The Ghost Hunting Industrial Complex
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
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Today I'm talking about the ghost media I grew up on and what it says about "society" (we do be living in one). Hope you enjoy and comment your spooky stories down below!
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“this was before 3 guys in their thirties could just make a podcast” killed me hahaha
I think part of the reason there was such a boom in ghost hunting shows was because of the writers strike in the mid 2000s which caused an influx of reality tv shows
Exactly
Wait what was the writers’ strike
@@fie1917 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%9308_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike
@@fie1917essentially writers of shows and movies were tired of lack of credit and shit pay for effectively top tier movies, this is an oversimplification but it’s why a lot of shows in the 2000’s were REALLY hit or miss in ‘good’, as subjective as that is
Oh boy, here we go again
The absolute audacity of that man to tell the ghost to "stop" when it didnt want to say what its gender was I cant
Damn, poor ghost can't even escape enbyphobia after death! Lol
One thing that skeptics and believers agree: Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej are the best ghost hunters in the world.
im so obsessed with your channel oh my god im so happy you popped up on my recommended! i grew up the same exact way, my mom literally took me to a ghost hunters meet and greet
You met the kings themselves? 👻
@@ashleynorton yes!! it was in upstate new york when i was like 11 or 12 i think!
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“I mean who among us didn’t get really into witch craft after deconstructing our Christian faith??” ASHLEY. Don’t call us like that!! 😂😂😂
"I can experience a woman in terror whenever I want" LOL
“This is before three white guys could make a podcast” made me cackle 😂😂 just found your channel and I love it
You nailed it, I love horror and ghost stories specifically because they discuss negative histories or emotions society tries to repress.
As a little kid, I LOVED Ghost Hunters any pretty much any other type of ghost show(Celebrity Ghost Stories, Destination Truth, etc.). My mom was a ghost hunter in her spare time in Hawaii, so when the Ghost Hunters came to Oahu to visit the super haunted Aviation/Pearl Harbor Museum, we actually got to meet them! Jason, Grant and every body else were super nice (but that could have been because I was like 8 at the time). Josh Gates was also there and you KNOW my mom was blushing the whole time. I don't know what it is about that man but middle aged women are obsessed.
I love the M.O. of Ghost Hunters, because it's the opposite of science.
"Okay, instead of a double-blind test, I'd like you to tell me about some recurring instances of behavior, the exact places they happened, and the historical bio of the characters involved. That way, we'll know just how to interpret subtle flickers in the florescent lighting and radio interference on the memo recorder."
"That pine cone falling outside the window was definitely Mrs Crowley!"
ghost adventures was my shiznits as a kid. my mom was really into ghost shows and true crime, and we also usually had one of these channels playing, and she def fed some of my belief/understanding of the supernatural
Do you believe in the supernatural?
My (possible) ghost story: I didn’t really believe in ghosts until I went on holiday last year to this huge very old house with my family. I had a room on my own in the oldest part of the house and heard/felt breathing in my ear one night - I thought it was me so I completely froze and stopped breathing, tried covering and uncovering my ears, switching position, and it just kept going until I ran out of the room. After that night my cousin shared the room with me and the sound never came back.
I just subscribed to you, and you've already made several really specific videos that feel like exactly what I want to see. I don't believe in ghosts, and see paranormal content as manipulative toward vulnerable people. I'm not a fan of religion and spirituality for the same reason. Also, I despise the Warrens.
My toxic trait is feeling the exact same way but still believing in ghosts. Not the warrens though. They can leave
@@ashleynorton I love the way you call it your toxic trait. Lol. We all have em. I'm just glad you don't like the Warrens.
@@Aster_Risk what’s wrong with them
@@jennuhcide59 ruclips.net/video/kFiNCog6MR4/видео.html here’s a short video explaining some of the scandals against them involving their personal lives
ruclips.net/video/VO-ZvVrknfc/видео.html n here’s a longer video explaining the scandals involving them faking paranormal shit for profit/media attention
i appreciate your touching on the correlation or mere association that Americans' perspective on death has on these types of shows. In most cultures, death is not scary or taboo the way it is in the U.S. (and Canada for that matter). Whether it's the celebration of loved ones like it is in Mexico or embracing your former "murder capital" status like England, most countries are not as quiet surrounding the topic as the U.S.
