Comments on: 06-08-10

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:12:48 +0000

The moron is you! One of these days you will find out theres more out there than what ur stupid eyes can see! mind your own business

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:59:34 +0000

i totally agree! They are not fake Everyone has an opinion about everything Do you skeptics ever consider to mind your own business and let people believe in what they believe in Do you wanna go tellin people there is no God or the moon landing was faked Find something productive to do with ur free time and let “us” believe what we want

By: slcmom

slcmom — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:35:10 +0000

I am a believing skeptic, meaning that I try to debunk every single thing I see or hear regarding the paranormal, and it amounts to being that I end up believing about 1 percent, if that, of what I see or hear. But I get a thrill out of finding that one thing that makes me go “hmmmm”. I left Mormonism about 3 years ago, and since doing so, have become skeptic of whether or not there even is a god. My husband is agnostic. We watch G.H. together sometimes…he gets a good laugh out of it, and I enjoy watching it to see if anything seems spooky. I’ve been disappointed most of the time, and fall asleep most of the time. I think Jason and Grant and the producers of the show take us all for idiots. The show has definitely gone downhill. On another note, my disbelieving husband and I went on a ghost hunt a couple of years ago at an abandoned hospital, as a gift for me for Valentine’s Day. :) The only piece of “evidence” we caught was an “EVP” of what sounded like child’s laughter. We were creeped out by it, but even though we know we were the only people in that room, we STILL question it. I can’t believe some people are so believing…so gullible…so wanting to have some kind of excitement in their lives that they have to be so far-reaching in their stories and experiences. Don’t they know how ridiculous they sound? And as far a Celebrity Ghost Stories goes, wow…they are still acting half the time I think. And someone needs to tell these people about the diagnosis of sleep paralysis! I hate that these producers of these shows take advantage of these people’s horrific experiences and use them as a “ghost” story, without telling them about this common sleep disorder…which I am SURE they know about! Anyway, enough babble. Any comments?

By: Raw-b

Raw-b — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:03:27 +0000

I would love to hook up a polygraph to each member of TAPS and ask them if they had ever falsified evidence or staged any of the paranormal activity on the show

By: bp

bp — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:06:39 +0000

Ok, not being a skeptic or a huge fan of the show and wanting to believe, the idea of having five hours of footage and only five min containing something possibly paranormal is the whole point. Put in five hours time in and get what could be brief footage or evidence that shows something that can’t be explained mr documentary film maker is how this business is done worldwide. Whether the show is genuine or not is not official and you can always question people who are capturing something believed by many to not be real just like Bigfoot. The equipment is the most scientific approach we have to capture what science doesn’t recognize and is passed from others who have researched in those fields to what they believe gives the most promising chances of evidence. Take it for what it is and love it or leave it.

By: SpookyPRDS

SpookyPRDS — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:16:19 +0000

I wrote a very detailed article on the reasons that ghost adventures is fake ( http://blog.spookyproductions.com/post/4334299418/ghostadventures ) although it’s not ghost hunters, it’s pretty much the same idea.. I also did a short video of an EVP reenactment.

I’ve learned a lot over the last year about trying to convince people the idea of a paranormal investigation show is ridiculous, but it’s truly, and fundamentally only a matter of opinion, and not just a simple opinion. It’s your religious views, its your fears, its your idea of the meaning of life and death. You can’t convince someone that Ghost Hunters is fake without convincing them that god doesn’t exist. And that’s a belief that cannot be convinced.

Scientifically, anyone will tell you that these shows are not legitimate. To prove that their “tools” detect ghosts would require you to first prove that there ARE ghosts. And that is yet to be proven, so it only relies on a matter of opinion. An EVP could detect a ghost just as well as a banana in my opinion. Show me how a banana DOESN’T detect a ghost, and I’ll show you how EVP doesn’t detect a ghost.

I’m also a documentary filmmaker. I know how camera’s work, and how documentaries are edited… Once an idea is taken from raw footage and turned into a documentary, it is automatically a lie. It is taken out of context, and is manipulated based on the filmmakers opinions. If I were to tell a story about ghosts, for instance, and I have 5 hours of footage.. 5 minutes of that footage there was something “Ghost like”. I would use all of that 5 minutes, and almost none of the other 4 hours and 55 minutes. Immediately, the truth behind all of it has been manipulated and taken out of the context of the whole scheme of things, since I’m not showing you the hours and hours we sat around playing cards waiting for something to happen. If I did, it would be boring, inconclusive, and would go against what I was trying to do.

Camera’s create images based on light. If there’s not a lot of light in the image, then it becomes grainy because the camera can’t make sense of the information. You get plenty of “artifacts”. It’s also digital, which means that some of the information has been removed in order to make it less digits, or to make it a smaller file size (ie: small enough to be transported to your TV). The same goes for audio. When it’s bitdepth (amount of digits in the binary code) is 16 bits (16 0′s or 1′s), then there is a clear sound. But often times digital audio is very far off from the true sound in the real world, because for the sake of file size, and technological limitations, a lot of information is lost which results in sounds that didn’t actually occur. So how do you know what the recorded bitdepth of the audio is? or how many times the video has gone through compression? Answer me this… Why don’t they ever film with the lights on? They’re filmmakers, they know how absolutely important light is! The answer is that they also know that the camera is going to get nothing but crystal clear images with the lights on, and that doesn’t make for any paranormal evidence.

