Ghostly Houseguest

Season 3, Episode 16, Aired

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The Gibbons family, from a suburb in Seattle, WA, ask TAPS to investigate their home. The whole family has been having seemingly paranormal experiences ever since their orphaned niece has come to live with them. The family wants to find out what is going on, and whether the ghostly presence might be the girl's lost mother trying to make contact. While in the Seattle area, the team are asked to be the first paranormal group to investigate the century old Moore Theater, a place that has been considered haunted by its employees for years.moreless
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  • Pretty sweet epsiode. the reason I love Ghost Hunters.

    10
    "Perfect"
    By mrswinchester24, Oct 13, 2007
    They found some pretty creepy stuff. I think it's kind of weird how the "super haunted" theatre had no ghosts put the persons house was full of them. I mean, if ghosts exist they would diffently be mothers whose children were still alive. The shadow that they found was one of the best peices of evidence the T.A.P.S. team has found. I mean most of the time it's an EVp which are cool and all but not nearly as cool a as shadowey apperation. I also saw a little more personality from Chris this episode. I think she has already improved from the first epsiode. I do wonder if Dustin quite though. I mean we haven't seen him since he got attacked in the Irish castle. Maybe he'll be back next epsiode. I mean Chris is nice and all but no where near as entertaining as Dustin.moreless

  • Another good episode for this stretch of episodes

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    By entil2001, Oct 11, 2007
    The past week has seen a number of interesting developments for the "Ghost Hunters" franchise. Jason and Grant's book about their time in TAPS, before and during the time of the series, has been released. I have yet to take a look; eventually, there should be a review when I have the time to get to the library. (Frankly, I don't like the writing style of their co-author much, so we'll see what effect that has on the final product.)

    SFC also announced a new spin-off for "Ghost Hunters" called "Ghost Hunters International", starring former members of TAPS (and former series cast members) and a few additional TAPS family members. This is good news for fans and detractors of the franchise (the word definitely applies now), because there will be a lot more material to discuss. The timing of the potential writer's strike could have played a factor in pushing SFC towards greenlight, since they'll need dependable content to keep the ratings from a freefall.

    Case #1: Gibbons' House

    As usual, we have only the heavily-edited footage on the show to go by, so all comments reflect how the case was presented. I thought it was one of the more intriguing cases, because it was a private residence instead of a tourist attraction, and it's easy to recognize the genuine concern on the part of the client.

    Unless I'm forgetting a previous episode, the supposed connected between geology and reported "poltergeist" activity has never been mentioned before. And I know I've never read about it in any of the books on the subject that I've read. What I can say, based on scientific experience, is that certain minerals are prime candidates for what is called the "piezoelectric effect". Very briefly, within the context of the field, this is the release of energy within a certain crystalline structure, resulting in many cases in a discharge that looks like balls of light.

    This is typically the explanation that can be given to most "ghost lights", especially on railroad tracks, where the energy will then "travel" down the path of least resistance (the metal rails). It's quite possible that someone, TAPS or otherwise, thought to connect the energy of the piezoelectric effect with "spirit energy" or "psychic energy". Thus it would, from that point of view, be factored into the popular theories regarding poltergeist cases.

    While I can understand the thought process, I was disappointed in some of the interpretations. The team was having a typical paranormal investigator's night: practically nothing was happening. Under most conditions, investigations with little or no information yield few conclusions. But when the team wasn't satisfied with the debunking that had been done (some of which was a good start, actually), they leapt to the poltergeist theory.

    I'm not commenting on whether or not the theory has merit; if you believe in the anecdotal reports of the client and the possibility of the phenomenon, including the trends that have been mentioned before (young girl, emotional distress, surrounds specific individual as "agent" of activity), then eventually you might draw the same conclusion. What bothered me slightly is that the conclusion was drawn before the evidence was reviewed, and as such, the review of the evidence was targeted to find substantiation of the poltergeist theory.

    The EVP, for instance, was almost impossible to make out. Dave suggested Chesney, supposedly at random. I'm not so sure it was. Could Dave have seen some mention of the dead mother's name somewhere in the house? He zeroed in on that interpretation very quickly, after all. It's possible that he interpreted that sound as "Chesney" because he was looking to make a connection with the dead mother within the evidence.

    The most controversial footage, of course, will be the "dark mass". A few things come to mind after carefully watching that part of the show. First, the "mass" doesn't start out dark. There's a clearly visible form of something wearing clothes, and that form appears to rise up in the background into a part of the room outside of the light. When that happens, the figure is just a dark female silhouette. In other words, it looks very much like the small statue sitting on the coffee table in the room with Steve, which from the camera's perspective, looks like someone standing in a darker part of the room.

    Believers and skeptics will no doubt debate that point. Unfortunately, as with anything on "Ghost Hunters", the edited and partial nature of the information leaves it open to interpretation.

    Case #2: Moore Theatre

    The first case was far more interesting, at least in terms of what came out of it, but this was a fairly accurate portrayal of the typical investigation. As it happens, I conducted an investigation of an old theatre over the weekend before this episode aired; it made for some interesting personal comparisons.

    What I appreciated about this part of the episode was, as usual, the thorough check for high EMF readings in areas reported to be "creepy". I was a bit concerned about the initial use of the K-II Meter, since a scientific investigation into high EMF would require an instrument with a quantitative display. In the end, it was used as a screening tool and nothing more, and from that perspective, it makes sense. They eventually used a better meter during the reveal, and the scientist in me was appeased.

    If nothing else, this episode will be worthy of discussion. The first case will bring up a number of questions about the nature of the footage and the investigative methods, and the second case will likely be a disappointment for those looking for exciting evidence. That said, I prefer this kind of episode to the "name" locations, if only because it hews more closely to the kind of location most paranormal investigators will frequent.moreless
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