Supernatural 14.13 'Lebanon' Commentary

                                            
Loved this one especially this season, the paradox worlds and how Dean (Jensen Ackles) wanted Dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) back in his heart more than getting Michael out of his head.  I said that was a little one dimensional in his wish seeing as what would they do after getting him out of his head.  It was a little like the three wishes a genie grants and they kinda cancel each other out, no matter how on the ball in your thinking you attempt to be, or how good your intentions are.  Same here.  What I loved most was how they added subtle flashes to their past and past eps.  Going into new territory but also old and Supernatural at its most exceptional in the early seasons.

Sam (Jared Padalecki) putting it simply of how he just saw Dad there on the hospital floor and not being able to say goodbye which is all he wanted.  Too close to home and brought it all back again, cos I wanted the same thing too with my dad!  To be able to say goodbye in person.  Lots of Winchester man (and woman) tears in this ep again.  Played straight from the heart (and not just Dean's - ha!)

The fact they got all those artefacts/supernatural objects and just came across a windfall, Sam just wanting to pull the cord on that teddy.  Hey remember the other teddy Wishful Thinking.  Yeah somebody should've done it.  Then going back to lore, baddie of the week, as well as Dean having to mention John Wayne Gacy's cigar box.  Heck clowns, Sam that could only spell trouble.  As well as Dean just parking Baby in the midst of all that trouble.  How easy was she to steal!  Then Dean's line of Sam hating clowns but having a penchant for serial killers.  Wasn't it good to burn his ghost.  But again with the faulty, slow lighter again.  Another harkback to the good ol' days.  I'll allude to those since some of the best eps were when Supernatural was just into 'monster of the week' territory.

Time changing, going backwards or whatever and everything being altered was as reminiscent of My Heart Will Go On with Balthazar (Sebastian Roche) and the Titanic not sinking.  Loved the part where Sam was a nerdy, self-help guru type and heck what happened to Sammy being a lawyer for good.  Dean being wanted again and those Blue Steel poses.  Yet Dean beign the voic eof reason here, when he said he's happy with who he is and knows who he is, whereas Sam not osm much.  Especially after Sam says that's what they could find themselves becoming.  Bottom line: Dean wa salways confortable in hsi own skin and doing what he does.  (Dean: wanted for so many beheadings, tell em baout it!)  But that he a step ahead in Goolging himself!

So an ep wouldn't be complete without angels and Zachariah (Kurt Fuller) who was still attempting one up on humans with his sidekick (which got typed as sidelick ha) in tow, in the form of evil Cas (Misha Collins).  Well maybe not so much evil, as smite-ful Castiel.  Even menacing with a display of his wings in the diner.  Cos yeah dude it was a flash to the first time he appeared to Dean after gripping him tight and rescuing him from purgatory.  Was waiting for Dean to say that, whilst still appealing to his better nature when they were fighting.  But that didn't happen.  Sam had to resort to sigels?? As Cas had to be saved but not Zachariah as he was already out of the picture.  Let's not forget Zachariah's reference to Constantine by calling Cas this.  Yeah Cas!  Who replies he's not familiar with that reference, Zachariah, 'you wouldn't be'.

As said before Eric Kripke made reference to Constantine when he wrote the character of Cas and I explained that in my Supernatural book, as well as my Matt Ryan/Constantine book.  I didn't notice at the time but did Cas have his old trenchcoat, will have to look.  Anyway, a year later and Legends of Tomorrow came up with a Supernatural crossover, only using Baby and other references not actually with Sam and Dean (Jensen/Jared) themselves.  Their act of revenge, ha.  Actually never did get that Supernatural/Constantine crossover I dreamed about and wanted so desperately.

In all the time they were out fixing stuff, Mom (Samantha Smith) and Dad must've had a good chinwag to catch up and it was immensely satisfying and heartbreaking the way Mary accepted John back and how he couldn't believe she was here and alive.  Then having to lose it.  Dad accepting he had to go back.  Back to another world, dimension, whereas we thought he was going, ya know elsewhere.  Okay I did.  But seems he was dreaming about his encounter whilst still hunting with Dean, at least.  Not sure about Sam.  Everyone able to have their moment with him cos all Dean wanted was a day even with just the family.  Sam agreeing he was right after all.  Some emotional scenes for many I can tell ya!  Cas walking in missing everything and wondering what happened...

