April 2, 2010
GH: Southern Mansion
Tango's dad joins the team to investigate the Southern Mansion in Cape May, New Jersey. The home was originally built by a man named George Allen in 1863 for use as a summer home and stayed in the family for nearly a century afterward. It was renovated in 1994 to have a number of rooms added to the structure and is currently an Inn. I wonder if they will find any ghosts, thus increasing interest in this little known Inn and expanding their customer base? No matter, that sort of thing is of secondary importance to the always-unbiased and scientific TAPS team. Just keep in mind that the most reports of paranormal activity take place when people rent the entire Inn out for weddings and parties.
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Comments on GH: Southern Mansion »
blinddog50 @ 11:34 am
Southern Mansion in New Jersey?
Oxymoron or wishful thinking?
I think I found a Newark slum tenement in Savannah for Goober and the Gang to check out.
ginrog @ 3:53 pm
I don't know about anyone else but I was expecting Roger Rabbit to crash through the walls since everyone knows no toon can resist '2 bits'.
Bodyguard @ 4:30 pm
I felt the same way. I get so tired of "2 bits" stuff. I also get tired of the music. Would they turn that stuff off when they say they hear something for the love of Pete?
Dr. Herbert West @ 9:39 pm
There is nothing to hear. That's why they cover it up. Totally scripted.
The Doctor @ 10:00 pm
Dave found some electrical equipment that kicks on automatically, which appears to have answered some of his own questions, but did they ever chase down actaully what that was controlling ? Could stuff turning on and off have caused some of the sounds the other team members heard ? It seems no one looked into that possibility.
kim rowland @ 9:11 am
Hey guys
I watch the programme all the time and love it !! I especially love the sections when Tango & Steve are 'hunting'….very entertaining guys !! carry on the great work Team, and stay safe
kim rowland
England
blinddog50 @ 9:48 am
SIGH……Ladies and Gentlemen,….the Easter Bunny has left the building.
Goodnight and don't forget to tip your servers.
The Doctor @ 12:22 pm
I was a bit surprised when the owner says that the house was built on "neutral territory" since the war was already on for two years – 1863 was the year the Battle of Gettysburg was fought. I doubt the Confederates were circling Washington and Baltimore, sliding past Wilmington and Salem, then dropping down the peninsula of Cape May to place an order for hats.
Since the Mansion gives historical tours, and Bruce had been on one when he was supposedly grabbed, this would have been a perfect time to do an additional daylight "hunt" with the whole group.
HollyDolly @ 8:26 am
yeah Bodyguard, I too get tired of the music, which is the complaint of many viewers.The Doctor, your right about daylight hunts. Since Bruce Tango claims he was grabbed while on a tour, and it happend in broad daylight, it should stand to reason paranormal activity can happen during the day as well as at night.
A daylight investigation would be interesting.Certainly evps don't just happen at night. I think it was when GH went to Fort Delaware, they were told about a lady who came into the kitchen during a cooking demonstration(I think it was for Girl Scouts or some other tour group) went over to the stove and started checking a pot or two on the stove. GH's guide said the lady smiled her approval,and then vanished.
This again was a daylight tour.
It might be the electrical equipment was causing the team to hear noises also,besides Dave.But they should have tracked it down and checked it out.At least i think Andy Andrews would have back in the old days.
Chris @ 11:26 am
I noticed that right after the door closes that on the right side of the video a shadow of someone darts off camera. I watched it 10 times in a row and there is no denying that right as the door shuts someone was in the room. Jason and Steve then go on to explain that no one was in the room. Did anyone else notice this?
CrowTRobot @ 2:04 pm
@Chris,
I caught the shadow you mentioned. It's there. Hard to say it had anything to do with the door closing, but interesting none the less. Also odd that, after Britt and Amy talked about all the shadows they were seeing, they missed an obvious one right on camera.
Hilarous that Kris didn't know what Amy was talking about when she was referencing the broken glass on Jason's nightstand from an earlier investigation. I guess that was before she became such good long-time friends with J&G and was always interested in the paranormal.
The alledged footsteps on the stairs: I still don't understand why, when they hear footsteps, they don't send one investigator to the bottom of the stairs, leave one at the top, then slowly move towards each other.
