dr_peter_venkman said:

I was actually yelling at the TV during the reveal.

LOL, It's refreshing to find out that I'm not the only one who does that!

Two random light ups of the K2 is enough for Jason to be convinced that ol' Tinney wants him to leave. Two random light ups in the Bowling Alley in the next episode is not enough to make any determination that someone is trying to make contact with them.

Come on guys, don't insult my intelligence!

Photos showing a perfect example of bulbs radiating heat just after they've been turned off:

http://www.skepticalviewer.com/2009/03/22/fort-mifflin-steve-vs-grant/

The FLIR is designed to show temperature, regardless of whether it is hot or cold. This is another one of those cases where we get different theories. The cold is supposedly from the being drawing in energy from the area _surrounding_ it in order to 'manifest' (whatever the heck that means) A drawing in of energy would make the area around the entity colder and the energy that is drawn _in_ would make the entity warmer than the surrounding area…the area that it just sucked all the energy out of.

Why would the flashlight itself be cold? Who knows. My big question is…how come the entity doesn't drain the energy out of the batteries like what happens to their recorders and and cameras? The entity is being told to screw with the flashlight so we know it's right up next to it. It's cold so it's drawing energy, yet that lightbulb was bright as ever!

Yeah, I know, we need to quit thinking logically…this is one of those shows where you need to suspend reality for an hour :)

Edited: Just ran over the footage of the hotspot again…unfortunately J&G are using the thermal in the most unhelpful mode. Instead of having it set to read the temperature at the indicator, it's set to display the average temperature of the ENTIRE SCENE. So, we have no flipping clue what the temperature of the hotter spot is.

I froze it right when the indicator is dead-centered on the hot spot, it reads 52.8 degrees. They move it off the spot and the entire scene average is 57.4 degrees. So, once again we are shown no useful data.

I think I have proof of (or can at least make a very strong case for) a reflection now:

Performed another experiment here. I have a hardwood floor. I went barefoot. I have an IR thermometer.

I swept the hardwood floor (no not with a broom, with the IR thermometer) and got a 57 degree reading (which varied +/- 2 to 3 tenths of a degree in the area sweep)

I then stood with one foot in one spot for 60 seconds. At the end of 60 seconds I measured the footprint and got a 79 degree temperature reading. I then continued measuring back and forth across the spot. After 3 minutes and 30 seconds I was still getting a 2 degree increase that was very distinctly the edges of my foot print.

Interestingly, in the thermal that we see at Belcourt, when the hot spot moves the area that it was at prior to moving almost INSTANTLY returns to the temperature of the rest of the floor. And from what I can see of the scale, the hotspot is definitely more than 2 degrees warmer than the rest of the floor. My foot print took over 3m30s to return to ambient, the hotspot moves and the floor immediately returns to ambient temperature.

Standing in another spot for 2 seconds raised the temperature enough so that it took well over 15 seconds to return to ambient temperature. Yet the thermal hit we see almost immediately returns.

This was a reflection. The handprint stayed in place because the surface temperature of the wall had been altered. When they catch their reflection, they see it moving because the temperature of the object is NOT altered, but the thermal is seeing a reflection of something ELSE that IS warm, but the object itself does not change temperature.

Exactly, Kevin. If it is an object physically on the floor and that object is warmer than the floor, then there would be heat transfer to the floor and the floor would remain at an elevated temperature after the object moves and you would then get multiple hotspots (or one long smudge) as it moved.

This does not happen, therefore what we are seeing is not an object in contact with the floor. Yet when it goes over the doorjam, it distorts as would a beam of light going over an obstruction. So it is in contact with the floor, but not transferring heat to the floor.

What can be in contact with the floor, have the characteristics of heat, but not transfer that heat to the floor? A reflection of heat does that nicely.

What bothers me is that they didn't even TRY to debunk as a reflection. The closest we get to even a hint at a reflection is when we get the following exchange:

Jason: We move and it doesn't start to move until after we are moving.
Grant: Look at that, it's so weird…and there's no other reflection

Hmmm, no other reflection…does Grant realize what it is at this point, or at least suspect, or does he slip his tongue?