Ghost Hunters: Roto-Rooter's Extraordinary Side Job

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The discussion centers around the "Ghost Hunters" show on the Sci-Fi Channel, featuring Roto-Rooter plumbers who investigate paranormal claims. Many participants express their enjoyment of the show, noting its credibility and the team's objective approach to debunking ghost myths. They contrast it with the "Most Haunted" series, which they criticize for being overly dramatic and lacking scientific rigor. Viewers share memorable moments from "Ghost Hunters," including instances of captured ghostly apparitions and eerie sounds, while also expressing skepticism about the authenticity of some evidence presented. The conversation highlights a mix of entertainment value and critical analysis of the show's methods, with some participants suggesting that the show could benefit from more scientific controls. Overall, the thread reflects a blend of fascination with the paranormal and a desire for logical explanations.
  • #51
It gives me an idea for a reality show.

Take a different set of people each show to some remote location that none of thm have heard of and don't tell them if it is really supposedly haunted or not. Just that they have a 50% chance of staying in a haunted location but they will be givin a spookey story for every location that may or may not be real.

Great to watch the histeria in non-haunted and supposedly haunted locations...

Then at the beginning of every show, have statistics of the shows per capita total success at determining the haunting of a location.

IE:
Of 350 participants to date:
125 felt a location was haunted that was not haunted.
100 felt that a reportedly haunted location was not haunted.
125 felt a location was haunted that reportedly was haunted.

And at the end you hear the verdict from each person individually and their reaction upon hearing the truth.

It'd be an entertaining study of human reaction, histeria, haunting. All in one fun package. Put them together so we can watch them spread the horror. Tell them chilling fake stories about the fake locations and real ones.

Personally I'd love it! :devil:
 
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  • #52
Ooooh, I'm watching the "Scariest Places on Earth" telethon on ABC Family channel. I love this show. :biggrin:
 
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  • #53
TheAntiRelative said:
It gives me an idea for a reality show.
Take a different set of people each show to some remote location that none of thm have heard of and don't tell them if it is really supposedly haunted or not. Just that they have a 50% chance of staying in a haunted location but they will be givin a spookey story for every location that may or may not be real.
Great to watch the histeria in non-haunted and supposedly haunted locations...

Variations on this idea have been done a number of times on a few shows. Debunking, investigations, and obvious boloney are all quite big these days. The reactions that I saw were predicable enough. Obviously some people will get spooked given the proper setting.
 
  • #54
Evo said:
Ooooh, I'm watching the "Scariest Places on Earth" telethon on ABC Family channel. I love this show. :biggrin:
That voice between each of the sections is sort of creepy.
Those students always tend to scream a lot...
 
  • #55
I like the family ones. You put a group of people in a scary, faraway place, tell them stories to frighten them, tell them they will be affected, and then wait for them to scare themselves. I mean, who wouldn't get scared?

I couldn't watch that last one about the lodge, it was too fake.
 
  • #56
Evo said:
I like the family ones. You put a group of people in a scary, faraway place, tell them stories to frighten them, tell them they will be affected, and then wait for them to scare themselves. I mean, who wouldn't get scared?
I couldn't watch that last one about the lodge, it was too fake.

Yeah, very true.

But I do wish they'd air Ghost Hunters more often, say twice a week at least! I am sort of addicted to that show. I remember a time when scifi aired many episodes of Ghost Hunters for an entire evening. It was really fun. For instance that last episode was the best I've seen so far in terms of evidence. But it's mind-boggling to think that apparitions actually exist when you can actually detect them from a thermal imaging camera etc. I am not sure if there's any other sound explanation for what they caught that time. Doesn't that sort of stuff change science?
 
  • #57
I'd like to see Ghost Hunters twice a week.

Unfortunately there were no scientific controls in place, so it's no more than, "we don't have an explanation". It doesn't mean that there aren't normal explanations, but as it stands, I thought it was cool and that's all that matters. :-p
 
  • #58
TV dilema tonight. All on at the same time:

TLC - Possesed Possesions
Discovery - Haunting, all new episodes
History Channel - Plague

Due to the lightning hit I have no VCR's.

Which one do I watch?
 
  • #59
Evo said:
TV dilema tonight. All on at the same time:
TLC - Possesed Possesions
Discovery - Haunting, all new episodes
History Channel - Plague
Due to the lightning hit I have no VCR's.
Which one do I watch?
Don't worry Evo, you can watch most of the wonderful programs without the VCR or DVR, you just have to be willing to stay up late. All the shows repeat at midnight.
They also will be repating later on this week. Check the listing on their sites:
http://dsc.discovery.com/tvlistings/schedule.jsp?channel=DSC&date=today"
http://tlc.discovery.com/tvlistings/schedule.jsp?date=today&channel=TLC&click=tlc_leftnav"
http://www.historychannel.com/global/listings/listings_weekly.jsp?fromYear=2005&fromMonth=9&fromDate=30&NetwCode=THC&timezone=1&View=Weekly&&fromTime=18"
Tonight you should be able to get two thirds of what you want, you'll have to wait for the rest.
Or you can change channels so fast that you watch all three of them at once!:biggrin:
 
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  • #60
Oooh, thanks polyb! :approve:
 
  • #61
Your always welcome Lady Evo!
 
