Nosfer said:

And then there's the old axiom that the level of difficulty in keeping something secret is directly proportional to the SQUARE of the number of people involved.

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I've always believed it's not a secret if more then one person knows it

Curious that the number of small events - like the papers sliding off the edge of the box in the Clovis house - dropped considerably when Techmangler Steve started keeping his hands in his pockets, then started carrying around a notepad. 

My guess is that we had a staging crew consisting of two men acting  independantly.

D. LaCroix has more to say on the interview.

I think this addresses a few things..

http://scifake.com/?p=2501

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Donna’s Letter

Hi, this is Donna LaCroix, former TAPS, GH, and GH member. The purpose of this article is to set the story straight on my interview on 11/11/09 with the “Ghost Divas”. Also, I want to thank Ron for given me the forum to explain my side, as I see it clearly has been misinterpreted everywhere.

First off, I’m not perfect. I can say things off the cuff without clearly explaining what I mean. Writing is my forte as I have time to see and write exactly what I want. Now I’m not backtracking here, but I want a few things clarified:

Assumptions From Donna’s Interview With TAPS:

1. TAPS fakes evidence and Donna knows of a staging team that is part of the crew that does this. (So, please Dan, take down the You Tube please).
   

   Answer: NO! I never said I caught them staging things. I said I had a turning point moment where I saw something I considered staged and it upset me to an incredibly disappointing point. And I never heard of TAPS having a “staging crew” on their Ghost Hunters show until it was mentioned in the interview. And I said it in the interview. I have since verified that they DO NOT have a staging crew.

2. Donna and other almost went bankrupt after leaving the show:
   

   I left the show abruptly because I have Crohn’s disease and it came out of remission while filming. We all had a hectic, crazy schedule and it got to me. I ended up internally bleeding and flew back to the states and my doctor and was in the hospital. At the time, I had no insurance because Pilgrim pays by 1099 and gives no medical insurance. Also because I was overseas and my checks from Pilgrim were not direct deposited (as I was promised they would be), my rent was late 3 months in a row and I was evicted. I had nowhere to go but my parents. And now no job.I don’t blame my illness on Pilgrim. But not having my checks not direct deposited got me evicted and caused my credit to take a huge hit. Luckily I had to dip into some of my retirement savings and get myself back on my feet. But, when you are dumped into the worst economy out there, it was hard to find a decent job. I finally did, but it was 8 months later.
   
   I also know that Andy was facing some tough financial times as well as Brian. I don’t want to go into their personal ordeals; it is not my business to do so.

3. Asked about scandals but didn’t go into detail:
   

   Yes, I was asked about scandals and yes they happened, and NO I wasn’t going to mention the nature of them because I didn’t want to hurt or exploit the people involved. We all make mistakes, including myself, so that was a question I couldn’t speak about.

4. Addressing The Contract With Pilgrim
   

   Yes, I should have gotten a better lawyer. I did have a separate lawyer look at it and ok it. I also had Andy and Brian look at it (since ours were all identical) and their lawyer friend’s look at it.What wasn’t told to us by Pilgrim was that it was going to be a domestic show with an international pilot to kick things off. Ok we thought, but then the schedule had us doing all international investigations. This WE should have gotten in writing but didn’t. We assumed we were being told the truth.

   We were also told we could pick our own investigators to put a great team together. That didn’t happen either. We met our co-workers, Robb Demarest, and Shannon Sylvia at the airport. Shannon was part of the TAPS family team New England Paranormal at the time and Robb was part of Florida Ghost Team at the time. I met Shannon briefly on a filmed investigation the year before up in her end of the woods, but we didn’t know each other. Robb, we had never met before.

5. Filming Paranormal Shows:
   
   

   They have one goal in mind: entertainment. Need I say more? I wish I realized that because I wasn’t aware that that would be the forefront of the show. I thought they were really interested in what we did: paranormal investigating. But that wasn’t the case. I was naïve and I’m to blame for that. ALL paranormal shows must produce excitement for its viewers.How this hurt the paranormal community: It gives them the wrong ideas about how to investigate. However, the show is only really 43 minutes (without commercials) and a good investigations takes weeks to do properly. In 43 minutes in watching the show, you have to give the audience something to come back for more. That’s the way it works. Scared team members, strong fearless leaders, and stuff that may be happening in the location = hit show. That’s a formula now used by all shows. If you keep in mind that these are ENTERTAINMENT shows, then they are excused from keeping the beat. This isn’t a new concept, look at the shows were there was no doubt things had been a little out of line, like CollarGate, for example. We all know that one. Not going to even get into it.

   In the beginning, most of us didn’t know how it went. That is why Season 1 was so great and gets played a lot. There was this organic chemistry (that was really the way the TAPS team was, we all are very eccentric people). And yes, we were like a little family. We met at a coffee shop every week to discuss investigations, and had meetings, etc. We were friends for a unified cause. No one can every deny us of that. The TAPS team, even before I came on board, was like a family and had been through so much together in terms of investigations and what they had seen and gone through. There was a trust there. We did a lot of laughing and hanging out, we got serious when we had to, but there was no need to perform.

