alicat-you hit it on the head.  ZZZZZZZ…..

Interesting castle, great historical background, and GHI manages to put me to sleep. 

This show had potential when they maintained the same cast, including Andy who was an excellent debunker.  IMO that is what got him bumped out of GH–Jason was jealous of Andy's superb debunking skills.

But I digress.  This was even more of a snooze fest than usual.  Logisti's going to have a hard time with last night's show, that's for sure!

Oubliette said:

 Andy who was an excellent debunker.  IMO that is what got him bumped out of GH–Jason was jealous of Andy's superb debunking skills.

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I think it was more that Jason was afraid of Andy's skills -

Wondering why Ashely asks " do you want a friend, someone to talk to ?", gets what could be interpreted as a positive response … and follows it up with " Tell you what Bianca – I'm gonna leave now"

You would be correct Nosfer, nothing happened.  The one glaring thing I did notice was how Brandy has been significantly left out in the cold.  The new eye candy and dumber than a brick (sorry brick) Ashley, has had more face time than Brandy.  If she wasn't reading her script or at the analysis, you'd hardly know she's there.  Also, GH seems to show a lot more of the equipment set up than GHI.

Another point is, they are going to castles and medieval buildings where goals, dungeons and torture rooms were commonplace.  Why, after visiting all these places, are they so surprised and shocked by this?  It's truly beyond me.

alicat said:

Another point is, they are going to castles and medieval buildings where goals, dungeons and torture rooms were commonplace.  Why, after visiting all these places, are they so surprised and shocked by this?  It's truly beyond me.

A good point, and since this is their job you would expect them to be less in awe of the suroundings.

Somewhat in their defense, when I visit these types of places I enjoy analysing them from an architectural aspect, but also to take some time and place myself in what I imagine to be the mindset of the inhabitants of the era.  Most anyone visiiting the castle would be impressed, and people seeing the dungeon for the first ( & last ) time would be shocked.

I totally agree with sending Ashley in alone, and would think it could have been much better in this case if they sent in Brandy also with handicams and left out the production crew. ( ala Ghost Adventures )

Better for the investigation AND the TV show.

The Doctor said:

I totally agree with sending Ashley in alone, and would think it could have been much better in this case if they sent in Brandy also with handicams and left out the production crew. ( ala Ghost Adventures )

Better for the investigation AND the TV show.

Somewhere in Las Vegas, in a lonely hotel room, Zak Bagans awakes screaming from his dreams of the Succubus that is still haunting him from the Ram's Inn.  Drenched in sweat and unable to sleep, he turns on his laptop, goes to his favorite website (the Skeptical Viewer) and reads The Doctor's post.

He smiles and almost in a whisper he says "Finally…someone is appreciating my contribution to the paranormal."

Suddenly, a noise comes from the door.  Zak leaps to his feet and fumbles for his EMF meter.  It reads a whopping 0.3 mG.  There is paranormal activity happening for sure he thinks.  He drops the meter, reaches into his black bag and pulls out his Beretta.  Another noise from the door.  Zak fires five times at the door in sheer fright.  An even larger noise comes.  Zak empties the clip into the door…and all is silent.

He creeps towards the door and opens it just a crack.  Just enough to see the cleaning lady lying on the floor, the towels that he had called about soaking the blood from the carpet.  He quietly shuts the door, throws his laptop into his black bag and makes his way out the window and down the fire-escape.

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas…

The Doctor said:

But surely in any legitimate  Paranormal research, you don't think that sending in an investigator with minimal outside influence is not better then sending in someone pretending  to be alone for the TV cameras ?

Well…I'm not comfortable with the word "legitimate" when it pertains to the paranormal research that we're seeing on any of the current TV shows.  With that being said, I actually prefer them to be pretending.  It's much funnier that way.

Case in point is what I described about Ashley and her keen observations about that room.  I don't think I laugh that hard when I watch comedy shows.  It's good stuff.  And they all do it too. 

You know…thinking about it, one of their best and most controversial pieces of evidence included the crew following them around.  The one where the soundman's bag supposedly "flew" up into his face and he hit the deck (can't remember the name of the episode).  So in that instance…a crew is following them.  In every other instance, they pretend that they are alone.  I find it highly amusing. 

And speaking of highly amusing…does anyone else think that Joe Chin and Ashley have some sort of bet as to who can produce the most personal and unverifiable experiences?  What's the score so far this season?  214 to 213?