusing, but doesn't mean that after the first couple of episodes we do not need "EVP" and "EMF" explained in detail by the people in the show to fill dead space...a simple caption would do. But apparently, shadow people are different than apparitions or ghosts, wha??? See what I mean!

All in all, an interesting episode, as I've said before, I think these guys are the most sincere of the bunch. But as I say that, The Paranormal Research Society of Penn St. is splitting from Ryan and his group, as of course, they have graduated, done Master's thesis' and whatnot and are going to form their new group, still somewhat tied to PRS, but PRS will be a Penn State project still and the new group can go out like the GH and GA groups if the original members so decide. Ryan will of course still be a part of this new group which will be called PRS, LLC. With the Penn St. group being a branch of this new National group. They have already named a new director of the Penn St Group, which will be given some office space at the National PRS Group Office. The new director of the Penn St. group wasn't named on the PRS website at this time. (Source: PRS Website).


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Psychic Kids/ Children of the Paranormal, Child exploitation?

To be honest, I haven't seen but about 30-35 minutes of this show. There were 3 children, who all had problems at night seeing things or maybe seeing things, who really knows, but the children? Are they getting caught up in the hype of being on a television show? Some are actually terrified, crying and really afraid when psychic Chip Coffey tries to get them to face their fears. Boy, this guy is everywhere, now I see why he isn't on Paranormal State lately.
If I were the Paranormal State Organization, I would really distance myself from this show. The children may be just seeing things, like we probably all did if we were afraid of the dark, like a coat hanging on the back of a door turns into some sort of scary looking being that causes us to go under the covers.

But if they are sensitive, at this age is it really appropriate to put them through conditions where the other kids can cause hysteria among the group? The episode I saw was called "Night Terrors". When the kids are taken to the ghost town then at night turned loose, to check the place out, by themselves, the oldest being maybe 11 with a little girl around 7 or so, when they approach a rock one sees something, then the others just get scared, the little one starts crying and is totally scared out of her wits, then an older boy says he sees a "dead man" all heck breaks loose.
(Note: after reviewing the 40 minutes I saw of this episode, the kids were 9 and 8 and 8, THERE was a clinical psychologist there, but NOT with the kids when they needed it the most).
After seeing another episode with a 12 and 14 year old, more appropriate to understand what's going on I would think, this is when I found out there was a clinical psychologist available. All the parent's claim they think that the Social System will take their kids away from them if they took them to get checked out, there are many things that cause hallucinations, not necessarily psychological, but medical, I don't know, this show some how doesn't sit right with me, someone is getting paid and I don't think it's the kids.)

The parents and Chip come to the rescue, Chip saying he will take them back out there and go with them, of course they don't want to, until the boy steps forward, remember, he's probably the oldest, the others follow along with their parents. I don't know, this show just hits me in the wrong spot, like they've taken paranormal to the extreme. You have the Ghost Hunters, who, when they were investigating houses and had kids on the top of their list, even now, I don't think they would drag these youngsters into such a place. I had noticed the title of the show being on before, but thought it was like that show about the Russian Teen who could diagnose illnesses just by looking at people with her "X-Ray" eyes. So didn't pay the show any mind. If I had know it was like this, I would have commented earlier, I had just put it on the dvr after it had started before I went to sleep. Is this something we should put children through? Even if they have psychic abilities?

And now, it seems Grant and Jay are more interested in shamelessly advertising their Inn they bought (Guess no more plumbing? All from Ghost Hunter earnings?, oh I imagine until the show ends that Roto-Rooter will have their ad in the show where Kris or someone calls right when they are finishing up, lol!) I mean the went whole hog on this one, calling in the Ghost Hunters International team to check it out. Naturally, there was thumping and evp's and even a claim of a full body apparition (why don't we ever see those on camera?) I'm sure now, when the renovations are complete, which could be any time as there was snow at the time, that the opening night will be packed. Oh, one thing I noticed, again, they always claim to be alone, except for the camera crew when investigating, in the Crescent Hotel episode, there were a couple of people in another room that they caught on FLIR, not mentioned until it's seen during review "if you had only watched 20 more seconds of the video" Steve says. At least they didn't edit it out, but it does show how much contamination happens during their investigations, I wouldn't be surprised it was one of these guys who walked out into a hallway or something, not sure on the episode, did a jig, then later peeked around the corner to see if anyone was around. I can't believe they even put this up as paranormal... Getting carried away here, I guess I just am getting more "numbed" by what these people are doing to make a buck. Scaring kids, sheesh, can you go much more overboard? (back to the main topic). This isn't interesting television, this is just plain exploitation of these poor kids fears, if they are truly psychic, putting them on a television show instead of quiet therapy, just seems wrong. I can't believe that this show was thought up and actually produced. A real shame.

