The Strange World of Ghost Hunting (and its history)

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People have always believed in ghosts in one way or another, but when did we start HUNTING for them, and why? Come learn with me about the world of paranormal investigation media and its complicated history!
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Sources:
Confessions Of A Ghost-hunter by Harry Price
"Give us a Sign of Your Presence": Paranormal Investigation as a Spiritual Practice by Marc A. Eaton
QUEER SPECTRALITIES AND UNTIMELY SUBJECTS by KEVIN CHABOT
Ghost Hunting in the 19th Century- Distillations Podcast Episode 277, Science History Institute
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The Broken Technology of Ghost Hunting By Colin Dickey
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“Ghost Hunting in the Twenty-First Century” by John Potts in “From Shaman to Scientist: Essays on Humanity's Search for Spirits”
‘Make Me Believe!’: Ghost-hunting technology and the postmodern fantastic by Sarah Juliet Lauro and Catherine Paul
Phantasmic Science: Medieval Theology, Victorian Spiritualism, and the Specific Rationality of Twenty-First Century Ghost Hunting by Brenda Gardenour Walter
Ghost-Hunters and Psychical Research in Interwar England by Joanna Timms
Wandering the Web -- Subcultures: Ghost Hunting: A Passion for the Paranormal by Jack and Lesley Montgomery
Paranormal Technology: Understanding the Science of Ghost Hunting By David M. Rountree
Haunting rhetoric: Ghost Adventures and the evolution of the ghost hunting genre by Shannon Dale
A Haunted Genre: A Study of Ghost Hunting Reality Television by Abigail L. Carlin
Re-imagining the National Past: Negotiating the Roles of Science, Religion, and History in Contemporary British Ghost Tourism by Michele M. Hanks
Ghosts: A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof By Roger Clarke
“14 Spectral Men: Femininity, Race, and Traumatic Manhood in the RTV Ghost-Hunter Genre” by David Greven, from the book “Reality Gendervision”
Ghostland: AN AMERICAN HISTORY IN HAUNTED PLACES By Colin Dickey
Ghost Hunters: WILLIAM JAMES AND THE SEARCH FOR SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF LIFE AFTER DEATH By Deborah Blum
Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication by John Durham Peters
Video:
Ghost Adventures
Buzzfeed Unsolved Supernatural
Bleach
Ghost Whisperer
Legend of a Ghost (1908)

[@KazRowe]

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[@savsol5607]

:)

[@Vannahbabes]

Love your necklace 🥰🥰

[@LawrenceRussellSaturnSelection]

They're not ghosts or aliens or spooks. It's always demonic.... I guaruntee it

[@BrodyAIM]

Where did you get your necklace??

[@nicanornunez9787]

Team Shane

[@trevorevans4000]

Shane from Buzzfeed will always be my favorite accidental ghost hunter.

[@kimbimberley]

He's doing a pretty stellar job on their new channel - Watcher, too. New ghosty series out called Ghost Files, it's great

[@orbcat1790]

@@kimbimberley season finale just came out!

[@lronbutters5688]

I’m a Shaniac

[@hereis6655]

he's goated

[@lkcullen1918]

an instant classic "Am *I* a ghost hunter?? I don't wanna be a *ghost hunter* this is all bullshit!"

[@bichiAllen]

Ryan and Shane are lit the only ghost hunting team I'd actually believe if they said they saw a real ghost

[@myrineae]

ONLY if Shane admits it. Can you imagine? I want ghosts to be real just so I can see his face when he finds out!

[@inka-on6mt]

@@myrineae let's be real, a full-body apparition of a ghost could literally punch shane in the face and give him a wedgie but he'd still say it's the wind lmao

[@uniwolfacorn]

@@inka-on6mt no way, he’s said multiple times that he would be willing to believe. They’ve just never gotten any real evidence (because ghosts aren’t real)

[@sdqsdq6274]

@@uniwolfacorn lol , you need to born with the third eye , of course normal people cant see it

[@uniwolfacorn]

@@sdqsdq6274 you should take your meds lmao

[@queenmimic7772]

My town has an extreme grudge against the tv show Ghost Hunters. We’re a small town that has been struggling to bring up our tourism so when we heard that Ghost Hunters wanted to come here we were very hopeful it would help. The town rolled out the red carpet for them, helped gather stories, gave them tours, and they were allowed to stay above our apothecary for FREE for two weeks despite the fact that the owner’s only source of income. When the episode came out they painted not a picture of a charming small town with a tumultuous history but a town in the middle of nowhere so crime ridden that no one wants to go there. The two weeks after the episode aired two years ago was TENSE

[@KazRowe]

Thats awful!! Unfortunately not uncommon with many of these shows. 😔

[@alyssajakielek687]

Legit really curious about the details, like what's the town? Because I like learning about places with lore. And were the "ghost hunters" from like tv, or KZbin? You don't have to if you don't want to, I just got really curious

[@queenmimic7772]

@@alyssajakielek687 It’s Ghost Hunters on A&E. I’m not going to share the town because it’s very small and I’m paranoid that it would be easy to find me just from the name, Sorry about that!

[@lexiwexiwoo]

I've never really been a fan of how there's no control from the towns portrayed. Often, they make perfectly sweet towns a grungy image and having been in a small town in the southeast of Oklahoma I know the great parts of small towns get shadowed by the not so great parts.

[@alyssajakielek687]

@@queenmimic7772 ah.. That's kind of worse because they're from a TV show with (presumably) an actual budget... And I'm also kind of relieved that it's not anyone I watch

[@aakansh45yearsago83]

I'm deeply honored how most of the comments are about Ryan and Shane. I think it'll be nearly impossible for anyone from the ghost-hunting industry to top them.

[@ElSombraRegio7]

Its truly because they didn't take themselves too serious.

[@aakansh45yearsago83]

@@ElSombraRegio7 Exactly lmao. And we don't see much drama between them and the entities in their episodes either, cuz they don't fake it for views and likes.

[@surfinsocal100]

I have had three times where I’ve seen people/animals/masks in places they shouldn’t be and legit thought they were ghosts. Turns out it was just psychosis.

[@nora4642]

I’m sorry but this made me laugh out loud (I’m also severely mentally ill)

[@surfinsocal100]

@@nora4642 it’s okay 😂 but fr I need people to take mental health more seriously because no it’s not a ghost or a evil spirit.

[@NotKiraa]

same here 😭 thought there was a demon following me around and i was having a spiritual awakening but after a trip to a&e i found out i was on the brink of psychosis. even though i believe in ghosts to an extent i think a lot of people’s experiences could just be hallucinations

[@thekarret2066]

That pesky mental illness strikes again! -snaps fingers- /has also had a bout with psychosis

[@erikaczerniejewski495]

I chalked up my "experiences" as possible mental health and then I said "ok this is getting out of control " as faces floated around me as I brushed my teeth. So i meditated an "closed " the door in my mind to that stuff It went away immediately. I've been through more stressful times, deeper depression, nothing came back after I turned my mind off of it. I've always thought that odd as you can't just "meditate" mental illness away in one evening. Otherwise I'd be peachy!

