We here at Spectral Review are not paranormal investigators, demonologists, or drama critics. We don’t even play any of those on TV! But we do watch most paranormal shows and can tell the good ones from the bad.

Paranormal State episode report card.

“The Knickerbocker”

The PRS investigates a report of strange noises and phantom children at the Knickerbocker Hotel in Linesville, Pa.

Paranormal State goes to Linesville PA to investigate The Knickerbocker Hotel. Truth or debunked?

Client Credibility

The client was a woman by the name of Peg Knickerbocker. She was very emotional as she told Ryan and the team of seeing a dark shadowy figure. She told us that she has had seances in the building and is concerned she attracted something evil. She continued on to say that many people in her family had issues recently including dropping dead. Which is sort of a serious issue.

She was concerned and upset that she brought this bad luck onto them by dabbling in the supernatural.

Later on when she “told the evil one to leave”, the building lost power for a few seconds. She was convinced that the evil spirit left and the power outage was the sign.

Sorry to say but to us she seemed a bit fruit loops. We understand that people can get upset and what is shown on TV is just a small part of a person conversing with Ryan but she definitely didn’t come off with the best image.

Investigation

Ryan and the team listened to the claims of the client and actually tried to debunk them. It was good to see the team do this in this episode. We assume that PRS does try to debunk the claims but in this series they have not shown them doing so too much. So thats a good job.

Usually this team excels at investigating the historical aspect of a haunting but we didn’t get that this time. There could be three reasons why:

• They didn’t have time to show us in the episode
• Nothing turned up when they looked
• They thought the lady was wacko and didn’t bother

Evidence

The show was not clear on if they captured any EVPs at “dead time”. It appeared that the team was hearing voices or noises a lot but we really don’t know if they captured anything.

They showed Ryan listening to something and muttering “maybe play it backwards” or something like that. So we assume they did not find anything.

Conclusion

It was an entertaining show and we were happy to see the team try to debunk some claims for a change. And they showed (to us anyway) that they really didn’t believe the client’s claims of the paranormal.