Ghosthunters Academy - S01E03 - Back to Basics

Eastern State Penitentiary, Pennsylvania.

A new team member Jane is introduced which is completely unfair on everyone else, this girl has been given no training on equipment, set-up, tagging or anything. Why introduce a new person in week 3, its pointless. Basically shes eye candy. The students are told they have to train Jane & get her up to their level.

So let me get this straight, students with just 2 weeks of training are expected to teach a complete novice? Have Steve & Tango got that lazy already, or just completely lost interest? And as I said last week Steve & Tango confirm someone is going home this week, they show Heathyr looking worried & quite rightly too as she's the #1 candidate.

Breaking with tradition Heathyr went on the tour, Steve pulls Jane up for not taking notes. Steve rags on Brian Harnois for having run out during his investigation (who WAS with him when he did that?) & they even try to embarrass him further by showing the clip too. Steve, like YOU are SO perfect? If we showed all the clips of you screwing around it'd fill a whole freaking show!

Ben takes control in set-up & everything seems to be going fine until all the cameras drop out & Chris reports there isn't enough cable so Steve gets on his case straight away. Steve pulls the plug without even giving them the chance to fix things & makes them pack up so no investigation gets done on night 1.

Night 2 - Steve takes charge (so yet again he shows he hasn't taught them well enough to set up on their own yet), its a poor reflection on his abilities as a teacher, not their abilities as students.

Chris & Susan in Cell Block 14, Chris hears a footstep but I think it was one of them. Chris mentions something called Active Rewind, yet another technique we never heard of before. Chris finds "fog" (and totally fails to spot the bowl probably full of dry ice set up almost certainly by Steve & Tango to test them - this is revealed to be correct less than a minute later), I debunked it in under a second so even in this show Steve & Tango are STILL pulling pranks but trying to pass it off as "tuition".

Susan & Karl (she calls him Chris, he gets annoyed at that mistake) on Death Row, they end up having to reposition a camera that newbie Jane had placed. Susan tags a train horn.

Newbie Jane & Ben in the Guard Tower, Ben mentions tagging background noises then we get a huge lecture on it from Steve. Jane shows poor EVP technique by not leaving long enough gaps for answers to her questions. They respond to yelling that they can't find the source of. What Ben was doing with Jane is called Mirroring, its a psychological thing you do when you want to show support for someone. I guess Steve isn't any good at using wiki [ look HERE Steve!:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_(psychology) ].

Heathyr & Chris in Cell Block 12, Chris gets a slight EMF spike off an electrical box even though its not working. During an EVP they hear what sounds like a voice & movement. Steve & Tango rag on Chris for wanting to investigate somewhere new with Heathyr when they knew about activity elsewhere. They also really violently rag on Heathyr for the same reason & manage to REALLY upset her.

Whats so wrong about looking for activity in new places Steve? You knew level 2 had stuff happen there so why not let them see if level 3 did too?

Ben & Karl in the Medical Ward, they react to a sound I never heard but they think was something falling off the ceiling.

After the equipment breakdown Steve rags on Jane for the camera in Death Row, what does he expect from someone with NO training? Little wonder she cried & walked off as he was berating her, she did come back after a brief moment to recover.

Evidence presentation - Ben presents an audio clip of Chris & Susan in Cell Block 14, I can't hear it but they say it was a moan.

Chris presents audio of him & Susan in Cell Block 14, I can't hear anything there either & Steve says its not paranormal.

Tango demonstrates how sounds travel, dance monkey, dance!

Steve narrows it down to Jane & Heathyr for who is getting sent home. He rags on Jane for not knowing how to use a thermal camera (something the rest of the students only learned LAST WEEK!). Steve marks Heathyr down on her mediumship & Heathyr gets booted off the show. No shock there at all as she was my #1 pick from the 1st show.