Ghost Lab – Initial thoughts?
Well lets get it out, I seen a reader or two commenting about Ghost Lab and I figured I would break the ice on this. On the overall, I felt Ghost Lab was an updated version of Ghost Hunters. Most of what their investigation portrayed was really no different than Ghost Hunters, just without the camera crew following the staff around in the dark with nightvision on (I’m glad the Klinge brothers realize that ghosts don’t need the lights to be out to come out and play). Most of the equipment is the same so far, with the only exception being the data collectors. I really do think the data collectors are a nifty new device to use, and it’s uses are apparent. Recording not only EMI/EMF, but temperature, and humidity is helpful. The converted ‘lab’ trailer is definately a useful enviroment in which to conduct and review information, and I always thought about that for Ghost Hunters (actually I thought in grander terms…like a RV).
Their approach so far is really not too much the different. The staff walks around with equipment and attempts to lure the ghosts out to play, whilst recording visually or audibly. The Klinge brothers approach with ‘Era Cues’ might actually be helpful, though I believe that remans to be seen. Some of the biggest gripes I have currently refer to an article I read months ago about how the show was going to take a ’scientific approach’ to investigating, and by using science, help prove that the paranormal is possible. So far I’ve seen very little of that. They contacted a physicist about parallel universes and mentioned that a EVP was not on the same wavelenghth as a human voice. That’s all?
Another gripe is the same as any other ghost show…they missed the oppurtunity to capture something. The door opens in the balcony at Shreveport Auditorium (an event they knew happens often), yet there is no video recorder set to watch said door? A door slams later in the evening yet the two investigators there see it, but have no recording equipment on themselves running? I don’t see how they are going to prove anything without having any proof to show. Personal experiences are not going to fly far.
Written by Gary Popella - Gary@ghosttheory.com
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That’s a lot of facial hair in that pic. These look like the tough guys of the ghost hunting world. I won’t be watching.
“I’m glad the Klinge brothers realize that ghosts don’t need the lights to be out to come out and play”
I always wondered about this part. Do the ghost hunting shows do everything in the dark because it’s better or to add dramatic effect?
I saw the first episode and, well, it sucked imho. As usual there’s the hyper-kinetic editing to heighten otherwise nonevents with the requisite emphasis on the principal’s personalities – yawn. And all those gadgets will not necessarily bring us closer to understanding of the paranormal other than better documentation.
I agree with Kevin. Whole heartedly. Sorry, but the show wasnt that good. I would rather watch paranormal society or whatever the hell it is called. Ghost Hunters, is 100 times better. Although I do wonder at times if what we are seeing is real.
http://www.ghosttheory.com/2009/10/07/ghost-lab-your-thoughts#comment-3701
when did paranormal researchers and the orange county chopper dudes start looking so similar?
I STILL HAVENT GOTTEN AROUND TO SEE IT,BUT I MADE SURE I TIVO IT…..FROM WHAT IVE JUST RED ….IT DOES’NT LOOK GOOD,BUT THESE BLOGS MIGHT BE AMUTURE’S….FROM WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE THERE USEING THE LATEST TOOLS,METERS,LIGHTS,ETC….THIS SHOW IS JUST LEANING MORE ON THE SCIENCE POINT OF VIEW…THERE EVEN HITTING THESE PLACE’S HARDER THAN T.A.P.S YOU GUYS GOTTA REMEMBER GHOSTHUNTING IS’NT JUST LOOKING FOR GHOST’S…ITS ABOUT DEVELOPING A NEW BRANCH OF SCIENCE…ITS ALSO ABOUT LEARNING ABOUT HISTORY AND SO ON…..OHH YEAHH THIS IS FROM A BROOKLYNz POINT OF VIEW….