A devote christian once took a very scientific approach to proving that humans have souls. He measured four people during the moment of death and every one of them dropped 21 grams of weight at the precise second of death. He also weighed dogs, which did not lose weight. He took into account the loss of urine and feces during death, but concluded that since it was still on the scale it was irrelevant. He even took into account the loss of breathe, as in a mans last breathe of air and found that it did not affect the weight. This scientist never became mainstream, and his experiments were never recorded as fact, simply because his opinion was biased. He set out to prove that we have souls, and he came to the conclusion, scientifically, that it was absolutely possible and a true phenomenon, thus proving his original opinion correct. But sadly, the reason he was discredited was because of his sincere bias. The same relates to believers in ghosts, and skeptics. Neither of us can prove the other wrong. Unless a skeptical scientist, and a believing scientist both performed a successful experiment resulting in an absolute scientific discovery, confirming or debunking one way or another the existence of the paranormal.

So all I’m saying is don’t bother. If you know ghosts don’t exist then relax because you know you’re right and all others are wrong. Because the bickering, reasoning, and argument is illogical from both sides. It has not been proven either way. Perform scientific, unbiased investigations and come up with your own conclusions if you’re so determined.

By: Alan M

Alan M — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:04:42 +0000

So why the attack on religion? This irrational linkage is what makes skeptics look foolish so often. Faith in God is not the same as belief in ghosts. You made sense until your last statement.

By: Kahlan

Kahlan — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:32:07 +0000

Explain this…my sister lived in a house previously owned by an Elderly woman who was moving into a caring facility. Months later my sister started having experiences in the house. After a few things happened, she found out that the Elderly woman had passed away. Sometimes at night it sounded like someone was messing around in the kitchen and she would get up the next morning and find dishes in the sink. What do you propose caused that? One night when my sister was pregnant, she awoke with a feeling like something was on her stomach. She thought it was the cat, but looked down and saw no cat. A moment later, some sort of mini ball of light formed and floated over her belly. My sister sat up and followed the light into the other room where it finally dissipated. She had no lights on in the house at the time and and her bedroom blinds were all closed, so no outside lights could have gotten in. Do you have an explanation for that? Do you have an explanation for the voices we’ve all heard in the home? How about when a toy mysteriously moved closer to her child on the floor when no one was in the room with him and he was too young to crawl to it himself? Please explain away. It wasn’t really a mean ghost, so my sister just learned to live with her and sometimes even talked with it like it was a real person. Yeah I believe in the possibility of ghosts and spirits and even had a few experiences at my sisters place myself. Is Ghost Hunters real or fake…idk, but if they were faking it, I’d think they would make some better episodes, maybe have some more apparitions or something to make it more exciting. Why try to debunk things if they have it all faked? I can’t imagine it’s all faked.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:19:36 +0000

Hi
I just saw the show for the first time. It showed “hunting”?? of the Canfield Casno in Saratoga New York. I live in the area and know the beautiful old building. Yes, there were murder committed in th 19th century, so once a while people perceive something odd on the third floor. (MUch like power of suggestion?)
Other than that, the whole show is childish and shows no prove for any “par-normal- activity”,just impressions, feelings or instigated occurences. Too bad, millions can not be invested to scientifically research and promote evidence of documented “para-normal” abilities in people.
I will volunteer because I know who is on the telephone most of the time.

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt in our philosophy” (Hamlet) But Horatio and all ghost hunter guys, creating “ghost energy” or “para normal presences” is not one of those things

By: SlickWillie

SlickWillie — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:07:55 +0000

Science has a theory that because the prefrontal cortex is more active in a person who is sleep deprived (usually requiring 24 hours or more without sleep) that there is a possibility of hallucinations. Yet, science has also found that this high amount of activity in the prefrontal cortex could come from the sleep deprived brain having to work harder and harder to make sense of stimulus. Because there has been no way to replicate these hallucinations on a large sample size with uniformed testing there really is no way to validate the theory. In other words, all people react differently even with the same stimulus (sleep deprivation) so science really has no clear answer.
But you are putting your “faith” in the fact that it was your mind somehow reacting to the lack of sleep in a particular way based on other people’s reactions. You have no proof that indeed it was. You only have a theory based on a theory. If the best hallucination you mind could come up with was a book flying across the room then you need visit some other interesting sights on the WWW so you can get some really good material for next time. There is a possibility that your mind could not make sense of what you just observed and used the above theory to make sense of it.
I agree that it probably was not a ghost, but that doesn’t mean that there is no chance that ghosts are not real. Maybe they do not exist in the interactive sense, but in the residual energy sense. There is a huge possibility that Ghost Hunters is fake, but why are skeptics so quick to dismiss, categorize, and evaluate everything to a permanent conclusion? Science would not be where it is today without persons who thought outside the box and tested theories that at the time there was not proof to support.
My suggestion is that if you are standing in the road and you “think” a car is coming at you that you move out of the way.