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2:33 pm
September 21, 2010


hyacinth

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They're going to " investigate " here next time .   http://www.rollinghillsasylum.com/ Their site says they are " truly haunted and have real ghosts " and you can book the place for events and ghost tours . So I'm sure GA will get plenty of evps etc.

2:57 pm
September 21, 2010


Nosfer

Rotaredom

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Be sure to check the evidence link on the left, too.

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11:09 am
September 27, 2010


Revenant

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Just a quick note before I begin…if one decides to use GA as a drinking game based upon unexplained noises, disembodied voices, and EVP's….maybe you should think twice.  After 3 unexplained noises, 7 disembodied voices, and 14 EVP's…man, I think my head still hurts… Laughing

Anyway…I was able to take a couple of notes before it degenerated into illegible nonsense and dirty cartoons…

The Rocking Horse – This just caught my eye.  It was really just a B-roll/atmospheric throw-away piece of film.  They just wanted to show how spooky the place was by showing an old rocking horse moving by itself.  Here's the thing about that.  When you're showing things that people may or may not believe is being "faked"…you may not want to show how easy it is to make something seem like it's moving on its own.

Ghost-Hunter's Lawsuit – Speaking of something moving on it's own…there was a door that apparently moved by itself.  I'm sure Jason, Grant and Britt were all up in arms over that one…."Hey!  That's our gig!  Someone get our lawyers on the phone!"  So…moving door….color me impressed….Undecided

The Number Of The Beast – Zak was highly impressed when his temperature gauge read "66.6."  He then showed some other piece of equipment that had a few numbers that ended in "6's."  Sooo…they picked up the numerical code for the Roman Emperor Nero?  Great.  Good job.  (And yes…I know some scholars believe it's code for this or that…I don't care.  All I'm saying is that I don't find a number, no matter what it is, to be scary…)

Setting Up For Pink Floyd – Can anyone explain what they were doing with the laser light show WITH fog?  I can sort of understand the premise of the laser lights.  The fog….you're losing me.  And not quite clear on what they thought that they had caught with it.  Wasn't it just one of them blowing on the fog to make it look weird?  Oh wait…did I just give away a trade secret there…sorry…

The Hack-a Shaq? – They kept mentioning something that sounded like the "Hack-a-Shaq (where basketball teams would intentionally foul Shaquille O'Neal because he couldn't hit a free throw to save his life)."  Turns out that they were saying "Shack Hack."  I stopped dead in my tracks.  Looks like another Ghost Box, Frank's Box, Ovilus, or whatever else.  If anyone is interested they could check it out and report back, but really, I'm not expecting big things from this device.

The Evil Spiderweb – Lastly…we have Erin clearing a spiderweb out of his face.  I would gather a rather normal occupational hazard for ghost adventurers.  Yet, at that moment, they picked up an EVP saying something about slapping "bitches (I kid you not…)."  So, of course, that prompted the ever-wise Zak to theorize on whether or not it was actually a ghost slapping Erin in the face and not a spiderweb.  Yes.  Of course it was.  When people get slapped in the face, they always scrunched up their face and use their hands to remove the gunk from their eyes and such…you know…from the slap.  Unless they're making a case for "ectoplasm"…I would probably just go with the spiderweb.

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11:35 am
September 27, 2010


Nosfer

Rotaredom

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Good thing the Ghost wasn't using SI units!

Wasn't the temperature reading found on a combo Thermometer/EMF device? I'm pretty sure it was because they mention both parameters specifically when starting out.

Notice how when the temperature was reading 66.6 (or 61.6 depending upon which translation of Revelations you read) that the EMF portion of the display was reading a big fat ZERO. So much for that theory.

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11:54 am
September 27, 2010


Revenant

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Nosfer asked: "Wasn't the temperature reading found on a combo Thermometer/EMF device? I'm pretty sure it was because they mention both parameters specifically when starting out."

Yeah, I'm not sure on that one.  When I first saw the read-out, the screen was red with a black numbers at the very bottom.  Then after they mentioned that, they showed it again, but this screen was light grey with different looking numbers (larger) and the lines of numbers were centered as opposed to being towards the bottom.  That's why I thought that there were two pieces of equipment.  Could have been one with a "lighted screen" option to be seen in the dark.

Who knows?  I was unexpectedly drinkin' heavy at that point…  Tongue out

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11:57 am
September 27, 2010


Nosfer

Rotaredom

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I saw a big zero and at the bottom in smaller numerals was 666 (don't recall seeing the decimal but it could have been there) Since they mentioned the combo thingy, I'm not sure what else the "0" would have been unless it was a credibility meter :)

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11:32 am
September 29, 2010


Revenant

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"Credibility meter"….Laughing

They played the episode again last night.  I watched a bit of it.  One thing that I forgot to mention about all those EVP's was how different that they were from GH/GHI.  On those two shows, it's typically one or two words.  On GA….you get full sentences with up to five or six words.  One must wonder why the EVP's on the shows are so different.

And for the record…I have the hardest time hearing anything in most of those GA EVP's.  One time, I swear I heard "Breaker, breaker one-niner…"  Laughing (And if you get that reference, then you instantly just aged yourself… Tongue out )

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12:08 pm
September 29, 2010


Nosfer

Rotaredom

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Okay, this is going to not speak well of GH, but maybe GA's "sound effects adders" are capable of memorizing more than one or two words at a time to deliver on cue?

It's all part of a bigger issue, though…back in the Moon River thread (I think) or maybe another similar one that was an oft-investigated place, I mentioned how I actually liked when these teams went to places that other shows had gone because that way we see that they each have different styles. No matter where they go, GH finds a certain set of things a certain way. GA goes to the exact same spot and finds things THEIR way which includes possession and spirits who are angry with Nick and Aaron. MH goes to the exact same spot and it's just like all their other investigations, dead roundheads and rock-throwers.

Kinda says something when you look at it all as a whole, doesn't it?

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11:21 pm
September 29, 2010


Stephen

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As time has gone on, EVPs have become less and less convincing to new listeners, or at least to me. Part of this is regression to mean, but I think that part of it is improving voice recorders that don't use voice-specific lossy compression that turns everything into a voicelike sound. I was wondering what would happen as the teams started to use the new, high-quality, cheap Zoom recorders, since they use MP3 compression and not the voice-specific encryption the Sony IC recorders used. The result seems to be that the EVPs are revealed to be scuffles, rustling noises, and background sound, but paranormal shows still manage to hear the EVPs.

Stephen the Friendly Skeptic

6:59 am
September 30, 2010


Nosfer

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And with the newer/cleaner recorders, there seems to be a need by some groups to introduce some sort of background noise pattern to jumpstart their audio matrixing.

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