Ghost Adventures Quarantine "The Summoning Experiments"

                                               
Another ep leading to more on a homeless person attempting to spit on them.  There's a comment hat comes to mind but I won't mention it here, for lack of sensibility at this time.  Maybe later when we can all laugh at certain things going on right now around us.  So Zak ends up giving Jay a few treats for lugging around cameras and carrying the load whilst filming in quarantine.  Can't help thinking it was a bribe to later sit in on the Ouija board with Aaron.  Yeah just why he couldn't do it is anyone's guess - again.

Billy and Bill Chappell put together a series of  equipment that was 'given' to the museum by a woman's family who was conducting experiments in opening portals and gateways.  Well I shouldn't really say experiments.  But left behind an extensive set of notes where she was communicating with demons inviting entities through.  She was found dead by the equipment she was using.  They've gone from not wanting to open themselves to darkness and dark entities in past episodes to actually doing so now.  I'd comment that it hasn't gotten anywhere closer to finding answers into the afterlife.  It's just generally communicating with the dead, entities and evil spirits.  Rather than getting questions asked to move investigations up a notch or two.  It's what I said before, we know there is some sort of an afterlife, but why, how, what happens etc haven't even barely been considered. 

This experiment was just 'testing' her equipment if you like and see what happens for themselves.  Which is fine if you want to do that but how will this affect the museum, as we already saw with the clown and the circus wagon lighting up by themselves, or so it appears to us. 
Putting card into input wells and how demons were coming through.  She was photographing herself whilst going through a possession.  The realtor told him all of the story thus he would carry out the experiment in reactivating all her machines.  He reads some of her cards and papers and also has her original Ouija board.  She mentions the "seventh hell."  They put it back together, using a paranormal puck 2.  An EM resonance device, the Ovilus 5 all connected together to her equipment, and Bill 3D printed his own input well for their own questions.
Was she referring to the seventh circle of hell as stated in Dante's Inferno, which is 'violence.'

Bill types in "hello" and receives "malevolent."
Asking if it has a problem with what they're doing here, on Bill's end it comes through with "object" and "threat."  "Gateway" comes through as well as "writing."  Billy writes out her name and puts it in the input well, as well as his own and Bill's name.  Bill's camera stops recording.  They hear a bang.  As an anomaly enters Billy's arm.  Aaron and Jay use her Ouija board.  Billy uses the Polterpod and asks who's in there with Aaron and Jay.  I hear"tracking it" not "travelling."  And something like "the scissors" ??  the board spells "JAY".  Then "DIE" and "YOU."  Billy asks who is there and "L" comes through on both pucks.  The initial of the woman's name.  But how bizarre is that it only an 'L' comes through and not her entire name.  Just cos they weren't revealing her name either!  Billy tells them he added Jay and Aaron's name in the well too, but not Zak's!!??!

Jay also gets affected by the Ouija board and he puts it down with his past experience with it.  Remember his name has also come through in other eps.

Zak places a digital recorder into one of the input wells and they hear something, which Billy analyzes to be a growl and also a type of vibration.  When Zak also says his heart rate increased.  Referring to infrasound the "equivalent of an inaudible manifestation."

Zak reopens the Devil's Chair rehashing the story behind it and even sits on it before having a strange feeling.  He speaks with Carl Johnson again in the Harrisville Farmhouse, who worked with Ed and Lorraine Warren.  As well as mentioning the ET interview with Kevin and he had back problems after he mocked it.  Zak gets tapped on his shoulder when he gets the Devil's playbox.  He gets spikes on the EMF reader.  He gets a stick figure on the SLS and then the chair rests its arm on the chair as well as sitting on it and doing something strange.  So many anomalies were detected by the chair, yet none by the cross.  Zak and his high pitched exasperation at what was showing up.

Ghost Hunting For Dummies - Zak Bagans - Review

                                              
You may like or loathe this review just as you may like or loathe the subject matter of this review.
Even before there was 'controversy' over that book, Ghost Writing for Dummies, I had a sneaky suspicion it wasn't entirely 'written' by Zak Bagans.  It wasn't his 'style' of writing and am glad I made reference to this in my circle of friends and also some DMs.

On the book itself, it wasn't really at all what I expected.  Most of it read like the info had just been gathered online and it wasn't as if you couldn't really research for yourself online, or in libraries which hold far greater and more diverse material.  Okay it was revealed that Troy Taylor wrote the background parts, such as most of the introductory, early parts/chapters etc but what was wrong with mentioning that to begin with, even if he said he wanted to remain anonymous.  That was like taking credit for everything and duping others.  All that was required was an acknowledgement stating he had help in those sections but the writer/author wished to remain anonymous.  Then there were the sections where reference was made to certain important or significant conjunctures in the paranormal world, such as the Fox sisters.  Man I thought if they're mentioned over and over to strive to bring a point home it was too much repetition.  Then in other sections/chapters what went before wasn't alluded to or necessary and included were quite a few contradictions too.  I wasn't purposely nitpicking but I found a number of holes.  Oh hell who am I kidding, of course I was, the entire purpose for a review.

