YOU TUBE IS OFF THE WARPATH!  GHOST HUNTERS ARE GOING BACK UP ON YOU TUBE!

GHOST HUNTERS - SPEAKING WITH THE DEAD

Rather than focus on the K-II Meter, since my position on the reliability of the device has been mentioned in excess, I think time is best served on other aspects of the featured investigation. TAPS faced a number of challenges in this episode, and while one could debate how well they handled those challenges, I’m not sure they had many options.

The location was ridiculously huge. TAPS has investigated several locations of unusual size over the course of the series (just about any asylum or hotel comes to mind), but this felt a lot more imposing. Investigating a location that size definitely sounds like fun, but it raises a number of complications.

TAPS mentioned most of them in the episode. First and foremost, there’s the issue of coverage. How can five investigators, even working on their own, cover a location that large, even accounting for several nights of work? They did have a few hot spots that they could focus on, particularly with the monitoring cameras, but there was still a lot of ground to cover. I think some team members were on their own more in this episode than in any other instance.

(An aside: Kris notes how TAPS members normally wouldn’t go off on their own. Really? Because it always seems like Jason and Grant send Kris on her own. Hence calling her the “bait” all the time. Maybe that comment was intended to remind the critics that a cameraman is always with her?)

Getting back to the monitoring equipment, that raises another issue. I’m sure they could have used a lot more equipment, particularly the static cameras and wireless audio. It’s hard to tell how much they did deploy, thanks to the editing, but I can’t see how it was enough to deal with all the potential problems. Areas would be left untouched, and there’s also the very real problem of “site contamination”. I know there’s some degree of site security involved with the production, but can a building that size really be secured tightly enough?

Review on this program by entil200 continues at the above video location.

 
                                                          

September Archive   August Archive    July Archive   June Archive