# Is Ghost Adventures on the travel channel real or fake? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2013, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587 "2013-02-17T10:11:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/41 "2013-02-20T05:21:36Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > That was my point with the career choice. If you don’t want to deal with goofy people seeing ghosts everywhere they look, maybe a TV ghost hunter is not the best career path 🙂 Or perhaps he would actually like to spend more time on locations where there is actually a high possibility of ghosts. Look, I drive past a small graveyard of maybe 100 feet by 100 feet, and probably 70 or 80 graves, dating to about 1730-1780. I used to work an odd shift, getting out at 11 PM or so, sometimes as late as midnight, and it took an hour to drive home. In the 2 years I worked that shift, I _never_ ever saw anything to incline me to thinking to thinking it was haunted, though we frequently get people staking it out claiming there are ghosts there. I love the idea of finding ghosts, I knew Ed Warren when he was still alive and active, and I know Lorraine Warren [lovely lovely lady, I hate the actress they get to play her in the recreations most of the time.] My family has even had several interesting encounters in one of the family homes. I am firmly of the belief that most people wouldn’t know a real ghost if it came up and gave them a wedgie. > [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Practically every historical location seems to ‘grow’ a ghost. It gets people in who otherwise might not be interested in old house architecture. I’m also sorry to say that some of the folks who work at historical places tend to be a bit more gullible than the average doper. > > My personal favorites were the (now defunct) General Wayne Inn ghosts who defied clothing standards of the era (as well as troop placement). As well as the folks who insisted that there were 17th century ghosts in Pennsbury Manor -not realizing that the place is a rebuild from the 30’s. I have issues with the nephew of Ed and Lorraine Warren and his [Haunted Collector](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_Collector) show. I grew up around antiques, my mom was an antique dealer, and I have an intense interest in history. I find myself really having an issue about the gross misidentification of items, and the absolute bullshit going on - if it were really true that pretty much any random antique he decides is definitely the center of the haunting and he _has_ to take it out and keep it safely … :dubious: But then again, I am not overly impressed by the researchers that work for most of the shows. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/42 "2013-02-20T10:36:23Z")
You cannot get Jedi Powers by buying Star Wars junk, you cannot get spirituality at the Mall no matter how many crystals you buy, and you will never see ghosts on the travel channel. Unless your signal is fuzzy. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/43 "2013-02-20T16:41:53Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I was at a flea market where one booth had a mounted head of a white buffalo. Wife wouldn’t let me buy it, not wanting White Buffalo bothering us, but then again, when that white buffalo was born in Wisconsin in '92 she felt a period of peace and prosperity would eventually follow. :rolleyes: There are times she makes an even worse Lutheran than I do. Wait. Did the old Gypsy woman\* at the flea market TELL you when the white buffalo whose head you were contemplating buying was BORN? And your wife REMEMBERED haw she felt at that time TWENTY-ONE years ago? \*Or wise old Indian woman (voice by Linda Hunt; supervising animator, Chris Buck). ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/44 "2013-02-20T16:57:53Z")
> [@Tollhouse](#): > > Of course there are different tribes but they share most of the same primary or basic beliefs. No they don’t. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/45 "2013-02-20T17:20:22Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > How’s the quote from Malcolm In The Middle go? > " Oh, I see! Because I’m an Indian I must dance with the wind and speak with the spirits? I got news for ya pal! I’m a Methodist and I’m proud of it! And I got one word for snow- snow!" [Pretty close. He’s Baptist. (last quote for the episode)](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Malcolm_in_the_Middle#.22Cynthia.27s_Back.22_.5B3.14.5D) ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/46 "2013-02-20T17:20:36Z")
Hey-don’t laugh-a couple was able to get out of a real estate contract to buy an old house in Nyack, NY (it was allegedly haunted). The judge told the sellers that they had to refund the buyer’s money-should have told them the place was haunted. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/47 "2013-02-20T18:05:03Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Hey-don’t laugh-a couple was able to get out of a real estate contract to buy an old house in Nyack, NY (it was allegedly haunted). The judge told the sellers that they had to refund the buyer’s money-should have told them the place was haunted. Hell, make that the first line of the listing, there are a bunch of people who actively want to buy or rent haunted properties. I would be first in line to buy the Sharon Tate house if it was still there [it was torn down and something else built there. I have seen pictures of the original house, and it was a great midcentury modern.] I would seriously buy the Amityville Horror house [if I wanted to live on Long Island, that is] because pretty much everybody involved has come out and stated it was a fraud [and I like dutch colonial architecture, and it has a boathouse and a dock!] I wouldn’t live in the Winchester Mystery Mansion, too big, it would need a cadre of maids to keep the blasted thing clean, but I would vacation there if they turned it into a bed and breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/48 "2013-02-20T20:24:54Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Hell, make that the first line of the listing, there are a bunch of people who actively want to buy or rent haunted properties. > > I would be first in line to buy the Sharon Tate house if it was still there [it was torn down and something else built there. I have seen pictures of the original house, and it was a great midcentury modern.] I would seriously buy the Amityville Horror house [if I wanted to live on Long Island, that is] because pretty much everybody involved has come out and stated it was a fraud [and I like dutch colonial architecture, and it has a boathouse and a dock!] I wouldn’t live in the Winchester Mystery Mansion, too big, it would need a cadre of maids to keep the blasted thing clean, but I would vacation there if they turned it into a bed and breakfast. I’m not sure I could stand to live in the Amityville house. Not because of ghosts, oh no. There’s a far worse force at play there: tourists. