Well, what is there to say? The title says it all…yet another ghost hunt as Josh and crew look into reports of ghosts still haunting the buildings of previous explorers, inhabitants etc who never made it back to the northern latitudes. Kinda like the Namibian ghost town except snow and ice instead of sand.

Antarctica, not much to say, I think most people here know where it is (just walk south until you get really cold and are served drinks by formally dressed birds)

If any of them (cough, cough, Alex) says anything about the Piri Reis Map, I'm going to throw something rectangular with buttons on it. Oh, wait, hopefully he won't be in this episode, although "Peru" might be on the way.

Where will they be hunting? I have no idea but if I had to hazard a guess, near the top of my list (if not my first choice) would be a ghost town at Whaler's Bay on Deception Island. This is supposedly the oldest "ghost town" there and was started in 1906 by a Norwegian-Chilean whaling company. The town was abandoned in 1931.  the ghosts remained.

Deception Island is off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and would be about the first thing you run into from the Argentine side after going across Drake Passage.  It even has it's own webpage.  I wonder if the tourist trade is down?

This is the Season Finale of Season 4 and also the half Season-finale of the half Season 4.5 They started out with a cross-over and time will tell if they end it by bringing their evidence to Kris and Barry.

Your drinking cues:

• Anytime Rex says he feels a cold spot
• Anytime an EVP sounds suspiciously like teeth chattering
• Martini jokes made by Josh
• Someone wrecks a snowmobile right before a commercial
• Attempts to recreate the last moment of the Titanic by ramming ice bergs
  • Extra swig if it's before a commercial

Magnetism and the Coffee Lid.  I think we may be looking at something a lot more "down to earth" on this one.  They are in close quarters.  It's cold so they are bundled up looking more like the Pillsbury Doughboy and probably not used to their extra bulk.  We never see the actual cause, just the effect (ie the sound and then the thing on the floor) (Isn't that usually the case with these shows…something happens but we only see the end result of the happening)

With the padding of the extra clothes, they might not even be aware that they brushed against something and knocked it onto the floor.  A magnetic field strong enough to yank something off a shelf?  Possibly, though I'd put it pretty far down on the list.  I suppose IFF it had become magnetised it could have attached to a sleeve zipper as it was brushed by, but I'd be more inclined to suspect that it were simply brushed off the shelf by the physical action of the sleeve.

Morse code…you mean you never went around as a kid spelling in Morse code?   Surely we weren't the only ones who did that! 

– .- -.– -… .
.– .
.– . .-. .
.— ..- … -
.– . .. .-. -..
..–..

The Trifield meter…Frequency, we want Frequency!  I'd sure like to know how they can account for their equipment in a "baseline" when they are constantly moving and the equipment is at varying distances and directions from the meters.

The Classic DT Line from this episode (repeated more than once): "I just got the chills!"

Post edited 3:15 pm – April 26, 2011 by Nosfer

Possibly a simple reflection, yes…but of what?  It's very likely NOT a reflection of Shawn's or Gabe's IR light (that whole "angle of incidence…" thing)

The walls of that building aren't the most straightly aligned that I've ever seen  but he is aiming at it at quite an angle.  I could accept that it was from his IR if it were the viewer's right most window, but I'm less certain considering where it appears.  They also seem to pan back and forth a little bit and it doesn't reappear when they go back over the spot, nor does it appear in any other window.

The production camera _appears_ to be fairly close to Gabe (whose IR it was that picked up the light), closer than the angle would indicate that he would have to be.  Unfortunately, we don't know who all is around and with what equipment.

Edited: Another thing to consider is the settling and shifting that it looks like that structure has been through…can we even be certain that there is glass in that frame?

Axel Olrik said:

I was wondering if with the unusually low ambient light levels, the film crew may have had additional lighting that the team wasn't as aware of.  That might explain unexpected reflections (given glass), that were later dismissed, though not until the full dramatic value of "What is that!" was exhausted.

I was thinking about this a bit more and recall Josh saying something about perpetual twilight which indicates that there was quite a bit more light (compared to their typical investigations) for the IR cams to draw upon.  That still wouldn't have to rule out additional lighting, though, since we don't really know how they operate. 

We can assume at least one other light source beside the IR illuminator that Gabe had.  Two, possibly, if Shawn was also carrying a camera.  Presumably the IR illuminators of their personal-mounted cameras would have been pointed AWAY from the building so we can probably rule those out.

Have to agree with all of the above about why it wasn't detailed in the reveal.  It would be nice if it had been explained since they made a big deal about it during the episode (maybe remove a sauna scene if they need more time in which to offer their findings)  Further, it would give them somewhat of a credibility boost by explaining how they determined that the light was dismissible.

Kyle and the diary:  Note the camera angle when it happens.  There is a much better camera angle they could have shown, one that showed the diary even.  But the one they choose to show is one that is at a very steep angle upward such that you can't even see the diary, you only hear it fall.  The other angle shows both Kyle and the diary quite nicely, but we never see that.  Kind of odd, wouldn't you say?  They should have explained it, yes, but given that they chose to show the obscure angle rather than the one that would probably show Kyle knocking it off I definitely go with non-paranormal.