An eye on the paranormal world in today’s popular culture.  Articles refer to news about paranormal groups, TV shows and appearances by the leading ghost hunters in the field.
December 2nd, 2007 by djb

Another Update: Here the demon name is solved.
Update: See more “Paranormal State” reviews here.
Unfortunately we here at Spectral Review don’t get previews of upcoming paranormal shows so I can’t report on how the new AETV Paranormal State’s first episode is like. Fortunately someone at Blend Television did get a preview.

There are some creepy [...]

December 1st, 2007 by djb

This is a story told by the late Benson Foley of San Francisco:
“In the summer of 1881 I met a man named James H. Conway, a resident of Franklin, Tennessee. He was visiting San Francisco for his health, deluded man, and brought me a note of introduction from Mr. Lawrence Barting. I had [...]

December 1st, 2007 by djb

“HALLOA! Below there!”
When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have thought, considering the nature of the ground, that he could not have doubted from what quarter the voice came; but instead [...]

November 29th, 2007 by djb

Sci-Fi has announced that largely due to the wildly popular “Ghost Hunters” showings on Halloween and the rest of the month has resulted in the best November ratings ever for the channel.
That is really kind of amazing. It shows how significant the paranormal world has become in today’s society. And another reason why [...]

November 29th, 2007 by djb

Often in today’s main stream media an article will be written comparing and contrasting people from the paranormal investigation world with views from someone from a scientific or a more mainstream discipline. Nearly everyone of these articles seem to really slant toward the skeptic point of view by the fact they usually select a [...]

November 28th, 2007 by djb

Who would have thunk it! CBS Interactive announces that one of their web-based series won the best TV drama webisode. I didn’t even know that such a thing existed let alone won some award! And is “webisode” a word? I guess it is.
They have created a series based upon “The Ghost [...]

November 27th, 2007 by djb

If the investigation shows up something interesting, we should see the Massachusetts Belchertown Library in the next season of the Ghost Hunters on Sci-Fi. Last night the TAPS crew filmed an investigation at the reported haunted library. This article explains a library employee’s first experience there nine years ago.

“Grayish mist came into me [...]

November 21st, 2007 by djb

Update: The show starts January 9th.
As the regular Ghost Hunters appears to have finished it’s current run of new episodes, the news that Ghost Hunters International will soon be appearing is very welcome. Also glad to see that the rumors of Donna La Croix and Brian Harnois leaving TAPS were wrong is also great [...]

November 21st, 2007 by djb

Happy Thanksgiving Eve everyone!
For fun I thought I would like to post two blooper videos from Supernatural, one of our favorite shows. It is well written and the writers definitely allow the characters Sam and Dean some lighter moments from time to time.
These blooper videos show that the actors and crew also have some [...]

November 20th, 2007 by djb

Just wanted to mention you can preorder the Ghost Hunters Season Three Part 2 DVD now with it due out February 26th. This is basically the episodes from the end of August to just before Halloween 2007.
I believe it is 9 episodes with some deleted scenes bringing a total of 500 hours of entertainment. [...]