Anyone else here watch Ghosthunters Intl?

[rosesaylavee]

Worked out a deal with my phone company and have bundled my phone/internet with cable - first time in 15 years I have had access to cable and what do I watch?... every ghosty show I can find. I think the best is the Ghosthunters Intl group because a. they actually find and document phenomena and b. there is no goofy voice over voice saying silly/creepy stuff and b. they don't fight amongst themselves like the roto-rooter guys.

This is apropos of nothing serious or earth shattering other than this is just an unnecessary diversion that I am enjoying to the hilt.

[I Have A Dream]

1. No, I haven't ever watched it. I watch almost no television but...

that description does sound really interesting. When and on what channel is it on? :D

Thanks!

[rosesaylavee]

2. Wednesday evenings on Syfy or Sci Fi Channel

http://www.syfy.com/ghosthuntersinternational/index.php allows you to watch the last 4 episodes online. The Costa Rica Duran Sanitorium was pretty interesting from last night.

[I Have A Dream]

3. Thank you so much for the on-line information.

I will definitely check it out! :)

[woodsprite]

4. Love GHI, and GH. I didn't like the GH Apprentice program though.

My daughter and I are addicted! (Heck, I'd just watch GHI to hear Barry's voice - love a good brogue :) ). It's the only night I really want to watch TV and I have to record it because of our schedule.

One night when my daughter and I were alone in our house, our adopted German Shepherd started barking (for no reason) looking up into the corner of our high den ceiling. We took her out, thinking maybe she needed to go do her business or heard a dog outside. Anyway, we brought her back in and she went right back to the same place in the den and started barking up at the corner of the ceiling, hackles raised. It went on for awhile and she would not be distracted - even by food. I told my daughter "This is going to sound kinda strange, and don't you dare tell your Dad." Then I said "Mom, Dad, or whoever is here with us, please leave because you're scaring our dog." Almost as soon as I said that, the dog stopped barking and went back to normal. It hasn't happened since.

I'm so glad my daughter was there to see that, otherwise I don't think anyone would have believed it.

We can't wait to see their 100th episode! Since we live in Delaware, the kids were really interested in the two episodes they did at Fort Delaware, and we have those shows taped and archived. That's a place that they visit yearly with school.

[rosesaylavee]

8. I grew up in a haunted house

and seem to have something unexplained happen from time to time. I am not so into the plumbers - too much of their show is about them and not about what they are about. I don't care if so and so isn't getting along or messing up his job. Loved the Congress Theater and Gettysburg Inn episodes tho - good work at both those places.

And, um, Barry's voice is ok to listen to. :P

[get the red out]

5. I watch it and love it

Both Ghost Hunters shows are among my favorites.

[FirstLight]

6. they are the amateurs of the ghost hunting crowd

they keep their cameras focused on their own faces and get all scsred & run and scream... it's kinda comic to me.

I prefer Ghost Adventures with Zak Baggins, he is realy good at getting evidence, and hot too! :loveya: all the guys are really good at the actual techy part of capturing stuff.
Paranormal State is good because they look at history and try to heal the spirits they encounter, which i like. They will do catholic as well as Native American ceremony to foster healing and harmony between living & dead.

also, while on the topic...i am loving the new series Psychic Kids...really helping the kids and families deal with their gifts and use them for good. teaching them protection & grounding, too.

just my 2 cents ;)

[rosesaylavee]

7. I think I saw Zak do a plantation site in LA...

He seemed a bit outrageous and over the top taunting a voudou spirit. But an interesting approach that got results. And you are right - wish they wouldn't focus on them as the are they are in. I prefer the international team to the US team as they are a bit more focused on the task at hand and less on what team member isn't getting along with who.

I'll have to look for Paranormal State and Psychic Kids.

[rosesaylavee]

9. And on second thought...

I don't think GHI or ghost hunters intl is the one where they scream and run. They are fairly calm and sedate given what they uncover. Last night there were some great photos taken at the Duran location in Costa Rica.