References to Hand of Glory again mentioned in Red Sky At Morning.


Extract from the Matt Ryan Book P133-134

Inevitably when  Constantine aired, there were the inenviable references and comparisons to Supernatural and Castiel.  Cas all sexy angel with his trenchcoat and tie - loosely tied with the obligatory white shirt.  But everyone should wear - scratch that - all handsome men need to wear a white shirt and that goes back to my friend and I saying that to someone in college.  Well amongst ourselves cos it would've gone right to his head!  However in my Twitter poll that never was, I already got down with that and would've asked (well they didn't do polls back then) Who wore it better - Constantine, Cas or Columbo?  Hey, way before the comics were conceived, Columbo was making his own waves with his crumpled trenchcoat fashion statement.  Crumpled or otherwise! The white shirt and tie too.  So whoever wrote that in their article should've got their facts straight about that trenchcoat; tie and white shirt!  Cos when Supernatural first aired with Cas - I made those Columbo references and even to Misha Collins who plays Cas.  As well as in my Supernatural book and you know no one single person has a monopoly over their costumes or wardrobe!  If it looks the part, suits the character - where's the harm in that anyway.  Oh and let me also add all those film noir going back years had the hero in trenchcoat too, Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca say!

However, let me add that Columbo's wardrobe was no coincidence and it was actually Peter Falk who wore his own wardrobe and to his audition too.  The shoes were his and so was that shabby raincoat.  As were the mannerisms which were all ad libbed by Peter himself.  So let's hear no more about the trench/rain coat and who did it first!!

Eric Kripke, creator of  Supernatural  admitted he was into those  Hellblazer  comics and  Cas was a direct derivative of John Constantine.  (See later and also in my  Dudes and Demons Supernatural book!)

Referring to Supernatural as I wrote that was inexorable.  Even if I did that when I was watching Constantine.  There were many similarities between the methods used to fight demons (since they are commonplace anyway) investigate etc; so it could be said.  Besides Supernatural also did the same and I had to jump on that bandwagon too.  Heck people even criticized Constantine having an accent.

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Ghost Adventures Quarantine "Dybbuk Box: The Opening"

                                             
Zak talks of how he didn't feel well especially after sitting on the Devil's Rocking Chair from ep 3.  How he had scratch marks on his back.  He said it was a message to him but he doesn't know what that means.  He continued with opening the Dybbuk Box.  Also commenting on there being a full moon.  I said that too, that with all that fear and energy is way out of proportion that he chose this time to open the box.  Explaining the Dybbuk - the mysterious figure from Jewish mythology.  He also feels that things prevented him from opening it in the past.  See 2018 Hallowe'en Special.  He also talks of a black, cloaked figure in the hallways.  Which he has seen personally.  Making you feel uneasy and withdrawn.  His tour guide, Virginia explains how she saw a figure by the Witchcraft Room. 

He speaks with Kevin Mannis, the original owner of the Dybbuk Box and he tells of the experience he had with Post Malone.  Recall how he suffered some mishaps after that, if you want to call them mishaps.  Zak felt a jolt through his body and he felt like something was going through him, like a conduit.  He felt terrified.  As we know, Kevin gave the box to his mother for her birthday and she had a stroke due to touching the box.  She felt "pure evil."  Kevin says the previous owner and others summoned an entity.  Thus the box leading to WWII, the Khymer Rouge, Korean War, the Bohpal Indian disaster.  The woman wanted to trap the evil and made the ten different boxes.  He has two, there are still eight.  The boxes "align with the tree of life from Jewish Kabala mysticism."  The lowest foundation is the tree of life.  There are two more, Kevin has six.  The boxes will reunite and unleash evil.

