Yeah I always thought it worked so well in synch with what the psychic was doing.  Such as when he puts his arm down Grant's finger, or I mean, the psychic energy dissipates.

There are other explanations for what happened, none of them paranormal.  I'm only putting this here as it seems very suspicious to me, and I believe it accounts for that weird anomaly. 

A case could also be made that he was just playing around with the darn thing and that this doesn't correspond in time to what happened. But I know what I think, and just wanted to run it by you folks for others' opinions.

And to think that, ages ago, I believed him to be the most intelligent member of TAPS and a nice, honest, quiet guy.  No wonder there's a saying that it's the quiet ones you have to watch out for!

dr_peter_venkman said:

Wes said:

Hmmmm … if it was Grant's finger in front of the lens, wouldn't we see, well, Grant's finger in front of the lens???? The anomaly appears to be behind Jay and the medium/psychic/sensitive dude, not in the forefront.

Not sure if this is possible, but it still looks to me like the heat or air kicked in — in many older homes, AC/heat vents are in the floor – sending a blast of hot or chilled air into the room from behind the chair where Jay was sitting.

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What if Grant had rested the FLIR on his leg to hold it steady? Wouldn't the heat radiating from his body appear in the lens?

I don't believe this particular FLIR can pick up heat by itself (ie, nor just warm _air_ it has to be a warm substantive object which does cause one to ask many questions about it's applicability) Thus warm air above his legs would likely not be detected. However, a hot blast coming out of floor vents would warm the objects it hits which it WOULD detect.

I just had a funny thought.

As you guys know I just bought a K2 meter for experiments. And as we all know the K2 seems to only work well around Grant or Jason. We have speculated how a stock K2 can be set off intentionally with a walkie or other device.

Now I think I am really starting to think like a skeptic, because I find myself asking "what would a magician do" in these circumstances to set off a K2. And as I had my K2 apart, with guts hanging out, thought, well a magician would probably just throw out the guts of the K2 and put in his own electronics! Walla a magician's K2!

There are many little programmable circuits out there now that can set off Leds to your pleasure. So what we see as a K2 may only be skin deep with different electronics inside. Magicians do this with props all the time.

Why do I have such evil thoughts? There was an episode, can't remember which one now, but when Grant was using the K2 it didn't have the first Led lit. This should be lit at all times when the meter is on and from memory the lights sure did act strange.

All just speculation of course but for someone with a little electronics know how and a magic trick in mind it would be easy to do.

Well done, Learjet. And I agree with Oubliette, it's the obvious that gets us everytime.

Learjet,

Great job!  I too never thought about it that way.  One question though.  By using the terms "magician" and "magic trick" did you happen to be referencing anyone in particular we might know?  Hmmm…..

Thanks for sharing your findings.

Okay I've just debunked myself. It looks as though that first Led on that particular meter drops out of visibility at a certain angle.

Vidcaps from part 2 Betsy Ross house in the basement.

Now you see it  http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/1039/s5e01b.jpg

Now you don't  http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/7418/s5e01c.jpg

It looks legit. At least for now…

Learjet, I was actuallly going to replace that "M" with a "D" since he's a professed "M" but, then again, "G" is a computer guy.

Barbarino and Learjet, even if we have the initials wrong, they introduced a guy on the show (twice?) as someone who was working on new equipment for TAPS.  They even showed him in his shop with a few items on the table that he had been working on for them.  So, if not "G" or "D", he certainly would have been able to rig a K-2.

Revenant said:

Well, they either have a guy or had a guy for the electronics.  Can't remember what his name was.  He did come along with them once went they returned to Eastern State Penitentiary.

Ah yes.  Is he the one who showed up with a ton of new gadgets they were going to keep trying each week, then was never seen again?

Wasn't there some new tech wiz at the St Augustine revisited case? Something about geiger counters maybe? I though it was radiation related but I could be wrong.