Re: Lake Monsters: MonsterQuest

Just a short remark on so called "Lake Monsters". Lake Okanagan, in British Columbia, Canada is supposedly the home of Ogopogo, one of the many "lake monsters" to exist in this world's deep lakes.

During the show, a very sophisticated version of FLIR was used to look for trails left in the waters by even reptilian type creatures. And actually, some "trails" were found. What bothers me, is the description of the currents in such a deep lake, reported as over 200 meters deep, is the layering of different tempuratures of water. The lake is long and narrow, like Loch Ness and has deep drop offs like Loch Ness as well, sheer cliffs carved out by the Ice Age glaciers some 10,000+ years ago.

This same Ice Age also affected Scotland and carved out Loch Ness as well, leaving me to wonder why some people attribute these monsters to be reptilian. Sure, it has been claimed by some that dinosaurs were warm blooded, I doubt very much they could survive at that latitude during an Ice Age. But back to the currents, with such deep lakes different layers of water at different tempuratures tend to form. As like in our atmosphere, this layering is subject to rising and falling of water causing the currents, such as clouds are made. In lakes, however, it would seem that the layers are more stable, if left undisturbed. In the show, the expert on water dynamics showed how the strange wave patterns could be formed if currents passed over lower depths of the lake, back into the deeper depths. If these currents exist, there's the possibility that along the sheer sides of the islands they were inspecting from the air, seeing these trails, could be warmer or colder water rising along the sheer cliffs causing a several degree temperature change.

Now I don't claim to be an expert at water dynamics, but in the ocean, animals often gather at edges of sharp declines in water depths to take advantage of the nutrients brought up which attract smaller bait fish all the way to large predators.

The idea that the creature is an ancient form of prehistoric whale seems silly as well, I've heard this theory. Again, the species of ancient whale existed well before the latest Ice Age and after everything melted, why would it leave the nutrient rich oceans to go up the Columbia River then follow another river up to lake Okanagan and become land locked? They would have to go up in sufficient breeding populations, we do know that Lake Okanagan does have a better food supply than Loch Ness, the main failing of the possibility of Nessie. But reading the descriptions of the Lake Okanagan monster, it does remind me of at least a for sure Columbia River inhabitant, the giant White Sturgeon. It has been known to grow these lengths quoted as well as the diameter. It's a very prehistoric fish, with cartilage instead of bone, like the sharks. They are actually probably older than the shark as they are a jawless fish. And if some of you have seen these fishing shows where they have went White Sturgeon fishing in the Columbia, you could see how this could be mistaken for a monster.

The specimen they found on a dive turned out to be a decaying common salmon species, which in it's form of decay, did look quite strange. But it goes to show that we can see things in normal things because we want to believe so much. There were also holes in the bottom silt, one of the species named in the list of fish in Lake Okanagan was the burbot, or ling cod, as well eelpout in some areas. This is a strange looking fish that looks like it's fish at the front, eel at the back. They dwell in deep, cold water, they are known as sluggish swimmers but voracious predators. They are also slow growing, taking about 7 years to mature, I don't know if they make hiding holes, not much is known about them as they avoid warm water, spawn under the ice in shallower water, but as summer comes along, retreat to the depths. Canada does hold the record for the largest burbot caught at 42+ inches, 3 1/2 feet. Do they make depressions in the silt and ambush prey? I don't know, but they are active nocturnal feeders even coming to the surface if the water is cold. I can't really explain the depressions in the silt. But something sure took off when the low frequency noise was played. Something hiding in one of the holes annoyed at the sound and appearance of the diver? I really don't know. These would be good questions for an icthyologist, boy I hope I spelled that right, or fish expert.

Is there something different in Lake Okanagan? Time will tell I guess. There is adequate food for a small population. I don't remember the guide mentioning sturgeon in the lake, but smaller species of sturgeon are likely, not sure about the White Sturgeon, it may need a different type of ecosystem like the flowing Columbia River to survive.

If Ogopogo does indeed exist, it will be a coup for the cryptozoologists, that's for sure! There are many places man hasn't explored, most of it under water. I do know that Ogopogo is a geniune tourist attraction, and that loss of it's potential existance would hurt the community. But sometimes it's strange, there's an unidentified possible creature, people want it proven that it DOESN'T exist, rather that proving that it DOES. Kind of the reverse of a court of law. "Until it's proven NOT real, It's real." Hmn. Not exactly the scientific process.

