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Post by hi224 on Apr 2, 2018 15:53:31 GMT
Winchester house was a possibility.
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Post by clusium on Apr 2, 2018 16:18:11 GMT
Winchester house was a possibility. I visited there more than 30 years ago. Really interesting place, alright. |
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Post by politicidal on Apr 6, 2018 22:52:08 GMT
112 Ocean Avenue.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 3:55:10 GMT
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Post by deembastille on Apr 7, 2018 4:24:53 GMT
many, many places in nyc. srsly,
merchant museum -- they lied to the TAPS guys on GHOSTHUNTERS. they totally tell people they are haunted.
mark twain's house in greenwich village. the actual portal.
the da freaking coda.
about 6 or so hotels.
myrtles plantation.
rms queen mary.
like three of the dormitory buildings at my college. [we had 4 total]
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Post by MCDemuth on Apr 8, 2018 3:44:43 GMT
many, many places in nyc. srsly, merchant museum -- they lied to the TAPS guys on GHOSTHUNTERS. they totally tell people they are haunted. mark twain's house in greenwich village. the actual portal. the da freaking coda. about 6 or so hotels. myrtles plantation. rms queen mary. like three of the dormitory buildings at my college. [we had 4 total] I know that some people think that TAPS faked evidence... I don't know if they did or not... But most of the places they investigated, WERE reportedly Haunted Locations BEFORE TAPS ever went there... So I am certain, that at least some of the evidence they presented on the show, was "Genuine", as in, "not faked by TAPS." TAPS thought it was real... Now I can't say for certain if the Location Owners were honest or not... The Myrtles Plantation. & the RMS Queen Mary... Were in fact two places that TAPS investigated that did have real histories of being haunted. After having watched the RMS Queen Mary segment on "Unsolved Mysteries" and being creeped out by it... Which it still does creep me out when I watch... I was extremely disappointed when the TAPS crew had found out that their equipment had be tampered with, which showed a bed being unmade... I have no idea why, anyone would do that... That audio tape that recorded those sounds in the bow of the ship, that was done on "Unsolved Mysteries", does seem to prove that there is something real going on there... Trying to prove the paranormal to skeptics is already so difficult... So why fake stuff later on, and give the skeptics more reasons to disbelieve, and dismiss genuine evidence? DUMB! Sadly, I do believe the tour hosts of the RMS Queen Mary that brought the case to TAPS, were innocent of this evidence faking, and really were just as shocked and mad as the TAPS team was. Anyway... Yes... The Myrtles Plantation. & the RMS Queen Mary... are two places that I would not want to spend the night at. |
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Post by deembastille on Apr 8, 2018 3:55:28 GMT
i know. the taps folks asked the merchant museum people if they broadcast the hauntings to the patrons and they said no. in fact, they totally do. i visited the museum way before they investigated and they had it written down where the hauntings were and who they thought it was and why.
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Post by MCDemuth on Apr 8, 2018 4:45:59 GMT
i know. the taps folks asked the merchant museum people if they broadcast the hauntings to the patrons and they said no. in fact, they totally do. i visited the museum way before they investigated and they had it written down where the hauntings were and who they thought it was and why. Another investigation that TAPS did, that irked me, was the one about the (Moss Beach Distillery?) haunted by the Blue Lady. Another one I first learned about on "Unsolved Mysteries"... For some odd reason, the Pub owner eventually decided to have all of these "gimmicks" set up around the Haunted Pub to enhance the ghostly atmosphere for the patrons... Personally, I think that is bad idea, but not my call...But, when TAPS was brought in, the staff didn't tell TAPS about the "gimmicks"... and so, we see Jay and Grant finding all these hidden things, everywhere... They were mad, and I would be too... When they confronted the employee, and he said, "Yeah, I forgot to tell you."... I just couldn't believe it... How could you forget, all that?... That just destroys all credibility for the investigators presenting anything as genuine, because the investigators just can't be sure if it's being faked or if it is a "gimmick". |
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 9, 2018 19:46:32 GMT
Apropos of MCDemuth’s post, it would nice to have a Ghost Hunters thread; anyone interested in creating one, either here or in a TV section? I liked the show in its early days, and in fact the Blue Lady one was one of my favorite episodes—it showed that the TAPS team was interested in following the truth wherever it led, whether debunking or being unable to debunk a claim. Towards the end, especially after Grant left, the show became much weaker and more soap opera-esque, and I wouldn’t really be surprised if they started faking stuff for material. But at the beginning it was one of the few [if not the only?] semi-serious paranormal shows on TV—far more so than, say, the execrable Ghost Adventures. |
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Post by deembastille on Apr 9, 2018 20:23:14 GMT
Apropos of MCDemuth ’s post, it would nice to have a Ghost Hunters thread; anyone interested in creating one, either here or in a TV section? I liked the show in its early days, and in fact the Blue Lady one was one of my favorite episodes—it showed that the TAPS team was interested in following the truth wherever it led, whether debunking or being unable to debunk a claim. Towards the end, especially after Grant left, the show became much weaker and more soap opera-esque, and I wouldn’t really be surprised if they started faking stuff for material. But at the beginning it was one of the few [if not the only?] semi-serious paranormal shows on TV—far more so than, say, the execrable Ghost Adventures. I can't stand Zak or however the hell you spell his name he sPEaks sO annOYINGly! And the queen show of faking and drama was...MOST HAUNTED. (British) Derek Akora was notorious for faking and they finally caught him in the act in camera. Funny thing... I thought he was faking for a long while. His possessions we're either a scared boy or old man or an angry and violent middle aged or old man. No women or girls. I loved GH. This show started out with PLENTY of drama! Anyone remember Brian? He would start stuff (like confronting co-workers) on camera and the cameras would continue to roll. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 9, 2018 20:36:02 GMT
deembastille Zak’s the guy from Ghost Adventures? Very annoying indeed, though the whole thing is hilariously phony. If I had to choose a single target of opprobrium, however, it would be the big bald guy who screams like a little girl every time something mildly spooky happens. My little Italian grandmother would deal with scares better (she’d probably slap the ghost with her pocketbook anyway). I don’t think I’ve ever seen Most Haunted, but I’m not surprised. I think the large majority of TV ghost shows are utterly silly—which, I should note, says nothing about my belief or disbelief in ghosts (I’m rather agnostic on the question). If I’m inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to Ghost Hunters, it’s because, at the beginning, it was infrequently that they’d claim, “Yup, it’s a ghost.” They were far more honest and politic about it: “we found X, we can’t explain it, we’re just not sure what it is.” I appreciate that; it’s a kind of intellectual honesty. Did they give that all up and start faking stuff later? Possibly. Did they do it from the beginning? Well, if so, all I can say is that they were far better at it than Ghost Adventures or the million other ghost shows. I don’t remember Brian off-hand (though I may recognize him if I saw a picture), but I stand by my claim that they started off more or less seriously and later turned into soap-operatics. The oodles of material devoted to GH’s own Abbott and Costello, Steve and Tango (they even sound like a comedy duo!), were especially groan-inducing.
