Ghost Adventures "Emergency in Elk Grove"

Zak talks of the kind of investigations they do, fun, serious, adventurous and they will put their lives on the line for others to help them rid them of their demons and paranormal woes.  Driving to Elk Grove, California, he tells the guys the dangers.  Also Jillian's friend, Jessica talks to Zak about her troubles.  Jessica won't even go inside right now, but she has been in the house before and has had her pony tail pulled.  She says her spirit has changed and believes what's happening is a result of her father's death too.  She's feeling distressed at that very moment.  He says there is a demonic entity in the house.  She moved in November and noticed something was wrong at once.  The statue of the Virgin Mary flew from the shelf.  She called her father for help and he died a few months ago.  She believes the entity played a part.  His stove was turned on and the microwave fire turned off by itself abut he died after smoke inhalation.  She had a fire in her house beforehand when the stove turned on by itself and the fire in his apartment was three days later.  Her father told her to ask for Zak's help if anything happened to him.

The stove was turned on when he was sleeping.  She saw bloody handprints around the light switch and the door and one print was found on the outside of the door and he died inside.  She felt her arm being pulled and she had a thumbprint on her as well as having her hair pulled.  She kept the microwave.  Zak places the recorder on the microwave and footsteps or a noise is heard upstairs.  She says the noises come from the back bathroom.  Aaron says he can't hear what Zak's saying and Zak has a weird look.  As soon as he says they're going to banish it, the meter spikes.  Zak wants it to do something.  The EMF was increasing on the Virgin Mary.  His left hand turns cold as soon as he calls out Jamie's (her father) name.

Zak speaks with Michelle and Matt, her friends of twenty years.  Michelle had her hair pulled and Matt was pushed down the stairs after being attacked in the bathroom.  The entity gets angry if anyone touches her bed.  Zak is left in the room with them and Billy and a growl is heard.  Zak screams.  The EMF freezes on 30.3 as Aaron takes Polaroids.  Zak knocks the camera out of Jay's hand and laughs maniacally.  He feels something jumped into him and left him powerless.  Aaron says he hasn't felt this scared for Zak since Poveglia.  What about the Reseda House of Evil ep back in 2016 when Zak had that weird, creepy expression on his face.  A Polaroid photo shows a snake-like creature behind Zak by the dresser.  Jillian kept some of her father's belongings by the nightstand where Zak was facing in the photo.  

It's funny I took the pic from my phone from the computer and that patch of red where his head should be is strange.

Zak uses a boom microphone inside with Aaron.  Zak gets afraid as he feels the entity at the top of the stairs.  A light anomaly goes behind Aaron and Zak is tongue tied.  They also see a black mass by her bed.  Zak then sees a black/white face go in front of Aaron.  It was where the nightstand with her father's belongings nis.  A bloody dollar bill is seen to move by Zak.  Aaron's camera just happened to be blurred.  The dollar was on top of the wallet and when it's shown again the dollar is now on the envelope and the wallet is above it.  Did Zak move the wallet and put the dollar on the envelope or did the wallet move leaving the dollar where it was.  Zak doesn't say that or explains why the wallet has been moved??  You can see it in the scenes before and after.  I didn't see the dollar move though when they replay the blurry part.  Zak says no one touched anything in the case, so how did the wallet move??  But something/someone must've moved the wallet.

Aaron believes there's a battle going on in here, her father is battling the entity.  No voices come through on the spirit box.  Zak stares at Billy and he doesn't know until Aaron points it out.  He just stares and doesn't blink at all.  Zak realizes he's lost his sense of time and space and leaves the room.  Billy asks Zak what's happening and he gets defensive and angry as if he's trying to interview Zak.  He can hear talking.  

Jay and Billy use the XLS and a figure appears momentarily by Jay on the stairs.  Zak puts the Polterpod on the stove.  A voice says "remember."  Jay and Billy feel heat by the garage.  A female says "demon" as does a male voice.  He places the pod on the microwave and "the demon" is heard coming through.  On second listening it sounds like "it's Steven" especially on my TV???  A Native American shaman is brought in to cleanses the property.  Jillian has three scratches on her chest.  

The house is cleansed and Jillian hasn't felt any dark energy since then but she woke with another bruise thumbprint.  Zak hopes they don't have to return again.  Just wanted to know why Jillian stayed there.  Depending on how long she moved into the house and found out it was haunted, didn't she have time to withdraw from the sale cos I would have done that if it was possible.  Especially if I felt uneasy in there.  The house was creepy looking, don't like houses like that.  Also pangs of deja vu when watching this ep, particularly with the snake entity, it looked so familiar to me for some reason.  

Ghost Adventures "Territorial Enterprise"

This episode investigates the Territorial Enterprise building where Mark Twain worked.  The new owner says something is affecting people there.  Built 1876 and was the home of the weekly publication the Territorial Enterprise known as a "flamboyant" paper as Zak describes it.  The owner had been told to be careful when restoring the building.   He says there's a portal where the printing plates were sent up, so he was told.  Also Mark Twain's original desk is still there.  Zak feels a "weird connection to Mark Twain."  The owner also found remains in the building when he bought it.  A mummy was discovered and no one told him.  EMF readings show 18 milligauss.  Upstairs Zak is affected by fear when he reaches the top of the stairs.  Sandy, a psychic stands on the fifth step where she doesn't like it and wants to move.  In 2000 she says people were pushed on the stairs and negative energy in the building.  Books flew towards them.  

They find the Knights of Pythias building as someone told them about the hauntings there.  Built in 1876 this was the first structure in Nevada belonging to the Knights.  Akin to the Freemasons, new members are initiated and have to come across a skeleton in an open coffin, blindfolded.  Tom was thrown out of the ladies room by some force.  Child spirits are also present.  Disembodied voices are heard.  I heard some kind of voice when they ask if anyone heard it.  Zak describes how the experiences are similar at both buildings.  

Billy shows the evidence and they hear four different voices and they all sound like children.  All having vocal tone.  A little girl sounds like she's saying, "I touched the glass."  In response to Aaron asking if she broke the glass.  One of them says "Aaron Goodwin."  Seven more EVPs were caught.  The voice they say they reacted to doesn't sound like "kill" but "hear it."  At 16.09.  Particularly as they said they heard a voice and it could be repeating what they say or asking if they heard it.  It's two words, not one.  

Billy and Aaron open the locked door underneath the boardwalk.  They don't find anything there.  Billy captures a figure on the SLS as Aaron sits at the desk in the Enterprise building and he misses it as he's talking to the camera.  They don't get any other figures there.  Billy and Aaron hear the Ovilus say        "Dispose" "Lift" from the mummified body.  The X camera captures a groaning sound from upstairs.  A voice says "I'm trapped."  They both become agitated.  The IR light on the X camera starts flashing.  Billy uses the Paranormal Puck 2 and "sit" comes through.  "Person" wants to talk.  "Malevolent."  Billy: "who said Aaron's name?"  "Crystal."  "Burn."  "Ceiling."  Tom said the building caught fire and the ceiling fell in and killed people.

A light anomaly is caught in the Knight ballroom. As Zak does EVPs on the first floor.  Voice 2 sounds like "get back." ??  Seems they don't like the restoration.   Another anomaly is seen.  The last part of voice 6 says "I need help."  When Zak asks "what is in this building?"  Does it say "terror or horror"?? Zak puts the recorder down on the chair and gets more voices.  Voice 8: "it was over..."                   Voice 9 "get out...hide"??   Zak is afraid in this building.  Trying to get upstairs Jay hears a noise and Zak says it feels like they shouldn't be there.  One voice is heard: they think says "pray for" and Jay sees a ball of light.  The light goes towards Jay's hand.  Zak feels the voices he captured led to a negative attachment following him home and stayed for around 3 days.  

As Zak said earlier in the ep, the experiences at the two buildings appear to be similar.  In which case getting the EVP asking for help, as I heard, makes sense since Aaron and Billy also caught the "I'm trapped" voice at the Enterprise building.  Also did the attachment go with Zak as it was curious or was it cos there was something/someone there caught or being held there and it wanted to see if they got it out.  

Ghost Adventures "Haunting in the Hills"

What is it with these houses and red lights, a bit like his museum. 

