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6:33 am
October 22, 2009
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M. Roget
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IMO, neck scratches would be easier. Neck closer to hands 
Actually, with any of these scratching incidents (including those documented outside of a television screen supposedly caused by poltergeists etc.) my 1st thought is always forgetfulness. Well, not always, but I'm feeling charitable this morning. How many times have I discovered a scratch, a bruise even, & wondered when & how I got it. Many. I try not to immediately attribute them to an annoyed Casper. 2nd thought on ghost scratches for me is a simple case of fakery through misdirection.
Weren't there other instances of scratching on GH besides the recent "demonic" one? Were early on in the show's run. Scratches on J or G's backs, arms maybe, can't recall right now.
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12:51 pm
October 22, 2009
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HollyDolly
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I think it was the Cranston case. It was a local case where the family reported activity. Jason and Grant were i think down in the basement talking to the daughter. Later on, jason felt like he was scratched or something, and they showed the sratch on his shoulder and how red the area was. Later when talking to his wife about the case, you again got to see his shoulder and it was still red, but looked a little better than when they first noticed it at the investigation.His wife told him to be careful.TAPS felt somehow the haunting was centered around the daughter perhasp. That's the family where the bust of Shakespeare supposedly moved according to the family.
Yeah, I have found scratches or a bruise on myself, and not even known it happend. Nothing paranormal about it. But i imagine such things do happen. People who have been on the tour in Edenbourgh,Scotland of the Covenanter's prision area of Grey friars church yard have been scratched and touched so it is possible.
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1:05 pm
October 22, 2009
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Learjet
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Yes legs and feet I can understand. Have done it myself there, but for most of us face and neck get looked at every day, maybe several times a day Lol, in a mirror under scrutiny and we are usually more careful in this area.
For myself, it would be most unusual were I to get scratched in the face or neck and either not know about it straight away or forget about it altogether.
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7:06 pm
October 22, 2009
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windwhisperer
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Is it just me or do they travel great distances to not do much. Are they investigators or not? I just can't get into this show for some reason. Seems like they're just out there trying to prove something but I'm not sure what yet. Maybe they're just trying to bring new ideas out into the field. So far they really haven't proven much to me.
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"Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places." … H.P.Lovecraft
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7:10 pm
October 22, 2009
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M. Roget
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HollyDolly,
Thanks. Cranston house, that was it. I didn't buy it then either.
Learjet,
I've had cat scratches on the back of my neck & never felt or noticed them until I was putting my hair up. Do fellas look at the back of their heads as much as women when combing their hair? I'll take your word for it, as the sig other has his head buried in the Angels-Yankees game so can't really ask right now.
Both,
I'm certainly not trying to negate a legitimately unexplained (& ultimately unexplainable) scratching of an investigator or anyone else who claims said marks are from a paranormal source, but the idea something like this will happen during the filming of one of these tv shows strikes me as convenient. I admit to a major problem re: the regularity with which Ghost Hunters & all the shows their success has spawned hit the paranormal mother load while on camera.
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7:34 pm
October 22, 2009
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nannerz
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The Doctor said:
At a quick search I was not able to find any info on the Biocam – someone have a link ?
This looks exactly like what we saw on the episode:
http://www.auraphoto.com/products/winaura.shtml
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7:57 pm
October 22, 2009
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ISubstituteMyPseudoR
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nannerz said:
The Doctor said:
At a quick search I was not able to find any info on the Biocam – someone have a link ?
This looks exactly like what we saw on the episode:
http://www.auraphoto.com/products/winaura.shtml
Damn! You beat me to it. Yes – for only $6,200.00 (plus a computer and compatible webcam…optional printer) – you, too, can use this piece of pseudo-scientific crap. For additional $$$, you can add the AuraCam 6000/Coggins Camera to it. Make sure you take this to your local New Age expo so you can soak naive customers…I mean…enrich enlightened fellow explorers (and help pay down the financing costs). Or better yet – have a cable channel fund all your "toys" and set back legitimate research many years…
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1:52 pm
October 26, 2009
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Dr. Herbert West
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I won't get into the science of this show because there was none in my opinion. Lab. Ha.
I just thought it was funny. I enjoyed the pseudo-science. Really funny.
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10:09 am
October 27, 2009
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captainsteve
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I'm thinking if the show doesn't work out they could use the trailer and hawk sausages at the county fair. In fact, I think I've seen the brothers there operating rides.
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12:57 pm
October 27, 2009
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The Doctor
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ISubstituteMyPseudoR said:
nannerz said:
This looks exactly like what we saw on the episode:
http://www.auraphoto.com/products/winaura.shtml
Damn! You beat me to it. …
I had actually found that one – it looks very similar, but the sensor pad and the software are different. I suppose the guy who brought it to them might have bought the first generation model. I wanted to find the exact unit since the announcer makes the interesting statement that the device is "used in some medical practices"
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1:06 pm
October 27, 2009
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BrendaLee
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Yes, but notice just how generic that quote is: "some medical practices." It could be anything.
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." – Dr. Seuss
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3:52 pm
October 30, 2009
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Now you can say it Doc, Casper must have been vibrating real fast as the spook is supposed to be stationary yet the AC meter is picking it up?
Just thinking about this some more…wonder how much the spirit would have to be "fidgiting" to cause enough motion to be detected?
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2:08 am
October 31, 2009
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Learjet
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Nosfer said:
Now you can say it Doc, Casper must have been vibrating real fast as the spook is supposed to be stationary yet the AC meter is picking it up?
Just thinking about this some more…wonder how much the spirit would have to be "fidgiting" to cause enough motion to be detected?
By jove you may have something there. Casper could have Parkinson's or restless legs syndrome!
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7:53 am
October 31, 2009
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Nosfer
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LOL, I know sometimes I just can't sit still for too long :) In all seriousness, though, just how motionless would the METER have to be? If the meter is being waved around even a little bit, is that enough? A motionless spook and a moving meter would set up the same relationship as a motionless meter and a moving spook.
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9:27 am
October 31, 2009
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Learjet
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Yes that's correct. You can sneak a magnet past an AC EMF meter slowly without activation. Any sudden movement though and it will register briefly as a spike.
By the same token the meter will settle as soon as Casper stops fidgeting.
In the episode they show the meter perfectly still on the chair with no quick fluctuation. I would bet the field was of man made origin.
That's for AC fields. It's different for DC electrostatic and the Trifield meter which can register the electrical charge of a biological entity even if it's not moving. These are completely invisible to an AC meter moving or not.
Got to love this stuff and how they always get it wrong on the TV shows.
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