# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/121 "2013-10-14T16:31:00Z")
> [@Placebo444](#): > > quantum physics on the other hand… …is a term usually thrown about by people that don’t understand the term when they have nothing of actual substance to add to the conversation. ---
**Author:** ![Breen11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Breen11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breen11)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/122 "2013-10-14T17:11:40Z")
I sometimes I like watching these “Ghost hunting” shows cause theyre just silly. Its always the same sh\*t in every episode. Poor audio clips of recordings, poor quality video “proof” of something they call a apparition. Most of the time when they cant figure out what made the noise/sound they say it was a ghost. Its just silly, & fun entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![JacobMB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@JacobMB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobMB)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/123 "2014-07-12T15:40:19Z")
> [@Foggy](#): > > I have never seen that show, so I can’t comment about it. > Everything I know about ghosts & spirits is that they don’t exist. Hahahahaha. Skeptics tend to think that they can literally explain everything. Actually, the die hard skeptics AND believers alike seem to be so arrogant, and they all seem to think that they’re so smart that they know for sure the spirits are or are not real. Every scientific phenomena deserves research, and paranormal studies have not yet come up with anything proving or disproving the existence of a ghost or a spirit. I mean, just think, we live in a universe full of randomly scattered rocks, minerals, gases, etc and by pure luck, there is at least one known planet that can support intelligent life. What I’m saying is, we live in a universe where literally anything could be possible… The existence of spirits included. Or it could all be a figment of our imaginations. I sincerely do not believe any one person is capable of saying that spirits do or do not exist. There really is some compelling evidence for both sides of the debate, but no concrete proving/disproving evidence. Even with so much scientific research, none of us has ANY idea of just what this universe is capable of showing us. We do not know everything. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/124 "2014-07-12T16:46:51Z")
> [@JacobMB](#): > > Even with so much scientific research, none of us has ANY idea of just what this universe is capable of showing us. We do not know everything. If you have proof, then show it. Otherwise all you have is “Hahahahaha. argumentum ad ignorantiam.” ---
**Author:** ![orangeapples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@orangeapples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orangeapples)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/125 "2014-07-12T18:10:13Z")
> [@JacobMB](#): > > Hahahahaha. Skeptics tend to think that they can literally explain everything. Actually, the die hard skeptics AND believers alike seem to be so arrogant, and they all seem to think that they’re so smart that they know for sure the spirits are or are not real. Every scientific phenomena deserves research, and paranormal studies have not yet come up with anything proving or disproving the existence of a ghost or a spirit. > > I mean, just think, we live in a universe full of randomly scattered rocks, minerals, gases, etc and by pure luck, there is at least one known planet that can support intelligent life. > > What I’m saying is, we live in a universe where literally anything could be possible… The existence of spirits included. Or it could all be a figment of our imaginations. I sincerely do not believe any one person is capable of saying that spirits do or do not exist. There really is some compelling evidence for both sides of the debate, but no concrete proving/disproving evidence. > > Even with so much scientific research, none of us has ANY idea of just what this universe is capable of showing us. We do not know everything. I’m a skeptic, I strongly doubt that ghosts are real, and I know for certain that I cannot “literally explain everything”. I’d bet no one here believes that of themselves. Another thing I know, there’s no way that “literally anything could be possible”. I can think of several not possible things in our universe-with-its-rules-and-such, without much effort. I won’t be flapping my arms and flying to work in about an hour and a half, for instance. I’ll have to drive there, even though I’d rather not. I would suspend time and put it off indefinitely, but that’s also not possible. These shows are arguably entertaining. There shouldn’t really be an argument about their educational value. Literally. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/126 "2014-07-12T18:54:12Z")