Hollywood Hills again with GA and Zak speaks of a different kind of energy being here.  A castle house owned by Holly Madison who bought this house 9 years ago, built in 1926.  She has been plagued by unexplained occurrences and a year and a half ago she saw things began to be more intense.  She heard noises after she bought the house.  Sounds of falling objects and her door burst open during the night and still she sleeps there and lives in that house.  Especially considering who knows what could happen next.  She's also heard voices and people standing behind her and thought it was an intruder, at first.  She had a seance with Patti Negri, as well as her friend Bridget.  Her door dead bolted during the seance.  Didn't the activity got more intense due to the seance.  What was the point of doing that with everything that was going on anyway as she says it was just for fun.  May as well have brought out the Ouija board.

Bridget saw a shadow across the room and heard scuffling.  Patti mentions one spirit of a man who lived here and didn't want to leave.  As well as liking antiques.   Dr Joseph Reese lived in the house and he collected antiques and sold such in an estate sale.  Their researcher found a clipping from a newspaper advertizing the sale.  Patti describe his personality as "hot and cold."  Zak mentions his own collection and people touching his stuff which he hates.  Holly became angry and felt emotions not her own.  Zak thinks the hill is alive with something.  Patti says there's a vortex here.  Krotona  Institute of Theosophy built a compound down the hill in 1912, and he thinks they could've been compelled by this vortex.  

Holly has encountered one of these creatures she describes as akin to Gollum in Lord of the Rings.  She tells Bridget about the demon-like creature but not them, which Zak overhears.  Gerardo Morales. her gardener heard the same growl.  Zak uses the Trifield meter as Zak talks to Reese and the meter spikes.  It jumps again when he asks if he's in front of Holly.  He asks for a noise and they hear something upstairs like a thud.  A light flickers in the ceiling, was this due to what Zak just asked.  It flickers again.  They leave cameras behind in the house.

Zak believes there are portals throughout the Hills.  Jay is sent to investigate outside in the mountains.  Leaving him out on his own again as in the Saltair ep.  Of course anyone could've been out there, not just animals or a spirit, but human.  Zak uses the SLS and doesn't get anything.  That house was horrible though, I wouldn't live there, haunted or not.  Not just cos of the creepy vibe but generally it was small and ugly.  More footsteps are heard upstairs.  The seance was for fun, and part of the ceiling fell down the day after.  

Aaron uses the spirit portal device without success.  He tries to adjust the device and the paranormal puck 2 says "adjust."  Zak uses the Direct Link and another noise is heard upstairs.  Aaron gets cold and Billy says it's the top of the stairs where the action is.  Zak enters the back bedroom and feels something different.  Sits on the floor and feels ice cold in front of him.  He spots some form of a dark mass in front of him which is picked up on the camera.  It's in front of the dresser.  Billy sees it on the camera.  Aaron snaps Polaroids but nothing is caught.  Zak uses the Polterpod and feels a static charge on the top of his head.  A female voice is heard: "who's arrived finally"??  "Where is it?"  "Gently" ??  Or something similar, have to listen again. 

Asks where it is: "staircase."   Likens upstairs to a portal.  In the basement Aaron uses the paranormal puck and asks where most of his antiques were from: where "England Stuff Constant" comes through.  Billy enters the second bedroom and says he was stopped from going in by some energy before and the static sensor lights up.  The lights illuminated left to right.   

Jay sees a light on the hill and climbs up.  It vanishes.  He sets trap cams around the area and an X cam as well as a thermal camera.  A bobcat goes past Holly's house and appears to be tracking Jay, who feels as if he's being stalked.  Jay calls Zak and tells him he's hurt after something jumped up on him.  He was doing a parabolic session and he seems to jump at something and rolls down the hill, a long way down.  He hurts his leg and he falls dangerously close to the cliff edge.  He saw something dark moving towards him.  His leg catches in a tree and prevents him from falling off.  Did he fall or was he pushed and was what happened meant to stop them from investigating further as they did just this  

3am is Devil's hour not witch's hour, thought Zak would've said that seeing as he's into his demons.  They play back the recording to Holly and hear something in the kitchen.  They capture some banging from downstairs, sounded like something falling, was it in the kitchen though, as it sounded like utensils being thrown.  They also play her the wood creaking floor and the voices.  Movement she says is in the staircase area as she hears or sees something everytime she sets the alarm when she leaves.  Thought Zak was all into helping everyone and not just "someone we know [an ex] and a "friend in need."  Don't think everyone would be helped out unless it was something that stood out in the haunting.  Didn't much like this ep, all they did was just confirm her house was haunted, now what??  The Haunted Hollywood ep was far more interesting and yes it was already known the Hills are haunted.

Ghost Adventures "Terror at the Toy Shop"

 

Anticlimactic ep of GA, at least for me, after I kinda got excited about a toy store but it was more a costume store and toys that went with that.   Zak mentions how they were called in to investigate here so this ep was different from the norm.  As in the past they have helped out other families, such as calling in exorcists.  This building has a dark force which is impacting all the employees at Hollywood Toy and Costume.  In 1930 a five-a-dime-store opened at 6600 Hollywood blvd.  I said it wasn't 666.  In 1991 there was a fire and was taken over by the homeless and drug addicts.  1995 the current owner moved in.  Frank says he was being attacked many times.  One was on the stairs and he almost fell when he felt like he was being pushed from behind.  Zak feels it go ice cold when he's speaking with Frank.  He put holy water on the devil's mask and they found the mask on the floor.  Thus Zak surmizes that the spirits are evil.

A lot of poltergeist activity which could have been that or not. With the arrows falling out after Zak asked them to. As well as the staff being terrorized by a shadow figure it appears. Were they calling out for attention or mischevious spirits. Though the place has a very dark history after there was a fire three times.  As well as it being frequented by the homeless. Being told of deaths on the property where the floor couldn’t be seen due to the litany of DBs. Were those deaths classed as homicides, suspicious or just junkies with an addiction. 

Troy shows them CCTV of many captures.  Everything was covered by after the fire and he tells them that bodies were left below.  As well as the manager showing them footage of a book or file flying or being thrown off a shelf.  Poltergeist activity was cited but what if it's a spirit you just couldn’t see.  CCTV footage shows the glass breaking or being broken behind a cabinet as though something was trying to get out, was released or again was it just vying for attention. 

 

Billy and Aaron photograph a dark figure behind some shelves where something was moving.  As Frank said he saw something dark walking behind the shelves after boxes had been moved. As well as someone breathing behind him.  Some light anomalies around Aaron when he, Billy and Jay sat round the table using a new paranormal energy puck device, was seen three times around him; why Aaron and a stick figure was also captured by Jay on the SLS which was also near Aaron.  The spirit on the portal device doesn't say "I'm dead" sounds like something different like "I'm in" or "come in."  A female says "bishop"??  Jay said they didn't have any last rites so this makes sense, unless it's a name.  Yeah can imagine Zak "prowling" after spirits"  HA.

Zak gets "hook 'em."  He gets a female voice saying "take care of me."  Not "green" after he asks "what colour are you wearing?"  A box is moved upstairs which all three of them hear.  Zak concludes they will keep on monitoring the store to gather more evidence, why the spirits are here and the existence of an afterlife.  But by now that an afterlife exists, would thin we need to know what happens in that life and where they are exactly?  

Ghost Adventures "The Great Saltair Curse"

 The Great Salt Lake, Utah.  Where "the echoes of the past" reached out to Zak to investigate here.  He feels like being isolated and the waters are "mysterious" as not much can live.  The Saltair is a venue in its third "reincarnation" and is a venue for events.  The Saltair underwent three fires and the venue was burnt down in the '70's.  Seen in the film Carnival of Souls.  There was a third attempt when the Saltair was taken over by the waters.  Today is a music venue.  Maile tells him about Saltair Sally whose remains were found there.  There were other bodies discovered in the general area of the property.  She talks of the green room and here she hears voices and the temperature drops.  He feels aggression and she describes the same.  Zak gets a red area on his arm, which gets darker, were they scratches, two.  Jay notices an anomaly by Zak and it enters the Ladies.  But heck man why there, it wasn't Saltair Sally of course.  He mentioned her, but he didn't say if she haunts the area or the building??  They hear a voice but I didn't hear anything.  Jay mentions the myth about the lake where water babies lure people into the water to meet their demise.  but they're not children.

