I’ve seen these idiots twice in the ScFi channel…and I’m not impressed! They go to a supposed “haunted house”, and set up their equipment (video cameras, mixcrophones, IR cameras, thermometers, etc.) and wait for something to happen. Last night, they got all excited because a pen (left on an opened page on a notebook) appeared to have MOVED a few centimeters! OBVIOUS PROOF of a ghostly happening!
Aside from that, they seem to tramp around these places all night, and utter inane comments like"
“Did you see that?”
“oh yeah-that was a dust trail!”
“Let’s see, some more anomalies”
“Ddja see that? It was awsome!”
But (aside from lens flare and dust spots on the lenses) nothing ever shows up on the videotapes…perhaps I am being too hard on them?
Anyway, do people actually do this for fun? Or is this proof that cable is actually running out of garbage to put on TV?
Ghost busters? :eek:
When I found out they were plumbers I kept hoping they would go out and rescue a princess.
Then you haven’t seen enough of them. There’s at least one episode where they went somewhere suppsedly haunted and, by their standards, found absoultly nothing.
Please tell me they’re performing meta-comedy. Real-life ghost chasing would have to be incredibly dull.
Actually, they can be pretty entertaining. One episode had the guys investigating an automated lighthouse at the request of the US Coast Guard. Or, rather, three of them investigated while one tried fishing. At the end of the episode, TAPS and their Coast Guard guide rescued a father & son whose boat got hung up on some nearby rocks.
I mean it, how stupid can these people be? Imagine driving hundreds of miles to spend a night in a run-down old “haunted” house? And these guys have jobs and families! And always the same result-those stupid “orbs” in the video tapes-which they somehow have convinced themselves are ghosts. I cracked up last night (when they were in the attic of the old inn n New Boston, MA). One of them walks around, talking into a cassette voce recorder, asking if the spirits want to communicate with him. I guess you leave the thing turned on, and wait till the tape runs out-then you listen to the background noise on the tape, and try to decide if some dead guy is talking to you.
I guess SciFi needs a lot of filler material! 
furryman, that made me laugh so hard I almost choked on my tongue.
No wonder they they haven’t found anything – the ghosts only move when their backs are turned!
Don’t even get me started on this show. I don’t know why I continue to watch it because it irritates me more and more each time I do. I’ve never seen a more incompetent, thoughtless, unprofessional group in my life. I won’t even mention their horridly sloppy method of actual “investigation”, but I will comment on the way they conduct themselves.
First rule of thumb when investigating a home in a professional manner would be the most obvious: Don’t rifle through the homeowner’s personal belongings!! This has happened twice on this show already. And not only did they rummage through someone’s belongings, they also poked fun of the person’s messy home. More than once. In front of the cameras.
Is SciFi anything but filler material?
At least they finally dropped that Crossing Over garbage.
Their only redeeming feature is that they show old Twilight Zone episodes.
I love these guys!
In fairness, at the end of each episode I’ve seen (maybe four of them), they’ve never said they found anything conclusive.
The only time I was really embarrassed for them was when they thought they had an electronic recording of a ghost, having manipulated the sound they recorded (mostly turning up volume until static becomes noises) - it was pretty clear that the mumbling “voice” they heard was just the analog tape recorder picking up the sound its own spool.
But they are trying to do it the right way. For believers, they are more skeptical than I would have thought.
And furryman, that is incredibly funny.
And you have to be careful in those haunted houses. You can get in easily but getting out invovles finding hidden doors and such.