Paranormal State The New Class S01E01

Before I get going on cutting this show into the awful pile it is its worth mentioning a few things.

The original "parent" show Paranormal State started out with students from Pennsylvania State University who were members of its Paranormal Research Society commonly referred to in the show as PRS.
You do have to wonder how terrible as students Ryan & his team were if they were STILL students after 5 years.

A&E have clearly decided Ryan & his team clearly aren't hitting their age demographic any more which is why I assume they have recruited a new team who are obviously a very mixed age group Apparently this team are all members of the Hoosier State Paranormal Research Team but the intro shows that some of them are also EMT's in Indiana.

The intro states John Tenney is an "experienced paranormal investigator" but I cant say as I have ever heard his name mentioned on any of the US paranormal shows I have ever seen and I have seen most of them.

Oddly enough even though the families children had been scratched by the entity they were sent to investigate they still started the investigation with all the kids in the house with them. Tenney makes a LOT of assumptions with no proof or actual facts, he also leads the group with his idea on what an EVP they caught said. You could hear nothing, they thought it said "Danielle" but Tenney got them thinking it said "Damn you".

Taking a leaf out of the Ghost Adventures tech book this group used what they called a Ghost Box, again this was done with all the family & kids present so its pretty clear this show is going for the person to person connection. Unlike Paranormal State theres no religious angle, no priests, no psychics or mediums - just plain investigating.

It'll be interesting to see exactly how this show develops over time and if its creation spells the end for PRS.

Doodle Devil devil Walk through

The following combos will complete the game 100/100 items, 11/11 groups. They are presented in order so you shouldnt get stuck unable to make anything. Stuff can be made in different ways but all these definately worked.

man+woman=life & sex,
light+life=Angel,
human+angel=prayer,
human+prayer=heavens & religion,
human+fire=corpse & suffering,
sin+corpse=murder,
sin+religion=heresy,
heresy+human=psychology & atheism,
beast+darkness=demon,
demon+man=soul & corpse,
human+human= friendship,
fire+water=steam,
fire+air=energy,
beast+human = werewolf,
demon+water= cthulhu,
Sin+Sin=Pride,
Human+Pride=Politician,
politician+pride=war,
earth+fire=lava,
demon+order=copyright,
apple+earth=seeds,
seeds+earth=tree,mushroom & grass,
corpse+life=zombie,
copyright+knowledge=money,
money+sin=greed & theft,
human+money=work,
Sin+Work=Sloth,
Sin+Greed=Envy,
Sin+Money=Theft,
Human+Greed=Gambling,
grass+fire=tobacco,
tobacco+human=diseases,
beast+water= fish,
cthulu+fire=wrath,
heresy+religion=sect,
tree+human=food,
sin+food=gluttony,
lava+water=steam & stone,
fire+stone=metal,
human+metal=weapon,
human+weapon=blood,
blood+human=vampire,
earth+knowledge=Oil,
human+stone=house,
demon+energy=magic,
magic+stone=egg,
magic+egg=dragon,
Sin+Weapon=Wrath,
woman+magic=witch,
man+magic=worm,
worm+egg=snake,
snake+beast=hydra,
dragon+hydra=sex,
money+sex=censored,
man+life=death,
Metal+Energy=Electricity,
electricity+air=radio wave,
Fire+Death=inferno,
Air+inferno=sulfur,
water+sulfur=acid,
acid+oil=TNT,
TNT+Metal=Bomb,
bomb+mushroom=Nuclear bomb,
beast+fire=ash
Metal+Work=Mechanism,
Mechanism+Demon=tv,
TV+Book=computer,
Computer+Computer= Internet,
mechanism+computer=robot,
Computer+Life=A.I.,
AI+Robot=Cyborg,
Oil+Mechanism=car,
radio wave+computer= cellphone,
Copyright+Human=lawyer,
beast plus disease=rat
seeds+energy=coffee,
Tobacco+Coffee=Poison,
rat+air=dove,
corpse+electricity=frankenstein

Ghost Hunters S06E23 Sloss Furnace

Please note this was NOT a review, the following was written in response to a review someone posted on the GH SyFy forum.

I must admit their reasoning is VERY questionable, all the bangs and taps were instantly assumed to be responses & therefore paranormal. Nothing to do with the fact its an old abandoned mostly open air Steel Works at night time (when metal would be cooling & contracting) and it was VERY windy so anything loose would bang and rattle.

As for K2 "conversations" being manipulated didn't I bust that a while back when I caught them shining the laser thermometer or flashlight at it to trigger it? No-one ever did confirm or deny if aiming that style of thermometer at a K2 sensor will cause the same effect as their "paranormal conversation". I note Amy is still trying to use the "flashlight method" as proof of the paranormal long after we have debunked it. Whats even worse is one of them "turned on" but it happened off camera when Amy was knelt right next to it. Nothing remotely suspicious there, is it?

And the usual complaint of bangs happening (in the tunnels) but none of the at least 3 cameras were pointing at it) Score yet ANOTHER point for helmetcams then. Even more annoying when Amy "sees something" and all we get when the slow Pilgrim dude pans round is retina burn off the IR illuminator from the bottom of the tunnel. And this children is why you DO NOT investigate in the dark. Most of the "evidence" presented was weak at best, it would have gotten you bawled out as a GHA cadet for even suggesting most of it had merit.

The shadow figure is just matrixing and the overlay they put on it is nothing like what that single still frame was as that looked like someone standing, its most likely the shadow of whoever was shooting that. I laughed that it was described as "great evidence". Jason "please dont cancel my show" Hawes, he needs money to keep his guesthouse running I guess.

Ghost Lab S02E04 Afterlife Sentence

I wasnt going to write a full review but I noted down a few things as I watched.