The staircase where Vincent fell down.  He says he was pushed and his eyes look large and protruding.  The Ovilus turned on and he couldn't stop himself from falling.  Billy sees an illumination in the window which is caught on camera.  Zak calls it a 'figure'.  Zak sends Billy inside.  Brandon, the manager, has seen a lot of hauntings.  He mentions seeing a child and when they went outside there was nothing there.  Billy uses the Polterpod and captures voices.  Aaron thinks the mist on the Polaroid photos is changing shape.   Which Zak leaves as "unexplained."  

There does appear to a face on the right.  But what about on the left where there seems to be an actual real life-like face??!!

Downstairs Billy captures "Vincent" on the Polterpod.  When they play back the voices to Zak when he says for the viewers to decipher what they're saying:

I hear "go with us" but could be "adventures."

"We can get a fix."

Jay takes the cart of equipment to the edge of the lake.  Jay uses a parabolic microphone.  He hears something in the water.  Jay calls them to say he saw something large come in and out of the water.  Nothing is caught visually, leaving the question of what made the noise in the mic. 

They hear noises from the ceiling.  They can't confirm if it's paranormal.  Zak walks on the stairs where Vincent was pushed/fell.  Zak provokes and says he hears a voice saying "get out."  When Aaron hears a door close.  They start to panic and feel as though people are around them.  Zak returns to the dressing rooms and set up an X camera beforehand.  Feeling negative energy there.  He feels something walked behind him when he films into the mirror.  He catches a floating anomaly in the mirror using the XLS.  Zak spots a green anomaly going through Aaron and then becomes a figure hovering over his head.  They go to where the figure by the circular window was captured.  DASANC device is used by Zak.  A female voice comes through says "trying" and then says "I just did."  After Zak asks it to speak again and a male voice asks, "how?"  The female voice speaks three words.  The device is thrown from the catwalk doorway but can't say if it's paranormal.  Where Billy sets up an X cam.  An anomaly grabs the handle.

When I watch this ep properly, I'll add more to this!   Okay so watched and not much to add so I didn't miss anything.

Ghost Adventures "Cecil Hotel"

 

Part 1 

Elisa Lam whose death was hailed as "accidental" by the LA County coroner, was changed and then changed back to accidental again, stayed in one of the rooms and her roommates booted her out cos they found her behaviour annoying.  Who needs roomates like that.  She was also bipolar.  Lift/elevator camera footage shows her acting erratically in there as though she may be hiding from someone, or confronting them and without anyone actually being seen.  Which could have been something paranormal.  She was found in the water tank on the roof of the hotel after guests reported problems with the water supply.  But the lids are heavy and couldn't have been lifted by her.  Although it has been said they were left open.  She could have accessed the roof via the fire escape as one Chinese user had posted a video of this being a possibility.  Her clothes were found beside her and it was unusual since why would she go all the way to the tower, climb the ladder and throw herself in.  And closing the lid. Whereas all the other suicides at the hotel involved people throwing themselves from the windows. 

There was a "sand-like particulate" found but if she was murdered first and thrown into the tank her lungs would not have taken the water in, unless she was still alive when the body entered the water.  A lot of discrepancies in the autopsy.  Also her phone wasn't found. Patrick, a former LA crime scene photographer, could not remain in the building when taking Zak around the hotel. 

Richard Ramiriz stayed at the hotel in 1985. Zak posits his devil worshipping rituals could have opened up a nest of demonic infestation.  Zak mentions the Korean Elevator Game and whether Elisa was playing this.  He plays it himself and he does what he isn't supposed to do as he doesn't read the instructions in advance.  Here he feels something ice cold.  The lift goes to the seventh floor without any button being pushed.  He feels panicked and the presence of unseen people around him.  

Zak got Michael and Marti to investigate and Michael was taken to the water tower where he felt a presence and that there was a pentagram.  Michael feels like someone put her there and she was dead before she went into the water.  He doesn't know if it was paranormal or not.  Marti sketched in Ramiriz's room, sketching three people.  Zak mentions names of people who died in the hotel.  

Zak unbeknownst to them placed two paintings of Ramiriz in the closet without telling them.  Michael calling Marti "killer" when he enters the room where she was sitting.  He takes them to Elisa's room and Michael says Richard says hello to him.  Zak also gets a scratch on his neck that Jay sees forming in real time and a bump by his eye, as though he had been punched or scratched. 

They hear disembodied voices as they head to investigate the 14th floor.  Zak talks to Elisa and tells other spirits to keep away.  He uses the Polterpod.  Telling the spirits to use their bodies and energy to communicate.  I didn't hear "Mia," I hear "I am here."  Also she says something like I was here?? when the male voice says her name "Elisa Lam."  Why would a male spirit say her name??  just curious since we hear a female voice too which is overtaken by the male voice. Her killer??

14th floor Rimiriz's room is investigated which some people could've affected Elisa.  A hissing noise is heard.  Aaron acts strangely and hears screams and noises the others don't.  The voices try to lead him away from them.  The paintings are removed and light anomalies are caught near Aaron's head. 

 Zak playing the Elevator Game originating from Korea, where it tells them not to interact with the woman entering floor 7, but he doesn't that as he hasn't read ahead.  (See above) But the lift kept going to floor 7 with Jay when he didn't even press the button.  Also with Zak too earlier.   Something touches Zak's hair.  Aaron asks if he likes the drawings and then says "thank."  Jay talks of blank spots on the camera and Zak takes the SLS camera to investigate.  The lift door opens and a figure stands by the door.  Which Zak says was also in the lift when he played the game.  

Jay tries to make contact with the figure and the lift opens next to him.   Aaron gets a response on the spirit box  SB7.  Zak hears a male voice, I hear "up."  He takes a photo and the man gets closer to him, a dark shadow.  Jay hits all the buttons in the lift.  He goes to floor 7 when he pressed 15.  A female voice says "hey" and I don't hear "is this Elisa."  Billy gets "presence."  Who killed Elisa? "Being."  What happened to Billy asking her to come with him, did that happen?? 

Billy gets "friend" on the Paranormal Puck 2.  It wants the "living"  "female."  He doesn't feel it's friendly.  "Me" wants a living woman for himself.  Zak states they were all annoyed with each other.  Police sirens are heard outside every 30 seconds.  There's evil in the building and it stays in there, messing with them psychologically. 

They have investigated elevators before re Aaron in the ep with that dark mass in the next room.

Cool Hunter the 2006 episode of CSI:NY had a woman's body found in the water tower of her apartment building.  Based on Dark Water which itself was based on real events where a woman's rotting body was discovered after being in there a week, whilst the residents used water from the tower.  Eerily this could be a foreshadowing of Elisa's own tragic death in 2013.

Part 2 

The Great Depression led the hotel into darkness and 18 deaths have been known here.  The Black Dahlia was seen at the bar three days before her death.  Scott Michaels, historian, takes them to the rooms.  704 was Helen Gurney's room.  She threw herself out of the window.  Zak feels the emotion from the deaths and how they have grown over the years.  Aaron takes readings on the Trimeter and Polaroid photos.  712 was Jack Untervege's room.  Obsessed with Rimiriz.  He hanged himself in prison.  Dorothy Purcell was in labour and giving birth, she threw the baby out of the window.  She was described as "temporarily insane."  Across from this room, Rimiriz had his room in later years.  

"Learn Pushed Pray Fire Arrived" are captured and a spirit leading Aaron to the fire escape where it was pushed.  Also the pounding on the door capture is what spooked Billy when he was in Goldie's room, Aaron, 'help me' could have been the spirit directing him to the fire escape??  Or was it one of Untervege's potential victims, but he was the only one who made contact with it, even though he killed the women in the room.  Billy gets Jack again when he asks who are you? on the Paranormal Puck 2.  

Z gets a possible poltergeist opening the tap in J's room.  As well as a voice on the APF device saying "Jack."  I heard "I'll be Jack."  SO how did Jack get into the US if he had already been convicted of murder in Austria as he would've had a criminal record, multiple convictions; even though he initially got in as a reporter for a story.  Still he shouldn't have been allowed in.  He killed three prostitutes and was convicted in Austria of murder when he returned.  He hanged himself in prison.  He had travelled to the hotel and stayed there in an attempt to emulate Ramiriz.  

