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Title: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: Scott on May 09, 2006, 11:46:09 PM
SCI-FI CHANNEL: GHOST HUNTERS (http://www.scifi.com/ghosthunters/) - Just a reminder that Ghost Hunters is on Wednesday nights on Sci-Fi Channel. This is one of my favorite TV programs. Did anyone catch last weeks episode with the St. Augustine Lighthouse? That was a creepy one for sure. Here is T.A.P.S (http://www.the-atlantic-paranormal-society.com/) official site. Check out the whole site and watch the show.

SCI-FI CHANNEL: GHOST HUNTERS (http://www.scifi.com/ghosthunters/)

T.A.P.S (http://www.the-atlantic-paranormal-society.com/)

(http://www.genreonline.net/Genre_files/Ghosthunters2.jpg)


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: Mr_Vindictive on May 10, 2006, 10:42:10 AM
I loved Ghost Hunters during it's first season.  It was straight to the point without any traditional "reality TV" crap.  I stopped watching it reguarlly during the second season when they started adding all of the drama to it.  It feels too staged now, although the investigations are still interesting.  I watch it on occasion, but it's gone downhill since it started.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: odinn7 on May 10, 2006, 10:50:41 AM
Skaboi is right. They are adding too much crap to it and taking it the wrong direction. It is more of a soap opera now than what is was originally intended to be. It's too bad also because it's making Jay and Grant look like a***oles.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: StatCat on May 10, 2006, 03:30:25 PM
a lot of the episodes make you think you're going to see something but it's usually nothing. The light house one was the only good one that seemed to deliever the goods. If it's faked or not I'm not sure though.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: Scott on May 10, 2006, 09:45:08 PM
Tonight they replayed Eastern State Penitentiary, The St. Augustine Lighthouse, and I missed the main show tonight of the St. Augustine Jail and will have to catch it next time.

Fear and Ghost Hunters both went to Eastern State Penitentiary. We visited Eastern State Penitentiary which is in Philadelphia last summer. Audio tours by Steve Buscemi. They have a night time ghost tour there also.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: odinn7 on May 11, 2006, 07:11:38 AM
I would like to go to ESP but I have heard the tours at night are about $100 a person and it makes me wonder about actual results you may get.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: LH-C on May 11, 2006, 11:00:43 AM
I personally never could get into this show.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: Scott on October 17, 2007, 06:55:08 PM
Ghost Hunters is on in tonight with new episodes. Actually the new episodes starte about 4 weeks ago.

Check out this David Letterman/Chris Elliot spoof.

[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=nQbKex2rYec


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: HappyGilmore on October 18, 2007, 08:39:52 AM
Ghost Hunters is decent.  I usually try to watch every week.  They came to ESP twice, but the second time got nothing.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: Jack on October 18, 2007, 12:17:24 PM
I kind of like that show, though I agree it's getting way too much soap opera stuff in it now. 


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: RapscallionJones on October 19, 2007, 11:57:54 AM
Fear and Ghost Hunters both went to Eastern State Penitentiary. We visited Eastern State Penitentiary which is in Philadelphia last summer. Audio tours by Steve Buscemi. They have a night time ghost tour there also.
Coincidentally, TAPS were consultants on Fear and they chose a lot of the locations and provided the background and "haunted history" that they used to do on that show.  Steve Gonsalves is a routine guest of the Rock & Shock shows out here in New England and I talked him up about it in 2006.  You think it's a soap opera, the s**t going on behind the scenes is worse.

Apparently, the reason Andy Andrews suddenly disappeared was because he was going behind Jason and Grant's backs to the Sci Fi channel people requesting more face-time on the show.  It got back to TAPS and out he went.

My wife and I still watch it, routinely.  I love it.  The new episodes this season have been pretty good and with Brian Harnois out of the mix (I guess he is officially no longer a member of TAPS and is doing his own ghost tours thing) the show has gone back to purely being investigations and minimized the melodrama.

The episode in the baby furniture store with the totally sweet EVP was awesome.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: D-Man on October 20, 2007, 12:18:23 PM
Eh...I kinda miss the old days, when you had stuff like "Sightings".  Sure, a lot of that stuff was probably made up, but damn it, they made it all entertaining and seem at least a little credible. 

Most of the time, I regard Ghost Hunters as simply an investigation show where nothing happens.  They can go to the reportedly most haunted places in the world, and always seem to find virtually zilch.  Sci-Fi doesn't help matters much either, in the way they advertise this show...I remember seeing an ad for one episode where it looked like the TAPS team was running away from something spooky...turned out it was just some bats. 

