This episode begins with the ominous declaration that a "new member" has joined the team. I say ominous because every time a new member has been added in the past (I think it's been about 7 times, not counting this one) it meant an existing member went bye-bye. In this case we're told that newcomer Ashley had "things to deal with" back home and will hopefully be back soon. Maybe, but given the past track record and the introduction of Paul Bradford as a "new member" I seriously doubt it.

This brings up the interesting question of "Why?" — Ashley is a brand new member and formerly of Robb's Florida Ghost Hunting group. Assuming my assumption is correct and she's not coming back, it's entirely possible that some serious personal event occurred (whether it be a chronically-ill parent, or something much more joyful like she's married and expecting) but given my suspicions about her potential involvement during a highly successful session talking to an EMF detector (which squawked back uncannily in sync with her questions) it would be criminally negligent of me not to speculate about the possibility Robb discovered she indeed *was* involved in staging the event and consequently demanded Pilgrim pull her from the show. I think Robb can be extremely over-enthusiastic and often loses any shred of objectivity but I suspect he's an honest guy and prides himself on it.

Of course I'm just piling speculation on speculation at this point, but in my defense as much as I have much more respect for GHI's apparent lack of guile and deceit, when combined with the lack of strong evidence ghosts exist it does make the show a bit dull.

Paul Bradford apparently runs a group across the pond and is an acquaintence of Barry. He is also a tech guy and brought some cool new gadgets to the group, including a way to extend the visual range of the team's IR cameras. I'm of the opinion new tech is good tech because it usually means more opportunities to actually document an event.

One new device we see GHI using for the first time in this episode is a static meter, which apparently measures the local static electricity charge in the air. RObb and Brandy set this in a room with an audio recorder and shortly afterwards heard what was described as a rustling sound coming from the direction of this room. Robb looked in the room and noted that the static meter, which had previously been reading very low, was now "full on" with all the lights maxed out. Unfortunately, despite his confidence something had gone on in that room and that the sound of it (the sound he and Brandy had heard from a distance) had been captured on the audio recorder, it turned out there were no anomalies in that recording.

Later on Robb decided to try a chat session with the static meter in the same way Ashley (and Jay & Grant) used the EMF detector/K-II meter, and asked questions hoping for a response. In this case he kept it simple and asked any nearby spirits to make more or fewer lights illuminate on the static meter. Curiously he did seem to get some results, but we really didn't see enough to know how likely or unlikely this was just a coincidence. Also, we don't really know much about this new device (and neither does GHI) so we don't know if non-coincidental results might even be caused by someone nearby breathing heavily or tapping their foot. Robb didn't explore those possibilities but he did make a point to say even though he was surprised and pleased with the session and results that it was important not to jump to conclusions and say, "The ghost talked to us!" — well he didn't say that verbatim but the sentiment was voiced and I applaud it.

During the evidence review three pieces of audio were isolated as potentially paranormal. One of them was of some loud noises in an empty room, and Robb made a good case of what the sounds specifically were (squeaky office char, door moving) and also described some steps he took to verify no one was in the room at the time. From what he said, I still think it would have been possible for a team member to be in that room without him knowing (and without any ill intent) but without more information it's difficult to say. He may be absolutely right. If so, and no one was in there, the audio would be interesting indeed because Pilgrim edited in footage of Robb sitting in that room earlier and the sound his chair makes does indeed sound like what we hear on the recording.

Beyond that there were two EVP's neither of which I would label as anything close to impressive. In one, the investigators are having a discussion on what happens after death, where do we go, and purportedly a voice on the recording responds, "Hell". Now, "Hell" is a very soft, breathy word and if you've ever heard the whoosh of a car passing by at speed then you heard something very similar to, but far more pronounced, than what was on this recording.

And the final EVP was no better, although much the opposite. There were a number of loud sounds definitely heard on the recording, but GHI determined it was a voice saying, "We're here".  To me, it very clearly was just a bunch of unidentifiable sounds that didn't bear any resemblance to a voice.

Overall this investigation started strong with the drama of a new team member and one who may or may not be coming back, followed up by a series of very interesting anecdotes about what people have experienced in the building — including a number of sightings of priests that seemed real but vanished into thin air, and locked offices being trashed overnight — and then we had a somewhat interesting investigation, ending on a rather blah reveal — all the more blah for the rather weak evidence rather than just admitting they had very little to support the case for a haunting.