Patti in the room senses the spirit of someone who jumped from the window as she opens the window in his room and doesn't know why she did that.  As well as sensing Goldie being attacked/raped, as well.  In Jack's room Zak asks who she was and hears "your mom."  Was there a dark figure outside of the room when he hears a noise outside.   There appeared to be something moving by the door at the far end of the hall, or was it the camera frames??  Aaron gets a twisty mist coming from the mirror when he sets up the experiment in the hallway with the two mirrors facing each other.  Did he construct a portal for the spirit to enter.  Light anomalies are picked up going into the LA hat and one goes into the Polterpod as he asks about her.

Patrick Langdon takes them into the various rooms and tells them about the suicides/murders in various rooms including the countless number of suicides.  Why choose a hotel to commit suicide in or was it something else that attracted them there.  The hotel didn't have a 13th floor?? as there wasn't a number on the lift button and when Jay was going through all the floors.  Zak hates lifts - does that stem from his experience at the Jerome Grand Hotel?? or has he always had it.

That shadow figure Zak captured near one of the rooms whilst investigating on his own was so apparent, you could make out the outline in a profile-like manner.  It came so close. 

Jay hears a crashing sound in the basement when they haven't investigated before.

That black mass/stain on the floor near Patti was ominous - did she feel something then and let's not forget the creepy apparition figure, that looked like a real man!!  At first I thought it was an actual man wearing a mask, he does look like he has one on though and that bald head, uh oh not a doppelganger for Aaron and also Aaron's name is the only name said out of all of them.  (Just a thought.) 

The Black Dahlia was also mentioned as she was allegedly seen drinking at the hotel bar in 1947, before her unsolved murder.  Even Goldie 'Pidgeon' Osgood's murder remains unsolved.   Best known for the serial killer, Richard Ramirez who engaged in satanic activity.  

Heck had this in my drafts for 6 months!!  WTH! 

Ghost Adventures "Lost Souls of the Berkeley"

The Berkeley steamship 1898 where multiple suicides took place, a murder and the victims of the San Francisco earthquake were ferried on.  The caretaker has seen spirits and also something dark lurking in the bottom of the ship.  The Berkeley was a ferry operating between San Francisco and Oakland.  They had the chance to investigate as its empty due to lockdown.  Zak mentions the film Ghost Ship and how the spirits came alive and the ship came to life.  A loud banging sound is heard, and also a voice, or was it an animal??  which is confirmed by Jim, the caretaker.  Hearing noises on the upper dark like furniture or a trunk.  He tells Zak they'll hear a conversation on the upper deck of the ship.  

13th January 1911, a mining engineer had nitro glycerine in his pocket and it exploded.  He appeared to be in a meditation.  January 1903 a man commits suicide due to unrequited love.  January 1908, a man jumps from the stern.  Was there something about that month.  The man in a Fedora has been seen as well.  A full embodied figure has always been seen, Jesus probably saw the Fedora man.  The Trifield jumps with EMF spikes.  They get a response "cake"  when asked what he's looking for.  The engine room is the most active and here Zak feels a cold presence and also a sharp pain in his back.  The engine room is where the greatest activity occurs.  Zak felt like all his clothes vanished and he was at Eastern State Penitentiary and the guards poured ice cold water on him.  He was sure something passed through him. 

Aaron and Billy in the engine room and in the same place, nothing came through on the Polterpod and a voice sounds like "let ya feel it."  Feel sounds like see??  Aaron felt freezing cold in the same place Zak did.  Pistol shrimp can be heard feeding in the water which was the popping sound.  Zak hears a woman's voice and people are heard walking around.  Was it residual?? A moaning is heard but the camera doesn't capture it.  "Kill" is also heard.  I heard "kissin'" as well.  Where the voices came through, compasses were contained inside and when opened, the activity stops.  An EVP on the recorder comes through: a shrill scream.  Any connection with the voice saying "kill."  Or the man jumping overboard.  The sound was captured when Billy was talking about the first moan they heard.  

Jay hears a voice, maybe saying "hello" and a coughing/deep breath sound in the boiler room.  Zak opens the water tight door as Billy tells him to do it.  He uses the DAS-ANC and a voice comes through, sounds like "show path"??  Both Zak and Aaron are drained of energy.  Zak has back pain again.  Jay tells him about the coal being shovelled there, same as what my sister said.  He climbs onto the catwalk and captures a stick figure.  Which then vanishes.  Can you hear us is asked and "heard" shows up on the Ovilus and a light anomaly shows up near Zak.  Aaron is sent to the ladies but we don't know if he got anything at all.  

Jay heads to the cafeteria and feels something on his hair, as a ball of light is seen behind him.  An anomaly is seen near the devices and Billy's camera battery is drained.  Jay says it's quiet and then something is heard to drop or is thrown.  

Funny in the Benson Grist Mil ep they heard bicycle, as my nephew just got one that same week and in this we just made cake and they get the EVP saying "cake"  yikes what kind of synchronicity was that?  Ha!

Ghost Adventures "Benson Grist Mill"

The mill was built by Brigham Young and all Aaron wanted to do was to hunt the giftshop.  Dark shadows and other entities have been seen.  As well as the death of a child, Irene Alice Solomon who went missing and was found drowned in the reservoir: now known as the Millpond.  Aaron finds the store and goes wild in there.  Well we all recall Zak did the same in the candy store at the Sacramento Tunnels.  Aaron is sent to the school where he's told about chalk being seen thrown.  Inside the original mill, the water still flows under it acting as a conductor of energy.  As Zak says ironically where Alice drowned thus her spirit is still there.  Zak thinks it could be Alice causing the mayhem in the school. 

In the Booth barn they mention a dark shadow being seen.  Built by Hyram Booth and he thinks it could be his spirit.  

Zak meets Zack and really messes around here with the names.  Zack was using the spirit box and he heard footsteps above them.  A big man in black and Zack followed him up the stairs and didn't find him.  Zak tells them about water turbines and is actually reading off the info on the wall.  Inside the mill they hear a voice, a male who sounds like "hello" or "hey."   Aaron conducts a recording session with Zack.  

Zak maps out what they will be doing during the night and where they'll be investigating.  Jay is sent to the Booth barn on his own.  The three investigate the mill.  Using trigger objects in the school.   In the school they use a draughts/chequers board and they hear a sound.  Aaron thinks he saw a dark figure outside the school.  They see a stick on the bridge which wasn't there before.  Jay asks whose barn is this and the Ovilus comes up with Family.  In the Benson Grist Mill,  in the basement, the water can be seen under them and Zak hears a door creak open.  Also hearing an unexplained noise.  Capturing a class A EVP saying "bicycle."  Jay provokes a spirit and a loud knocking/stomping makes him fall from his chair.  Aaron's battery is drained 75% when he was by the door and the EVP was caught.

They catch a mist-like mass across the room on the static camera.  Zak uses a DASAMC with an audio spectrum display and an SB7, so no feedback is heard.  The male voice sounds like "God help me."  Zak asks why it said bicycle.  The voice doesn't sound like he says "was thinking about it."  Billy feels touched and an anomaly manifests behind him.  Another light anomaly is seen beneath Billy's feet.  Aaron uses the portal device and gets a girl's voice: "they'll kill me."  No there aren't three words.  It's a word with two syllables: "bottle"??  Makes me wonder what they actually playback or what they think they hear.  They've done this a lot in the past where what they say sounds nothing like what they say it is.  

Ghost Adventures "Mayhem in MiIlville"

Millville, Utah investigating one of the oldest homes there.  Zak feels uneasy abut this place and says he felt this way in Gary, Indiana investigating the Demon House.  The house, snow and what was going on resembled that same case.  Attacks taking place for 70 years.  He mentions the Mormons and polygamy but it still continues, even though they had to renounce it.  Cindy Lou, a descendant of the polygamist Jessop family believes a male spirit is wreaking havoc on her.  She wanted to know who he is, why he's here.  The house was built in 1906.  Her grandmother had experiences in this house.  She's never been in the attic, so didn't they investigate there.   Since she moved in, everything has increased darkly.  Her ex husband was involved in a DUI and he killed someone.  Since he left she says the activity affected her.  Her mother was also killed in a car accident.

