My post wasn't bitter, just calling out people for dropping into a thread with nothing more to say than, "It's stupid," what's the point? Why would someone bother taking time out of their day to go into a thread, about a subject in which they have an apparent disdain, and blow raspberries.
Well "I" get bitter sometimes, believe me, and for the very reasons you point out here, Kagai. I don't claim to have all the answers, hell, I doubt I have
any of the answers but when people claim that specks of dust or moisture caught on camera lenses are balls of plasma, ghostly spirits, or self illuminating when you couldn't see it before the shot really irk me. And that's just one example.
Ghost Hunters has been hiding behind the production of their show since the beginning, now. Whenever you see something and question it on-camera, one of their first defenses is, "Well, the footage was edited. It was actually much [longer, brighter, shorter, farther, etc...] than it seemed on camera." They always do that to defend themselves when someone questions some of their evidence. Frankly I'm sick of the excuse, especially from the
Ghost Hunters.
David brought up the fact that he'd not watched that show for several seasons during the last
ParaCast and it's a darn good thing he hasn't. Since seasons one and two the show has seriously gone down hill. I honestly think they fake 99.9% of their "evidence" now. I'm also sick of them jumping at a sound that wasn't caught on camera nor on a recorder and we, the audience, are just supposed to accept that it was heard. Or they see a freakin' full bodied apparition...but...oh, the camera was behind them, so sorry, we didn't get it on film. Damn that happens all the time on that POS show! That's the same as a sight-gag on a radio show.
Don't get me wrong, seasons one and two were good. I thought the evidence on those episodes was mostly legitimate and Jason and Grant acted more like paranormal investigators for those seasons. Now they've sold out. They are NOT paranormal investigators but happy little, well-paid entertainers jumping through hoops and playing Mary Had a Little Lamb on snicker horns. They contribute
nothing to the field and instead revel in their celebrity-ism.
I'll never forget reading a post on their Internet site one time; they were looking for an electrical engineer for their team. Now at BEST they're looking for someone to manage their gear or design and build new devices, but most likely they're needing someone with those skills to build rigs to fake crap, say, a button in a digital recorder that emits a signal to turn on a flashlight from across the room. Or perhaps a mechanism that if worked in one's pocket would cause a wire to pull on a clamp attached to the hood of your coat. Hrm. I'm quite suspicious of something like that, and yeah, damn bitter of it, too.
On a more positive note, as I mentioned above, seasons one and two of the show are worth watching. David mentioned the apparition caught in Eastern State Penitentiary however that piece of evidence has been closely reviewed and suspected of fakery, but a better episode is the one where they went to St. Augustine FL and hunted the lighthouse there. To me, that one is the creme de' la creme of the show.
That episode I highly recommend to any one, and it was before their heads grew too fat.
J.