They aint no better than ghost hunters or ghost adventures.With scientific approach they all basically the same show, it was ok, i wasnt impressed.But we will have 2 wait for some the great new evidence there so posed to be bring to paranormal field with there new approach.
lol, good one lame! Yeah, seriously, all they need are some serious arm tattoo’s and they would be on the same level as the OCC family. I’ll still give it a few more weeks watch before I start writing it off as something to watch.
i saw the gymnasium/Myrtles episode. I dunno…I am a ghost show junkie…so any new gost show is a plus in my book… but i would be really impressed if they came out w/some hardcore evidence…
the show reminded me a blender of GH/and Most haunted, and Monsterquest (using science)…
What a shame that you give a couple of, and I don’t even know how to describe those guys, a trailer full of expensive equipment, put them on the Discovery Channel just to jump on the ghost show bandwagon, and put parapsychology research back 20 years. Maybe they can get that Zak guy from Ghost Adventures and all stand around with their arms crossed going “wow, mofo, was dat a ghost?”
Pathetic. All they need is Scooby…
Episode Two – Disappointing.
I couldn’t believe the approach of this episode. They go to the Birdcage Theatre, talk to the owner who states a curious situation. The ghost talks through a disconnected speaker. When they return later that night, the speaker goes off, constantly. I mean like annoyingly. They go to check out the speaker, and find the wires which appear to run down into the wall, yet they never determine if the speaker is not truly connected. They leave, yet chalk the whole thing up to a personal experience/possible paranormal event.
Then they go into some caverns and check it out. Then they come up with an idea that lightning may charge the whole town with latent electricity. So they call a geologist. I’m a bit curious when the geologist states that the silver will hold electricty for a bit of time. Now I can’t argue this point since I’m not a geologist, or meteorologist, but I thought the whole point of lightning strikes was for the cloud to discharge it’s electricity to a -ground- source thus dissapating it. I’m going to research into that I think.
Anyhows, they go to Boot Hill and set up IR triggers and camera’s on those triggers. Triggers start going off all over the place. The crew goes to an active trigger and start popping pictures and subsequently catch a Shadow in a picture. Now the irritating thing here that these triggers are going off yet they claim there is no wind (and while I was watching, I see the leaves on trees blowing with the wind). Even though they have cameras watching the triggers, they show no video of when the triggers were going off. Once again we have to take their word for it that the wind was not blowing and nothing was scurrying around.
They do catch an interesting photo of a Shadow in the Boot Hill graveyard. They collaborate the Shadow’s position to the infamous photo taken at Boot Hill ( http://paranormal.about.com/od/ghostphotos/ig/Best-Ghost-Photos/The-Ghost-of-Boothill-Cemetery.htm). Of course, we gotta take their word for it, because they never really show us.
Overall this show is really not doing it for me. We get weak results from their ’scientific ideas’ (As seen in this episode which they use a Tesla coil to charge the atmosphere….with no results). Once again, they pick up a EVP and are ready to call the site haunted. They do not attempt to win the viewer. They just assume the viewer is with them. We see none of the evidence they stated would “blow Ghost Hunters” away. All talk and no show…
Gary,
Thanks for the update. I missed the show last night, but I think I get the gist of it.
I don’t know why they claim that they are all about the science. in America”.
What’s frustrating is that these shows keep focusing on the urban legends most of the times. Like going to places that are supposed “most haunted
I think after the first episode I was done.
-Javier
Going at this rate, I don’t think I’m going to be updating past next weeks episode…or watching as far as that goes.
I actually watched the first two episodes of Ghost Lab (in a attempt to what the show really had to offer aside from an introductory episode) and found that my feelings really didn’t change. The show itself seems to rate style (lot’s of awesome technology) over substance (an interesting cast and focus on ghost hunting), which really hurts in keeping your attention, especially if you’re already a fan of “ghost hunter-type” shows. I couldn’t help but feeling like the Klinge brothers liked to give lectures about ghost hunting (to their staff) more than actually hunting for the ghost themselves.
Part of what makes any show (reality or scripted) successful is your interest in the characters that the show is comprised of. Ghost Hunters and Paranormal State have done this and even the over-dramatic Zack Bagans of Ghost Adventures manages to do this. With Ghost Lab, you really don’t feel like there’s any connections even being offered with anyone aside from the Klinge brothers.
Hopefully, future episodes will allow the viewer to be able to see more of the EP staff and focus more on the ghost hunt than the technology behind it, because it seems most people can agree that their technology really isn’t any different (if not more flashy) than other shows of the same vein…
Call me crazy but, I swear that I’ve seen that shadow person photo before somewhere on line…….I haven’t found it yet but I will be very disappointed if I do which means, they would be a total sham!!