TAPS! Omg my best friend was obsessed with that show. She had a TAPS sweatshirt.
Ahhh this video is taking me on such a nostalgia trip. Freakin Zach!! That guy was so weird.
I recently discovered your channel in my recommended and I love it so much. I'm just going through all of your videos and I've enjoyed all of them. Easiest subscribe of my life. Also I heavily relate to being raised on the classics, Travel Channel and the SyFy channel.
The only "ghost" story I have is that one day in 2017 or something, I had a statue of David sitting on my desk. It was probably 10 pounds or so in weight. I was sitting in my bed on my phone when the statue suddenly fell over and a piece of it broke. I got it and examined it for probably 30 minutes attempting to recreate the fall, from shaking my desk to getting in my bed (which my desk was up against from the bottom) and bouncing around. I couldn't get it to happen again, no matter what I did, unless I physically pushed it over. Never really understood how that happened.
I used to love watching the show A Haunting when I woukd get back early from elementary school on Mondays! It was cool to hear various stories. I don't even really believe in ghosts, but I do enjoy ghost stories
When I was younger I had a lot of weird paranormal experiences. One that happened a few times was when I was laying down in bed, what felt like a hand would suddenly close around my leg, like someone was grabbing it and holding it down. It would only last a moment. The blankets would always be indented at the spot I felt the grip. Sometimes I would also feel the blanket depress like someone was sitting down at the edge of my bed, and there would be an indentation there as well. There was also a myriad of visual things but I always remember the physical ones the most. They would usually happen after deaths in the family - and this was at an age where I didn't fully understand death or the finality of it.
Growing up, we had a ghost in the house - my sister and I would see it all the time, out of the corner of our eyes, and the electricity would Fritz sometimes, doors would open and close. We weren't scared but so matter of fact about it - my mum would always try to shut us down straight away. As an adult recently, she admitted it was because she'd seen it too and it freaked her out
Most of those occurances are due to an either or all weak,old, deteriorating foundation
My “ghost”(?) story: I’m not big believer in ghosts necessarily but I have a story that I still can’t explain to this day. I was 12 and staying up late one night. I was just chilling on my phone and it was probably between 2-3am. Then, the doorbell rings. I can hear it really clearly, and it’s definitely not coming from my ipad. The creepier part: it was a doorbell sound but not the sound of *our* house doorbell. It definitely sounded like it was coming from the house rather than a phone or smthn. And it wasn’t like a sound option for the alarm on your phone at the time (I was looking forward explanations). I was so freaked out. the next morning I asked my family if they’d heard it, but they’d all been asleep.
Oh man, that's freaky. It's that perfect blend of "mundane enough that you don't panic" and yet "shouldn't be possible and/or like this" that sets you on edge. I've had a similar experience with a water glass, where I was so /certain/ that it spilled on my foot (I could feel the cold shock, hear the splash against the linoleum tile I was standing on), yet when I looked down, no water had actually been spilled.
Silly example I know, but it's the closest to your encounter that I can think of-- the sound and feeling of being splashed was so vividly real, but it couldn't possibly have been.
I loved the Queer Ghost Hunters!! I haven’t watched their channel in quite a few years, I love how you brought them up
First of all, I recently subscribed to you and now I'm just gradually going through you're catalogue and I have to say I'm so impressed with the quality of your content! You're gonna go places :)
Now, ghosts 👻
I have no idea if ghosts are real, I'm really torn on the subject. I have had a few experiences that all relate to my father's passing that you might attribute to some sort of psychological thing. For instance: I sometimes sleep in a hammock I have in my room, but I no longer sleep on one particular side of it, because on three separate occasions when I layed down to sleep I could feel this energy between my ears and this sound just gradually increasing, getting louder and louder, even making me dizzy, culminating in my father's voice like shouting my name in the distance or saying a single word. This really freaked me out.
Something that I cannot explain with any degree of psychological phenomena though is what happened in my sister's house, who lives two blocks away. My dad was actually her stepdad and they didn't always have a very good relationship, but even though they didn't get along very well, my dad really saw and appreciate all she did for me and my mother.
One night my sister was watching television and it was a TV show in which someone's father ends up dying, and right at that moment the various light bulbs on the lamp next to the television start pulsating independently for about 15 seconds.