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Post by deembastille on Apr 9, 2018 21:02:28 GMT
Most haunted is Def off the air. It has been for some time. It was a BBC show that WLIW PBS had at ten pm on Fridays.
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Post by QueenB on Apr 9, 2018 22:17:47 GMT
My hometown. Lived only a few blocks away when I was growing up during the time of the murders. |
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Post by politicidal on Apr 9, 2018 22:38:51 GMT
My hometown. Lived only a few blocks away when I was growing up during the time of the murders. People there just take it as local history or do they even attempt to go inside or anything like that? |
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 9, 2018 22:48:39 GMT
My hometown. Lived only a few blocks away when I was growing up during the time of the murders. People there just take it as local history or do they even attempt to go inside or anything like that? Obviously I can’t speak for QueenB, but… I didn’t grow up in Amityville, but I did grow up not too far away; and, at least around me, the murders were just considered local history and the ghost story was considered ridiculous made-up BS. This is a typical, if used untypically, folkloristic friend-of-a-friend (FOAF) account, but someone with whom I went to school knew the owners after the Lutzes, and they said everything was perfectly normal. |
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Post by QueenB on Apr 9, 2018 22:56:19 GMT
My hometown. Lived only a few blocks away when I was growing up during the time of the murders. People there just take it as local history or do they even attempt to go inside or anything like that? I was about a year old when the murders happened and by the time the books/movies came out, I was in elementary school. My school bus route had to pass it as there were stops along that block - my friend lived a couple of houses down from that house. There was so much traffic from tourists that we were always the last bus to get to school and late a lot of the times so much so that the school and parents called the police and they had to have a cop there making sure people were not stopping and holding up traffic. It is not even on a busy street. I've known kids to go in on a dare when there was no one was living there at the time. The closest I ever got was just riding my bike up to the side door entrance and looked inside. It's gotten better over time as far as not as many tourists but every time a new movie comes out, it gets a little busier than normal but not as bad as when I was a kid. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2018 0:27:45 GMT
I once spent a night at a monastery in Norway called Utstein Abbey I found that a bit creepy. There is suppose to be a ghost at Utstein Abbey a woman called Cecilie Garmann who died in 1759 she is also called The Woman in White. The monastery is pretty isolated |
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Post by hardball on Apr 10, 2018 1:41:56 GMT
Apropos of MCDemuth ’s post, it would nice to have a Ghost Hunters thread; anyone interested in creating one, either here or in a TV section? I liked the show in its early days, and in fact the Blue Lady one was one of my favorite episodes—it showed that the TAPS team was interested in following the truth wherever it led, whether debunking or being unable to debunk a claim. Towards the end, especially after Grant left, the show became much weaker and more soap opera-esque, and I wouldn’t really be surprised if they started faking stuff for material. But at the beginning it was one of the few [if not the only?] semi-serious paranormal shows on TV—far more so than, say, the execrable Ghost Adventures. I can't stand Zak or however the hell you spell his name he sPEaks sO annOYINGly! And the queen show of faking and drama was...MOST HAUNTED. (British) Derek Akora was notorious for faking and they finally caught him in the act in camera. Funny thing... I thought he was faking for a long while. His possessions we're either a scared boy or old man or an angry and violent middle aged or old man. No women or girls. I loved GH. This show started out with PLENTY of drama! Anyone remember Brian? He would start stuff (like confronting co-workers) on camera and the cameras would continue to roll. I haven't seen Ghost Hunters, only Ghost Adventures, the Dead Files and Paranormal Lockdown.
Zak talks tough, calling out ghosts and stuff. but when that clown's arm moved he yelled to be let out lol. |
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Post by sagenesse on Apr 18, 2018 5:33:32 GMT
Many places are creepy but depending on person depends if f they can feel what is creepy. I mean just think of the famous stories of hauntings and how you always see at the end “new owners moved in and have not reported any disturbances.” Some of us are more sensitive to things than others.
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