Thank God Brandy is still around providing nice "eye candy," because this episode was really B-O-R-I-N-G! I understand how we need to appreciate serious debunking, but c'mon man! When they don't find ANYTHING at all they should either not air the episode or, at least, promise to return in the future in case the spooks took a night off.

On a different note: last week some of you posters were dogging Andy and his "quartz battery in the cave" theory. Let me add, albeit a little late, my two cents on his eloquent explanation. It sounded like one of the ripest crocks of bovine fertilizer I've heard in a long time! Andy would make a terrific used car salesman! Can anyone say "BARF?!"

"triangulation" is interesting, but I worry that they are losing time that could be better spent gathering muffled "EVPS" and who knows what else. What if the ghost activity shifts after they dedicate their resources? Too many questions.

In the end, a wasted 20 minutes of my life that I will never get back. I would have rather watched Barry cooking stew than watch "Dracula's" castle become boring and lame in the hands of crappy and irresponsible post production.

This bit was so bad I didn't even notice if there were any hats I needed to mention disparagingly.

The segment sucked with the force of an F3 tornado.

I nodded off and missed the reveal, but didn't care enough to go back and catch it before TiVo deleted it. As you referred to in your breakdown Logisti, knowing that 20 minutes were left to investigate a location told me they would find a heaping helping of jack squat. I kept watching the minutes roll by as they hauled their gear up the stairs…

What a let down.

I thought it was funny that the guys had to climb another 1400 steps just to tell the host that they found NOTHING!
Also I wasn't surprised that it was Barry who said he heard something on his recordings that ultimately forced the team to investigate his area and get NOTHING!

Yep, with 20 minutes left I knew we were goint to see squat. It is hard to say this, but I kind of want Brian to come back. At least he gets me going when he claims to see so many shadows. What happened to Brian anyway? I must have missed something on how or why he left.

I'll bet Robb and his team (what's left of it) took a lot of heat after this one aired.
I'm glad it's over.
Well for now we're done with Robb trying to act like a pro, Andy the Great Debunker, Brandy and her eye makeup, Dustin and that eternal upside down backward visor. Barry however has that air about him which I really like. I wish they had made him Lead Investigator and head of the team. Doesn't he have the most experience? Ah, another bad hand cruely dealt.
I wonder if GHI will come back with a couple of new members.
I guess we'll have to nervously wait to see if in the new season Robb will look alive and interested, Dustin will lose that visor, Brandy has a makeover, and Andy..well.

I'll just wait for the real GH.

Somehow I think Barry has never entered a building that he didn't have some 'paranormal' experience in.

I can picture him walking into a crowded MacDonalds' and going, "shhhh–didja hear that? there are voices!" all the while ignoring the presense of the other patrons, "and, Andy, I think I can smell meat. Yes, it's definately meat–and it smells cooked."

I keep waiting to see Victoria Principal wake, up, wander into the bathroom, and have Barry pop his head out of the shower and say that the whole series was a dream–he's headed back to 'Most Haunted'.

It's interesting that they never mentioned that they were back in Romania. This one really had me confused because I thought they visited it last season when they had to climb up hundreds of similar stairs in a blizzard with their equipment. I also seem to remember the team mentioning Dracula several times. Anyway, Citadel Rasnov was much more interesting than these ruins.

You know, I thought the very same thing. That they were there before.

Yeti33,

http://www.skepticalviewer.com/forums/ghost-hunters-international/brian-and-donnnaleaving-the-paranormal/page-1/

Fell asleep in the recliner, missed the reveal, didn't care.

God almighty. This was the most boring, uninteresting, contrived, wasteful, pointless, unnecessarily, useless ____ offed, dumbedown, lamest, insulting, torrid, asteroid sized-turd, tired, waste of precious life I have ever experienced.

There was nothing redeeming about this episode. They should just cancel the series and integrate the GHI team back into the GH team. Splitting the team into 2 is like the NHL, NBA and MLB expanding the league and watering down the talent. Really cool locations this season, they really mixed it up a bit: but it's so Eurocentric it sickens me. GHI only does things the American way-of course minus Barry Fitzgerald who-being European-understands that the world is multi-lingual.

