This show made me REALLY want to make another show where we put a ghost hunting team in a location that's absolutely not haunted at all and has no history whatsoever just to see what kind of whacky stuff they come up with
Someone actually did this. It's on you tube somewhere although it was an attempt to prove the paranormal. They put one team in a place with no history of paranormal activity and told them it was the most haunted house in America and then took a group of skeptics to the actual "most haunted house" in America. The team in the not haunted house got freaked out over the 2 events that were entirely explainable. One was a drawer opening because it was a loose drawer and the other was when one of the guys bumped the wall with his shoulder and knocked a painting off of it and he completely freaked out.
Someone did a YT video of that actually. It was a team in a supposedly haunted house and a team told that some air bnb was haunted when it wasn't at all. Was actually pretty funny.
Put them in a brand new house that's modeled after an 1800s style ranch and tell them it's 200 years old and watch them cook up crazy theories about who died there and how.
Honestly that skeptic was the best part of the entire show. Every team should have just had a normal dude who didn't believe in ghosts go with them and call them out on shit. At least they could have marketed it as a comedy, it probably would have done better as well.
That would be amazing. Just straight up send one John Wolfe to come along with every team and point out the inconsistencies lmao Oh, do you know those videos where they will have 5 people claiming to be an expert/professional in something, except one of them is faking it and you have to figure out who? Imagine that but with mediums/paranormal investigators lmao Just one imposter in that group that doesn't believe in ghosts or spirits at all, but is constantly upstaging the others by pretending to be possessed. Kind of what we had with Jereme and Brandi, except being super blatant with it :'D
Ghost Files on Watcher is the show you want. Two best buds making fun of each other the entire time. One enjoys the architecture and the other loses his entire mind.
Here's a show for you to check out: Paranormal Home Inspectors. It was a show that ran on Canadian public television for a while. The premise is that it follows a team of your typical paranormal investigators, but with a twist. One of them is just a regular ass home inspector. So the other team members are doing your typical 'spend a night in the house communing with spirits' or 'looking up public records to find out about local tragedies that could explain the hauntings' etc. Meanwhile the actual home inspector walks in and goes "Oh yeah, this door was installed crooked and that's why it keeps opening on its own." Its the best ghost hunting show I've ever seen.
John, you would LOVE Paranormal Home Inspectors. People living in a haunted house call in the experts and tell their stories of all the unexplainable things that happened to them. First, an inspector comes and explains the cabinets open because they're not level, etc. THEN a psychic comes in and tries to convince them that it really was ghosts after all. 10/10
There's like 7 seasons of BuzzFeed unsolved Paranormal which is exactly that premise 1 believer in 1 skeptic. The same team are doing ghost files on the channel watcher.
Legit what I thought at first, but it also looks like a very badly cut out hunk of sheet metal, like that had some guy with a laser cutter make it for them because I cannot think of why a pentagram like that would be used at all unless it's a sheriff badge/prop
also cuz like... a pentagram isn't just "a star in a circle." it's an actual symbol. that looks the way it does for a reason. so that wasn't even a pentagram. it was GENUINELY a sheriff's badge.
@@buggibiiyeah, according to Wikipedia: “A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha, pentangle, or star pentagon) is a regular five-pointed star polygon, formed from the diagonal line segments of a convex (or simple, or non-self-intersecting) regular pentagon”
Imagine Adelaide/Mercy meets a real medium and is like 'omg, there's been this weird dude obsessing over me. It's really upsetting.' and explaining how this dude is essentially stalking her beyond the grave. "I just pretended to crossover so he'd go away."
I wonder if she'd be like: "Ya know, he's been calling me Adelaide, who is actually his ex who passed away a few years ago. I met her. Nice gal, but he really should just move on himself instead of telling spirits to do so."
What annoys me with every paranormal show is that they all want “paranormal activity “ but as soon as they get it they run away or just leave and end the show.
In other words, "let's draw out as much air time as possible with tiny hints of something that happened until the very end when we stage something big, make everyone panic, the cameras blurry, and they rush to leave so we don't have to prove our obviously BS claims"
Where's the Arabic Jinn Hunters when you need them? In contrast to these paranormal investigators, supernatural activity only makes them chaise down the source while kicking doors open. Jereme would've been far more entertaining in this show if he used his firefighting training to act like a Arabic Jinn Hunter.
Wish they would go somewhere really hauted like those woods what's meant to be super hunted go there for a month ,... No they would be gone by day 1 because all thase shows are fakr
Man, could you imagine pest exterminators acting like ghost hunters? "My name is Chadrick Manstein, I'm a rat exterminator. And I sure hope there are no rats here... Wait is that a rat!?" *Screams and runs away from the house.*
You're telling me that the fat guy who's "demonic possession" consisted of lazing around on a mattress and dodging "work" (in the loosest sense of the word) also slacked off and cut corners when hot gluing together his discount Cerebro helmet? Preposterous, absolutely preposterous I tell you!
There is a real so-called "god helmet" used in experiments. It uses magnets and essentially created in people the sense of another agent in their vicinity. Making people feel like there was some other being watching them (i.e. something else with agency). You can see video of this helmet in action where when tuned a little differently will make things like fine motor control unreliable (like being unable to draw a relatively straight line and instead causing the hand to tremble while trying to do so). I can't remember if that video is from the original work or another team with the same type of device. Basically it uses the magnets to mess around with the electrical signals in the brain. It really is rather interesting. It was created to test Michael Persinger's hypothesis on brain function and neurotheology (basically the science of how god is literally a figment of your imagination). Google him or just 'god helmet' and you will easily find info on it. It truly is an interesting thing to read up on, but note that there is a lot of controversary on the results (repetition has proven an issue to some degree) and interpretation of results of using this device.
My Grandfather literally stopped at McDonalds on the way home from the hospital when he had a heart attack. It's mind-blowing but not unheard of and sad to see. I love you doing these videos!
Hell, even the exorcists of the Vatican do a long screening that most often just leads to them telling the supposed possessed and their family "Yeah, you should probably just see a mental health expert. There's really no indication this is supernatural, so please go see actual medical experts first and we might try something if there's literally no other option."
The "metal pentagram" had me dying dude. That shit's a truck stop souvenir you can pick up anywhere in Texas. It's just a decoration for those people who want their home to have that "rustic Texas" feeling.
Not to mention that a pentagram is by definition a star drawn with 5 lines - it is NOT a star with a filled-in or solid center. It's always JUST the lines. And when you put a circle around it, that's a PENTACLE not a PENTAGRAM. A pentaGRAM is just the star, a pentaCLE has the circle around it. So it fails all definitions of a pentagram other than being a five-pointed star, which is the least of the defining factors
This is why I like the watcher's ghost files. You have one guy being the believer and the other one being a true skeptic. They're so fun to watch and while sometimes the believer tries to reach quite far claiming evidence, the skeptic always brings him down back to earth
I've seen a million ghost hunting shows, and Unsolved/Ghost Files are by faaaaar the best ones. Sometimes absolutely nothing happens for the whole episode, and sometimes there's something a little weird. It's actual reality. I honestly find it hard to watch any other ghost hunting shows after watching Shane and Ryan.
They used to be pretty good but their new episodes are not that great. They're way too focused on being funny and making sex jokes than they are actually doing anything worthwhile. I can't even watch the new stuff. That said, Shane isnt even a real skeptic. He admitted in one of their Q&A videos that he actually does kind of believe after everything they've done but he just pretends not to and gives Ryan a hard time for the sake of the dynamic. He knows that's what people like so he exaggerates and forces his skepticism on camera.
I like to imagine when he asked the ghosts "Did Adelaide cross over" it was an unrelated ghost that answered yes but he was like "Well Adelaide crossed over, job is done here" so he just leaves the other ghosts stuck in the house
Didn't he say that other ghosts were trapped there along with Adelaide under the rule of a bad spirit/demon? So this dude simped for a lady ghost and helped her cross, but abandoned the rest of the other ghosts 😂
I said the exact same thing, "So... you don't _hear_ a voice, the words just appear in your head. Like thoughts. So you literally just admitted 'I don't hear anything, I just say whatever comes to my mind.' You said the quiet part out loud dude!"
I used to tell myself this when I was religious, “it’s not a voice, it’s a message and images” it’s imagination and thoughts combined with confirmation bias.
Me and sister literally clicked on this show purely because we thought it was an actual attempt at an investigation and it took us a couple of episodes to realize it was so clearly fake and we looked at each other like “wtf is this show” and then we binged the rest of it laughing hysterically- who approved of this show😂
@@caseco4979 You mean stuff like Paranormal Witness? Those are actually kinda okay because they try to make this weird connection between retelling a "real" event but are more like short, semi-horror stories/documentations. A bit like some X Factor stories but with only one case per episode and not with the whole overdone "real or fake" gimmick at the end. It feels relatively harmless. A somewhat completed story of some haunted thing or place, it usually ends with people either moving or deciding to live with the haunting but it's this retelling story format where they want to make you feel like something really happened through actors and special effects in flashbacks while the actors summarize some events before these flashbacks happen while sitting in front of this typical neutral documentation background. Sometimes priests show up but these sort of fake investigations don't really happen. It just feels like short, suspenseful little stories without trying to prove anything for real or taking itself to seriously but rather trying to sell it as real to make it "scary". They are obviously dramatized but in the end, they felt more like Paranormal Activity if anything where they attemt to make it seem real but I feel it's not done to deceive but to create atmosphere.
I feel like he needed to go to the hospital for giving himself a seizure with the STROBING LIGHTS IN HIS EYES from the God Helmet. This is an amazing series. Please do more.
I've been greeted by malfunctioning strobing lights at work and had to deal with that for two hours, and while I thankfully don't have photosensitive epilepsy I was definitely disoriented and anxious very shortly after walking into it. So I don't know why the heck anyone would want to put that directly in their eyes unless they wanted that reaction for, say, a dramatic spooky ghost show. I guess they don't expect the audience to question how he could possibly stumble over and panic after they practically burned his corneas with the strobe lights?
@@lainpowers8146 Oh, man, I just looked up the god helmet on Wikipedia and the fact that it's being used in paranormal investigation now is HILARIOUS! It's a helmet that stimulates the temporal lobe by emitting small (on the order of 1 microtesla) magnetic fields with fluxuations designed to mimic biological sources. It was originally made to prove one of the two scientists who created it's hypotheses on brain function. The original experiments it was used in sought to show that religious, paranormal, and spiritual experiences originate in the temporal lobe. In other words, it's a device more or less made to show that ghosts and stuff are all in your head! It's called the god helmet because it did supposedly produce the feeling of a "presence" in most participants, and most of them attributed the presence to god or angels. However, only one group has been able to reproduce the results, with most groups finding it was entirely power of suggestion. Including experiments where people who were told what the god helmet does were given a fake god helmet that didn't generate magnetic fields and still reported the religious experience. The scientists who developed the original god helmet used their experiment to peddle a quack commercial device called the Octopus, which supposedly helps regulate emotion with a ring of magnets around the head, just above the ears.