Eintopy @ 6:50 pm
Just watched this one again, and during the evidence review, Steve actually does point out the shadow to Tango after the door closing. He says "You almost see like a shadow right afterwards …", but neither he nor Jay mention it during the reveal. Weird. They're always so quick to jump on random bumps and thuds and call them paranormal, but they totally ignore this? To me, it really looks like the shadow of a person, so I'm surprised they didn't talk about it at the review.
And was it just me, or did the client look bored and annoyed during the reveal? Looked like she couldn't wait for it to be over.
StanTheMan @ 8:28 pm
They must be hearing that people are seeing the shadow: Hawes tweeted a few days ago: "some say they see a hand, others dont,I see something, But I can see thru whatever it is.Cant tell if its a shadow or what,u all decide.TY"
The Doctor @ 11:17 am
@HollyDolly – Really miss Andy – the shows need someone like that. I had hopes that Tango would have morphed into that type of character.
@StanTheMan – Jason really said whatever it was he could see right through it ? …. I wonder just what it was he saw behind it that let him realize he was seeing through it ?
blinddog50 @ 12:34 pm
Jason was probably seeing his Q quotient going down like the Hindenburg behind it.
Mugs @ 3:20 pm
RE: Britt & Amy, the closing door, the shadow & hand…my observations & opinion.
1] We first see Britt/Amy in the hallway approaching the closed ballroom door – Britt’s coat is draped over his arm, Amy isn't wearing or carrying a jacket/coat. As they walk in A heads to the front of the bar, B follows ‘after’ pausing to 'drape' his coat over a bar stool [back rest part] – the only stool pulled out away from the bar.
It didn’t appear they’d just come in from outside, so what: was B carrying his coat around while cough investigating b/c, save for when they had a cameraman with them, he had no intention of actually using the tools/cam he was carrying to collect data in any of the halls/rooms;….Or B/A had not been investigating together as they tried to make it seem, just met in the hall to do their ballroom scene;…Or B took his coat for a reason, it isn't as if he couldn't leave it at an entrance [wasn’t there an outside door (entrance) in the hall where the staircase he/Steve investigated is; B was wearing his coat then]?
I'd question it but wouldn't have given it as much thought if it was what he usually did, and if not for the fact: B/A's ballroom scene appeared largely staged; draping his coat on that particular stool raised a red flag the moment he set the miniDV down and aimed it directly at it, and the corner 'behind' it.
Assuming he had a reason to aim the cam at that corner – despite being in a large room and having a number of areas/options that would've actually made sense. Why place the cam so the corner [and door] was largely obscured by: top of the table, it consumed a third of the frame; the chair at the table, bar stools behind it and corner of the bar behind them; pulled out stool with his coat obscuring any view which might of been had through the open areas of the back rest?
Why not put the cam on the seat of the stool [coat on the back] – since using a tripod was too difficult for them – move it to the other side of the pillar [part of it was in view] to have an 'unobstructed view of the entire corner & door'?
2] There were several doors – plus a double door at the back leading to a veranda – what are the odds of one closing inexplicably by itself or at the hand of a ghost if one prefers; that it’d occur the night TAPS was there, when a team was in the room and said team would not only aim a cam at a corner in a ‘ballroom’ but it’d be ‘the corner where the door is located’? Of course it opened into the hall making it easy for someone to close and remain out of view.
3] They hear noises in a closet at the back of the room, Amy claims to see a 'shadow figure' in a pillar mirror by the closet…Britt then claims he had seen one too, earlier while watching the room via the mirror at the bar. Why didn't they turn the miniDV toward the area where they'd seen these shadows, or so one of the pillar mirrors was in view?!?
Because, naturally, it made more sense to just sit there [literally] and 'not even try' to capture evidence of it…and had they done so they never would've captured the door closing. BTW, when they were at the closet and later when they went to sit at a table to watch the mirrors, the door was still open.
4] At Reveal, Jay/Steve claimed B/A were oblivious to the door closing, with S adding it wasn't discovered until Analysis. Really? So despite leaving the door 'wide open' when they went in – b/c closing it to further reduce outside noise wasn't in the script – it wasn't the least bit odd to them it was 'closed' when they went to leave? Didn't wonder what-who-when-why, since they were supposedly alone in the home?!?
Yikes this is getting long, I'll discuss the shadow/hand and J's tweets [twits?]etc in a separate post.