Anyone watch this show? Discovery had a small marathon last night and I caught a couple of them. I was really impressed with the ghost-story telling, even getting a convincing feeling of honesty from the people who claimed to be involved, but both episodes fell flat in the second half when they started "investigating" the hauntings. Everything seemed just too convenient, especially in the first one about this house called Summerwind. The haunting was violent and creepy, causing the step-father to pretty much lose his mind, including developing an obsession with this old organ where he would play all night long. The mother and her children eventually fled the house, and then the whole thing started to fall apart. Her father became "interested" in the house and bought it to renovate it, having become somewhat obsessed with it himself. After a strange incident involving his son at the house, she mentions that she just happens to be learning hypnosis in school and hypnotizes both her brother and her dad and they uncover the big secret of the house. That's when it fell apart for me - it started when the dad took over the house, because that just seems stupid, but the whole convenience of hypnosis really ruined it.

I remember seeing one of Arthur C. Clarke's "Strange Powers" shows or whatever it was called long ago where he took on the issue of ghosts, and I distinctly remember being surprised when he came to a non-conclusion - he said there simply wasn't anything that could prove or disprove whether they exist or not, and he was lead to believe that there must be something going on for it to be such a prevelant, recurrant event across all cultures worldwide. I really don't know - the concept is fascinating, and I love a good ghost story, but the skeptic in me screams "no way!" But then you get one of those "feelings" at an appropriate time and the skeptic in you goes running like a little child . . .

Anyway, anyone watch these shows? Are the others worth investing time in?

I don't know if it's this show, but I saw some ghost investigation show that creeped me out once. It was this summer at my folks', who have cable, which I do not, so I can't remember the name. Anyhow, a British lady reporter and a troupe of parapsychos, flaming medium included, investigate some old house with a dirty dreadful past. They go into the basement and try to conjure up some spirits. Well, shit, some freaky appearances occur and it gets cold enough to see breath. The mood intensifies. Then a camera man gets whacked by something. The british lady clearly looks afraid, but goads on. A loud noise occurs prompting the lady to shriek. She again summons for a sign to ask them to leave and then, from the ceiling something falls and sounds like the place is going to cave in. Everyone rushes out catching their breath with fear smeared all over them. It was good and had my attention.

Don't know what it is about ghosts. I am skeptical. I suppose that to know they exist makes something in my universe make sense. I have had a brother and a sister each experience something that has made them true believers. One is sane the other not so much.

i didn't see this.
but i wish i had.


i don't know if i 'believe' or not...
but i looooove stuff like this.

I saw part of one on Friday Night..It was about a couple that bought a house in which a child had killed himself and then his father came home and found him and in return hung himself...I think the ghost of the father was haunting the house and terrorizing the new owner's wife something fierce...This went on for a whole buch of years, but they never moved..Anyway, I agree..It was well done and had me a little creeped out...

I just mentioned this on Friday... I love this show, along with I Shouldn't Be Alive. I love ghost stories and so want my next house to be haunted.

The Summerwind show was by far the best... the one in Arizona was pretty boring. Echoes From The Grave was top-notch as well.

I think it was your mentioning of it, then, that got me to check it out. ISBA is awesome painful stuff to watch. I'm now keeping a mental check list of what NOT to do - do NOT drive off into the snow, do NOT crash my tiny plane in the African plains, etc.


The AZ one was the other we saw. I'll keep an eye out for the Echoes one.

I missed the first one about shark attacks. It looks like they're replaying it soon... that looks tasty! I think there are two more Haunting shows to come, but they are taking a break for a few weeks I believe.