Review: Ghost Adventures - Season 14, Episode 4 April 15, 2017 (Double Eagle Restaurant)

Before I start if you have not watched this episode yet you can do so at this link on Amazon

So here I am once again with my Ghost Adventures review, and the best thing about these reviews is that I am not getting threatening emails from UKTV about them. Like seriously do UKTV even understand how the TV business works! For those wondering I will publish my episode 3 review of Most Haunted after episode 2 airs. Also as predicted the new Bulldog on Most Haunted has instantly become the most popular character on the show, he even has his own excellent Twitter Account that you all really should go follow. He is a very clever dog. Shame he will be put down at the end of the series, or be "accidentally" run over by Karl when he is reversing his 4x4 out of the drive one day.

Anyway onto Bilbo Baggins and his crew of half wits, or Ghost Adventures as you might know it as. 

Spunky Blurb
"Zak and the crew travel to New Mexico to investigate the Double Eagle Restaurant and the Dona Ana County Courthouse; both buildings have been plagued by death, leading to poltergeist activity that torments investigators."

4 Episodes in and I am starting to see a trend, all these places are also tourist attractions, what an unlikely coincidence dont you think.

Episode starts and I am instantly reminded of Zak and his lack of reading ability. Why cant they find a professional voice over artist to read the narration, instead of forcing Zak to do it. He sounds like a robot, a constipated, intellectually inferior robot.


So the crew are in New Mexico, for those in the UK, New Mexico is a bit like regular Mexico, except the white man invaded and decided it was theirs and called it New.

Excellent production value as always, we get drone shots from above, and even this sweet walk in by the crew, this could be in a movie about middle aged white men who have never had sex and think that ghosts are real! What a great film that would be.

So to start off we are informed that the Ghost Adventures crew have been called in to help Paranormal Investigators who have been baffled by events, and one of them was attacked by a ghost! One of them had been scratched by a ghost on the back of his neck. Hmmm remind you of anyone?

They enter the Double Eagle Restaurant, Zak is NOT wearing his beanie hat, I repeat NO BEANIE HAT! Looking at his hair, he has recently had a dye job, and hair replacement, so guessing he wants to show it off.

We get to meet the manager of the Restaurant, Jerry Harrell, a man I have instantly decided I like and who is completely honest and trust worthy, that is right up until I heard about this....

God damn it Jerry! Why did you have to spoil things by banning nude people. Who wouldn't want to see some meat and two veg next to their meat and two veg?

Karl Beattie

Whats the worst that could happen?

Ok lost my train of thought, what were we doing again? Oh yes grown men who have never had sex pretending that ghosts are real.

We get some nice stories by the nude hating Jerry Harrell, with some great recreations of these murders at the location.

They head off to the "Ghost Room" something that Jerry never calls it, he just called it a dining room, but that doesn't fit Zak's agenda so he repeatedly calls it the Ghost Room.

We are told of two haunted chairs, that if you sit in them, when you get home you will have nightmares. Yes people are dumb.

Some hanging crystals on the candelabra are moving a bit, clearly this is a ghost, and nothing to do with a load of people moving about in a small room with cameras and so on. No must be the ghosts. In the mean time Zak sits in one of the haunted chairs.

You know if I owned a building that I was convinced was haunted, I would spend a few grand and cover the whole place with HD security cameras, funny how no one ever does that right?

We meet a woman who does something or is something to do with something, I wasn't paying attention to be honest, anyway they have a gust of air or something, the thermo camera is on, and the woman has cold hands!

The camera man has warm hands, but hers are cold.

What could explain this? The man holding the big piece of electrical equipment has warm hands, and the woman who is doing nothing with her hands, has cold hands. I really cant think of any reason why an overweight woman would have bad circulation. Therefore surely it is the ghosts again.

The crew now decide to go to a neighbouring town to meet up with the group of investigators I mentioned earlier who had been a victim of an attack from the ghosties.

We meet Pat Olona, a paranormal investigator, and we hear the story and see the footage of one of his investigators getting scratched by a ghost. And by ghost I mean he scratched his own neck when no one was looking.

