I F***ing Hate Ghosts
Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 10:21AM Okay, watch this:
Now tell me. Was there anything there that couldn't easily be explained by the emotional state of being in a dark room, camera malfunction, misuse of actually legitimate technology or just plan stupid credulity? No. I hate this show. It legitimizes a bunch of retards running around in the dark with electromagnetic sensors scaring each other every time a machine they don't know how to actually use goes "beep." That's not evidence of an afterlife. That's evidence that your machine goes beep.
I also cannot understand the whole EVP thing. It's noise pareidolia.
I realize that stuff like this can be entertaining. And that's great. But not when it attempts to pass itself off as science. You'll notice that none of these televised parapsychology groups introduces any kind of control. When they sometimes have to admit to even themselves that they just wasted eight hours of their lives looking for Casper, they pretend to be skeptics.
The hell with that. I want to make a show where we pose as ghost hunting experts, are invited into some rube's attic or whatever, and then proceed to point out how just about anything other than ghosts is likely to be causing the "haunting."
"Sir, you appear to be haunted by squirrels up there, not ghosts."
I can see it now.
-Wallace