[@TheKapitan98]

"P.T. Barnum, the circus villain," is the best description of him I think

[@astreaward6651]

When I went to New Orleans, I stayed at the Dauphine Orleans Hotel because I saw it on Unsolved and thought it was gorgeous. The bartender featured in the episode still worked there and spoke very kindly of Ryan and Shane and said they at least didn't fake any evidence while they were shooting. She didn't specify the people who did fake evidence, but apparently some do. For me, it's the history-related stuff I find fascinating. I don't believe in anything supernatural but there's usually something really cool to learn anyway. Probably why I really like your videos :)

[@scottvelez3154]

Did anything weird happen?

[@astreaward6651]

@@scottvelez3154 No, of course not. Ghosts aren't real lol

[@scottvelez3154]

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[@sethk1698]

@@astreaward6651 lol 😆 There's definitely an answer for everything.

[@faeriesmak]

I stayed there before I even knew that were any stories associated with the place. One night my friends and I were walking up the stairs to go back to our room and all 3 of us saw a woman dressed in a long skirt, Victorian style clothing, at the top of the stairs walking away from us and down the hall. She was completely transparent. I didn’t even know that people saw things there until 2 years ago and I was there in the early 90s.

[@oviiembem6302]

I always love the part where ryan said "well, you are now ghost hunter" and shane brain got short circuit due to such revelation.

[@theohedgpeth261]

One of my favorite paranormal shows was one where they had electricians, building inspectors and plumbers come into so-called haunted houses and investigate the cause of certain thinks, ie cold spots, slamming windows and doors, etc. And they'd just tell the home owner how to fix them lol

[@Shadowonwater]

that sounds familiar, I think I remember watching a video that talked about that

[@nora4642]

Jenny Nicholson did a vid on it

[@binkin7304]

@@Shadowonwater I think this is what Ghost Hunters originally did because the two main guys were plumbers and would debunk things but they stopped doing that after the first couple seasons

[@lkcullen1918]

@@binkin7304 Yes! Their "day job" used to be Roto Rooter lol dang I almost forgot about that

[@mararhcp]

Someone know the name of the show?

[@ashleynorton]

Screaming crying because I’ve had “the ghost hunting industrial complex” in my video idea list for months but the queen beat me to it.

[@KazRowe]

LOL oh no please still make it! Everyones got a different take and perspective 🥰

[@FairyPhantasia]

Checking out the channel in the morning. Please do your own version. Also try conspiracies and icebergs 😆

[@TheTaylorwailer]

I’m a skeptic but I very much enjoyed Buzzfeed Unsolved, one because I can let myself get pulled into the creepy and dark atmosphere of their surroundings and then Shane to ground me and make me laugh. Recently I’ve even been binging Creepypasta and SCP narrations because letting myself wonder about the what ifs for a brief few moments is kind of fun.

[@jameswhite153]

and now they're back in the ghost game.

[@myrineae]

Have you checked out their new show yet? Ghost Files.

[@bo.sleeps]

i live in louisiana. after Katrina there was a period taxi drivers in New Orleans stopped picking passengers up because sometimes they said they’d disappear mid ride. i think after tragedy peoples emotions are so heightened that they end up having these strange experiences. very interesting stuff

[@TheSolitaryGrape]

I've heard similar stories of taxi drivers in Japan after the 2011 earthquake/tsunami/nuclear plant disaster. Kyle Hill has a video called "The Fukishima Nuclear Disaster" that talks about it a touch, it's a very good video you may enjoy since you enjoyed this!

[@PrincessFidelma]

@@TheSolitaryGrape aww, you beat me to it! I can't think which channel I saw it on.

[@Ella-yn3mi]

​@@PrincessFidelma theres an episode of unsolved mysteries about it on netflix

[@fredocorl9048]

or just dumb

[@myrineae]

This is seen as common occurrence in Asia when a tragedy hits.

[@dankim7831]

I just can't explain that one hotel room where there was a lot of screaming and multiple people notified the staff about it, suspecting domestic violence. And a hallway camera caught it too. As soon as a security guard or staff member opened the door, the screaming stopped, and he said that the room had all its furniture flipped over. It was unoccupied

[@scarlettblythe]

Your comments on recordings of people who have died being uncanny, and being "cemeteries" reminded me strongly of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander beliefs here in so-called-Australia. Some groups have strong taboos around images, recordings and even the name of the deceased after they have died. I admit I don't know the hard details of why (it seems to vary between groups, which makes sense) but it is a cool parallel.

[@lkeke35]

I've read about this! In some cases they believe they cannot travel on to their afterlife because part of them has been trapped in an image or recording.

[@stratkitten]

As an American and believer in the Afterlife (though not as most would think of it) I'm fascinated by the fact that i've seen some broadcasts with the disclaimer for Torres Strait islanders that images and names of the deceased will be broadcast...

[@Biancaleigh693]

As a Australia too I'll just double confirm this. The government sometimes takes out portions as well to protect this belief. Not always. Recently photos of the deceased had a warning about it to indengenious Australian but because they were the police and needed info. They still posted it. I appreciate they stil put the warning at the top in bold writing

[@celestialclown5907]

I lost my mind when you mentioned Ghosts Whisperer! Every Friday night, 7pm my 10yr old self was OBSESSED with Melinda. Loved how every episode it started with "My name is Melinda Gordon and I've seen Ghosts since I was a little girl" and then proceeds to act surprised when a ghost appears. I still play an episode or two as a comfort lol

[@LWolf12]

I wish that series got like, one, maybe two more seasons. It seemed like it was ramping up to something then it ended.

[@pigeoncube8881]

when my family first immigrated to the US, we lived in the back of a church for a few years that was haunted. the story was that the ghost was the man who built the church and he was mad that it changed denominations. probably about half of the congregants of the church even knew him when he was alive and swore the ghost was him. my dad basically cared for the church as thanks for giving us a home, and he talked about toilets flushing on their own, seeing a door open by itself when he was locking up at night, musical instruments playing on their own. the thing is that i have very clear memories of living there, but none of the ghost. the best i can do for memories of him is hearing echoes since the halls and sanctuaries of churches are very big and empty when no one else is there, and i genuinely just believe the ghost was just echoes of something else in another room and maybe a congregant staying late when it was assumed everyone was gone. i've even considered that maybe someone homeless had been secretly staying there, but i don't think that really matches the facts. the funny thing is that my little brother swears he knows for a fact there was a ghost, even though he was far too young to remember it

[@richardmulkey1772]

usually migrants who seek out shelter in churches are illegal...