Having said do 'this, that and the other' if you want to become a paranormal investigator, it then turned all this around on its head and stated things like not arriving at locations with preconceived ideas (done all the time on TV - otherwise they wouldn't even enter the place).  Prima facie they're not there to debunk, but attempting to draw conclusions, including asking leading questions which can put a person on the spot and get them to agree to what is being questioned in the interview.  'Most important thing an investigator can possess is common sense and not to contradict oneself over what is found or what is being investigated'. (My words.)
He says you can call on "qualified paranormal investigators" if you feel your home is haunted, what makes them 'qualified' since there are no qualifications to become an investigator and experience isn't everything.

Charles Dickens was mentioned but the Victorians and their ghostly beliefs were barely touched upon seeing as they had so many different explanations and their fascination with spooky goings-on.  Is it any wonder so many Victorian mansions/houses are haunted or exhibit paranormal activity of some form or another.. Culminating in their love of ghost stories but more importantly in how the mood of the era created such interests.  No mention of djinns and mesmerism.  The onset of science and new developments in technology went hand in hand with the onslaught of the supernatural and the ability for people to believe this wasn't just magic or a trick of the light but a genuine inroad into the occult.  There was a period between the onset of science and peoples' beliefs called mesmerism, one propogated by Charles Dickens who was a firmly of the belief that he was a Mesmerist.  Mesmerists believed they could cure physical ailments by putting their subject into a trance and passing energy into their body.
Proposed by Franz Anton Mesmer in Paris, it was discredited by scientists.  [A Key To Physic and the Occult Sciences by Ebenezer Sibly, circa 1800's.]

Other proponents of Pyschical research was Henry James in his works and also since his brother was William Jams; a part of this Society.  Author Robert Louis Stevenson was a member of this society too. Then there was Madame Blavatsky who was associated with the doctrination of the Mahatmas underlying her Theophysical Society.  Their 'Hermetic Secrets' could be pursued by those who joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.  Those who vigorously fought over initiation rites included William Butler Yeats, and Aleister Crowley - would've thought  Crowley would have been mentioned considering the number of times reference has been made to him in Ghost Adventures eps.  Okay I'm not here writing my own discourse.

Typos, omitted words, some basic sentence formation, indicates a rush job.  As for contradictions how can scientists not understand and relate to scientific principles.  It's their subject matter and an investigator he won't be up on science at all.  Maybe just some parts of it.  

As for the chapter on research, 15, I always said they don't research enough for GA.  There is a wealth of information about certain locations that is left out, not found, or no one is overtly concerned with, which can shed light on another aspect of their location that can be investigated. Thorough research can provide a vast amount of knowledge.  P120 Ghostbusters is riddled with misinformation not only whose idea the script was and penned by Dan Ackroyd, but other aspects of this too. 

P139 it is well known fact by now how and why ghosts are thought to remain on Earth without delving into this. Traumatic events, violent deaths etc.  Something holding them here.  Or as my mother always says, briefly, they are the souls of people who have been wronged and aren't at rest.  A little simplistic but it sounds so much better in her native English which is lost in translation.  

There is plenty in the book which is familiar and having a memory that retains everything, certain sections gave me a sense of deja vu and having read them before elsewhere on other sites. 

There was nothing on some Ghost Adventures investigations whereas others were mentioned which didn't have that much of a significance.  Would've been interesting to know about the past ones, such as Preston Castle and why Zak has never returned there after having such an 'experience' there in his encounter with Anna.  One question that wasn't ever answered when asked several times.  That's just one of the places not revisited.  But the sections where these investigations were alluded to made the book much more interesting.  Then again Ghost Adventures and taking complete credit for the show wasn't very much appreciated especially since others (one other nameless investigator ) was involved in the concept and getting it off the ground.  Fine if you don't want to mention him and if I was him, I wouldn't want to be mentioned either, but don't make out it was "all you."

Typos, yes there were typos and sentences that didn't quite make sense.  To be traditionally published this could've and should've been more professionally produced.  Also the publishers adding references to the next edition comes too late since people have already bought and paid for one version.  How could this have been omitted to begin with, without references pertaining to relevant chapters doesn't make for a complete book or ? reading.  This book isn't the be all and end all for anyone interested in becoming a paranormal investigator as there are many other good ones out there that take a more realistic pragmatic look at starting out.  Or should I say it's not the be all and end all.