> [@JacobMB](#): > > Hahahahaha. Skeptics tend to think that they can literally explain everything. Actually, the die hard skeptics AND believers alike seem to be so arrogant, and they all seem to think that they’re so smart that they know for sure the spirits are or are not real. Every scientific phenomena deserves research, and paranormal studies have not yet come up with anything proving or disproving the existence of a ghost or a spirit. > > I mean, just think, we live in a universe full of randomly scattered rocks, minerals, gases, etc and by pure luck, there is at least one known planet that can support intelligent life. > > What I’m saying is, we live in a universe where literally anything could be possible… The existence of spirits included. Or it could all be a figment of our imaginations. I sincerely do not believe any one person is capable of saying that spirits do or do not exist. There really is some compelling evidence for both sides of the debate, but no concrete proving/disproving evidence. > > Even with so much scientific research, none of us has ANY idea of just what this universe is capable of showing us. We do not know everything. Well said. This is exactly the way I explain how Santa Claus is real. Solidarity! ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/127 "2014-07-12T20:57:43Z")
> [@JacobMB](#): > > We do not know everything. The thing is just because you don’t know something doesn’t mean you get to make up an explanation. “We don’t know therefore ghosts/magic/god” is not a reasonable argument. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/128 "2014-07-13T03:05:54Z")
_Ghost Adventures_ is fun to watch if you treat it as a TV program. Not much else on TV is real, anyhow, so it doesn’t make much difference. I do think they go to some interesting locations that have significant history or folklore associated with them, and often it’s places I wouldn’t have otherwise known about. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/129 "2014-07-13T04:11:57Z")
Of course _you_ don’t have a vested interest in misleading anyone about the actual nature/existence of denizens of the spectral realms, do you? :dubious: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/130 "2014-07-13T04:37:44Z")
fake ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/131 "2014-07-13T04:41:23Z")
Most of the shows make you think only the guys on camera are there, neglecting to show the guys arming the camera, the mikes and the lights, as well as the director and his assistants. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2014, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/132 "2014-07-13T06:54:59Z")
I was just binge watching a new to me psychic show, [paranormal home inspectors](http://www.bigcoatproductions.com/showdetail.asp?sId=9). Great fun. One episode the guy that is the registered inspector up in Canada is walking through some house with his clipboard and checking off the complaints, and as he is walking through the living room he says something like ‘hm, they report something wrong with the aquarium. I don’t do fish tanks, that’s completed.’ and walks on past. ROFL. And no matter what he discovers [like doors not hung properly, foundations tilted, electrical system is shorting out across the plumbing] then they run in some whackjob who finds some ghostie reason for it. _sigh_ But it really is fun to watch, and just goes to demonstrate how the producers don’t want an honest discovery, they want crap that sells commercials. ---
**Author:** ![BrianJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/54ee81/32.png) [@BrianJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrianJ)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/133 "2014-07-13T10:54:50Z")
Well, this thread is plainly proof of zombies 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BrianJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/54ee81/32.png) [@BrianJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrianJ)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/134 "2014-07-13T11:00:49Z")
> [@Ghostlover](#): > > … > > \*\*As far as the show goes I personally think its real , its too complex to be a hoax, \*\*there are too many factors involved, even if some of it was staged or over-dramatized a bit it can’t be like that all the time, I find that those who are open to the paranormal will find the paranormal, and those that don’t like those on Ghost hunters will come up with nothing because that’s exactly what they expect , to those who don’t like the show or who thinks its stupid I have an idea don’t watch it then! There problem solved. > > … I know this post is a year old, but I find this line of ‘reasoning’ hilarious. The events depicted in the Avengers and Lord of the Rings movies must be real too! They are far too detailed to have been made up! ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587/135 "2014-07-13T13:13:50Z")
> [@BrianJ](#): > > I know this post is a year old, but I find this line of ‘reasoning’ hilarious. > > The events depicted in the Avengers and Lord of the Rings movies must be real too! They are far too detailed to have been made up! I’ve gone on “ghost tours” many times when on vacation, and will continue to do so. I don’t believe in any of the stories, but the best tours have the best storytellers (and others just flop). It’s not about believing, it’s about suspending disbelief for the purpose of the story (which is hard to do on a TV show with ads for tampons and penis pills every 10 minutes - and that’s why I don’t watch). Attention to detail is good. But as you infer, it doesn’t make it true. **Ellis Dee** , don’t go dragging Santa Claus into this discussion, lest I have to get medieval on your ass. Some things are sacrosanct. 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ghost-adventures-on-the-travel-channel-real-or-fake/650587.md?page=6)