Comments on: Discovery Channel: Ghost Lab Discovers New Flavors of Bullshit!

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:01:52 +0000

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.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:47:59 +0000

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

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:56:41 +0000

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.

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:00:24 +0000

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.

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:08:16 +0000

“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.

By: woogy

woogy — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:15:52 +0000

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.

By: Rhea

Rhea — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:00:32 +0000

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”). ^_~

By: Kipper

Kipper — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:31:25 +0000

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.

By: Diane

Diane — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:01:03 +0000

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’.

By: Mikal

Mikal — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:14:43 +0000

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!