Great episode. been a while since ghosts EVPs where on the agenda.
Regarding the reality ghost shows does anyone state side know of the UK one Most Haunted?? I'm a fan of this show. The new addition to the team the past 2 seasons has been the a sound specialist , they have recorded some great EVPs -
Any thoughts on the MH? show ???
@andy - I happen to know that Most Haunted is and has been pretty popular Stateside for quite some time - certainly for an independently produced paranormal show.
I actually used to denigrate Most Haunted, thinking it was all fake-for-TV etc. I am sure that much of it is contrived because basically, any true paranormal researcher or 'ghost hunter' will tell you that ghost hunting is like war - 99.9% normality with sudden short bursts of extreme whatever! There is absolutely no way that a team can go to different locations each episode and claim to have caught decent evidence every time, yet that is what most of these shows will have you believe.
But the hard truth of it is also that to watch investigation after investigation and see or hear nothing interesting would make abysmal TV. So these days, I forgive TV ghost shows for much of what they do (and what producers force them to do, or include) as long as I feel the odd bit of visual or EVP evidence is genuine.
I know that most fans of ghosts and hauntings are also fans of history. You can hardly have ghosts without the 'ghost story' and of course many weird and wonderful locations and buildings claim to be haunted. Like many, I love seeing inside old jails and workhouses etc, as much for the human history as the paranormal activity.
You are referring to Eamonn Vann-Harris that does their hi-tech EVP work now and I do not think he fakes stuff and actually I really value his contribution. He is well up for trying new EVP techniques and all the near-real-time stuff of late, in which they constantly review responses in-situ, is really great stuff.
I'll admit even to liking Ghost Adventures except for the fact that Zac claims that virtually every location they investigate is infested with Demons!
Full-time Roman Catholic exorcists will tell you that true demonic hauntings (whatever they are) make up only a small percentage of all hauntings. To me it's funny when they talk up the possibility of there being a demon 'terrorising' a family etc because while I don't think it is funny or pleasant, human beings seem to do much more harm to each other than any harm I've seen them do to people in a haunted location. I mean if they were
that evil and powerful, they'd be killing people left right and centre and not just doing a few scratches or nasty EVPs!