Well, as I go over this, it's a bit rambling...I do tend to do that. I will try to do an outline first next time. One other thing I've always though while on the topic of cryptozoology... I've read that we dream we are falling, to prevent us from falling out of primitive nests, like gorillas. If we have a collective subconscience, could bigfoot be distant memories of interaction with Giganthropithicus, hopefully spelled right, the large, walking primate of Asia? The legend did go into the Pacific Northwest as well as the Himalayas...bringing up the Pacific Northwest as that's the (or one) of the routes taken into the North American continent. Just a thought.

Sorry late on this, been very busy, then ill...ugh.

Okay, on the new GhostHunters last week, the second part of the episode was as I thought, a whole bunch of nothing, but you can't expect to see paranormal activity at every place you go investigate. That's another thing that bothers me, a GhostHunters episode with all debunking (what happened to debunking? Still strong on GHI.) As well as I brought up before, I wonder how many people are calling them with kids "in danger or scared" usually the number one criteria of their investigations, those seem to have disappeared as well. The second part of the episode was indeed candlepin bowling, old machines making noise and the "EMF" hyper-sensitivity the explanation, oh yeah, and a breathing toilet! I guess I can count some debunking here.
Now, concerning Belcourt Castle, there was some unexplained activity according to their instruments...first being the heat source on/under the floor. Note that the FLIR device was set at 60 degrees white hot, 45 degrees black cold. Not much of a spectrum...15 degrees, their assertation that an animal (ie mouse) couldn't have been between the floorboards..kind of looked like a mouse moving around to me, and when it went under the door jamb to the next room, it disappeared, moving further away from the FLIR and also having the door as an extra shield to it's temperature. Most likely a mouse had it's nest there, was nice and warm, then Jason comes clumping along and of course it takes off, leaving a colder trail. With that close of a spectrum setting, it seems to me a couple of degrees meaning the difference between Red and Yellow, it's not far fetched to speculate a mouse. Just as it is to speculate a footprint.
Not much else happened except of course the eternal walking sounds. But as we cannot see where everyone is with a timestamp (not doctored of course), including crew, we cannot consider this evidence. Now, what happened to never investigating alone? Guys got chewed out for this, yet Jason shoos Grant out of the room to talk to the spirit alone. Now Grant is out of sight when the K2 meter goes off to "tell" Jason to get the heck out. Now wouldn't staying in there be provocation? One of their tactics? But I think Jason knew this guy, and felt their was a man to spirit connection there.
As for the rest of the show, I mentioned above, and at Belcourt, nothing really of consequence happened, except for a swinging chandelier, which was explained by the ladies upstairs (now I always thought that teams went in alone...hmn) but at least they fessed up to causing the ruckus.

One of the reruns was the good old first Eastern State Penitentiary episode, it was indeed funny to see the "Dude, Run!" again, and of course, to see these guys buy into the idea that what they saw was a spirit manifesting and Brian making a mockery of really showing how fast someone could move on that railing. You obviously see a leg, shoe and arm under that veil, I say veil, not black blanket. A veil would have the same effect (and you see this same thing in a later rerun where the guy is desperately hoping nothing supernatural is there, but yet a veiled person, you see the separation of the legs as he walks out a few steps and back), and why do these ghosts always go halfway out, then back? Is this in the Ghost Union book, as well as duck walking behind pool tables in your veil making sure NOT to go past the end, which would of course show the silliness of a duck-walking ghost. If these are residual haunts, what would they care? If they are intelligent, what would they care? This ghost pattern on GhostHunters has me baffled, that's more of a mystery than the ghosts. If they are going to show themselves, why not the full monty?

Naturally, Jason and Grant are pressured to come up with something on each episode. But ghost hunting doesn't work like that, many times you come up empty handed before actually having something significant happen. Yet these guys come up with something in every episode. That's got to be a record. But yet again, we have to remember it's the Science-Fiction channel. At least A&E, now doing Paranormal State, has the disclaimer at the beginning of the show. So I guess this means, hey watch this show with the same belief as "Dead Like Me" and "Battlestar Galactica".

Anyway, the boys investigate a museum/aquarium holding some of the relics of the Titanic, now I'm one of those guys that believe the tomb shouldn't have been messed with, but with the chance of the almighty dollsr supposedly in a safe..I'm glad it turned out like Al Capone's vault. This should have been declared off-limits and a mounument. Oh well. Even with public outrage, it was done anyway, yes, it's one thing to find it and film it...but to dig around in it...that was too much. It's just plain desecrating a grave site. If there is supernatural activity at this place, I could see why they were disturbed.

