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Kil
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Posted - 11/21/2008 :  14:42:04  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Ghost Hunters are frauds! As though we didn't know it. But here they are caught on one of their own tapes that they should have cut from the show. A disgruntled fan of TAPS edited the footage to make the deception easy to spot…

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DtheB
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USA
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Posted - 11/21/2008 :  15:19:12   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send DtheB a Private Message  Reply with Quote
All we need is a similar video incriminating the UFO Hunters then we'll be getting someplace.

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Dave W.
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Posted - 11/21/2008 :  15:20:58   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
More here.

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Simon
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USA
1992 Posts

Posted - 11/21/2008 :  15:28:05   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Simon a Private Message  Reply with Quote
What surprises me is not that it is fraudulent (doh), it is how cheap and lazy the fraud was.
Come on people, you have a budget and team of professionals at your disposition. The least you can do is to show some modicum of actual talent when you are going to con your viewers!

Or are the competent magicians walking in James Randi and Penn and Teller footsteps now?

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard

USA
4907 Posts

Posted - 11/21/2008 :  17:29:12   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Come on people, you have a budget and team of professionals at your disposition. The least you can do is to show some modicum of actual talent when you are going to con your viewers!


In my opinion, pulling off stunts like that without investing money is talent. It doesn't take talent to throw a bunch of money at something.

As for the videos, I thought the earlier clips were much more damming than the coat. Sure, that was bad too, but the off scene footage showed that no one was buying this as a real ghost hunt, not even the camera crew.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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Simon
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USA
1992 Posts

Posted - 11/21/2008 :  19:54:14   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Simon a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I hadn't seen them... Gonna check that out.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996
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moakley
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USA
1888 Posts

Posted - 11/21/2008 :  20:43:19   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send moakley a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Holy crap. I've never seen this show before other than channel surfing through it, but after seeing these two clips I am convinced that the show would put me to sleep. Slow, unintersting, contrived ... PU

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