[@stanfordsan]

My cousin used to be the lead investigator for ghost hunters international. On one hand it was cool and surreal to see a family member on a national TV show. On the other hand I was a bit jealous that he got to travel the world visiting old castles and lavish hotels and see a slice of history of so many different countries.

[@FieryArtemis]

I was surprised that there was no mention of Ed and Lorraine Warren. Whether they are legitimate paranormal investigators or charlatans, they had a relatively large impact on modern ghost hunting as well. I feel like a lot of their stuff paved the way for shows like "Ghost Adventures."

[@myrineae]

Legitimate charlatans who caused REAL harm to people. Ed was also a domestic abuser.

[@andrewshepherd1633]

Personally, I think they have had way too much coverage elsewhere and I think she covered the topic fairly well without having to cover ground already covered a ton elsewhere. Heck they are still getting publicity after the "experiment" of the show run by their son-in-law on the 28-day cycle on Netflix. *shrug* I'm fine without it.

[@thekarret2066]

I think it's curious that they both had backgrounds in being authors prior to their demonologist era... Makes me think they were using their creative writing skills to try to make people think their tall tales were facts.

[@squamish4244]

And a couple of great, classic haunted-house movies.

[@nonmigratory8738]

The last point you made about haunted places showing our cultural anxieties regarding how we treated people in the past made me think (I’m from the UK, I know jack all about this, apologies) about how so many American spooky stories start with someone building on indigenous burial grounds or sacred spaces (bear in mind my main touchstones for this are Scooby Doo and Are You Afraid Of The Dark and Goosebumps because I’m a massive scaredy cat). Obviously it also incorporates the whole “spooky BIPOC” trope as well, but I think it really does speak to that deep cultural guilt that (imo) has never really been addressed in North American culture. Again, from the UK, possibly talking out of my hole, just something that occurred to me.

[@bun4647]

American here, I think you're onto something! As somebody who grew up in the deep south where lots of awful stuff happened, I can totally see this applying. I've always been freaked out by extremely old looking buildings/things that are clearly left over from wartime, and places like the biltmore house (giant historical plantation mansion place) always spooked me even as a small kid. A lot of this stuff is shown in scary media which is probably why it scared me even back as a child who was too young to comprehend any deeper meaning

[@Firegen1]

Other Brit here but bipoc so can come at it from either side, you are definitely on to something. There used to be a brilliant website of American ghost folkore - very similar to the Lore podcast - that folded I think four years ago. The stories were cited as much as they could be and the amount that start "in this town, that State, by the place where this community lived". On the site it included local folklore about civil war sites, previous communties areas of Native American people and areas of slave trading. Recurring places of unaddressed mistreatment and violence. It isn't a pattern but more of a Freudian excuse to not address those historical misjustices. Which I know I've said on BUN to insensitive commenters. These stories exist in colonial settlements where my family come from and historical houses in the UK where female presenting ghosts are always victims of circumstance. It's societal guilt

[@5tinygrapes]

100%. Coin Dickey's Ghostland (mentioned in this video and a very good read if you're interested) talks about this specifically. There is absolutely a component of racist "ahh non-white non-Christian beliefs ahhh!!" and disrespect. There is also a different component. Colin Dickey who loves em dashes writes: "the narrative of the haunted Indian burial ground hides a certain anxiety about the land on which Americans-specifically white, middle-class Americans-live. Embedded deep in the idea of home ownership- the Holy Grail of American middle-class life- is the idea that we don't, in fact, own the land we just bought... Americans live on haunted land because we have no other choice." (i.e., all land here is stolen, often violently, from a people that, let's be honest, never got justice). Could be a manifestation of guilt, retroactive punishment/justice for the past, manifestation of fear of actual justice being served in the land of the living.... So many ways you can look at it. No matter what though it all comes back to 'something deeply bad happened here, how do we reckon with that'.

[@MegaVirus700]

Seems possible, as an American, the main hauntings we hear about from the UK are old insane asylums or poor houses. Both of which were treated horribly

[@notyourmum7883]

this is a really good observation too

[@snappylobster3118]

One of the most interesting moments I saw on Ghost Adventures really illustrates the connection of ghost hunting with grief. There had been a couple that would occasionally join them on ghost hunts at a particular location. Sadly, the man killed his wife and then himself. They went back to that location and one of the guys breaks down crying, begging one of them to come through and communicate with them, asking him why he had done it, telling the both of them how much he missed them. It was so illuminating as to why someone would seek out spirits- to help soothe the unknown mystery of death.

[@wintergray1221]

I saw that one. I remember being shocked because I hadn't heard about the murder/suicide incident.

[@daemondays]

“DID SOMEONE JUST SCRATCH ME?!” I will never forget that line. Me and my dad always watched Ghost Adventures and I had several seasons on dvd. I love your content!!

[@sicahjehiah8729]

i cried a few times throughout this video (especially at the end) because your analysis of society's anxiety around death / the dead is extremely HEAVY and profound, in a very unsettling + deeply human way. Thanks for this, im so glad i found and subscribed to you. You cover a WIDE array of topics, all of which are incredibly interesting and reflective

[@DoomCabbit]

I really appreciate your disclaimers about the usa-centricity of your videos. So often content creators act like the usa is the default, and it can be frustrating going into a video thinking it'll have a more worldly view only to realise the author just meant within the usa. The disclaimer lets me and others know right away the scope of your video topic and it's very appreciated.

[@southernfriedpixels]

Kaz is so calming to me and a balm to my overwhelming brain. I want to know everything about everything with my ADHD, and their videos are highly comprehensive for a short burst of time and I’m so happy I found them!

[@KMakoENVtuber]

I use paranormal reality tv as a sleep aid mostly. The one thing about a lot of these shows and the paranormal that I do like is when they investigate historical locations. Ghost Adventures is getting way too close to a Diet Exorcist reality show when they go to people’s houses for investigations, but when any of these shows cover historical landmarks, I find it a great way to learn about historical events…that is as long as that history is backed up by records.

[@Sofia-ge6wm]

The fact that the moment I saw this notification I IMMEDIATELY CLICKED ON IT- But anyways I've had two paranormal experiences so I thought I'd share them! I was at the Winchester Mystery House a few years ago on a tour with my parents and walked away to look where we were heading next down a long and winding hallway. On the wall, I saw a tall and thin shadow it stayed there for a few seconds and then darted down the hallway. I still remember how fast I walked back to my parents after it happened. My second experience was at my High School, I was in the bathroom and there was someone humming. I just thought there was another girl in there and wasn't bothered by the humming, it was very pretty. I suddenly got the feeling of like 100 eyes on me, intensely staring. I *very* quickly finished and went to wash my hands. The feeling was still going so I quickly scanned the bathroom. No one was in there with me, but the humming was still going. I bolted out of that bathroom and the intense watching feeling didn't go away until I got back to my classroom. Those were my two experiences, hope you enjoyed them, and sorry if my grammar and punction were really bad.😅 Edit: Recently found out that my high school has been around since the 1800s. So who knows how many of its old students or workers haunt the school now?

