Ghost Adventures return to
Goldfield Hotel... Again...
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| Nick Groff, Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin The Ghost Adventures Crew |
Ghost Adventures third episode on Goldfield Hotel in Virginia
City marks my return to Paranormal Television reviewing.
I stopped reviewing paranormal shows for a while because the
shows I watched fell flat on their faces. The Syfy show “Ghost Hunters” is not
worth my time and energy to watch and review. They have sold out and are only in it for
money and ratings in my personal opinion. I do not mean any disrespect to the
TAPS crew I’m sure they’re wonderful people and I could never do what they do,
however they need to take control of their show and stop having cooperate involvement.
EMF sensitivity does not explain every claim of paranormal
activity in a place that has a long history of activity. You have greatly
disappointed me.
The Dead Files, on the travel channel, has always been
terrible, but I don’t know about the episodes I missed. I seriously doubt they
improved much because their backwards and inside out story telling format is
still in place. The only improvement was letting (formerly) silent Matt talk although
he’s saying things Amy’s already said, but it’s an improvement and I’ll accept
it for what little it’s worth.
Ghost Adventures, my pride and joy, the show I told everyone
to watch if they want to see real paranormal evidence on a televised show, took
a massive downward spiral. Somewhere
around season five the format changed, Zak started telling us everything that
happened before it happened and then it was shown; completely killing any
suspense the show was building. That is not how you keep an audience built on
the suspense of wondering if anything will happen.
However when this season aired their popularity soared. They
started gaining an audience, an audience of sheep from what I’ve seen on
Twitter. I believe a true fan should have the ability to criticize the thing
they love the most. If you refuse to open your eyes and gobble everything up
without question then how can you tell when the wool is being pulled over your
eyes?
I thought the wool was being pulled over my eyes, but then
Goldfield Hotel: Redemption aired. This episode was completely different from
previous episodes. There was a lack of being hand fed the evidence before it
happened. There was no breakdown of evidence on an imposed chart on the television
in the middle of the show. It felt like the episode took of the training wheels
and let the viewers’ ride with adult wheels. Goldfield Hotel: Redemption was
the breath of fresh air greatly needed for the series. It revived my faith in
the show and the GAC crew.
Let me state now: I am fully aware that paranormal activity
is unpredictable and you can’t walk into a place and demand for something to
happen and then it happens. I am aware that they have no control over what they
catch and don’t catch. I am also aware their Virginia City based episodes and
their documentary are some of my favorite episodes, but I can and am willing to
put any biases aside for the sake of good or bad episodes of Paranormal
television.
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| This describes the show with 100% accuracy. |
In this episode, they did what they’ve always said they
wanted to do. They got evidence. They proved there’s something on the other
side. They did no rely on ‘High EMF field sensitivity’ for every single thing
that happened. That might be a valid excuse but I doubt high electromagnetic
fields can physically manipulate objects, throw them a lengthy distance and strike
an object so hard it bounces off an object and ricochets in another direction.
EMF fields do not cause sudden mood changes and outbursts like the one Zak Bagans
had when he nearly broke Aaron’s camera.
The voiceovers that Zak does in post-production were not
overbearing they went back to their original foreshadowing. “… A spirit arrived
that seemed to remember us” Zak finished explaining that they were trying to communicate
with the ghost of Elizabeth and he says that about the Ovulus, it comes to life
and says “Nick” although it can only provide one word answers remembering them
could have meant anything. The spirit came through and said Nick’s name. If any
of the voiceovers were suspense killers, they were few and far between. They
might have been necessary as well.
I feel the need to mention the explanation of the events that
happen when the EVP of “Let Me Have It,” was captured seemed to be a little
annoying but at the same time it helped prepare me for what I was about to see.
It could have been a little shorter and less extensive but I am nitpicking.
I wish with all my heart the shadow Zak saw was caught on another
camera. I’ve watched the episode twice; it was shown on an exterior camera, it
might have been hard to see though. Another
slight ‘downside’ would have been the pause in the investigation to consult
with their audio tech people Billy and Jay. Usually those moments kill episodes
and they rarely recover. This meeting was necessary so it didn’t slow the pace
down that much, the only reason it slowed was because of the intense moment
that happened before hand with Zak, but it picks up right again afterwards.
As for physical spectral evidence, when they get footsteps
they’re audible even before they cleaned up the section and show it so you can
actually hear it. They were so loud they sent Aaron upstairs to go check there
was no audio contamination. I will not spoil this whole episode but I have
listed some of the great examples of their evidence. I hope the following two
episodes of season seven, are just as good as this episode. When I say “just as
good as this episode”, I mean a return to the format of their earlier seasons.
All I have left to say is this: if they stayed in Virginia
City did they stay in the Mizpah Hotel and if so, did anything happen while
they slept?
~Pugsly
A funny meme
I found while looking for GAC pictures
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