Looking up this guys group and they are a simple Ghost Adventures clone group, same kind of equipment, desperate to be on TV, usual nonsense opinions from a bunch of amateurs using equipment they don't understand.

There is the scratch, now, get your own hand, reach across your body to the back of your neck, and mime the scratch action to yourself, notice the most natural direction the scratch goes if you did it to yourself. Now look it his scratch. Yep matches it perfectly right. Its cold, you scratch yourself in a quick motion, and I bet it looks exactly like that.

Ask yourself what is more likely? ALL of physics and science is wrong, the Large Hadron Collider, the single most sensitive piece of equipment on the planet that has ever existed, that is wrong too, and this guy was scratched by a ghost. OR he did it to himself, and no laws of science have to be rewritten.

To quote William of Ockham
"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem."

Zak has put on his mask for his asthma, if you had allergy induced asthma would you get into a business which meant you had to walk about old dusty buildings?

Or perhaps it is just a gimmick, and he is just into weird things?

I'm not saying that Zak Bagans has a gas mask fetish, no I am not saying that at all. 

Zak is stood looking at a reflection of himself in a window, he is zoning out, God I hope he goes full on Derek Acorah and gives us a possession, it seems so long since we had anything like that on a TV show. I miss those days.

We are about half way through the episode and I am struggling to be honest. But I am hoping things improve.

Zak is investigating back at the Restaurant and films a shadow which of course cant be any of the people present because that would just be ridiculous, on a different camera a light anomaly appears. Zak informs us in a voice over that they have debunked any suggestion that it could be an insect, and that it remains unexplained. 

There ya go, they are experts after all, if they say it wasn't a bug then who are we to disagree. Not like they have anything to gain by lying do they.

While filming through a window, something the other side conveniently falls.

We then have a hilarious couple of minutes whereby they pretend to not know how to get to the area the other side of the window.

But the funny thing is, it is literally a 5 second walk from where they was, and worse than that a huge camera on a tripod is set up right next to where the thing fell.

We find out it was a plastic sign that fell, and Zak proclaims this as concrete evidence of poltergeist activity.

The problem is, the whole scene is so obviously staged and faked, and the awkwardness of them pretending to not know how to get to the other side of the window really does expose them.

And even worse than that, right after it happens, Zak checks the camera back, and sees the footage, the other cameraman goes to high five him, but Zak responds with a fist bump, in what might be the most awkward moment in the history of the white man.

They try to get the sign to fall again, and of course it doesn't but then they hear something behind them. They investigate, but don't find anything.

They have now fixed a camera on this guys back to film his neck in the hope they can recreate the ghost neck scratch stunt of the other paranormal group. They are in the exact same spot too. We get a lot of close ups of this guys neck. Nothing happens, making this entire experiment a waste of time.

We get the usual EVP nonsense too, really poor even by Ghost Adventures standards, complete waste of time, evidentially worthless, blah blah blah.

They head off to the Ghost Room when suddenly Zak is struck by a powerful unseen force. He claims that something went through him! Could be last nights curry? I know when I have one it goes through me pretty quick too.

The replay is unconvincing and just looks like Zak over acting. Look guys if you want to make it appear like a spirit is pulling you back or pushing you over, you need to attach some cable to your belt and get a bald cable guy off camera to pull you quick, trust me no one will ever find out how you did it.

Zak spouts off some nonsense about an astral plane, a mirror being a portal, and some other mumbo jumbo that he picked up from watching some 70s horror movie, that or Scooby Doo.

And then it is revealed there is a full moon too! What more evidence do skeptics need. Quick call Brian Cox and tell him that the Ghost Adventures crew have got proof.

The other half of the crew turn on the spirit box, apparently a woman's voice saying hi can be heard, sounded like static to me. The machine is so loud anyway, it is useless.

Can someone look up the statistics of ghost hunters dying in mysterious circumstances, unexplained murders etc, because if these idiots are to be believed, it means there are thousands of paranormal investigators around the world inviting demons and evil spirits to attack them.

Personally I have tried it all and nothing has ever happened to me.

