Hitler, Hitler, Hitler. Even the name is enough to throw any Internet discussion into a tailspin. Is it any wonder that GHI will take any opportunity, no matter how flimsy, to try to summon his ghost? I will confess that I was tempted to create yet another Downfall parody, with Hitler's officers trying to explain to an increasingly enraged Fuhrer that the GHI team is trying to find his disembodied spirit in Poland with cheap audio recorders and gimmicked camera. Free T-shirt to the first person who does that.

Now, I'll admit that, in hunting Hitler, GHI is moving a step up from hunting Robin Hood, Sweeney Todd, or John Jarman. I'm afraid that there's no possibility that Hitler was a fictional character, as much as we might wish he were. So the GHI team heads to Wolfsschanze in Ketrzyn, Poland, on the occasion of Hitler's birthday. Wolfsschanze was a military headquarters in Poland where Adolf Hitler lived from 1941 to 1944. This was the site of the July 20th plot to kill Hitler, which their guide incorrectly identifies as "Operation Valkyrie", but ever-correct Wikipedia tells me was in fact the conspirators' proposed method of taking over Germany after Hitler's death.

I'm a little unclear on my ghost physics. I've generally assumed that ghosts, in popular imagination, have to stay somewhat near where they've died, or at least have to have an extremely strong connection with a place. This was a place where Hitler was nearly assassinated, which seems like a strange place to hang out. To give credit, Robb brings this up himself: "…how much range do you think a spirit would have? If Hitler, theoretically, if his spirit was in Berlin somewhere, could he come here if he wanted? Y'know, I don't think that he'd necessarily need bus fare." So if ghosts can go anywhere or everywhere, why go to haunted locations? Why can't I hunt for the ghost of Abraham Lincoln in my living room?

We begin with a normal tour and a humdrum set of witness experiences, the only unusual parts being an American historian who morphs to an eyewitness later in the program, and the fact that I can find no evidence that their guide, Jadwiga Korowaj, has started her own ghost hunting group. That might seem a small point, but it makes her unique in my short tenure as GHI analyst. C'mon, Jadwiga, time's awastin'! All the other GHI guides have their own ghost hunting group that they mysteriously fail to mention during the tour!

The investigation begins. For some reason, with such a vast site, they only set up three of their four cameras. Robb and Brandy shortly find themselves in the hotel lobby, surrounded by Robb's huge equipment collection. They swiftly find themselves in a blinky-lights conversation with either an unidentified ghost or a run of luck, as they get a "yes" answer to "are you a woman" twice, then to "did you die here" once. They stop getting answers after a while and move on, and Robb comments that communication with a spirit seems to diminish over time, almost like they run out of power. Or it could be regression to the mean, Robb. Every lucky streak has to end sometime.

Next, in Bunker 27, Paul and Barry hear a strange squeaking noise from somewhere in the forest. "Owl!" I start screaming at my TV. "Barry, it's an owl!" Barry then goes out into the woods, then comes back to report that it is, in fact, an owl. You're welcome, Barry. We do see that Paul has a head-mounted flashlight, though, which is at least slightly awesome. Very slightly.

Meanwhile, in Bunker 13, Ashley and Susan demonstrate that two women yelling at an imaginary Hitler can be hilarious. "Hitler, c'mon over here," Ashley taunts. "Why don't you speak out for once?" I'm not sure that encouraging Hitler to express his inner self is such a great idea, but Susan does manage to capture a mysterious, glowing… orb. Guys, haven't we been through the whole orb thing? Wasn't Ghost Hunters founded on the idea that orbs are dust? OK, so Barry tosses this out later, but still, Susan, you're fresh out of the Academy. Did Tango and Steve teach you nothing? And did I just ask that with a straight face? They do find that someone has lit up a candle in the woods, though, and wonder if it's for Hitler's birthday.

Later, in Bunker 13, Barry puts on some Beethoven in an attempt to stir up activity using the Singapore Theory. The Singapore Theory is an idea going around in paranormal circles that by creating an environment similar to the one familiar to the ghosts supposed to be haunting the place, you can make them more active. They also surround themselves with what they themselves describe as "a mountain of equipment."

Back at Bunker #3, Robb descends into the rubble in search of a strange noise. He and Brandy do the classic paranormal who's-on-first routine: "What did you say?" "I didn't say anything." I was getting somewhat impressed by Robb's willingness to throw himself into this mass of concrete and rebar, and then realized that since I was seeing him, there was someone even more impressive there: the cameraman, who was doing everything Robb was, but backwards and in heels. Well, probably not in heels.

And finally, after staying the night in the hotel, we get to the reveal. In Room #7 of the hotel, there's an EVP which they claim is a woman's voice saying "Where is Hitler". I heard only something that sounded like a faucet dripping– no mysterious voice. They also dramatically reveal a blurry blob, which they display in reverse video to demonstrate that it is, in fact, a blurry blob. Since there's no sense of scale on it and it is so badly out of focus, it's probably something small and close to the camera, like a bug or a spider. Who knows? Maybe it's Hitler, reincarnated as a mosquito.

Given this, ahem, amazingly solid evidence, the GHI team declares this, in Robb's words, "from top to bottom a solid case."

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