Without skipping a beat, we now make a switch from GHI to GH for your Wednesday night viewing enjoyment. I'm going to take a chance and assume that this is the start of Season 7. It could be the second half of the continuation of the start of Season 6.8, too, for all I know.

(Crowd to the side yelling in British accent: "Get on with it!")

Anyway, the opener for this set of episodes appears to be of a gimmicky nature and includes at least one Peruvian Llama. The team heads to Alexandria, Louisiana, which is apparently haunted (yep, the whole city is haunted). The city is inland a ways, thus away from the ocean which, with it's salinity is of a high specific conductance and therefore a catalyst for paranormal activity. Nevertheless, I suspect high PKEs. No, not Psycho Kinetic Energy…more likely Post Katrina Economic Stimulus.

In this episode the town hosts an event (fundraiser?) so that the team can submit it's findings. Does anyone else smell circus?

Supposibly there is a hotel (The Hotel Bentley), a bar (Finnegan's Wake Pub), and a restaurant (The Diamond Grill), that all have paranormal activity in them. If you hurry you can still make reservations for the Diamond Grill which is going to have a big wing ding going on Wednesday night for the airing of this episode. You can be assured that GH found activity there!

It tells you something when they have to have gimmicks and hype like this for a show. They are definitely coming down off their ratings high of earlier seasons and, given what we've seen in recent episodes, have become stuck in a dying formula (no pun intended…or maybe it was)

In the Hotel, one of the owners, Joseph Bentley, has been seen (even though died sometime in the 1930s) and people claim to have been tripped while going down the steps.

Some of the claims at the Irish Pub include glasses flying and falling on the floor. Anyone who finds anything paranormal about that has obviously never been in an Irish Pub!!

The shooting apparently took place over an 8-day period near the beginning of December, 2010. Nice when all that gets boiled down to 40 minutes after commercials.

An interesting tidbit which may not mean anything (but I'll bet you my last sock DOES mean something) is that the Hotel is currently closed and in the process of…being restored. And when I say it might mean something, I'm NOT referring to the "theory" that renovations make ghosts more active, either. I just mean that renovations can be…well…costly.  The current owner initially put about a million dollars into the hotel in upgrades in the early 2000s but it stayed open for only about five years before being closed again.

Back on topic folks.  More GH, less Popeye Doyle.

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