Hey all, long time no talk! I'm still alive.

Well, investigating a haunted zoo.. now I've heard everything.

To be honest, I didn't watch it.  I never watch them anymore, unless I want a cheap laugh. I've given up on all the ghost hunting shows, they're all just ridiculous and painful to watch. Though I could watch Kris for a little while..

FWIW, I live about 25 minutes from that zoo, (in NJ) and I've never heard any stories of it being "haunted".  They figure just because it's the oldest zoo in the country it might be haunted??

One question for Stephen: in your review, you said you calculated the resonant frequency of that tunnel at 18Hz, based on it's 45 foot length.  How?  Did you also know the height of the ceiling and width between walls? (I didn't see that in the link you provided) I mean, you can't determine a resonant freq based on just one dimension..

Stephen said:

No, I used the closed-tube formula from the wikipedia page. I don't think it's a completely irrational approximation since the tunnel is so long, but I'll freely admit that I neither have a proper background in the subject nor am I willing to try to guess at the ceiling height and width. I was struck by the coincidence, but really I was giving the thing more as an example as something interesting that they could have investigated rather than a serious explanation of the ghostly figure. Even if the harmonics are right, we'd still need to figure out a source of energy.

Ah, okay..  just curious if I missed something. 

I saw that they were going to do the zoo in previews (by coincidence, while I was channel surfing).. I thought, "no way".  It really is getting silly anymore. 

On the other hand.. they might not do private residences anymore for good reason;  they're "celebrities" now, I imagine there's a lot of unscrupulous folks (fans) who would make certain claims, and maybe even try to fake something, just to lure the team to their house so they could meet their TV heroes and get their 15 minutes of fame. 

I guess TAPS is running out of places.. and ideas.  I give the show one more season, then all these paranormal shows are dust in the wind.

Dreamsinger said:

The event of a residual with a spirit walking through a wall where a door used to be has me scratching my head in a few instances. One story I heard on a television show, described a person walking through the wall where an exterior door was. A no time in their description was the "ghost" described as opening the door. The people who claim to have witnessed this said the person simply walked through the wall.

Now, if residual hauntings are suppose to be a moment captured in time that keeps repeating, how is it out of the 15 or so stories that I've heard about, that have ghosts passing through exterior doors, not one mention the "ghost" moving as though they were opening a door and then passing through the wall. Several of these stories come out of the northern states where their doors are kept closed most of the time. Shouldn't at least one of these stories mention a "ghost" moving like they're opening a door before they pass through the wall?

Probably.   Unless by sheer amazing happenstance, the doors were always open when those events were "recorded into the environment" as they say.

Another possiblity is that by "doorway", some people actually mean a simple passageway between rooms, like the way my kitchen connects to my living room.  There's no door there to speak of, but one might call it a doorway.  If walls were torn down or shifted about,  those might move too.

I know, I'm being generous.