I didn’t. I watched the first couple of hours and taped the rest. Darn glad I did, too, or I’d have missed Elijah Burke throwing his hands up in the air, screaming like a little girl, and knocking Grant over as he ran away.
They kept getting “panic button” hits - at one point it was over 150,000 - from viewers claiming to see things around the investigators. I didn’t see anything out of the ordinary, but then again I wasn’t drunk or stoned, either.
I was a bit irritated at the incessant generic “spooky” sound effects that at times drowned out the team’s voices; to me it would have been more spooky to just broadcast it as-is, with no added preservatives or flavorings. Pitch dark, a group of people who are all keyed up and freaked out, random bangs and knocks from who-knows-where, wind blowing, a mournful train whistle off in the distance - now that’s spooky. The goofy woo-woo music that never stopped just made me think we were being set up for a B-movie caliber spring-loaded cat.
All in all, though, it was a fun ending to my Halloween night.
I watched about 1/2 hour of it. Kinda boring. And the music was so annoying. How were we supposed to hear the scary noises and footsteps with it playing?!
I made it through the whole 6 hours, but I was on the laptop and just kind of paying attention. It was fun - a kind of different way to spend an evening. I think all the stuff is either hoaxed or just misunderstandings, but I like getting creeped out, so I try to do my best to suspend disbelief. The location they were in was what held my interest…I don’t think I could have hung with them if it would have been, like, the USS Hornet or something. But Waverly Hills or Eastern State Pen. is interesting.
At the end, Elijah was flat out freaked! It was actually pretty cool, though, because he didn’t come off like a dick at all. He actually seemed like a pretty nice guy.
I watched most of it, but skipped about two hours in the middle. I did see the Elijah freak out, and that was the highlight of the entire night. Shortly after that, while I was staring out the enormous picture window in the living room, wondering what sort of eldritch terrors were lurking outside in the front yard, a fly dive-bombed my face, and I had my own little freak out.
Elijah did seem like a really nice guy, like most of the TAPS team. But did anyone else find the girls who were “interviewing” Pat to be bitches? The other groups seemed to under stand that there’d be a learning curve.
Also, dowsing rods? That seems entirely counter to Grant and Jason’s usual style. Do they whip those out often?
I find the soundtrack on Ghost Hunters to be really frustrating, too. It took me like three hours to figure out that the plane noises were from actual planes, and not part of the soundtrack.
[sub]I was stuck in the house on Hallowe’en with a sinus headache. Boo-hiss, field dust! Get outta my nose![/sub]
Yeah, I wasn’t comfortable with the bitchy third degree the two girls were putting Pat through. I’ve seen the dowsing rods before, but not often; that chick doesn’t appear very much. I don’t even remember her name.
Although I remember my 8th grade fine arts teacher showing us how to use rods like that to to detect electromagnetic energy. She took us out to where an old building used to stand, and said buildings left an electromagnetic imprint showing their shape, even after they’re gone. Then she showed us how as she walked towards where the corner of the building used to be, the rods would seperate as they encountered the position of the walls. She let us all take turns at it. Pretty weird, but who knows? I’m more inclined to suspect power of suggestion and unconscious motor movements than phantom walls.
Anyway, I was a little confused by their “Hunt for the Hunter” bit. It seemed like none of those people had ever done anything like this before, or read up on it. Out of all the entries I’m sure they received, not one of them was from someone who was at least a little familiar with the history of “ghost hunting” and spiritualism over the last hundred odd years? It’s fun stuff.
I saw enough to ask my wife “Hey, are they using the ‘COPS’ font?”
I liked the scene where they’re sitting around the table and one of the guys says something along the lines of “I believe it’s haunted”, whereupon the other guy says “Well, if Steve says its haunted it must be so - good enough for me!”
My favorite panic button alert was a girl who wrote, “Two dark figures in front of Grant and Jason” or something like that, and the dark figures were . . . their shadows. Oh my god, run away, run away!
Thumbs down to dowsing-rod girl and companion. More Steve and Tango, please. Whenever those two are paired up, I can’t help but feel that the show will spontaneously turn into an '80s cop buddy movie. Called “Steve & Tango”, of course.
My eighth-grade agriculture teacher showed us how to find underground water using dowsing rods, which was pretty neat. I don’t know how applicable that was, though, since when we had a well dug earlier this year, the guys who did it just asked us where we wanted it in relation to the house and drilled there.
It is fun stuff. Wisconsin has tons of ghost stories/folklore, and the southeast part of the state was a hotbed of Spiritualism in the late-19th century. There’s some really crazy history out there about Spiritualism and charismatic charlatans and other related topics.
BTW, are you one of those females who find Steve incredibly hot? Because his tats make me want to scratch myself until I bleed.
(Central Illinois farmboy here.) Considering what the glaciers did to us over the years, I suspect you could dig a hole 30 feet deep anywhere in our corner of the world and hit water. Around where I grew up, you would hit water at less than 10 feet (might not be safe to drink, though). I have no idea what it is like elsewhere.
There is a guy who restores cemeteries who uses dowsing rods to locate forgotten graves, and can even determine the gender of the, err, “occupant”. I have no idea what is up with that.
Oh, yes. I’ve totally got a TV-crush on Steve. I’d buy him a drink if I saw him in a bar, and then I’d slide him my number. Or whisper it in his ear.
I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. It all depends on perspective.
I live in the non-glaciated zone, sir. The glaciers didn’t do anything to, er, me. But, yeah, the water’s really close to the surface here. The well-drillers started getting water at something like twenty feet, and that was on top of a stony hill. It was in March, though, so I’m sure the water table was a little bit higher then.
That’s freaky. How does anyone know he’s right? Do they exhume the bodies and look at the pelvic bones?
He went to a well-maintained cemetery and called out his guesses while passing by the backs of the stones (i.e., he could not see the names, but the person with him could). Apparently he got them all right, so he goes with it at “found” graves.
I watched a couple hours of it. I personally couldn’t stand the guy from Destination Truth that was hosting the show. I like his show well enough for what it is, but he came off as just going through the motions and not taking his role seriously. He also goofed when he said Elijah wrestled from “WCE” when it’s ECW and he was a member of the Jeffersonville Police Department, not Jacksonville.
Also, on Elijah’s myspace page he makes allusions to some of the scenes being “not as they appear”.
I wonder what’s not as it appears; I expect that from the edited shows, but in a live show I thought their opportunities for jiggery-pokery would be kind of limited. But then again, I know almost nothing about television production.
I wonder if the team was told to “drama it up” for every slight noise or feeling they got, to keep it interesting for the camera.
I quite enjoyed it. I was about to turn it off and go to sleep after hour 5 but I’m glad I didn’t. I wouldn’t have seen the gigantic muscular wrestler guy scream like a girl and almost knock over a woman in an attempt to flee…a scary noise.
The second best part was when Steve had his little freak-out over the tiny weed brushing his ankle. “Walking through twicks and stigs”. Heh. More than likely, he felt the plant and thought it was a spider.
I’m anxious to see the footage of whatever it was Grant and Jason were chasing. I think Grant said they’d seen it 7 separate times and it seemed to be the same apparition they’d caught the first investigation at Waverly. Results show is tomorrow night (Weds) at 9 in case anyone doesn’t know.
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