This is the best content you've put out in my honest opinion. The gameplay videos are fun, yes, always. But this, this is peak content. I hope we get tons more of this.
@JohnWolfe lol shows fake as shit I've got legit evidence next time I do a investigation I will send you some john I hate shows like this 28 days haunted
@@JohnWolfe I love this so much, I need this to be a long running series. You're informative and insightful, and I love your compassion for the real struggles people have in processing the world around them. But I also like that you spare no mercy in calling out the exploitative actions of the teams and productions. I can't begin to think how angry I would be if one of those murdered girls was related to me and some dickhead with MCS even breathed their name for attention, so your disdain is appreciated. For reccomendations, there was a long running show on UKTV called Most Haunted which was hilariously bad, EVERY location was the most haunted location in the country/they had ever been. 🙄 It was 95% dust particles and 5% someone pretending to see or hear something because they wanted attention. The "psychic" in it got exposed for faking and got his own show on another network called Ghost Towns where he interviewed people about their ghostly experiences. Also check out Ghostwatch (1992), another UK ghost hunting program. Try not to find anything about it, go in as blind as you can. It's worth it.
I remember way, way back when, when I first discovered your channel, one thing I loved that made me keep coming back was how whenever a game would throw out a lame jumpscare all the other RUclipsrs would freak out at you would just kinda be like "Yeah, Ok, that was dumb. Anyway" and now years and years later we all get to watch you "Yeah, Ok, that was dumb. Anyway" real life stuff and I'm 110% on board with it.
same!! the more i watched john over the years, the more i learned to appreciate aspects of games and movies that actually make me feel spooked out. it's fun to go from "haha, john would rrriiiip into this show" to seeing him ACTUALLY ripping into shows now
It truly is a pleasure to have skipped over the screaming RUclipsr fandom all thanks to John. In fact, I'd like to think his appreciation of actual framework to scare, instead of random shock value shaped me to be less.. Well.. Easy to settle for things in the craft of videogames. So many great creations, why ogle at the ones with any effort. Also, these videos make the PERFECT annoyance for my fiance. Shout-out to John.
Thanks for speaking up for the victims. That aspect of this show reminds me of the predatory 'psychics' who try to ingratiate themselves into police investigations. Vultures, all of them.
Every time I hear about the murder of any people, I'm reminded that these psychics are running around basically making a joke about the actual real deaths about these people (acting like they are scared and act like these people are attacking them) and feel really disgusted that these people think it's fine to mock the deaths of these poor souls.
Her going into the coffin and being only mildly irritated by ghosts surrounding her and screaming in her face is so funny. The guy being even more irritated with her story and not offering to help her at all is even funnier.
still not as good as Ghost Adventures, those guys yelling "Whoa, you hear that?" cracks me up every time, someone on RUclips has had to make a compilation of that, they say it at least 6 times an episode
It doesn't make any sense either, isn't that what ghost hunters want? And why would a demonologist or priest matter? Are they the dead family or demons?
Imagine being a ghost and witnessing all of this. I’d be hiding in the corner and never giving them the benefit of capturing evidence. If they even care about that at all, that is. Edit: Actually, the thought of presenting them with the clearest apparition ever seen by human eyes while their cameras aren’t rolling is even better.
@StagFiesta and that's why the paranormal or supernatural will never be caught by a camera. It seems to line up with that scientific principle that even the act of observing something changes the outcome, I think in regards to quantum physics.
That's a short story/skit idea I've had for a while, with everything being from the perspective of ghosts. Like, imagine an entire camera crew walking onto your property and casually recording everything while you're just trying to take a ghost sh*t in (relative) peace? XD
@@jacksonjack7838 Yeah, I'm more partial to ghosts going full Beetlejuice mode too, though I think it's funnier if it's like when the Maitlands were trying to scare the Deetzes at first. Like there's nightmare fuel happening a few feet away from the camera crew, except they (and their equipment) can't see it, or the crew are too oblivious to see their equipment picked up some actual nightmare fuel.
I wonder why people are even scared of ghosts when the scariest thing you can see them doing is slightly move furniture. That's about as scary as having a cat.
The god helmet is the best tool i have ever seen in my life. Not only does it look like a remodeled kid toy iron mam helmet, the lights flashing on your eyes are a recipe to have epileptic seizures
But John, how can you debunk Ghost videos and say that they're fake? Just because most videos are 144p, shaky cams, have people not actually react to the ghost and the content is late at night most of the time so the quality is even worse doesn't mean that these people are hoaxes. The vids even say not clickbait most of the time too. They can't be lying
You gullible little rascal. Everyone knows that ghost videos are fake unless they have a red circle in the thumbnail pointing to a shadowy figure or face. Bonus points if its narrated by Chills.
Paranormal Home Inspectors seems like something you should check out. Jenny Nicholson talked about it ages ago and it's p much a show where a home renovator comes in after the hunters and debunks everything instantly. About as fake as it sounds but also pretty funny.
I loooved that show. The home inspector came in and explained EVERYTHING in a great kind of deadpan. It was hilarious. I randomly watched it on tv, like a marathon of it, *forgot about it*, then when Jenny did that video, it actually took me awhile of first being like “this seems so familiar but also doesn’t” before I realized it was the show I had watched so long ago. It seemed SO obscure, I was stunned Jenny and I had both found it. So much fun.
I love the episode where the guy claims the bathroom doesn’t have a lock and it cuts to the inspector pointing at the lock “there’s a lock right here” 😂
If I were on one of these shows, I'd just go limp, and claim the spirits drained all my energy and I can't move, and make ppl drag me around the whole time.
@@BalBhatti-ze3mm I always wondered why those kids who get dragged onto those "tough love" shows where they go to a prison and get yelled at by inmates don't do this, what can they do if you just play dead? It would throw a monkey wrench into the whole show.
The worst ghost hunting show I've ever seen was called "Scariest Places on Earth". It had a kid narrator doing a creepy voice between scenes. There was a scene where a woman bumped into a bed and accused it of trying to attack her.
I remember that show! 😅 we'd all gather in the living room in front of our gigantic cube of a TV and catch every new episode 😂 I live in Appalachia... my mom had me convinced of werewolves and witches and all kinds of bs as a kid 😅 that show scared me to death 😂
Last year, I was looking so hard for a “debunk” of this horribly staged and hilariously overacted show- and there was nothing 😢 Like a lot of people were actually taking it seriously, which blew my mind… This shit show desperately needed a rational review- with a healthy dose of humor- so thank you. I can’t tell you how satisfying it was to see someone call out the insanity being presented to us as real paranormal investigations…
You should visit east Tennessee. I bet I've seen at least 20 people yell at "demons". For no TV crew. I've seen it and watched the "possessed" people even yell back 😂 People believed even crazier shit the further back you go in history, this is definitely not something new since media has come around. I've seen this type of stuff in real life for 36 years 😢😅 it blows my mind that you were so surprised at seeing in the comments that people believe the show. Same with the host here... he must have grown up in a more normal, more liberal state than mine 😂 In the Bible belt its normal.
@@rosemadder5547 well I’m basically a Pentecostal Christian living in the Bible Belt and watch Greg Locke every Sunday. I believe that people can absolutely be possessed by demons and those demons can be cast out through Christ. I’m probably not your target audience….😬
The fact that all three locations are businesses makes it even harder to believe that they stayed there for 28 days. Unless Netflix paid them a significant amount, which, judging by the production value, is unlikely, there is no way these places would be closed for a whole month.
No doubt. The Lumber Baron is more than just rooms, that super haunted third floor with the opening cabinets was hosting a wedding when I stayed there. It is probably booked 1-2 years in advance, and there is no way they gave up those bookings.
It's like Big Brother with ghost hunters. Would be funny if one of the guys hooked up with one of the women and the camera facing the bed is just showing them doing it under the blanket.
I love Jeremy's look of confusion while the "psychic" is in the coffin. He's desperately trying to figure out a way his "expertise" can fit in with her delusion. It's like watching a really bad improv class; or two compulsive liars getting into a pissing contest.
The thing about the concept of ghosts that always gets me (particularly in a case like the two women who were murdered here) is... if I was murdered, and my killer was still out there, and I was stuck on earth as a ghost you BET YOUR SWEET ASS I would be doing everything in my ghostly power to tell people 1. I'm a ghost and 2. Who killed me, where, when, and why. My Casper-ass would be floating into the courtroom to testify, trust and believe. The fact that someone in this kind of desperate situation, hypothetically, just... opened a couple cabinets instead is so absurd on its face. I don't know how anyone still believes in them beyond thinking about it for more than like 2 minutes lol.
The real nutjobs will just wiggle out of that argument and be like "Oh, well, you see, those ghosts weren't actually those girls. Those were ghosts/demons/whatever pretending to be them and fucking with the investigators to achieve [insert whatever nonsense here]."
The reason people believe in it is they want to. I dont say that to put anyone down. I simply mean that if you’re convinced something is real before you look for evidence, you are going to find a ton of evidence to support your point. We are capable of connecting dots no matter how far away from one another they are. A lot of times when people say they saw something, or felt something, or heard something, i believe them. Not all the time, but quite often. The building in which i work is “haunted.” One time i had a co-worker run upstairs from the basement, sprinting toward me balling and hysterical that she saw a woman, but then the woman disappeared. It was obvious she was in a genuine panic, and was not making up a story. I believe she saw something, i just don’t believe its a ghost. The human mind can do some crazy things that we don’t really consider. Hallucinations, however, are a phenomena that we understand fairly well, and you don’t necessarily have to be sick to experience one.
@@herogibsonI remember reading somewhere that super-low frequency sounds outside the range of human hearing can cause hallucinations and that chill up your spine generally creeped out feeling because it affects the inner ear even tho we can't actually hear it. Sleep deprivation and migraines can also cause hallucinations. Plenty of reasons to see things that don't exist without mental illness.
