Extreme Paranormal provoked extreme opinions in the ghost hunting community. My own article about Bonito City’s ghosts was a response to that TV show.
While I was catching up on ghost-related news today, I found a website that includes some important insights regarding TV shows. The following article [...]
Ghost tours are popular all year ’round, and especially at Halloween.
However, their popularity has also led to some really bad ghost tours, and some shady marketing methods.
What kind of ghost tour would you like?
I’m aware that “good” or “bad” depends on what you’re looking for.
The grid at right can help you [...]
I’ve known John Zaffis for over 10 years, before ghost hunting became popular.
I didn’t expect to like him. In fact, I figured that — with his demonology work — he was probably as crazy as a loon.
Then, I was the opening speaker and a New England conference and John was the closing [...]
I’m fascinated by things that are emerging from mad scientists’ labs… or at least the kitchen tables of kindred spirits (no pun intended) who think like I do.
Here are a few odd, recent discoveries:
I’m not sure what to think of the SuperBeacon Auto-mapper Crystal Quantum Radio.
(I try never to [...]
Do the “fake” claims about the Ghost Hunters show ever stop?
That’s a rhetorical question.
Of course they continue. As martial arts icon Bruce Lee once said (football reference), “They only tackle the one that has the ball.”
If Ghost Hunters wasn’t such a credible show, nobody would bother saying they’re fake. I mean, [...]
Update: Thank you for a wonderful evening!
Special thanks to those who drove considerable distances — and braved snowy & slushy roads — to make this one of the library’s most popular evenings, ever.
(And thanks to the library staff for finding enough chairs for everyone!)
Also, here are some additional links I mentioned during [...]
In this 16-minute podcast, Fiona Broome talks about ghost hunting in 2010 and early 2011. Some of this echoes Fiona’s mini-podcasts of late 2010.
Initially, she talks about cycles of interest in ghosts.
The past 100 years
The Victorian / Spiritualist era (1870s [...]
Is Ghost Hunters real? Is Ghost Hunters fake?
Those two questions brought over 1000 people to this website during September 2010, and — in early 2011 — they continued to attract visitors.
Here’s the simplest answer: No TV show is “real.” The question is how real — or fictional — it is.
I’ve discussed this [...]
Frank’s Box is a device optimized by Frank Sumption, sometimes described (but not by Mr. Sumption) as “the telephone to the dead.”
Frank Sumption wasn’t the first to work with this concept, but results from his research have been among the most impressive so far.
Others have tried variations of [...]
What new and what’s “old” in ghost hunting?
TRENDS AND POPULARITY
Fiona Broome explains the latest ghost-related trends, based on search volume at Google:
“Ghosts” have been declining in popularity since October 2004. Interest peaked over five years ago.
“Ghost hunters” gains and loses popularity, based on interest in the show of the same [...]
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