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/49 "2013-02-20T21:04:34Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Or perhaps he would actually like to spend more time on locations where there is actually a high possibility of ghosts… Or, you know, not. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/50 "2013-02-21T00:28:07Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Hell, make that the first line of the listing, there are a bunch of people who actively want to buy or rent haunted properties. Some of those places make a lot of money from ghost tours, although I’ve never seen any numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Cobra6911](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cobra6911](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cobra6911)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/51 "2013-05-28T04:28:57Z")
I think it is real to a certain extent. I have had encounters with ghosts orr spirits. Even my wife, who is a sceptic, has had encounters with dead relitives from time to time. It has not totally changed her mind, but she is left in a state of not being able to explain it either. Other members of my family have had experiences with Ghosts they could not explain. I know, it sounds off the wall but, I truly believe in the after life and their ability to contact us from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![viper8450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ce73a5/32.png) [@viper8450](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/viper8450)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/52 "2013-06-04T22:44:27Z")
Ghost adventures fake or real ? All I have is the ghost are real. Me and my 12 year old son love the show. My son wanted a voice recorder for Xmas so I went and payed for 2 of them at a cost of 49.95 each. one for him and one for me. We went to an old house and me not thinking they were real. I started provoking just like Zac does on the show. What a shock I got when I played back what the recorders picked up. I’m 45 years of age and now I’m rethinking everything that I was raised to believe. I now have an sb7 sprite box and lots of evp’s. Try it out for your self if you have the nerve. P. S they do follow u home ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/53 "2013-06-05T02:27:39Z")
> [@Tollhouse](#): > > To Native americans, we seem incredibly ignorant Who’s this “we,” kemo sabe? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/54 "2013-06-05T02:35:21Z")
Ghost Adventures is the fakest of all the fake ghost shows. Its absurdly melodramatic. Ghosts arent real people. They would violate the laws of physics., ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/55 "2013-06-05T02:39:15Z")
Why isnt there massive amounts of ghostly hauntings at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka? Where has the terror and suffering been worse? But nery a ghost has been spotted at these locations. ---
**Author:** ![Shawnee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shawnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawnee)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/56 "2013-06-06T05:05:19Z")
Is the show real? The SHOW is real; you’re watching it. Are ghosts real? Yes, they are. Incredibly real. I’ve seen/felt/heard both human and animal spirits. Shook me up for years, afterwards and still causes some heart palpitations when I think back to some of my experiences. Even though I am a firm believer of ghosts/spirits, I’m not fully convinced that shows, such as Ghost Adventures, aren’t faked. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/57 "2013-06-06T06:19:51Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Why isnt there massive amounts of ghostly hauntings at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka? Where has the terror and suffering been worse? But nery a ghost has been spotted at these locations. Apparently you are unfamiliar with this [excellent documentary](http://youtu.be/I9crQmo9vis) on that very subject. ---
**Author:** ![athena\_r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ec8ea/32.png) [@athena\_r](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athena_r)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/58 "2013-06-07T06:23:53Z")
I was a skeptic of these “ghosts” and “spirits” once… But now I believe that they are real, having experienced ghost activities in our home. Examples would be: stuffs disappearing for some time and then just appear again like someone just borrowed them; small jars, spoons, and lids hitting my family members; cups rolling on the floor when they’re supposed to be at their rack… Once, my brother and I were playing S3 at our living room where our family members were also sleeping since the house was filled with visitors. We were warned to sleep early but we didn’t and they put the lights off while we were playing. And then suddenly, something thumped in front of me and me and my brother looked at each other and froze. I quickly switched the light on and found my aunt’s heavy sandals in front of me. I tried to copy the sound which we heard by dropping the sandal and sure enough, it was the sandal that we heard. I looked around the living room and saw everyone was fast asleep. Without any ado, me and my brother joined our family sleeping. It was said that the spirit which plagued our neighbors went to our home because they had it cast out from their house, and up to now disturbs us. So I guess I believe in the most part of Ghost Adventures where they hear and feel things. And I also believe some parts are editted or scripted… ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/59 "2013-06-07T16:09:24Z")
Kind of curious how all of a sudden there are a bunch of people joining to support the hooey that is ghosts and ghost hunting. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/60 "2013-06-07T16:28:24Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I would seriously buy the Amityville Horror house [if I wanted to live on Long Island, that is] because pretty much everybody involved has come out and stated it was a fraud [and I like dutch colonial architecture, and it has a boathouse and a dock!] > [@Jragon](#): > > I’m not sure I could stand to live in the Amityville house. Not because of ghosts, oh no. There’s a far worse force at play there: tourists. The house has been remodeled (got rid of the “eye” windows, for one) and the address changed to make it more difficult for tourists to find. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587.md?page=4)