A friend of mine has worked on pilots for a couple of these kind of shows. He says the producers find ghost hunting groups who are willing to have a show made about them (for very little money) and then the producers sell them on the idea that they need to gin it up a bit to make for compelling TV. These shows routinely don't get past the pilot. I think the allure of watching comic-shop proprietors has run its course. But those guys, despite their comical appearance, are deadly serious about what they do. When I still believed, I went to a ghost hunt at an old prison, and one of the other attendees said he felt the presence of a malevolent, non-human spirit. I said "are you sure?" or something like that, and he got in my face about it.
I _guarantee_ that he didn't actually go to the hospital. They basically pulled the classic deceptive tactic by showing a clip a few seconds long of him walking through the hospital entrance, and then immediately cutting away to the next day. Again, I absolutely guarantee that he walked into the entrance, stood around for a minute or two, and then walked right back out. The doctor's report of it being something unheard of? Totally made up, never happened.
Here's the thing that gets me about all of these ghost shows. Invariably, whenever they think a ghost is responsible for something, it's always either off-camera or something that is easily assisted by gravity. If a ghost can knock a cup off a counter, WHY CAN'T IT PICK UP ANYTHING??? I have only ever seen supposed ghost activity that *decreases* the elevation of an object. When things like cups move, what's always the first part to move? The handle? The ONE PLACE on the mug you can attach a fishing wire to? Oh and it appears to happen to drinkware with handles far more often, I wonder why, maybe because it's harder to tie it around the whole cup. IF GHOSTS ARE REAL THEN WHY ARE THEY SO SHITTY AT SHOWING US ANYTHING A GHOST CAN DO THAT A HUMAN CAN'T EASILY FAKE??? Show me a ghost pressing keys on a typewriter to spell out its name, or something, pressing a typewriter key doesn't take much effort at all and would be MUCH harder to fake. People complain that "no evidence will ever be enough for the skeptics" but then fail to provide any evidence that can't be faked - and not just faked, but EASILY faked. Something like a light turning on with nobody in the room can't be used as proof of ghosts when we have FUCKING SMART LIGHT BULBS THAT YOU CAN CONTROL WITHOUT EVEN BEING IN THE HOUSE!! Also if Ouija board planchettes are so small and light and ghosts can SLAM HEAVY DOORS then why the fuck do they need humans touching the planchette? Can't they move something that small on their own? Why are ghosts conveniently weak until these shows want to convince us they're a threat???
6:33 Sean is so desperate to make his ghost girlfriend OC real. I wish we would have seen what else he was saying about her, but I can only imagine: "Yeah, she is the ghost of a really classy woman. Wife of a Captain. Amazing figure. Great cook. Doesn't care if her guys are a bit on the wider side."
Honestly watching John react to Zak Bagans and the Ghost Adventures crew would be hilarious. Especially because Zak has main character syndrome and I’m sure John would have an absolute blast critiquing him. I feel like there’s quite a few episodes that would make a great Wolfe Watch.
Well considering a few members of the team already admitted most of the show was fake, it’d be easy for John to review. The producers would make them go back and act like they had an experience with a ghost if the team didn’t really get any evidence of anything. Fake AF. It’d be interesting for John to rip that one to shreds.
Zak has to be the most egomaniac I have ever seen in a ghost hunting show. He is so rude and so over the top it's just funny. I cannot imagine watching that show and thinking it's compelling evidence of ghosts
Imagine if Jeremy got a noise complaint called in on him because of all the yelling in the middle of the night, but they were afraid to answer the door because they thought the cops were demons.
ngl, but if you isolate people from society, throw them in a house and constantly tell them they're going to see ghosts for nearly an entire month, I think their brains are going to manifest ghosts as an actual trauma response
@@KJtheEverblack Not the correct term for it but yeah. Sort of. It's basically paranoia. Paranoia can make you see things, assume the worst out of ordinary phenomena, and lose sanity in general. Different people react to trauma and fear... well... differently. So a skeptic is less likely to report anything out of the ordinary. Whilst a believer in the paranormal will swear they saw something.
This is a fantastic idea! Don't tell the hunting team...they have to believe. Then just see how far another team could take it without getting caught or the other team getting suspicious. Comedy gold!
@@CodeThatTalks I would find a paranormal team in each city and tell them you're doing a series for random ghost hunter teams to compare techniques. Give them a production crew and everything. Give the antagonizers a Go-Pro or something and see how long and far they can take it. If never caught, let the ghost hunters give their official analysis and never tell them until the show airs. Don't publish the show at all until several episodes are filmed.
I'd love for one episode that involves the antagonizers going against Arabic Ghost Hunters. The antagonizers have a hard time trying to scare the ghost hunters when they keep rushing towards the source kicking doors down while screaming prayers from the Quran.
Jeremy and Brandy are by far the height of this show. Their constant arguments were so funny but that ending look from Jeremy made me nearly pee my pants!
As funny as it is to watch John snark at this show, I also really appreciate him pointing out the unethical bits as well with exploiting legit murder victims.
Yeah but even true crime shows exploit murder victims if you think about it like that. You're not honoring the victim by talking about their death or their killer. You even see youtubers use the victim's name in the title instead of the murderer as a way to justify it, because they know what they're doing is a little seedy. And they're doing it with people who died last year, not a century ago.
That's a good point. I agree, it's one thing to write books to learn from for the people interested in getting into the field. But the shows and how they're purely for entertainment (mostly for edgy sheltered girls who think it's a game) is gross
@jimjambananaslam3596 I think that's fair, and honestly I've been debating my own consumption of true crime content recently and the ethics of it. One difference I say is that with true crime (or at least some of it) they're presenting facts of the case and info that the average person could probably just find online. Versus making an obnoxious show of the paranormal and pretending to be getting messages from the dead.
My dad is really into paranormal investigation and also found a hotspot with a thermal camera in our yard one cool evening. He was so excited and started feeling the grass and trying to figure out what it was. Until I saw him and told him that I had just pissed there. A hotspot is super easy to fake and is easily explainable.
I went on a ghost tour one time, in a building that i very well could believe might have been haunted. The tour guide made a comment on these kinds of shows that kind of stuck with me. If you were hunting a deer, and went out in the woods and started shouting for one to show itself, would it?
Mannnnn that’s exactly right too 😂 “SHOW YOURSELF BEAST!!!” “Yeeeeah, no, I’m good, I saw what you did to Bambi’s mama….” I imagine the ghosts being yelled at being told to come out just saying “NO! You’re just gonna yell at me! 🥺”
There's a show called "Paranormal Home Inspectors" where they bring in a team of psychics and some British woman to find all the ghosts, and one professional builder who walks through the house and debunks every creaky door and shadow, and the others scramble to come up with a reason why the house totally is super haunted, still.
prety sure these type of tv shows don't last or survive, as anything to "debunking" tends to get very low views. I only watch paranormal stuff for the "entertainment" of it, when bored, not for the science, as there really isnt any. Its why a lot of TV /paranormal shows on cable, is "scripted", if a actual real paranormal show existed without any special effects, it would be equal to a urban "exploration" youtube(this would be boring to most people)..
@@koilamaoh4238 there's a podcast called the Spooktator (a podcast of paranormal sceptics) which talked about this: you can't actually debunk it because it's already not real, but the people who believe will never be convinced it's not, and the majority of people who watch these shows are already believers who will believe anything. They'd feel insulted if actual sceptics were there (which is also probably why Shane Madej has toned down his scepticism on Ghost Files as opposed to earlier seasons of Buzzfeed Unsolved).
It's kind of happened, and it's sad/hilarious. The show completely fabricates stories and backgrounds for people who didn't exist, puts the info on the internet where it can be found pretty easily and then get psychics to come in with 'zero' prior knowledge. It pretty quickly becomes obvious that the the psychics just Googled some basic information and then hammed up the rest pretending it's being told to them by spirits who don't exist. The pièce de résistance is a guy getting possessed by nothing and then being told it's all fake. Unfortunately I can't for the life of me remember what it's called. The RUclips algorithm served it up to me years ago, so I guess if you keep clicking this kind of video it might eventually get around to you.
For reference, the actual recommended ratio for sensory deprivation tank water is 800lbs of Epsom salt to 200 gallons of water. Not 10 INCHES of water.
Something about calling it a "WolfeWatch Special" 100% hits the "obviously marketing but it works, dangit" button in my brain. Very excited to watch this special! It's odd to hear "Shane" but there's no tall silly man making fun of ghosts while dressed like a college professor. Unsolved/Ghost Files truly have spoiled all other paranormal-affiliated Shanes for me. Dang, Brandy really is psychic. One of the ghosts clearly told her they're called "caskets," not coffins. But then she forgot again because ghost reasons IDK.
I also vote for Paranormal Home Inspectors. It debunks itself and it's fantastic. The number of things the home inspector explains away with something as simple as "the owners have a cat" is wonderful. Also Most Haunted. I only watched a couple of their later seasons, but you'd love their "demonologist" Fred, and how obviously they're faking things. I recommend the Fort Paull episodes. Those had me laughing the hardest.
John, since you're asking for requests, I have a few "favorite" ghost hunting shows. First is Paranormal Home Inspectors, which has several different hosts independently going through the same location, including a no-nonsense home inspector who debunks pretty much all of the locations by pointing out totally mundane answers to the "spooky paranormal activity". If you want to see a legitimate skeptic going through a house and explaining how that door swings open on its own sometimes because it was improperly installed, not because of a ghost, then I recommend this one. It's only made funnier by the hosts of the other segments being subpar but otherwise entirely orthodox ghost hunting psychics/scam artists. Next is Celebrity Paranormal Project, which varies quite wildly in entertainment value based on which specific celebrities are on each specific episode. Can be great or can be dull, depending on how into it any given set of celebrities gets and how detached from reality they are to begin with. I seem to recall Gary Busey and Gilbert Gottfried being the funniest. Both are ancient in ghost-hunting terms, and the sort of garbage that no one bothers to DMCA, so I think both are fully available on RUclips.
John, I would absolutely recommend watching Most Haunted. Its a British show from the 2000s, and I remember laughing at them when I was younger. Usually in an episode, the Medium would become possessed, or they would come up with the most random ways to get a ghost to "show" itself, like having it draw on a piece of paper. Definitely worth a watch!
Omg I used to love most haunted so much. Derek Acorah, was the best medium they ever had. He just happened to get possessed every episode and the ghosts would just conveniently verbally abuse every woman around him.
This please!! It’s so bad 😭😂 especially if they’re episodes with Derek Acorah in them. I still to this day quote the absurd stuff he would say like “there’s a wall that shouldn’t be here.” Not to mention the host/producer Yvette who previously did children’s programming….that show was something else
Derek was "exposed" as being a fake by host Yvette Fielding, probably because he got most of the attention. Not long after she got rid of him, Yvette was seen on camera kicking something and pretending it was a ghostly sound.
