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seayakin

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Any of you ever watch this show? (See http://www.the-atlantic-paranormal-society.com/)

Its a couple plumbers from Warwick, RI who have the pretense of the being scientific in investigating ghosts. It is entertaining and I they seem honest enough but what I find more interesting I have yet to see convincing evidence from them. They also seem to poo-poo a lot of psychics as being unreliable but then they start attributing strange noises to ghosts when they can't come up with an explanation.

I find they come across as honest people and not charlatans but not as scientific as they'd like to admit.
 
Jeez. I'm originally from Rhode Island. There are some certifiable whackos out there. Of course now I'm in L.A. where I can walk down the street and get an aura cleansing...so, you know, it's a wash.

That site looked almost like a joke to me. Love the dust (ahem...I mean orb) photos.
 
Brought to you by the Sci-Fi network... they were the one's with the John Edwards show. They should be called the Pseudo-Sci-Fi network.
 
Actually watch every episode of the show before you criticise. As Seayakin stated, they attempt to be scientific and come across as being honest. If you watch their show, you will see they try to rule out the supernatural as a cause as much as they can officially. What their personal opinion on the results is another matter. Some of the footage on the show is extraordinary if you believe it is unaltered. Because they come accross as honest, I would tend to believe that the footage is genuine. If so then the question is what caused these unexplained events? It is an interesting show.

However because there is no verifiable proof of anything, it resides on the sci-fi channel. If you recall, Sci-fi does stand for Science Fiction. Pseudo-Science fiction would be a really rediculous and meaningless term.
 
MoonDragn said:
Actually watch every episode of the show before you criticise. As Seayakin stated, they attempt to be scientific and come across as being honest. If you watch their show, you will see they try to rule out the supernatural as a cause as much as they can officially. What their personal opinion on the results is another matter. Some of the footage on the show is extraordinary if you believe it is unaltered. Because they come accross as honest, I would tend to believe that the footage is genuine. If so then the question is what caused these unexplained events? It is an interesting show.

However because there is no verifiable proof of anything, it resides on the sci-fi channel. If you recall, Sci-fi does stand for Science Fiction. Pseudo-Science fiction would be a really rediculous and meaningless term.
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Some of the guys on the show are more skeptical than others. The older bald guy who is their leader is reasonably skeptical and admits when the proof is lacking, although he will throw out some platitudes about how it really could be a ghost. The young guy on the show will believe anything.

None of the footage I've seen is that incredible. It's all reasonably explained by something other than ghosts.
 
There was another show on the same night, I think, where they take three stories and check them out. One was a guy who said whenever he walked by a streetlight it would go out. Of course, he sent in tons of footage of this happening but for the show's cameras it never happened. Another instance was a lighthouse that people saw ghosts in and it was demonstrated that passing boats and cars reflected through the thick wavey glass of the lense to create illusions of lights in the lighthouse. I liked that show much better. Not sure what happened to it but it showed that "Paranormal" is not an answer, it's more like band aid that is used until the real answer can be found.

I watched the first four episodes or so of TAPS and saw flaws in their methodology and how they jumped to conclusions and didn't think it would finish the season. Funny how the show that supports the paranormal survived and the one that didn't isn't on anymore. I will give them credit for finding out a "ghost" was a drunk girl that got locked out on the roof one night and was just trying to sneak in a window.
 
Watch more of the episodes. It gets better as they get rid of the young superstitious guy and bring in more credible people. The first season of it is full of mumbo jumbo but the 2nd season gets better. There are some footages I think are pretty mysterious and hard to duplicate but I supposed a hollywood special effects person could reproduce it. The reason it seems real is the genuine lousy quality of their footage. It seems made by amatures and not professionals.

There was one episode where they found a bone underneith the floorboards. They send it to a lab to be tested and it turned out to be bone from a cow. One episode had them checking out the claim that a little girl in a family was haunted by ghosts in the middle of the night and wake up screaming. They filmed it and it turned out the girl's brother woke up in the middle of the night to slap the girl around and quickly run back into bed. There is a good share of debunking along with the unexplainable stuff. It is very entertaining because they are doing exactly what they say they will do. Explain the unexplainable and document everything.
 
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