It's probably been said, but not only is this show tedious to watch because of his scamming, yeah, I noticed that too….taking some prime objects for his "museum".  I think he said in the last episode that something about the glass dome would hold in some of the "Paranormal effects" of the object.  I may have misheard it, due to sensory overload from the screen having the fake distortion on every scene change.  I have my HDTV and paying for the price of the channels..and I get distorted visual effects put in the show, a "Squatch" could walk by in the background and I would miss it! 

But finding out his relatives was quite a surprise, just think, his kids are involved in the show as well, at least his daughter on research, it's going to grow into "paranormal kudzu"…with all these groups starting up, using the same gear and also to my great aggravation, emf detection.  I think that "spirit box" was just too convenient with it's results…like mentioned above.. "book" "door" "William".  Now I wonder why there was no search for descendants of William's family to see if they wished to have the Mourning Brooch, it was their right, especially since no evidence of that item being donated to the museum was produced or even mentioned.  Yep, he does have quite the scam going there and due to boredom, I will probably dvr it tonight if it's on and submit myself to eye torture tomorrow, how sad.  I think the emf has finally got to me.

 @Revenant: You have those episodes right on the money.. In my opinion anyway.  Absolutely no glue under that carpeting, but then if this symbol was used in "Rituals" maybe the last owner wanted easy access to his altar, lol.. I really liked the red splotches as "blood effect" with what looked like small hatchet notches made in the floor as well…couldn't have been the swords, they came in after…but then the guy wasn't really forthcoming when Zaffis was giving him the Joe Friday questioning… would liked to have seen what the other detectives behind the glass would have been saying about his reaction.  Looks like a little participation by the "haunted" as well, wants to make sure that lame episode gets on the air somehow..again, no proof of this, just a funny feeling along with the idea the fake interference on every scene change is to distract the viewer from things like this.  Get upset with their editing, forget how pitiful the story is.  I know I remember that more than most details of the episodes and have to hit the rewind button on the dvr to try to get back into the story.  Just a note from the "Mourning Brooch" evidence he finds and this episode with animal spirits… I wonder if the two "Mourning Envelopes" of cat hair I have glow? Just a thought..no infrared camera to check it out though…bummer. 

  But yeah, I knew he had his eye on those swords right away…  And maybe he sealed the symbol with salt..should make for an interesting sound whenever you walk on the carpet that didn't even look nailed down either…just held in place by the molding it seemed, maybe a tack here and there.  And they did it all in the dark too!  Unless my eyes were just acting up already, it seems they shined lights on the symbol.  I did notice the items from the Civil War era were covered by a flexible plastic cover in his "museum".. so there goes the glass protection I thought I heard him mention in a previous episode. Actually, I think he said the glass would hopefully help contain the energy or something.  This is by far one of the worst paranormal show attempts I have seen, right up there with the guys who poured gasoline in front of a cell to antagonize that spirit of the guy murdered by other inmates at the New Mexico Prison..  Where's Destination Truth?  At least there was some comic relief in that show.  Probably ran out of places to go.. things to investigate. <sigh>

  And thank you for the welcome back, been lurking now and then, but additional health problems which I won't go into like before have kept me out of the loop.  At least I'm not ready to bother J & G with false readings yet.

         Waiting For the 1st annual "Squatch" calling contest by the group.  Last off topic reference. :-D *

*In this post, no guarantees, but will try!