This show was so aggressively goddamn stupid it was hilarious. I think in like episode 2 or 3 a book slid out and fell off that same bookshelf that the vase fell off later but Jereme and Brandy were so busy overacting they didn't notice and it never gets mentioned. Like it's clearly just to the right of Brandy's head as she's sitting on the couch and the cameraman has it framed perfectly so it's very visible and it never gets mentioned. I also absolutely died laughing at the cameraman in the attic when they're doing the 'OMG who threw the chair?' routine.
I watched this with my mother, who is pretty spiritual. The absolute exasperation and bewilderment on her face while we were watching the show absolutely killed me.
I love the "skeptic" doesnt believe a ghost wrote cu in the mirror but 100% believes a ghost is telling them that he didn't do it and the other guy faked it
As a fan of ghost shows, there is nothing worse than investigators going into a location all tough and daring the ghosts to make noises or even attack them, only for a small noise across the building the freak them out and cause them to leave the room rather than see what the noise was or even just get excited they may have received contact. I get ghosts aren't real, so most of this stuff isn't real or is dramatized, but how do they all think them running is satisfying?
Actually, no. The network execs are not interested whatsoever in proving anything. They wouldn't know what to do with proof even if they had something. It wouldn't be enough to fill a thirty-minute show, let alone a season. So if they had something, chances are that they would ruin it by building a lot of bogus info around it or sandwiching it in between faked "evidence." The reality show business is cynical. They are in the entertainment business, not the scientific discovery business. Basically, it is execs telling production companies what they are looking for or what they think audiences want to see, and production companies (along with their talent) either pitch them over-the-top concepts based on those notes or agree to a concept that ties into a commercial vein. If the project gets funded, the production company takes over. However, the network usually has the final say as to what the final product looks like and how it is marketed. The execs on the network level have no paranormal investigating experiences and likely don't even believe in ghosts. They understand fictional horror, however. If they can create fictional horror on a shoestring budget using no actual writers, they will. Reality TV is a great way to make entertainment on the cheap. As for talent, there are plenty of folks out there who will fake it to make it. In this particular case, Netflix was intrigued about doing a series tied in with The Conjuring franchise so Netflix greenlit a production with Tony Spera (one of the two hosts) attached. Tony Spera has been directly affiliated with Ed and Lorraine Warren since the mid-1980s. He maintains their "legacy."
I'm a bit late, but all "ghost hunting" is, is hunting for electromagnetic fields. All their devices are based on detection of them. There's nothing scientific of interest going on. Relatives do it as a hobby, and I always get told ignored or shut down for being sceptical and coming up with actual explanations for what they saw and heard. Ghost hunting has the same vibe in being religious in that all reason and critical thinking go out of the window in order to convince themselves something exists. You won't see a single investigation with wind pressure instruments or seismographs. Or even something to measure the toxicity of the air (because you can hallucinate things if there's even high Co2 in the room) In fact, some people have been caught out on faking their videos by using machines that transmit EM pulses or pre-recorded words and phrases. They wanna do "investigations" but never actually investigate.
This video is everything - the sass, the jokes, the editing, the respect towards the victims and their families, the critiques. I'm excited for more of these!🔥
Jereme went to the hospital with signs of a heart attack, but the doctors couldn't find any physical evidence, right? (kinda like our investigators.) This happened moments after he wore the god helmet. You know, a device that blasts rapid flashing lights into his eyes to "awaken his psychic abilities". The guy just gave himself an epileptic seizure that mimicked a heart attack. That's why there were no physical signs. And either the doctors told him there was nothing wrong with him, which he was too ashamed to admit on camera, or to Brandy, or they told him he gave himself an epileptic seizure, which, again, he was too ashamed to admit. Still, that removal of the shirt was epic. It was the part in the trailer that convinced me to watch it, because I knew it would be ridiculous.
Oml please, I need more of John reacting to awful reality TV stuff like that 😂this is amazing PS: John's hair be looking especially beautiful and luscious lately ✨
One thing that I love too is how they emphasize that these teams are “isolated” and supposedly even gave their phones to production before the “experiment” but at one point you can clearly see Amy on her phone during Shane’s Salty Deprivation Tent 😂
I love the "psychic medium". When me and my grandfather where watching the show (we like stupid monster hunting shows, mostly to make fun of them) his response to PM was "well, if we are going by hamburgers, im a psychic well done". Had me cracking up.
I'm so glad I found someone talking about this show, I binge watched the entire thing earlier this year and it felt like a fever dream. Simultaneously the most offensively fake and most entertaining ghost hunting show I've seen. You pointed out so many details I didn't even notice, great video!
the coffin bit gives off the same vibes of a husband and wife but Brandy is trying to put groceries away and for a minute it looks like Jereme is coming over to help but he actually just reaches into the fridge for a beer
I was interviewed about the history of a house that I had written about by the Paranormal State team because it "became haunted." I have never encountered anything or seen any proof of the supernatural, but I was impressed by how seriously they took the whole thing. They were more interested in finding a ghost or whatever than good TV. It was the TV producers who made it silly.
If you want something that feels 'real', there are WAY better options. But if you want pure comedy gold, this show delivers. Jereme, especially, is incredible. The moments where he tries to throw hands with the ghosts are particularly funny.
This was a great video, very funny at times, and i really appreciate John being as angry as I was for them making fake drama over the unfortunate murders that took place, and potentially ripping those wounds open for the families, should they see it. Great job, John. Would love to see more of this.
I was on the fence about whether or not the show was attempting to take itself seriously whatsoever, and then the show answered my question by almost literally winking at the viewer in the last few seconds of the last episode.
This was the best analysis and reaction to paranormal content I have ever seen. The way you called out inconsistencies in a ghost show like one would critiquing a movie was so entertaining. I really hope there are enough terribly funny shows like this out there for you to do more on!
I honestly loved Jeremy's side of things as bad as the show was he made it manageable with his shithousery. Never forget a grown man squaring up to a ghost and taking his top off or at the end when he believes he's possessed
This sure isn't a show that I'd be watching for myself, but through the lens of a fellow "skeptic", this is just an amazing video. Hope for more of this type
The idea of a guy claiming a ghost wrote on a mirror only to have a real ghost call him a liar is a fucking hilarious concept
My roomate is the Ghost of Jack the ripper, the new black comedy of Netflix XD
It's like when you'd play with a Oujia board with your friends and they'd ask if you have a girlfriend and then move it to No even though you do. =(
And the skeptic guy seemed kinda pleased that the ghost agreed with him
@@elhoteldeloserrantes5056my god… JACK IS BACK!
John: This is a horror gaming channel
Ghost in John's bathroom: LIAR!
This show made me REALLY want to make another show where we put a ghost hunting team in a location that's absolutely not haunted at all and has no history whatsoever just to see what kind of whacky stuff they come up with
Someone actually did this. It's on you tube somewhere although it was an attempt to prove the paranormal. They put one team in a place with no history of paranormal activity and told them it was the most haunted house in America and then took a group of skeptics to the actual "most haunted house" in America. The team in the not haunted house got freaked out over the 2 events that were entirely explainable. One was a drawer opening because it was a loose drawer and the other was when one of the guys bumped the wall with his shoulder and knocked a painting off of it and he completely freaked out.
@@tobiasmaxwell4486 I need to see this!!
Someone did a YT video of that actually. It was a team in a supposedly haunted house and a team told that some air bnb was haunted when it wasn't at all. Was actually pretty funny.
@@tobiasmaxwell4486 I'd like to watch it. Could you mention the name of the channel?
Put them in a brand new house that's modeled after an 1800s style ranch and tell them it's 200 years old and watch them cook up crazy theories about who died there and how.
Honestly that skeptic was the best part of the entire show. Every team should have just had a normal dude who didn't believe in ghosts go with them and call them out on shit. At least they could have marketed it as a comedy, it probably would have done better as well.
That would be amazing. Just straight up send one John Wolfe to come along with every team and point out the inconsistencies lmao
Oh, do you know those videos where they will have 5 people claiming to be an expert/professional in something, except one of them is faking it and you have to figure out who? Imagine that but with mediums/paranormal investigators lmao
Just one imposter in that group that doesn't believe in ghosts or spirits at all, but is constantly upstaging the others by pretending to be possessed. Kind of what we had with Jereme and Brandi, except being super blatant with it :'D
True, Unsolved pretty much carried Buzzfeed
Ghost Files on Watcher is the show you want. Two best buds making fun of each other the entire time. One enjoys the architecture and the other loses his entire mind.
yeeees can't wait for the new season@@Whatlander
@@Whatlander Except there's no sceptic involved there, since Ryan is a believer and Shane is a demon.
The whole Brandy and Jeremy bits remind me of when two kids are playing make believe, but one kid keeps being wayyy too OP/controlling the story 💀😭
EXACTLY
YOU STAY BACK!!
@@clementine2001what are you smoking bro?
I feel this way about Ghost Adventures every time Zach gets "posessed" too. 😂
Here's a show for you to check out: Paranormal Home Inspectors. It was a show that ran on Canadian public television for a while. The premise is that it follows a team of your typical paranormal investigators, but with a twist. One of them is just a regular ass home inspector. So the other team members are doing your typical 'spend a night in the house communing with spirits' or 'looking up public records to find out about local tragedies that could explain the hauntings' etc. Meanwhile the actual home inspector walks in and goes "Oh yeah, this door was installed crooked and that's why it keeps opening on its own." Its the best ghost hunting show I've ever seen.
i thiunk its on hulu now, i love it!
Saving for later
Bump this. I would love to see John review that show.
Jenny Nicholson does a funny review of this show on RUclips
Hi fellow Jenny Nicholson fans. I've missed us.
John, you would LOVE Paranormal Home Inspectors. People living in a haunted house call in the experts and tell their stories of all the unexplainable things that happened to them. First, an inspector comes and explains the cabinets open because they're not level, etc. THEN a psychic comes in and tries to convince them that it really was ghosts after all. 10/10
I LOVE THAT SHOW HAHAHA. It's so corny with the psychics and the home inspectors are a breath of fresh air
AMAZING show omg
Pls pls pls do this !!!! It's hilarious!
We as humans love to want to find supernatural reasons for very natural things. Have been since the beginning of human history lol. We are kinda dumb
There's like 7 seasons of BuzzFeed unsolved Paranormal which is exactly that premise 1 believer in 1 skeptic. The same team are doing ghost files on the channel watcher.
