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progressoid

(50,747 posts)
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 11:25 AM Oct 2015

G - G - GHOST!!!

A little pre-Halloween treat.

Ghost Hunters on Syfy might learn something from these charlatans.
How can you go wrong with a radio magnetic detector pendulum!





These three newsreels from the 1950s and 1960s take you on ghost hunts at various places around Britain - a house in Brighton, a pub in Amersham, and a cottage in Wilbarston, with a medium in attendance.
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G - G - GHOST!!! (Original Post) progressoid Oct 2015 OP
Scare us? Why, I've always found ghosts to be quite friendly. Binkie The Clown Oct 2015 #1
French & Saunders AlbertCat Oct 2015 #2
The one that made me LOL...and despair for humanity... onager Oct 2015 #3
But don't you know, ghosts are made of pure energy. Binkie The Clown Oct 2015 #4
One of my friends had ghostbusters come to her house. beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #5
I just see the shows as pure entertainment sakabatou Oct 2015 #6
I just see the shows as pure entertainment AlbertCat Oct 2015 #7
*shrugs* sakabatou Oct 2015 #8
 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
2. French & Saunders
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 01:09 PM
Oct 2015

They did this spoof of the British equivalent of "Ghost Hunters" where the paranormal investigators are at The Tower of London.... feeling a presence....in the women's bathroom...

hysterical!


But I can't find it on YouTube, alas.




(BTW... "Ghost Hunters" drives me nuts! It's so stupid. A bunch of grown men in some old building walking around intoning "Is anyone there? Who are you? Do you have something to tell us?" Then, in this old house to hospital or whatever some board creeks and they're all "WHAT WAS THAT???? Did you hear that?" ...like a bunch of 8 year olds at camp. So lame. I can't believe people watch it)


Tape recorders and PLAIN COMMON SENSE

onager

(9,356 posts)
3. The one that made me LOL...and despair for humanity...
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 03:42 PM
Oct 2015

It was one of the "ghost hunter" shows but I'm not sure which one - just happened to be flipping channels and saw a bunch of excited people in an old house.

One woman ghost hunter, while waving around her Electromagnetic Field Detector, was shrieking: "A Presence! LOOK! I've detected a Presence!!!"

Sure enough, her EMF Detector was swinging wildly and pegging the scale.

Probably because she was holding it right beside a working electrical socket.



Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
4. But don't you know, ghosts are made of pure energy.
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 07:33 PM
Oct 2015

Which means that in the 1 second it takes to notice them, they are already 186,000 miles away.

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
5. One of my friends had ghostbusters come to her house.
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 07:45 PM
Oct 2015

I think I told you guys about it, what a racket.

They don't charge but hit the marks up for donations repeatedly.

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