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There is a cure for anyone who has become bored with PW.

posted 9 years ago by supadude2004
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And that cure is named... Ghost Adventures

Yes, that is the very best cure for anyone who now believes PW has become boring.

... Seriously, much as I can't stand Ghost Adventures, I've just tried to watch series 11, episode 7 (aka Grand Canyon Caverns) and the best I can say about it, is that it truly was as completely "T +1 + H + 5" as ever. Ok, the lead presenter has very handsome looks, so I absolutely 'get' why some of you ladies are watching that show. But as someone who believes ghosts are far more likely to exist than not, nothing about that episode gave me the slightest indication that this show was any more than a popular stab at very lowbrow entertainment. Ghosts are the theme of that show, in much the same way that tourism is the theme of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Yet, people somehow love Ghost adventures. And in the meantime, normalcy bias has set in amidst a few PW viewers, who've accordingly pleaded boredom...

Ghost Adventures was, and still is the kind of "staged BS" plus handsome 'lead investigator" format, that I fear some of you who are now bored with PW, would rather this show went down the very same path. If that is a realisation, it is painfully sad, that that may indeed be the ultimate direction of this show, if only so as to preserve viewer numbers.

I wish what I just said, was said with all tongue in cheek seriousness, but alas, Ghost Adventures is watched by many people who clearly love that show. Yes, many people seem to love a show which is peppered with the most inane 'BS', such as, and I, with absolute sincerity, now quote verbatim:

Lead investigator asks "so what happened if this rock would have hit you?"
Respondent: "you'd be dead, I mean this thing was traveling fast."
Lead Investigator "And what kind of spirit, down here, would throw a rock like that, in here, and which possibly could kill you ?"
Respondent: "ehhh, something evil. Spirit of Somebody, who just doesn't like people down here."

Spirit of Somebody evil throws horizontally a rock over private investigator's head!??? A few seconds ago the very handsome lead investigator was asking our hapless respondent about a ghost, and eventually the respondent adds that a "spirit of an evil somebody" doesn't like people down there, i.e., 210 feet into the Grand Canyon Ghost Caverns.

Now I am aghast.

Now, I am wondering - do you people who are bored with PW *really* think that "Ghost Adventures" is the better show? Do you feel that PW should jazz things up, and start having ghosts throw rocks, horizontally over private investigators' heads, 210 feet under the ground, in order to make it a more interesting show???

Do you think that PW would be a better show with more handsome men in it?

And here is the next verbatim quote for all of you who are bored with PW:

Handsome lead investigator: "what is so magical about selenite crystals, in a spiritual sense?"

Jay (the respondent) explains: "They are an amazing crystal. Selenite is if not one of the most powerful crystals, when you come to the spiritual properties, it connects to your third eye chakra, which is what actually opens you up for spiritual vision"

Now, I have been accused of being a believer on this forum, but... that quote above, I most certainly, nor could I possibly accept as being even a distant cousin of fact. Yet, where are the people who are saying they are "bored with Ghost Adventures"!??

So...

Do you think that PW would be a better show with more 'third eye chakra" BS, more ghost detectors, K2 meters, 'spirit boxes', and infra-red traps etc., in it?

Really?

And, I must assure any cynic reading this, that those quotes I just gave above, were indeed 100% verbatim from the said show, and can be heard 9 minutes in, and 13 minutes in, yet are both just typical of the brainless claptrap which permeates every single episode.

But... if that's what you folk who are bored with PW, believe is a better show, then "Scotty beam me up; I've heard enough." Or, Paranormal Witness, all is forgiven!

Alone, I still think Paranormal Witness is unquestionably the very best paranormal related show on television. And, all I need do, to realise that, is watch 'the competition' for a few minutes. I'm left in no doubt.

Funny is that...

