“Ghost Hunters”
Channel: SciFi (I refuse to call it SyFy) Check your local listings
Time/Day: 9pm Wednesday
The new season of “Ghost Hunters” came back to the SciFi channel last Wednesday. If you don’t know what “Ghost Hunters” is then you need to get on it quickly. Each episode is full of suspense and just the right amount of creepiness to keep you watching. Usually you will see two cases in the hour long episodes. You are taken through the investigation, the going through of the evidence, and the reveal to the owners of the property they just investigated by the TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society) team. There is typically a team of five or six, always led by the founders of TAPS, Jay & Grant. Regular investigators are Steve, Dave, and Kris. The show keeps you on the edge of your seat.
The first investigation on this episode finds the team at the Samuel Mudd House in Waldorf, MD. This place is famous for having John Wilkes Booth stay there after having just assassinated President Lincoln. There have been all types of reports ranging from seeing figures around a fire to a rocking chair rocking on its own. The team goes through the investigation checking out all of the “hot spots” with their equipment. Their tools usually consist of a thermal imagining camera, hand held cameras, K2 meter, digital voice recorders and the list goes on. As Jay and Grant go through one of the rooms Grant has an experience where he feels something hit his hand. They both also feel static charge through the air in certain areas of the room. Grant and Jay are then outside heading towards another “hot spot” when they have the human figure pass in front of their thermal imagining camera when nothing or no one was in front of them. The rest of the team goes through the house but none of them get anything. After Steve and Dave go through the evidence Jay and Grant present the evidence they have found. Of course they show the owner of the home the footage of the figure passing in front of them. They also have an audio recording of a voice saying, “I am not guilty.” They have determined that there is some sort of haunting occurring there.
In the second investigation of the night the teams heads to Edgewood Plantation in Charles City, VA. This house use to be a signal post for the Confederacy. After hearing the claims of paranormal activity and getting a tour of the facilities the team sets up for a night of investigating. Unfortunately for the team and the readers is that nothing was really found. There was only one instance when the K2 meter goes off uncontrollably. Some say that when the meter goes off it is reacting to the electromagnetic waves from the ghost. When Kris went out to research the land she found that there was documentation to support a person staying in that area with the same name as a ghost that was reportedly speaking to an individual at Edgewood Plantation. So it’s safe to say the team did not determine the plantation was haunted.
I personally can’t get enough of this show. It is interesting to watch the team go in and try to debunk all of the claims of paranormal activity. When the find something though you are freaking out because it’s so real. This show makes you look at the shadows on your wall a little differently and listen harder to the sounds around your house. While I normally am on the edge of my seat I have to admit that the second half of this episode left me wanting more. I know that not every place they go to will be haunted but the plantation just wasn’t that interesting especially in comparison to the Mudd house. I will be watching next week though in hopes of catching a glimpse of a ghost.
So I am giving this episode four frames. I give the series five frames, but this episode was disappointing.
Check out this video clip
Also check out the website for TAPS: http://www.the-atlantic-paranormal-society.com/
Head on over to the forum at j1studios.com to discuss the show, ghosts, whatever makes you happy. A healthy debate about the existence of ghosts should be fun.
Until next time kids, this has been Hava.
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