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10:51 am
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The gang heads to Germany and investigates the castle at Nuremberg and a "mysteriously antagonistic" spirit which apparently wishes to do them harm. Ah Ha! This must be demonic, no? Afterall, it wants to harm the team, right! This could be Britt's last appearance. He is joined by the same folks we've seen that last few times out: Susan, Joe, Kris, Paul, and our dauntless leader Barry.
The castle is said to be haunted by the unfaithful wife of a knight whom they hear crying in the wine cellar. Watch how prepared Joe and Britt are as they decide to turn on their audio gear finally. The dialogue and encounters seem so similar each time that one can't help but believe that maybe it's all scripted and they only paid the writer for one episode. Course, we know it's not, but one does tend to think that 
The castle was built prior to 1105 and was subsequently added to and renovated over the centuries…no doubt causing ghostly activity each time the decor was altered. In fact, during WWII great portions of the castle were damaged and later restored to an earlier form afterward. As structures go, it could be considered fairly recent despite the "castle" being over 1000 years old.
As castles go, this is a big one as far as importance in history. As far as hauntings go, we'll have to wait and see. There will have to at least be "paranormal activity" here, even if the castle is not declared outright haunted. Again, I really wish I could see the flowchart they use to determine the status of a place.
Throw some brats on the barbie, pour yourself some Rotbier, and prepare for an evening of ach du liebering their antics.
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9:04 pm
January 19, 2011
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Okay, so the Unfaithful Spirit is in the non-Nuremberg Castle!
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9:45 pm
January 19, 2011
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Post edited 9:46 pm – January 19, 2011 by Nosfer
Post edited 10:06 pm – January 19, 2011 by Nosfer
And the real Susan re-emerges. The sharks are swimming below, the show is ready to launch.
And Britt and Joe break into a rousing rendition of Buffalo Gals.
Reveal:
Barry says that he believes they were able to record Susan's heartbeat which was very high. So, uh, why don't we get to hear/see that evidence? Oh, well, I think I know.
He also says there's nothing for the guests or staff to worry about. So, uh, then what happened to Susan wasn't of concern? Or wasn't real thus there was no risk of such a thing happening to any guests or staff?
More sharks laying in wait for the leap.
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10:37 pm
January 19, 2011
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I think these sharks have been circling quite long enough to achieve escape velocity….possibly fear of the launch is why GHI hasn't returned to Capetown. South African great whites go air borne at the slightest provocation.
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10:55 pm
January 19, 2011
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Won't be the sharks that do the "jumping" over GHI, it's the other way around
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11:12 pm
January 19, 2011
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But don't you really want it to be the other way? You know….South Africa….
I really can't see this team building up enough velocity and I have yet to see an investigation on jet skiis.
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11:13 pm
January 19, 2011
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Post edited 11:17 pm – January 19, 2011 by kevin
Robb and Brandy must be glad they're no longer with GHI. The show seems to be turning into Paranormal State.
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12:28 am
January 20, 2011
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Post edited 12:38 am – January 20, 2011 by Axel Olrik
Post edited 12:49 am – January 20, 2011 by Axel Olrik
Post edited 2:54 am – January 20, 2011 by Axel Olrik
What is with them using subtitles with Paul? Right before "the vampire sucks the life right out of people" Susan says he is being weakened by the entity and he collapses.
Okay, they just did it with Britt…but at least he was whispering at the time. Still…..
I'm wondering if they do it and then decide to just redub the sequence….
Argh! They are doing it erratically all the time now…here a subtitle, there a subtitle, everywhere a subtitle..except where there isn't one.
And I think we now have a candidate for #11: "Top 10 Cases of Mass Hysteria"
http://listverse.com/2009/03/1…..-hysteria/
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1:46 am
January 20, 2011
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Nosfer said:
And the real Susan re-emerges. The sharks are swimming below, the show is ready to launch.
And weren't the two of us just discussing that in last episode's thread? Maybe we just proved that we're psychics. Or…how predictable it was…anyway…
Was anyone even mildly impressed with the "light show?" I have no idea what I was looking at. And…for some reason, I was having a bit of trouble following the reveal. There were two distinct appearances of light, correct? The first being two flashes of light occurring at the same exact time? And…was there a second one with just one flash? I was having a hard time translating what Barry was saying.
