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Chasing The Shadows: The Documentary

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3:15 pm
April 25, 2009


Hannah

Texas

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Documentary filmmaker Tim Schultz sets out on a 4-year journey for answers while exploring his own passion to know if an experience he had as a little boy could have been a ghost. He meets a cast of colorful characters including psychics, tarot reading wizards, paranormal investigators, skeptics, and scientists.

Chasing the Shadows explores the mysterious world of EVP (Electronic-Voice-Phenomena,) photographic anomalies, poltergeist activity, and possession. Whether you are a believer or an unbending skeptic, this film offers special access to a real experiment.

Due to be released sometime this year.

http://www.chasingtheshadows.com/Default.aspx

Partial list of people met during the filming: Chris Moon & parents, John Zaffis, Dr. Claude Swanson, author of the book, The Synchronized Universe-New Science of the Paranormal, Tanker, & Banjo Billy.

Locations: Italy, Benin, Africa, The Myrtles Plantation, The Stanley Hotel, Croke Patterson Mansion, Belvidere Theatre, The Miramont Castle, Lumber Baron Inn, etc.

Has anyone heard anything about this?  Sounds interesting.  I signed up for the when and where updates.

5:14 pm
April 25, 2009


blinddog

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I dunno' Hannah.
List of people is somewhat suspect.

Chris Moon….Offering online ghost hunter diplomas and let's not forget Frank's Box. 'nuff said.

John Zaffis. Check here…http://www.johnzaffisparanormalmuseum.com

Dr. Claude Swanson, just because you have a PhD. from MIT doesn't mean you can't be whacked, maybe even more so. His 'Theory of Everything'. Wow, even Einstein couldn't wrap his arms around that one. Big believer in orbs.

Banjo Billy Bus Tours?

Tanker?

Fanny Cakes?

Why did it take 4 years in the making when two-thirds of the locations are in Colorado?

I hope this filmed for tv, I'd hate to think people wasted their money to go see it.

Just my opinion.

Double tap to the head. Don't become Undead.

9:19 pm
April 25, 2009


Hannah

Texas

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Thanks blinddog, kinda what I figured when I saw Chris Moon, the ghost tour bus, etc.  Should have known when it was a link I followed from a T. Stokes article Cry.  I always hope (yep, an optimist), that someone would do an in-depth serious documentary.  Maybe eventually I can Netfilx it.  Might be good for a laugh, I mean I am really curious how Tanker communes with the dead.Laughing

5:30 am
April 26, 2009


blinddog

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http://www.manitoulegends.com

Ya' gotta check the slide show out.
One of the 'experts' in the documentary.
Fanny Cakes can't even get her pics and captions straight.

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6:24 am
April 26, 2009


Oubliette

Igloo in NJ

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With a lineup like that, I think we already know what we are in for.  Shows like this will continue to insure that paranormal research will remain the butt of many a joke and never be taken seriously. 

Chris Moon and his static machine-if this device really works, why not ask the questions that we all want answers to regarding possible survival of any aspect of a once living person?  Why keep asking the same inane questions that hokey mediums have been asking for decades?  I hope the film doesn't again link Edison's name to this contraption.

Looks like the same ol' stuff recycled once again.  A photo quickly shown in the promo look like a double exposure.  Is that a medium (the blonde woman) going through the usual antics? 

The intro starts out very seriously, and everytime I see that another filmaker is attempting to tackle the subject,  I think that maybe, just once, someone is serious about the subject.  And everytime, I have been very disappointed.

And who is Fanny Cakes?  You have got to be kidding me.  BTW, that slideshow is hilarious.  If that puff of smoke–oh, excuse me, mist–is not produced by a hidden fog machine I'll run 50 laps around the pool. 

To all filmakers:  STOP, just stop, showcasing Chris Moon and these dramatic people who call themselves "mediums".  Then maybe we can start taking these so-called documentaries a bit more seriously.