Zak senses the fear around him and he feels uneasy during their next interview.  Steve, a tenant felt something evil in the basement.  He thinks James was possessed in the basement.  He only saw a black mass and just saw his eyes and mouth.  James didn't recall the incident.  Zak believes it is feeding on James's energy.  Billy and Aaron investigate.  Aaron takes Polaroids.  Heather is pushed by an unseen entity.  She hasn't been touched before.  She and James saw a dark figure in the living room.  Heather gets a headache again, as Billy feels the same slightly on his temples.  A voice saying "out" is heard.  James arrives and is affected immediately.  Zak warns them to watch out for him.   James uses an app to communicate.  He had thoughts about killing the people in the house.  Steve mentions the spirit box James has and it has mentioned their names.  They've been communicating using it.  Billy says when they communicate they open themselves up to entities.

Cindy mentions the child's and woman's shoes found in the grounds.  Also the closet door that was nailed shut by her grandmother.  Billy suggests there might be something in there.  This is shown by a Polaroid Aaron took, there's a large light manifesting from the door of the closet.  Also a long, snake-like anomaly by the room door.  Aaron looks through the window and it hasn't been entered for years.  Jay mentions the deadliest Native American massacre that took place here.  Zak gets the dark vibe.  Zak suffers from a respiratory tract disorder and sits in at nerve centre and investigates from outside.  James texts 20 times in an hour that they shouldn't go inside.  

Ovilus: "evil, cent, table" where Zak is sitting.  "Let God Like" when Zak asks if he likes Jesus.  Zak: " give us the name of something you want."  "Student James Southern" comes through on the Ovilus.   Aaron hears something moving outside and Zak using the thermal captures an unusual figure by the door.  A kind of evil pixie.  "Abort Unholy Chills" and Aaron says he felt chills.  Zak uses a new spirit box designed by Gary Galka.   Aaron and Billy feel cold and an anomaly jumps from him to Billy.  An anomaly goes from around Aaron to Billy again and he reacts.  As they receive a voice after Billy asks what its name is.  Sounds like "I don't know" but will have to listen with headphones.   Something touches Aaron's arm and he runs out.  Aaron is sent to the basement alone.  Aaron's name comes through the device in the basement.  Jay uses the XLS and he picks up a figure touching Billy wanting to stop Aaron coming out of the basement.  Zak says they'll do whatever they can to help this family.  

That house was creepy as it is, I generally don't like houses like that and where was the attic??  Also it was eerily similar to the Demon House and as luck, or bad luck would have it, Zak is stricken physically again, even before investigating.  Was this a way to keep him out as it knew he could manipulate Aaron more than Zak and have him under its power.  Perhaps in the same way James is affected.  As for that figure/entity on the thermal, it was something smallish and when they find something like that it always reminds me of Aaron's experience with that dark shadow figure in 6.10 Hales Bar Marina and Dam episode.  What about the shoes found, were they just discarded, did something happen on the land, or were they part of some ritual??  This one had a lot of unanswered questions.  

Ghost Adventures "Joshua Tree Inn"

Joshua Tree - why does that name sound so familiar?? and not cos of the Bible story.

The Joshua Tree Inn, California.  Where the staff do not tread and guests are loathed to stay.  Where have I heard that before, oh many episodes.  I wonder who'd want to stay here, those rooms were so dingy!  & heck not even any take out.  What happened to the GA RV now??  Gram Parsons was a country singer who wanted to be a rock star in the same vein as The Rolling Stones.  He and Keith Richards were close friends in their 'lifestyles' and music.  Gram died in room 8 due to an OD.  Deedee tells Zak of the two women having the same dream in room 8 about Gram entering their dreams.  Destiny tells Zak of room 12,2 and the other rooms and she won't go in room 12 alone, there's something in the closet.  The Trifield goes off even before Billy and Aaron went into the room.  The needle moves on cue when Billy asks it to.

Phil Kaufman, road manager and friend, stole Gram's body as he wanted to be free there.  So he was burnt at Cap Rock.  Everyone knew what he did and he was charged with grand theft.  Zak and Billy decided to stay here and Zak sees a dark figure in his room which he said resembled the "Hail Mary."  Though from his sketch it resembled more of  a body in a coffin!!  Jay and Aaron head back to the hotel and live it up to the chagrin of Zak and Billy!  Before Zak mentioned room 11 I mentioned room 11 at the Silver Queen Hotel where he made contact with Lynette, who killed herself in the bath tub.  Where he made fun of her the first time he was there.  Thus the tattoo of 11 on his arm.  He also mentions Hotel Leger and room 11.  They spot a dark figure walking behind Deedee as she talks of the man who had a "sexual encounter" with a spirit in his room, next door to Zak's room.  Okay Zak, we get it you have to sleep in the room where you saw the figure.  No need to keep going on about it.  Also not the first time he's spent a night in a haunted room either!! 

A comedy vignette follows of them in their rooms/hotel.  Zak hears a bang.  Billy also hears a bird against his window as he describes it.  Then some tapping.  All very Wuthering Heights.  If that room was cold and it was cold generally anyway, why no shirt, 'ey, 'ey?  He mentions their doors opening at the same time.  They bring in Loren Gray to investigate with them.  Okay so if you're pretty much 'famous' you can get into the show compared to the rest of us plebs!  They talk of music and Zak gets emotional and begins to cry.  Hey funny, I haven't heard any of his songs before, but when they played that song, my mind was singing the words to it even before hearing what would come up.  Hmm!!  

Zak uses the Polterpod and he hears "yeah" when he asks if Gram can hear him.  I hear "bys/buys the people" not "lots of."  He asks what room he died in and "room 8" comes back.  I don't hear "I said room 8;" but "listen to me."  The voice sounds a little like Zak!  They play his music again and the Trifield Meter needle moves everytime they talk about him and his music.  

Loren, Billy and Aaron investigate room 12.  She doesn't go into the kitchen.  A coffee pot falls in the kitchen, or is pushed, they put it down to poltergeist activity.  In the closet Loren hears a clicking sound, the hangers, but she wasn't standing near them.  Also an anomaly moves behind her near the hangers.  As well as Billy catching an unusual anomaly in the room.  Wanted to see what would happen if she stayed in room 12 by herself.  Her watch goes off and they finish investigating.  

Ghost Adventures "Disturbed in Wickenburg"

Flashback to the good old days of GA when Zak still had his mesmerizing voice.  Vulture Mine ten years ago in the investigation and came across the 30 year storm and flash flooding.  They returned since at a paranormal event, two people were affected and went to hospital  The mining has started again and the Native American believe a dark, ancient curse has been released.  1863 Henry Wickenburg founded the mine and the population exploded.  Stealing was commonplace and some miners came to take some gold off the walls causing them to cave in and they all died there.  So where was Billy?

Jay and Marie were the hosts of a paranormal conference last year.  Marie was in pain and felt a fist in her gut.  She was being possessed.  The doctors couldn't find anything wrong.  Another woman also felt like she was having a heart attack and Zak mentions the tree.  Victoria was at the tree taking the dog out and her dog wouldn't let her go near the tree.  He still did that now.  In the Assay building on the stairs she felt nauseous and even now her dog wouldn't let her go up either and she had to leave the building again.  Members of the Navajo Tribe speak of the land being sacred and burying the evil in the land which is now being disrupted.  There are monsters and "giants" no longer around as their darkness and evil was buried.  When their land was invaded and the Tribe killed, there weren't anymore humans to do the ceremony and the darkness was released.  

They carried out a ceremony and Zak catches a shadow figure in the corner behind them.  He describes it as holding a gun.  The deeper "no" sounded like "hello."  At the bunkhouse using a sacred mask, Zak's glasses are referred to and he tells them they're prism glasses and the spirits sense the crystal.  Also that he has powers to see the spirit world.  Zak has to leave.  During their investigation they used Jeff's equipment, a sort of more advanced version of the SLS: the XLS camera.   With this Zak picks up a massive, giant figure and then the camera malfunctions.  Aaron brings out the rock they collected last time and puts it on the table.  The small figure then becomes a giant again and Jay feels it go through him.  Then asks it to come to the table and it momentarily does so.