Sandwiched between The Principle of Mediocrity & Rare Earth Theory, you should see The Fermi Paradox

[–] boudicea1967 9 years ago

GA is too sensationalized. That is why I liked PW, it told stories of experiences that were believable. I personally do not like GA because the one guy seems as if he is some sort of Ghost Rock Star. Earlier shows told some history of the place or talked about something different. GA is a little believable but just barely IMO.

However, it does beat PW so far this season. Is it just me or does anyone else think that they have sold out a little for the terror?

[–] vondiesel-1 9 years ago

The simplest cure is to just switch it off haha.

I actually think Ghost Adventures verges on boring me sometimes (the first 20 mins of the Hollywood sign ep probably sent many a tired soul to sleep last night), whereas PW doesn't.

I think there's a general sense of boredom towards paranormal shows by the masses in general, the amount of them that were around in 2012 has greatly dwindled in 2015. Ghost Hunters is on a reduced season, Ghost Adventures has lower ratings and I don't expect a 5th Season of PW to come about due to low ratings. I still enjoy all the shows but I think a lot of people have got bored of the well worn path of the paranormal on TV and left it.

Therefore if a person has become bored with a show regularly then just stop watching, you can't blame the shows when it's the person themselves that has become bored, they've allowed themselves to get that way by watching a repetition of something that's usually staying within it's parameters of what it is.
It'd be like cooking the same set meals every week for 10 years then blaming the food when you're fed up of it instead of changing what you cook every week.

[–] supadude2004 9 years ago

Good one, vondiesel-1.

Actually, I have to admit something, when I suggest that some people are obviously suffering from normalcy bias, the same happens to me too.

I went to see one of the world's best magicians perform the night before last. He's certainly in the top 5, of almost anyone's list. I had one of the best seats in the house, 5 rows from the front, in the centre of the row, with noone in front of me to spoil my view.

The man performed some absolutely unbelievable tricks. For just one example - he somehow put a mobile phone of someone from the audience into an audience selected, and of course it was a pre-examined ordinary glass bottle, of many on the table, then asked another audience member to call it, as it was inside the unbroken bottle, and sure enough, it was her phone.

Was I blown away? Was I aghast? Was I sat in amazement?

No! I was suffering from normalcy bias just like most of the complainers here. I'd seen this particular magician put someone's mobile into a glass bottle (without breaking the bottle) many times on television, before. So here, when it happened in front of my eyes, I was like "meh... that was Okay, but I've seen it before on tv, so it was a good trick but hmmm."

I had suffered from exactly what I'm saying people here are suffering from: I witnesed something absolutely incredible, in front of my eyes, but my brain registered it as just so - so...

Sigh, to be human, to be human.

There's also absolutely nothing wrong with Paranormal Witness this season. The problem is all in the viewers' heads.

Sandwiched between The Principle of Mediocrity & Rare Earth Theory, you should see The Fermi Paradox

[–] The_Phantom_Critic 9 years ago

I love Ghost Adventures! I gave up a long time ago on the Plumbers from Rhode Island. Their show gets about as entertaining as a sleeping pill. My wife and I have this running in-joke about the GA crew. They're the USS Enterprise crew of the Paranormal! Let me explain:

Zak is obviously the showboat Shatner/ Kirk. He's the first one to talk big with his Alpha Male BS. But he's also the first one to send someone else into the creepy basement alone.

Nick was/ is the Spock of the group. The more restrained and even keel one before he split for his own show.

Aaron is the McCoy of the group, being extremely excitable and more prone to emotional outburst.

And now we have Billy and Jay to round out the crew as the Chekov and Sulu. Their both a bit nondescript and interchangeable.

But they do get very intriguing results here and there, especially with the Ghost Box and Ovulus responses being in line with the questions they ask. Ditto on their EVPs. And the recent episode where the demon hissed at them in the Hollywood American Legion Hall was damn freaky! I just wish they wouldn't put too much stock in the 'orbs' and 'balls of light'. Sorry, they look like bugs to me.

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