[@sofialima4521]

The bathroom one!! I wouldn't be able to walk, let alone run anywhere hahaha

[@Sofia-ge6wm]

@@sofialima4521 I ran so fast I nearly tripped running up the stairs back to class

[@vapidrabbit198]

I visited the j. Paul Getty villa in California when I was a kid. It’s really awesome! Completely modeled off a real ancient Roman villa, but the interiors are decorated with historical furniture (much of it seemed to be pre-Revolutionary French, as I remember)…. Suddenly I started feeling really unwell, like when people get “jumped” by spirits in those ghost hunting shows (though this was a good decade before the show ghost hunters was created). I was dizzy and profusely sweating and trembling. I had to go outside and chill for a while… I actually thought I was getting sick when it happened, or that it was a blood sugar thing… but I’ve never felt anything like that since then. I’m still pretty skeptical, but it’s one of those situations I always wonder about….

[@Sofia-ge6wm]

@@vapidrabbit198 Oh god that's so scary

[@chel3062]

I used to watch "Ghost Hunters" with my mom back when it was on SyFy channel. We loved it because they rarely found evidence and they truly seemed to go about trying to debunk things rather than prove that every little noise or feeling was a ghost. They were also very catious to call a location "haunted" and they never claimed "orbs" were real evidence, nor did they use spirit boxes. And they certainly never did all the over-the-top possession stuff that Ghost Adventures did. I honestly have never looked into all the rumors and whatnot that I've heard over time about their evidence, mostly because I never wanted my illusions shattered. But after watching just a couple episodes of Jason and Steve's new show, I feel duped and betrayed. It's stupid, but it really was such a fun part of my life growing up, watching Ghost Hunters, and even now, their older episodes feel genuine, but the newer stuff is so clearly bs. I get so mad when I think about it now. Currently, the only team I trust is Ryan and Shane. I love those guys.

[@CGI_Andy]

Ghost/spirit experiences that I remember vividly was going to a concentration camp in Germany (the most intense feeling I've felt) or visiting old European churches. It was like I could feel their sadness and it created a weight on me. This video was very interesting and I enjoyed it. I loved Ryan and Shane's ghost hunting series. Keep up the good work Kaz. I'm so glad I found your channel!!! :)

[@isaacperson129]

I definitely relate to the feeling of wanting to help spirits in places like hospitals and asylums. It makes you think about how if you had been born earlier you or someone you love might have been in them

[@ToShanshuinFiction]

When I was like 12, I lived in a duplex in Pennsylvania which was converted from a boarding house in the early 1900s. I watched my closet slowly open on its own most nights, but thought it was a problem with the rolling door, like it wasn't level-y'know, specifically at night. Then my friend slept over on the living room couch, and the next day asked if I left my room to check on them, cause a shadow about my size stood in the hallway when she woke up. I said no and thought they were having a nightmare, but another friend from out of town stayed the night months later, same story. The two girls had no knowledge of each other, so I stopped leaving my room at night for about a year and slept with my back to the closet. and a few years ago in Colorado, well into adulthood, I lived alone in a basement and heard a woman laugh directly behind me in my room while I was reading. Now I'm in Oregon, as far away from those places as possible, and nothing's happened. Hoping it stays that way.

[@annaolson4828]

My favorite unintentionally hilarious ghost adventures moment has to be when they investigate the home of a poet and create a black and white, film student segment of them reading one of his poems in a graveyard.

[@josephporter2040]

Everyone in my family has a story about my grandmothers house from hearing a screen door slam (they don't have one) to a little angel figurine getting thrown across the kitchen. I've spent a large portion of my life there but the most I've got is thinking I saw her passed dog turn the corner into the living room. Sadly, I think that's just visual memory. Loved this episode!

[@khiluxxe7975]

You ate that ending speech up😩 this was so good!!

[@blooberry7901]

I've got two weird experiences (tw animal death in the 2nd story). When I was young (think 7 and under) my family did lots of trips down and up the West coast. At many rest stops, my sister and I would meet a kindly old lady at a refreshment table who didn't speak. She'd have the usual fare of rest stop volunteers, but nobody else interacted with her. My sister and I would take some hot cocoa and cookies and be on our way without another thought... but then as we got older we realized, no, how could one old lady be at most rest stops from Cali to WA? We didn't see her after that. This, of course, isn't a very concrete experience, but I still look back fondly on my kindly cookie spirit. The "realer" experience for me was when our family dog passed. My sisters and I had spent the day playing games together with Hunny dozing on the couch. After we had all dispersed, I went up to make some food in the kitchen, and as I passed the sliding screen door I saw Hunny sitting and waiting to be let in. I went to go make my food, but started when I remembered that I had just passed her on the couch. I was overcome with a sinking, dreadful feeling. It was like I knew before I got there what I would find, and sure enough she was unresponsive and losing warmth. That was a hard night, but she spent her last hours being loved and surrounded by her favorite people in her favorite spot, so I like to think her image in the glass was the last little thank you and goodbye from the best girl. On a different note, I really don't think you were disrespectful or overly anti-ghost in this. In fact, I think your analysis gave a lot of leeway and room for interpretation from all parties. You can tell from the way you present that this topic is close to your heart, and I think you do it justice 😊

[@seraphjohanson3402]

I don’t believe in ghosts at all, but ghost hunting media is just too fun. Great video!

[@jessicaclakley3691]

Omg I loved Ghost Adventures!! That was until Zak got so damned full of himself and the show really went down the demonology rabbit hole

[@bunnycrofts8127]

You can tell the quality if the episode by the state of zak's eyebrows. Natural? Good episode. Plucked to hell and back? He's gonna be full of himself.

[@jessicaclakley3691]

@@bunnycrofts8127 lmao I never realized! Thanks for the heads up

[@calci2679]

It went downhill after Nick was pushed out

[@jessicaclakley3691]

@@calci2679 absolutely agree!

[@KMakoENVtuber]

*any noise* ITS A DEMON

[@lichqueenlilith5694]

I still think 1 of my favorite moments from ghost hunting shows was (not sure if it was GA) when some dude was investigating outside a haunted building at night, and got scared after he backed into a bush. I’m p sure sure he said smth like “HOLY SHIT SOMETHING’S BEHIND- oh… it’s a bush…” then a super dramatic graphic popped up on screen that said “BUSH (not paranormal)” it was hilarious

[@AllegedlyHuman]

I'm in a really strange position when it comes to ghosts. On the one hand, I have had vivid experiences, first-hand encounters and sights shared with others. On the other hand, I am deeply skeptical, and am well aware that I was plagued by anxiety and mental distress during the years I believed myself able to sense ghosts. I'm in a middle ground, torn between belief and disbelief, of fear and fascination alike. Without going into too much detail, most of the experiences I had were not of the pleasant kind and left behind trauma. Yet still, I find myself drawn to these things, despite knowing how it affects me. At the end of the day, I like to pretend they aren't real, if only for my peace of mind, yet there still persists that niggling doubt

[@lilyazaleamc]

As a long time ghost hunting fan (started with Ghost Adventures when I was a kid and I’ve been a huge BUN/now Ghost Files fan since the beginning), I really enjoyed this video! You explain things so well and I learned a lot. You have a new subscriber!