The shadow at Boot Hill Cemetary?
It’s a scam!
When they come back to the cemetary in daylight, you can clearly see that there is a gate with the exact shape of the “shadow” in the exact same spot!
They don’t provide a comparison photo in daylight, why they pretend to use scientific equipment when they don’t even provide a photographic comparison with a simple camera!
I believe that my house is huanted by a male ghost,I live at 76 booth hill rd in mass,can you come here 17815458484.
TO START OFF I DO WATCH YOUR SHOW. THERE ARE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS I WOULD LIKE TO THROW YOUR WAY.
1ST WHEN YOU HUNT PLACES LET THE USS LEXINGTON I THINK YOU SHOULD SHOW THE SOULS YOUR TRYING TO INVESTAGATE ALITTLE RESPECT,DONT YELL OUT “”GET UP HERE AND SHOW YOUR FACE” “”COME OUT HERE”" YOU ARE ABIT TO ROUGH WITH THESE SOULS, IF I WAS A SPRITE I SURE AS HELL WOULDN’T COME OUT TO YOU,I WOULD BE TO SCARED OF YOU ALL EXCEPT THE GIRL YOU WORK WITH SHE IS SWEET TO THEM ALL SO TRY TO SHOW RESPECT TO THESE MEN WHOM LOST THERE LIVES FOR OUR COUNTRY,THIS WOULD SHOW PROFESSIONALISM, MAYBE RESPECT AND TALKING TO THEM ABOUT WHAT THEY HAD LIVED THROUGH WILL BE A BETTER OUT COME….
2ND WHEN YOU GO ON A INVESTAGATION, INSTEAD OF LOOKING FOR ONE INDIVISUAL LOOK FOR ANY SPRITES THAT MAYBE LIGERING AROUND,LIKE WHEN YOU TRAVLED AROUND LOOKING FOR ABE L OUR LATE PRESDENT,YOU TRAVELED MANY MILES JUST FOR ONE MAN I THINK YOU WOULD GET BETTER RESULTS.I THINK U WILL GET MANY MORE EVP’S.
IAM NOT A EDUCATED GHOST HUNTER,IAM JUST A GIRL WHOM WATCHS ALL PARANORMAL SHOWS,IAM HOOKED ON “TAPS” FROM RHODE ISLAND. NOW THEY WORK WELL WITH THERE PEOPLE AND THEY DO NOT PROVOKE ONLY TO THE SPRITES WITH BAD INTENT,THEY ARE VERY RESPECTFUL MEN AND WOMEN AND I FIND THEM VERY PROFESSIONAL WHICH MAKES ME WANT TO WATCH THERE SHOW,I CANT WAIT TO THE NEXT WEEK TO COME AGAIN TO WATCH AGAIN.
IAM GIVEING YOUR COMPANY “GHOST LAB” A CHANCE AND I HAVE WATCHED FOR MONTHS NOW,I DONT WANT TO SAY I DONT LIKE YOUR SHOW BUT I DO WANT TO TELL YOU THAT YOUR ALITTLE ROUGH AND YOU DONT OPEN YOURSELFS TO THE WHOLE INVESTAGATION.
I WILL KEEP WATCHING YOUR SHOW AWHILE LONGER,BUT IF I DONT LIKE THE WAY YOUR INVESTAGATEING AND YOUR ROUGH,WITH NO RESPECT FOR THE PEOPLE “SPRITES” THAT DESEERVE IT THEN I WILL STOP WATCHING IT. THESE THINGS REALLY BOTHERS ME.
THANK YOU IF YOU READ THIS AND I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND,I DONT WANT TO SHOW YOU ANY DISRESPECT,I JUST WANT TO TELL U HOW MY MAN AND I FEEL ABOUT YOUR INVESTGATIONS.
ANN COSTA BLUEEYEDLADY26762676@YAHOO.COM
This people are a bunch of croks. The fat brother thinks he hears everything when it’s in fact electrical noise. They really reach for anything when they have nothing.
Yeah, I was bored the other night and watched another one of their episodes and was pretty much disgusted at the end of it. This show is a utter joke, especially how quick they want to claim something as haunted on the smallest piece of evidence…