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11:44 am
March 18, 2010


HollyDolly

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posts 194

Apparently Ghost Hunters for St.patrick's Day made a trip to New York to Paddy Reiley's Pub to search for ghosts and maybe a few leprechauns too.Then they take on the home of author Harriet Beecher Stowe,

famous for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin.She also wrote a book on housekeeping and the domestic arts with her sister if I recall.This book isn't as well known as Uncle Tom's Cabin.

If you go to http://www.MassLive.com,and click on entertainment, you can find a review of it under television.

It seems from the review, both places weren't real productive,ghost wise. Oh by the way,Hay's kids were sick, So Grant was leading the pack this time.

2:39 pm
March 18, 2010


jcarton

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Why are you directing everyone here to another website just one day after it was on tv? Logisti isn't doing reviews but IMO that seems to be a disservice to him and this website less than a day afterwards. It would be different if the show hadnt aired and you were giving us info on the contents a head of time but you havent even watched it and are just repeating what others say and you arent even sure about that. I am also not sure who cares about the book with her sister either. It has nothing to do with this.

9:40 pm
March 18, 2010


Stephen

San Jose, CA

Admin

posts 589

I don't see a problem. Even if we were still running reviews for new GH episodes, offering a link to another review site is hardly anything to get outraged about.

Stephen the Friendly Skeptic

2:12 am
March 19, 2010


jcarton

Guest

Outraged? I would say very very disappointed now. Even though there arent full reviews here anymore isnt this website to discuss a show someone actually watched or contribute information about a subject they actually have knowledge of rather than directing people to other sites for their review and then post vague guesses here based on it?  If you havent seen it how do you discuss it and why would you want comments and guesses posted here based solely on another websites review? Why watch or post at all?

5:44 am
March 19, 2010


Eric

Guest

Holly's got some interesting information and is assisting all of us in reading a different angle on our (favorite?) paranormal team.

Cut her some slack.

6:50 am
March 19, 2010


HollyDolly

Investigator

posts 194

Thanks Stephen and Eric. I posted the link since i thought people here might like to see what someone else thinks of the show.it's always interesting to see what others think .As far as mentioning the other book by Harriet Beecher Stowe,just wanted to add a fact which few people might be aware of.

I'm interested in all sorts of things. Always been pretty good at Jeopardy.If they come to San Antonio, I may try out.

7:23 am
March 21, 2010


justsayin

Guest

As long as we're allowed to tell others what they can and cannot post, maybe jcarton stirring up trouble shouldn't be posting that stuff either. If he can tell others what to post, can't I?

Just sayin'- I lurk and this kind of "you can't post that because I don't care about it" stuff  happens WAY too much on this site…

HollyDolly – post whatever you want – the mods are the ones to decide, not self-appointed regulators…

11:03 am
March 21, 2010


jcarton

Guest

Maybe you guys havent been lurking long enough and should read what others who arent mods have said to HollyDolly and others. Cut slack and a different angle? Exactly what interesting information are we getting? Other posts have been about family and now Jeopardy, housekeeping and domestic art information?  Im not trying to start anything Im just agreeing with what was said before. In the last 2+ years my wife and Ive been reading here its always been self-regulated with the mods occasionally. Check the Woman and chimp on Oprah thread that was locked as soon as it was posted. Sorry I have a right to say it and you can disagree. Respectfully, you might want to read your own words about self-appointed regulators. Im justsayin.

7:48 am
March 22, 2010


Eintopy

eintopy

Investigator in Training

posts 8

Thanks for the link, HollyDolly.  Personally, I do like seeing what others think about this show.  Even when there were full reviews being done on this, I'd read those and still search other sites for their own reviews.  Everybody has different opinions and different ways of interpreting the "evidence" presented on GH, so it's nice to get a wide range of opinions about this show.

I find it funny that they supposedly saw the ghost of Gene Hackman staring through the window when he is still alive and well.  Ghostly doppelgänger, perhaps?  Or maybe just one too many drinks at the bar…

At the Harriet Beecher Stowe house, one of the things they found during the evidence review was a loud thump.  Tango dismissed it as "just a thump", i.e., nothing paranormal.  But many times before on different episodes, they've heard a thump and presented it to the client as something unexplainable and potentially paranormal.  Is there somehow a difference between "just a thump" and "a ghostly thump"?  Seems silly to me.  The least they could do is attempt to be consistent in what they call paranormal versus an everyday sound.

2:48 am
April 14, 2010


Mugs

Investigator

posts 30

Eintopy said: I find it funny that they supposedly saw the ghost of Gene Hackman staring through the window when he is still alive and well.  Ghostly doppelgänger, perhaps?  Or maybe just one too many drinks at the bar…

Unless I heard wrong, I'm pretty sure when the fellow said the face he saw looked like Gene Hackman he wasn't actually claiming he saw the ghost of GH or even GH's doppelganger, but rather that the face he saw resembled Gene Hackman. To me it seemed more like a case of using a known personality to describe the face as opposed to trying to describe it [features; hair; shape of the face; age etc]…..doing the former is definitely easier and you at least have others picturing the face the same way.  But that doesn't mean he didn't have a few nips in the bar before he'd seen it, I'm pretty sure he didn't say either way so it's possible that he did. Laughing   

Eintopy also said: At the Harriet Beecher Stowe house, one of the things they found during the evidence review was a loud thump.  Tango dismissed it as "just a thump", i.e., nothing paranormal.  But many times before on different episodes, they've heard a thump and presented it to the client as something unexplainable and potentially paranormal.  Is there somehow a difference between "just a thump" and "a ghostly thump"?  Seems silly to me.  The least they could do is attempt to be consistent in what they call paranormal versus an everyday sound.

One of the things that TAPS have shown time and time again, season after season, is that they are definitely stellar at being inconsistent!  Along with the 'thumps' there's been footsteps, voices, moans/groans, scratching and so on which they've [often rather instantly] deemed to be paranormal at one case, then at the next case the same types of things are heard and they dismiss it as something mundane, or will say nothing so basically they ignored it. 

And we've seen plenty of examples where they've obtained near identical evidence – be it a few EVPs, or a door that allegedly opened/closed by itself for e.g. – at two different cases, at one the evidence was enough for them to deem the place haunted but at the other it was only enough to say there appeared to be some sort of PN activity going on – not enough to say H. Go figure. Personally I think, of the cases we've seen, more often than not they went to same with a pre-determined conclusion, actually I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it was at nearly all if not all, especially the last few seasons….all part of the plan, in the name of ratings, the almighty buck, egos and creating personas. IMHO 

11:01 am
April 14, 2010


Eric

Guest

If the predetermined conclusion theory were true, then Sheetie at Eastern State would be "Some sort of PN; we can't say Yay or Nay…" 

Also which the predetermination would be that something rather inconclusive (e.g. a breathy, drawn out YESSSSS or NOOOOO) would mean "this place is as haunted as anything".

By which that would mean perhaps the Presidio would be "inconclusive", the pilot episode would be "no", and the Air Force Base would be "this is THE PN hotspot of them all".

Whether money, fame, or both are motivating the producers (aka NBC) to lead J/G into the world of vague conclusions or not I don't know.  But not all shows, scripted or "reality" will be EXACTLY THE SAME from season to season. 

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