Zak and crew try to contact the dead again using the Paranormal PUK meter thingy, they've decided to speak in Spanish to the spirits to make it easier for them to reply, unfortunately they forgot to input any Spanish words into the PUK which means the ghosts are replying in English.

The spirits reveal they were murdered with a BOOT, and also the following.

So they admit from the afterlife that they were killed by a Boot, Memories and a tickle! Yes Skeptics suck on that 100% proof of the afterlife!

From that Zak deduces that they were in bed having sex when they were murdered. Yes really.

Finally they ask the ghosts if they are here with them, Kind of a silly question since they already been getting answers, and they answer in Spanish! Well sort of.

Ok for any of the 'noobs' out there, this machine is nothing more than a random word generator, they input a limited number of words into its memory, ask a question, and a random word is chosen, they then make fit whatever it says to the agenda and story line they are pushing, this is not spirit communication people.

With the apparent success of the PUK thingy, Zak decides to undo the serious damage committed earlier to white men the world over, and goes for a successful fist bump.

It hits square on, and all is right with the world again.

They ask a few more questions but nothing happens.

They do a final sweep of the room, and "something remarkable happens to Billy"
His shirt which is slightly tucked in, suddenly comes out. Yes this is the big finale. The big unexplained moment to get the world talking, his shirt comes out a bit.

And if that wont convince you then nothing will.

The investigation is over, and this was a poor episode, the only highlight was Jerry Harrell the manager of Double Eagle Restaurant, yes he has a strange unnecessary dislike of nude people, but he is still a really like-able chap, and knows how to tell a good story, and I hope his business does well.

As for the rest of the show, pretty dire, terrible "evidence" as always, not a great deal happened that couldn't easily be explained away by a 7 year old critical thinking mind. So with that I will say adiós.

By Jon Donnis
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The Psychic Twins (Terry Jamison and Linda Jamison) - Predictions Exposed

"The psychic twins sure love to brag about being the most documented psychics in the world! Well, since they're so "documented", I decided to make a video exposing every wrong prediction they ever made. Enjoy!"

By @thedramasavage

Top 10 Ridiculous Moments in the history of Spiritualism / The Psychic Industry

Number 10: Helen Duncan

Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan (25 November 1897 – 6 December 1956) was a fraudulent Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the British Witchcraft Act of 1735.

But to make our list, she convinced gullible people that a Papier Mâché doll, covered in an old sheet was a materialised spirit! This is the closest to a ghost from Scooby Doo that you will ever find!

Photograph taken by Harvey Metcalfe during a séance in 1928.

Number 09: Derek Acorah

This very site (BadPsychics) was the worlds first media outlet/website to expose Derek Acorah as a fraud, and we could very literally do a Top 10 just for ridiculous moments Derek has been involved, but instead I have chosen this one.

A quick bit of history on this clip, as you will see the below clip is in colour, the original pre-recorded clip was broadcast "as live" and using a green filter to make it appear as if it was in night vision. Most Haunted would often do this on the Most Haunted Live events as a way to fool the gullible viewers.

BadPsychics originally released this clip as a way to prove the show would fake scenes, the clip was recorded from an un-encrypted satellite feed, which an associate of ours had tuned in on. We originally claimed that a member of the staff or "The Most Haunted Mole" had sent us a video tape, this was designed to cause disruption amongst the Antix crew, and it did with Karl Beattie holding many a meeting about this mystical figure, I took great pleasure in pulling the wool over his eyes!

The clip speaks for itself, so watch and enjoy.

Number 08: Sylvia Browne

Where to start with this horrible vile witch, a truly disgusting human being, who is now dead in a rather hot place.

"At around 7:45pm on April 21 2003 (the day before her 17th birthday), Amanda Berry left her job at a Cleveland area Burger King. She called her mother on her cell phone, told her that she had gotten a ride, and would call right back."

She would then disappear.

Amanda's mother Louwana Miller would appear on the Montel Williams Show a year and a half later, to get a reading from Sylvia Browne about her missing daughter, whereby Sylvia said the following.

