More TV Talk - Ghost Hunters

Sharly · 08-01-2007, 05:10 PM

Ok - I have to admit, this is my new guilty pleasure. It all started because years ago a friend and I were at the Lighthouse in St. Augustine Florida and I had a really strange experience

(never had happend before, and hasn't happened since). Anyway, she called me several weeks ago to let me know TAPS was at the lighthouse. I found the show and have been hooked since. I really like the guys on the show and their approach. Plus, there are some truly hilarious happenings.

I don't have any strong convictions about whether I believe in ghosts or not. I know there are a lot of things that I don't know or understand and who am I to say there is no such thing? But I do love that show!

Anyone else?

PaperGirl · 08-01-2007, 10:38 PM

I used to watch "Fear" on MTV. That scared the poo outta me on more than one occasion.

stitchwitch · 08-01-2007, 11:05 PM

I think alot of it is faked up. I've googled a couple of the places that they've been to and some of the stuff they say doesn't add up or is completely different from what is portrayed. Ie some wierd caverns place that was supposedly for evil worship,the website said it was a party place and a secret club but nothing about evil worship.
I have however, been to that creepy lighthouse in St. Augustine and there is definitely some bad juju in that place.

I had a serious creep out there. We go to St. Augustine every year for Memorial Day and I still will not go back to that lighthouse.

PaperGirl · 08-01-2007, 11:16 PM

You wanna talk about a place with bad juju?

Go to Corpus Christi, and visit the USS Lexington.

DH and I went there while I was pg with our dd, and he went to the bathroom, and its an aircraft carrier, right? He had to go down a ladder, or some weird place to get to the potty...he got turned around coming OUT of the bathroom, and heard footsteps..so he followed them..thinking it was another guy...

He ended up near the place where they put all the sick sailors to die. Not the infirmary that was accessible to the public, but the part down in the depths of the boat.

It took him so long to get back to me, that I actually asked a guide to help me find him...
DH was pale as a sheet when he made it out...it scared the crap out of him.

He said that area was FREEZING cold...and there wasnt ANYONE there, but her swears he followed footsteps there.

Oh, and dont get me started on the haunted house in Columbus, and the one that was across the street from us. Or the baby graveyard at my grandmothers church.

I believe...cayuse Ive been around them. Its trippy.

stitchwitch · 08-01-2007, 11:28 PM

If I even begin to think that wherever we are going is going to creep me out now I pass. I get freaked at Disney World's Haunted House.

That friggin' lighthouse ruined any chance of me going into another historic place.

janelanespaintbrush · 08-01-2007, 11:59 PM

DH likes that show. I'm a skeptic and not easily impressed, though I do like that their approach is to debunk rather than confirm. And they don't run away screaming like certain hosts of other ghost shows (thinking of that British one on the travel channel).

yarnfreak · 08-02-2007, 12:05 AM

I love that show! They go in with the attitude that it's nothing, and hope to be proven wrong. I have this train wreck facination with the British one. I think that they are total idiots, but can't seem to stop watching. LOL

Knitting_Guy · 08-02-2007, 12:08 AM

I'm sitting in the hotel watching it now. Personally I think it's all a dog and pony show. Humbug!

Sewing Angel · 08-02-2007, 01:00 AM

I really enjoy it. I do like the fact that they try to debunk the claims. Its great entertainment!
Angel

Riss · 08-02-2007, 01:47 AM

Oh man.. I'm so addicted to that show. Sometimes they'll play a marathon of them, I'll get like 3 episodes in while knitting/crocheting, and then have to go find a family member because I can't sit by myself anymore :D

I haven't really seen anything that is dead proof (no pun intended) that there are ghosts or entities or whatever you want to call them... But the experiences they have had and have caught on tape sure are stunning.

Have you guys seen the one that is supposedly haunted by the two people that were killed in relation to the charles manson thing? It was this seasons finale... Its on demand right now... TOTALLY CREEPY!