One of the most interesting ghost hunting tools is the thermal camera. Ghost Lab has captured an image that to us is the most interesting image captured to date on any paranormal TV show.
What sets this image apart from anything the Ghost Hunter franchises have ever caught is the difference in temperature. All of the images caught by the plumbers have been “hot” images. These hot images are easily explained as coming from something living and breathing. Most likely an animal or a crew member from Pilgrim Entertainment. Even the most interesting image the Ghost Hunters found was of the “soldier” – which really was a reflection of Grant from a metal locker.
The Ghost Lab thermal image is a “cold” image. We have heard for years of “cold spots”, how spirits use heat as energy to manifest themselves. To us here at Spectral Review it always made sense to us that finding a thermal cold image is much more interesting and much more likely to be something paranormal.
The temperature difference is around 55 degrees. Very significant find. Nice job Ghost Lab!!
So what about this image is bothersome? The Ghost Lab team interviewed someone from the camera manufacturer to get their feedback which they could not explain. Steve Harris a team member suggested that it was a “water bottle”. Earlier in the show they returned to a previous thermal anomaly to debunk it but didn’t on this one if we remember correctly. They did take thermal pictures of water bottles to clearly show what they captured was very different than these tests.
The problem to us here at Spectral Review is the thermal camera itself. It’s very difficult to discern any sort of reference point in the thermal video to get any sort of sense of what the room looks like, or what objects are in the room. Also what sort of “zoom” factor is the camera set – so you lose any sort of perspective on size.
We wish someone would implement a “mount” where two cameras could be installed. One camera would be a thermal and the other an IR camera. Of course one would have to manually “sync” up the two cameras as to zoom and recording. This way one could produce video that was time synced and viewing the same objects but capturing a thermal image along with a “normal” image that could give one some perspective on what the heck is being captured on video.
So theres a free idea for all you paranormal investigators out there who have some extra cash lying around to buy the equipment and to implement a mount to do the job. Get to work. 
Tonya Hacker from Ghost Divas has recently posted about their recent interview with Donna LaCroix who formally was a cast member on Ghost Hunters and Ghost Hunters International.
I highly recommend you listen to this interview if you have an interest in the truth.
One of the things we have witnessed here is something Donna LaCroix refers to as a “TAPS cult”. There is a group of people that just have gone overboard and have become the Ghost Hunter Minions and defend them and attack others in the paranormal TV world. Six weeks ago Ghost Lab premiered and even here on the humble Spectral Review web site, people were posting negative comments even before the show aired!
And if you have visited Spectral Review the last year you will know we think the plumbers are actually magicians.
You can listen to the podcast and decide for yourself.
It looks like Ghost Lab had some solid ratings the first two weeks of being on the air. It does have a veteran show Dirty Jobs as a lead-in which certainly helped the show. The second week saw a big jump in ratings from the premiere.
It looks like plenty of folks are liking the show like we do here at Spectral Review.
One of the things we really like is the opening text on the show:
“The following program documents the case studies of Everyday Paranormal. All evidence has been gathered by the Klinge Brothers and their team of investigators. Nothing has been manipulated or manufactured.”
Congrats to Everyday Paranormal on such a good start. Here are the numbers from The Discovery Channel:
New Hit Series GHOST LAB Scares Up Big Numbers
DIRTY JOBS Continues Strong Second Week of Premiere Episodes
On Tuesday, October 13, 2009, premiere episodes of DIRTY JOBS and GHOST LAB helped rank Discovery Channel as the #3 primetime cable network in primetime for Men 25-54 and 18-49. The network also ranked #4 for Persons 25-54 (858K) and 18-49 (872K), and Men 18-34 (308K).
In only its second week, GHOST LAB bested its household numbers from its series premiere last week, going from .79 HH to 1.11 HH, a 41% increase. GHOST LAB also saw a big bump in M18-34 with a whooping 87% increase from last week, +47% for M18-49 and 28% higher P25-54.
DIRTY JOBS continued strong with 1.38 HH and 0.91 in the key P25-54 demo. DIRTY JOBS was the #3 primetime cable telecast for M25-54 delivery (660K) and ranked at #5 for M18-49 (691K). In the 9PM time slot DIRTY JOBS was the #2 cable telecast for M25-54 and M18-49, only coming in behind VH-1’s Hip Hop Honors.
GHOST LAB follows brothers Brad and Barry Klinge as they take their mobile lab on the road to uncover the truth behind Americas most haunted sites. From a music hall where Elvis is believed to have never left the building to Civil War battlefields where the fallen are still heard, Brad and Barry employ the latest technology to research the supernatural and separate fact from fiction.
Tonight a new series called Ghost Lab premiered on The Discovery Channel. The series promises to bring a fresh look to paranormal investigating and they certainly deliver in this first episode entitled Disturbing the Peace.
The team from Everyday Paranormal lead by Brad and Barry Klinge visited two locations in this first episode. They were the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium and the Myrtles Plantation.