This is all my opinion and thoughts but don't all go jumping on the criticism bandwagon, it'll just show your insecurities and not being able to take criticism of your fanboy in doing the same thing.
Was written in January, edited April and left festering in the drafts as I thought I could come up with something different to include but thus far haven't.  I enjoyed his other two books more than this one!  Go figure or not!

Ghost Adventures Quarantine "Extension of Darkness"

                                           
Zak talks about the masks they wear and how close they are to the street with homeless etc and others who walk by.  Er discriminate much.  How close are you going to be walking to the fence/gate anyway and no one else could be infected!  Well it's not really sneaking out if you go next door with no one around.  See he just said it, the homeless could be infected!  Oh boy!

Billy and Aaron investigate the house next to the museum that he bought from Mike.  Visitors have reported seeing a woman in the window.  His mother passed whilst sitting on the toilet.  Wonder if that black mass they capture in the Polaroid had anything to do with her passing.  Zak and Jay investigate the museum basement.  He mentions the State Bar of Nevada employees again and how they wouldn't venture in the basement by themselves.  An actress contacted them that someone was participating in devil rituals in the basement.  As well as saying that women and children died here.  The actresses's brother saw a boy here.  She sent him her brother's birth certificate as proof.  The Wenger's the original owners had a son, James who died there.  The museum had a different address at the time.  Would love to research the history of that location and house if I lived in Vegas, with access to all those records.

Zak mentions The Jail Room again where he keeps artefacts of the serial killers, as well as Charles Manson's bone fragments and ashes.  Here the museum cameras catch a white light anomaly.  The basement ritual room is directly under the Jail Room.  A woman spoke to his bone fragments and she got dizzy and felt she was being stabbed in the stomach.  Zak reminding everyone he collects the artefacts to investigate the paranormal.  He speaks with Jason Freeman again, Manson's grandson.  He tells him about the white light and Jason tells him it's all darkness "waiting for you to pursue that."  He warns Zak against it.  But obviously it won't stop Zak.  Thus the ep title.

Jay strums his guitar in his trailer and Billy and Aaron document the evidence from next door.  As well as an EVP.  Sounding like an old woman who says "come back."  Billy set the recorder down and he was walking back and that's when he got the EVP.   Then shows him the Polaroid with the black mist.  There's a face or two there if anyone's into that type of thing. 

 The blue reminds me of a woman

 This part I get the sense of something watching from here.

See faces in the green

They've caught pictures like that before.  Also Zak we didn't need that over exposition on the black mist.  We've seen them before in GA.  He also mentions the old gun found in the museum ground as reported in the papers and on-line at the time.

Zak goes into the basement alone, the X-Camera next door catches an anomaly upstairs.  Aaron's camera malfunctions "E-95."  I thought it could be someone's initial and a year???  Either that or the duration of VHS tapes used to have that numbering, eg E180.  When Zak goes downstairs, he says just cos he owns it, "doesn't mean that this is one of the most terrifying places that I've ever set foot in.  Cos it is."  Shouldn't he have said 'doesn't mean it's not one of the most terrifying places', makes more sense.  When he walked through that oval doorway, I knew something was there or would be, again that's where my eyes were focused as usual. Ha.  Especially also as he hears a noise back there like something dropping.   A light anomaly comes through all that way.  As well as the light anomaly goes over his left shoulder when he asks for it to show itself.

When Zak gets the distortion on the camera, there appears to be a real eye circled yellow. That's about where the door knob would be.  In the yellow looks like a girl.  The red resembles women with dark hair.  Although the red on the right could be a distorted, screaming face.  The blue looks like a family akin to stick figures.

Aaron and Billy get nothing on the spirit box.  Billy uses Gary Galka's shadow detector.  Zak and Jay uses the Van der Graf generator in the Jail room, releasing positive ions,  Jay keeps touching it over and over, reminding me of Homer Simpson.  Not being funny.

Jay tells it to channel itself through him.  Was he meant to electrocuting himself by touching it.  He later said something was in his home as a result of this ep.  Which is strange in the sense that this sort of thing doesn't happen to him very much.  He's the one of the group who is least affected by anything or most things.  He wonders if the serial killers who were electrocuted were affecting him.  As he changes in demeanour.  Zak says they risk it to "reap the reward of the evidence".  However he's not the one putting himself out there in that way as much.

Aaron and Billy use their phone experiment to communicate with the spirits.  The X-camera catches a breath downstairs.  Aaron's camera goes off for the fourth time. The SLS stick figure looked like he was beating on someone. 

