It’s been a while since I’ve written about Ghost Hunters.   Watching the Weston State Hospital episode tonight there was alot of excitement on part of the Ghost hunters team, but when it came down to evidence just a handful of audio clips.  (note these are audio clips because almost all were heard while they were recording, in other words it’s not electronic voice phenomenon).

Evidence Review

•      1  non-EVP audio clip (laughing) Class C
•      1  non-EVP audio clip (strange noise “go home?”) Class C
•      1  non-EVP audio clip (strange noise, snap.. ) Class D
•      1  non-EVP audio clip (strange noise) Class D
•      1 unknown (door sound)
•      1 unknown breath sound

Apart from the female laughing audio-clip there wasn’t much more than witness accounts. However Ghost hunters tend to believe that the place has intelligent haunting and is haunted.  Quantitatively and   qualitatively  I would have to disagree.    They have a decent amount of audio clips and witness accounts but in the end that is all they have, and in the past that isn’t always enough to deem a place “haunted”.

Personally I’ve been in active (with patients) and inactive (without patients, abandoned) Asylums and over all they are creepy places.  This one in particular is over 500,000 sq/ft.  That is one huge place, if there was a human in there it would be hard to find with only 8 people, let alone paranormal phenomena.  You also add in the fact that you are complete in darkness.   Seems to me the odds were stocked against the ghost hunter’s team to find anything.

Instead they came out with a cornucopia of crappy evidence, certainly suspect.   I would love to believe that they are finding evidence and proof but there is nothing in this episode that would allow me to believe any evidence they retrieved, even if I looked past the Rotor Rooter commercial in the beginning of every show.

People all I ask is take a second look at these shows and their motives.   If you can put in your mind a reason that doesn’t involve money and show me that there hasn’t been tampering or prove that fact then I might be able to restore faith, until then I’m skeptical.

 Notes from the show

Weston State hospital a former psychiatric hospital in west virgina is probed concerning claims made by voluteeers who are restoring the facility

Show’s The Router Rooter

Joe Chin  Investigator  In-training

over 1/2 million square feet

26000 patients  100 labodimes a week

Civil war section   “two lunatics scare people off”

“was like beating me” with her smiling, and two other witness.

children stay here with the parent? children giggling?

Old lady “I don’t want to hurt you??”

Amateurs all together, horrible investigation practice.   Hearing things talking over each other etc

Reverse Psychology

Steve, take your off hat off first

Laughing female, tango and steve

kristian  wigs out

Steve to Tango “that’s alot of fucking noise”

jason and grant crouched down and rocketed off

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