More Most Haunted Live

Well, I watched a few other shows while it was on, but I did see most of last night's Most Haunted Live in Gettysburg and I have to admit... I was unimpressed.

Instead of actually investigating anything, they sat around most of the night drawing and playing with Ouija boards and planchettes. They relied solely on self-proclaimed "psychic mediums" and I somehow missed their use of any other tools or devices.

I saw no thermal imagery, heard no EVPs - well, none captured by the team - they did show evidence collected by others and some of it was fairly convincing, or at least exciting enough to warrant further investigation.

So Most Haunted Live is more an entertainment show than an actual parapsychological investigation - there is nothing wrong with that and it doesn't really purport to be anything but that. The problem I have is that we believers already have enough hurdles to overcome with skeptics and shows like this simply add more fuel to their fires.

The online chat was a blast and I look forward to more of those. The show itself was certainly decent background noise and I enjoyed having it on. But at the end of the day, I would rather watch seven hours of TAPS finding nothing than seven hours of these cats acting like Brian Harnois.

© C Harris Lynn, 2008

Most Haunted Live

Well, the chat was an absolute blast, but the investigation is a little hokey.

These guys are such performers, it's hard to know what to buy and what to roll your eyes at. Right before they cut to another group or break, one of them always falls down, gets "touched," or is suddenly contacted by another entity, etc.

I skipped last year's Ghost Hunters Live Halloween Special because the one I saw the year before had some pretty glaring "FAKE!" moments. In particular, I recall seeing Steve give a visual cue to someone off-screen right before a break before realizing he was on camera when he did it. He stopped short and tried to play it off, but it didn't work.

Now, giving the benefit of the doubt, there is no telling what Steve was really doing or trying to communicate - but seeing as how I'd been watching for like three hours and nothing was happening and everyone basically knew it, it certainly seemed "obvious" that he was giving the "let's scream or something" indicator. With tonight's Most Haunted Live, they're a lot more... brazenly full of shit.

The sketchy psychic (the self-proclaimed psychic who doodles pictures while the others "investigate") was talking to the host earlier when he suddenly goes, "Who are you!? What are you doing here!? What do you want!?" Quickly, we swapped-out to Camera 2 for a pan, where we found the host on the ready with a, "We'll leave you to it while we go back now, live, to..."

They also spend a lot of time doing these cheeseball "seances" and shit. The one that really got to me was when this "psychic medium" or whatever said something about how an entity named "Mike" 'doesn't care what he's going to do tonight,' and the woman there immediately started taunting this entity. A moment later, the medium fell down dramatically, claiming Mike attacked him.

A lot of the people writing in are cheesy, too. They're all praying for their safety and claim to sense an Evil spirit over this one's left shoulder or that one's Western knee. Whatever.

Dear Most Haunted Live:

Let's dial it back a notch or 40, can we?

© C Harris Lynn, 2008

Most Haunted Live Chat Right Now!

We are in the Most Haunted Live Chat right now! The team is live, answering questions in real time. There is a problem with the feed right this moment, so I wanted to remind everyone while we wait for them to get it straightened out.

Come on and join us and make sure to watch tomorrow night's investigation on the Travel Channel!

© C Harris Lynn, 2008