What is the purpose of shows like Ghost Hunters and Paranormal State?

[Sampiro]

@Abby_Emma_Sasha

How do you know the gators are lesbians?

They lay like dead for hours until someone puts in a Kate Bush CD. Then they dance.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@Abby_Emma_Sasha

How do you know the gators are lesbians?

Their alligator shoes are Birkenstocks.

[control-z]

It’s an interesting premise, but the problem is I’m fairly convinced they will never find anything.

I think the show as it exists now is just a moneymaking machine, stringing viewers along with a few unusual tidbits each episode. A voice in a recording. A flash of light. Noises in the distance.

[Sampiro]

@Bryan_Ekers

Their alligator shoes are Birkenstocks.

Scratch mine, his is better.

[Diogenes_the_Cynic]

@Death_of_Rats

I like GH for the most part. I like the fact that Grant and Jason have from the start gone in to an investigation looking to fact-find instead of trying to prove or disprove a haunting. They are looking for an explaination for why something is happening and only when they cannot find a reasonable expaination do they start to consider a paranormal expalination. Even then Jason and, to a lesser extent, Grant are reluctant to most of the time to say conclusivly that there is a haunting.

It’s still ridiculous, unscientific and lazy to even consider consider “haunting” as an explanation at all. It’s “Ghost of the gaps.” If we can’t figure out what’s causing that noise, it’s a g-g-g-g-g-GHOST! It’s silly. I’m glad they usually find rational explantions, but they should drop any pretense that ghosts are a real possibility. It hurts their credibility that they believe in ghosts at all.

To answer the OP I think people watch these shows because they want to believe in the supernatural and they’re hoping one of these shows will be able to prove something.