Okay, maybe they are really nice guys. Maybe they give tons of donations to Toys for Tots every year (I don’t know, I am just imagining that perhaps they do), maybe they treat their wives like queens, and maybe they visit the elderly and teach them macrame.
None of these possibilities changes the fact that they are spewing enough unchecked bullshit that they actually make Jason and Grant look like Newton and Einstein. I watched the first episode, and I can’t even remember where they went, but I was certainly unimpressed. It wasn’t until the second episode – their visit to Tombstone – that I actually felt the kind of rage that I generally reserve for people who lie on TV. That is because these f*ckers lied on tv.
“But Katie, how do you KNOW that they lied on tv? Who would ever do such a thing?”
The Clunge brothers, that’s who.
While I was watching this episode, our band of intrepid buttwads excitedly, even SPASTICALLY, declared the discovery of a “shadow person” in the Boothill Graveyard. Now, right off the bat, this “shadow person” was captured on a cheap camera in a dark graveyard by any of a number of slackjawed Texasholes, and looks a bit like Gingy from Shrek. Here, have a look:
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/ghost-lab-shadow-person.html
Pay specific attention to…well…the whole thing. Watch how they leap around like idiots because of their earth-shattering discovery that is going to rock the paranormal world. At one point they use their sophisticated SMART board technology to highlight the little shadowy cowboy. Now, take a close look at the legs of the cowboy and compare them to this photo that my friend, Adam, took while he was visiting Tombstone just a short time ago:
Specifically, the bottom of the wrought iron gates. There’s your effing cowboy. Seriously. It took me about two minutes to figure out that it was the bottom of a wrought iron fencepost, especially since they actually showed the grave during their daylight “debunking.” Although, given that they were deliberately trying to obscure the base of the wrought iron gate, I suspect that they are not only fools, but liars, too. They have a team of six, and a half-million dollar rolling lab and they can’t even do the most basic elimination of natural causes. Perhaps the most offensive part is that they claim to be “scientific” and they are constantly pulling half-assed theories out of the gaping chasm that is their collective intellect. They are not only part of the problem with the way paranormal investigation is portrayed on television, they EXEMPLIFY the very core of the issue by dismissing scientific method and Occam’s razor in favor of neanderthal grunting and GASPING (yes, I intentionally spelled “gasping”) at straws. Do you think they actually believe that is a shadow person? There isn’t even a real designation of “shadow person” anywhere in proper paranormal literature. The whole thing is totally made up. Go figure.
Adding to the overall issue is that they are gaining a fanbase. People are perfectly willing to accept their “mistakes” because they seem “really scientific” and they have “good theories.” They are and have neither of those things. Please don’t be fooled, people. Snap out of it! I don’t even know how these guys got a show. They probably couldn’t find their asses with both hands in their back pockets. Paranormal investigation is turning into one big “dead time” snipe hunt, and it’s embarrassing and ridiculous. The next lecture I give on our methodology is going to include a stick and a paper bag under the list of “tools.”
This is NOT real research. It isn’t even entertaining. They don’t even enunciate properly. Dare I say it, they are WORSE than TAPS!!!!
Great, here come the other three horsemen of the apocalypse. Thanks, guys.
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4. November 2009 at 4:14 pm
It was I, if you remember correctly, who pointed out on our t.v., that it was the legs of the wrought iron gate that was their supposed “shadow person.” Just for the record.
KISS!
5. November 2009 at 11:01 am
Agreed to all of the above, but I would also like to address the titles of these shows all contain the word “ghost” and it is starting to annoy me. Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventure, Ghost Lab, and I’m sure there are more. Wait, isn’t Ghostly Encounters one of them? Anyway, if you are going to make up crap and go through the trouble of stringing fishing wire across a location to make a jacket move and such crap, let’s just really GO FOR IT. Screw ghosts, let’s go straight for demons and the heavy stuff. How about “Demon Adventures” or “Get Possessed”? If you are going to make crap up, just go straight for the really scary stuff. Ghosts are so blah. You know? Just sayin’.
