Insert joke about cops and tasers. 

Is it me or does it seen like these shows are ripping people off and trying to pass them on as their own. Ghost Lad and Paranormal Cops a few times now…I have heard them using Jason Sullivan's theories and ideas, almost quoting him word for word and just ripping off ghost adventures and ghost hunters. On Paranormal Cops I saw them using a stun gun, something I've heard Jason Sullivan talk about 6 years ago for protection and possible manifestation, same goes with the Tesla coil on Joke Lab…I mean ghost lab. Paranormal TV just really sucks, when the best in the field are the ones I want to watch, not these overacting jerks that rip people's work off and claim it as their own.

Just my thought

Janell

Janell Beth said: "Paranormal TV just really sucks, when the best in the field are the ones I want to watch, not these overacting jerks that rip people's work off and claim it as their own."

Sorry, I didn't see your post as we were posting at the same time.  Beyond Jason Sullivan, who I am not familar with, who else do you consider the "best in the field?"  Any links would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

Janell - I agree with what Revenant posted.  Who among the paranormal shows currently offered is not faking evidence?  Please don't use GHOST HUNTERS in the same sentence as "best in the field" as they have been PROVEN over and over to be carnival tricksters on this website.  And poor tricksters at that.

I have not watched even one minute of GH or GHI since the Donna LaCroix interview.  I don't miss those fake plumbers at all. Why would anyone?

I must agree with Learjet.  

Please don't take it the wrong way, but only in the spirit it is meant.  I have a scientific background.  When all the shows started to pop up on tv, esp. GH, I was happy that someone was finally taking a "scientific" approach to ghost hunting.  At first I was one of the sheep and loved the show.

Then I started to see the problems.  Eventually I could predict the whole show, and actually SEE how they were faking it.  

Now with all the shows on TV, and all the conventions, etc., I have absolutely no trust or faith that there is a single legitimate "paranormal investigator" on the planet.  

Perhaps there are some out there.   But due to these shows their credibility is in the toilet, and no serious scientist or rational person will believe them.

So when you say someone is "best in the field" in the THIS field, it means nothing to me.  Just another person making money.

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Before I hit the "save new post" button, I re-read what I typed, and come to realize that these shows have tainted me…made me jump over the skeptical deep end.  These shows are so horrible that I doubt anything can be done to ever make me believe there are such a thing as ghosts ever again.  Thanks a lot GH  :-/

I was really disappointed in this episode. I thought that they were going to improve, even the slightest bit, from the first episode, but alas, they got worse! After I got over the disgust of all those library books being left there to get demolished with the place, (sorry it's the librarian in me speaking) I too cringed at the stun gun theory.  It's right up there with the lightning theory or the muddy waters of the Mississippi theory of Ghost Lab.  Does that mean that anyone who is stunned by one sees dead people?  Also, I was a little annoyed at their quick thinking of "ghost" when they saw a cold spot on the FLIR walking down the hallway.  It looked like a window to me and they didn't even try to debunk it.  They also didn't show them scoping out the place when they "saw" someone walk into one of the rooms while setting up their equipment.  They just yelled down the stairwells.  I want to see "cop mode" again! Securing the area!  All in all, they seemed to have cut out a lot of video to get it into 1/2 hr show and maybe that had something to do with it, but I highly doubt it.  I know someone who had a sister that graduate from this school and I don't believe she had any ghostly experiences. What I like about this show, is that they are doing places that no one has investigated before, and hopefully, they keep it that way and just do a better job at investigating. There a plenty of spots in Chicago that are reportedly haunted. Maybe they will bring in some of the K9 units for an investigation.

It would be interesting to get everyone on this site to investigate a "haunted" location together and see what we come up with.

In general, I find this series funny.  The main guy is a complete caricture of Sipowitz (sp?) from NYPD Blue.  A little rotund, he speaks like him, and likes to chomp on cigar.  At the beginning it's like an interrogation of the claiment, and at the end there is this official form were they mark stuff off.  Also love the evidence seals on the doorts! 

It's like they watched every ghost hunting show before and somehow combined them into one big mess.  PC "evidence tape" = GA's "locked in".  (Though I found the plantation episode with the cabin's flashing lights, even though that was so obivously faked.  "The door's locked!  I can't see anyone through the window!")  The standard "Did you hear that?"  Orbs (c'mon).  The research guy?  What he does instantaneous research on the fly rather than look it up earlier?  At least their medium doesn't go all Chip Coffee on us.  "Boogers and demons, from the left!"

GH & GHI are the same script in new areas (at least for the last 4-5 years).  I like GHI just for the architecure and history of the places.

I still like GA the best because they give the best show.  Whatching Zak(?) getting possessed every other episode and acting like a puppet is pure gold.  The first time he did it he was great with the just staring around and not saying anything.  Almost had me convinced.  4 eps later he's ranting and raving like a 'madman' while just twirling around in circles.  Oooh, spooky!

Fun thing, I watched 'House of Bones'.  Story about a fake ghost hunting show that runs into a real haunted house.  A scifi channel type film, but they lampoon the 'real' ghost hunting shows nicely.

So there's only going to be 3 episodes?