Once more unto the breach my friends.  The title itself should give away what we are in store for.  In case the title is too cryptic…hint, operative word is "shadows"

This week the team is off to Scotland to investigate the Usher Hall Opera House in Edinburgh and the Inveraray Jail in Argyll and Bute. Scotland. I have horrible visions of Barry trying to do a Scottish burr with an Irish brogue and it isn't pretty!  The subtitles are going to need subtitles!

Same old same old it appears. More shadows and more "get outs" and more chills and more Laser Light Shows. But finally we have a temperature/EMF correlation which really calls all the other non-correlated situations into question. Or maybe that's the other way around.

I know ghosts don't perform on command, but they really need to get off this formula. It's been mentioned several times but all these episodes seem like the same thing and in the dark it's even hard to prove that they've actually gone to another location than the last place they were at.

Shadows, swearing, touching, etc. Hate to say it but GHI (and GH) are going down that Most Haunted path more and more.  And yet shows like "The Skeptical Viewers" don't make it to air.

At least we should be treated to a few minutes of the Scottish countryside in the intro. But, other than that…

mumbles…where did I put my Scotch for tonight?

And the Award for least believable overacting in a ghost hunting show goes to….hand me the envelope….the cast of Ghost Hunters International!   (cue music and fanfares)

Revenant said:

My favorite part of the first half?  When they are discussing a story of a dog cowering against a side of a wall.  They find some unshielded wires and boxes and such, get some EMF readings and my good friend Joe Chin declares that the dog either reacted to the EMF or something paranormal.  Yes…those are our two choices.  An unproven theory…low levels of EMF effect dogs (not aware of any study on that) and another unproven theory…pretty much anything related to the "paranormal."  No other possibility.  Just those two.  Genius…

Or the dog is simply fearful of being in a different place and displays that by hugging close to the wall.  Or smooth polished floor so it moves to the side next to a support (wall) much as humans will do…either for stability or because of the aforementioned fear response or both.

Post edited 11:26 pm – February 10, 2011 by Nosfer

CrowTRobot said:

B) Why does it seem that now everyone starts their sentences with, "I swear to GOD…."? Have they been lying to us before about seeing shadows, people; hearing footsteps, sounds, etc., so now they have to take a vow with the almighty himself so we'll believe them?

F) …… I forgot.

 

B) Or end them with "I'm not kidding!"  Add in the "Are you Serious?" responses (see last week's episode discussion) and a serious credibility problem begins to mount.

F) Fortunately I remember what this one was…it was: "I'm sick of Susan"

Susan was whipping her head around so much seeing shadows that at one point I expected it to go flying off into the darkness.  To which Paul probably would have said "Did you see that?  I saw something shoot across the room.  I'm not kidding!"

Seems like it sometimes.