7. November 2009 at 8:31 am
OMFG … these guys are tools, and not the useful kind either. What a load of garbage nonsense, and straight up ignorance …
Even if I hadn’t been looking for the fencepost, I would have seen the OTHER fencepost beside it …
“Shadow person”, my ass … These jerk-offs have no credibility.
10. November 2009 at 4:00 am
Actually, it seems to me that a good way to discredit a group, rather than present facts which may be considered too dry/too far above the intended audience and may be ignored, is to pretend to be part of the group you wish to discredit while lying and/or being really stupid, and drawing a lot of attention to yourself.
For instance, if I were trying to discredit paranormal researchers, I’d put a show on TV, featuring “researchers” who aren’t all that bright (bonus points if they don’t have to pretend to be ignorant, more bonus points if they seem to be ignorant REDNECKS). I’d have them spin all kinds of wild and outrageous theories and stories. Then, while people who believe that Weekly World News was a serious newspaper are going to buy into everything my front men are saying, people with an IQ higher than that of a turnip will soon realize that my guys are full of crap. But since my guys are entertaining to SOMEONE, they have a show on TV, and the serious researchers don’t. And with any luck, there will be other guys like mine on the airwaves as well. Therefore, the general public will assume all paranormal researchers are idiots/liars/insane, and therefore discount out of hand anything REAL researchers may discover.
It worked for Greenpeace/REAL environmentalists, and for the government trying to hush up leaked stories/photos of experimental aircraft during the years of the UFO craze (better than just saying “It was a weather balloon/swamp gas”). ^_~
1. December 2009 at 3:15 pm
They are horrible at covering up their bull shit as well!
Was watching discovery channel and this show came on… was an episode titled “shadowman” and they captured a cold image on thermal cam that looks suspiciously like a misshaped water bottle.
They cut to a scene in their “lab” and a black guy says, “that looks like a water bottle.” and one of the rednecks comes back with, “there were no water bottles in the room!”
… with the power of modern tv, I rewind. The black guy was with them at the time and is shining a light into the room where this “shadowman” was, and you can clearly see an unopened package of water bottles on a couch… you know with the plastic still around it.
4. December 2009 at 8:08 pm
“That is because these f*ckers lied on tv.”
God forbid! It’s entertainment, but obviously it doesn’t do it for you. Read a book. Maybe that would help you learn to write.. maybe not.
5. December 2009 at 11:00 am
Zach, nothing about your comment makes sense. “Read a book. Maybe that would help you learn to write.”
What cracks me up is that you were probably feeling very righteous and justified when you typed that. You really got me, eh?
Well, Zach, my publisher thinks that my writing is just peachy. That’s why I have gotten to write three books that you can get from ANY book store, Sweetie.
So, yeah…your comment = FAIL.
Thanks for posting, though.
Feel free to hop back into your rolling laboratory and spend thousands of dollars and man hours documenting aggressive dustbunnies and artifact noise. I’m sure someone will keep watching it.
8. December 2009 at 2:56 pm
I am watching this bullshit as I type this. They add in unneeded fuzz to HD cameras so who knows what they are adding to those “thermal cameras”….. The whole show is a joke and belongs on the sifi channel, not discovery.
27. December 2009 at 4:47 am
I just saw one of their more recent shows where they get a supposed dark image on their thermal camera and it is in the shame of a water bottle. I think woogy mentioned this in a previous post, but when they walk back into the “lab” the black guy is clearly holding a water bottle in his hand and they say on screen that there was no water bottle in the room. I used to believe in paranormal stuff when I was a kid but after watching all this crap on tv, its obvious that it is all made up and based on fears that people have. If some tv station would give me the money to go out and disprove it I would, but I guess nobody wants to watch the truth.
Katie, good discussion. Keep it up
31. December 2009 at 8:01 pm
These guys are awful, who bankrolled them? Their tech van is worth more than 500 grand. Other than their mouths always in motion being annoying I am amazed that they ALWAYS find something, even if they hear things I sure cannot. I stopped watching this after the 3rd episode. As bad as Ghost Hunters can be they are far better than this (And they would be far better if they got rid of Steve whose ‘debunkings’ never bear ANY resemblance to the facts that were recited. And that other piece of crap — Ghost Adventures, ugh.