Real or Fake From The road

  Greeting from the road! I thought this would be a great time to update my blog and save some time of twitter chat to tonight. I've had questions about "haunted places and haunted shows," so I thought I'd address a few;


  Most Haunted, Real or Fake?

Most Haunted and, more directly Derek Acorah do not take seriously the existence of ghosts and the spirit World. Derek Acorah is a fake. The program is a set up, with edits throughout and most things filmed 'in the dark' are simple examples of what cameras and added after-effects can do. You want some proof of this? Watch this, then NEVER watch Most Haunted in a serious mindset again; what you are about to witness shows that if they've done it once and got away with it then there's nothing stopping them faking the whole thing. It makes Most Haunted out to be nothing more than a profit-making con. I've heard comments like 'oh yes, Most Hauted makes good T.V.' - maybe so, because it places the viewer under illusion, making them think 'shit, you never know what's what'. Well, I hope the following will help disregard those thoughts and show Most Haunted up to be the bullshit pisstake that it is.

THIS is what the viewers would of seen, the version that was aired - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZCChwZL17A

And, THIS is what was ACTUALLY filmed - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uD0dPhr9cQ

..erm, th second one shows the evidence that it IS fake, but just watch Yvette Fielding's face anyway, trying not to laugh...

My sincere condolences to true fans of the show that actually believe in any of it, and have done for a long period of time.

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What About the other TV shows Like  Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, and, Fact or Faked Paranormal Files?

Here’s the simplest answer:  No TV show is “real.”  The question is how real — or fictional — it is.
I’ve discussed this topic several times. The following are the key points.
Ghost Hunters is a “reality” TV show. Reality TV is a category, like sitcoms, dramas, mysteries, and so on.
Even documentaries have an editorial slant that affects what’s in them.  So, they’re not “real” either.
Live coverage of a news event might be as close to reality as anything you’ll see on TV, but even that has its limits.
Only reality is real. I’m not trying to sound clever when I say that.  The truth is, if you want to see what a real ghost hunt is like, go on one.  Ghost Hunters is an entertainment show, not a ghost documentary.

So, go on a ghost hunt or investigation.  I don’t mean an organized, staged, ghost-related event.  I mean an actual investigation of a site that might be haunted.
(Some ghost-related events, including paid events, are actual paranormal investigations.  Others are scripted like classic ghost tours, and guaranteed to provide a few laughs and chills.  Usually, you know what you’re getting when you pay for your ticket.)
TV shows may represent actual ghost investigations.  However, after the shows are edited, pass through the production process, and are tweaked to provide pre-commercial cliffhangers… they only vaguely represent what goes on at a real ghost investigation.
The boring stuff is left on the cutting room floor.  Often, the exciting moments are enhanced to meet the viewers’ expectations:  People watch ghost shows on TV to be entertained.  They want a “good scare” each week, but — after a few years of watching ghost-related TV shows — the audience become more & more difficult to startle or impress.
Producers have to increase the drama by any means possible.  Some have more integrity than others.
This doesn’t mean the stars of ghost-related and paranormal shows are “fake.” The cast members of most paranormal TV shows, and the majority are very honest people.   Several have years of (unpaid) experience in paranormal research, too. Zak Baggins rented cameras on his own accout to make the first Ghost adventures. That is not the act of a dishonest person in this field at all. So
if anything was staged, they didn’t know about it… not before the show and possibly not after it.  (Most don’t watch themselves on TV when the shows air.)

Amityville Horror

You have the internet. Otherwise, you would not be reading this. Google it and you wil cry bullshit as well. FAKE


 "The Haunting in Connecticut

Some advice? If you read the words "Based on true events" either in regars to a movie or book, grab you're bullshit detector and turn it on. The Haunting in Connecticut" tells the story of the Snedeker family, who in 1986 rented an old house in Southington, Connecticut. Allen and Carmen Snedeker moved in with their daughter and three young sons. While exploring their new home, Carmen found strange items in the basement: tools used by morticians. The family soon discovered — to their horror — that their home had once been a funeral parlor, and the eldest son began seeing ghosts and terrifying visions. The experiences spread to other family members and got worse: Both parents said they were raped and sodomized by demons; one day as Carmen mopped the kitchen floor, the water suddenly turned blood red and smelled of decaying flesh; and so on.
Finally the family contacted a pair of self-styled "demonologists" and "ghost hunters," Ed and Lorraine Warren, who arrived and proclaimed the Snedeker house to be infested with demons.
TheSnedekers have told their story many times, including on national talk shows and in a Discovery Channel TV show. The film's poster states in capital letters at the top that the movie is "based on true events." Yet others aren't so sure. Investigator Joe Nickell reports in the May/June issue of Skeptical Inquirer magazine that the Snedeker's landlady found the whole story ridiculous. She noted that nobody before or since had experienced anything unusual in the house, and that the Snedeker family stayed in the house for more than two years before finally deciding to leave.
Apparently being assaulted and raped by Satan's minions for months at a time wasn't a good enough reason to break the lease. Yeah I'm laughing now too.
The Snedeker's story first came to light in horror novelist Ray Garton's 1992 book "In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting." In an interview in "Horror Bound" magazine, Garton discussed how the "true story" behind "The Haunting in Connecticut" came about.
Garton was hired by Ed and Lorraine Warren to work with the Snedekers and write the true story of their house from hell. He interviewed all the family members about their experiences, and soon realized that there was a problem: "I found that the accounts of the individual Snedekers didn't quite mesh. They couldn't keep their stories straight.  Ed warren was said to see this problem too, and was reported t to have said. 'Oh, they're crazy,' he said…. 'You've got some of the story — just use what works and make the rest up… Just make it up and make it scary.'"


When something or someone in this field is proven fake, all of us take a hit. Now if you wish to fake a photo, to call yourself a Ghost Hunter to impress the ladies, just don't pass it off as real to the rest of the masses..untill the nex time...