Hi all,

I have watched this show for the past couple of Tuesday's as nothing else has really been on. I think it might be an older show complete with Linda Blair as the host and the lady from Poltergeist doing the voice over. There is also an English guy who I think I have seen him on another show about the paranormal. The other show is where they are all English and someone is always being inhabited by some entity. Can't recall the name however.

It seems to me that this Scariest Places on Earth or World's Scariest Places, has the same lacations that GH has. Is it just me? They were at a monestary in Italy and the English guy was talking about the column that weeps. Which we saw Andy debunk on GHI. Then they were at Chillingham castle and they also debunked that. They were doing a show at Eastern State Penitentiary, but I missed it.

Has anyone else seen this bit of horrible TV? They set up these families to go in these places in the dark and scare the crap out of them. It is sort of funny in a twisted way, like America's Funniest Home Video's when Grandpa takes one for the team…..

The spooky music is the worst!  I could not hear anything they were saying anyway.  Yes the first family with the girl that cried the whole way through the show annoying.  I too liked the second family much better.  At least they all grabbed the snakes even though a couple were freaked in life to do it.  I don't know why they leave or cry through the whole show.  What on earth did they think they were there to do.  Of course it is going to be scary, that is whole point.

I'm also a bit surprised that there's not an age limit to this. If' I'm not mistaken, the girl (the one that screamed the whole hour) in the family from CA was still in high school. I would think you'd have to be 18 or 21 to agree to do something like this. Whether or not it's faked, I'm sure it's scary as hell to a kid.

I'm sorry to have to say it, but this show makes me laugh!!  There's nothing going on except people wandering around in dark places, who have been *frightened* ahead of time by the "supernatural stories" about each place.  Then we get to watch them scream and run and scream some more.  It reminds me of the Blair Witch film, but it's slightly more engaging because we get some sense of who the people are and get to see their responses to an entirely new situation.  Note:  I do not see the latter point as a reason to watch the show.  I have not yet been able to watch an episode without laughing and without getting tired of it midway through. 

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OK, I have to admit that I like this show. Do I think most of it is real? No, but that doesn't take away my enjoyment of it. I've met Linda Blair on several occasions and she's always been willing to do more episodes if there were a backer. Anyway–

I look at it as watching people in one of those Haunted Houses that are set up around Halloween (the Travel Channel always shows some great ones in October). The whole thing is set up to psych out the viewers (and the families) and prepare them for a good scare. It's just good fun.

I love when someone brags ahead of time how brave he/she is and then they cut to a shot of that person yelling "get me out of here, I can't take it anymore".

That one episode where the blonde girl screamed the whole time–that poor soundman must be totally deaf by now.

BTW, Alan Robson is not English but Scottish. He is well known in the northern part of England and in Scotland as a radio host, lecturer and weaver of scary tales. Several years ago on Halloween night he went walking around Transylvania (live radio broadcast) and got attacked by a pack of wild dogs for his trouble.

He reminds me of those old time story tellers who delighted in scaring people huddled around an open fire on a dark, dark night…

Everything done to the people–bags on the head, separating them–was to psych them out. Everything was set up to produce a certain state of mind. It was to assure they would be even more freaked out. Being led around hooded in a strange place should give anybody the willies.

The chants, etc. were all done for the same reasons. It was to manipulate them into a state where they were more likely to be easily scared.

Plus, I liked the locations they went to. Again, places I'll probably never see in person in my lifetime. So if you don't take the show seriously and are a Halloween junkie like me, it really is entertaining. But I'm weird anyway.