Strangely though, I keep getting the urge to tune in...I really don't know why.  I guess watching this show can be likened to watching a busty stripper, who makes it look like she's going to remove her top, but after teasing and teasing, she almost never does it.  But you keep coming back, hoping for the one day that she does.   :teddyr:


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: Shadow on October 20, 2007, 12:21:51 PM
My wife and I still watch it, routinely.  I love it.

Ditto, though my wife has the bad habit of falling asleep before it's over.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: RapscallionJones on October 22, 2007, 11:59:59 AM
Looks like I was wrong about Brian. He turned up in the ads for the next episode.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: HappyGilmore on October 26, 2007, 08:32:53 PM
Looks like I was wrong about Brian. He turned up in the ads for the next episode.
I post on the TAPS board, and I'm fairly certain he is off the show.  This series of episodes were filmed a bit ago, if I'm not mistaken.  But there will be a spinoff show, Ghost Hunters International.  It'll feature Brian, Donna and a few other people, ghost hunting in various other countries, like England, Finland, Italy, etc.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on October 29, 2007, 12:20:20 PM
Looks like I was wrong about Brian. He turned up in the ads for the next episode.
I post on the TAPS board, and I'm fairly certain he is off the show.  This series of episodes were filmed a bit ago, if I'm not mistaken.  But there will be a spinoff show, Ghost Hunters International.  It'll feature Brian, Donna and a few other people, ghost hunting in various other countries, like England, Finland, Italy, etc.

If the show is going international, and they are going to England, I wonder if they are going to visit the Tower of London in London, England. I have been to the Tower, but never at night, but with all the people that have died in the Tower over the years (accidentally, executed, murdered, etc.) it is suppose to be one of the most haunted places in England.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: RapscallionJones on October 29, 2007, 11:19:06 PM
Looks like I was wrong about Brian. He turned up in the ads for the next episode.
I post on the TAPS board, and I'm fairly certain he is off the show.  This series of episodes were filmed a bit ago, if I'm not mistaken.  But there will be a spinoff show, Ghost Hunters International.  It'll feature Brian, Donna and a few other people, ghost hunting in various other countries, like England, Finland, Italy, etc.
I think you're right, dude.  My wife watched it and told me that there were a few things about it that were out of the timeline.  Jason, apparently, was missing the goatee while the preview for the next episode showed him with it again the new girl also wasn't in it so it looks like that episode was an older one while everyone was still in the group.

I've tried reading their forums in the past to see where the group was going and what was happening behind the scenes but it always seemed to me like the extent of every thread was:

"Hay TAPZ go 2 thizz haunted place I heard about!!1"
"Why don't they use psychics?"
and lame "true ghost story" by user x.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: HappyGilmore on October 30, 2007, 06:50:56 PM
The funny thing is, I think they filmed that sometime last year.  Sci Fi decided to break the season up over the Christmas Break, and didn't air this part of the season until July. 

As for the Taps board, I've been there a year.  It's gotten to the point I just mainly stay in the tv threads because they do get those people that just argue or post pointless crap.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: Scott on November 01, 2007, 01:16:32 AM
Watched most of the live broadcast tonight from Wavery Sanatorium in Kentucky. Not much happening except hearing things, a moving ball, the ECW wrestler saw something, and Steve felt something on his legs, but I like how they set up the show. They didn't have Brian on tonight. They did mention the International version. When they do this live broadcast you don't get to hear the EVP's/


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: HappyGilmore on November 01, 2007, 08:51:21 AM
I saw some of the live broadcast.  Somehow, I prefer the regular format.  The live thing kinda sucks, in a way.  Takes forever, then you have to wait a week until they do the reveal episode.  I'd much rather see highlights of the investigation, then the results. 

Which is why, despite my interest, I'd never actually investigate.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: Scott on November 01, 2007, 09:51:32 AM
Yea, during the last hour I went to the live feed online and chat. The chat was stupid, but if you see something on the live feed you report in on the site and the guy who does DESTINATION TRUTH who was the host would tell the audience that so and so from somewhere saw something on the ceiling. Then they had the investigator try-outs during one hour.

It was kinda neat.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: RapscallionJones on November 01, 2007, 11:42:16 AM
I watched a little of it and I'm with you guys.  It was neat to see an entire investigation but after about an hour of it I assumed that nothing was going to happen and with the camera constantly pointing at the investigators you never got to see all the things they were pointing out.  Without the reveal, I just wasn't terribly interested.


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: RapscallionJones on November 03, 2007, 06:51:43 AM
Dread Central just posted a link to the teaser for Ghost Hunters International, which starts in January.  The TAPS:I team features Brian, Donna, some new guy and the return of Andy Andrews.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Uq-GLI164


Title: Re: Sci-Fi Channel: Ghost Hunters
Post by: Scott on November 03, 2007, 09:45:15 PM
Looks good and it looks like Brian kinda got his own show. Thanks RapscallionJones for the clip.