Soulseekers Ghost Hunters - The Beginning
We here at Spectral Review had the chance to watch the Soulseekers Ghost Hunters - The Beginning recently on DVD and found it to be entertaining and interesting.
The Soulseekers are a paranormal group from the UK who have released their first DVD available to the public. The video is 28 minutes in length and the team visited four locations:
- Brunswick House
- The Hellfire Caves
- The Tudor House - Margate
- Marquis of Granby Pub - Wendover
The UK has so many terrific places to investigate. All of these places were new to us except for the Hellfire Caves. Last year the Ghost Hunters visited that location.
At the locations they would speak to people to give us some history of the property. At the Marquis of Granby Pub they spoke with an employee who told them the stories of hauntings of the property. She included her own personal experiences and they later experienced one of her claims during the investigation.
The team captured some interesting events at each location. At one point they had felt a cold spot and the team’s sensitive SarahJane O’Neill challenged the spirit to make the temperature go colder. We have seen this done in TV shows in the past but haven’t seen it documented as well as the Soulseekers have done. They smartly kept a night vision camera onto the digital LCD screen of the thermometer as we could clearly see the temperature drop.
We enjoyed the video very much. Our only complaint is that it was just 28 minutes! We wish it was longer and we got to see more of the team in action. Hopefully they will release more DVDs in the future.
The video is available on the Soulseekers web site.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Yes, this temperature drop is . . . chilling evidence. You’d practically have to be a genius to figure out a way to manipulate the digital LCD post-production.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Of course anything can be faked. One must always keep that in the back of their mind when watching, listening or reading about this paranormal stuff.
There will always be dishonest people. But there also will be people who are doing as they say, just looking for answers in a straight-forward honest way.
It’s interesting to me to watch as it all unfolds, this whole paranormal trend that is happening in this first decade of the millennium.
June 20th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Should be in the front of the mind.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me a buncha times on TV and video, I’m a dumba**!
June 20th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
For some it seems paranormal dogma is replacing religious dogma to explain “what dreams may come.”
Problem is, at least most religions have a guidebook like the Bible or Quran. Paranormalists have . . . a lot of new-age hippie-speak.
“The house was Victorian, built over an Indian burial ground/ Civil War battleground/Underground Railroad passage. Once a halfway house for formal mental patients, a number of murders occurred on the site . . .”
June 20th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Resume and Randy,
I guess knowing that a certain percentage of what I watch is likely faked doesn’t bother me. The stuff on TV and video is also entertainment and I can take it for just that. We still love watching Supernatural and other shows which are all fiction. I guess I don’t mind the gray area that both types of shows have in common.
So I guess where you see a problem, I accept it for what it is. However I can understand people getting angry or being bothered. Matter of fact I’m probably in the minority feeling the way I do.
June 20th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Not angry, just like to encourage critical thinking. You understand that many, many people believe everything they hear when it’s uttered by, say, those two plumbers.
Fiction, when offered as such is fine. Fiction, when offered as truth is a lie.
No problem when it’s just ghosthuntin’; big problem when it’s stuff like psychic surgery.
Houdini liked to expose both.