  • #62
i am going for possessed possessions!
 
  • #63
Ghost Hunters is on again tomorrow! I cannot believe I survived more than a week without watching it! Time to bring out the junk food again :)
 
  • #64
Yay! Ghost hunters tonight! I will be hiding upstairs in the dark watching it with piles of junk food. :approve:
 
  • #65
Last night's show wasn't bad. That EVP from the carriage house of a 'slave woman' supposedly calling for help was sort of freaky...

I cannot believe Brian is back!

Also that footage of the mist forming in the video and also the short black shadowy going back and forth in the brewery was again sort of weird... :rolleyes:

Is Ghost Hunters on again on Wednesday? :confused:
 
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  • #66
Ghost Hunter 6 hour marathon tomorrow starting at 6pm Central time!
 
  • #67
Well now at least I have the semblence of a reason for a day trip to Savannah!:biggrin:
I hope Moon River beer is good! Hey, that's enough reason to go for me!:-p
I really like that shadow, it was cool!:approve:
 
  • #68
Wait, did the season finish or something?? Ghost Hunters is not on next week!
 
  • #69
They have 4 hours scheduled on the 16th and then nothing until 12-9! :cry:
 
  • #70
The new season of ghost hunters is here!
 
  • #71
YAY! I watched last night. Every Wednesday night! :!)
 
  • #72
WHAT?!? I missed a new one. :cry:

Did they catch a spook?
 
  • #73
Ivan Seeking said:
WHAT?!? I missed a new one. :cry:
Yep, it caught me by surprise, I missed the first half. :frown:

Did they catch a spook?
It looked like a bat to me. Something flew off a wall, but it was too dark to tell what it was.
 
  • #74
Evo said:
YAY! I watched last night. Every Wednesday night! :!)
Can I get these episodes on DVD? I want to sit in the dark and eat junk food and be scared!:cool:
 
  • #75
Math Is Hard said:
Can I get these episodes on DVD? I want to sit in the dark and eat junk food and be scared!:cool:
Ooh, a PF Ghost Hunters party! :approve:
 
  • #76
Evo said:
Ooh, a PF Ghost Hunters party! :approve:
That does sound like fun. We need a Sisterhood slumber party. We could watch Ghost Hunters, bake cookies, do facials and manicures, put SOS's hand in warm water when she falls asleep... :devil: :smile:
 
  • #77
Math Is Hard said:
That does sound like fun. We need a Sisterhood slumber party. We could watch Ghost Hunters, bake cookies, do facials and manicures, put SOS's hand in warm water when she falls asleep... :devil: :smile:
:smile: Then we can dress our cats up in cute little outfits...
 
  • #78
Evo said:
:smile: Then we can dress our cats up in cute little outfits...
Of course! C'mere, Foofer... Let's try this onesie on you. :smile:

And - oh yeah -we can make prank calls to all the cute PF guys. :smile:
 
  • #79
Math Is Hard said:
And - oh yeah -we can make prank calls to all the cute PF guys. :smile:
After a few of Tsu's glow in the dark apple martinis, this could get really interesting. :biggrin:
 
  • #80
http://www.ghost-mysteries.com/webcams.php

CCCCan you see anything ?
 
  • #81
I have to wait until I go home. :frown:
 
  • #82
That ghost thing they caught on t.v was probably the boy Tim they were talking about. After all, they concluded that it must have been at least 3 feet tall and it's head was sort of transparent.
 
  • #83
It's Ghost Hunter night...everyone start collecting your piles of junkfood. :smile:
 
  • #84
Thanks!

And Dr Who on Friday... Life is good. :biggrin:
 
  • #85
Okay, Brian is definitely a weenie; no, a whiner.
 
  • #86
Poltergeist activity! My posts are just flying by themselves into the garbage!
 
  • #87
It was a destiny thing.
 
  • #88
Ah, you're back, spirit. Can I help you move on?
 
  • #89
Yes, I feel the urge to assign penalty points for annoying behavior.
 
  • #90
Oh, come on, I think zoob's posts are educational for those that don't know how spirit contact works. I think they should be allowed to be seen. :-p
 
  • #91
Evo said:
Oh, come on, I think zoob's posts are educational for those that don't know how spirit contact works. I think they should be allowed to be seen. :-p

Zooby knows how spirit contact works? :bugeye:
 
  • #92
Evo said:
Oh, come on, I think zoob's posts are educational for those that don't know how spirit contact works. I think they should be allowed to be seen.

Oh sure, all we need is to allow that sort of thing to get started again, and pretty soon we have Zoobies looking for ghosts everywhere around here; not a pretty sight.
 
  • #93
Evo said:
Oh, come on, I think zoob's posts are educational for those that don't know how spirit contact works. I think they should be allowed to be seen. :-p
Ah! A friendly spirit!

In return for your your kindness we can either A.) Help you to move on, or B.) Clean out your drains.

Choose wisely, spirit.
 
  • #94
Who like the last episode of ghost hunters?? I think they were in Florida or something in a light house, and they saw and heard a woman at the top...
 

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