The most hilarious part to me about the whole "metal pentagram" is how obvious it is that someone just grabbed a sheriff's badge from the prop table.
But first, it needed significant distressing. They likely dipped it in sulfuric acid first. (or maybe hydrochloric acid)
Legit what I thought at first, but it also looks like a very badly cut out hunk of sheet metal, like that had some guy with a laser cutter make it for them because I cannot think of why a pentagram like that would be used at all unless it's a sheriff badge/prop
also cuz like... a pentagram isn't just "a star in a circle." it's an actual symbol. that looks the way it does for a reason. so that wasn't even a pentagram. it was GENUINELY a sheriff's badge.
@@buggibiiyeah, according to Wikipedia: “A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha, pentangle, or star pentagon) is a regular five-pointed star polygon, formed from the diagonal line segments of a convex (or simple, or non-self-intersecting) regular pentagon”
that shit is WAY too big to be a shjerif badge dude lol its just some thing metal made to look ol they buried 10 minutes before filming
Imagine Adelaide/Mercy meets a real medium and is like 'omg, there's been this weird dude obsessing over me. It's really upsetting.' and explaining how this dude is essentially stalking her beyond the grave. "I just pretended to crossover so he'd go away."
I’d love that!
I wonder if she'd be like: "Ya know, he's been calling me Adelaide, who is actually his ex who passed away a few years ago. I met her. Nice gal, but he really should just move on himself instead of telling spirits to do so."
😂😭
John's review era where he mocks ghost stuff with his sassy commentary is sth I wholeheartedly support
What annoys me with every paranormal show is that they all want “paranormal activity “ but as soon as they get it they run away or just leave and end the show.
This
In other words, "let's draw out as much air time as possible with tiny hints of something that happened until the very end when we stage something big, make everyone panic, the cameras blurry, and they rush to leave so we don't have to prove our obviously BS claims"
Where's the Arabic Jinn Hunters when you need them? In contrast to these paranormal investigators, supernatural activity only makes them chaise down the source while kicking doors open. Jereme would've been far more entertaining in this show if he used his firefighting training to act like a Arabic Jinn Hunter.
Wish they would go somewhere really hauted like those woods what's meant to be super hunted go there for a month ,... No they would be gone by day 1 because all thase shows are fakr
Or scream and run.
"I feel like I'm surrounded right now, like from all directions" Yes, that is what it means to be surrounded, thank you, ma'am.
You know the show's good when all the psychics barely seem to be able to read their own minds.
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@@Moonhermit-LMAO
i like to think he went into the hospital and genuinely explained to a DOCTOR "so i had the god helmet on..."
I can't stop laughing at this comment XD
"This man is obviously displaying signs of pathological delusions. Better do an MRI on that head of his".
I would have called the shrink, immediately.
Bro's inspired by the Magneto Helmet
Man, could you imagine pest exterminators acting like ghost hunters?
"My name is Chadrick Manstein, I'm a rat exterminator. And I sure hope there are no rats here... Wait is that a rat!?"
*Screams and runs away from the house.*
Look up Billy The Exterminator
bro did you hear that?
Get OFF OF ME!!!
*Founds rast 💩*.
Dose not return to look for rant in a week.
Exactlyyyyyyy
Fun fact, the "God helmet" is actually a Optimus Prime mask repainted lol. Love this content John, keep it coming!
Honestly, that makes me think that Jereme knew that the show was fake and he decided to have fun by taking the piss with stuff like the God Helmet.
You're telling me that the fat guy who's "demonic possession" consisted of lazing around on a mattress and dodging "work" (in the loosest sense of the word) also slacked off and cut corners when hot gluing together his discount Cerebro helmet? Preposterous, absolutely preposterous I tell you!
@@Moonhermit- It's less "Cerebro" and more "Seriously, bro?"
I have heard of the phrase, "Deus Ex Machina," but that is a little more on the nose than I expected.
There is a real so-called "god helmet" used in experiments. It uses magnets and essentially created in people the sense of another agent in their vicinity. Making people feel like there was some other being watching them (i.e. something else with agency). You can see video of this helmet in action where when tuned a little differently will make things like fine motor control unreliable (like being unable to draw a relatively straight line and instead causing the hand to tremble while trying to do so). I can't remember if that video is from the original work or another team with the same type of device.
Basically it uses the magnets to mess around with the electrical signals in the brain. It really is rather interesting. It was created to test Michael Persinger's hypothesis on brain function and neurotheology (basically the science of how god is literally a figment of your imagination). Google him or just 'god helmet' and you will easily find info on it. It truly is an interesting thing to read up on, but note that there is a lot of controversary on the results (repetition has proven an issue to some degree) and interpretation of results of using this device.
Imagine being on the editing team for this show, and being told this isn't supposed to be a parody.
Laughing yourself through the work day sounds like a pretty great time lol
That sounds like a great job.
I kinda wish I could work on some wacky show like that someday
Producer: "this ain't a parody."
Editor: "Damn, give me something to work with here! I'm not making this up!"
I would die of cringe and haunt those fuckers for real.
My Grandfather literally stopped at McDonalds on the way home from the hospital when he had a heart attack. It's mind-blowing but not unheard of and sad to see. I love you doing these videos!
"The demons are actively harming me, Jeremy!"
Jeremy, a literal demonologist: 😳😳😳
"oh no! anyway."
“Why are you looking at _me_ ? What do I look like, some kind of demonologist? …wait”
i thought that said dermatologist i think im dyslexic
Jeremy's non-reactions and refusal to do anything during the whole coffin thing had me on the floor 😂
He's a demonologist not a demon slayer
Showing up to the hospital saying you’re possessed would be a great way to get involuntarily committed to the psych ward
Good for Jeremy then that the US mental health system is absolute garbage
Hell, even the exorcists of the Vatican do a long screening that most often just leads to them telling the supposed possessed and their family "Yeah, you should probably just see a mental health expert. There's really no indication this is supernatural, so please go see actual medical experts first and we might try something if there's literally no other option."
If only that’s all it took…
your shirt should say sexual selection cause damn I'd select you
Especially if you hand them cryptic notes and say "The voice in my head told me to write these down, I don't know what it means."
The "metal pentagram" had me dying dude. That shit's a truck stop souvenir you can pick up anywhere in Texas. It's just a decoration for those people who want their home to have that "rustic Texas" feeling.
Every Texas style restaurant or bar has one of those somewhere.
@maryeckel9682 almost every Texan house has at least one of them. One at the minimum. Usually a lot more
Jesus christ I'm from the opposite side of the planet and even I thought "isn't that like a yee haw thing...?"
Not to mention that a pentagram is by definition a star drawn with 5 lines - it is NOT a star with a filled-in or solid center. It's always JUST the lines. And when you put a circle around it, that's a PENTACLE not a PENTAGRAM. A pentaGRAM is just the star, a pentaCLE has the circle around it. So it fails all definitions of a pentagram other than being a five-pointed star, which is the least of the defining factors
The more I think about this show the angrier I get
The people behind this show genuinely thinks it’s watchers are dumber than infants
I love the "metal pentagram" which definitely isnt just a sheriff's badge
This is why I like the watcher's ghost files. You have one guy being the believer and the other one being a true skeptic. They're so fun to watch and while sometimes the believer tries to reach quite far claiming evidence, the skeptic always brings him down back to earth
I love watching that channel Ryan and Shane are funny
Hello fellow shaniacs.
I've seen a million ghost hunting shows, and Unsolved/Ghost Files are by faaaaar the best ones. Sometimes absolutely nothing happens for the whole episode, and sometimes there's something a little weird. It's actual reality. I honestly find it hard to watch any other ghost hunting shows after watching Shane and Ryan.
They used to be pretty good but their new episodes are not that great. They're way too focused on being funny and making sex jokes than they are actually doing anything worthwhile. I can't even watch the new stuff. That said, Shane isnt even a real skeptic. He admitted in one of their Q&A videos that he actually does kind of believe after everything they've done but he just pretends not to and gives Ryan a hard time for the sake of the dynamic. He knows that's what people like so he exaggerates and forces his skepticism on camera.
@@liddellsuite3336 I agree their new stuff is a bit hit and miss.
I like to imagine when he asked the ghosts "Did Adelaide cross over" it was an unrelated ghost that answered yes but he was like "Well Adelaide crossed over, job is done here" so he just leaves the other ghosts stuck in the house
Didn't he say that other ghosts were trapped there along with Adelaide under the rule of a bad spirit/demon? So this dude simped for a lady ghost and helped her cross, but abandoned the rest of the other ghosts 😂
''Most of the time I don't hear the voice, it's literally a message''
Yeah bud that's called having thoughts.
I said the exact same thing, "So... you don't _hear_ a voice, the words just appear in your head. Like thoughts. So you literally just admitted 'I don't hear anything, I just say whatever comes to my mind.' You said the quiet part out loud dude!"
I used to tell myself this when I was religious, “it’s not a voice, it’s a message and images” it’s imagination and thoughts combined with confirmation bias.
LMAO
A headache with pictures, if you will
😂😂
Me and sister literally clicked on this show purely because we thought it was an actual attempt at an investigation and it took us a couple of episodes to realize it was so clearly fake and we looked at each other like “wtf is this show” and then we binged the rest of it laughing hysterically- who approved of this show😂
Honestly my favorite ghost shows are the ones with people just telling their story along with dramatizations that use special effects and actors
@@caseco4979 You mean stuff like Paranormal Witness? Those are actually kinda okay because they try to make this weird connection between retelling a "real" event but are more like short, semi-horror stories/documentations. A bit like some X Factor stories but with only one case per episode and not with the whole overdone "real or fake" gimmick at the end.
It feels relatively harmless. A somewhat completed story of some haunted thing or place, it usually ends with people either moving or deciding to live with the haunting but it's this retelling story format where they want to make you feel like something really happened through actors and special effects in flashbacks while the actors summarize some events before these flashbacks happen while sitting in front of this typical neutral documentation background.
Sometimes priests show up but these sort of fake investigations don't really happen. It just feels like short, suspenseful little stories without trying to prove anything for real or taking itself to seriously but rather trying to sell it as real to make it "scary".
They are obviously dramatized but in the end, they felt more like Paranormal Activity if anything where they attemt to make it seem real but I feel it's not done to deceive but to create atmosphere.
I feel like he needed to go to the hospital for giving himself a seizure with the STROBING LIGHTS IN HIS EYES from the God Helmet. This is an amazing series. Please do more.