Then Zak feels something on his back and a red mark is on the side of his shoulder at the back.  The recorder says it was recording but the light wasn't on.  SO we mess around with the recorder for a while.  EVPs are captured on the recorder.  There were footsteps downstairs but also sounded like something being moved.  An anomaly is caught downstairs.  The voice that says "can you find anything quietly" feels like they were searching for something to steal and thus the footsteps downstairs.  Wish they just'd just let you listen to the EVPs for a second or two.  

Jay and Aaron use the Polterpod in the bordello and Jay feels a hand brush down his back.  Jay says he robbed a bank and he's got money.  Sounds like "Hope" on the Polterpod.  Something is thrown in the kitchen.  A bit of a hit and miss episode, the shadow figure captured was good as was the giant, but the rest seemed not as interesting as it could have been.

Ghost Adventures "Curse of Ranch Island"

 Seven miles south of the Las Vegas Strip

Zak et al investigate a compound, where the people living together are going through hauntings.  When the current owner's friend committed suicide there last year, that's when they said that the activity increased.  Adam the owner, says he doesn't want to acknowledge the activity here as he doesn't want to chance fate.  That way he won't be affected by it.  There are ten people living there.  Adam says he doesn't have any experiences.  His friend hanged himself around 4am and he doesn't know why he killed himself in this place.  Investigated where he hanged himself,  Marieya takes them to a room where she was staying and she woke to find someone standing over her.  She felt drained and knew she had to conserve her energy.  She takes the digital recorder and a voice is recorded on there.  Sounds like: "this is me, I'm watching..."  It's very rough, aggressive sounding.  The "me" could be a name.  However this doesn't mean it's the man who hanged himself.  She knows of one other spirit here.  That room was dingy and small, reminded me of the Cecil Hotel rooms. 

Abby had an encounter with a man who she thinks could have been the original owner, John.  In the original home, where Adam lives, Kamila shows her old room, which doesn't have windows and she put a security camera up before she went to Europe.  The photo showed a light coming out of the mirror.  The same night, their friend hanged himself hours later.  She also thinks she has seen the entity a "grey leg" going into the  wall of the main house.  She believes this house is haunted and believes Adam is being affected by the energy.  Aaron and Billy's Polaroids show a blue light, similar to the one in Kamila's photo but blue.  Zak left the house cos of his experiences there.  Britni, a psychic medium, tells them she felt their friend on the stairs leading to the roof where they can see the entire ranch.  She also had a Tarot card reading, The Hanged Man, which she also said was a warning for Zak.  The card representing "being stuck" and the entity wants someone else to feel it, which Zak is doing.  

They also capture something blue on the stairs.  Using the Polterpod they get some voices.  "Got it."  "Medium."  "Hate."  "Careful."  Zak says he felt light headed and panicked and so left.   They use the Tesla Coil in a circle with wires and see if they can charge up the energy from his death.  Zak puts the recorder on the beam and feels a bolt of emotion hitting him and feels like he wants to cry.  An anomaly shoots away behind Billy.  Zak reenacted the suicide when he got up on the stool.  He recalls having the same feelings with the mummy's foot at Ripley's.  Cool air surrounds him.  A voice says "I'm coming" and they feel something rush on them and Jay feels something pushing down on him.  On the SLS Zak captures a figure which appears to be struggling and writhing in pain, right where the rope was.  Appeared to be the man hanging himself.  Zak says "go to the house" in a deep voice.  Billy captures a stick figure next to Aaron which then vanishes. 

Jay is left in another part of a building and they hear banging sounds.  Jay hears scratching when he asks if the name of the owner is known.  Doesn't sound like scratching, scratching.  At the house, Zak captures a figure on the camera taking full spectrum photos!!  One reason why he probably said to go to the house.  After any attempts at debunking,  they find it could have been the same figure Kamila must've seen.  

In the pic circled looks like there's a creepy face there, or two.  Looking back at that figure doesn't it remind you of Zak from the back without his hat.  Don't know why I thought of that, just everything was affecting him and no one else, physically and emotionally and the Tarot card too was a warning for him.  

Also I said that they should turn the lights off, when debunking since that's how he caught the figure. Which he does!!  Zak goes up the stairs where they caught the mist and he steps back saying he heard a screeching sound and pictured a witch with grey, straggly hair.  Wonder if this had anything to do with the scratching sound Jay heard. 

Ghost Adventures "House of Brujeria"

Las Vegas again, where they investigated an entity inside a woman's house who is determined to kill her.  Putting off another investigation in California to do so.  They preferred to stay nameless and were beside themselves with fear and panic.   Zak goes into the house with a Crucifix in his hand and what could be a potentially demonic investigation.  The mother reacts as the daughter cries and Zak reacts negatively.  She speaks and cries as something is in the room.  Aaron's heart rate increases.  Zak religiously provokes.  Something is telling the mother to kill herself and she doesn't want her daughter to know.  The mother has asthma and as she was leaving to get help, she heard a voice saying to tell her husband she was going out.  She found him dead.  She knows the entity was behind her husband's death.

Her daughter knows something negative is affecting her mother.  They have rent their rooms out with addicts and a murderer there, as well as a woman who had a shrine to her dead son who killed himself.  As well as storing his ashes there.  Their relatives practise brujeria. She thinks a spell has been placed on her mother and they have been in their house.  The daughter's son saw two black masses by the window and piano.  Brujeria is "a manifestation of evil."  Casting spells to bring about bad luck and death.  It pays to watch scripted shows since this was the focus of  Constantine - the TV series episodes.  But even aside from that, I have heard of it before.  

Billy and Aaron did an investigation overnight and Billy heard a voice.  Sounding like a groan and the directional mike was pointed at the piano.  As well as hearing a loud knock in the kitchen. Where the dolls are stored but they film a glowing light in the glass of the case.  The noise sounds like a cat.  Zak speaks with Bri about brujeria.  She tells them to place seven glasses of ammonia in cold water in every room and left for three days and the jars can be disposed off at a crossroads.  So did they actually do this.  Bri also said they should, the mother should, put the St Benedict medal and holy water.  Zak tells them of his attachment and how the prayer helped him.  He wants the mother to read the prayer whilst looking at the sky but still within the house.  So what happened with that too, not being overtly nosy, more curious to see of it worked or not.

Zak sees a green light in the centre of the bed.  I don't hear "closet" through the Polterpod, sounds more like "pulses"??  When asked his wife's name, replies "listen."  Also says there are fifteen spirits here.  Sounds like fifty?? Portal in house: "think so."  "That kid" brought the dark spirits to the house. The portal is located "at home."  The voice says he's feeling "distressed" not "stressed."  Zak hears a dog which isn't picked up on camera.  They feel cold air around them as they head into the basement.  A light anomaly is seen when the cold air is present.  The SLS picks up an entity behind the basement door which is freaky as the basement door closes by itself.  It is actually pushed shut and then opens. 

Jay hears what he thinks is a child crying but it sounded like that cat sound again from earlier.  Zak says "blood on my hands" and doesn't know why he said it.   He also hears whispering no one else does.  He sees what looks like a face when taking extended exposure photos.  

Highlighted in green there seems to be an actual human face here, but then if you look closely, there appear to be lots more faces, but the green one is far more distinct.  Could it be the dead son?  The photo shows a face, it looks so real.  As well as some sort of two-headed beast in yellow. 

When the door closes by itself doesn't there appear to be a dark shadow inside the room behind the room.  Or is it the door's shadow?? A light anomaly also appears by the door before it closes.  Something is heard inside the room.  Also the x camera moves in the upstairs bedroom. 

This appeared to be a puzzling episode in not much was sumerized regarding the glass jars and what happened and the name-less-ness didn't help much either. Also needs a follow up just to know how things are now, not a full episode maybe just a little side note.

Lost The Art of Staying Lost Book Two by Sakshi Narula Review

"Feelings of bleak euphoria, building on a high with so much emotion conveyed in every word.  Then falling  down to earth with a realistic thud."  - My words.

Lost The Art of Staying Lost Book Two transcends all the words and expressions you have ever read in other poetry. Conveyed with so much depth and feeling there's a real sense of loss, futile love that burned with golden embers.  Then fizzled out with a break up.  Parting, suddenly, going away.  Not so much as losing someone to death, or bereavement.  Although it could well be, but more betrayal. Betrayed by love, a lover.  Building up hope,of fulfillment and promise. A risky beginning, lasting for eternity only to have it shattered into a thousand shards.  