"Miller: So you don't think I'll ever get to see her again?

Browne: Yeah, in heaven, on the other side."

"On May 6th, 2013, Amanda Berry, along with two other young women (Georgina DeJesus and Michelle Knight), was found alive and being held captive in a house in Cleveland."

Unfortunately, Amanda's mother did not live to see this day.

So just think about that for a second, a Mother died believing her daughter was dead because Sylvia Browne told her so. If I believed in Hell, then I know that Sylvia Browne would be right there. But instead she is dead, and the only comfort we can take from that is that Sylvia can't hurt any more people with her lies.

You can see a news report at http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/05/09/celebrity-psychic-sylvia-browne-under-fire-for-telling-amanda-berrys-mom-was/

Number 07: Joe Power

For many many years fake psychic Joe Power did everything he could to become famous, but failed at every turn, but he did garner a modicum of celebrity when Shannon Matthews went missing.

With the Maddie McCann disappearance still firmly in the minds of the general populous, when a young girl called Shannon Matthews on the afternoon of 19 February 2008 in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England disappeared the media lapped it up, and when Joe Power managed to get in with Shannon's mother, we suddenly had Joe front and center in the news, lots of photos with Shannon's mother.

"Shannon was found on 14 March 2008 at a house in Batley Carr, a short distance from Dewsbury. The house belonged to 39-year-old Michael Donovan, uncle of Craig Meehan - the boyfriend of the kidnapped girl's mother, Karen. The kidnapping was subsequently discovered to have been planned by Karen and Donovan in order to generate money from the publicity. Donovan was to have eventually "found" Shannon, taken her to a police station and claimed the reward money, which would be split between Donovan and Karen."

Joe fledgling career never recovered after this, just imagine it, child goes missing, perfect opportinty for a psychic to get in the news with some vague comments, but that one photo above, did as much as anything else to end Joe's Psychic TV career!

I hear he still does small shows in front of 40-50 people, so if you see him advertised, perhaps you should remind the organisers of this mans failed record.

Read More : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Shannon_Matthews


Number 06: Darren Brittain
Channel 4 aired a documentary called
"Tony Robinson And The Blitz Witch"

The documentary was mainly about fraudulent physical medium Helen Duncan, however during the show a medium by the name of Darren Brittain was featured.

There is single sentence claim on his website.

"His reputation for delivering names, dates, street names, and personal information to identify loved ones has earned him a reputation as a medium of high quality."

However In the documentary, Tony said: “There was something about the reading that didn’t sit right with me. When he came up with the name Mary I thought ‘wow this is the mum of my kids.’ But then when he came up with her surname as well, it just felt to me like he’d googled some site.”

And that is exactly what he had done.



Number 05: Colin Fry
Before he was known as Colin Fry, he was known as Lincoln, and worked as a physical medium in the early 90s. As the story goes Colin was conducting a seance, in the dark of course, with a bunch of spiritualists, believers and other psychics, suddenly in the middle of the seance, the lights were switched on, and there was Colin stood up having escaped his bonds, waving a spirit trumpet in the air. He had been caught red handed. He was then exposed by The Psychic News!

Below are scans of the original article.

After this was published, various meetings were held and an agreement by the owners of Psychic News and Colin Fry was made to try and cover up there story, as well as throw out misinformation, other explanations and so on, some of which you can read in detail at http://moh2005.proboards.com/thread/9507/colin-fry

Despite being catagorically exposed as a fraud by his own peers, he changed his name, moved away from public demonstrations of physical mediumship and into the TV world of stage mediumship, he went on to have a relatively successful career on cable tv channels, but one thing he could never truly live down was the moment he got caught cheating, which became affectionately known as "The Trumpet Incident"


Number 04: James Hydrick
"James Allen Hydrick (born February 28, 1959) was a former American performer and self-described psychic. Hydrick claimed to be able to perform acts of telekinesis, such as his trademark trick of moving a pencil resting at the edge of a table. He became famous after a nationally-televised demonstration of his abilities on the American reality show That's Incredible!"

And he would have gotten away with it if not for that annoying little beardy skeptic James Randi!