 Then the SLS goes off.  Why did Jay sound like Billy to me??  There aren't any voices on the spirit box when Zak uses it. Then when he uses the spirit box when entering the Jail room he asks for a name and a female voice comes through and says "the floor."  Was this a reference to the pentagram in the basement below, or that the room is above it?  Jay feels he got stabbed in the back. A male vice says "serial" after he asks "who did you attack."  Another voice says "belong to."  It's not "go into."  Zak looks at Jay and says "hey buddy."  He asks whose bones they are, "come."  It sounds more female not the same deep voice.

A strange sound is heard from the microphone in the Jail cell.  Jay acts funny after feeling anger, rage and the static charge energy.  Zak has to explain that's the first time Jay has done that. 
Strange before watching this ep I had a dream of having to go to Vegas as my niece was going and I felt I had to go with her.  Not for sightseeing or anything but just for a quick trip and having to be there. Would be good if eventually this was meant to lead me to the museum.  Eeek maybe it was calling out to me!

Ghost Adventures "Quarantine Perimeter of Fear"

                                        
IT took a pandemic to get more coverage of the Haunted Museum, though it seemed like much of a recap episode with just how certain people have been affected. Re summaries about the said artefact and its history.  I see there was no disclaimer for Peggy now, that flew out the window, so much for banging on about this and forgetting about this now.  SO where was your legal team now?!  Or have susceptible people/viewers gotten over looking at her when her eyes are meant to instill heart attacks in people. 

In the Kevorkian room he shows women fainting and passing out.  One of them screams when she wakes up and says something was there in the room staring at her. So if that ii happening to women, why is it only selected women and why not all of them or more than just one or two one each occasion.  Spirit's fancy.  Zak asks why women are being attacked and doesn't get any response on the recorder.  Ah remove your mouse from Mike's face.  He just tells Zak what he already told everyone about screaming.  As Staysha also says the same.  Took a while to get the others out of the room though.  Aaron gets a weird feeling like someone/something is affecting his heart.

Gretchen doll was from England as she threw things off the wall and moving by herself.  She's terrifying his staff affecting their breathing.  Cynthia spoke to them when Bloody Mary was involved in a ritual and called her "mama."  Lily's hair came from a little girl who was the victim of violence.  Peggy we know about. 

He also talks of the room where he keeps Natalie Wood's artefacts and objects.  A glass case with the candles from the table where Robert Wagner broke a wine bottle came part on one side.  Zak was removing a mannequin and put it on the floor.  Well nah he chucked it on the floor.  Dennis, the captain of their yacht had an experience at the same time.  Where all his things were thrown and messed up and he says they were just flying out.  Mannequin was "placed" three times on the floor.  Again they had to show it that many times.  He and Zak feel the connection.  Dennis apologizes for the way things turned out that night.  Zak talks of the pandemic and how it may have a "rippling" effect around the world.  Well it's a global pandemic so obviously there's much more going on than anyone can say.  People are afraid and there is massive energy around for spirits to feed on.  I've said that before.

Zak gets an anomaly on the SLS when he hears a knock and sees it disappear into the clown dummy.  Though they have no idea what that was or who.  He sends Aaron through a secret room with a tunnel where he crawls into a gypsy wagon.  Huh thought of Gypsy (Rose Lee) for some reason and Natalie Wood starred in the movie version!  Have no idea why that popped into my head.  Aaron runs a spirit box and hears a female and male voice.  Something is thrown in the Sideshow room.  Zak uses the Ovilus 5 ITC feature where spirits can draw pictures.  He sends Billy to the Kevorkian van room and carry out some communication.  When Zak asks why he's affecting women, the reply is "Enjoy slaves."

Aaron uses the spirit box and hears a female voice "behind you."
Man: "don't look back" is what I hear not 'move' back.  Aaron gets aggressive and demands answers but he was just doing what Zak does and when he demanded as the owner for an answer.  There an anomaly go past Aaron.  Obviously it's not dust!  Billy asks why he makes women faint in the room.  Reply: "shock."
Message says: "a quite in pain old person here."  I hear "look like in pain old person here."
Aaron gets the same male voice: "it's me" not "it's hiding."
The puck says "killed gently." "Gail Guess."  Jay finds it was a Hugh Gail who was killed in the van. "I'm tired, I'm burning"?? is what I hear when Billy gets the breathy voice. 

The haunted dolls experiment with all four dolls.  A stick figure appears next to Peggy, knew that would happen to her.  It was incredibly large. Was it on stilts ha. Aaron feels two hands on his back after he sees Lily.  Billy's full spectrum still photos shows a figure or an outline of a child.  Though I saw a face or two.