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9:25 am
January 20, 2011
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Axel Olrik said:
But don't you really want it to be the other way? You know….South Africa….
I really can't see this team building up enough velocity and I have yet to see an investigation on jet skiis.
It's called "Jumping the Shark"
Rev: Yes we were, it was just a matter of time, wasn't it! The lights, well, again it would be nice to see some "natural light" shots of the area of interest. I did find it interesting that in the first shot the two light were right above each other (interesting not necessarily in a paranormal way) I really like how they spare no expense to investigate the situation AFTER they find the anomaly.
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9:39 am
January 20, 2011
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Brit: Is there anything that might be causing the blue light?
Joe: There's a win…..
Brit: SHSHSHSHSHSHSH!!!…………..Did you hear that?
Joe: It sounded………
Brit: SHSHSHSHSHSHSH!!!…………..It sounded like someone crying.
Listen, there it is again. Did you hear it?
Joe: Yes, it was right down…..
Brit: SHSHSHSHSHSHSH!!!…..I think it came from right down there.
Joe: Let's head down……
Brit: SHSHSHSHSHSHSH!!!…..Let's head down there and take a look.
Joe: [Stepping on a squeaky floor board]…….
Brit: SHUSHSHSH!!!
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10:27 am
January 20, 2011
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LOL yep! Joes is going to have a serious complex by the end of this season. He'll go to speaking engagements and hunts and will only be able to speak in half-sentences.
New GHI Drinking Game entry: Full swig everytime Joe speaks a sentence having a complete subject and predicate.
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12:06 pm
January 20, 2011
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Nosfer said:
Axel Olrik said:
But don't you really want it to be the other way? You know….South Africa….
I really can't see this team building up enough velocity and I have yet to see an investigation on jet skiis.
Nosfer said:
It's called "Jumping the Shark"
But in this case I am arguing being "jumped by a shark" is preferable…as it might have been in the original HD case. More merciful and final.
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4:34 am
January 21, 2011
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Post edited 4:37 am – January 21, 2011 by Revenant
Nosfer said:
The lights, well, again it would be nice to see some "natural light" shots of the area of interest. I did find it interesting that in the first shot the two light were right above each other (interesting not necessarily in a paranormal way) I really like how they spare no expense to investigate the situation AFTER they find the anomaly.
Before I begin, I agree with Nosfer and wish to expand it. For the millionth time, we aren't given enough information about a 3 second bit of video. Seeing the room in the light, trying to recreate it, what type of camera, what settings were used, yadda, yadda, yadda. It's like a puzzle that has 100 pieces but they only give you about 14 pieces. You see a white blotch and you're supposed to figure out what the entire picture is. Anyway…
With all that said…and without trying to be funny…I really don't know what I'm looking at pertaining to the mysterious pair of lights seen in the Dining Room.
At first, I thought it was simply some sort of odd flare of light caught by the camera. Back in the day, you would take your camera that used film out in the sun and sometimes you would get sun spots (you see it a bit less now with newer cameras). The curve of the lens had a lot to do with it. When I saw the GHI video, I thought it was simply a pocket flashlight being caught by the camera at a very odd angle. I was about to write it off…but…it kept nagging at me. So…I had to check it out.
Here's the video. At around 6:30 the fun begins:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..zfWVK5bMyo
(For clarity, the "top" light, or light closest to the top of the screen with be "A" and the light towards the bottom of the screen will be "B." Took me a long time to come up with those code names…)
So, I played the video a bunch of times. "B" is a bit brighter than "A" and is not quite the same shape. Could be just the curve of the lens…no worries, the sun-spot type flashlight flare theory is still holding strong. And then I hit the problem. When I first saw the show, I thought the lights were simultaneous. Problem is…they aren't…"A" actually lasts longer than "B."
Could that be an optical illusion? Because of the curvature of the lense, "A" only seems to last longer? Is the pocket flashlight theory a good one? Anybody else kickin' out ideas on this one? I don't think light is reflecting off of something in front of the camera. "B" seems to be in front of a chair and "A" seems over a table.
