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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Ghost Hunters International S02E18 Demons Of Nicaragua

Ok, yet another change to this weeks title sequence as everyones favourite Ghost Hunter Joe Chinn is back! Ashley & Brandy were both noticably absent from the opening credits. Scott & Susan also were credited and it was cool to see Susan doing the briefing for this case.

Coyotepe Fortress, Masaya Nicaragua
Robbs attempt at Spanish was funny, Susan was rocking the language skills big time though. Whatever Robb & Susan heard we never had a chance to hear due to the stupid incidental massive CLANG played at the exact time they alledgedly heard it. We've made this complaint before against ALL the Ghost Hunter franchises and it REALLY has to be addressed by either them or Pilgrim who make the show, either stop the stupid incidental music & noises completely or don't play them when evidence is reported as happening. Do this and you might actually earn both our trust & respect back. We know you do it to add tension but its just unnecessary.

I'm not exactly sure why Barry feels the need to whisper, its actually quite annoying. Considering audio is a massively important part of the investigation its quite an odd thing to be doing. Paul copying Barrys whispering is equally annoying but its a case of monkey see - monkey do I guess, if your going to do an EVP then speak up so we can HEAR you! I did hear the "footsteps" Joe heard, I didnt hear the "Hey" though. During the analysis I couldn't hear the "Yes" that Susan picked up either.

Yet again in the reveal Robb broke the "using personal experiences as evidence" rule, I know we harp on about this but Jay & Grant used to be really big on this being a massive no-no. Yet here is the leader of GHI doing it. We know Jay & Grant have also done it recently so whats brought about this massive change? You have to wonder, are they THAT desperate for ratings they'll report anything just to make it seem like stuff happened? The "Hey" sounds more like an exhale, Robbs EVP is non-existant - you can't hear ANYTHING. The Full Spectrum camera footage was interesting but inconclusive. As far as the laser image goes, they tried to make a lot more of it than was actually there, you can see a head & part of a shoulder visible but certainly NOT the whole torso their overlay graphic presents. If thats examined closely you will notice the "torso" is actually sticking out of a rather obviously open doorway and NOT the wall.

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What they'd like you to believe is there.

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Whats ACTUALLY there, shame about the doorway immediately to the left though.

Carcel XXI, Leon Nicaragua.
Again there was no Brandy or Ashley in this case so they were obviously off doing other stuff this particular week of filming, and to reiterate there was no Karl Pfeiffer so it pretty much does confirm the reports that he only took part in 1 investigation only by the looks of it. I'm not exactly sure what Paul reacted to at the start, all I heard was the insect chirping noise. The 3rd noise (the one Scott noted) I actually did hear. I found it odd that Barry felt the need to use a noisy fan to blot out the barely audio music coming over the wall, isn't that what a directional mic (which we've seen GHI use before) for? Way to ruin your own data though Barry. Robbs EMF hits by the fountain have to be discounted as he was waving that meter around pretty quickly.

As far as analysis & reveal went I totally couldn't hear anything responding to Barrys "Do you understand" EVP - it was also rather obvious this reveal had all been done in 1 take as the client totally failed to hear that EVP correctly as GHI had intended him to and he had to be told it said Si and not Shh like he thought. The Full Spectrum "Light Source" video that Barry plays is totally inconclusive without knowing more about the camera, how it works and what mode it was shooting in. The actual object seems to move in far too linear a path, possibly a bird or bat?

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