10.24.2005

Ghost Hunters

I feel myself slowly becoming addicted to Ghost Hunters on the Sci-Fi channel.

Plumbers by day — ghost hunters by night. This one-hour weekly docu-soap from the creator/executive producer of American Chopper follows a group of real-life paranormal researchers as they investigate haunted houses throughout the country, encountering every type of imaginable haunting.

Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, plumbers by trade, head up TAPS — The Atlantic Paranormal Society — a group of intrepid souls who are far from the usual collection of bespectacled Ph.D.s. They're ordinary, everyday people — office managers, factory workers, teachers and even psychic-hotline gurus — with an interest in getting to the bottom of your otherworldly disturbances. Jason, Grant and their team of moonlighting ghost-hunters are our first and last defense against uninvited paranormal visitations. Tom Thayer and Craig Piligian of Pilgrim Films (American Chopper) are the executive producers.

What's nice is that they are naturally skeptical and they approach their searches scientifically, which makes the findings that they do present a bit more believable.
The last episode I watched was when they went through the penitentiary featured in Shawshank Redemption and the Lizzie Borden house. They go through these with all these hi-tech electrical gadgets, such as voice recorders and heat sensors, so that they can documented proof of hauntings. In the case of this episode, some freaky things happened, but they weren't documented.

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