In this episode they tell us of a theory they plan to explore and test called “Era Cues”. A haunted location sometimes is reported to have spirits from a certain time period or activity during a period in history. The Klinge brothers are testing the idea that paranormal activity can be triggered by promoting the particular time or era in some way. At the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium they decide to play music from the 50’s because much of the reported activity seems to be from that time. At the Myrtles Plantation they center on the Civil War era because on a previous investigation there they captured a terrific EVP “Colonel…Are you afraid?” So they ask a historian to speak about the Civil War and replay the recording during their investigation.
A unique idea that your editor here at Spectral Review has not seen done before on TV.
A second technique they presented in this first episode that we had not seen before was using a set of “digital data loggers”. A digital data logger takes continuous readings of temperature, humidity and EMF. In the past a “shadow person” was seen in a hallway at the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium so they used the digital data loggers in a “linear sweep”. Using several digital data loggers placed about 4 feet apart they hope to be able to track an entity as it passes through the hall.
This episode captured two very good EVP, one at each location. They also captured a voice audible to the ear at the Myrtles Plantation of what sounded like a child singing or laughing.
Ghost Lab certainly looks to be a terrific and refreshing addition to the paranormal TV landscape. We are looking forward to seeing how future exploration using “Era Cues” triggers paranormal events. We are also intrigued by what other ideas Brad and Barry Klinge and their team will come up with in this series.
This first season of Ghost Lab will be 13 episodes and will air on Tuesdays at 10PM Eastern and again 3 hours later.
Well it’s just two weeks away for the first episode of Ghost Lab. Here is a summary of the first show:
Ghost Lab
TDC-HD – 278 – Tue, 10/06, 10:00 PM 1 hr
“Disturbing the Peace”
New, 10/06/2009, Paranormal, Science, Supernatural
Two brothers lead their team of paranormal investigators to Louisiana on a mission to collect scientific evidence that can provide insight into the alleged hauntings at the Myrtles Plantation and the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium.
We all know who the two brothers are – Brad and Barry Klinge from Everyday Paranormal. And people who have been following them know they have been to the Myrtles Plantation. So we can’t wait to see what additional findings they have found there and what they have found at the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium.
I think this new series is going to be terrific. Brad and Barry are going to take a fresh look at ghost hunting with many new techniques that have not been tried before. The plumbers have fallen into such a routine that every one of their shows is very cookie cutter.
Ironically Ghost Lab will probably improve Ghost Hunters because it is going to give them a kick in the ass.
Finally we have some credible paranormal themed TV to watch!!
The plumbers can claim they have “the best evidence so far this season coming up”, but so what when it’s just faked? Or why get excited just because Meatloaf is going on one of their investigations? The plumbers show has gotten so desperate they had to go the “demon” route last week.
Truly sad.
Brad and Barry Klinge of Everyday Paranormal will premiere their new show Ghost Lab this Fall on The Discovery Channel.
From the press release:
The Klinge brothers aren’t satisfied with merely going into a home with the hopes of catching a voice on tape. They want to test real scientific theories. With the help of the latest technology, a decked-out travelling “ghost lab” and one of the world’s foremost specialists in science measurements, they test cutting-edge theories. Is there more ghost activity around water? Are spirits attached to specific items or locations? The Klinge brothers are on a mission to find out. And they aren’t testing these theories in ordinary places. Instead, they are tackling some of America’s most haunted locations – including Tombstone, Ariz., home to some of the most violent deaths in history and a hotbed of activity, and the Shreveport Auditorium, where Elvis got his start and may have not left the building.
We will let you know when the show will actually premiere.
Finally something to look forward to watching!!
It seems forever since the last original paranormal TV show has aired. Actually it’s just been a month or so but we are definitely looking forward to the return of Ghost Adventures.
Yes that is right, this Friday Zak, Nick and Aaron head to Ione, California for an investigation in a condemned building known as Preston Castle.
The castle has a dark history as a former reformatory that housed angry juvenile offenders and abandoned children. It is the sight of an unsolved murder, countless instances of corporal punishment, and the scene of many tragic deaths due to ravaging epidemics.
We here at Spectral Review have always seen ourselves as a middleman of sorts – pointing the casual person interested in the paranormal to the real people who are doing serious thinking in the paranormal field. Most of these casual people have been exposed to the paranormal field via popular TV shows like Ghost Hunters, Paranormal State and the numerous ghost themed TV shows on many cable channels. Even though it sometimes is not obvious to the viewer, the main goal of these shows is to entertain..
Not that being entertained is a bad thing, but if people are interested in the paranormal they would benefit from the thinking of folks whose main goal is not to entertain, but to search for knowledge.
With that in mind, we present to you the BSPHI (Buckeye State Paranormal & Haunting Investigators) newsletter. We reprint it here with permission from BSPHI.
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BSPHI (Buckeye State Paranormal & Haunting Investigators) have posted their report from their recent investigation of the Hardin County Historical Museum.
Once again their report is very throughout and includes much detail including the history, maps, weather conditions, and collected data.
BSPHI has created two YouTube videos containing their captured audio and video from their investigation.
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