I think I saw on of those other ghost shows earlier this week and didn't make it past the screaming... how silly it was. The names are so similar its hard to keep track of them.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. There is a gap between those who believe in angels/guides/ghosts/entities

and those who even if provided irrefutable information, would still run/ignore it.

Of course, the speed at which people adopt a thing depends proportionally upon its immediate personal benefit.

[liberalmuse]

11. LOL!

I got rid of tv for years, but when I was staying at my sister's after moving up here, I got hooked on all the Ghost shows, along with the HGTV home-improvement-for-cheap shows. I have tv back now and it's gone downhill from there, though I still don't watch it more than a couple times a month. Once in awhile, I'll have a 'robe day' and watch the trashiest reality show marathons I can find. I still check in on the Ghost shows, though.

I believe in ghosts, but I don't believe the whole spirit is earthbound after we die. I think we can defragment in some of our incarnations - sort of like Windows OS (and we also get put back together again eventually after doing this many times and finally learning), and ghosts are either residual energy replaying or a fragment of someone's 'soul', 'emotional body' or ego or whatever it is we have here while on earth. In other words, I have no idea.

[rosesaylavee]

14. I would really like to know that answer too...

Why are some hauntings apparently residual where actions/events are just repeated over and over again and why do some appear to have a thinking individual actively engaged in a haunt? This show makes me want to go out and get a lot of equipment to start figuring it out and documenting. LOL. like I could afford that right now. :P

[liberalmuse]

24. I hear ya!

It looks like fun, except when you're the one sitting in the dark and hearing a raspy voice out of nowhere. Uh-uh! And it's not like there's a huge market for 'ghost hunters' anyway. I used to work for an org that studied UFO and cattle mutilations and think that's why I find 'Ghost Hunters' and all those other shows especially appealing. They remind me of the guys I worked with, who were wonderful. I see them on the Travel Channel on those UFO shows every now and then. They had similar equipment and would go to a farm where there was a lot of odd activity and spend a week there. I had to stay in the office and take phone calls since I was just the Admin. :(

[rosesaylavee]

25. Ghosts would be easier than ET I think...

And as most of what I experienced when I was a kid growing up was when I was alone, having another person there would help to keep me calm. I am amused tho when, after they experience an unexplained event like odd sounds or cold air patch or someone is poked or spoken to... just when we as viewers are thinking wow, show me more, the investigators decide, 'well, time to leave this room and move along'. Ha. Skeered $&^*&)less no doubt! :rofl:

[MorningGlow]

12. I am completely unable to watch any show about hauntings

I've lived with ghosts and other entities most of my life, in a number of houses (got at least one ghost in our present house), and it doesn't bother me. But for some reason when I watch a ghost-hunting show, I get SOOOOO freaked out I curl up on the couch--frozen, terrified, one giant raw, exposed nerve--and then I can't get to sleep because I see malevolent critters in every shadow. Go figure.

[rosesaylavee]

13. I react that way

to just about any other show - horror or even some comedies. (Can't watch Seinfeld for instance as I empathize too much with how they feel when they do something completely boneheaded. Seriously. Have to leave the room if its on it makes me so uncomfortable.) My husband is amused that I can sit and watch these one after the other with none of my usual twitching and jumping.

I grew up in a haunted house and experienced a few elsewhere too. I always wished we could get beyond that 'freak-out' part and figure out what was actually happening. GHI is the closest thing I have ever seen. I considered going to Duke University when I was young as that was the only place to go to get a degree in anything related to studying this. Almost wish I had pursued this now.

[MorningGlow]

16. Me too!!

I don't think Duke has the program in parapsychology anymore, do they? But they did in the early '80s when I was looking at colleges. The minute I saw that they had a parapsychology department, I announced to my family with absolute confidence that I was going to Duke and that would be my major. When my mom saw how far away it was from home, she put the kibosh on that idea IMMEDIATELY. I was furious with her for a long time, but now that I look back on it, I should probably be grateful. I might have hated it, because it might have been nothing more than endless rounds of PSI cards with undergrads looking for beer money.
:rofl:

[rosesaylavee]

19. Yeah - I wasn't so interested in ESP

as I was the ghost hunting stuff. The psi cards would have driven me crazy with boredom. Are you familiar with Rupert Sheldrake? Now HIS theories would have been an interesting thing to study. We were born just a few decades before our time MG.