[@DamnHipsters]

I joke about this stuff at work all the time, especially after I found out that one of our papers was used to "support" a claim that a site was haunted (it was a big stretch). I want to make a series called ghost debunkers where we dress up like ghost bros and just cite our own papers (most of which is just repeating there's no historical evidence or record for most of the "facts" in these stories and they can't be traced back more than a couple of decades). I've been fascinated by ghosts since I was a kid and had a couple of experiences but finding out a lot of of it is just a giant game of telephone that picks up a ton of incorrect information when the real history of the place is so much more interesting (and the ghost hunting actually ends up destroying a lot of cool places) is frustrating.

[@twobats]

Both sides of my family have always been sensitive to the paranormal (women on my mother's side all being able to sense spirits, every other generation of women on my father's side being taught "witchcraft," my father and his brother having multiple experiences outside of that), so it's no surprise that I've had encounters of my own before. There's not many, but the one that always immediately springs to mind when asked happened in summer 2016. My sister, her husband, her childhood friend, my childhood best friend, and myself were going Pokemon GO hunting in the middle of the night. We're all night people, so it just made more sense for us to load up in the car after dark. Anyway, we decided to stop in this gravel parking lot near the shore of a lake because I wanted to catch this Psyduck, so we all got out and started roaming. I wander toward the treeline and get the worst feeling of dread I've felt in a long time, my stomach twisting in knots and threatening to make me throw up. It felt like something was telling me to get the fuck out of there before something bad happened. I tell everyone about this feeling and rush them all back into the car, and we take off. My stomach calmed down almost immediately after I got in the car, and we just went home from there. I found out the next day that there was a cemetery on the other side of the treeline I was heading toward.

[@PreciseSpace]

Recently I watched a panel at a convention done by two ghost hunters who wanted to talk about what they do and answer questions. They told us all that generally they go around to whoever calls them to investigate and they do their best to find the answer to the weird stuff going on. They said that almost all of the time, they are able to explain the phenomenon with something real, and dispel any worries of their clients. They told us a few times they were unable to reasonably explain their findings (after LOTS of investigation and analysis), and told us a few times where it seems unexplainable, but they were able to find the cause. I think they really go about the ghost hunting thing in the right way, being as skeptical as possible and genuinely trying to find an answer, rather than jump onto the paranormal conclusion. It was a very interesting panel and I hope other ghost hunters operate just like them.

[@ummno1208]

I really appreciate your input on supernatural topics and would love to hear your ideas werewolves and lycanthrope myths as a whole

[@cassieheartsangel123]

wow, I've loved paranormal content for a long time, and this really felt like a love letter to the genre

[@toddsummerwind]

I've had a few "paranormal" experiences over the years. First was back in 1985 at the infamous Summerwind Mansion on West Bay Lake in Northern Wisconsin. Was overcome with a sense of dread when I was in the upstairs master bathroom. Hair was standing up on my arms and my fight or flight instinct kicked in. When I exited the room I felt fine, no dread or fight or flight in the rest of the mansion. The two others with me did not experience any unease in the room. Subsequent visits to Summerwind produced no feelings of dread in any part of the mansion. My second experience was in a abandoned cinema in Wausau, Wisconsin around 2001. The building had been converted into a cinema in the 70's and before that had been a furniture shop which, among other things, sold coffins. Before that it was a boarding house which catered to pay by the hour rooms. There were many stories from the cinema staff of strange happenings including the ghost flipping the seats up and down. These were the old theatre seat where the seat folded up when not in use. I was in on of the theatres, there were five crammed into the building, with two other folks when I heard the should of the seats moving up and down. I turned around to see the other two dumbfounded as the seats in the first row were all moving up and down. Last was at an old Masonic Temple in Richland Center, Wisconsin in 2010. I was alone on the second floor ballroom/dining hall when I heard a very heavy sigh from what seemed to be a few feet in front of me. It was loud enough that another member heard the same sigh on the staircase outside of the ballroom. There could very well be mundane explanation for what I experienced, but at the time they certainly appeared to be unexplainable.

[@Ollie_nel]

I resonate with the last portion. I think the reason I want ghosts to be real is so that some of the most vulnerable can be shown care and empathy that they likely weren't shown while they were alive.

[@makennahrettig1159]

I did a talk on Mumler for my work and he is a very interesting case. There was a story of him showing a guy around his studio and they guy recognized one of Mumler’s “ghosts” as his wife. He realized later that Mumler had taken his wife’s portrait previously. In another story, a woman got a spirit photo taken with her brother, who had been lost in the Civil War. The photo seemed a very nice memory to her… until her brother returned from the war, very much alive. (She chalked it up to an evil spirit following her around). During his trial, other photographers cited, I believe, 13 ways to fake spirit photos. And it wasn’t even until AFTER all of this that he took his (arguably) most famous photo of Mary Todd Lincoln with “Lincoln’s Ghost.”

[@captainsteve3050]

I absolutely loved this video, and because I did, I would like to tell my own ghost story here. Some friends of mine, and I, were given permission to spend a night in a heritage house museum known as The Stanley House in Garden Grove, California. It has a reputation for being haunted. Back in the early 1980’s we didn’t have all the ghost hunting equipment popular today, and so I improvised. I took in a smoke gun used in the air conditioning trade to see air currents in rooms. I was looking for cold spots, thought to be evidence of paranormal presence. In the presence of a cold spot the smoke will sink. We eventually found ourselves in the old nursery of the home and one of my friends started feeling anxious about a closet in the room. I knelt down in front of the closet door and blew smoke into it. Towards the back of the closet, the smoke began to fall, as would be expected if it met cold air. But within moments, the falling smoke began to take on a distinctive shape… the shape of a little girl in a long dress that didn’t quite reach the floor. One arm appeared to be outstretched as though shielding herself in fear. I said, “Hello,” and asked her her name, but at that moment the form rushed forward, through the door and right passed me. I actually felt a cold breeze on my arm and face as it passed, and, turning, we all saw a trail of smoke, carried in her wake, move out the outer door and into the upstairs hall where it vanished. We later learned that a little girl had died in a barn fire on the property, trying to save her favorite horse. That’s my ghost story. I don’t ask anyone to believe it, but I experienced it, and will never forget it.

