Ghosthunters - Alcatraz Live Event

Shouting loud fat idiot Josh Gates is our Host! As its the start of the new season as well as the 100th show I thought I'd review this. I assume the audience were well screened in advanced as they were VERY friendly (too friendly in fact) and I also assume the questions sent in were very heavily screened too. The show was less than 5 minutes old before they took their 1st pot shot at Brian Harnois. Extremely unprofessional and also getting very old. Get over it GH crew, he moved on - why can't you?

Tonight our team members are (in the order they came out in) Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, Dustin Pari, Barry Fitzgerald, Kris Williams, Amy Bruni, Britt Griffith, Dave Tango & Steve Gonsalves. Later in the evening Rob Demarest joined them to plug the new season on GHI. Even later into the show they are joined by GHA graduates Susan Slaughter & Karl Pfeiffer, Josh confirms there will be a new season of GHA airing from June 2nd. Steve says someone will get eliminated every week with Jason joining them for that & the winner will get to join a TAPS show for 6 whole episodes so no guarenteed job this time just 1 season.

Alcatraz, San Francisco, CA - Tuesday (pre-recorded)
TAPS experienced the exact same issues as the Ghost Lab crew in that they had to transport all equipment over to the island by boat as cars couldnt be ferried over. So SyFy are too cheap to pop for a helicopter then? What the guide told them pretty much tallies with what the Ghost Lab guys were told.

Jay & Grant in the Citadel/Dungeon - Jay claims he hears footsteps (impossible to tell due to the incidental soundtrack they insist on having) though you hear movement the 2nd time they mention it, the "No" they claimed to hear cant be backed up for the same reason, stupid backing sounds.

Steve & Tango in the hospital ward - They offer a feather as a trigger object to interact with Robert Stroud, during an EVP the EMF gets some weird readings. They hear a bang off in the distance which they were able to replicate as a door not far away. They also pick on a smell of soap which they didnt get before.

Kris, Amy & Dustin in the Citadel/Dungeon - They hear something which they also hear on playback.

Barry & Britt in Cell Block D - Britt thinks he sees something moving, Barry also spots movement in a similar area.

Amy & Kris in the hospital ward - They test some new equipment in Strouds hospital cell.

Steve & Tango in Robert Strouds Cell #42 (Block D) - They test some new equipment, Tango tries a reenactment which triggers a spike on their equipment.

Kris, Amy & Barry in Broadway 2nd floor Cell Block B - Kris stops because she thought she saw a dark mass in front of her.

Jay & Grant in the Citadel again - They ask for a knock (which Grant acknowledges) but you totally dont hear due to the incidental music, Jason says he can hear footsteps but again its the same issue with the backing noises. Finally they kill the backing track & ramp the mic audio RIGHT up (hence the loud hiss) and you can JUST about make out footsteps.

Barry & Dustin in the hospital ward - Barry sets a trigger object to be knocked over, they also both try provoking but nothing happens.

Steve & Tango goofing around somewhere in the prison - Why are they encouraging them to do this stuff? Brian Harnois was fired for stuff like this yet here on a live show Syfy are happily showing Laurel & Hardy goofing off yet again with no consequences.

Jay & Grant in Cell Block D Solitary Cells #12 & #14 - They debunk smells causing nausea as coming from the sewer lines, Jason thinks he sees someone walking & Grant hears something that Jason says sounded like walking. He also films something wierd in the sewer area.

Steve & Tango in the Citadel - Quite a lot of swearing had to be bleeped out as Tango tripped over something on the floor & both of them remarked about holes in the floor. They also goof off again and Tango loses money betting on fictional items, Idiot.

Analysis, Thursday morning - Bizarrely its just Steve & Tango working when Barry & Dustin are available as well? Tango debunks Grants film in the sewer area as lens flare, the light Barry saw in Cell Block D gets thrown out due to doubt.

The Reveal, Friday afternoon - They explain the smells causing nausea as coming from the sewer lines debunk, they playback an awful over amplified "footsteps" noise from the Citadel which quite frankly could be anything at that volume. They also do playback of the voice Dustin caught in the CItadel as well as the "No" Jay & Grant heard at the start of the night also in the Citadel. They playback a pretty clear EVP where you can hear "Its Harry Brunette, 374" who they managed to link to a real prisoner.

I am wondering if they knew about the failure of Ghost Labs "Tony Anniche" and deliberately set this one up in advice so as to look better than the Ghost Lab crew?

The whole intercut Q&A session with the audience was a bit haphazard as we were getting sound from other mics somewhere else which was very annoying and downright amateur to be honest. We also got to see what Craig Pilligian looks like too.