This little gem of an investigation was thrown onto the tail end of the episode with Orava Castle. There were some personal experiences — a couple are actually worth mentioning: Donna kept saying she clearly saw a mist when the entire Ghost Hunters International team was in the "Ancestors Room" together, but nothing came out on the video or the many photos she took.

In that same room Andy seemed to have an experience that corroborated Donna's mist, saying he felt something touch him on the shoulder just as Donna was saying the Mist was coming up behind him. He felt it important to mention that he rarely reports being touched (subtext mine: unlike some of the other members of his team) and he always looks first for the alternative explanation — brushing past a piece of furniture, etc. It's a fair point and I'm inclined to take Andy's personal experiences more seriously than some reported by others.

In the end though, there was absolutely no evidence at the reveal, zero. Occasionally this has happened on Ghost Hunters, although it does sometimes coincide with a homeowner who is scared and reacts favorably to the lack of haunting, which some might consider suspicious or too convenient. In fairness though, a couple of times they've seriously deflated people.

In this case, their host was ultimately relieved that they didn't find anything, but from his first on-camera interview right through the beginning of the Reveal he seemed extremely excited by the idea that they might find some of the Ghosts other people have reported to him. Only after soaking in the news that there wasn't even a single measly, static-filled EVP did his disappointment change to respect for the job the team did and relief (because he's often alone in the castle at night).

The big story here is Andy Andrews. While they were reviewing the evidence he made a point to say that, yeah they all had personal experiences and that's great but that's not why they're out there investigating — it's all about the evidence. When they came up dry he also made it clear that he was very disappointed, especially considering how he felt about his own personal experience, but that no evidence is no evidence and in the end that's the only thing that counts.

It seems to me that as we see more and more of the folks at TAPS and their Europe-exploring cousins nearly every single investigator has shown an increasing willingness to overstate the evidence and overlook alternative explanations but Andy — who at first impression a few years back seemed a little overeager for my liking — has really impressed me and earned a little bit more respect and trust with each investigation.

Don't get me wrong, I'll examine anything he puts forth as evidence with every bit of criticality it deserves, but I'll enjoy it more because I know that whatever evidence he thinks is impressive is far more likely to impress (or at least confound) me than the average piece evidence cited at the end of many investigations. I hesitate to say this, but it's an exact fit for the sentiment I want to express: Thanks for keeping it real, Andy.