[@bobbreaker3382]

This has given me something to think about. I've been fascinated with the paranormal since I started reading books of ghost stories in kindergarten. My grandmother died when I was in elementary school, and I saw (and heard) her ghost when I was walking to the bathroom. She was standing in front of the doors that lead out to the playground; sun shining through the window behind (and through) her. She smiled at me, and I was both relieved and terrified all at once. That experienced bolstered my fascination, and I've been looking for answers ever since. I've had some intense encounters with both corporeal and incorporeal entities. I'm always interested in finding a group of like-minded people, but more often than not; those people are either obviously involved for the attention, to take advantage of others, or are just willing to believe ANYTHING, as long as they're involved.

[@06hAnBan26]

Love your videos! I'm interested in different topics throughout history and you're always so thorough

[@sarahkendall5714]

I find your point interesting on how American ghost hunting culture is linked to these dark places, where we feel collective guilt or sadness. It's very different to what I would say British ghost hunting culture is, for us there is sometimes an undertone of sadness but mostly I think it's an attempt to see and reclaim our long past. I have experienced a lot of paranormal activity with my first experience being when I was 3 years old and seeing the ghost of my nan. I think each experience is unique and it's personal to that person, and in that way can never really be dissected or experimented on to discover the truth, it will probably remain a mystery to us all until our inevitable ends.

[@MouseArchives]

I'm so glad you talked about how genuinely funny ghost adventures is. It's my favorite bad show

[@ZombieCookie333]

I lived in a haunted house for a year. It was incredibly creepy daily, including footsteps consistently upstairs when no one was up there, running up and down stairs with no one there, and the feeling of being watched. I sleep with the tv on bc of that experience to drown out any possible sound. Now when I feel unease wherever I live, I threaten the energy. I say hey no one lives here for free, pay rent or clean up. It’s like they quietly slip out hearing the choices 😂

[@bringmeliara1286]

i love having hauntings explained, to see why people would experience these things. its so much more interesting to me to see what buck-wild perfect storm situations come up. I'd be in the non-believer camp full-stop if i hadnt grown up in an intensely haunted house. There was a man in a hat who stood by a window in one room (sometimes in other corners of the room too) that everyone in my family, and even some friends and neighbors, knew about. You could hear someone running up and down the stairs very often, or hear everything in one room being thrown to the ground. Sometimes i would wake up in the middle of the night because something was shaking my mattress, and while i wasnt there when it happened my brother once said his whole mattress folded up on him and he came into my room crying. just lots of little things, like dogs barking at nothing and shadows in the hallways walking towards you. for now im thinking most were just hallucinations, because i do experience crazy things under stress or during pits of depression, and there was a lot of trauma in my childhood that i wasnt equipped to deal with. but i cant speak for other family members, since we're not open like that. there was one thing that im not so sure about though. a coworker and i were closing up shop and while i was checking the isles a bag of chips launched out of the shelf and hit me. hard too, like someone full-force threw it at me. i was on the far side of the isle, none of the other bags were disturbed, and my coworker was all the way at the register. no idea how that happened lol

[@milesbrown2261]

I was also a huge ghost adventures fan as a kid. Me and my brother and my cousin, while staying at my grandpa's house, decided to look around in his attic for ghosts. We turned out the lights and tried to speak out to the ghosts, we didn't have any equipment save for a flashlight. All at once we started getting scared, we thought we saw something moving inside the walls. Then out of the corner of my eye I see a blue woman peering around the corner. We all turn to it and to this day my brother and my cousin all agree that they saw this too, we all saw our grandma, pale, blue, transparent, peeking around the corner like she was spying on us. Then as if she knew we weren't supposed to see her, she darted away from the corner. Our grandma had died of diabetes years prior to this experience. The eeriest part of this, is that she was spying on us. When I told this story to my mother, she told me that our grandma used to spy on her and her sisters all the time when she was younger. Turns out our grandma was very controlling and a little abusive. She would go so far as to hide under tables to see if she could catch the kids in the act or something. I had not known this side of my grandma prior to this experience, hell I was like 3 when she died. So I can buy the idea that my childish mind made up this image of my grandma, but the idea that it knew to make my grandma behave in a "spying" manner, plus the fact that there were three of us looking at her, makes this experience unexplainable to me.

[@laloarr]

I had the greatest, most vivid ghost experience ever and I only shared it once to a group of online people and they clowned on me.

[@rottentrotten]

I worked at this Wendy's for 3 years. I had a few experiences, all of which revolved around our walk in fridge and freezer. I saw a door and a door handle moving by themselves. My most significant was watching my manager walk into the freezer, when I opened the door no one was in there. It's definitely why I want to learn more. I want to believe that something was actually reaching out to me and I just want answers.

[@lynn858]

Idk… As a kid I remember looking at a cemetery, and living together what I knew about dead people, and graves and that “those people don’t exist anymore”. And it just made perfectly good sense. It wasn’t a remotely disturbing concept. Yeah. Someday I won’t exist anymore. My grandparents and parents will probably cease to exist, and I’ll be around know that. But neither the idea of loved ones ceasing to exist, or myself ceasing to exist has ever been remotely unnerving to me. I recognize this is uncommon, at least for westerners with christianity baked into all of our allegedly secular institutions. But surely I can’t be that alone. I feel like a different culture a different philosophical indoctrination, and people would be fine with ceasing to exist.

[@carolinecameron4840]

12:40 It is actually believed now that Mumler's wife, Hannah Mumler, was the mastermind behind the spirit photography techniques, as she was actually the one who taught Mumler the majority of his skills on photography! There's a great Vox Darkroom video on this to learn more: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqTbZ6unnpWpsLc

[@plovergrrl]

Found this creator recently and have loved the other videos, but I admit being hesitant on this one because I am agnostic bordering on skeptical when it comes to ghosts (i.e., I agree that there are currently unexplained phenomena but suspect they will become explainable like the weather, as most phenomena do in time). But that said, I shouldn't have worried. You did a wonderful job exploring the history of ghost hunting and motivations behind it. And yes, if there are ghosts I will be happy to admit it when we have definitive, replicable, testable evidence, lol.

[@Nocturnalux]

I spent my entire childhood steeped in supernatural fears. I have grown up since then but do find it interesting. I stayed at the Sunshine Prince Hotel in Tokyo, infamous for being one of the “most haunted sites” in the city (on account of being built on the site of a former military prison where several War criminals were executed) not once but twice, did not see a single ghost. I wish I had asked the staff about it, they often are more open when you speak the language.

[@tin112]

when i was in middle school, in the late 2000s, a friend took a picture of me on his phone (an lg rumor, iykyk) in inverted mode (so dark colors showed up light and vice versa) and there was an old lady with glasses on sitting beside me on the couch. i was sitting alone fyi. my mom initially told him not to show me because she thought i'd be scared. i'm not in contact with that person anymore bc they SUCKED, but that's my closest paranormal experience. also, not my experience, but my grandmother said that after my uncle (her youngest son) passed away he visited her and said not worry about him, and that he was fine. she also told me about a time where she was sleeping in her bed and was choked by an entity. she fought and got free, of course, she was the only person home. she told me that it wasn't much longer that she stayed there.