Aaron takes readings of EMF energy and Zak leaves a time lapse night vision infra red camera.  They remove the glass case and feel like they hurt their back.  Zak shoves Billy out of the room and says it manipulates you and Aaron leaves the room.  Zak wants to open the box since he's an investigator and has prepared for this.  All this time leading up to opening during a pandemic.  Perhaps the box was leading to the pandemic; wanting to be unleashed at this time.  Zak collapses and has to sit down.  Gary Galka also hasn't experienced anything like this before.  Zak had a nightmare about Gracie and about the virus.  Strangely it was actually Billy's dog that died!

Zak shows then what he captured on the camera, however the puff of smoke goes towards the right, what comes under the box towards the left.  It appears to be the same strange face that Zak shows in the puff of smoke.  No one mentioned it though. 

The blue on the bottom left looks like a creepy sort of a face.  The blue by the door on the right also resembles a face, which is a different frame to the shot that Zak showed.
Zak says the eyes resembles the eyes of a beast from nineteenth century literature and feels they caught the eyes of the Dybbuk entity.

Whilst heading towards the Box, Zak feels he is being stopped somehow.  He just want to see what the entity looks like and not go into any battle with it.  Setting up equipment to show the opening.  Don't you think the outside of the box looks like a smirking face anyway.  He tells the box about what happened with Post.  Opening the Root of all Evil box.  Zak tells Aaron to stop saying what he did, when he hasn't said anything.  The static detector doesn't detect any energy around the outside of the box.  Zak sees a black shadow by the wall behind the box and they hear a sound.

Zak has to sit down and he hears the Direct Link device say "Kevin."  I hear "Peggy."  Maybe it's me but I have a certain experience due to her relating to tweets.  Also the child's voice they hear, could it have been hers?  What does she sound like anyway, not having been to the Museum.  Also they do show a camera aimed in her room??!! Is it a coincidence that they had a camera there on her room.  The child's voice sounds like "help us."  Got chills when I heard that on my right wrist and an itchy feeling and again when typing this!  Am wondering if it had any significance to the Holocaust and WWII as the owner was a survivor. "Evil" comes through on the spirit box.  Billy says the temperature of the box raises 6 degrees.  Zak uses the SLS and gets a figure inside as soon as he commands it to "appear." 
Static now appears all around the box left by the paranormal figures. 

When he picks up the Roots of Evil box they hear a sound.  They investigate the Museum as Zak carries the box through it.  Had to laugh when Billy asks if he wants to say anything when he put the recorder on the skeleton's chest.  'Speak through your chest dude', ha.  Billy is adamant he respects it but doesn't need to touch it.  He touches the box and he respects it and protects himself.  He won't let it hurt him.  Zak doesn't see Aaron black out as he falls to the ground.  Jay didn't say anything either to the others.  Billy hears "I'll f**ing kill you."  Er, Aaron didn't say it!! 

Zak acts weird, going into long sing-y phrases.  A light anomaly is seen when Zak tells it to show itself on camera.  Billy reminds them they mess around and when they get home in two nights something will happen.  Zak tells him he just marked his destiny.  Billy disagrees and repeats he respects it.  Zak starts rapping the box table.  He doesn't understand why he did that.  He just knows he's being manipulated by the entity.  "The lifelong investigations on our bodies begins."  Three days after the investigation, Billy's family dog died.  What happened with Peggy after the box was opened is what I wanna know!!  Zak commands the entity to return to the box.
As for destiny, well you make your own and your fate is already written.

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.   

Dead Air Resurrected: Nick Groff & Elizabeth Saint

                                              
Just a quick summing up of the interviews on the show and some comments on the main points.
Agree an open book and how the Ghost Adventures doco was made. so much blood sweat and tears and cheers to us for getting to watch it. Those shows were amazing and so fun to watch. I don't really think people as mike said this was you r show and you came up with the idea. Which is what I wrote when I penned the book and it's obvious also from reading Nick's own book!  Even the name of the show wasn't his creation! That's what grate from the beginning and even now. As there's a certain book out there which has Zak taking complete credit for the show which isn't the case and I hate that.  I know I shouldn't take it personally or anything and I don't but I have ranted plenty on it, but it's so damn unfair taking all the credit for something that he didn't even think about doing!!  Anyway, water under the bridge now.

