I don’t watch any ‘”paranormal reality shows” at all. I used to watch ‘Ghost Hunters’ when it first came out, but that did not last long. Part of the first season was exciting for me because I’ve never really seen any reality television shows before and ‘Ghost Hunters’ brought the paranormal and drama along with the investigations. I thought that what these guys were onto was something that needed to be done. Scientific investigation into the paranormal as never before. Well it didn’t take long before I started to see through their gimmick.

Although the ‘Ghost Hunters’ were trying to capture paranormal evidence on video and audio, it seemed like now they were going out with the purpose of helping people deal with paranormal incidents. If you really think about it, it’s quite moronic. Before I start getting hate-mail, let me clarify myself a little…

The show’s main purpose is to attract viewers by the promise, or the enticement, of them showing at least something paranormal throughout each episode. Nevermind the clients who are asking for help (legit or not), the team goes out to capture ghosts on video. Sooner or later the producers of the show will start seeing a decline in the viewers since there is no real “proof” –I put it in quotes since the definition of proof varies with different people– the producers then start demanding evidence. Herein comes the deception. The ‘Ghost Hunters’ have been caught faking several pieces of evidence before. Of course, it was too late. The show was now a full blown mega-engine barreling down the reality television road, and there were no signs of it running out of steam.

Now in their 6th season, the show is really mainstream. Everyone I know who was not familiar with the paranormal and its studies think that parapsychology is what the ‘Ghost Hunters’ do. That’s fine. Not everyone cares enough to educate themselves. What bothers me is the blatant disregard that the team and the producers have for their viewers.

In this season, there is an episode that takes plain in Cooperstown, NY. Something about a “haunted” hotel.

Well I skimmed through the episode just to see what new things were being done in the show. The team concluded that this hotel was haunted because of certain EVPs that they had captured as well as some really “freaky” unexplained video. The video was of a flashlight that was being used as a means of communication by a ghosts. The team would ask it questions and it would respond by turning the flashlight on and off. What the investigators did to get a reaction of the ghost was play a small musical box. Something that was completely random.

Low and behold when the team went to show the “evidence” to the Otesaga hotel representatives –one was the ‘director of marketing’. Go figure– the main investigators acted shocked when the reps told them how people that had previously stayed in the hotel had heard a music box playing in the middle of the night. Now lets really think about this for a minute. Since when have you see the GH team take a music box to a location? Not only that, but what a coincidence that it so happened that the ghost in the hotel was also playing a music box late at night.

I don’t know why people are so attracted to these types of shows. They should be insulted instead of in awe. Many people have left comments here on GhostTheory saying something in the lines of “it’s just entertainment. Don’t take it so seriously…” but the truth of the matter is that these types of shows is what keeps the American public misinformed.

There is one show out there that understands what I’m trying to say. This show, did a perfect portrayal of the ‘Ghost Hunters’.