Also…can somebody check something out for me? Look at the back wall. The lights happen in between two paintings. Watch the one on the right side of the screen. Is there a reflection of light on the left side of that picture? It's so hard to tell…I swear my eyes are going on this one and I'm starting to see things…
So to sum things up…like I said…I just don't know what I'm looking at…
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6:59 am
January 21, 2011
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I think they might just be random pixels going hot from the CCD. The ones in the cellar really look like that. The bottom one in the dining room looks like it also. The top one is a little different – it fades.
I actually get these quite frequently on my mintron CCD camera while doing astronomy with it. I guess the sky is full of ghosts and UFO's then. 
How do they go from blinking light to ghost anyway? Because they are hunting ghosts, any anomaly is then a ghost? What if they were hunting fairies? Would the blinking light then be fairy dust?
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9:56 am
January 21, 2011
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Were these the DVRs or were they the remote one…you know, the ones Steve used to show us the angles and then Jason would remind them for the umpteenth time to get digis with all the cameras? Dropouts might be a little extreme but there is the possibility.
It's also interesting that the light intensity in the room is changing. If that is because the light is changing and just not the camera going wonky on auto, is it possible someone was walking by (possibly outside the room) with a flashlight and the light was momentarily reflected off two objects that we will never see because we don't know what it looks like in regular light? Look near the ceiling and you can see the light value change.
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11:11 am
January 21, 2011
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Post edited 11:14 am – January 21, 2011 by Lindy
Nosfer said:
And the real Susan re-emerges.
I was waiting for her head to do a 360 and follow with a horizontal hurl onto Brit's chest.
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11:28 am
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Post edited 11:30 am – January 21, 2011 by Lindy
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Nosfer said:
LOL yep! Joes is going to have a serious complex by the end of this season. He'll go to speaking engagements and hunts and will only be able to speak in half-sentences.
New GHI Drinking Game entry: Full swig everytime Joe speaks a sentence having a complete subject and predicate.
We'll all die of thirst.
Poor Joe. Nobody told him he'd be working with a &*#$@ librarian.
He'll be Just a shadow of his former self, doing investigations holding his EMF detector and shaking like Barney Fife.
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12:37 pm
January 21, 2011
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Learjet said:
I think they might just be random pixels going hot from the CCD. The ones in the cellar really look like that. The bottom one in the dining room looks like it also. The top one is a little different – it fades.
I actually get these quite frequently on my mintron CCD camera while doing astronomy with it. I guess the sky is full of ghosts and UFO's then.
How do they go from blinking light to ghost anyway? Because they are hunting ghosts, any anomaly is then a ghost? What if they were hunting fairies? Would the blinking light then be fairy dust?
Ok, you're exposing my lack of knowledge pertaining to cameras and photography. I don't know the difference between a "CCD camera" and a regular camera. Best guess, would the GHI team have used a CCD camera in this instance? And if not, what would be the explanation for a regular camera?
Also…it has to be weird to see something like this while "doing astronomy." Looking for ghosts…"Oh…it's a ghost." Looking at the stars…"The sky is falling!!!"
Lastly…how do you go from blinking light to ghost? I don't know. I don't know how you just let it go either. "Oh, we don't what it is so it could be paranormal. On to the next…" I'm not on the GHI team and I am not at the location and "I" couldn't let it go. It gnawed at me. Something wasn't right about it and I had to figure it out. This "insane drive to problem-solve" is pretty common in the science world. We don't like to let things go. We want to examine, re-examine, talk to various experts and not stop until we get something. Hmmm…maybe having a couple of scientists around would be a good thing, no? Well…as long as they are REAL scientists as opposed to FoF's "Lead Scientist" Bill. That still gets me…
@Nosfer – Yeah, I noticed the slight change of light on the right side of the room as well. Then again, my inexperience with these cameras…I don't know if it is the camera, as you say…"going wonky (which is now my new favorite phrase…)" or it's actual light. If it's actual light…then the flashlight theory starts looking a bit better.
Then again…if they're using these "CCD cameras" then that would explain both the Dining Room and the Wine Cellar.
Speaking of the wine cellar…was anyone following how they figured out that the light was in "mid-air?"
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