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As a child I believe that I experienced paranormal activity and since that time I have had an interest in the paranormal. When the Ghost Hunter show first premiered I was hooked and I have been a fan of the show Ghost Hunters since and even record it so that I won't miss an episode. I am less of a fan of Ghost Hunters International mainly because I don't care for some of the investigators; however the places they investigate are interesting. That being said, I must say that over the years I have come to the conclusion that most of the things you see on Ghost Hunters are fabricated.
Why would I say that? Rarely do you see anything other than the investigators. Many times one of them will say, "Did you see that?!" Of course we didn't, the camera was focused entirely on the investigator's face or back, never where the investigator is supposedly looking. They are almost as bad as the Scariest Places on Earth that show nothing but the actor's (oops, I meant participants) faces.
When shadows appear on the walls of a building, there are cameras behind the investigators with lighting equipment. And that beings up the question as to why investigators feel that ghosts must be investigated at night. Many of the claims of the people say that they see the ghosts at various times, day or night. And why do they only investigate for a few hours on most investigations? If a place is truly haunted, it may take days, weeks or months to come up with substantial and convincing evidence.
Cameras are not placed on both sides of a door that an owner claims will open or close by itself. When a door opens or closes, you only see one side of the door and only a top portion. Knocks and footsteps are supposedly heard on many investigations. Where is the rest of the camera crew when this happens? I recall one episode where two female investigators were going up the stairs of a lighthouse and heard someone below them. Since neither of them were operating a camera, the sounds more than likely from the camera crew trailing them up the stairs or maybe the boom mike.
The so-called EVPs are the worst. The tapes are "reviewed" hours later. How do we know that they are the same tapes that were recorded during the investigation? Most of them are totally unintelligible or the background noise is so extreme that without prompting by Jason or Grant suggesting what it is, no one would ever hear anything resembling a voice on the tape. Claims of vibrations in chairs or beds would be pretty hard to prove to a television audience, so the audience has to accept the investigator's word that it happened.
I will give credit to the TAPS team for debunking the claims of paranormal activity from people desperate for attention, such as the neighbor next to the property where Sharon Tate was murdered. Also there have been a couple of times over the years when a fuzzy image of something was captured that piqued my interest.
I think that the reason I am still hooked on the show is because I like to pick out the scenes that I feel have been faked and I am still watching to see if they ever do catch something that will prove the existence of paranormal activity.
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When it comes to paranormal investigation people love to try and prove that an investigator, or their very popular weekly television show, is creating evidence just to keep up ratings. It would be very easy to make that assertion with Ghost Hunters if it were not for one thing, on the show the T.A.P.S. team discounts more information than they confirm in any given investigation.
It is important to remember that Ghost Hunters is a television show, and within that television show there needs to be more than just stories about hunting ghosts in order for the show to be interesting to a wide audience. The only part of Ghost Hunters that may be created for television is some of the drama that goes on with the T.A.P.S. personnel. The notion that this person does not trust that person or the idea that Jason puts the wrong people in charge of investigations on a regular basis seems a bit contrived at times. As Hollywood as the drama may seem, it would be counter productive to the show and its producers to fabricate the paranormal activity they capture.
If you watch Ghost Hunters then you start to realize that it is more about great editing than it is hunting for ghosts. A majority of the time the T.A.P.S. team finds absolutely nothing of interest during an investigation, but yet they use the preview of scenes to come after a commercial as a way to glue people to the television. The producers and editors of the show are experts at taking the slightest action or commotion, and turning it into something that you will sit through four commercials to see just to find out what happens. Ghost Hunters does not need to fabricate their paranormal evidence, the anticipation of the audience does that for them.
So in the argument of whether or not Ghost Hunters is making up paranormal activity in order to boost ratings, the common sense answer would have to be absolutely not. There is no need to fabricate any evidence when it is obvious that the show does not need to capture any real paranormal activity to be popular. People live for the anticipation that one day Jason will announce that they have really captured the image of a ghost on camera and that a building is genuinely haunted. While Jason and Grant have both declared buildings haunted in the past, they have always done so with a sense of hesitation.
There have been some very spectacular images captured on Ghost Hunters, and there has been many minutes of inexplicable sound recordings made as well. But because of the expert editing and anticipation created by the way the show is packaged, and real paranormal activity that is captured is background material to the feeling the audience gets when the show goes to a commercial and you have no idea why the previews of coming scenes have people screaming and running down hallways. It is all a game of anticipation which means that nothing need be faked; it just needs to look good after the editing is over.
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