Comments on: Holy Grail, Holy Crap

By: thetalkingmongoose

thetalkingmongoose — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:26:04 +0000

I showed your kind note to Mme. Blahblatsky and reminded her we have yet to finish this episode. She grunted. I do not know if that is an affirmative or negative reply. In past conversations she has indicated an extreme reluctance to pay any more attention to these “big old fabulists” but perhaps the approach of Halloween will jolly her up. We never got to make fun of the KII ouija meters, after all. I haven’t yet told her about the plumber thing. I’m a little afraid.

Fascinating observation about the MRI emf field! I once had an MRI and I was sure aliens were trying to send me a message through those loud bonking noises, but that was just wishful thinking.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:11:44 +0000

I just have to say, it’s sad I found this so late, I haven’t have such a good chuckle in quite a while. I’m going to post a link on my blog to this for the sheer entertainment value, I don’t know if you had realized this, in case you quit posting, (I am tired for the night and can’t continue), but it has been found out that Jason and Grant aren’t even plumbers, I don’t know if this is in a previous post, I started with the “fake door chicanery” in Louisiana episode. Evidently, someone took the time to check with the Rhode Island Bureau of Licensing and couldn’t find Grant, but did find that Jason had an old one year apprenticing license, more snooping was done and Roto-Rooter had to admit to RI authorities that Jay & Grant aren’t Roto-Rooter plumbers, after all, who would want to hop in a hot-tub or take a hot shower put in by someone who doesn’t even have a license to do so? Can you say “Death by Electrocution for 200, Alex?” Even scarier if they are working with natural gas and electricity! More so than than the FLIR “boogeyman” they caught recently at the Samuel Mudd House, and as you say, I cannot believe they are still pushing that…dang thing can only see solid objects, which I think I heard them mention once or twice over the years.
I also have to mention the use of the emf detector…hardly anyone has put together the emf detector vs the MRI machine, KII meter reads in milligauss, MRI uses in the thousands…but no mention of any of the high emf sensitivity symptoms in the paperwork, or from the tech I asked, this would be the ultimate fear cage, and spending over 30 minutes in an electromagnetic field of thousands of gauss, strong enough to see my muscles and tendons in high detail, and I felt nothing. No itching, fear of dread, feeling of someone touching me or watching me, hallucinations, etc. However, there are people who do hallucinate in MRI machines, those with tumors on the brain or serious skull fractures and concussions. Also, those with claustrophobia can get a bit upset, but that’s because of the confined space obviously. Possible irritation at tattoo sites where old red ink with lots of ferrous oxide was used, but even that I believe was found at most “plausible” on Mythbusters. That was mentioned on the form, I do have a tattoo, but again, nothing. I see logical, but slightly twisted minds at work here, and I love it! Mme B. and TalkingMongoose, it has been fun, and I hope to have more laughs tomorrow when I look for more follow-ups.
But I, like you, after a hopeful start to Ghost Hunters, am very disillusioned with them. They are as you say, Charlatans, I shouldn’t even dignify that with a capital C. Keep on Keepin’ On!

By: thetalkingmongoose

thetalkingmongoose — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:34:16 +0000

I knew we were forgetting something. I liked that medium, too. It gets harder and harder to round up Mme. B. in front of the t.v. for a Ghost Hunters session. We are both severely disaffected by all the chicanery.

*I* feel very sad that tarring and feathering is no longer an option.

Mme. B. swears she once tape-recorded a ghost sneezing. I, too, find spectral sinus conditions highly suspect, but I’ve heard the recording and I believe Mme. B., so I guess I have to allow for the possibility. It does make you wonder, though.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:23:58 +0000

The most disappointing thing in the hotel part of this episode WAS the lack of real history. A little more history in almost all cases would go a long way to making more sense of the plumbers’ continuing adventures. (This was actually one plus in the recent Ghost Hunters Halloween Special, which seemed to last an entire weekend – I know you don’t get it, but they really actually did delve into the history of Fort Delaware in a little depth, and it helped.) I am with you on the deep doubts about thermal imaging cameras in general – I am a little shaky on the whole ghosts as energy theory anyway – but I look forward to what you will say about the next part of the episode. I really like that medium. I refuse to believe that he doesn’t believe he’s talking to the spirits, and for once, that thermal imaging camera made some sense.

I was recently watching an old episode (and I wish I’d noted which one) where a “female” ghost coughed. If being a ghost had any advantages at all, one of them ought to be freedom from sinus conditions. I am as puzzled by ghosts coughing as by ghosts breathing. I am equally puzzled as to the sincerity of Grant and Jason. But I feel very sad at the idea of them being mountebanks.