I've been greeted by malfunctioning strobing lights at work and had to deal with that for two hours, and while I thankfully don't have photosensitive epilepsy I was definitely disoriented and anxious very shortly after walking into it. So I don't know why the heck anyone would want to put that directly in their eyes unless they wanted that reaction for, say, a dramatic spooky ghost show. I guess they don't expect the audience to question how he could possibly stumble over and panic after they practically burned his corneas with the strobe lights?
*goes to the Emergency room* Sir, you have heart disease.
@@emilyau8023 "They told me i had heart disease" *Eats more cheese sticks*
Didn't they said they used magnetic waves in the God Helmet?.... Yeah I think it took something out of him?
@@lainpowers8146 Oh, man, I just looked up the god helmet on Wikipedia and the fact that it's being used in paranormal investigation now is HILARIOUS! It's a helmet that stimulates the temporal lobe by emitting small (on the order of 1 microtesla) magnetic fields with fluxuations designed to mimic biological sources. It was originally made to prove one of the two scientists who created it's hypotheses on brain function. The original experiments it was used in sought to show that religious, paranormal, and spiritual experiences originate in the temporal lobe. In other words, it's a device more or less made to show that ghosts and stuff are all in your head!
It's called the god helmet because it did supposedly produce the feeling of a "presence" in most participants, and most of them attributed the presence to god or angels. However, only one group has been able to reproduce the results, with most groups finding it was entirely power of suggestion. Including experiments where people who were told what the god helmet does were given a fake god helmet that didn't generate magnetic fields and still reported the religious experience. The scientists who developed the original god helmet used their experiment to peddle a quack commercial device called the Octopus, which supposedly helps regulate emotion with a ring of magnets around the head, just above the ears.
This is the best content you've put out in my honest opinion. The gameplay videos are fun, yes, always. But this, this is peak content. I hope we get tons more of this.
Thanks I appreciate that!
@JohnWolfe lol shows fake as shit I've got legit evidence next time I do a investigation I will send you some john I hate shows like this 28 days haunted
At the end of the day we subscribed for John's personality. TV shows allow him to display more of that minute to minute. It's a good fit
agree!
@@JohnWolfe I love this so much, I need this to be a long running series. You're informative and insightful, and I love your compassion for the real struggles people have in processing the world around them. But I also like that you spare no mercy in calling out the exploitative actions of the teams and productions. I can't begin to think how angry I would be if one of those murdered girls was related to me and some dickhead with MCS even breathed their name for attention, so your disdain is appreciated.
For reccomendations, there was a long running show on UKTV called Most Haunted which was hilariously bad, EVERY location was the most haunted location in the country/they had ever been. 🙄 It was 95% dust particles and 5% someone pretending to see or hear something because they wanted attention. The "psychic" in it got exposed for faking and got his own show on another network called Ghost Towns where he interviewed people about their ghostly experiences.
Also check out Ghostwatch (1992), another UK ghost hunting program. Try not to find anything about it, go in as blind as you can. It's worth it.
I remember way, way back when, when I first discovered your channel, one thing I loved that made me keep coming back was how whenever a game would throw out a lame jumpscare all the other RUclipsrs would freak out at you would just kinda be like "Yeah, Ok, that was dumb. Anyway" and now years and years later we all get to watch you "Yeah, Ok, that was dumb. Anyway" real life stuff and I'm 110% on board with it.
same!! the more i watched john over the years, the more i learned to appreciate aspects of games and movies that actually make me feel spooked out.
it's fun to go from "haha, john would rrriiiip into this show" to seeing him ACTUALLY ripping into shows now
It truly is a pleasure to have skipped over the screaming RUclipsr fandom all thanks to John.
In fact, I'd like to think his appreciation of actual framework to scare, instead of random shock value shaped me to be less.. Well.. Easy to settle for things in the craft of videogames.
So many great creations, why ogle at the ones with any effort.
Also, these videos make the PERFECT annoyance for my fiance.
Shout-out to John.
I can 100% believe that ghost bro got sent to the hospital after strapping on the Epilepsy Simulator helmet, to be fair.
the last scene that "revealed" that jeremy is still possessed looks like a scene STRAIGHT out of the office lmaooo that's awesome
I laughed out loud at that scene. So stupidly fake. 😂😂😂
Thanks for speaking up for the victims. That aspect of this show reminds me of the predatory 'psychics' who try to ingratiate themselves into police investigations. Vultures, all of them.
Yeah it truly is disgusting
Every time I hear about the murder of any people, I'm reminded that these psychics are running around basically making a joke about the actual real deaths about these people (acting like they are scared and act like these people are attacking them) and feel really disgusted that these people think it's fine to mock the deaths of these poor souls.
Her going into the coffin and being only mildly irritated by ghosts surrounding her and screaming in her face is so funny. The guy being even more irritated with her story and not offering to help her at all is even funnier.
Ghost: stop appropriating ghost culture!!
still not as good as Ghost Adventures, those guys yelling "Whoa, you hear that?" cracks me up every time, someone on RUclips has had to make a compilation of that, they say it at least 6 times an episode
It doesn't make any sense either, isn't that what ghost hunters want? And why would a demonologist or priest matter? Are they the dead family or demons?
The image of Shane just laying on top of 800 pounds of salt in a tent absolutely sends me.
Imagine being a ghost and witnessing all of this. I’d be hiding in the corner and never giving them the benefit of capturing evidence. If they even care about that at all, that is.
Edit: Actually, the thought of presenting them with the clearest apparition ever seen by human eyes while their cameras aren’t rolling is even better.
Just wait till they shut it all down and cause the most violent haunting ever, until they get the phones out.
@StagFiesta and that's why the paranormal or supernatural will never be caught by a camera. It seems to line up with that scientific principle that even the act of observing something changes the outcome, I think in regards to quantum physics.
Nah you gotta go full Beateljuice, scare them and make em realize what they're dealing with so they never come back.
That's a short story/skit idea I've had for a while, with everything being from the perspective of ghosts. Like, imagine an entire camera crew walking onto your property and casually recording everything while you're just trying to take a ghost sh*t in (relative) peace? XD
@@jacksonjack7838
Yeah, I'm more partial to ghosts going full Beetlejuice mode too, though I think it's funnier if it's like when the Maitlands were trying to scare the Deetzes at first.
Like there's nightmare fuel happening a few feet away from the camera crew, except they (and their equipment) can't see it, or the crew are too oblivious to see their equipment picked up some actual nightmare fuel.
This show is like when I'd play pretend as a kid and we'd all just walk around saying out loud what our pretend character was doing
And constantly one-upping other kids
Bro my characters were way too op
It's not "like" that, it's exactly the same as that.
my exact thoughts lmao, used to play a game with my friends where i claimed i could see spirits
I wonder why people are even scared of ghosts when the scariest thing you can see them doing is slightly move furniture. That's about as scary as having a cat.
Now I'm just imagining a ghost cat sitting on the counter gently pawing at the "PACK OF PLASTIC SPOONS!?!?!"
If you ever see a cup of water fall off a table for no reason, it's definitely a ghost cat.
I have been saying this since I was 6 😂😂😂
It's creepy cause they aren't supposed to be there 😢😢😢😢
@@kizzybits1675 what if you adopt the ghost like you would a cat 🤔 then it is SUPPOSED to be there and then it would not be scary anymore
The god helmet is the best tool i have ever seen in my life. Not only does it look like a remodeled kid toy iron mam helmet, the lights flashing on your eyes are a recipe to have epileptic seizures
I think what's funniest to me is that they were willing to lie to create their narrative, and this was still the best evidence they could come up with
But John, how can you debunk Ghost videos and say that they're fake? Just because most videos are 144p, shaky cams, have people not actually react to the ghost and the content is late at night most of the time so the quality is even worse doesn't mean that these people are hoaxes. The vids even say not clickbait most of the time too. They can't be lying
I was skeptical but your arguments have convinced me!
I'm convinced buddy
You had me at "But John".
True, yes John, how?
You gullible little rascal. Everyone knows that ghost videos are fake unless they have a red circle in the thumbnail pointing to a shadowy figure or face. Bonus points if its narrated by Chills.
Paranormal Home Inspectors seems like something you should check out. Jenny Nicholson talked about it ages ago and it's p much a show where a home renovator comes in after the hunters and debunks everything instantly. About as fake as it sounds but also pretty funny.
And the homeowners ALWAYS believe the ghost hunters and not the guy with real explanations lol I loved when Sinow used to watch those on stream
I loooved that show. The home inspector came in and explained EVERYTHING in a great kind of deadpan. It was hilarious. I randomly watched it on tv, like a marathon of it, *forgot about it*, then when Jenny did that video, it actually took me awhile of first being like “this seems so familiar but also doesn’t” before I realized it was the show I had watched so long ago. It seemed SO obscure, I was stunned Jenny and I had both found it. So much fun.
Combining John debunking ghost videos with John roasting home layouts would be amazing
Brian is a national treasure.
I love the episode where the guy claims the bathroom doesn’t have a lock and it cuts to the inspector pointing at the lock “there’s a lock right here” 😂
If I were on one of these shows, I'd just go limp, and claim the spirits drained all my energy and I can't move, and make ppl drag me around the whole time.
don't give me any ideas
I laughed so hard at your comment and honestly such a good idea, I’m going to try this trick at home....I can’t stop laughing 😆😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@BalBhatti-ze3mm I always wondered why those kids who get dragged onto those "tough love" shows where they go to a prison and get yelled at by inmates don't do this, what can they do if you just play dead? It would throw a monkey wrench into the whole show.
The worst ghost hunting show I've ever seen was called "Scariest Places on Earth". It had a kid narrator doing a creepy voice between scenes. There was a scene where a woman bumped into a bed and accused it of trying to attack her.
At least there good ghost haunting shows like Ghost Adventures,Ghost Hunters and more
@@jessicacarranza4010 he does not know how crappy those shows are, he does not know
I remember that show! 😅 we'd all gather in the living room in front of our gigantic cube of a TV and catch every new episode 😂 I live in Appalachia... my mom had me convinced of werewolves and witches and all kinds of bs as a kid 😅 that show scared me to death 😂
Ok I need to see that 😂
It was the lady from the poltergeist movies
Last year, I was looking so hard for a “debunk” of this horribly staged and hilariously overacted show- and there was nothing 😢 Like a lot of people were actually taking it seriously, which blew my mind… This shit show desperately needed a rational review- with a healthy dose of humor- so thank you. I can’t tell you how satisfying it was to see someone call out the insanity being presented to us as real paranormal investigations…
You should visit east Tennessee. I bet I've seen at least 20 people yell at "demons". For no TV crew. I've seen it and watched the "possessed" people even yell back 😂 People believed even crazier shit the further back you go in history, this is definitely not something new since media has come around. I've seen this type of stuff in real life for 36 years 😢😅 it blows my mind that you were so surprised at seeing in the comments that people believe the show. Same with the host here... he must have grown up in a more normal, more liberal state than mine 😂 In the Bible belt its normal.
