Season 2, Episode 7, Part 2: Pseudoscience in Ghost Hunting

Case brings the skepticism to shows featuring the "hunting" of "ghosts" with Sam and special guest, Russell Glasser of the Atheist Experience.


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[acewizhyde]

dudes origin story is false check the footage aroung 3:18-19 the flag is wrong unles they had 50 states in the civil war also where he pans back to is not the same spot there is a white object that is not seen in the pan shot

[keggerous]

love the d&d ref. :)

[jmm1233]

i remeber one show of ghost hunters they had a rattling boier pipe in the attic and they were all like its ghost , lol

[c0rp53f4c3]

@Percadan LOL. Dinosaur ghosts. I love it. I must use that.

[Percadan]

how come they only see ghosts of people, and sometimes dogs, there's no cat ghosts, there's no dinosaur ghosts either, why no ghosts of extinct animals, im sure there were alot more of them than there were people that died there?

[WavegirlThinks]

the video pan of the field after the guys 'disappear' doesnt look like the same where they were walking. Even if it was, they cound have gone down into a ditch, or sat/lay down for some reason.

[Scarletpooky]

The best ghost hunting show ever is Ghost Chasers :p

[maikeru01]

I think the main problem is that these people who are attributing anomalies to ghosts are testing for the existence of ghosts. So it's like, wait, how can you claim that this is what ghosts do if you don't even know that ghosts exist? And at that point, you're just taking a phenomenon, (which we assume is not simply a camera trick) and saying whatever caused that is called a ghost. And then you pull out of your ass that it's the soul of a dead person because that's a non-sequitor.

[SamuelHans]

I was really hoping that when they saw the dice match up, they would scream and flip the table, pull the fire alarm, and run madly out of there.

[CarnivorousBiped]

One of the first times i stayed up all night, my buddy and I were walking home and about two blocks ahead we saw a very large dog like a dobie. The dog would not move; he would just stare at us. We kept walking towards it pretending no fear. We both saw it move at about 30 yards from it and we ran across the street. Come to find it was a group of chairs someone left outside after enjoying the evening. Fatigue made us hallucinate. That is what ghosts are made of.