Number 03: Uri Geller
Geller is a personal favourite of mine, I always loved his gimmick and his act.
And inadvertently, by failing to demonstrate any psychic abilities on Johnny Carson show, Uri Geller actually became ten times more famous! Lets take a look at what happened.

"In 1973, Johnny Carson had a legendary run-in with psychic Uri Geller when he invited Geller to appear on his show. Carson, an experienced stage magician, wanted a neutral demonstration of Geller's alleged abilities, so, at the advice of his friend and fellow magician James Randi, he gave Geller several spoons out of his desk drawer and asked him to bend them with his psychic powers. Geller proved unable, and his appearance on The Tonight Show has since been regarded as the beginning of Geller's fall from glory."




Number 02: Peter Popoff
"Peter Popoff (born July 2, 1946) is a German American televangelist, and self-proclaimed prophet and faith healer. He conducts revival meetings and has a national television program. He initially rose to prominence in the 1980s. In 1986, skeptics James Randi and Alexander (Alec) Jason exposed his method of receiving information about revival attendees from his wife via an in-ear receiver."




Number 01: The Fox Sisters
There are simply too many ridiculous moments in the history of Spiritualism and Psychics to mention in a top 10 list, but I thought it only fitting to have those who started it all at Number One!

"The Fox sisters were three sisters from New York who played an important role in the creation of Spiritualism: Leah (1814–1890), Margaret (also called Maggie) (1833–1893) and Kate Fox (1837–1892). The two younger sisters used "rappings" to convince their much older sister and others that they were communicating with spirits. Their older sister then took charge of them and managed their careers for some time. They all enjoyed success as mediums for many years.

In 1888 Margaret confessed that their rappings had been a hoax and publicly demonstrated their method. She attempted to recant her confession the next year, but their reputation was ruined and in less than five years they were all dead, with Margaret and Kate dying in abject poverty. Spiritualism continued as if the confessions of the Fox sisters had never happened."

Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_sisters

So there you have it, the very people who started modern spiritualism were self admitted frauds!
But without them you wouldn't have anyone else on this list I am sure!

So next time you hear someone call themselves a psychic, a medium, a faith healer, or whatever, just nod your head, walk away, and don't waste your time engaging them at all!



By Jon Donnis

The most convincing proof of an afterlife I have ever seen!

Review: Ghost Adventures - Season 14, Episode 3 April 8, 2017 Samaritan Cult House

If you haven't seen this episode yet, you can through Amazon, click the link below.
Samaritan Cult House

Bizarrely and unexpectedly I am getting a decent amount of unique visitors for my Ghost Adventures reviews. Not many comments sadly, but plenty of people are reading them, so since I had a spare hour or so on this lovely hot Sunday I thought I would give this episode a watch.

Lets start off with the usual blurb to wet your whistle.

"Zak and the crew investigate an abandoned prison in Guthrie, Oklahoma, which in the 1990's served as the headquarters for the Samaritan Foundation, an organization with rumored ties to murder and terrorism."

It is well known that fans of Most Haunted are some of the dumbest humans on the planet. But did you know that fans of Ghost Adventures although generally quite stupid, are not totally stupid. Before I watched the episode I thought I would check out an online fan forum and see what people were talking about with regards to this episode.

There you have two fans of the show openly admitting that Ouija Boards are easily faked, and the second person even throws some facts in there.

So for that I would like to tip my hat and say "bravo" to these fans.

Unfortunately I made the mistake of reading on, and came across this highly intellectual debate.

"Demonic Shit" this is the official terminology apparently.

So as I start to watch I have to admit that Zak's narration is so wooden. I understand he is reading from a script written for him by the writers, but perhaps he could do a few reads first, just to get his cadence right. Even Yvette Fielding has mastered the art of reading from a piece of paper, and she has an IQ of 89. (Like legitimately, she took an online IQ test and got a really low score and its been an "in joke" with the cast a crew to make fun of her behind her and Karl's back.)

This is the woman mentioned above.

What a lovely friendly looking woman she is.