But moving on this was a great listen so open and honest as Nick always was and still is.  Nick was watching the Sallie House news and he saw it live and came up with the idea of a show in that sense of investigating and the paranormal was his interest since he was little.  So the show was his baby.  As was the idea to just go off and investigate the paranormal in locations he was interested in.

Nick: "It was my journey it was meant to be!"  Wowee the title I used for my book included journey too, Nick Groff A Paranormal Journey!  Great minds ha!!  The rest as they say was history if you haven't read his book do so, it has all the lowdown on everything!  GA came from Nick.  When Nick decides to come clean on what really happened between him and Zak it'll be on the show, I'd love it if he does reveal it on your channel not cos of some morbid curiosity but for closure and to put it to rest once and for all.  At least for the fans. I know Nick has put it behind him but sometimes it helps to know without being controversial or bringing up old wounds.

Looking for ward to the new show: Nick Groff Investigates and pushing the limits of investigation using different ideas/theories.  Communication is key with each other as human beings and validate with documentation and he's at a different point on his life right now. Journey is about gathering info for these brains forget to live, laugh enjoy life...forget to live a little bit doesn't have to be so serious all the time!"  So agree with Ken and should let children be children and not have them subjected to watching such shows until they're able to make their won informed decision.  Just not for the sake of watching it.

Great to get a shout from Nick live on air!!  Here's my comment: "Great to see Nick and being so fun and so completely honest as always! Always good listening to him and his ideas/thoughts etc!"

Elizabeth Saint spoke of her time as an engineer, paranormal investigator, actress/model.  As well as the sad loss of her sister and not being able to be with her family at this difficult time.  But she hasn't let anyone publicly know about it.  Which is fine as grief is very personal to all of us.  Her daughter Charlize also is five now.  Wow time does fly.

George asked an interesting question about the paranormal and this pandemic, which is what I also mentioned on #HauntedHour (Paranormal chat on Twitter.)  She said it wouldn't be difficult to say that there wouldn't be.  Referring to the energy, as it's global grief.  Not being to "mourn properly" and they can't do that right now.  Like being together and just hug.  Not knowing how long it will take to be able to see loved ones.  "I think the energy of that and mention building up overtime I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't ramp up the paranormal...has the ability to open new passive thought...so many of us are forced to be internal and react to what's going on."  There aren't distractions they can turn to being in quarantine.  "Interesting to see the outcome of it, the overflow people not being able to celebrate the loved ones that have passed."    Elizabeth has had experiences with her sister too a few weeks ago.  Pause for thought.

She also thinks that investigations and experiments can be done remotely instead of in person.  Especially with being in lockdown.  Elizabeth says you can be influenced when surrounded by a group of people. Either passively, psychically.  Yes I noticed some activity going on behind her, over her right shoulder.  Watch that side of the room behind her.  Thought it was me, but George mentioned it in the end.   Towards the red marked area.


A response is just that and in a period of time and take it as that.  Sometimes she said people can get lost in the technology of a human event.  The technology can validate but should retain "the purpose of what they're trying to get out of it ad sure as hell shouldn't be causing arguments."  Which is so true, won't bring up 'paraunity', really how much is there out there as everyone is trying to outdo each other in making the next breakthrough or discovery.

Elizabeth calls herself  analytical and self-critical as she's got so much going on in her head.  As well as talking about her great gadget inventions, always so interesting to hear.  "As well as removing the human element as I think people affect their equipment more than they realize."  When she spoke of her communication boxes.  "Experimented with light, lasers, mirrors and using different elements to reflect off the lasers to see how that would affect the space."  See there's so much out there to use to investigate and make new inroads without having to use the same equipment which can get tedious if everyone is using it. 

Paranormal Lockdown UK was shown in the UK so we did manage to see some more of Elizabeth's equipment and it did come in handy and results/activity were obtained.  She'd recommend a recorder and "just experiment using a circuit."  George saying Elizabeth is ahead of her time in investigating since she has her engineering degree and experience.  The Geoport is a good piece of equipment and people have had activity with it.  Activity has been experienced and also in the home.

