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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jaerdaph" data-source="post: 3935227" data-attributes="member: 3398"><a href="http://www.aetv.com/paranormal-state/" target="_blank">http://www.aetv.com/paranormal-state/</a>I watched the first of two episodes of this new show on A&E last night.  Basically, it's capitalizing on the popularity of the Sci Fi Channel's Ghost Hunters series. Each episode is about half an hour in length and seems to follow a similar format that Ghost Hunters uses for a case. This was a very poor knock off.  In the first episode, an eight year old boy was supposedly being visited by a blood covered ghost named "Timmy". A few years back, a guy named Tim lived in the same house and had killed himself with a shotgun in a field nearby. Even though the kid has lived in this neighborhood for some time now, we are expected to believe he never heard the story of the prior occupant of his house from anyone. Anyone else remember being a kid and the stories we relished relating to each other, urban legend or not?  I DVRed the episode and was able to go back and note a few things. The investigators visited Tim's friends and obtained an 8x10-wedding photo with Tim in it to show to the boy to see if he recognized Tim. When the lead investigator showed the boy the photo, he immediately started out with a leading statement "Your friend Tim is in this picture". Now, when you hold a photograph, you usually do so by the edges. You are more likely to remember to do this with something as special as a wedding photo, especially someone else’s' wedding photo. On showing the photo to the boy, the lead investigator's hand was clearly covering several people up way past the photo border, and his knuckle was slightly extended and pointing right at Tim, who was sort of in the Best Man's position. Classic use of direction and misdirection from stage magic, but not by a master. At least Ghost Hunters tries to project an air of credibility and adherence to the scientific method as best they can for a couple of plumbers.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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