Something else that happened was actually related to my house too: I was making an exam at home (covid times) and all of a sudden the picture frame with my dad's picture comes crashing down from the wall. About a minute later I hear my mother answering the telephone. It was my sister and I hear my mother say "yes, I just heard something come down in Lukas' room too". Turns out that on roughly the exact same time that one picture frame came down, the clock in my sister's living room randomly fell of the wall. To this day I cannot explain this 'coincidence' with any logical reasoning...
occasionally I wake up in the morning, on the pillow next to me there will be a lid from varying jars/containers in my room
Ok your story had me really freaked out! I don't really belive in ghosts (there are a lot of things we don't understand though) but I just got a kitty and the way she looks sometimes, it's definitely weird when animals are involved and you can tell they know something is up
my husband and i bought tix to the watcher ghost files live tour (ryan and shane) and we're pretty stoked.
my spooky ghost story happened on new years eve 2016 going into 2017. It was my friends birthday so me and a group of 4 other girls were having a sleepover at the birthday girls house. we spent the whole night down in her basement and the only source of light was one of those tiny windows that some basements have at the top of a room. My friend had told me before the party that her house was pretty haunted but I kinda took it with a grain of salt. when it got dark outside we decided to play hide and go seek in the dark. for context this group of girls was all short petite girls except for one of my friends who was probably around 5'10". I decided to hide next to this thick pillar that was in the middle of the room because I thought it would be like hiding in plain in sight. as the game went on my eyes sort of adjusted to the dark as best as they could. As I'm sitting against this pillar I see a figure crawling past me, and it was a bigger figure, my one taller friend was the only one who could've been big enough to be this figure, so naturally I assumed it was her, reached out my hand to gently touch her to let her know I was there. The figure stopped crawling turned it's head to look at me, slightly nodded then kept crawling the way it had been crawling. A few seconds later the lights were turned on because they had found the last person, who had been my tall friend and she was on the far opposite side of the room the figure had been crawling towards. She wouldn't have had enough time to crawl to that side of the room quietly or unnoticed. There's literally nobody else it could have been.
Ooo I love your spooky story! I actually had a sleep paralysis demon over my bed last night, but since I've had sleep paralysis for years, it didn't freak me out, Haha. Now, if my dog (who also sleeps in my bed) were alert and scared, then I would totally be creeped. To me, it's very obvious when I have sleep paralysis/night hallucinations. I feel like a real experience would be noticeably different.
Anyway, great video! My favorite growing up was Paranormal State, but I def watched all of them.
I'm one of those people who firmly believes there's no way that ghosts are real in any capacity, but I'm always open to hearing other viewpoints and/or the experiences of believers. It's intriguing to learn more about what leads people to believe in their existence!
I’m pretty skeptic and think most mysticism is bs and even most ghost pictures/firsthand accounts are usually nothing, but I also believe I’ve seen ghosts on three different occasions and I’ll share the second because it’s weirdly wholesome? I woke up unexpectedly around dawn for no real reason and saw a person in my room but since it was still dark I couldn’t tell who it was but I sat up a little and said “Who’s there?” And the figure reached out their hand and did this gesture that I don’t know how to to describe in words, but it’s sort of a wave and the only people I’ve ever seen do it is my dad and my grandpa, who died 15 years ago. So naturally I said “Dad? What are you doing in my room?” And then as it got a little brighter as the dawn progressed, it melted into the shadows.
“I mean who among us didn’t get really into witchcraft after deconstructing their Christian faith?” I didn’t come here to be called out like this 😂
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As a person that started having formative memories before 9/11, mid 90s and on, I can attest pre 9/11 there was a slight interest in the supernatural, and ghosts but they were mostly only allocated for the week(ish) before Halloween. Interestingly, this was also sort of the same for true crime. Yes, there were stories on the news but deep drives were mostly JUST a side story on 20/20 or 60 minutes. Shows like forensic files or American Justice were only on high-end channels and only once a week, not on repeat like they are now on crime tv. Often those shows were mostly focusing on the process and not the sensation of the crimes themselves.
Anyway, yeah early 2000s ghost hunting was my jam.
In the 90s I was reading a lot of true crime books and I feel like that bloomed into where true crime is today. I had no idea I was following the zeitgeist and others were becoming fascinated by crime too
i was way too into ghost adventures at around 10 years old.
