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Ghost Hunters episode report card.

“Haunted Air Force Base”

TAPS investigates an allegedly haunted military base in Dayton, Ohio.

The Ghost Hunters head to Dayton Ohio to see if buildings on Wright-Patterson AFB are haunted.

Case : Wright-Patterson AFB Arnold House and Building 70

Client Credibility

Greeting the Ghost Hunters and representing the USAF and Wright-Patterson AFB are Col Colleen M. Ryan and Rachel Castle. Rachel is a public affairs assistant and shows the team around. Rachel details the stories of paranormal claims. She works in building 70 and tells us about the voices heard, footsteps and other noises.

She tells us of a personal experience where she saw an apparition of a woman. This apparition looked like she was from an earlier era based upon her dress and hair style. Pretty creepy.

They go to the Arnold House and Rachel gives us the history of the home. People hear children playing and footsteps all the way up the stairs. Other personal experiences of people seeing shadow people and objects being moved.

Investigation

The investigation starts at the Arnold House.

Jason and Grant start with the thermal but really just concentrate on noises. Taps and knocks kind of rule the investigation for the most part. Which is kind of unusual for the team. It’s more of a Most Haunted tactic.

Grant asks the spirits to close the bathroom door. Unfortunately we don’t really see the door move. We do see that it is open and then see is nearly shut but don’t really see it move.

Kristyn and Kris try to get EVPs but don’t do much other than that this episode.

Jason and Grant test the spirit to turn a flashlight on and off. It was pretty amazing to see the flashlight turn on as it sat on the floor. Grant was taking EMF readings at the time and they did seem to increase. A pretty interesting sequence.

Tango and Steve take some EMF in another room and it does seem to fluctuate while they had it on a table. Another interesting sequence.

They move to Building 70 the next night.

Jason and Grant think some black mass is blocking the view of a light. It was an interesting sequence but it’s something that is not on camera at all. They hear some more taps.

Kristyn hears a “growling” sound and asks if it’s Kris’ stomach. It’s good to see Kris’ stomach featured once again this season. That makes three out of five episodes it’s been a player.

Evidence

Some personal experiences and tapping and knocking noises rule this episode. Jason and Grant did have their flashlight experiment and the door that closed.

They did find a recording of the taps that Jason and Grant had heard with their ears in Building 70.

No EVPs this episode.

Conclusion

This episode was entertaining. It was different since they had unusual events with the flashlight and bathroom door moving.

As they mentioned a couple of times in the show, it was cool that they had the opportunity to investigate on a working Air Force base. And the Air Force was represented well by Col Ryan and Rachel Castle.

It was great to get the tour of the Air Force cargo plane. Jason should have said “This plane is huge.”

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