Ghost Hunters on the Scifi channel...

Are you going to post some EVP's or orb photos for us or something? I'm jonesing for my fix of crazy and I don't think I can wait until George Noori.

Kewl picture

Here's one too.

-Ghoti

I'm at work right now. And I'm gonna have to dig through my huge archive of zip disks if I'm gonna post any of my pics. So that would prolly have to wait till Thursday.

In the meantime, here's a few pics that aren't mine.

Boyd's Sanitorium in New Mexico. Weird shadow shape peering in the door.


Another Boyd pic.


Buie Park, near Abilene, TX


Another Buie pic.


Here's some EVP.

Crazy Man's Tower near Dallas
http://www.sgha.net/tx/dallas/imtheonetotalkto.wav
http://www.sgha.net/tx/dallas/imaghost.wav
http://www.sgha.net/tx/dallas/whoareyoutalkingto.wav

Too bad the wave quality isn't better.

I noticed in the spectral view that the sound is split into a distinct overtone and undertone on the whoareyoutalkingto.wav --The undertone resides generally under 1000 Hz, the overtone closer to 2000 Hz. You can also see that there are some harmonics way up at 13KHz and up. Normal voice of course has harmonics but I don't usually see really high amplitude bands that are distinct in voice unless doing guttural singing. It could just be the recording medium or the the vocal echoes vibrating in the room(?). :hrug:: I'm no sound expert. It does look odd, though. The other ones are even stranger, moving out of the place where vocals would normally sit.

Can you use DAT when recording or is there some kind of restraint with that? (or did you use DAT but all the hiss came from having to turn it up so high?)

I wish my mixer wasn't broken so I could show you how similar guttural singing (think tibet monks) looks in the way the overtone separates on the last wave. At least it still looks like it could be voice, though.

This next one is bizarre (but again, could be format, room, or vocal FX ;P ), but it doesn't look like it should be voice in any normal situation I'd record. It looks so random.

Imtheonetotalkto (EDIT* with a lot of hiss removed to see the wave easier)

I personally just use tape. I'm not exactly sure what the SGHA (who recorded those EVP samples I posted) use. But I got a few ghost hunting correspondants who have had success using DAT. It's also good to have some white noise going when you record EVP.

That's just exceptionally good camo, Nolan.

My husband (separated as of now - ) founded and runs a paranormal society based out of Massachusetts called Cape & Islands Paranormal Research Society. Lots of interesting stories and some pics on the website if you'd care to check it out. Interested in any feedback if any of you do check it out ... especially the equipment. Is he using the "right stuff"? I used to be so much more into it and up on it ... but out of the loop most recently. Enjoy!

(He and I agree that the Ghosthunters show on the sci-fi channel is mightily disappointing. It seems that they actually run off a script, and the stories can't be totally trusted to show the "real story" - whatever that might be)

www.caiprs.com


discordia

Damn. You gone all out on equipment. All I got is an E.L.F. Zone (A/C) EMF detector, a tired old 1 megapixel Aiptek digital camera, a cheap 35mm camera, and I used to have a Trifield meter, but it's kinda broken and I'm too poor to spring for a new one.

The real question is: Did a psychic ever predict you two would separate?

i just finished watching tonight's show.. ugh.

all they found through the whole episode was in the first location.. a bug crawling/flying by the lens of a cam.. and in the second location, a hoax of a bed cover moving by itself.

now, i don't know what equipment is best. i don't mind so much when they goof off now and again. what i DO mind is that in this entire third season we seen squat.

not that ghosts can be cued to appear on camera or anything, but really.. how can a show continue into another season when nothing happens?

at least they're more professional than most other "haunted things" shows that have been on tv.

*shrug*

I've caught some British show that I don't know the name of where they actually hold seances and include these wacky spiritualists in the "investigations," and then go running off into the spooky-creepy woods and scream and generally just scare the bejabbers out of each other. Now, that show is really bad, it makes the Ghost Hunter crew look like patent professionals.

An episode or two back, the Ghost Hunter people were in that one really old farm house in New England when the door in the closet opened and closed by itself. I thought that was mildly interesting.

What makes me skeptical is when things "move by themselves" on TV shows. Because for all you know, they could have strings or automatic motors or something on them.

My friend Hobbes took this when we went to visit it at the beginning of the year. Many people have seen at least 2 faces in the mist of this pic. Just thought I'd share.

What am I supposed to see again? Just looks like a dirty window to me.

Well..without the inter-personal play between them, and the fact that they are indeed just plumbers that got into this as a hobby, the show would be even more boring than it already is.



No clue about this, but I do know that they do often use it to eliminate man-made electrical activity.



Have you watched the show?? They generally start out each investigation by looking for mundane causes for the reported activity. In fact, they stress this often. I was actually suprised by thier lack of sensationalism and lack of ghost-belief. They seem pretty level-headed for folks doing a tv show.



Now this point makes me think you really don't watch the show. They don't employ spiritualist or demonologist on any kind of regular basis, thoug they have experimented with them. Did you see the two bosses shake thier heads and roll thier eyes at the mention of the Warrens, the well-known spiritual-type investigators? They show a strong dose of skeptisism for this type of investigating and never use it as hard evidence. I think they were just being open-mined and trying some new things, as well as probably recieving pressure by the network to add some color to the show. Many folks do indeed love spiritualists and religion.



Now here, I definitely totally disagree with you, and it's a subject I have ALOT of experience with, as my two uncles, Mike and Joe Lamoreaux, were early pioneers in EVP research. I been to many recording sessions and heard tons of EVPs. Of course you play it for them. The client wants you to find evidence, and so you are saying if you find something worthwhile you don't let them hear it?? Umm..wrong. Of course you play it for them. Nine times out of ten they won't understand a word of it, or even be able to tell if it is words. EVPs generally take alot of patience to make out and understand, and can take considerable practice to even hear at all in some cases.



Welcome to television. Everyone plays for the camera. If you acted like Spock the entire time, your show would be cancelled in the first season.



They may not be top-notch, but they are far less ridiculous than I had thought the show would be. They often find nothing, and if they were that bad, they would fabricate evidence. They are just ordinairy guys with an unusual hobby. They aren't supposed to be research scientists or paranormal experts. They go in and do what they can and try to have fun.