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7:46 am October 6, 2010
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This week, me and Grant go to Grammar School.
Okay, let me start over:
This week the team is joined by Joe Chin as they investigate the Milton School. Supposibly (sic) this will be the last Britt episode before Steve and Tango come back. At least Me hopeth so given the way Britt has performed of late.
Apparently this is a case of GH Producers asking to investigate rather than GH being "called in" I wonder how many cases are actually like this rather than them riding in to the rescue. I also wonder how they will play that, will they admit asking to investigate or will they express surprise when Kris calls them while crouched around a U-Bend and starts to play the twenty-questions game of "Guess who wants us to help them?"
The activity is said to orginate from the violent death of a child in the 1930s. It has been so bad that people have become physically ill and have run from the building (probably in that order, but you never know) Full ghostly conversations, too. Footsteps. Probably can throw in some feelings of dread and an uncertainty about an iron being left on, too.
Of course, this place readily agreed to having TAPS come in as what better way to increase the visibility of Antoinette's Haunted Alton Tours. Hmmm, I smell BiaS already.
Not to give any credit, but: http://www.hauntedalton.com
Given what we have seen this season and prior, it's hard not to have some preconcieved ideas relating to these investigations. But perhaps, with the addition of the stoic Joe The Bitemark Chin, the episode will have more of an air of credibility about it.
Hold onto your hats and prepare to actually hear the same footsteps that our investigators hear tonight, that in itself should be worth tuning in for. But, I'm sure we will have no recreation of events to see what normal footsteps would sound like.
This appears to be a full hour long investigation which means once you trim commercials, let's go dark montages, settin' up the cameras montages, let's get digis with the cameras scenes, be prepared for an exciting 29 minutes of investigation and prepare to make some additions to the Britt list. Unfortunately it looks like KJ will have an alibi if anything odd happens. Or perhaps, fortunately, depending upon how you look at it.
20 points to the person who first spots the painting of C-3PO.
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10:34 am October 6, 2010
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He is another person that says "supposibly" instead of "supposedly"?
I remember about 18 years ago, there was a girl at work who always said that. First time I ever heard it. I just thought it was her own little personal verbal quirk, but later I discovered there are lots of people who can't say the word correctly. I wonder if it's a dialect kinda thing?
Well.. if I'm gonna try and watch this show tonight, so I'd better hit the liquor store on the way home from work. I'll be damned if I'm watching it sober!!
By they way, how do you "win" the GH drinking game? Seems to me we all lose. (except for the nice buzz in the first 15 minutes before it turns into puke-yer-guts out wasted)
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11:33 am October 6, 2010
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Orion said:
He is another person that says "supposibly" instead of "supposedly"?
In all fairness to Jason that one is actually a Steveism lol
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1:21 pm October 6, 2010
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Only going semi-dark on this episode? Will Jason say "Ok guys, let's go semi-light".
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Double tap to the head. Don't become Undead.
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6:32 pm October 6, 2010
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We keep seeing Joe filming while looking through the eyepiece of his camera. I wonder how many of the shadows they see are actually "retina burn" from having just previously been looking at a bright (in comparison) display screen or eyepiece?
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7:08 pm October 6, 2010
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Good point Nosfer, I had noticed that myself and was thinking no wonder they keep see shadows and random figures. Is it just me or was the owner of the building a little to happy for them to find "evidence"? Through the whole episode she was like I hope you find a bunch of stuff, I hope its really haunted. Then when they show results shes like oh thats so cool, I knew this place was haunted, this is the best. A little to happy for this verdict for me. The 2 main pieces of evidence they had was way to broad for anyone to just accept as being paranormal. Foot steps upstairs and the sound of a trash can being shook. In those halls that trash can sound could have come from any direction.
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7:13 pm October 6, 2010
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Did anyone else get the impression that the client was a little concerned about the unfamiliar camera when the ETC was mentioned? It seemed like she inquired about what it was almost with a trace of panic…like it might be something that could capture something more than she would like revealed?
Yes she was a bit much to take as far as her reactions when they were describing things!
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7:47 pm October 6, 2010
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She was an emotional mess over this investigation. I noticed the point where she was almost in a panic mode then she shifts from that into a "I just won the lottery" mode. Talk about mood changes! She coined a few words during the reveal that I have never heard before "holy crammy!?!" okay! I guess? Must be pretty special to bring out the noncoherent speech.
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11:33 pm October 6, 2010
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Ghaleon said: "She coined a few words during the reveal that I have never heard before "holy crammy!?!" okay! I guess? Must be pretty special to bring out the noncoherent speech."
I can understand you misunderstanding the word. I am from Illinois and I haven't heard the term in over thirty years. I had a Great Aunt that used to say it. What she said was "holy criminy." I believe at one time it meant "holy Christ"…which throughout time, became improper to say. I'm not sure how Christ became criminy….but there you go. So now, or at least when my Great Aunt used it, it was just an expression of surprise…akin to "oh my gosh."
BD said: "Only going semi-dark on this episode? Will Jason say "Ok guys, let's go semi-light."
