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8:27 pm
November 3, 2009
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Impressed with 10 micromhos? Couldn't they have changed the scale to see what it actually was. Made it exceptionally conductive? I've sampled water going into the 10s of MILLImhos…I should have been fried!
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6:44 am
November 4, 2009
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Ghost Lab once again does a rudimentary test to try and substantiate a hypothesis that they postulated. The problem with their thinking occurs when they don't fully test the hypothesis, and then generalize the results for all areas with the tested conditions. What was the EMF reading on the side of the house facing away from the water? According to their theory, shouldn't the Metro Club's most paranormal active area be in the basement ( direct line of sight of or in close proximity of the water phenomenon)?
Also I am getting tired of how the investigators at the end of the show try to depict how Earth shattering their new discoveries are to the field of paranormal investigation. Then again, I don't feel they are actually investigating. Thus far, they go to a haunted site (nothing alleged here), then anything they capture just verifies their preconceive notion.
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7:42 am
November 4, 2009
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And what sort of METAL (ie conductor) were the pipes in Chicago made of? They didn't look like tile to me.
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7:56 am
November 4, 2009
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Oh, and these folks might want to check out at least the Federal Drinking Water Standards…if they get impressed with 10 umohs/cm (although in all fairness it _was_ higher than that) then most people probably have ghosts squirting out their tap every time they turn the faucet on!
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8:48 am
November 4, 2009
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Those who are boat owners or have property down the shore (or at the beach  ) or along the bays should be very worried. There must be ghosts everywhere.
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8:52 am
November 4, 2009
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alicat said:
Those who are boat owners or have property down the shore (or at the beach ) or along the bays should be very worried. There must be ghosts everywhere.
Not to mention the ocean…salt does wonders for conductivity, you wouldn't be using micromhos but rather would have to be using millimhos. Well I guess you could use still umhos but your numbers would be in the tens of thousands.
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9:13 am
November 4, 2009
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That explains all those odd happenings I had on the Bay. Either that or it was because the sun was over the yardarm earlier than I thought. 
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9:26 am
November 4, 2009
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The river I live on turns dark after a heavy rain. You suppose I should get one of those fancy testers and check the water? I always thought the noises on the roof were squirrels.
Is there a reason that Daryl and his other brother Daryl didn't test the water running under the second building? This seems to be a comedy show or parody of the other ghost hunter type shows.
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10:24 am
November 4, 2009
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Too bad the investigated areas didn't have a silver mine close by. That would have magnified the excrement level produced by this show.
Wow, do you know what this means pertaining to paranormal investigation show? As common everyday occurances reaches a certain level, paranormal investigators produce excrement to verify preconcieve concepts. This is Earth shattering stuff!
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4:51 pm
November 4, 2009
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Well, I think that wraps it up for me watching Ghost Lab. This water beaming EMF stuff is just so absurd that it's not even worth being skeptical about it.
If there was a chance that they would actually attempt to use scientific principles in their ghost hunting, I would grit my teath and put up with their Wrestling Federation attitude, but their bizzare theories are just too far off the wall.
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5:06 pm
November 4, 2009
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The problem I have is that it WAS an interesting theory…it's more than GH has every come up with. Where it goes south is how they absolutely botched the attempt to apply science to prove or disprove it. There was no proof obtained from their experiments. They were hardly even experiments! I was embarrassed for them!
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11:58 am
November 5, 2009
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Oh man it took me over 20 hours to download this POS! All I have to say about water causing EMF is AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What sort of drugs are these people on? In fact their EMF data loggers prove the the EMF is coming from the house, not the river! The inverse square law of wave propagation still applies. If it was coming from the river, it would be stronger at the river! You can't break the laws of physics. They are idiots!
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12:46 pm
November 5, 2009
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This has to be brief, I'm supposed to be working…LOL
I had to laugh when they made the comment (and I'm very loosely paraphrasing here so I apologize) "Aha! Our theory about water being a conductor for electricity is correct!"
Ummmm…..yeah…..that's been proven…..guess you guys didn't get the memo…..
It's so embarrassing! 
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1:40 pm
November 5, 2009
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It was the tadpoles.
They were projecting EMF from their tiny primitive brains.
It's a miracle anyone in the GL trailer was left alive.
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Double tap to the head. Don't become Undead.
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12:31 am
November 20, 2009
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The second part of the show feature the "Metro." It's been "THE" bar where bands played in Chicago for years. I used to go there all the time. I've been there maybe 100 times. Probably more actually. In any event (and without much explanation…) I have entered the establishment in many "states of mind." (You know…like in "Young Guns"…"They can't see us….we're in the spirit world.") I can say without question that I nor anyone that I know had ever even come close to a paranormal event there.
In all the years there, no employee (which I knew and hung out with) ever stated such a thing. For a while, they even had a "self-proclaimed witch" working as a bartender there (and yes, kind of hot in the gothic/witchy way…) and she never claimed such a thing. I mean think about that for a moment. A self-proclaimed witch…and psychic and sensitive and whatever else…wasn't "picking up on anything" and she was always talking about spirits and such.
Um…so, yeah…I really have to call "shenanagins" on this location. The Metro may hold ghosts of my past…but they ain't talkin'… 
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