Bannfy Castle in Romania is known in some circles as the part of the Ghost Hunters International season finale that wasn't absolutely terrible. In fact, it was actually pretty good — unknown why they frontloaded this investigation instead of leaving off on it.

Brandy & Robb started this investigation off in the stables, where a stable boy was allegedly seduced and murdered by a young woman.  Of course, they were trying to contact said boy and Brandy was speculating that now he may despise and distrust all women. While they were talking there was a sound, as if someone shut a door, but nothing much happened otherwise.

Outside Barry & Dustin decided to try debunking shadows seen in the "Blue Room". Parts of the castle server as a modern academy of sorts and students walking through the grounds often report seeing a shadowy figure walking around in the upstairs windows of the "Blue Room" even though there is no one there. Barry noticed a peculiar play of light during their walkthrough tour and managed to reproduce a shadow moving about by the windows (and visible from the ground) from a good distance away. He suggested other students were unknowingly casting the shadows seen by those below in the courtyard.

Interestingly, while Barry was working in the Blue Room Dustin reported seeing shadows and lights moving in another second-floor window towards the center of the building. Not only was no one from the team in that second room at the time, but the room in question doesn't even have a floor, it having collapsed some time ago — so no one could possibly walk past the window.  I am curious if what Barry was doing to create the shadows in the Blue Room might have also created shadows in these other windows; without knowing the internal floor/wall layouts we can only speculate but unfortunately there was no video of the activity in this other room anyway, so we can't even be sure Dustin's eyes weren't just playing tricks on him.

Not to dwell on it, but this kind of struck me as odd and disappointing.  I mean, Dustin is outside with video camera and camera crew, and everyone is recording the front of the building to see if Barry can reproduce shadows in two of the windows.  How is it that no one had a wide enough shot that they could see the other windows Dustin was talking about (just a few windows down from where Barry was) — or were they just not recording at all for some reason?  It's annoying enough when someone sees/hears something and it's not recorded, but in this particular case it seemed to me they had to have recorded it.  I wonder if they did, but on review there wasn't anything in the window, so rather than undermine Dustin they chose to say "we didn't catch it".

The stables were added in the 18th century, but one corner of them lies at an intersection with the original 16th century section of the castle and during the removal of one of the beautifully carved stone water troughs that were built into the wall a crawlspace was discovered that no one had apparently ever been into (at least in the past century!)   Andy Andrews, investigator extraordinaire, couldn't resist and climbed through the small opening with the thermal camera.  I thought it was an odd choice — there wasn't much room to move around in there, much less see temperature anomalies, but as it turns out it was a good choice because it led Andy to discover an opening in the floor that had been covered with loose rubble.

I particularly appreciated Andy's antics, as climbing around in tight spaces and that feeling of exploration (like caving) is just something I really enjoy. Andy managed to take it to the next level and climbed down into the opening he'd discovered in the floor.  The shaft led directly to the basement, which led to speculation by the local historian if perhaps it had once been used to get important documents and records quickly to and from the stables (in order to move them).

The investigation climaxed with Dustin & Robb doing an EVP session, much like Brandy & Robb were at the beginning of the night. They both heard a sound which Dustin believed came from near the front door. What made this time different was that Barry was outside snapping photos with the full-spectrum camera.  Not only that, but he was actually taking photos with a regular camera simultaneously side-by-side.  This is a terrific technique that I applaud.  If only they'd do stuff like that more often, like have the DVR and the thermal camera rigged together so we could compare any thermal anomalies with the standard video footage of the same area.

…but I digress.

What Barry's regular photos showed was exactly nothing, but in one of the full spectrum photos (which the team believes was taken around the time Dustin & Robb heard the sound by the door) there is a streak of light that appears to be moving near the front door of the building.  It is in only a single full-spectrum photo — not to be seen in the one before or after.  As I mentioned, there's no such anomaly in the standard photo so it difficult to explain.  Neither camera was operating with a flash.  We do see the building looks much better lit on the right-side in the full-spectrum shots because there were IR illuminators over there, it's possible some IR (or UV) light hit something reflective by the front door briefly, but I'm not sure there is even anything there to reflect off of, the object seems to be freestanding ten feet or so in front of the building.

It's certainly not solid evidence of anything in particular, but it's one of those things that (for the moment) seems to defy explanation and that makes it curious and intriguing, at least to me.  Overall I thought this was a fair investigation and perhaps even one of the better ones they've done.