I agree. The show was still really entertaining though. I’ve never witnessed such dedication to people believing their own bullshit.
@@rosemadder5547 well I’m basically a Pentecostal Christian living in the Bible Belt and watch Greg Locke every Sunday. I believe that people can absolutely be possessed by demons and those demons can be cast out through Christ. I’m probably not your target audience….😬
@@rosemadder5547 ; john is straight up texan, the complete opposite of a normal, liberal state. he just happens to be a normal, liberal person.
@@daniellethomas3745 ....... I don't get your point lol I said you people exist and you're proving it... congrats? What is your point? Lol
The fact that all three locations are businesses makes it even harder to believe that they stayed there for 28 days. Unless Netflix paid them a significant amount, which, judging by the production value, is unlikely, there is no way these places would be closed for a whole month.
No doubt. The Lumber Baron is more than just rooms, that super haunted third floor with the opening cabinets was hosting a wedding when I stayed there. It is probably booked 1-2 years in advance, and there is no way they gave up those bookings.
Or that’s where the production budget went?
It's like Big Brother with ghost hunters. Would be funny if one of the guys hooked up with one of the women and the camera facing the bed is just showing them doing it under the blanket.
Also makes sense why they had to film so much of the outdoor stuff at night, otherwise they'd have locals constantly gawking at them.
I love Jeremy's look of confusion while the "psychic" is in the coffin. He's desperately trying to figure out a way his "expertise" can fit in with her delusion. It's like watching a really bad improv class; or two compulsive liars getting into a pissing contest.
The thing about the concept of ghosts that always gets me (particularly in a case like the two women who were murdered here) is... if I was murdered, and my killer was still out there, and I was stuck on earth as a ghost you BET YOUR SWEET ASS I would be doing everything in my ghostly power to tell people 1. I'm a ghost and 2. Who killed me, where, when, and why. My Casper-ass would be floating into the courtroom to testify, trust and believe.
The fact that someone in this kind of desperate situation, hypothetically, just... opened a couple cabinets instead is so absurd on its face. I don't know how anyone still believes in them beyond thinking about it for more than like 2 minutes lol.
I loved reading your comment! Casper-ass LOL
The real nutjobs will just wiggle out of that argument and be like "Oh, well, you see, those ghosts weren't actually those girls. Those were ghosts/demons/whatever pretending to be them and fucking with the investigators to achieve [insert whatever nonsense here]."
The reason people believe in it is they want to. I dont say that to put anyone down. I simply mean that if you’re convinced something is real before you look for evidence, you are going to find a ton of evidence to support your point. We are capable of connecting dots no matter how far away from one another they are.
A lot of times when people say they saw something, or felt something, or heard something, i believe them. Not all the time, but quite often. The building in which i work is “haunted.” One time i had a co-worker run upstairs from the basement, sprinting toward me balling and hysterical that she saw a woman, but then the woman disappeared. It was obvious she was in a genuine panic, and was not making up a story. I believe she saw something, i just don’t believe its a ghost. The human mind can do some crazy things that we don’t really consider. Hallucinations, however, are a phenomena that we understand fairly well, and you don’t necessarily have to be sick to experience one.
@@herogibsonI remember reading somewhere that super-low frequency sounds outside the range of human hearing can cause hallucinations and that chill up your spine generally creeped out feeling because it affects the inner ear even tho we can't actually hear it. Sleep deprivation and migraines can also cause hallucinations. Plenty of reasons to see things that don't exist without mental illness.
A friend of mine has worked on pilots for a couple of these kind of shows. He says the producers find ghost hunting groups who are willing to have a show made about them (for very little money) and then the producers sell them on the idea that they need to gin it up a bit to make for compelling TV. These shows routinely don't get past the pilot. I think the allure of watching comic-shop proprietors has run its course.
But those guys, despite their comical appearance, are deadly serious about what they do. When I still believed, I went to a ghost hunt at an old prison, and one of the other attendees said he felt the presence of a malevolent, non-human spirit. I said "are you sure?" or something like that, and he got in my face about it.
They have to cling to it desperately in order to feel like they have anything remotely interesting about them.
i guess the malevolent being he was sensing was himself
I feel like that was an unnatural, abrupt, and unexpected ending to the story
😅
Should have boxed him
I _guarantee_ that he didn't actually go to the hospital. They basically pulled the classic deceptive tactic by showing a clip a few seconds long of him walking through the hospital entrance, and then immediately cutting away to the next day. Again, I absolutely guarantee that he walked into the entrance, stood around for a minute or two, and then walked right back out. The doctor's report of it being something unheard of? Totally made up, never happened.
Here's the thing that gets me about all of these ghost shows. Invariably, whenever they think a ghost is responsible for something, it's always either off-camera or something that is easily assisted by gravity. If a ghost can knock a cup off a counter, WHY CAN'T IT PICK UP ANYTHING??? I have only ever seen supposed ghost activity that *decreases* the elevation of an object. When things like cups move, what's always the first part to move? The handle? The ONE PLACE on the mug you can attach a fishing wire to? Oh and it appears to happen to drinkware with handles far more often, I wonder why, maybe because it's harder to tie it around the whole cup.
IF GHOSTS ARE REAL THEN WHY ARE THEY SO SHITTY AT SHOWING US ANYTHING A GHOST CAN DO THAT A HUMAN CAN'T EASILY FAKE??? Show me a ghost pressing keys on a typewriter to spell out its name, or something, pressing a typewriter key doesn't take much effort at all and would be MUCH harder to fake. People complain that "no evidence will ever be enough for the skeptics" but then fail to provide any evidence that can't be faked - and not just faked, but EASILY faked. Something like a light turning on with nobody in the room can't be used as proof of ghosts when we have FUCKING SMART LIGHT BULBS THAT YOU CAN CONTROL WITHOUT EVEN BEING IN THE HOUSE!!
Also if Ouija board planchettes are so small and light and ghosts can SLAM HEAVY DOORS then why the fuck do they need humans touching the planchette? Can't they move something that small on their own? Why are ghosts conveniently weak until these shows want to convince us they're a threat???
Shane and Ray are paranormal investigators, and Amy is sensitive. Something about that had me laughing so hard.
Like me too, Amy, me too.
Just hangin' around.
Amy is sensitive...but aren't we all? 😳
she cries when you call her names cause shes sensitive.
6:33
Sean is so desperate to make his ghost girlfriend OC real.
I wish we would have seen what else he was saying about her, but I can only imagine:
"Yeah, she is the ghost of a really classy woman. Wife of a Captain. Amazing figure. Great cook. Doesn't care if her guys are a bit on the wider side."
[Vermilion pt2 plays softly in the background]
@@Jane-oz7ppi love that song 😭
Honestly watching John react to Zak Bagans and the Ghost Adventures crew would be hilarious. Especially because Zak has main character syndrome and I’m sure John would have an absolute blast critiquing him. I feel like there’s quite a few episodes that would make a great Wolfe Watch.
Well considering a few members of the team already admitted most of the show was fake, it’d be easy for John to review. The producers would make them go back and act like they had an experience with a ghost if the team didn’t really get any evidence of anything. Fake AF.
It’d be interesting for John to rip that one to shreds.
Don't tell Mike Stoklasa- it'll break his heart to see his man crush Zak be proven a fraud
Yes, his main character moment is seen best in the goatmans bridge episode after Aaron got a little attention lol
Zak has to be the most egomaniac I have ever seen in a ghost hunting show. He is so rude and so over the top it's just funny. I cannot imagine watching that show and thinking it's compelling evidence of ghosts
@@RyanReenBattikh Who
I’m obsessed with all your disproving ghosts videos man. So good! Going through the backlog, so glad I subscribed.
Imagine if Jeremy got a noise complaint called in on him because of all the yelling in the middle of the night, but they were afraid to answer the door because they thought the cops were demons.
meth is a helluva drug
ngl, but if you isolate people from society, throw them in a house and constantly tell them they're going to see ghosts for nearly an entire month, I think their brains are going to manifest ghosts as an actual trauma response
So it's the placebo effect ig?
Oh, they’ll just see ghosts out of absolute boredom. Like, please, make something happen.
@@KJtheEverblack Not the correct term for it but yeah. Sort of. It's basically paranoia.
Paranoia can make you see things, assume the worst out of ordinary phenomena, and lose sanity in general.
Different people react to trauma and fear... well... differently. So a skeptic is less likely to report anything out of the ordinary. Whilst a believer in the paranormal will swear they saw something.
I want a ghost hunting show that follows the antagonizers pretending to be ghosts and demons while paranormal investigators try to investigate.
I would pay for that. That would be absolutely great.
This is a fantastic idea! Don't tell the hunting team...they have to believe. Then just see how far another team could take it without getting caught or the other team getting suspicious. Comedy gold!
@@CodeThatTalks I would find a paranormal team in each city and tell them you're doing a series for random ghost hunter teams to compare techniques. Give them a production crew and everything. Give the antagonizers a Go-Pro or something and see how long and far they can take it. If never caught, let the ghost hunters give their official analysis and never tell them until the show airs. Don't publish the show at all until several episodes are filmed.
@@NarpytheCrimeDog fantastic! Even if done for a RUclips channel, it'd be great! Once word got out, the jig is up, but until then, must see tv!!
I'd love for one episode that involves the antagonizers going against Arabic Ghost Hunters. The antagonizers have a hard time trying to scare the ghost hunters when they keep rushing towards the source kicking doors down while screaming prayers from the Quran.
Buddy I’m glad your video came into my algorithm. Your commentary and presentation is top notch.
Jeremy and Brandy are by far the height of this show. Their constant arguments were so funny but that ending look from Jeremy made me nearly pee my pants!
As funny as it is to watch John snark at this show, I also really appreciate him pointing out the unethical bits as well with exploiting legit murder victims.
Yeah but even true crime shows exploit murder victims if you think about it like that. You're not honoring the victim by talking about their death or their killer. You even see youtubers use the victim's name in the title instead of the murderer as a way to justify it, because they know what they're doing is a little seedy. And they're doing it with people who died last year, not a century ago.
That's a good point. I agree, it's one thing to write books to learn from for the people interested in getting into the field.
