The PRS team heads to a home in Allentown Pennsylvania where a girl reports having her bed shaken and being touched on the neck by an entity in her bedroom. She also gets feelings of dread in the old barn outside and her mother reports having heard someone wheezing loudly at a time she was alone in the barn.

The family knew that one of the previous owners had killed himself in the barn and the folks from Paranormal State decided to start their investigation there. They had "Dead Time" inside the house and attempted to contact the spirit of the former owner but absolutely nothing happened (which, believe it or not, is unusual for this show… which is one of the reasons I don't cover it as regularly).

Ryan brings in Chip Coffey at this point and Chip very quickly is telling Ryan that the man who killed himself in the barn does not enter the house and is not the entity in the girl's bedroom. He then goes on to say he felt the presence of a little boy in the house, which seemed to surprise Ryan. Asking around at some of the neighbors to get more information on the deceased former owner, they also ask if anyone knew of a little boy dying in the house. They did.

In fact, they gave Ryan the name of the family that owned the property before the man who committed suicide and Ryan set up an interview with a woman who had grown up in the house long ago. She confirmed that her younger brother had a chronic illness which eventually resulted in him suffocating in the middle of the night when he was eleven years old.

Now, I'll mention that during the second "Dead Time" (one in the house to contact the boy, one in the barn to contact the man) there were a couple of doors that seemed to mysteriously open and some weird things happened to the camera feeds, but as usual they made no effort to actually present enough of the facts to really consider if something truly inexplicable actually happened. What interests me more is that Chip Coffey once again seems to come onto the scene and have some fairly specific "impressions" out of nowhere that turn out to be correct.

Now, Ryan and Chip both make it a point to mention that Chip isn't given any information going into a case — they could be lying but it's unfair to assume that. Chip could secretly do a bit of research before arriving on-scene, but with the kind of information he comes up with it seems unlikely he'd be able to get it without a few people knowing he'd been digging around.

The remaining possibility (other than actual psychic abilities) would be that he actually just guesses — and of course some of those guesses could be consciously or subconsciously guided by cues picked up from the environment, but in that case with such specific "impressions" we would expect far more incorrect guesses than accurate ones.

And that may be the case, we don't know how the show is cut down; but I have to admit that on the show it comes off very impressive. If it is a parlor trick then it's a very good one and I certainly can't nail down how it's done.