Uns demonstrates being love sick, the body behaving and mimicking the symptoms of bodily ailments which feel akin to having all your emotions and heart ripped. Replaced with emptiness.  Watching the world from the inside out whilst others are oblivious.  Seen also in Chenab "Nerves, skin, heart tongue and bones that ached for more so bad that I had forgotten I exist.  My jaws have been in pain..."

Love comes in all shapes, love of parents, love of children, loss too.  As well as a soul mate. That one true, pure love who will have the same feelings and love for you.  Then suddenly it's gone. Was it ever real.  

Healing poem made me think of loss, the loss of losing a father, mine.  Perhaps that wasn't the intention, being about a lover; but to me it spoke of heartfelt grief when life is cheated by unexpected death.  In many ways akin to the passing of love and all the enrichment it brings to our lives.  Providing a semblance, a brief segment of closure.

Octopus asks if those we have lost feel the same pain, or are we just a distant memory, a passing phase of the moon.  Do lovers just move on, carefree?  Questions not asked by me.  Since most of us don't want to waste our time on someone we can't have.  

Sakshi Narula writes from the heart, that much is true and has the marvellous and creative ability to paint pictures with her words.  You feel you are there in the moment of each impossible heartbeat and you can't do anything to rescue yourself  the inevitable.  

Interspersed with excellent artwork by that spatters the page akin to the ink from an octopus; with the vividness of a bleeding heart and mind.  A talented poet with a natural artistry to convey anguish with every sentence. Personal experiences and growing up in India give a sense of belonging.  As shown by To Bury A Love Story. 

Take a breath for more roller coaster rides. Interspersed with written notes providing a break from the deepness of each poem and a reprieve of being a solid, continuous chunk, with drawings, mirroring hope and darkness. In ink, ink blobs maybe to decipher our own darkness and limits to overcome.

I was mesmerized and absorbed in such beautiful and eloquent sentiments that I read in one sitting.  I'm sure everytime I re-read it will spark and invoke more reactions.  I enjoyed how the poems interweave into one another with vivid pictures of being so lost, heartbroken and having everything ripped, affecting the mind, body and soul equally.  The personification of love's misfortune is immensely lifelike.

Lost The Art of Staying Lost releases 25th January Amazon 

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Doctor Who Revolution of the Daleks

The Daleks return and each time they do , they have their metallic butts kicked across the galaxy and beyond, but how gullible were they to answer a call thinking it's their own kind.  We find a Dalek remnant is stolen when transported by GCHQ and of course it had to be an inside job, as we know.  But stopping for coffee breaks, I mean get yourself a big flask.  MP Patterson (future PM) (Harriet Walter) gets Jack Robertson (Chris Noth) to make it into a high powered metal security machine, aka tin can is what I thought of.  But anyway it's all cos Britain needs security!!  Job security, security from everything really, even shoddy, bungling MPS and PM!  So year later she's elected PM (parody of the Tories right there, would-be Margaret Thatcher ha.)  As Robertson is 3D printing out Daleks to police the streets.  Which apparently was accepted by the Brits and none of these freedom loving sods kicked up a storm about freedoms being overtaken by AI, or having such eyesores on their streets.  But yeah accept it and move on!  Should've had giant, metal spiders instead, that'd really get the masses showing their arachnophobia.  Wait been there, though not metallic! 

Remember during the first lockdown, how there was a video tweet on Twitter where a lone Dalek patrolled the street, wonder who saw that and thought this would be a good idea, part premise for a Doctor Who ep.  Best moment had to be PM being exterminated, short lived prime ministership!! Ha.  If only art mimicked real life, or rather vice versa, wouldn't life be grand.

Scientist Leo (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) reveals to Robertson how he was working on something else after he found a smidgen of organic matter and he cloned it.  Cue Dalek conscious and Robertson thinks it's ugly, funny that he didn't think the spiders were revolting!  Anyhoo he wants it incinerated and Leo's loathe not do it but opens the cage instead of just throwing the entire thing into the fire.  Dalek takes him over and he is taken away to Osaka, Japan where the Dalek had the intelligence to set up a factory mass producing Daleks, all funded by Robertson, funny this got past him and his accounts department!!  

Yaz (Mandip Gill) is firmly of the belief that the Doctor (Jodi Whittaker) is out there somewhere and she's left clues for them to find her.  Ryan (Tosin Cole) and Graham (Bradley Walsh) can't believe she's been doing all this and sleeping in the TARDIS too.  Thinking they should find a way of taking it and finding her.  As we see the Doctor imprisoned on the the Rock, ha, the prison planet rock.  In the same old groundhog day routine where she sees a Weeping Angel caged, Bonnie and Clyde and the P'ting too.  As she tells him he can't eat the cage cos she's tried, not surprised with the dry, yuk stuff she was being fed.  Funny the Weeping Angel being there, what crime did it commit, cos weren't they all evil anyway.  This one was imprisoned.  Miss those Angels! 

Eventually Capt Jack (John Barrowman) comes along to rescue her, as her routine is disrupted by his new face.  He has a device which will form a bubble (if only we could really use these) which will break through the walls, where he takes her away with his Vortex bracelet.  She's been there 19 years, but Earth time is 10 months.  As she thanks him and it took him committing several crimes to end up in the prison.  She returns to the TARDIS and is eager to see her fam again, who are following leads on Robertson and they think they can get into his office if only they had some of the Doctor's psychic paper.  As Yaz hears the TARDIS in Graham's living room.  She would!  She'll stick with the Doctor through thick and thin as she pushes her back instead of hugging her.  Which Jack notices.

They tell her about Robertson and the Dalek so she has to act to save humanity again.  Arriving at Robertson's office she tells him about the Daleks and how evil they are.  He doesn't know what she's talking about since the Daleks are AI and are robotic.  She takes Robertson back to the TARDIS as they hunt for the Dalek and gets them to Japan.  Where Jack takes Yaz who volunteers to go with him.  As they arrive he tells her he noticed her reaction to the Doctor and also he tells her how he's immortal, the Doctor having something to do with that.  Arriving by TARDIS gives the Doctor time to have a last yarn with Ryan and how she loves beanies too; reminding him of the yellow one he was wearing when they met and she knew he was someone worth getting to know.  Ryan telling her he's not the same person anymore.  As the Doctor isn't either, since she thought she was from Gallifray and how everything she thought she knew wasn't really her life.  

Jack and Yaz find the Daleks and Yaz wants to take a sample of the fluid the Daleks are suspended in.  As they are attacked by two crawling out of their case.  As the Doctor arrives, they find the fluid to be human, the workers from the plant.  Heading back to the TARDIS the Doctor has an idea to signal the Dalek fleet disguised as another Dalek message from the new ones and they arrive in San Francisco, where she watches them and the AI Daleks confront them.  The originals won't accept them as they're not pure as they detect humans.  However the AI argues they can become pure.  Destroying them, Robertson wants to be on their side betraying their humanity and blabbing that the Doctor sent the signal.  As they take him away to their leader, Graham, Ryan and Jack transport onto the Mother ship to plant explosives.  Also having to rescue Robertson.  The Doctor appears to them and they enter the TARDIS under the pretence of ridding the Doctor once and for all, but she's tricked them and the second TARDIS is crushed and sent to a place far, far away.  Robertson tells the Doctor he didn't betray her but was a decoy to help her.  

Ryan decides he wants to stay on earth and hep the planet.  Graham also wants to stay with him and she gives them psychic paper to help.  Yaz would want to stay with her and the Doctor thinks she should go back an hour before and then land so they can all be together.  She should've been here and not missed them for 10 months.  Ryan practices bike riding again as they see grandmother/wife, Grace (Sharon D Clarke).  Falling off his bike again, they hear about a factory in Korea when the workers refuse to attend after witnessing unusual events.

Also Rose was mentioned by Jack, some sort of foreshadowing as he tells her she's in a parallel world.  Jack also mentions the Cybermen and the Doctor said she did give them the Cyberium but she handled them.  The Doctor Who foes having their own theme tune.  The Daleks had a menacing one and the Cybermen had one I used to say sounded a bit Carry On Screaming when they used to show the monsters, Oddbod and Oddbod Jnr.  Ha.   