Thanks guys, George, Mike and Ken for a great show!
Dead Air Resurrected: 28 April 2020

Ghost Adventures Screaming Room: Demons In Seattle Decoded Commentary

                                                  
Just a commentary on what I saw and made some notes in response or just in general. It's not meant as a 'be all and end all. to this investigation, but more as so if you wanna jump in and criticize, or get your knickers in a knot go ahead, it's just an opinion and not written in any particular order.

What about making money off it.  Well what about other cases where this has happened re Black Swan Inn, with children and subjecting them to that activity and not moving out but didn't criticize that. To name one investigation.

Reading people: yes by all means go ahead, but not judging them when you don't know them personally just for the sake of it; which is how this came across. There are ways to express one's feelings tactfully and with some decorum and respect but in this instance looks said more than words and oh boy, if looks could kill!

It's not the first time they've encountered anyone whose life is in danger or they perceive it to be in    danger themselves. again I could go into the investigations but if you're that interested I don't need to do it, look them up for yourselves and do your own research.
With respect, Bishop Brian D Ouellette hasn't been on every single investigation with Zak when he tweeted he's encountered activity every single time when their investigation involves demons and can only speak to the ones he has been on.  Each case is not the same as the other.

How is Zak even judging what women will do in such circumstances, none of you are women, we're not all the weaker sex even when such activity is concerned don't speak for all women. Did you ask anyone or take a female investigator along - no!

It came across as how they were all in agreement and trying to justify each others' opinions, all you were doing is recounting that investigation and your own feelings, opinions.  Did any of them carry out any objective, unbiased research of their own or read what is out there instead of outright dismissing it all.

No Aaron spirits don't always know your names but do want you out. You misinterpret EVPs so much so who are you to judge and then make ill-found assumptions based on them.  Anything pointed out to them they don't want to know or even bother going over again, unless the mood strikes them, or whether they see it tweeted from followers.

So what happened with IR light on camera???? Didn't say! What happened to the camera going out in office?? How did it drain unexpectedly??  From getting no activity to this equipment "malfunctioning" but they didn't offer any explanations for it.  Was it malfunction or something paranormal??

How can Tina "check him" when they're in the dark??  Also it's not funny as they burst out laughing! Plenty of other people have done much worse to them.  Don't forget this was all edited for the show.

Why wouldn't spirits want to check them out without actually revealing themselves - they haven't seen them before.
But you all also do know that not one investigation reveals all.  Manifestations don't occur on command.

Zak's 'influenced by hysteria' too in other cases and he can talk about sensationalizing, he asks leading questions. Not all demonic infestations will be felt, at least not immediately.
Look at the doco and the UK team research. They found others living there more so the Irish settlers in the past.  Demons In Seattle Uncovered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAsPe63vWEY&feature=youtu.be
with parapsychologist Steve Meera and paranormal analyst Don Phillips.  Does it make any difference if he hadn't heard of them or that they were from the UK.  No not an iota and well, many haven't heard of Zak either.  What's that got to do with the credibility of an investigation. All you need to know are credentials and their findings.

Not talking about it objectively but passing judgement as if they're all right and there are no other explanations.
Why would everything be captured on camera.
They've had other cases where I thought the show has been boring cos of little or no evidence and not much was going on. So again contradiction that everything will happen on cue and will get activity every single second there.
Did Zak even watch the doco so now he's tarring investigators with the same brush they can say the same about him, you don't need to know them just how they conducted their investigations and they're findings.
Stop being defensive recall their first GA doco and how they went to experts to explain their findings and show not made up, same thing with Keith. (I'm leaving Nick out of it) well you Zak say you research, do research, look them up. He has researchers do your jobs. Also it was as if someone just said to him 'oh so and so came to investigate the house from UK, mention that too.'

