User Reviews

I watched Ghost Hunters regularly for a year or two with my son. I was fascinated with the debunking and scientific methods used. I really liked the way Jason (?) the leader anyway dealt with conflicts, open and upfront about his thoughts, etc. I wanted to tape one show in particular to show co-workers and subordinates how conflict management should be done. During that time, debunking was the rule and ghosts were scarce. Mostly it would be a voice on a tape or balls moving around. Then, last season, all of a sudden ghosts became plentiful, but never on tape. Jason and his 2nd in command walked into a hallway and came rushing back and carefully told what they saw independent of each other, as though that proved it wasn't a concocted story. I don't know, it just seemed so sudden, as though the show didn't stand on it's feet as it was. Manifestations can turn out to be anything, some an outside investigator wouldn't be able to get at. For example, I thought I had a ghost taking a few steps in my bedroom as I went to sleep. There'd be vibration and sound similar to when my husband came to bed only it'd just be one, two three steps. My heart sometimes goes irregular in rhythm. One night, when I heard the "footsteps", I also felt a familiar tapping inside my back, in time with the "footsteps". Now, I don't hear my "ghost" anymore. :( Amanda

To start, I love that all the episodes are available to stream on Discovery+ now. I haven't gotten caught up on the reboot seasons yet, but I was a super fan of the original series back in the day and am currently rewatching it. Granted, I'm still on the 1st season, but I'm really questioning why I loved this show so much as a kid. Maybe because everything is more believable when you're 13. They pride themselves on taking a scientific approach to paranormal investigation, trying to debunk as much as they can in their quest to capture irrefutable proof of a haunting. But they go about it like such amateurs! They bring like 15 people to an investigation, which is insane to me as an adult now. How can you properly investigate anything when you have that many people crammed into one small space? Maybe for some of these bigger venues, like Eastern State Penn, having a big crew makes sense. But for these smaller ones it's laughable. I swear there's like 8-10 min of footage from the actual investigation, which is mostly just them aimlessly roaming around in groups and asking each other, "Did you hear that?" over and over. And the rest of the episode is just their petty and probably staged crew drama plus them setting up/tearing down their equipment and discussing their "evidence". I was personally offended by the episode with that guest book with the pen that supposedly moved by itself. They put the pen back and then came back later to find it had "moved" again. But they didn't think to set up a camera to see if they could get evidence of it moving?? You know, the thing they're literally there to do?? Even the Ghost Adventures crew would have thought to do that. In the pilot episode, they captured some of the most clear and vivid EVPs I've ever heard, plus caught that chair move in the attic. That episode was compelling. But the rest of season 1 has been unimpressive. Makes you wonder if they faked that pilot so the show would get picked up. I know it's not realistic to expect them to capture that kind of evidence on every investigation, and it would honestly be hard to believe if they did, but it seems like they would capture a lot more if they actually took a professional approach to investigating instead of acting like a bunch of giggly teenagers walking around a graveyard at night. I feel like Grant and Jason really take it seriously, but their biggest downfall was having that big ass crew. The show would have been a lot better if it had just been them and maybe 2 or 3 others. I'm interested to see what the reboot seasons will be like.

I finally watched the two part episode for the current season. I cry foul!! Sure, I used to believe in this show until one of the live Halloween shows cut back too early and caught the team laughing. They immediately stopped and said "did you hear that?" From that point on, I watched purely for entertainment. Never liked Jason but always liked Grant. This new team has taken some getting used to but I was warming up to them. Well, this episode in Clifton, AZ would have been great if it had not been messed up by Kristen "falling" or "being pushed" on the stairs in the Clifton Hotel. This investigator was wearing boots with heels on them! First, how can you hear footsteps when her heels are clomping all around? Second, how can she walk safely IN THE DARK while wearing heels? And as for the stairs incident, I feel it was a misstep which was aggravated by the heels. Geez girl....try to make it more believable! Drop her from the team as she is nothing but a fashion statement.

I think this show succeeds for the same reason that the great religions do: if it was more convincing people would be suspicious.

It is either brilliantly thought out and executed to be so appalling boring and unconvincing or its just a happy accident. The fact that its totally absurd strangely attracts people to choose to believe in it.

Its amazing that these clowns are being paid to make television when they are so absurdly bad at it. The entertainment value is even worse than the 'evidence'. If you're going to fake ghost footage at least make it interesting. When you have to subtitle the audio it means that its really not saying anything, its just random noise.