If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France

6:46 am
April 26, 2009


dr_peter_venkman

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Love him or hate him but I think Michael Moore could make an exellect documentary on the paranormal. These nut jobs and scam artists would provide ample fodder for his type of film.

The mock-u-mentary genre also has promise. Perhaps Rob Reiner could do a Spinal Tap like "This is Ghost Hunters". The Steve character could explain why his EMF meter is better than everyone else's because "this one goes to 11."

Wow. I am really getting cynical.

Hee hee hee! "Get her!" That was your whole plan, huh, "get her." Very scientific.

7:45 am
April 26, 2009


Learjet

Australia

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This is pathetic. For heaven's sake, don't any ghost hunters know anything about photography? They can take their dust orb, motion blur and lens flare pics and eat em along with their fairy cakes. Tongue out

This is worse than the antics of GH.

OD'd on EMF

8:03 am
April 26, 2009


blinddog

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Take a flash picture in front of a mirror. Lens flare?
Nope, ghost.
Picture taken outside during winter. Breath condensation?
Nope, ghost.
Jump up and down on a bed. Dust?
Nope, ghost orb.

This bunch makes J&G look like astrophysicists.

Everyone that I've seen that is involved with this documentary seems to have one common goal.
To make a buck from the exposure.

Double tap to the head. Don't become Undead.

8:30 am
April 26, 2009


Nosfer

Rotaredom

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blinddog50 said:

To make a buck from the exposure.


Or "double-exposures" :)

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9:33 am
April 26, 2009


blinddog

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One other thing, maybe someone more knowledgeable than myself (which isn't a hard point to attain) can answer for me.

In the Fanny Cakes slideshow, the kid catching the coins, what was that about?
Was it some type of paranormal detection or was it simply a photo of a weird kid?

Double tap to the head. Don't become Undead.

10:44 am
April 26, 2009


Learjet

Australia

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The kid has special powers and is levitating the coins.

OD'd on EMF

11:02 am
April 26, 2009


Oubliette

Igloo in NJ

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dr_peter_venkman said:

Love him or hate him but I think Michael Moore could make an exellect documentary on the paranormal. These nut jobs and scam artists would provide ample fodder for his type of film.

The mock-u-mentary genre also has promise. Perhaps Rob Reiner

could do a Spinal Tap like "This is Ghost Hunters". The Steve character could explain why his EMF meter is better than everyone else's because "this one goes to 11."

Wow. I am really getting cynical.


You know, I agree with you about Michael Moore.  After all, with all the mediums out their doing cold readings of both people and the houses they go to, as well as taking shameless advantage of the grieving, there is certainly a lot of material to work with.

Wish I knew some indie filmakers. A mock-u-mentary would be excellent and probably a big hit, at least to those, believers or otherwise, who have a sense of humor. Laughing

If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France

11:22 am
April 26, 2009


blinddog

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Learjet said:

The kid has special powers and is levitating the coins.



Oh, Ok?

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7:45 pm
April 26, 2009


Learjet

Australia

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Or he could be stopping time like Hiro on Heroes when he blinks real hard.

OD'd on EMF

12:45 am
April 27, 2009


Revenant

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blinddog50 said:

Why did it take 4 years in the making when two-thirds of the locations are in Colorado?


1) Because Colorado is a very scary place.  People always trying to read my aura or tell me about surrounding energies or whatnot.

2) I am using my substantial aura and my considerable surrounding energies to drain their batteries, thus making it difficult for them to film here.

3) And most importantly, Banjo Billy's bus only goes so fast…

"Skepticism is not a position, it's a process." -Dr Michael Shermer

5:25 pm
April 27, 2009


Hannah

Texas

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Paranormal is "hot" right now, why not cash in, though taking four years is a stretch that the market would hold.  I will chime in with Oubliette, I really don't like Michael Moore, but I wish he would take a shot at it. 

Still holding out for a good documentary though.

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