This show is on the Biography Channel and it scares me. Some of the footage is creepy and voices scare me. Although, some of them you can't see anything or hear what the person who is telling the stories hear. This show has been on for a while now, I just discovered it. Has anyone else been watching this?
My Ghost Story: Caught On Camera
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Suzy123
, May 13 2012 07:10 PM
20 replies to this topic
#1
Posted May 13, 2012 @ 7:10 PM
#2
Posted May 13, 2012 @ 7:17 PM
I watch this show and it makes me wonder how many people are truly delusional and in need of treatment or another hobby. Some of it scares me too, since I can sit in my own house and listen to the creaking and convince myself that something is there.
#3
Posted May 13, 2012 @ 7:56 PM
I'm almost embarrassed to admit it, but Bio's Saturday ghost/paranormal shows are my guilty pleasure. Some of the videos are interesting, some interpretations of what the EVP's are saying are truly ridiculous but in general it's amusement and a bit of fun...the rocking chair moving by itself gave me the willies.
#4
Posted May 14, 2012 @ 7:22 AM
Bio's Saturday ghost/paranormal shows are my guilty pleasure
Mine, too. Some of this is truly faked (like the deranged giraffe statue), but other ones scare the crap out of me. Maybe it's because I've actually seen a ghost, and my pet's ghosts still visit me.
#5
Posted May 14, 2012 @ 12:58 PM
Sometime's I watch this in my basement, where it is cold and lot's of weird noises come from there. I sometime's run up the stairs real fast like I am running away from a murderer because I am so freaked out when I watch this show.
The one where the girl who comes home from college and finds her neck "slashed" in most of her pictures weirded me out. The voice recordings were so clear, that I wonder if it is actually real?
This show makes me want to visit some of the places shown. The Lizzie Borden house looks interesting and the house where the Axe murders took place looks super creepy. But, what bothered me in the Lizzie Borden house is that people can re-enact the murder of the father on the couch, I find that a little disrespectful, like it is a joke that people got murdered. Just because the killing took place over a hundred years ago, doesn't mean that we can't have respect for the dead. Just my two cents.
The one where the girl who comes home from college and finds her neck "slashed" in most of her pictures weirded me out. The voice recordings were so clear, that I wonder if it is actually real?
This show makes me want to visit some of the places shown. The Lizzie Borden house looks interesting and the house where the Axe murders took place looks super creepy. But, what bothered me in the Lizzie Borden house is that people can re-enact the murder of the father on the couch, I find that a little disrespectful, like it is a joke that people got murdered. Just because the killing took place over a hundred years ago, doesn't mean that we can't have respect for the dead. Just my two cents.
#6
Posted May 14, 2012 @ 3:56 PM
This show is my guilty pleasure, too. I go 50/50 on it though. Some stuff, I'm thinking, "Oh, Come ON!" and other ones, hmmmmm, sleeping with the lights on!
#7
Posted May 15, 2012 @ 10:14 AM
I used to watch this every week until they ran out of good stories and started airing every moron who thinks lens flares are proof of the existence of a ghost nearby, but I did get a good laugh about the guy talking about hearing something gallumping around upstairs one night while he was alone in the house, shortly followed by their cat walking into frame.
#8
Posted May 15, 2012 @ 11:58 PM
When people tell stories about not being able to move in their beds, I always think of sleep paralysis.
#9
Posted May 16, 2012 @ 7:02 AM
Mine too. Although I wish they would make new episodes instead of repeating the shows for the umpteenth time.Bio's Saturday ghost/paranormal shows are my guilty pleasure
The interpretations of the EVPs are what gets to me because I rarely hear what they are hearing. Sometimes it's hard to tell what was caught on camera too. Half the time I just don't see it.
But the ones that are clear and have no explanation? Feet don't fail me now!!
#10
Posted Jun 24, 2012 @ 9:07 PM
They must be running out of good stories because the ghost lights along the railroad track has been long ago debunked as car headlights.
#11
Posted Jun 26, 2012 @ 9:50 AM
I'm not sure that they ever really had much in the way of good stories to begin with. A friend of mine and I watch this show for the laughs. It's just too easy to spot the problems. A moth with clearly visible wings, flying toward a person with a flashlight, is an orb? Really? Tons of sleep paralysis problems. Likely sensitivity to presence of EMF pops up a lot. Owls being identified as screams. Shadows of the investigators being identified as shadow people. Condensation on a camera lens theoretically yielding a picture of paranormal mist. You name it. Every kind of possible screw-up eventually appears on this show, many of them more than once. I really do just watch this one for the entertainment value of being able to definitively debunk from the comfort of my own living room.