When I was right out of college my best friend and I stayed in a hostel in New Orleans that was definitely haunted. At one point I took a Snapchat video of her and when we watched the video back the sound was gone and instead it was a song neither of us had heard before- not Bessie Smith but similar- a song about a mother losing a child, garbled and sounding like it was being played through a gramophone. We sent the video to several people AND saved it and when we played the saved version the song was gone, and no one we sent it to had any idea what we were talking about. I have no explanation for what happened.
Now almost ten years later, I live in New Orleans now and my apartment is haunted as hell. I think the veil is just thin here.
I have a friend who has straight-up supposedly gotten possessed during a ghost hunt near a haunted orchestra pit.
It was fucking terrifying, they said.
........... They continued the hunt afterwards.
If you were still wondering what the combination of a boogara and a shaniac is a few months later it is canonically a shitfish
I just discovered your channel and I LOVE the way you tackle pop culture topics
Here’s my ghost story: I think she was sleep paralysis but she only showed up in the living room of my grandparents house. She looked like my little sister but younger. Can you talk during sleep paralysis? Because I definitely thought it was my sister and tried to talk to her.
This is old, but the way you mentioned the 'Deez Nutz' candle took me out
Id dieeeee for a video on the Josh Gates cinematic universe tbh
new favorite youtuber alert haha. love love love your stuff!!
this was cool lol i actually got scared for a sec when i paused the vid to imagine what the fuck nutmeg was actually staring at 🤣 if u have any u should def give us some more ghost stories!! subscribed✔️
I've been fascinated since I was about 5. I was just so curious and it scared me haha but kept trying to learn more about it. I was actually kinda disappointed I couldn't see spirits like some people or even just have an experience. I grew up watching Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures. Like I have their episodes memorized bahah yes I'm lame 😆 now I'm manifesting meeting Zak Bagans LOL i've been to the Haunted Museum twice in Vegas. It's like my favorite place ever. I feel so at home there! I am saving to do the night investigating they offer at the haunted museum. Idk but I'm obsessed 🤷🏽♀️ I would love to investigate on my own with my own equipment one day. Also you are hilarious hahah
that was a great story thats hella freaky! i always think its the creepiest when animals are reacting to it
thank you for being another person who remembers girly ghosthunters
my drivers ed teacher was really into bigfoot and was on an episode of one of the bigfoot shows
I think the Ghost Hunter TV show boom was just a combination of the success of the Blair Witch Project and the rise of reality TV.
We used to have a show exactly like this in the uk called most haunted. Started in 2002, my mam and sister used to love it.
When I was really young, I had the same nightmare nearly every night, where I'd be home alone and I'd hear my moms alarm clock go off and something in me knew that I had to shut it off before something bad happened- but the snooze button wouldn't work and a robotic voice would tell me I was too late (my mom and I shared a room btw) the door would shut, and the closet door would start to open and a shadow figure would come out and kill me. I'd wake up and see the figure standing over my bed
I love your channel so much omg
I love your rec for the other side!
While not ghost hunting, I remember watching MonsterQuest as a kid and I still watch it now. Of course most of the episodes I give skepticism towards but when it comes to Bigfoot I immediately will believe it more.
Me, a 40 year old woman thinkibg your Mum and I should be friends 😂 I watched all the same, my young adult Daughters roll their eyes when i still put them on... Ghost shows/true crime 😂
I don’t wanna alarm you, but “nutmeg” is actually the name of a high ranking demon
My favorite was Paranormal State, followed by (mostly making fun of) Ghost Adventures.
Just found ur channel and I love it
I just subscribed while watching this video. I needed to let you know we might be sisters because my mother is exactly the same way. It is uncanny 🙌
Apparently my family owns a house that's haunted in China but the "ghost" is pretty boring. They just steal stuff and then places it somewhere else. My dad said he lived in it for a week and the "ghost" took his glasses then placed it in the kitchen 3 days laters and he used the kitchen everyday so he should've seen it if he misplaced it. Other people have had their own story but I don't know any of them. This is all my father would say 😂😂
Edit: I think I remember my dad saying someone had one of their bags disappear. This house is many used as a vacation home when visiting family members so this bag literally had all his stuff he travelled with
Zak Bagans is my wallpaper forever
hii im at the beginning on the video and idk if youll read this comment but when you burn sage in a ceremonial way, its called smudging. not saged. i used to run smudging ceremonies for the local elementary school and its a very common mistake. all my relations girl love your videos.
