Wednesday, October 7, 2009

What happened to making NEW Halloween specials?!

I'm assuming if you're reading this "haunted blog" or came from my Haunted Travels web site you too love the Halloween season. I look forward every year to an increase in books, movies and TV shows on the paranormal, especially ghosts and hauntings. However, it seems that each year the specials are the same ones from the late 90's, taken from the vault and dusted off. Here's hoping that this year maybe there will be some new shows.

There's big buzz around the movie "Paranormal Activity" that's coming out in very limited release. If anyone's seen it, care to share an opinion? No spoilers please!

Ghost Lab

Wow, how disappointing was the new ghost hunting show, Ghost Lab?! They threw around lots of scientific sounding theories, phrases and techniques, but when it came down to it they didn't show us anything different from other shows. What they did and and their results actually seemed lacking rather than more thorough than other ghost hunters on the air.

Their throwing around the phrase Parallel Universes and Era Cues not only got very irritating, but their understanding of each and how they relate to each other and to ghost hunting seemed very superficial. (For a fascinating read about parallel universes and how it relates to hauntings read the book Psience by Marie D. Jones.) One episode of this show was enough for me.

for another lengthier (and well written) review go to http://gnostalgia.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/my-first-at-ghost-lab/