#12
Posted Jun 28, 2012 @ 11:47 PM
They must be running out of good stories because the ghost lights along the railroad track has been long ago debunked as car headlights.
Fact or Faked investigated the railroad track ghost lights and couldn't debunk them from what I can recall. They believed it was likely geological in nature or paranormal. Am I wrong?
#13
Posted Jul 4, 2012 @ 12:55 AM
Heck, I love the fact that every single bug and speck of dust that floats across the viewing area of their video cameras are considered "orbs" and proof positive of the paranormal. Any real investigator (or someone who's read up, even the least little bit) knows that orbs are just balls of energy that aren't attached to anything, necessarily. ugh.
#14
Posted Jul 4, 2012 @ 4:17 AM
Yeah, I love how they talk about orbs "entering" and "leaving" people's bodies.
#15
Posted Oct 19, 2012 @ 6:50 PM
The Oct 2012 episodes are a little better, imo.
Worth a look, if you're into that type of thing. :)
Worth a look, if you're into that type of thing. :)
#16
Posted Oct 19, 2012 @ 8:52 PM
My tolerance level maxxed out long ago and this crock of shit is off my DVR schedule forever.
#17
Posted Oct 20, 2012 @ 11:33 AM
Meh. I lost interest in this show and ghost-hunting shows in general.The Oct 2012 episodes are a little better, imo.
Worth a look, if you're into that type of thing. :)
#18
Posted Oct 20, 2012 @ 9:14 PM
Aw, come on, Ubi don't give up yet. :)
#19
Posted Nov 20, 2012 @ 10:24 PM
I've really enjoyed watching this show. I've seen ghost hunter shows in the past and they're so funny. A thousand mikes all over the place and all of a sudden, someone says, "Did you year that?" And oddly enough, none of the mikes picked up on that sound.
I've watched Celebrity Ghost Stories but I've noticed that most of the stories happen before the celebrity made it big. Curious.
I find My Ghost Story to be different. The orbs stuff cracks me up. Meaningless to me. Much of it looks like plain old lens flare. The EVPs are what get me. As some have stated, some of the interpretations of the EVPs defy reason. How did anyone distinguish those words from that muffled sound, anyway? Some of the EVPs are convincing--if they're not faked--as are the moving objects.
Something I noticed is that few of the people on these shows seem like middle- to upper-class, college-educated people (shabby homes and decor, incorrect English). Also curious.
I've watched Celebrity Ghost Stories but I've noticed that most of the stories happen before the celebrity made it big. Curious.
I find My Ghost Story to be different. The orbs stuff cracks me up. Meaningless to me. Much of it looks like plain old lens flare. The EVPs are what get me. As some have stated, some of the interpretations of the EVPs defy reason. How did anyone distinguish those words from that muffled sound, anyway? Some of the EVPs are convincing--if they're not faked--as are the moving objects.
Something I noticed is that few of the people on these shows seem like middle- to upper-class, college-educated people (shabby homes and decor, incorrect English). Also curious.
#20
Posted Dec 18, 2012 @ 9:10 AM
"Fact or Faked investigated the railroad track ghost lights and couldn't debunk them from what I can recall. They believed it was likely geological in nature or paranormal. Am I wrong?"
Yes, you're wrong. You referenced Fact or Faked. Those incompetent dimwits couldn't solve a crossword puzzle that someone already filled out for them. They know nothing more about the paranormal, science, physics, et cetera than any of their daft viewers. Nobody should ever take Fact or Faked seriously, and nobody should ever reference anything they do as if it means anything.
That brings us to the worst issue here. As horrible as FoF is, they look like actual, intelligent professionals compared to this nonsense that is My Ghost Story. I've seen a handful of episodes here and there, and every single solitary time I've wanted to jump into the television and start breaking boards across the faces of every single person involved with the program, from the producer to the folks interviewed and telling their bullcrap stories.
I was watching one a few days back and this guy was talking about a photograph that looked to be from his yard at night. It was full of alleged "orbs". I don't mean a couple or three, but "full". Anybody with a shred of objectivity and rudimentary understanding of how anything works would look at that and figure it's the camera's light reflecting directly back into the lens off of either tiny drops of light precipitation ("sprinkles") or tiny bugs like gnats. Folks happy to gobble up ghost nonsense without question like to go with a more fantastic explanation and presume they're magical blobs of grandma.