[@cabwaylingo_]

your backgrounds + outfit combos are always 10/10 but this one was my fav

[@TheKevphil]

This was _excellent!_ I very much appreciated your insights and impressions! I enjoy watching ghost hunting videos on KZbin, especially the Russian ones, "Dark Ghost" and "Tim Morozov." Their mostly over-the-top Investigations are often hilarious, but the locations, frequently abandoned cabins in rural villages, are both creepy and often melancholic in their echoes of poverty. BTW: If you need any help on your webcomic, I'm a cartoonist and... ;) Take Care!

[@bunkayke2554]

This was wonderful, super insightful. Also the last few lines were raw as hell.

[@laurabohlander5985]

I used to stay up and watch Most Haunted Live with my friend all the time. It was so fun despite barely anything ever happening

[@ByTheLightOfABurningDonkey]

I am part of a paranormal team and I've seen some crazy shit. I hate the whole "bro" type stuff though. It's fun helping people though as much as others don't believe. I've seen a woman in front of me clear as day and when I described her the home owner pulls out a photo album and the lady in it is indeed her and wearing the EXACT SAME DRESS. I am not religious and I don't let the clients know that. I like to compare others beliefs to mine. It's a fun mindfuck.

[@jamesframe5404]

I felt a weird, eerie feeling in my house shortly after moving in. My wife felt the same thing on another occasion. When we had a new food installed, & the feelings never occurred again. Sometime later, a friend of a previous tenant told us that a boy killed in the kitchen playing Russian roulette with a pistol he'd gotten hold of.

[@greed0599]

Funny that the "Go back..." From your recording sounded EXACTLY like a piece of grass rubbing the mic. And it sounds like you were walking through tall grass. Crazy.

[@TurrellTV]

I noticed she keeps doing that glance up and now I can’t stop seeing it.

[@glitterberserker1029]

I never believed in ghosts but my mom and I watched the first few seasons of ghost hunters together when I was a kid. My personal favorite part of the show was when they would tell people the sound they were hearing was just their water heater or something or when they would, completely unprompted and without any relations to ghosts at all, tell people they had a leak and some mold in the basement or something because they were plumbers by day ghost hunters by night. I think they stopped doing it after a few seasons but it was great when they just sat the home owners down and told them they should call a plumber or electrician or something.

[@Bakedbri]

First video of Kaz’ I’ve stumbled upon and the conclusion was so good I got goosebumps! Beautifully done ❤️

[@LandELiberation]

Fun fact, Athenodoros (the philosopher in a haunted house) was tutor to the young Octavian, before he was Augustus, apparently he taught him anger management techniques, but Octavian also gouged a dudes eyes out so idk how good a job he did.

[@cevadesign]

There is a swiss youtuber called "Le Grand JD" who is an awesome ghost hunter. He does different type of videos (debunking paranormal videos, visiting "haunted" places and filming nature and animals). He's very down to earth and respectful. He never tries to do clickbait videos and a very chill dude to watch. 👍

[@claudiaelodie]

I was a huge ghost show watcher. I remember watching Ghost Hunters for their one live Halloween episode and the faking it fallout. I have sooo many personal experiences, and experiences with other people present that I believe . Saw civil war widow, heard talking and music, saw shadow people, had my hand grabbed, and so much more.

[@ona3779]

As I used to love Welcome to Night Vale, every time you said “John Peters”, my brain would follow it up with “you know, the farmer”.

[@brigidlynch2807]

a sort of ghost experience: i was about 17, and we'd been fostering a kitten (this is important). one night, i woke up quite early, it was still dark, and so i decided to just lie in bed and cuddle said kitten. she was lying on my stomach and i was stroking her with both hands. as this was happening, i felt something brush against my forehead, like someone brushing a lock of hair of off my face. when i told my mom later that day, thinking it was her, she said she'd been fast asleep all night, so it couldn't have been. she said it must have been the kitten. her reasoning for this was that this kitty really loved to either lie on my chest, shoulders, or even head. she also loved playing with my hair. but i knew it wasn't, because i'd been holding her the whole time. a few minutes after it had happened, and i stopped being scared shitless, i opened my eyes and looked around the room. empty. but i knew i had felt something. a few months later, we got mail that didn't belong to us. this happened before, as we'd moved into the house that year, and the old owners were still getting sent things like parking tickets and such. but the name on the envelope didn't belong to the owners. we asked them about it, and they said it was their dad's/grandpa's name. he'd died shortly before we bought the house, the reason they sold it in the first place. now me, being really freaked out, but also curious and quite sad for them, i asked their daughter (she'd also lived there), about her grandpa. she told me a bunch of really sweet stories, including how he'd read to her each night before bed. i joked: did you get the kiss on the forehead and everything? as that was something my own gramps did. and she said: yeah, he'd brush my hair aside and give me a kiss before saying goodnight. i was starting to freak out again now. like, i mean, was this really happening? cause my room used to be the daughter's... there were nail polish stains and butterfly stickers in the cupboards and everything. i debated telling her this, cause she was really young, about 8 years old, and i didn't wanna scare her. (or have her parents pissed at me if i did indeed scare her :( ) eventually when they visited again to collect more mail, i told her and her parents about it. there were lots of mixed emotions, the mom didn't believe me, but the dad and the daughter were really touched and saddened. to them, it seemed, he'd been trying to say goodbye, and had missed them.

[@lynnielie8312]

If anything you made the genre more enjoyable… the end almost made me shed a tear 😢 😂 beautiful though. It almost sounded like a poem. My grandma passed recently in the Covid ward in September. my papa was admitted too and he came home with bedbug bites covering his back. The only reason she lasted as long as she did is because my family was there around the clock watching over her. They couldn’t let her leave though. She was dependent on the oxygen. But they (the hospital staff) also didn’t try to help her at all. I often think about her and everyone else who passed from the same thing there and in such a bad environment. This pandemic really sucks. Mask up pls everyone 😢

[@Sunshine-m]

Damn I'm not used to watch educational videos on yt, I'm more of a 'comedy' type of person. But your channel is awesome ! I learned so much in only one video and it's such an interesting subject too. Props to you for doing extensive research every time !

[@stpnwlf9]

Big fan of Ryan and Shane. And while it's absolutely true that they are first and foremost entertainers, they also come across as very authentic - you're getting the real Ryan and the real Shane, not characters designed to play out a formula.

[@Alchemistress33]

Omg ok first video here and I am HOOKED! I love your narration style. & Ghost Whisperer is a CORE memory for me!!

[@shosplecolupis8794]

hey, i know this is old, but i just wanna say i greatly appreciate your captioning :) it's really well-done and makes your videos a lot easier to watch. i love your videos in general, though -- they're very well researched and formatted, as well as very entertaining!