I will try to comment on one of the last Paranormal State's I saw, later, as well as Ghost Hunters, sooner this time I hope! Ah, I also just got a cheaper HDTV just a 720p but it's nice so far and I hope I can glean more details out of these shows. I missed the last Most Haunted because of that...figuring out all those dang wires. But then, what was I really missing, just more rock throwing. Although that mist was intriguing the week before last.

Well, A New Ghost Hunters Episode Tonight

Tonight, Jay and Grant and the rest of the TAPS crew check out Belcourt Castle, located in Newport, Rhode Island, in a two-part show. This usually means they don't see much, despite all the hype put on the ads. They also check out a Somerville, Mass. bowling alley, described as old-time. I wonder if it's one of those candlepin type bowling alleys, if I remember right, that's what they are called and popular in the Northeast US. I will end up watching it tomorrow as my disability usually puts me to sleep fairly early. I will try to comment on this episode then.

Also, as usual, there are a bunch of repeat episodes tonight with the new show sandwiched between them. It can give some of the new audience a chance to catch up, I can't remember which episodes have been edited since their original airing, but I shall try to research and find out if i have the energy and time.

Also a new episode of UFO Hunters on the History Channel tonight as well, looking into Alien underwater bases, for those interested in UFO's. With the distance between the stars and Einstein's theory of Relativity saying you cannot go faster than the speed of light, I find it a little hard to believe in UFO's. No doubt people are seeing something, there are too many credible witnesses to say they are all hoaxes. Classified military activity maybe, I don't know on this one. But another theory is tectonic activity, which as an example, may produce phenomenon akin to lightning in a thunderstorm, but on a geological level. This theory is very tough to explain, but sightings near volcanoes may be a result of this.

And also on paranormal Wednesday, a couple of repeat MonsterQuest episodes are on tonight on the History Channel as well, exploring the possiblility that the Loch Ness Monster DID exist, but has died...as well as maybe the possibility a form of Megalodon (The giant prehistoric shark similiar to the Great White, but much larger, may still exist). MonsterQuest can be interesting at times, at one time having an episode about the Humbolt Squid in the waters of the Sea of Cortez (between Baja California and the Mexican mainland, these squid ARE quite aggressive and may be responsible for deaths of fishermen (Called the Red Devil by local fishermen). They can have mantles like 3 feet long along with a large sharp beak, and like the Giant and Colossal Squid, very sharp hooks lining their suckers, making escape very difficult. If you are checking out MonsterQuest re-runs, I would recommend this episode. At least I hope it was on MonsterQuest!

Anyway, happy viewing! And if you wish to watch all of these, I hope you have a dvr.





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Paranormal Television shows

Shows I find the most sincere: Concerning Ghosts

1. Paranormal State
2. Ghost Adventures
3. Ghost Hunters International
4. Ghost Hunters
5. Most Haunted
6. A Haunting

Okay, all statements made by me are just my opinion and you know what they say about those!
I find "Paranormal State" the most sincere, despite the use of a medium, I've noticed in later shows that Chip Coffey doesn't appear as much, I will go into my opinion about Mediums in another post, but the use of mediums in these paranormal ghost shows, I really think is a big mistake, especially when they come into a place and know data to a T, worst of these is the medium in Most Haunted. But back to the Paranormal State team, the do seem to go to cases (with the exception of the Mothman episode, but I guess they are entitled to a little fun). where it really is the home owner, not some famous "haunted place" that all the paranormal teams around the country know about. They go in, try to find the reason for the haunting, do local research on the home, and seem to care about the family in distress. You very seldom see emf detectors, FLIR devices (did see one intended to look for animals "Lady in White"), marbles or other strange gadgets. Since this is just the start of the blog, I need to keep full opinions to a minimum and spread them out, so others can comment.

Ghost Adventures, I like the idea of being locked in for 24 hours with a minimum of people around, no mediums except for one show in Florida, I believe. They have static cameras around the house, have caught interesting, controversial video, still being debated at this date! The infamous "Flying Brick". Their evp's aren't crystal clear like other shows, despite using a special microphone, try some strange experiments (Idaho State prison, the wierd television feed back trick, kind of like putting a microphone close to a speaker and getting the feedback, but using video with a camera recording a television screen to which it's connected. Strange, but I guess an honest attempt at a supposed way to record faces or ghosts, I doube we will see it again in season 2, which I've been told 20 episodes have been filmed. But I DO believe the "hand" shadow was just that, the investigator's shadow of his hand. An honest mistake? Who knows.