We learn some history about the whole story, and it is quite interesting, you should go look it up.

"Death of Allen Ross
From Wikipedia
Chicago filmmaker Allen Ross married Linda Greene and followed her cult, the Guthrie, Oklahoma-based Samaritan Foundation, as they moved from place to place following her instructions. Following Allen's murder, the group disbanded. Prosecutors believe that Linda Greene committed the murder. She died in 2002 of natural causes and was never charged. A cult member, Julia Williams, was found guilty of being an accessory after the fact to murder, by helping to bury the body in the basement. She was sentenced to two years in prison."

Zak talks to the caretaker, and asks her what she would like them to do as part of their investigation. She says that she would like them to conjure up the spirits of Linda Greene and Allen Ross. Something which lets be honest we know is going to happen regardless.

I am not saying this is just another scam episode made purely for the purpose of tourism, no I am definitely not saying that at all.

Zak has got on his breathing mask on, which I have now been told is due to a chest condition he has.

Zak has seen something through his 3rd eye. And yes it is as 'cringy' as that forum member earlier said it was.

Next up we get to hear from this guy.

Apparently he is an investigator (I assume a Ghost investigator) called Biggs and he talks about the negative energies there, how his team members have seen things including a little ghost girl. I am guessing he is auditioning for his own show on Travel Channel.

Biggs shows them around a few rooms and conveniently finds some kind of card with symbols on it, and it has the symbols of the cult on it. Yes this card has just been lying about in the dirt and rubble for over a decade and Biggs just happens upon it the moment he walks in a room we can assume he has personally "investigated" many many times before.

Clearly this is a set up, and a rather obvious one. Biggs then asks Zak if he would like to see another one, and then bends over and "finds" another card on the floor. Come on guys this is embarrassing. Don't pull stuff like this as it is dumb, even by your very low standards. Biggs clearly put the cards there, and has been told to show them to Zak. Why not have the cards in a protective glass case since historically they are of interest, don't leave them on the floor with fake dirt and aging techniques to make us believe they are the real cards used in rituals by this cult. Just look the screen grab, the card is brand new, just with dirt on it. If it was real it would be scruffy as hell and all faded.

Zak is now interviewing some lady who has investigated the property, Something else i have noticed about Zak is that he repeats back everything people say to him. For example the lady says.

"I was looking at some of Allen Ross' possessions, papers" Then we get an edit cutting her off.
And Zak repeats back to her
"You were reading letters by Allen Ross"

Look she just said that. You don't need to frame the story when she just said it.

So a big pile of letters, papers and so on, is just left in the house, years and years after a murder. No one took them for evidence, they just left them on the floor. Ok guys, we believe you!

The lady tells a story of when she was reading these letters she felt something pull her back. As in the spirit of Linda or Allen.

We cut to the car and they are examining an EVP on the laptop.
And as usual you cant make out what is said until they tell you and of course what they tell you fits their narrative of the story perfectly.

Have I mentioned that EVPs are evidentially worthless, and only an idiot who does not understand the scientific method would ever consider them as so?

From the one word "video" that is supposedly said on the EVP, Zak takes that as Allen Ross telling them they need to find a video that has never been discovered before. (Note: they never find a video, and this is never mentioned again)

We come back from the break, and Zak is telling the team there is an issue at the location, that being "black mold". And that the structure is unsafe and could collapse any second. Zak says they all have to wear respirators. The unsafe structure part is then just ignored.

Ok so here is the truth, in America even more so than the UK you have a thing called Health and Safety. If at any point anyone on any of these types of shows was in danger, filming would stop. Instantly, the kind of lawsuits that would be involved if anyone was ever in any real danger would take down production companies, and even the TV channel itself.

Is there a bit of mold at the location? yes but it is nothing dangerous, they have already been in the place and looked around. The structure will have been checked by professional structural experts for safety, and again if there was even the slightest of problems with that, they would not have been allowed in. So this whole part of the show is purely theatrics.

Back to the show and they have brought in the big guns, or big gun if you will in Darren Evans a Demonologist, he looks more like a poker player to me.