In the same episode they shown an alleged face along a wall. Again, these sorts of things are always the people seeing what they want to see, making something out of nothing, but in this particular case you could stare at the photo all day and not see a face because they haven't artificially enhanced it yet. Once they step in with their digital highlighter they brighten up a certain spot of the photo and insist there's a face there. It still looks nothing like a face, but they insist it's obviously a face. Even when someone does find something that sort of looks like a face or a person, it's just pareidolia. Pareidolia is where your brain sees meaningless shapes or patterns and makes them into something, like seeing animals in the shapes of clouds or ink blots. FoF likes to find faces in smudges or imperfections in panes of glass..., because in their world ghosts are always peeking at you through windows.
"What about EVP? Got an answer for that?" Yes. 1) The recordings you hear played back as EVPs aren't as-is. They're altered to enhance random noise on a recording. It would be more interesting if you simply played back an audio recording unaltered and it clearly said stuff, but they artificially enhance white noise and then pretend it says something. 2) It normally sounds like electronic voices that mumble. Normally someone has to tell you what they insist that it says and then when you hear it again you think, "Yeah, I hear it." However, they could tell you it says any of fifty different things and it could be any one of those, since it's a garbled noise.
I never find a paranormal ghost-hunt show that's halfway credible, but My Ghost Story is the most ludicrous of them all.
Yes, you're wrong. You referenced Fact or Faked. Those incompetent dimwits couldn't solve a crossword puzzle that someone already filled out for them. They know nothing more about the paranormal, science, physics, et cetera than any of their daft viewers. Nobody should ever take Fact or Faked seriously, and nobody should ever reference anything they do as if it means anything.
That brings us to the worst issue here. As horrible as FoF is, they look like actual, intelligent professionals compared to this nonsense that is My Ghost Story. I've seen a handful of episodes here and there, and every single solitary time I've wanted to jump into the television and start breaking boards across the faces of every single person involved with the program, from the producer to the folks interviewed and telling their bullcrap stories.
I was watching one a few days back and this guy was talking about a photograph that looked to be from his yard at night. It was full of alleged "orbs". I don't mean a couple or three, but "full". Anybody with a shred of objectivity and rudimentary understanding of how anything works would look at that and figure it's the camera's light reflecting directly back into the lens off of either tiny drops of light precipitation ("sprinkles") or tiny bugs like gnats. Folks happy to gobble up ghost nonsense without question like to go with a more fantastic explanation and presume they're magical blobs of grandma.
In the same episode they shown an alleged face along a wall. Again, these sorts of things are always the people seeing what they want to see, making something out of nothing, but in this particular case you could stare at the photo all day and not see a face because they haven't artificially enhanced it yet. Once they step in with their digital highlighter they brighten up a certain spot of the photo and insist there's a face there. It still looks nothing like a face, but they insist it's obviously a face. Even when someone does find something that sort of looks like a face or a person, it's just pareidolia. Pareidolia is where your brain sees meaningless shapes or patterns and makes them into something, like seeing animals in the shapes of clouds or ink blots. FoF likes to find faces in smudges or imperfections in panes of glass..., because in their world ghosts are always peeking at you through windows.
"What about EVP? Got an answer for that?" Yes. 1) The recordings you hear played back as EVPs aren't as-is. They're altered to enhance random noise on a recording. It would be more interesting if you simply played back an audio recording unaltered and it clearly said stuff, but they artificially enhance white noise and then pretend it says something. 2) It normally sounds like electronic voices that mumble. Normally someone has to tell you what they insist that it says and then when you hear it again you think, "Yeah, I hear it." However, they could tell you it says any of fifty different things and it could be any one of those, since it's a garbled noise.
I never find a paranormal ghost-hunt show that's halfway credible, but My Ghost Story is the most ludicrous of them all.
#21
Posted Dec 23, 2012 @ 2:15 PM
I am one who is open to evidence that there is paranormal stuff happening in this world. I'm not one who looks for explanations about things that happen (as many religious people do); I'm okay with not knowing all nor looking for an explanation of all. I've seen things caught on camera that have made me wonder, but as the last poster said, so much is highlighted in a way to convince us that there is something there.
As snooty as it sounds, I'm still caught up on the education level of so many of these people. They use words like "pitcher" for "picture" and say things like "I had went" or "I never seen", which, to this educated-but-not-of-middle-class-means person just doesn't come off as credible. It seems that 75% of the people on this show talk like this. I need more educated, credible types to convince me. I've seen very few.
As snooty as it sounds, I'm still caught up on the education level of so many of these people. They use words like "pitcher" for "picture" and say things like "I had went" or "I never seen", which, to this educated-but-not-of-middle-class-means person just doesn't come off as credible. It seems that 75% of the people on this show talk like this. I need more educated, credible types to convince me. I've seen very few.
Edited by midvale, Dec 24, 2012 @ 1:35 PM.
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