Robb is just phony and really nearly comes close to insulting alot of the "clients", rather the hosts, of the structure they are investigating. So in conclusion, this episode reeked of pretentiousness, repetitive, rhetoric that was truly tiresome and devoid of any reedeeming quality. Hang up the BDRGDTUT (B.S. Doesn't Register a G.D. tangible usuable thing) Meter and give Barry Fitzgerald his own show, enough of the B.S., ____ it GHI.

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Did anyone happen to catch the fact that when Robb went to Bannfy Castle, he was investigating in FLIP FLOPS! I mean, really! It's bad enough they already give Americans a bad name with their baggy jeans, hoodlum hooded sweatshirts, and don't even get me started on Dustin's stupid visors. But whenever you're conducting a "professional" (and I use this term lightly with GHI) investigation, I think proper footwear would be in order.

Roll on GH!

Thanks for cleaning up my post. I tried to censor myself, but I guess it was still obvious what I was saying.

Anyway, I am really glad that this season is over. There were really awesome locations, but it seemed phony and rushed, without any real evidence that made me go…hmmmm that's freaky. Utter disappointment.

Thanks for letting me tell you how I really feel….:)

I watched this episode and was disappointed they really didn't get anything.
I remember on I think Discovery Channel they did a show about Dracula, with a gentleman who has written about Dracula, but can't remember his name, I'll have to google books on Dracula and Frankenstein.He wrote on about Frankenstein and the history of the family and castle,Konrad Dippel and Mary Shelly. It was an interesting book.

Anyhow he went to this castle which is said to be haunted. On the show, they had a photo of the castle, and there was this large white globe of light in the photo
above the trees, was rather interesting indeed.

HollyDolly-You are probably thinking of Raymond McNally's excellent book "Dracula-Prince of Many Faces: His Life and Times". It was co-written along with Radu Florescu. I highly recommend this book, as well as McNally's "Dracula Was A Woman: In Search of the Blood Countess of Transylvania" about Elizabeth (Erzsebet) Bathory.

McNally does not use too much speculation in his works and I think he is very fair when discussing his subjects, their lives and motivations. Neither does he sugar coat anything. In other words, they are balanced treatments of two of history's most sensationalized characters.

The Discovery program on Dracula was excellent. I was able to download it last year from iTunes. However, I find GHI's episode problematic in that there are a few castles connected to Dracula, but some had a very tenuous association with him. It seems that tacking the name Dracula to a castle he might have spent a few days in is good for the tourist trade.

Wow! I've a taken a severe whuppin on this site! =). Much of it fair and some of it a tad harsh, but you make the decision to appear on television and you take what you get! Anyway, I think I've picked one of the strangest critiques to respond to: flip-flops. Yes, I was wearing flip-flops. I had injured my ankle, and was (foolishly) wearing flip-flops because my swollen ankle couldn't fit into my shoes without monumental pain. Anyway, I quite enjoyed reading the episode reviews and will be back when we come back on the air. Yes we are coming back. I can almost here the collective groan! Best regards, Robb

Hi Robb,

Welcome. I'm glad you decided to post here and you are taking the time to explore the site. We always love to have first hand accounts of investigations. Please do return and feel free to comment on the episodes we are discussing.

Robb,

Welcome Robb. No groan here (well, maybe a tad). Obviously you are smart enough to know that when you sign on to TV you are under a microscope and subject to critics from every angle. However, I do hope you come back sooner rather than later and share. Your post is reasonable and it would be good to hear things from your perspective. Thanks for checking in here.

And of course, realize that as a skeptical viewer site, we are often skeptical of those who claim that they are people associated with the show. You may be, you may not be, but please understand if I reserve judgment until the claim is substantiated. But regardless, whether you truly be Robb or not, welcome to the site!

Robb, (if that is your REAL name…LOL)

Glad to hear from you. Hope you will come around from time to time and answer some of our questions. We're obviously skeptical, but are always ready and willing to listen to comments from an insider's perspective.

Welcome to the site!