I am guessing he will be about as useless as Fred Batt is on Most Haunted.

Zak and Darren then have the most ridiculous conversation, with completely straight faces about how Darren has the ability to conjure demons. It is 2017 and I am watching grown men talk about demons as if they are a real thing.

Also Zak keeps talking about Yakult

Not sure why. Something to do with ghosties and demons.

Zak and Darren have found themselves a Ouija board and are going to have a play.

Did you know that "Ouija" is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. Yep.
And that the Ouija Board was "regarded as a parlor game unrelated to the occult until American Spiritualist Pearl Curran popularized its use as a divining tool during World War I"

As for the board itself, it has 100% been proven to NOT contact the dead. If you blindfold all participants it stops working. And if no one is deliberately pushing it, it can also be explained using the ideomotor effect.

So with the knowledge that Ouija Boards have nothing to do with talking to the dead, have been completely debunked, and are no more than a board game owned by Hasbro, lets watch two grown men fanny about in the dark with it as if they were scared school girls from a 1980s horror film.

As they start, I quickly noticed that neither Darren or the cameraman filming them have respirators on. Although another team member elsewhere does. Hmmm.

Darren promises Zak that he is not going to push the planchette and that he will let it do it's own thing. Darren is leading the "experiment" and starts asking questions of the dead.

As they sit there with nothing really happening, Zak starts getting some muscle spasms, of course these are nothing to do with the uncomfortable way he is sat down, his slouched posture, no they must be the ghosts.

The planchette starts to move, and the camera filming it keeps going out of focus, how to fix this instantly? Swap the camera to manual focus instead of automatic focus, afterall you are filming in the dark, with two people who have head torches on.

Zak is still twitching, I am thinking it is acting now instead of genuine muscle spasms, all we need is for him to go full on "Derek Acorah possession" and then we have a TV show!

Watching them closely, they are both complicit in the moving of the planchette, Zak is definitely choosing the letters it stops on, and Darren is helping it move in the desired direction.

Zak gets up from the table claiming he was feeling weird, in some kind of trance.

Then the cameraman hears some noises in another room, which must be a ghost, they cant possibly be that of a cat or a rodent, no that would be just too big a leap of faith, must be the ghosties.

So a fair 10 minutes on the Ouija Board and all they got was "J.P." the covenient initials of a James Philips who had died at the location. All in all a huge waste of time.

Now apparently Linda Greene had a thing about barcodes, so one of the team who has a barcode tattoo is gonna play on the Ouija Board with Darren. Bet the Planchette goes crazy now.

As I predicted the planchette moves more easily, and it is clearly the team member moving it to various numbers that match his tattoo, you can tell he is leading the planchette as his head movement exposes him, his performing the movements with his head just a fraction before he moves it with his hand. This is a pretty poor investigation so far. Parlour games never impress me.

This whole segment is a set up. If you think this is real folks then you need your head checked.

Two thirds of the show in and I am starting to yawn, they have lot my attention now.

Zak sneaks back in the room and as he does the ghosties spell out
"KILL GET OUT" on the Ouija board.

Why couldn't the ghosties at least say please?

They play with the Ouija Board some more and they go through a ridiculous routine to spell out some things that personally relate to Jay, the team member doing the Ouija Board with Darren.

We've finished with the Ouija board nonsense now, and as Zak moves back into the room, in the corner to the side we see some wood fall. Despite Zak saying it "Levitated" clearly it did not. And because we are filming in night vision, it is simply not clear enough to see what really happens other than a piece of wood falling. Something that is easily set up. We are told it is a major event and definitely poltergeist. I however think nothing of the sort because I am not an idiot.

Zak then sets up that Puck ITC device thingy, you know the one, where they input a load of words related to the location, then ask it questions, and random answers come up which they then do their best to fit to their agenda.

And with that the episode ends. It was a poor episode, not very entertaining, too many obvious set pieces, some over acting and that was it.

I guess I just like a bit of science with my investigating, but these guys just want to play about in the dark and do silly things.

3/10 for the episode, would have been 4 but the wooden plank levitating stunt was a bit silly even for me.

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