As far as the stuff at the prison goes, the EVPs were so quiet and too iffy. The young guy who recorded the banging, could have been anything and anyone so it has to be thrown out.

The investigation at the residence, both the "shadow men" were really easily debunkable.
The one on Brad cam was caused by him shining his torch around his vest, really easy to fake and even easier to explain.
The one the camera guy caught in the window I'd debunk any number of ways but a crane camera outside seems to be the most likely and logical reason for that shadow moving the way it moved where it was.

The fact it even pans up trying to move out of the camera guys shot makes me think crane camera even more.

Despite the heavy EMF source that they explained they insisted everything inside was paranormal.
So nothing to do with EMF hypersensitivity then? Its jumping to conclusions like that that stopped me writing full reviews.

XP file names change from black to blue?

It'll be because you did a disk cleanup and enabled disk compression. Those blue files are now compressed.

Shame Microsoft didnt think it was important to let you know that small pertinant fact. I thought it was a virus!

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Ghost Hunters Halloween special 2010 reviewed

Buffalo Central Terminal - Buffalo, New York.

Tonights host is Josh Gates from Destination Truth & his co-host is Allison Scagliotti from Warehouse 13. "And for the 5th straight Halloween welcome to Ghost Hunters Live", well Josh you've been on air 15 seconds and you've already lied to us. Nice going! I guess TAPS have been reading my reviews (and my complaints) & have more than 2 people per van. Only 2 vans though, their very new and look extremely expensive.

Van 1 is carrying Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, Amy Bruni & Barry Fitzgerald from GHI.
Van 2 is carrying Steve Gonsalves, Dave Tango, Kris Williams & Adam Berry (winner of GHA Season 2)

Hotspot walkthru, Steve gets to shake hands for a change. I dont recall the main TAPS team investigating here but the GHA cadets investigated on show 4 of Season 1 and found nothing at all.

Josh meets the special guests who are:-
Ben Hansen from Fact Or Faked (the former FBI agent)
Meaghan Rath from Being Human (a US remake of the BBC3 show)
Kofi Kingston from WWE Smackdown

Allison in the Interactive Centre.
Josh in Central Command for the camera walkthru, Jason officially announces Kris Williams will be joining GHI.

Jason & Grant in Tony Fedele's Apartment - Grant thinks he hears footsteps, Jason tags wind noise, Grant gets a thermal hit which is debunked as reflective wallpaper.

Barry, Kris & Ben on the 3rd Floor - Claims of seeing stuff during setup & in Fedele's Apartment also. Someone needs to tell Ben we dont require a running commentary. Cut back to J&G who ask for a noise & get one, too convenient. Grant is scared by a window. Grant think he saw movement at the end of the corridor, the "human" shape I thought I could see turned out to be a doorway (I think its about time some one invented a thermal camera with a zoom lens on it). We can hear a VERY loud generator, that'll be contaminating audio for the whole investigation then.

Steve, Tango & Kofi in the Trolley Lobby - Crunching through a LOT of debris, you'd think someone could have taken 5 minutes to run a broom through the areas where they thought they were going to be walking. It doesnt take a genius to figure out thats a good idea especially with the amount of glass it sounded like they were walking through underfoot. Steve shows he has zero clue about his or anyone elses personal safety by trying to access a clearly unsafe area. Steve thinks he hears a voice, they try to debunk it as an echo. Its not an echo. Kofi plugs Smackdown. Steve makes his 1st stupid bet to encourage Tango to do something dangerous. And these are the 2 guys charged with training future TAPS members?

Allison in the Interactive Centre with Amy, Jason & Grant - J&G tell us how stupid they are by continuing to investigate in the dark (demonstrating none of them have the common sense most folks are born with), Amy is on the live web chat.

Barry, Kris & Ben on the 1st Floor - Who not only have no clue we came back to them they have no clue we even left them in the 1st place. Please note Barrys graphic identified him as "GHI Lead Investigator" so I guess we now know who got promoted after Britt Griffiths got fired. Bens sticking with the running commentary, you'd think Barry would have told him better. The sound Barry can hear is the very loud generator I mentioned earlier, Kris cant understand Barrys Irish accent which doesnt bode well for their future investigations together.

Jason, Grant & Meaghan in the Main Concourse - They tried to use the K2 to have a conversation, nothing happened. Meaghan freaks out getting a K2 hit. Cut back to Barry, Kris & Ben doing something with a laser. Ben sees a light behind the camera, not very useful. Score another point for helmetcam. Lots of audio contamination from outside, I'm pretty sure that was Josh shouting for quiet.

Tango doing playback of audio evidence in one of the expensive vans then back to Allison with Amy in the Interactive Centre.

Barry, Kris & Ben on the 1st Floor - Barry asks for noises, anything would be drowned out by the stupid spooky incidental music. Again Barry asks for a noise but gets one this time.

Steve & Tango on the 3rd Floor - And we're also getting the audio from the previous location bleeding through, I guess Kofi got sent back to the showers.

Josh interviews Adam Berry winner of GHA season 2, clip of an upcoming episode with him in it from Sloss Furnace & we're told Meatloaf will be in it as well.

Jason, Grant & Meaghan in the Main Concourse - And their checking out the Ticket Booth & have the laser grid set up, Jason thinks he hears a scuffing noise like footsteps. Meaghan definately wins the 5th Wheel award as well the winner of the World Boredest Person expression.

I got about 14 mins into part 2 and lost the will to live. Here endeth the review. If anything happened after this I really dont care.
Kinda makes me wish I hadn't bothered.

I guess at least we got confirmation of Kris joining GHI and Barry becoming GHI leader anyway.