Even though I am much of a sceptic, I still like those ghost hunting shows even though by majority they are very much biased towards the religions other than Christianity like Wicca, voodoo and other pagans and other eastern and southern asian religions. Spiritualism is good thing but that racism, religious discrimination and bigotry it brings to the table is still a bad thing. I recently saw ghost nation which is the only show which is most inclusive ghost hunting show I ever saw.
Ashley Norton do you remember what the name of that sound effect at 8:14 is?
How about Paranormal Home Inspectors? The GREATEST ghost hunting show!
If you like 'traditional' ghost hunting shows, but are tired of it being such a sausage fest, might I suggest 'Mackie and Amanda' a youtube channel run by two young women. Amanda is a psychic who claims she can literally see ghosts.
How are our moms so similar? What is the overlap between evangelicals and bigfoot/ufo/supernatural?
"You just gotta have faith" attitudes. That weird mixture of an openness to ideas most find crazy and also a closed mindedness towards ideas most find sane
The 9-11 hypothesis makes sense to me. I was 17 at the time and although Im not American I did receive a lot of American media through cable. I do see the point although I wouldnt say it was the only factor. Somebody mentioned about the writers strike of 2000 and that also added to reality media at the time like it did in 2008.
sorry off topic but where did you get sweater. i like it so much. thank you have a nice day
Absolutely lost my shit at the clip at 18:27
Me too! Thank you for timestamping it :)
Have you watched nukes top 5 on RUclips? It’s so good
I really thought you meant the Burger King foot lettuce. No 😅
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Im a ghost agnostic,leaning towards a believer but im very skeptical of the stuff i hear. I think that ghosts may or may not be real but if they are, sooo many people lie or misinterpret things that you wouldnt know the truth from a lie and it's why i absolutely hate ghost hunting shows. Theyre so hockey and exaggerated and they try to make something out of nothing the majority of the time.
That being said i do love hearing peoples real life ghost stories or things that happened to them that were spooky but they cant explain
Mcdonald's has to be one of the most haunted locations in the world. Do you know many people who have died in Mcdonald's?
In Search Of is actually from the 70s and early 80s. Dumb to comment on a nine month old video but oh well, I'm pedantic when it comes to Leonard Nimoy projects.
Oh no, am I the same age as your mother??? 🙈
18:43 oh my god-
It sounds like your mom and my mom would get along spectacularly. Or at the very least they'd be very happy watching TV together.
Mine too. I enter her living room to hear “but their happy family wouldn’t be happy for long. In 19__ Sharon’s husband would snap and kill her, but at the time police didn’t know that. When investigating-“ (I just pulled that speech outta my ass lol but you get the point)
I am firmly of the belief that ghosts take the form of mostly-collapsed (into a long diamond) Amazon cardboard boxes
I love demographic inclusivity for the sake of it. It really adds value and depth to the media in question when the piece is made by someone's arbitrarily-born trait. Like why don't we have more inclusivity of nine-toed people? Like it's so fucking disgusting that we don't have more supernatural shows produced and hosted by people who were born with 9 toes
TELL YOUR MOM TO WATCH CONJURING KESHA !!!!!!!
put "industrial complex" behind almost anything, and you can trick me into watching a 30 minute video of it
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I'm 27, but I'm only just starting to realise how alternative some my families views are. Because the thoughts of ghosts being real is the most ridiculous concept to me 😅 Think of how many hours of footage goes into 1 episode of a TV show, it must be 50 hours minimum. Then think of the thousands of episodes about ghosts and ghost hunting. There could easily be 100,000 hours of ghost hunting footage, which is 11 YEARS of video. If none of them are able to capture anything that resembles scientific evidence, it would have been done by now. And the show creators definitely would get that validation if they could! Imagine the fame, prestige, and money they would get from proving ghosts exist as a ghost hunter.
Edit: I posted this before I listened to your personal story at the end of the video and now I feel bad about how mean this comment sounds.
And asking people to share their ghost stories is very much a way to get some confirmation bias. I can't tell you my "not a ghost" story, because that is literally every second of my life 😅