Suspicious about these recounts? Here's why they're contrived - SPOILER
JANUARY 10TH 2016 EDIT:
THE POST BELOW WAS WRITTEN IN JUNE 2015 SPECIFICALLY IN REGARD TO THE ORIGINAL AIRING OF SERIES ONE. NOT SERIES TWO IN SERIES TWO, MY SPECIFIC CRITICISM (THAT EVERY SINGLE NARRATOR, NO MATTER THEIR SOCIAL CLASS; NO MATTER WHERE HE OR SHE HAILS FROM, AT SOME POINT IN EACH EPISODE UTTERS THE IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION "...you know...") WAS OBVIOUSLY NOTICED AND IS NOT AT ALL REPEATED IN SERIES 2. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT ON WATCHING THE FIRST THREE EPISODES OF SERIES 2, IT IS PERFECTLY OBVIOUS TO ME THAT EVERY SINGLE NARRATOR IS SPEAKING ACCORDING TO THE NARRATOR'S OWN MIND OF EVENTS WHICH (AGAIN IT IS OBVIOUS) EACH BELIEVES TO BE TRUTHFUL. ALTHOUGH, I STAND BY MY SPECIFIC CRITICISM I MUST STILL APOLOGISE TO (1) ANYONE WHO NATURALLY USES THE SAID IDIOM IN THE ORDINARY COURSE OF HIS/HER SPEECH; AND (2) TO ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE WHO HAS APPEARED IN SERIES 2 TO DATE. IN FAIRNESS, SERIES TWO HAS BEEN QUITE INCREDIBLE TO WATCH. AGAIN I AM SORRY TO ANYONE I HAVE ANGERED. PLEASE FORGIVE ME. HERE FOLLOWS MY ORIGINAL POST VERBATIM, WHICH SHOULD NOW ON BE READ WITH THIS EDIT IN MIND. THANK YOU.
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Does anyone else notice something completely suspicious about almost all of these recounts?
These are most unquestionably all fabricated recounts, and this poster is about to tell you why. If you would like to continue to believe that these recounts are all personal to each narrator, and probably real, then by all means stop reading this post now. Otherwise read on...
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There are certain ways in which you can easily tell if each person in a supposedly unrelated group of people is speaking from their own respective minds, or from the mind of a single scriptwriter. Most writers aren't aware, unless they have the kind of genius IQ of someone like Charles Dickens, that their characters repeatedly state something which, epecially to a very astute observer, gives the game away that each person is not speaking from their own mind. In this series, the screenwriter is unaware that he is repeatedly using the exact same grammatical filler, for each narrator, in every single episode.
In other words (and you are welcome to watch out for this for yourself, and you will see that I am correct) at some point, while the speaker is recounting what happened to him or her, that person will utter the exact same grammatical filler, each time, and in some cases, one too many times: and that filler is the expression "you know".
For example, as I've just watched ep 3 of series 1, every single primary narrator states the casual grammatical filer "you know" at least once, while recounting what 'supposeddly' happened to him/her! For example although the first narrator states "you know" only once, the second narrator states "you know" seven times! Seven times!!
The second narrator's "you know" is uttered a ridiculous number of times. He starts by musing: "...you know, I didn't want to cause any problems"
Each of the seven times, he says "you know" as if to say "you know what I mean!?"
When he's finished his lines, we're introduced to the third narrator, who, just like the first and second narrator, also states " you know" at some point during her alleged recount too. For example, a few minutes into her recount she states: "I just kept wondering, YOU KNOW, if he was really seeing..."
Now, if that happened once or twice, it could of course be put down to natural speech. There are after all, quite a few people in this world, who will insert the vocal pause "you know" into their natural speech. But!!! *if* e v e r y single, and supposedly *unrelated* narrator utters the exact same grammatical filler, ie., "you know", into every single recount of every single episode, then you can be absolutely sure that you are most definitely *not* listening to natural speech, and moreover that each is reading a script which has been written by the *same* person - a screenwriter, most likely. Paranormal Survivor's screenwriter is, at least until now, obviously unaware that he is giving away the fact, in the described manner, that each person is so obviously reading from a script.
Given that these are supposed to be tales based on reality, it's a bit of a giveaway, to anyone smart enough to notice such things, that the evidence of a single scriptwriter is so apparent. Sure, some people state "you know" when talking, just as many people repeatedly say "I mean...". But by no means should every single primary narrator use the same grammatical figure of speech, especially *IF* each was really speaking his or her own personal recount.
BTW, if you want to know how people should speak when they are truthfully giving their OWN recounts of what supposedly happend to them, then please check out how each person speaks so very differently, on authentic shows such as 'A Haunting' or 'Paranormal Witness'. On either show, the occasional narrator might say the same grammatical idiom etc., but by no means would every single narrator give the game away as they so obviously do in this series.
It's a shame, 'you know' ;-), that this series is such complete and utter fiction.
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Sandwiched between The Principle of Mediocrity & Rare Earth Theory, you should see The Fermi Paradox