Ghost Hunters, what can I say, they've brough the ghost hunting television show phenomanon to the forefront of the paranormal shows. Bringing more ghost hunting shows to compete and ride the coat tails. They seemed very sincere at first "caring about the scared kids and individual homes", then came the tourist sites.....about every "haunted" location around the US competing to get on the show. And even sprouting a spin-off I forgot to mention "Ghost Hunters International" which I will now edit into the list, and yes, I do believe the International team more sincere than the US team, despite THEIR scaredy-cat medium/psychic Gavin Cromwell, who's more likely to run than poor Brian Harnois, the scapegoat/comic relief of Ghost Hunters in past seasons. But I kind of think of Ghost Hunters without Brian is like Gilliigan's Island without Gilligan. Awww, not really THAT bad. But once Ghost Hunters went to the big tourists sites and forgot about the average joe, which I think is really more interesting, it started going downhill.
Then the controversy, after the tourist sites, they were pressured to have something happen every episode is my theory, causing Grant to crack...and become very suspect in many people's eyes. From the alledged collar pull in the Halloween special 2008 to the Myrtle Plantation slave house Lamp Crawl. One viewer even brought up a very good point in a chair moving incident on a Coast Guard managed light house, Jay bringing his fishing equipment....I wonder what he was fishing for? Did he have a license? I didn't see any bait...sure there are lures, but I guess I would need a fisherman from that area and time frame to know if fishing was even an option at that time and what type of fish. The viewer pointed out it sure was a good way to bring fishing line to an investigation and like they say, hide things in plain sight. Anyway, you kind of get the picture. I like the show, watch it all the time, but after the Manson Episode FLIR video tampering (Seen by a VERY sharp-eyed viewer, and proven with Ghost Hunter's own video from the show, one version seen during the alledged incident and the change seen in the presentation to the client). As well as their "Open" forum. Where sincere questions asked in polite manners questioning different things, offering different explanations to happenings on the show, mysteriously disappear, make them very suspect these days, again, my opinion.

Most Haunted, a British paranormal show, which has suffered the same criticisms by the UK audience as much or more than the Ghost Hunters show has suffered here. These guys, well Gals and Guys as they are led by Yvette Fielding, the host of the show, a medium ( ), a Paranormal "Expert" who does seem to be pretty fair in reporting how video or sounds could be explained or that without video being seen from beginning to end, it cannot be considered evidence, this is Ciaran O'Keefe. I consider this program to be the least sincere television show on the paranormal. Although Ciaran O'Keefe does give objective reports at the end, the profound accuracy by their "medium" who has an uncanny ability to name people associated with the site they are at, of course people have to remember these psychics have to be told at one point where to go or meet to get to the site. Even if they are given a city, they still have the opportunity to use a laptop and satellite internet connection to look up the most likely haunted site in that area and then research historical happenings or ghost stories of the site(s). This is the problem, they cannot be blindfolded taken blindfolded all the way to the site which may be hundreds of miles away. It could be possible to take an American psychic, tell him to land at the Kansas City airport, THEN blindfold them, take them to St. Joseph, Missouri, walk he/she into the house, THEN take the blindfold off, making sure it's a site that's not famous and then see what they can pull out of the air.... I don't know if the amazing Kreskin (sp?) is still alive, but he had a lot of money put up for a psychic to prove their abilities, it has never been claimed. A little off the subject, but anyway... Also, these people can go into sites where other shows have been, like that Tuberculosis Sanitoriums (not sanitariums for the insane, the term of the time), that had the "Body Chute" which was explained on another program to actually be used more for pushing supplies (food, medicine, etc) up to care for the patients from a train station right below it, more than pushing all the bodies out. People I hear still disagree on the amount of people who actually died there...but it really could have been significant. But when other teams were there, there was no "poltergeist" activity, I swear, these people could go into the bathroom of a McDonald's and have a rock thrown at them. ;) You also could make a drinking game out of this show, drink whenever Yvette says "Astral Beings", an object is thrown at them, they say they hear something, and loop it, but still you hear nothing OR you hear the generic "whoooo" which of course sounds like one of the ladies off camera, then drink when Yvette says "Thank You, Sweetie" I could go on and on...but I won't

Hopefully, this will get more of an audience, I will post links to some of these shows sites and forums and you can decide for yourself on some things.

Goodnight for now, what is that noise in your closet? :))

First Post...Why?

I suppose we all have a wonder about what is out there after we die. Maybe we have had experiences that make us wonder, what the heck was that? I have had such an experience, as an adolescent. I will maybe go into this later, it's a pretty short story, but I probably will.

But my main goal is to discuss my opinions about what's going on now with the paranormal parade that's going on our televisions lately. Some shows seem to be sincere, some outright silly in a way. Hopefully, we will have a good dialogue on our experiences, what we think about what we've seen on the latest television shows.

Let's see what this turns into, shall we?

Anyway, off we go, into the unknown or simple explanation.