The Skeptical Viewer - Group: Television Shows Discussion

Lindy on S06E12: America's First Zoo

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:22:36 -0700

I hear "What the *bleep* was that"? countless times per episode and rarely (if ever) is any type of real evidence offered as a result. Sometimes the show sounds like a garbage truck backing up. (It smells like it too)

Nosfer on S06E12: America's First Zoo

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:21:28 -0700

One big long commercial…See Post 8 above. Yes, it was "fetch", now if we could just get Kris and Amy to say "What the Fetch?", "That scared the Fetch out of me", "Did you Fetching hear that?", "Holy Fetch", and "Fetch" we'd be down to three bleeps a night. Why is the footage on the thermal paused before it falls when they have the split screen when Jason is testing the door? It's running, it pauses, it runs, it falls.

hyacinth on S06E12: America's First Zoo

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:05:26 -0700

Did anybody count how many times they said " The solitude house " ? sounded to me like they were getting in as many plugs as possible .

Wasn't Grants saying " What the fetch ?

blinddog on S06E12: America's First Zoo

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:40:51 -0700

Trust me. If Grant was confronted by an actual ghost…"What the frick" would not be what we hear. As I said, trust me.

Nosfer on S06E12: America's First Zoo

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:25:48 -0700

It's not the "did you see that" phrase in and of itself, it's that it is so very rarely ever backed up by any evidence whatsoever. Witness KJ's declaration of seeing something down the hall last week...something that would have blocked the light of the window at the end of the hall, yet we see nothing on camera...and the number of times this happens is enormous.

emarie on S06E12: America's First Zoo

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:14:41 -0700

I've asked this before on other sites but never have received an answer. I've seen the comments poking fun at how they (GH, GHI, etc) use the phrases "Did you hear that", "did you see that?" and "what was that"...ibut n all honestly...what ELSE are they supposed to say? If you were investigating with a another person and you heard something, wouldn't you ask the person you are with "did you hear that?" Or is there some scientific term they are supposed to be using? I understand being sceptical and questioning what is going on, but picking on them for something as commonly used as those phrases just seems rather childish. Yes it is amusing at first to hear "what the frick?" and yes it can get old but at least Grant isn't using langauge that has to be bleeped out. So that's another thing I can't understand why they are being critized for...using language that doesn't require sensoring!

Someone...anyone??

Learjet on S06E12: America's First Zoo

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:40:58 -0700

The other thing that comes to mind is dripping water from the tunnel falling on her head.

HollyDolly on Ghost Hunters guest 'investigators' - the dream team

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:44:36 -0700

How about the Undertaker and Kane as guest investigators?

Dead ones, Harry Price, Hans Holzer and Harry Houdini, all famous in their own right. Houdini would be a great debunker.Even if the three were alive today, doubt Jay and Grant would want those three on the show.

Nosfer on S06E12: America's First Zoo

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:31:24 -0700

The crawling entity is present even before the hair tug so it must not be the culprit. On review, her hair seems to 'stick' a bit as she ducks when she has the tug sensation...there is one section of hair that appears to come down later so perhaps it did get caught on something or we are seeing it 'grabbed'

Revenant on S06E12: America's First Zoo

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:18:14 -0700

I thought that the skeptics were the close-minded ones...

At the very beginning of the episode, they show J&G in the black ghost-mobile talking on the walkies. The dynamic duo want to know specifics about the zoo. Grant asks Kris "Are they seeing dead animals?" Kris really laughs and barely gets out "No, no dead animals." Why? Because animals becoming ghosts would just be silly. Ludicrous. Insane. That's just so out there that one has to laugh. Humans becoming ghosts? Yes! Of course! Why even question that?

Did anyone else see the irony in that?

One concept is laughable. The other concept...very serious.

Why are we the close-minded ones again?

Nosfer on S06E12: America's First Zoo

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:57:15 -0700

Kris is 'alone' in the tunnel and has the sensation of something catching her hair or whatever she called it. While she is describing this, take a look at her right (or our left) front....chest level...by the crook of her arm. Notice anything? Something big and crawling perhaps? I am going to suggest that it either fell into her hair or was crawling in her hair and that was what she felt...and then when she brushed her hair and was moving trying to figure out what it was, it fell or crawled down onto her front. Funny how they didn't notice that in review...or do they really review?

Stephen on S06E12: America's First Zoo

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:57:14 -0700

It's less interesting to me when it's not a private home, but at least then it's a victimless crime (except us). At least they're not misleading a fam-

MONKEYS!!

Oh, sorry.

blinddog on S06E12: America's First Zoo

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:25:35 -0700

Prehistoric caterpillars, as big as dinosaurs? That would make for one big f**king butterfly. Changing channels, my stupid limit has been filled for the evening.

blinddog on S06E12: America's First Zoo

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:14:46 -0700

experts!?...EXPERTS!?...EXPERTS!? Ten minutes into show and we already have "Did you hear that". One can only hope the monkeys are well prepared with abundant poo to critique GH.

Nosfer on S06E12: America's First Zoo

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:07:59 -0700

Coincidental timing or deeper, hidden, conspiracy...TAPS investigates --> House opens for tours?

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/20100815_Philadelphia_Zoo_s_Solitude_house_being_restored.html

For years, visitors at the Philadelphia Zoo have been walking right by the funny little house known as The Solitude. It's been locked up, easy to miss, especially when the boxwood hedges were six feet tall.

But no more. After decades of being used by the zoo for everything from a snake exhibit in the parlor to executive offices in the library, The Solitude is well on its way to inviting company over. Come September, after $500,000 in renovations that include substantial hedge-trimming, the house will be open for group tours.