The Ghost Shows

[$heriff Tom]

Anyone watch this stuff?

I have a passing interest, although the actual "ghost hunting" part is my least favorite. I like the backstories, and the creepy footage best. Last night I was watching Ghost Stories or something on the DVR, a Travel Channel show. They were out at Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama. Lots of creepy history there, including guys falling into furnaces and being grinded by gear machines. Even a tale of.....MURDER!

I have two 8 hour videotapes each containing recent "all-night live ghost-hunts" - one from Gettysburg, and one from some Civil War prison taped this Halloween. I have a passing interest in ghosts and tales around them.

Ghost Hunters are out to debunk everything, Im cool with that, and find it fun when they are like, "well, got no explanation for that one." A recent goodie was one in a lighthouse with all kinds of unexplained crap going on. But the last one I saw nothing was there that could not be explained, they even called the visit a waste of time.

So in the end I think I am more a fan of the settings and the atmosphere, than the actual pointing a thermal thing looking for apparitions, or playing back unexplained sounds on a doohickey. But I am really getting into these ghost shows.

[MSBNYY]

I like Ghost Whisperer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. Scha-wing.

[Chris]

I can't take that stuff - ghost shows and whatnot.

I don't believe in ghosts...not so much because I'm one of these scientific types who doubts the possibility of it.....a belief in ghosts definitely requires some sense of spirituality, which I certainly have.

It's just that any time someone reports a ghost, the source is always sketchy, the proof is always scant.....and what really gets me about these shows is when they attempt to present some earth-shattering piece of evidence, it's anything but....usually leaves me sitting there thinking, "huh?"

[King98er]

I love Ghost Hunters on SciFi

[cactusjames]

I'm a fan of ghost hunters as well. I'm not spiritual in any way yet I believe in ghosts due to personal experiences. I believe in the essence of someone lingering around in places from their life. So I like the scientific approach to debunking everything, some of the EVP stuff and thermal imaging is fucking creepy.

I too also like the history behind the places, hearing the stories and history of places is usually my favorite part.