Robertson talking about knowing what's required for policing, spoken by Det Mikey Logan, Law and Order.  Again there's mention his being a hero on Newsnight and his run for President which he doesn't talk about.  SO after betraying the Doctor he comes through with flying colours in his own selfish interests.  Two Jacks in the same ep, one truly heroic and the other own looking for his own heroic, selfish glory.  Though Chris Noth was better this time round than the spider ep.  As he was more abhorrently representative of politicians currently on both sides of the Pond!  Sorry to see the pair go but Graham had some of the best lines in the series.  Still waiting for an explanation of the Doctor's past! 

Ghost Adventures "The Comedy Store"

The Comedy Store investigated as the location where comedians have been haunted.  *William Wilkerson opened Ciro's, a club with help from Bugsy Siegel in 1940.  Becoming the Comedy Store in 1972.  Jay Mohr tells of how he felt a presence in the main hall.  He realized no one was laughing and were 'frozen' and he told the ghost to "get lost."  It still affects him.  He tells Zak about Sam Kinison and saw him being wafted off stage.  In the Belly Room he says he saw a ghost there.  Others tell of hauntings, Mickey Cohen, an enforcer working for Bugsy and a newcomer was slammed against the ceiling on stage.  A figure was seen again.  Jay prayers when he went to the Belly Room.  They feel cold spots and Zak uses a Trifield meter and hear metal clanging.  The Trifield is placed near the microphone and it spikes.  

Jeff Scott, the piano player speaks of a dark figure in the form of smoke he saw in the alley and they feel more cold air surrounding them.  Also seen by someone else.  A Mafia hitman named Gus was also killed there.  As well as the abortion in the basement carried out by Ellen on Sharon who died and Ellen was killed.  Zak feels something around him in the basement and he clenches.  Later Aaron's Polaroid saw a white mist next to Zak at that same time.  Beg, Baby, Daddy when he asks Who am I to you?  The Trifield spikes a lot.  Jeff Ross roasts Zak.  Personally I wasn't amused at any of the jokes!  Jeff says he feels the comedians.  The light on the stage lights up when Jeff talks of Brody Stevens, who committed suicide.  

Jeff joins in the basement and he has the same reaction Zak did in the same spot.  An anomaly comes up from the basement where he had the same feeling.  He thinks it could be Gus.The Polterpod leads to a figure on the SLS and a voice comes through, saying "Zak."  As well as another figure on the SLS by the back door.  "Jimmy ordered??? Ellen" ordered could actually be murdered or had her killed, will need to listen a few more times.  Also there was a Ciro's in London (1915) and one in Paris, before the one in California, where apparently a bartender was named Jimmy, but obviously he probably wasn't the same person as the name on the EVP.  

Upstairs an anomaly comes past the Trifield and Zak gets one above his head and Billy feels a static charge at the same time over his head.  Zak stumbles over saying high electro magnetic fields and the meter spikes off the charts rapidly.  In the secret window an anomaly moves from his back and another one comes out.  As a black mass appears over him, saw that!  APF Processor is used to capture spirit voices.  On the Paranormal Puck, Billy says "Brody" and the Puck Sensor on stage lights up everytime Aaron says his name.  Aaron then asks if he knows what is happening in the world and a voice replies "I understand."  What did Zak scream, "sit down??"  The Puck says "memories" when Billy asks how many spirits are there.  Could that be referring to residual presences in reference to the laugh captured on the recorder.  Aaron tells unfunny jokes and a laugh is heard, sounded like a few laughs, just like residual laughs.  A voice appears to say "what's up guys."  A dark shadow is captured. 

*Wilkerson started The Hollywood Reporter in 1933

Supernatural 15.20 "Carry On" - A Commentary

Having watched the finale episode of Supernatural Season 15.20 I found I had much to say on it, but in the end decided there isn't much I will say after all.  Firstly since I know many won't agree with what I really have to say and that's fine, but that's not the major reason why which I won't go into since it will turn out being long and protracted.  

SO this was Dean's swansong, the first one to die and not going out in the sense of fighting a battle but during a fight which left him impaled on a nail.  Okay there's a term for that protruding thing but anyway to me, it wasn't what I was expecting or how any one of us would've imagined the ending would be.  There was no Butch and Sundance ending as Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) used to talk about on many occasions as did we too.  No guns blazing, fighting the good fight, though saving those children was a fight for the good.  Sam having to say goodbye so quickly, Dean too and not enough time to say necessary, but enough to get out the important goodbyes.  In some ways it was understandable Dean would be taken first as from 1.22 when he was the one who ended up in hospital after the truck crashed into the Impala.  Leaving Dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) to strike a bargain with Yellow Eyes, giving up his own life to save Dean.  

This time round there wasn't going to be any returning, no way Sam was going to bring him back.  This time was for keeps.  This showed from Dean's entire being, his reason for hunting and he was losing momentum fast and he was tired.  This again was apparent when he just wanted Jack (Alexander Calvert) to end Chuck (Rob Benedict) then and there in 15.18.  In doing so, they could have their lives back, free will, live as they wanted.  Yet it was such a short life, well lived without being puppets in a story.  Dean adopting that dog took me back to 9.5 Dean Dog Afternoon, where he carried out the spell allowing hit to communicate with dogs.

Then came Sam dying in season 2 and being brought back, Dean selling his soul, Cas (Misha Collins) rescuing him from purgatory, it was an endless cycle, vicious circle, but it was their destiny and somewhere someone will say it was still Chuck playing with their lives, causing all this chaos over and over.  Billie (Lisa Berry) telling Dean he was always the one, then adding the destructive part to it in 15.18 Despair.  This for summed up the entire battle for Dean and his hunting and in some respects was some crazy foreshadowing:

• Billie: "It's you, Dean. It's always been you.  Death-defying, rule-breaking.  You are everything I lived to set right.  To put down.  To tame.  You are human disorder incarnate."
• Castiel: "I've got you."  [Always had since season 4.)
• Billie: "Come on, Dean.  You can't escape me.  Don't you think it's finally time?  Time for the sweet release of Death?"  

Then there was Dean wanting to give up when he found that perfect life from What Is And What Should Never Be.  That was it for him, having Mom (Samantha Smith) around.  Again only being manipulated by the Djinn and ultimately by Chuck (as usual.)

This ending left a bad taste, it felt rushed, contrived.  There was no Zimmer frame for either one of them.  Contrary to what we fans imagined their lives would turn out to be as they grew grey together.  Still hunting into their '60's, '70's and beyond, heck we thought those Winchester dudes were invincible.  Turns out they were fallible after all and human too.  A harkback to the episode A Hero's Journey where they lost their mojo and were just as clumsy as you and me and no longer heroes.  "Getting old isn't a bachelor party" as Dean says to Bobby in 5.7 The Curious Case of Dean Winchester.  Where we do see Dean age, not gracefully but as handing out lives back to Bobby (Jim Beaver) during a poker game.  (Yes Supernatural was obsessed with poker, or pool as we also saw in 15.11 The Gamblers where they gambled with winning back their luck. A great episode going back to the lore that the show was renown for.

Some good points: they had a final hunt together, got to bring out Dad's journal again and should've known the end was near when Dean said, "this is my destiny" the pie festival! And not those "vamp mimes!"  Hey we never even got to see that leather jacket again!

Sam was the one who grew old, who had his life back as it should've been too if Dean hadn't returned for him as he said in 1.1 Pilot.  Granted he didn't get the uni/college education he was after, but he got married, presumably to Eileen, had a son and the family business continued leaving behind the Winchester legacy in his own son, named for Dean.  Just as Dad did the same entrusting it with Sam and Dean.  Sam telling Ruby in 4.12 how he didn't want to end up hunting all his life, but ended up doing just that.  Finally joining Dean in heaven, Jack's reboot of heaven as it should have been, according to Bobby.  Even if all Dean was seen to do was drive around carefree in his beloved Baby; playing Carry On My Wayward Son, endlessly!  We got to hear that at least.

I admit it wasn't going to be a finale that everyone would enjoy, as my friends said, after 15 years you were either going to hate it or love it, or maybe a mix of both, which is how I eventually ended up feeling.  No one wasn't going to be 100% catered for in getting the end we wanted.  Bittersweet ain't so bad.  They gave it their all and will be missed! Who's crying, I'm not crying.  You're crying! Just blubbing plenty now and then, or then and now! 

Farewell awesome dudes...