For now, I'm just going to comment on Madagascar portion of the show.

Here is the main thing that I came away with: when someone asks you if you'd like to jump into a hand-carved canoe and paddle into Crocodile Cave…always say "no thank you."  By far, the most amazing thing that I have ever seen on DT is not that Josh Gates fell out of the canoe…but that he was able to get back into it without capsizing it.  That….was paranormal.

Aside from that, I was disappointed by the claw.  Not that they found it, but that it's a mystery.  Right off the bat, I'm just assuming that DNA can't be extracted from it?  I'm not sure if they said that…my dogs were barking at the time.  And it's not like I don't have confidence in Jim Dines (sp?), the guy from the museum, but…Madagascar is very weird and very specific place.  There are no experts there that Gates could have asked?  Something tells me that an expert there, like Dr Goodwin, could glance at it, hold it up to the light, and launch into a ten minute speech over what species it belongs to.

Instead of 47,937 paranormal shows on TV, I'd like a scientific team to hit Madagascar.  Just so many new species to be discovered (although I'm a bit uncertain about the "Fangalobolo").  I would much rather watch that then to see Jason and Grant pass secret words to each other via ghost ("Atlantis"…"Comet"…really?) or watch Zak smack his recorder against a wall and then brace himself as if he's just heard a ghost.  I guess real science just isn't as exciting as watching Ryan from PS rage his spiritual war against the unseen, unknown, and unproven…

Nosfer said: "It looks like when Mike is touched he reaches his left hand around to his back…apparently touching the area, which would then be picked up as a heat signature when they aim the thermal at it right after."

Absolutely correct.  In fact, he touches his back twice with his left hand.  First, right when it happens and a second time when he is explaining it to the group and BEFORE they use the FLIR on his back.  Here's the video, the event happens around the 4 minute mark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l15HJxO30GU

Around the 6:30 mark, Josh tries to explain the incident during the review by saying: "If you lay hands on something and take your hand away, that thermal will show it."  Ali says "It looks like a couple of fingerprints."  Which in turn Josh replies "That's physical evidence."

Um…what?  You've just shown and explained why the "physical evidence" is NOT paranormal.  Your sound man grabbed his back twice and his own prints showed up on the thermal.  I'm thinking that we don't have to bring in Thelma and Shaggy to solve this one.

And, just for the record, if you want to get all sciency and such…maybe show us a baseline with the thermal in that same environment (so the temperature and humidity are the same).  Shoot someones back with the thermal.  Then have them touch their own back a couple of times through their shirt.  If the prints don't show up…then maybe we have something interesting.  If they do show up, then we can dismiss this.  It reminds me of the GH episode where the sound supposedly got hit by his bag and the FLIR was used to "confirm" the hit.  No baseline in the same environment.

Carrie said: "And Mike does reach around and touch his back and THEN holler like a little girl."

Actually, I think that's insulting to little girls.  Most little girls don't go around claiming that zombie ghosts are touching them…  

As for the "shadow" walking across the static camera…I don't know.  Bug?  Piece of flora in the wind?  I would view it as interesting, but I certainly wouldn't start screaming "paranormal."  (The shadow can also be seen in the video clip linked above. It's near end in the review.)