[@just_a_tiny_dinosaur5014]

I LOVED Ghostland USA, I’m a witchy person, but I’m also an anthropology major interested specifically in folklore. I love that Dickey, while debunking a lot of the fictional (often racially charged) stories that eventually sprout up around famous hauntings, he goes a long way to establish the psychological/anthropological reality of experiencing a haunting, I find it so fascinating!!!

[@Eloraurora]

That really was a great book. I remember the non-haunted auction house as one of most powerful arguments against the unfinished business/suffering = ghosts idea.

[@irobious3284]

I’m reminded of my favorite Jimmy Carr quote, “there’s a very easy way to tell if your house is haunted… it isn’t.”

[@Ballbusteress]

I wonder what people think, wHat never stops to amaze me is, so many youtubers go ghost hunting - even specialize in it - hope to make encounters - ask spirits to make those contacts - and then.... run, run, run? Not only this brings up the questions what's the spirits benefit of contacting as requested and not only it brings up the further question if this classifies lack of respect for the dead, asking them for signs when not having any further interest in their story and wellbeing but pointless contact to exploit them on a show. But the third question is waht really gets me everytime, if this is whats' wanted, requested, hoped for - why be surprised by it every single time theres a contact. Why be terrified , not used to it, not gathering the balls but fleeing, not talking to the spirit but gettin away from a contact taht was requested and sought? About the "hunting" term, ghost hunting is the only huntsman game where everybody, no exceptions, runs from their prey, what kind of investigation is this O_o

[@watchtower0988]

i didnt remember ever being subscribed to your channel...but im sure as hell happy i am now!! also shane and ryan are legends and put all other ghost channels to shame.

[@ragnarmodin3381]

Clicked into this vid after getitng your Lighthouse vid in my recomended feed. Gotta say, this is the first time youtube algorithms got it right. Factual and fun. Please, keep it up?

[@TheMeJustMe75]

Me and my friends were deeply involved in a situation with an evil spirit. One of my friends lived in a haunted house for about three years. We witnessed some really frightening things and couldn't get anyone with a religious affiliation to help even our pastor.

[@CallMeMeepMeIfYouWannaReachMe]

I've been told by my coworkers that the upholstery shop we work at is haunted but I've never experienced anything. One coworker had a decent list of stuff she saw and heard and said I must be very oblivious to things happening around me lol. A water bottle fell off a shelf but the place isn't built that well so there's a high chance that me walking by the shelf made it fall. Some of the stuff she told me about would scare the crap out of me so I'll stick to being oblivious to my surroundings. My mom has had a ton of experiences though.

[@sallyhigh8487]

Less than two minutes in and you've already name dropped both ghostland and the ghost whisperer.... Amazing 😍 on that criteria alone you have convinced me to pick up the cemetery boys.

[@totalcIown]

A few weeks ago me and my cousin were super spooked cause we thought we were being haunted by one of the ghosts in my house turns out it all started bc my little sister opened the door when my cousin was on the toilet and didnt want to admit it and then we both tried to spook eachother with pranks and maybe the actual ghost joined in once in a while 💀💀

[@WhitneyDahlin]

NOTHING will ever be as funny as Zack Baggins yelling into the darkness at a "ghost" "DO YOU WANT TO FONDLE ME" LMFAO! My sister and I LOVED ghost adventures! and it led to us breaking in to abandoned houses all around our town. We actually lived at the time in this tiny town that was built before the civil war just outside Kansas city. So there were a lot of "haunted" places and history and deaths in the town. Out of all the supposedly haunted places there were there was only one time we caught any type of EVP or anything unexplained. And it was literally just my sister and I who broke into this old abandoned farmhouse that was out in the middle of a field so far outside of any town the dirt road it was on didn't even have a name. There were no Legends surrounding it, it wasn't a known place at all. We stumbled across it in the winter when we were driving out to where my sister boarded her horses and since it was Winter we were able to see that hey there's this weird trail let's follow it. And so we did found the farm house and we came back that night to ghost hunt. So obviously there was no one around it was totally empty, the house wasn't even standing anymore it just had a stone foundation and some stairs. And we asked is there anyone here, what is your name, and we didn't hear anything out loud while we were there so then I yelled DO YOU WANT TO FONDLE ME and we start cracking up laughing and then we drive home to listen through all the footage. And when we got to that part of the footage we heard a weird crackly deep distorted voice say to the first question ASK ED and then to the second EDWARD. And then we didn't catch anything else after we asked if they wanted to fondle us and died laughing. I WISH I had taken it seriously and asked more questions but we had never caught anything before and we had been to supposedly super haunted places. Itfreaked my sister out so much she refused to go ghost hunting with me ever again. and our parents wouldn't let me go by myself cuz they were afraid I would get hurt. But I stand by today that we caught something on the voice recorder. idk what it was or who Edward was or anything but we caught something supernatural. And I still think about it and kick myself for not asking more questions.

[@djianmalcolm4009]

There should be a whole video on William James! Not only father of behavioral psychology, very different from Freudian psychoanalysis, but one of the first prominent philosophers of the United States. Also his personal life is a movie in itself.

[@LikeTheProphet]

12 years ago, I lived in Chicago. Up the street from my dorm was a FYE. I got a membership, and found that I had astonishing deals on the weirdest shit So I got a bunch of documentary box sets about haunting and ghosts, as well as Ghost Hunters (both standard and international) season box sets too. They cost me $5 with my membership, so for me it was a funny goof and a good entertainment-to-dollar value. But yeah I feel everything you’re saying about “I was in the fandom” 10/10 thanks for this video

[@Everlastinggobbs]

I have many ghost experiences. But I want to talk about the machismo in ghost hunting tv shows. It erks me to no end.. like when I go with friends. It's mainly calm and very chill. And he's it's spooky as shit lol. The TV shows over dramatize everything about it. I loved this whole video btw!

[@kaelishaw5820]

Ghost whisperer was my FAVORITE growing up!!

[@milozimben]

Before some...things came out about one of the members, my favorite show of this type was Achievement Haunter, and a big part of it was definitely the fact that the viewer probably already "knows" these people in the sense that they know off the bat that their primary thing is entertainment, so the show was able to be really fun in a way that many other ghost-hunting shows aren't and a lot of the comedic value came from the pranks that they'd play on each other

[@Pubbs]

I'm gonna rewatch this a few times because it is such a good primer for this aspect of the supernatural and a grounded skeptic view, but I really like your EYES necklace.

[@Pubbs]

oh, the necklace really matches your eyes. that is disconcerting but awesome

[@jayisabluebird]

ok im not through the entire video yet but im excited so you'll have to forgive my halfway-through comment! my special interest is the paranormal, broadly, and i LOVE this video. I love that you brought up some re-occuring ideas and themes that pervade the ghost-hunting community throughout history, I love that you brought up differing technologies, I love that you brought up the importance of skeptics as well- I'm just... I love this video.