   And that “it” factor that we just had with the excitement of showing people nationwide how we operate. We were riding on the energy of who we all were and what we could teach people. We had no idea that things were to get big, and ultimately change. No idea whatsoever.

   And if I had known up front, and knew what production companies were all about, I would have denied being in the cast. I’m NOT saying it was because TAPS lied or they pulled any tricks, but if that was going to happen I did not want my name associated with it. And of course, the production company wants to make money, and keep ratings high, all do. They put quite a bit of pressure on the leaders to make that happen.

   Now, had we been a fictitious group of investigators playing the role of actors, and not using our own image and name, I wouldn’t have a leg to stand on. When all is said in done, I’ll always be known as Ghost Hunter Donna, not to say that is really bad, but I can’t be associated with a production company who uses my identity like that. I’m a very private person, despite the fact that I was on TV. I’m sure Jason and Grant and the others have traded in their privacy to do the show. That is A LOT to sacrifice.

   In the interview, I must say I felt a bit pressured to answer some hard questions, I really wasn’t prepared. I’m not blaming the Divas, I’m blaming myself for not well-thought out answers. But it is hard to answer honestly a question while not character assassinating someone else. That is the last thing that I’m about.

   So, in conclusion, I am sorry if I didn’t answer accurately the questions were asked. I listened to it over and over, and I paused A LOT, because there were some very incriminating questions, no doubt.

   I never meant to hurt anyone. I admit, I answered some questions without really thinking them out. I’m over being hurt by it. I’m woman enough to admit that. I really didn’t know the interview was going to be about getting the dirt on GH and GHI and TAPS. I thought I’d be asked what I am doing now, what I’ve been up to. So, I just went with the flow.

   I’m not taking any of my interview back, just clearing up some very misconstrued comments I made. I was appalled to see a YouTube had been made about this, which highlighted the inaccuracies of my comments even more.

190 minutes in and I was too bored. I'll have to just read the posts.

POST EDITED: HipKat, We prefer the term 'Kris's enhancement'.

Nosfer said:

Jason's Response:

scifake.com/?p=2488

Not so much a response as a "statement" since it appears that Pilgrim and/or SyFy is preparing a response. It is good to hear that they will because that allows us to hear all sides and see what falls out from it.

Well that about wraps it up folks ….

The internet sanitation crew have been at work on Jason's comments, they have disappeared from his Tweets and SciFakes post of his response.  Donnas comments on MySpace have evaporated.   SyFy has not responded, not that they would have any real knowledge of any shenanigans in any case.

Nothing to see here, go back to your daily lives.

So, this was a classic example of the 'Dallas Syndrome'.
It didn't really happen, it was all a dream.

Doc,

I never said it was not sanitized.  I said it was Jason and Donna who did their own and I'm sure, at their request, others did the same.  It's called fear of a lawsuit and not wanting to bite the hand that can feed you.  I can't speak for Jason but why he would think Syfy would respond in public is beyond me (if he did at all) but then he has said many things in the past I haven't believed as well.  Have you?  From the posts I've seen, I think not.

What I have said and I'll say it again is, this is Pilgrim's fight.  Syfy and Pilgrim may "talk" amongst themselves but they buy the project from Pilgrim.  It's their ball of wax.  Simple as that.

Excellent points Nosfer!

Yet some DO exist still, even on SyFy (for now lol) Grab it while you can!

http://forums.syfy.com/index.php?showtopic=2333461&st=140&start=140

"I was asked not to respond about it directly from Syfy and Pilgrim, They want to write something up and release it. We have nothing to hide so I am comfortable with that."

Edited: We'll just have to wait and see if they actually DO release anything, that will be the true measure of whether or not they are going to actually respond in public. If they do, we have another side to look at…if they don't, then we're back to where we were a few days ago and we pull out the popcorn and watch GH and GHA like we normally would have

I highly doubt we'll see anything at this point, it appears dead in the water.  SciFake.com removed all their references to the issue at Donna's bequest, citing her health -she has Crohn's disease, and, apparently, all the hubbub has caused a flareup and pain.  While this seems rather convenient to me, on one hand, OTOH, I realize it's also credible;  it's also a really lousy thing to live with and I wouldn't wish it on an enemy. Of course, it could be a combination of things, some spoken, some unspoken.

I highly doubt we'll see Brian or Andy "come forth" either, after this whole debacle.   If there are any beans to spill,  looks like we'll have to wait until A) The GH franchise is no more and totally milked out  (including possible syndication), or B) someone makes a deathbed confession.

Oh wait, there's a "C" Option:  The series runs it's course, then J& G write a tell-all book and Pilgrim gets a huge chunk of the royalites. That'd be a good read.