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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
Sorry but Im going to defend GH here....THEIR goal is to go in these places and DEBUNK the claims of hauntings....LOTS of times they find other reasons for the "evidence" people think they have. Hell They are one of the only ones that debunked the Queen Mary
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Well I'll tell ya. If I were doing a TV show about ghosts, and I wanted to gain credibility among those who think they're skeptical but who really will believe in ghosts at the drop of a hat, that's exactly how I'd do it. "debunk" a few famous hauntings and then find a supposedly real one.
It never ceases to amaze me that people won't believe the national and world stories they see on the news, but then go out and insist that an entertainment show is absolutely 100% real. Ghost Hunters is for *entertainment*. It's in the same category as Crossing Over. It's only as real as the producers want it to be.
People dearly want to believe in ghosts because if they were real it would offer proof that there is some sort of afterlife, and that when we die "we" aren't really gone. That gets all sorts of interesting results - such as the other thread around here somewhere where the OP has a bad light switch and immediately blamed the paranormal.
If you look hard enough, there isn't one single haunting out there that can't be explained by non-paranormal means.