Ghost Hunters - Season 2, Part 1
by Jay Bluemke
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Actor: Brian Harnois, Grant Wilson, Jason Hawes, Lisa Dowaliby, Steve GonsalvesDirector: Jay Bluemke
Brand: Ghost
Producer: Jason Hawes
Producer: Grant Wilson
Producer: Alan David
Producer: Brett Boydstun
Producer: Crystal Foos
Producer: Eric Mazer
Producer: Jason Fay
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 560 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Big Vision
DVD Reviews of Ghost Hunters - Season 2, Part 1
DVD Review: Science as Make-Believe as the Ghosts
Summary: 1 Stars
When I was young, I used to believe in this sort of thing out of naivete; I just couldn't believe that every ghost sighting in history was a mistake or hoax. Time has made me a bit more cynical though, and education has increased my understanding of science sufficiently to let me see TAPS (or GHI as they now call themselves) for what they really are; grown up children playing make-believe at science. The Ghost Hunters all bill themselves as clear-thinking, open minded skeptics who go into hauntings with the intent of *debunking* paranormal claims. The few bits of evidence surviving their intellectual assault are viewed as the true grains of wheat cleanly filtered from the chaff. In practice, though, they assume that the most mundane happenings are the result of invisible boogeymen. When they inevitably fail to prove any of the literally infinite numbers of non-boogeyman explanations beyond the phantasm of a doubt, our Ghost Hunters surrender and revert to their default position on any given event they don't understand; "A boogeyman did it!"
In the early part of the series they would often conclude investigations with banal discussions about how, although the house was obviously filled with dead peoples' ghosts, it's still iffy whether or not to call it haunted. The *word* haunting was all but poo-pooed, despite the hosts' obsessive interest in the *concept* of hauntings. Where wondering how many grains of sand it takes to make a heap is the province of philosophers one might think the Ghost Hunters to be eminently qualified to answer how many ghosts have to "live" in a home before its haunted. However they seem to have little interest in actually answering that question, as answered questions just represent one less nook for their ghost-of-the-gaps to haunt. Don't be suckered in, these paranormal programs aren't intelligent good faith investigations into learning about the world; they are vapid mystery mongering, every last one of them. Interestingly even the pitiful level of faux, imitation skepticism expressed in constant dishonest claims about wanting to debunk hauntings seems to have drained away through-out the seasons. So too with the dismissive semantic quibbling about calling paranormal sites haunted. It looks like SyFy doesn't want its drooling viewership to engage in even the weakest level of critical reflection pertaining to what's appearing on their TV screen. That or the Ghost Hunters team have given up even the pretense of trying to look like dispassionate amateur scientists.
Ghost Hunters use scientific instruments in ways that boggle the mind. In their hands thermometers, electromagnetic field detectors, and others all gain the ability to detect "ghosts." These spirits suspiciously resemble cold breezes or electromagnetic fields. How are these in any sense ghosts? Jason Hawes is always on hand to give a canned ten second speech about how ghosts draw "energy" from the environment in order to manifest themselves as house settling noises or invisible fingers touching a female crew member's hair. Interestingly all these female members happen to be suspiciously attractive. Maybe there's something attractive women find irresistible about a plumber walking through old houses at 3 in the morning with a thermometer, but it strains my skepticism muscles to think that all these beautiful women were chosen based on their credentials. Anyway, Hawes never bothers to detail his "energy" hypothesis any more than just stating it forthrightly. What kind of energy? Kinetic? Thermal? X-ray? The answer, it seems, is any energy involved in an event Hawes doesn't currently understand and has no interest in subjecting to sustained scrutiny. Which is pretty much every event that happens during an investigation.
The show is a litany of filler and repetitive, boring non-content. The gang gets a call and they travel to the location while talking about how they're not True Believers, they just want to debunk the claims and see what remains unexplained. The client gives them a tour of the investigation site after they arrive. Then they start setting up equipment. However, since they have no detailed, coherent concept of what a ghost is or how one might confirm its existence in a legitimately verifiable, repeatable manner, the Ghost Hunters have a resulting lack of detailed, coherent methodology for actually doing so. This renders the entire investigation pointless, and any conclusions or purported evidence worthless. What is all that evidence actually *for*, what theory do they propose for all of these happenings? Anyway, the plumbers-by-day then mill about filming and temperature-taking and interviewing the furniture hoping a ghost will silently speak to their electronic voice recorders.
During the night they'll have one or two spooky experiences where a shadow moves by or they hear the wind but it sounds like a voice, or maybe they feel an invisible person brush up against them and cop a feel. That these guys have mysterious, eerie experiences during the course of an investigation is no really a surprise to this skeptic. What could one expect when a bunch of superstitious, under-educated people whose entire lives revolve around wanting to have ghostly encounters hype themselves up with expectations of having one and then start wandering through stereotypical haunted houses at 3 AM in a sleep deprived state? So, once day breaks they leave. Then they watch dozens of hours of video looking for anomalies. About half of these anomalies are dismissed out of hand as obvious moths or reflections. The team then present their "wheat" harvest to the client, who they then patronizingly reassure that they don't have to be afraid of living in their own home. The client always agrees, and they conclude yammering about whether or not the place was technically haunted or not. Every episode is the same. The only variation is how much evidence (sensu lato) accumulates during a given episode. Oftentimes they find absolutely nothing, and will have to reassure the homeowner that although intense monitoring by world-class Ghost Hunters produced no sign of a ghost in the house, their house is still full of ghosts. So really, the conclusion is always the same. If the Ghost Hunters find something, the house is full of ghosts. If the Ghost Hunters don't find anything, then, the house is still full of ghosts. Of course, in either case, the house-full-of-ghosts is not necessarily "haunted," per se...
PS: There's also strong reason to believe that the Ghost Hunters actually fake some of their "evidence." For example, in one episode a lamp was shown sliding towards Grant on a table. In the shot before the lamp moved, its cord faced directly backwards. But in the shot after the lamp moved towards Grant, the cord was seen facing his direction. And to top it all off the table cloth in the moving lamp footage was visibly different than the table cloth on that same table when the Ghost Hunters were receiving their episodely tour of the site. There are dozens of such examples in the series and plenty of relevant information online.
Description of Ghost Hunters - Season 2, Part 1
The smash-hit SciFi Channel show is back for a second season of spooks, shocks and suspense! Plumbers by day, at night Jason and Grant head up TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society), a close-knit organization of volunteer paranormal researchers?ordinary people who investigate and attempt to debunk claims of otherworldly activity. These self proclaimed skeptics have managed to expose some of the most frighteningly compelling evidence of paranormal phenomenon ever seen on television! Season 2's first 11 episodes are packed with even more excitement, oddities, goose bumps, and strange paranormal behavior than the TAPS team has ever come across before!Bestsellers in DVD
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