This ep more like a gang initiation of 'if you don't agree with us, you're wrong.'  Okay maybe gang isn't the right word, a college initiation for a fraternity.  Steve is a veteran parapsychologist with many credentials approved. NO research into the history of the land not in depth anyway by GA.  How was this episode 'decoded' when all they did was just share the same views they held back when they investigated.  We had already gathered which way the investigation was headed and the outcome, conclusions from it.  Just adding their voices here to what they already said and thought.  Sorry (not sorry) but with so much controversy involved in this, there had to be some give in actually doing something about it if not convinced first time round.  There could have been a return but no.  They didn't even question past residents of the property.  Though Zak had wanted to do a Ghost Adventures ?? episode on the investigation.  How would that be any different or varied when he wasn't willing to accept any further evidence or debate findings rationally.

Where they took samples of the substance pouring down the walls and analysis in the doco, found it was some form of oil.  Don discovering another case in Australia where this happened too, there was the occurrence in Zak's Demon House doco, where oil poured from the blinds in the window. Showing this can't be so easily dismissed.

They went into this ep blind without finding out what's been happening so not in any position to actually talk with an unbiased opinion. Especially with the 'oh really is that what happened' attitude from Billy and Aaron and I would've expected more from Jay.  Also in that he would have had something more to say than just being in agreement.

SO anyone looking for any rebuttals, further instances of contradiction.  In Zak's book Ghost Hunting For Dummies let me be so bold as to add the following.  Oh who am I kidding, I don't need ot be bold or anything of the sort.
P9 "there are many different types of hauntings.  No two cases are ever exactly alike. When conducting your research, you're bound to discover various kinds of activity and sometimes, believe it or not, it will be at the same location."

Also para 5 P9: "ghosts don't always make an appearance."  he explains how tehre can be noises, footsteps and the like. Or objects flying around as by themselves.  "...lights and appliances behave erratically or phantom smells come and go without logical explanation."  With reference to the IR light and the camera going out, which as stated, the cause behind it wasn't explained; was the problem even found.  "In other words you never know what you will find in a haunted location and hopefully, this book will help you prepare you for that."  Clearly it did not help this particular episode of the show.

& para 6 P9: where he says that you will probably find certain things in a haunted location, but not everything.  "there exist a great many misconceptions about ghosts and hauntings..." such as not having sheets over them, or chains making sounds (as in A Christmas Carol) and he says they're not out for revenge to to kill/harm.

P10: "There seem to be few clear-cut answers when it comes to ghosts.  For decades, ghost researchers have wondered what force or intelligence lies behind a haunting."  Yet many a time just don't want to put in the hard yards of revisiting a location to carry out further investigations even after being invited to do so.
Granted this book isn't  good one to turn to for answers or quotes as I didn't find it very good, but it was a starting point.

P11 "Paranormal researchers do not uniformly agree on what makes a place become haunted, how spirits behave, or even about what ghosts actually are.  There seem to be very few clear cut answers but that should never stop us from searching them."

P138-139 What Are Hauntings? contains some more points too many to mention here which are relevant in this context .  Basically P138 is just a repetition of P9 in relation to sounds etc, however he again mentions "manipulation of lights, electrical devices..." once more in the context of their equipment being affected.  (See above.)

Some paragraphs for perusal from the Zak book I wrote back in 2015:

Locations:   Yes GA investigations take take three full days and nights.  Historical research, interviews, experiments and lockdown.  Not just one night."  as I said sometimes it'd be good if can do more than one night especially if there's not much happening at a location on that night.  The next night might prove more fruitful.  Also I'd be good to try  Lockdown longer than twelve hours and the usual "from dusk til dawn."  Maybe 24 hours and see how the investigation differs or changes over the two nights.  Whether they'd get the same evidence or something completely different.  Zak: "I don't believe length is important.  I believe the right energies within people can open a location's doors to spirits."
In the documentary they spent over 2 weeks investigating various outcomes. Let's also say that sometimes length is important particularly if nothing is coming through.  Come back later, different times, days etc.

But sometimes the length of a lockdown could be seen as important if can't find anything the first night or not much happens, as said, leaving time to conduct other experiments too and with varying pieces of equipment.

Zak: "because investigations don't end when we leave - that's why I did 'Aftershocks."  28 April 2015.  Somehow I get the impression he was meant to say cos spirits still carry on after they leave their investigation.  
Or perhaps that's when more activity begins,  They're no fools do they really want to be observed, at least not every spirit wants their haunting captured on camera for the living. 