Yeah, that wasn't lost upon me either. Kind of odd how we were just discussing that sort of thing in the Cooperstown episode. After seeing it…man…it would be hard for us to tell when there is a decent light source around.
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8:50 am October 7, 2010
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I think she looked panicked only in the very beginning when J&G said they approach investigations two ways; to find evidence but also to find natural explanations (Boy that changed from their original "mission" didn't it?); I think she was worried that they were going to debunk everything and spoil her fun. The moment they started presenting unexplainable evidence, she brightened up considerably.
I don't think, however, she set rigged anything. I think she was just genuinely curious about what an ETC camera was, cause she's really into this kind of stuff.
It might not make for exciting television, but why don't the others take a cue from Amy and learn to sit their roaming butts down, and ask intelligent questions aimed at engaging the spirit? I just finished reading "Picture Yourself Capturing Ghosts on Film" by Chris Balazano (not the greatest title ever but good book), and he took makes the case for staking a place out by staking it out – that means remaining stationary for large slices of time.
Which, come to think of it.. how often do we see TAPS present evidence at a reveal that was gotten from the handheld camcorders used by the team (especially while they were walking)? Seems to me 90% of what they "get" is from the stationary cameras or even the film crew. There's a lesson they should learn there.
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9:02 am October 7, 2010
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Orion said:
It might not make for exciting television, but why don't the others take a cue from Amy and learn to sit their roaming butts down, and ask intelligent questions aimed at engaging the spirit?
Because then the reviewers just b***h about them laying around on beds and being lazy (see comments and link in Lemp Mansion thread) Like I said there…they start doing something halfway more correct as far as investigating and people yell Boooorrrrring!
Edited: As far as rigging anything…I don't know one way or the other, but check the link I put in the first post…you have to get your guard up for any place that has haunted tours.
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10:13 am October 7, 2010
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Hmmm, wonder why the distinction about recording video?
http://hauntedalton.com/tour_policies.htm
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11:11 am October 7, 2010
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Take a look at the first haunted photo…the one with the light at the edge of the mirror. Isn't it quite suspicious that there is sunlight right next to the edge, apparently coming in from an open window? How this one can even be passed off as paranormal is beyond me.
http://hauntedalton.com/photos.htm
Take a look further down at some of the orb shots, too, then look at my avatar…I guess I got a pretty good shot of spirit energy when I took THAT photo, didn't I. Ugh!
Dancing lights in photo 6…interesting they all have the same pattern.
Some of these have exposures of 1/2 second or less so movement potential is very high. The EXIFs that I've looked at indicate that they have gone through Photoshop. That could be simply to add the decorative border, but I refuse to consider any photos that are not straight OOC.
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3:20 pm October 7, 2010
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I thought supposedly was being mispronounced as supposibly til I googled it and to my surprise its really a word .
I was wondering if this case is being confused with this real case
The Case of Leo Frank began with the murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan in the basement of a pencil factory in Atlanta, Georgia on April 26, 1913 . Trutv has the details .
Even the investigation team of TAPS couldn't find a record of this " Mary " or the janitor . I would suppose the school , police , newspaper would have something if a girl was murdered where and how they claim .
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3:29 pm October 7, 2010
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And which google link showed that it was correct? :)
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4:11 pm October 7, 2010
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/supposably
and http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/supposably
I don't know about correct but a word anyway . Personnaly I'm doing good to put two words together . I would really like to be eloquent like so many of the people here .
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4:33 pm October 7, 2010
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Those sources do confirm that Steve is still using it incorrectly, though (as a substitute for supposedly)
Regarding the case itself, I think the one you suggest might very well be the one. I don't trust much from this Alton group. And recall the transferrence to Texas of the Utah story of the children being killed in the bus-train collision? It's not like this would be the first time!
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5:05 pm October 7, 2010
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Revenant said:
Ghaleon said: "She coined a few words during the reveal that I have never heard before "holy crammy!?!" okay! I guess? Must be pretty special to bring out the noncoherent speech."
I can understand you misunderstanding the word. I am from Illinois and I haven't heard the term in over thirty years. I had a Great Aunt that used to say it. What she said was "holy criminy." I believe at one time it meant "holy Christ"…which throughout time, became improper to say. I'm not sure how Christ became criminy….but there you go. So now, or at least when my Great Aunt used it, it was just an expression of surprise…akin to "oh my gosh."
Oh, it was criminy she said, okay. I had heard that word a lot growing up. The way it sounded on my tv and the way she talked kind of fast made it sound like she said something like crammy or something. Criminy makes more sense.
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5:53 pm October 7, 2010
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I have a couple of questions:
The woman giving the walk-through was described as a "Docent". I looked up the word in the dictionary and it's defined as a teacher or lecturer at a school or university who is not a regular faculty member. I don't know how it applies in her case.
Aside from Mary, are there supposed to be other ghost children there? Or is Mary supposedly,supposably, supposively responsible for all of the paranormal activity? I got the impression from the reported personal experiences there were claims of several ghost children running around.
The popping sounds Jay and Grant were hearing and the flash of light they saw: could that have been coming from their own equipment? There was a light (IR?) on a tripod in the area where they heard the popping noises.
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