[I Have A Dream]

17. I am exactly the same way, rosie.

"Friends" did the same for me; when they did something insensitive to someone, I'd be in agony. I remember as a child being almost unable to watch "Casper the Friendly Ghost" because I knew that he was going to be rejected and hurt so badly at the beginning of each episode. I knew that, in the end, everyone would love him (which was the case in every episode), but that didn't help to alleviate the suffering during the early part of the episode. :(

[rosesaylavee]

20. I Love Lucy

was when it started for me... you know she's going to get in trouble and be embarrassed and there was nothing to be done other than leave the room. And I like her ... just couldn't watch. I think the key is - if I identify emotionally I just can't watch. The GHI people are startled, may even swear but then they walk toward the noise to figure out what that was and if it can be reproduced.

The house I grew up in had residual AND an active interactive haunt so it was an interesting place. My mother who loved the house - I think to keep us from running screaming from the house - would suggest we apply the scientific method to things that would happen. And I think the process of trying to reproduce the effect would calm us down and distract us enough that it became almost a game. We were the house's owners the longest of any so far having lived there 17 years. One of the neighbors who knew us then said that over the past 20+ years since we moved, the average length of time any one stays is 2 years. We kind of got into it over time and any of my siblings would buy the house back if we could.

[I Have A Dream]

21. Yes, the embarrassment factor does it for me also.

I would sometimes even cover my eyes and almost physically pull into a shell because I was so uncomfortable. (I'm sure that it would still be the case if I still watched television.) I've always felt rather foolish for this, so I'm glad to hear that someone that I respect also has this happen to them. (Not that I wish this on you... :()

What an interesting experience to have while growing up. I'm glad that your mother was able to make it work for all of you. If you stayed 17 years, I suspect that whoever was doing the haunting liked having your family there.

[rosesaylavee]

22. It joked with me a couple of times...

or one of whatever it was. I was trying to scare my sister in the adjoining room one night after lights out making wooo woooo sounds. And then I thought I heard her whistle from our common doorway... asked her when she learned to whistle and she continued to whine that I should just stop it now... so the whistle wasn't her... yikes. jumped in bed with her right then and there. Ghost was playing along with the woo wooo alright. :P

Another time it kicked the bucket... literally across the kitchen floor. Cracked me up.

[I Have A Dream]

23. This is wonderful!

He/she liked you! :D (What's not to like?)

[NuttyFluffers]

15. love the ghosty shows! my fave is Ghost Lab for some tighter experiment control.

but i love Ghosthunters because Zac and them amuse me as they run animatedly all over the place. i like Paranormal State because it's a cross between the two, tho there's quite a bit of the exorcisms, devil worshippers, and ouija board users filling episodes.

[rosesaylavee]

18. I have a very decided prejudice against

exorcisms and any demon-oriented interp of the phenomn. Grew up Catholic so I know the drill... I know I should be broadminded and all that but it makes me nuts and I change the channel. I think the early Ghost Hunter/Roto Rooter guys had a demonologist on board for the evening... knowing the history of the Roman Catholic church and how all that stuff evolved and was manipulated by the Church over time makes it hard for me to see it active yet in our current culture. I have no doubt there are very nasty, horrid ghosts out there as I do think there are similar humans too. Calling them demons gives them an energy and respect of sorts that I don't think is merited. And Ouija boards are just irresponsible...

Ghost Hunters, Intl is on Wednesdays and is different from Zak who is on Fridays ... GHI has an international team that visits haunts everywhere but the US... I think. Haven't seen Ghost Lab yet - will have to seek that out.