To end let me quote this, it's not just about writing, it's also about filming, interviewing, analyzing, discussing...
It's another reflection of the world we live in and quite frankly it doesn't hurt to be civil, especially if you're writing something about someone which will be read by plenty of people knowing full well you're going to garner all sorts of reaction from it - good bad, positive, negative.  It's just pandering to the masses who are quick to judge everyone and anyone who may have a viewpoint different to their own.

Ghost Adventures "Bloodshed in the Bordello"

                                             
Another episode where there's more skulduggery, murder and mayhem in a town where saloons and bordellos from the past lead to all manner of hauntings for the present. They find themselves in Globe, Arizona again and this time investigating the Drift Inn built in 1902.  As I said bound to be many spirits driftin' in here.  In particular they investigate the apartments above the bar where residents say they have seen and heard ghosts.  Megan mentions her grandson's room and he speaks of seeing monsters where they fight other ghosts.  Zak saying he's referring, or could be, to the murders that have taken place there.  In particular two.  One where Joe Ludwig was lured upstairs and had his throat cut, perhaps by a prostitute, then had his heart ripped out and dynamited.  However his murderer was never found.  So that right there is one lost and uneasy spirit.  Even after all that happened to him, they couldn't find his killer so he didn't get justice.  Also why rip his heart out, what was behind that??

Zak saying "this town is pretty haunted." Yeah dude like you haven't been there before, The Gila County Jail ep back in season 16, 2018.

The second Vic, Richard, also met his demise in the same room 18, however as the rooms have been renumbered no one knows which room it is.  But they suspect it could be the one where they placed the static cam and got a white misty figure or light anomaly.  That looked like a woman in a white dress to me, or wearing undies!  The room where the camera went blurry and where Aaron was affected as they separated later in the night.  He was really affected in that space and was there a long time.  Zak saying he was marked since he felt a burn at the back of his neck and found a red mark there.  Warning he should never go back there.  Using an SLS near Aaron reveals a stick figure which appeared to be engaging in some sort of activity in an angry manner.  Appeared to be fighting, which is what Megan's grandson described.

Also since there were two similar murders in bars in the town where a gunman shot and killed four people.  As well as the same happening in 2018, as described by Stacey, where four were shot again.  Including her best friend.  Jay and Zak saying it's history repeating itself on a loop and the same events being played out over and over.  This time the spirits selecting one person, vulnerable or not, who lets themselves be influenced and opens up to them to carry out the crime.  My sister said the same at the same time about the history aspect.

As Zak enters her grandson's nursery, he places a toy truck on the stand and as he goes to look inside a tent, which in itself looked strange as he appears to not poke his head inside.  He says he felt he was pushed.  As he stands up and walks past, the truck slides off the stand.  After various debunking, such as walking past and I said he should just jump again, which he did, it doesn't move at all.  Hey similar truck parked outside in the alley when Zak tells Billy and Aaron that they should leave a recorder upstairs and then use a walkie to talk through it in an attempt to catch them off guard. 

They capture an EVP which says "go upstairs and I'll cut your throat."  Then why would it actually say that if a victim is being lured.  They, he wouldn't reveal its intention.  "Go upstairs and I'll cut you" is what I hear as if he's warning the person not to go up there. Perhaps since another murder, or drugging was taking place.  They do hear noises, banging and screams.

Aaron gets "hello" on the spirit box.  As well s a male voice, "listen" on the Direct Link.  A woman says "just step back."  Male says "three" spirits are here.
A few anomalies are caught, one coming out of Zak's left side of his chest when he asks about why his heart would be removed from his chest and voices coming through on the Direct Link Device.

When they investigate separately, Billy lies on the bed, which they think could be the original 'murder' bed. Using the Ovilus he gets two responses: "Nice that" and "Their Violent."  Agh Ovilus and spirits can't get your grammar right!  Ha.  Billy then gets uneasy and hears Zak scream to find he had gotten himself stuck in the child's chair and it fell off his butt.  No one realized that Aaron didn't come running.  When they check on him, he's not doing good at all.