Nosfer said: "Hmmm, Jason and Grant sure managed to handle the "wife talk" pretty well, I think it may have ended favorably for them when they allegedly held up the bottom-line terms of the new contract."

Sure, "their" contracts are nice and fat.  Some contest winner?  Not so nice and fat…

Anyway, a couple of things on the new show:

First, did anyone else catch the mini-confrontation between Steve and Michelle?  Apparently, he was displeased over her inability to call various EVP's as either "paranormal" or "not paranormal."  I found that incredibly odd.  Sooo…you can either identify the sound or…it's paranormal.  Nice.  That's certainly showing skepticism…

The other thing was one of the "side-interviews" with Adam.  I was messing around with my dogs so I didn't hear it quite clearly.  He was discussing the role of the paranormal investigator and going on about how their role is to merge the one side (the paranormal) with the other (reality…well, his version of reality).  If someone could get that exact quote (SyFy won't have the show on their website until next week), that would be great.  Maybe I just heard that bit incorrectly.  But if not…anyone else find that a bit odd as well?

Well…I guess I should mention the "I have no weaknesses" comment by Eric.  I thought it was funny.  How do you impress Jason…a guy with an ego the size of Rhode Island?  Show him that your ego is the size of Arizona.  Because…you know…that will go over big with Jason.  He won't feel a need to prove that he's bigger and badder by booting you out the door.  Yeah, so…good luck with that… 

Hmmm…not sure how a "mini-Jason" will work within the GHI framework.  I mean Jason wouldn't be around to "control" him, Robb would.  And that's a whole other type of dynamic.

I just looked at the official GHI website to look at their line-up (considering that they're starting up pretty soon).  They show 7 people, including Robb.  Oddly enough, it doesn't show the 2 people that won the last GHA show (whatever their names were).  So…no clue what's going on with them.

With that said…who does Eric pair up with?  Dustin pairs with Robb.  Barry and Eric would end up in a fist fight (which…would be fun to watch), so…that wouldn't happen.  So you've got Joe Chin, Brandy, Ashley or Paul (the new young guy that no one really likes or understands how he got on the show).  Eric would "steam-roll" any of those choices.

Simply put…Eric isn't a team player.  He's got it in his that he's a leader and he will act accordingly.  He will bully and snipe and push and demean anyone who stands in the way of that.  So, unless Robb is getting dumped and they're looking for a "mini-Jason" to rule GHI with an iron paranormal fist…Eric will get cut loose either next week or the week after.

For the record, my money is on Vera.  I don't know if she speaks Spanish, but she does have a slight accent which leads me to believe that she does speak a second language.  The ability to speak different languages would be awfully handy while travelling abroad.  Also, I like the fact that GHI seems a bit more open to bringing in female investigators.

Nosfer said:

Perhaps in the next to last episode Eric will dismiss Jason?

Hahahaha! I'd like to see that!

The episode is still coming down the pipe here. Will comment a little later…

I dunno Revenant, for them to not acknowledge THE most impressive video "evidence" – the collar tugs, but to acknowledge other evidence, that comes off as mighty fishy to me.

They do seem to be trying awfully hard to interact with… something. But the EVP's continue to be unimpressive, at least in the xvid videos I'm watching. I can't even hear some of them.

I liked Michelle's skepticism on the EVP she heard. Skepticism is on the list after all, right Jason/Steve/Tango? Oh okay only when it's convenient or when reviewing someone else's evidence.

The way they approach spirits in their own time frame I find a little disturbing in it's implications. Am I doomed to be stuck in the period I lived in for all eternity in some kind of Star Trek time loop?

It appears the ghosts of Fort Delaware only make an impressive appearance for J and G, and then mainly G. As always, take G out of the equation and things become a lot quieter.

The Doctor said:

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Exactly -  we have to consider that residual hauntings, like the women who walk into the lectures and cook or dust things, don't care about the experience or lack of it that the hunters have.

Many groups think that these events still may need a "trigger" event to start the ball rolling. Kind of like pressing the play button on the recorder. You know the sort of thing, era cues (lol), tesla coils flinging giant sparks everywhere (bigger LOL), phase of the Moon etc etc for the ghosts to manifest. With all the crazy things they have tried, so far no success.

Small analogy, I have the genes for an autoimmune disorder that lies dormant until a trigger event (flu, virus or whatever) kicks it off. It could lay dormant all my life and never activate without that trigger.

With residuals, perhaps that play button trigger is not something within our control but rather an alignment of natural events, so far unknown.

If more than one event is required for the trigger, it becomes very rare and the play times will seemingly not be at regular intervals.

Okay I've written trigger more than Ghost Lab have said era cues haven't I?

Nosfer said:

If a trigger was necessary to set off the haunting (which makes absolute sense and something I've wondered a lot about) then it must either be something completely external to the group, or it must be a group member itself.

The only reason for it making absolute sense is that it's the only way to explain why residual sightings, which "repeat like a tape recorder", never seem to actually repeat.

In the days before cheap webcams, it could be explained that it happened all the time, we just weren't there.  Now that areas can be watched 24/7 , a new excuse for the lack of results was needed. 

AHA ! It's not being triggered

Well why not all of a sudden ?  The only reason for the tape recorder theory is that we have reports of  multiple occurances of some event. Even if the trigger theory had some validity, why did the triggering stop at the same time we developed the means to monitor continuously ?