But the shows and how they're purely for entertainment (mostly for edgy sheltered girls who think it's a game) is gross
@jimjambananaslam3596 I think that's fair, and honestly I've been debating my own consumption of true crime content recently and the ethics of it. One difference I say is that with true crime (or at least some of it) they're presenting facts of the case and info that the average person could probably just find online. Versus making an obnoxious show of the paranormal and pretending to be getting messages from the dead.
My dad is really into paranormal investigation and also found a hotspot with a thermal camera in our yard one cool evening. He was so excited and started feeling the grass and trying to figure out what it was. Until I saw him and told him that I had just pissed there. A hotspot is super easy to fake and is easily explainable.
@unnhkp8mza522 the reason is that they needed to piss? you never went outside to water a tree?
@@lettuceshredder9225 Usually the tree is inside, it's called a toilet
@@cosmiceclipse3142 city folk crazy
Interesting how often ghost hotspots, or cold spots, are just piss 🙂
@unnhkp8mza522 We had 1 bathroom for 4 people and someone was using it.
I went on a ghost tour one time, in a building that i very well could believe might have been haunted. The tour guide made a comment on these kinds of shows that kind of stuck with me. If you were hunting a deer, and went out in the woods and started shouting for one to show itself, would it?
Mannnnn that’s exactly right too 😂 “SHOW YOURSELF BEAST!!!”
“Yeeeeah, no, I’m good, I saw what you did to Bambi’s mama….”
I imagine the ghosts being yelled at being told to come out just saying “NO! You’re just gonna yell at me! 🥺”
There's a show called "Paranormal Home Inspectors" where they bring in a team of psychics and some British woman to find all the ghosts, and one professional builder who walks through the house and debunks every creaky door and shadow, and the others scramble to come up with a reason why the house totally is super haunted, still.
I remember being absolutely fascinated by this because I could not believe it was produced. I binge watched it all in one sitting.
"The energy in this house is realy starting to mess with these guys" that's just what being on reality tv does to you
"This house has failed the vibe check fr fr"
“I guess chivalry really is dead” was such a fantastic joke 😂
John should make his own tv show where he sets up fake paranormal events and hires a team to investigate
i'd watch the hell out of that
I'd pay to see that.
prety sure these type of tv shows don't last or survive, as anything to "debunking" tends to get very low views. I only watch paranormal stuff for the "entertainment" of it, when bored, not for the science, as there really isnt any. Its why a lot of TV /paranormal shows on cable, is "scripted", if a actual real paranormal show existed without any special effects, it would be equal to a urban "exploration" youtube(this would be boring to most people)..
DAY ONE!
psychic: "The spirits tell me to go to the basement."
Owner: "There is no basement."
Psychic: (Awkward silence)
DAY TWO!
@@koilamaoh4238 there's a podcast called the Spooktator (a podcast of paranormal sceptics) which talked about this: you can't actually debunk it because it's already not real, but the people who believe will never be convinced it's not, and the majority of people who watch these shows are already believers who will believe anything. They'd feel insulted if actual sceptics were there (which is also probably why Shane Madej has toned down his scepticism on Ghost Files as opposed to earlier seasons of Buzzfeed Unsolved).
It's kind of happened, and it's sad/hilarious.
The show completely fabricates stories and backgrounds for people who didn't exist, puts the info on the internet where it can be found pretty easily and then get psychics to come in with 'zero' prior knowledge. It pretty quickly becomes obvious that the the psychics just Googled some basic information and then hammed up the rest pretending it's being told to them by spirits who don't exist. The pièce de résistance is a guy getting possessed by nothing and then being told it's all fake.
Unfortunately I can't for the life of me remember what it's called. The RUclips algorithm served it up to me years ago, so I guess if you keep clicking this kind of video it might eventually get around to you.
For reference, the actual recommended ratio for sensory deprivation tank water is 800lbs of Epsom salt to 200 gallons of water. Not 10 INCHES of water.
Something about calling it a "WolfeWatch Special" 100% hits the "obviously marketing but it works, dangit" button in my brain. Very excited to watch this special!
It's odd to hear "Shane" but there's no tall silly man making fun of ghosts while dressed like a college professor. Unsolved/Ghost Files truly have spoiled all other paranormal-affiliated Shanes for me.
Dang, Brandy really is psychic. One of the ghosts clearly told her they're called "caskets," not coffins. But then she forgot again because ghost reasons IDK.
"surrounded by negative energy" yeah that's called anxiety lmfao
I also vote for Paranormal Home Inspectors. It debunks itself and it's fantastic. The number of things the home inspector explains away with something as simple as "the owners have a cat" is wonderful.
Also Most Haunted. I only watched a couple of their later seasons, but you'd love their "demonologist" Fred, and how obviously they're faking things. I recommend the Fort Paull episodes. Those had me laughing the hardest.
John, since you're asking for requests, I have a few "favorite" ghost hunting shows.
First is Paranormal Home Inspectors, which has several different hosts independently going through the same location, including a no-nonsense home inspector who debunks pretty much all of the locations by pointing out totally mundane answers to the "spooky paranormal activity". If you want to see a legitimate skeptic going through a house and explaining how that door swings open on its own sometimes because it was improperly installed, not because of a ghost, then I recommend this one. It's only made funnier by the hosts of the other segments being subpar but otherwise entirely orthodox ghost hunting psychics/scam artists.
Next is Celebrity Paranormal Project, which varies quite wildly in entertainment value based on which specific celebrities are on each specific episode. Can be great or can be dull, depending on how into it any given set of celebrities gets and how detached from reality they are to begin with. I seem to recall Gary Busey and Gilbert Gottfried being the funniest.
Both are ancient in ghost-hunting terms, and the sort of garbage that no one bothers to DMCA, so I think both are fully available on RUclips.
Paranormal Home Inspectors is amazing
John, I would absolutely recommend watching Most Haunted. Its a British show from the 2000s, and I remember laughing at them when I was younger. Usually in an episode, the Medium would become possessed, or they would come up with the most random ways to get a ghost to "show" itself, like having it draw on a piece of paper. Definitely worth a watch!
Omg I used to love most haunted so much. Derek Acorah, was the best medium they ever had. He just happened to get possessed every episode and the ghosts would just conveniently verbally abuse every woman around him.
This please!! It’s so bad 😭😂 especially if they’re episodes with Derek Acorah in them. I still to this day quote the absurd stuff he would say like “there’s a wall that shouldn’t be here.” Not to mention the host/producer Yvette who previously did children’s programming….that show was something else
This John! They’ve actually made it for decades, so you’ve got tons to choose from
Derek was "exposed" as being a fake by host Yvette Fielding, probably because he got most of the attention. Not long after she got rid of him, Yvette was seen on camera kicking something and pretending it was a ghostly sound.
Ahhh I just suggested this! "Mary loves dick" was especially iconic 😅😅
The most shocking thing in this whole video was learning that Jeremy is a fire fighter. Dude is so out of shape!
This show was so aggressively goddamn stupid it was hilarious. I think in like episode 2 or 3 a book slid out and fell off that same bookshelf that the vase fell off later but Jereme and Brandy were so busy overacting they didn't notice and it never gets mentioned. Like it's clearly just to the right of Brandy's head as she's sitting on the couch and the cameraman has it framed perfectly so it's very visible and it never gets mentioned. I also absolutely died laughing at the cameraman in the attic when they're doing the 'OMG who threw the chair?' routine.
This episode of WolfeWatch is so dangerous, I don't know how John survived 28 days of filming it.
Haha😂
I watched this with my mother, who is pretty spiritual. The absolute exasperation and bewilderment on her face while we were watching the show absolutely killed me.
I love the "skeptic" doesnt believe a ghost wrote cu in the mirror but 100% believes a ghost is telling them that he didn't do it and the other guy faked it
As a fan of ghost shows, there is nothing worse than investigators going into a location all tough and daring the ghosts to make noises or even attack them, only for a small noise across the building the freak them out and cause them to leave the room rather than see what the noise was or even just get excited they may have received contact.
I get ghosts aren't real, so most of this stuff isn't real or is dramatized, but how do they all think them running is satisfying?
There's one thing that I have always maintained: If any one show had really found proof, incontrovertible proof, we would have heard of it.
I've long had the opinion that "If ghosts were real, they'd be on talk shows."
Same deal with Bigfoot, Nessie, any cryptid really.
Actually, no. The network execs are not interested whatsoever in proving anything. They wouldn't know what to do with proof even if they had something. It wouldn't be enough to fill a thirty-minute show, let alone a season. So if they had something, chances are that they would ruin it by building a lot of bogus info around it or sandwiching it in between faked "evidence." The reality show business is cynical. They are in the entertainment business, not the scientific discovery business. Basically, it is execs telling production companies what they are looking for or what they think audiences want to see, and production companies (along with their talent) either pitch them over-the-top concepts based on those notes or agree to a concept that ties into a commercial vein. If the project gets funded, the production company takes over. However, the network usually has the final say as to what the final product looks like and how it is marketed. The execs on the network level have no paranormal investigating experiences and likely don't even believe in ghosts. They understand fictional horror, however. If they can create fictional horror on a shoestring budget using no actual writers, they will. Reality TV is a great way to make entertainment on the cheap. As for talent, there are plenty of folks out there who will fake it to make it. In this particular case, Netflix was intrigued about doing a series tied in with The Conjuring franchise so Netflix greenlit a production with Tony Spera (one of the two hosts) attached. Tony Spera has been directly affiliated with Ed and Lorraine Warren since the mid-1980s. He maintains their "legacy."
I'm a bit late, but all "ghost hunting" is, is hunting for electromagnetic fields.
All their devices are based on detection of them.
There's nothing scientific of interest going on.
Relatives do it as a hobby, and I always get told ignored or shut down for being sceptical and coming up with actual explanations for what they saw and heard.
Ghost hunting has the same vibe in being religious in that all reason and critical thinking go out of the window in order to convince themselves something exists.
You won't see a single investigation with wind pressure instruments or seismographs. Or even something to measure the toxicity of the air (because you can hallucinate things if there's even high Co2 in the room)
In fact, some people have been caught out on faking their videos by using machines that transmit EM pulses or pre-recorded words and phrases.
They wanna do "investigations" but never actually investigate.
This video is everything - the sass, the jokes, the editing, the respect towards the victims and their families, the critiques. I'm excited for more of these!🔥
OMG a real ghost! :O
(also your profile picture is adorable!)
That ending though - what a cliffhanger!!
Also, the "God Helmet" used in the show, was made from an Optimus Prime voice changer helmet.
Somewhere, the producer of this show is watching this like
"Who is this JOHN guy? "
"Dude, f*ck this guy "
😂😂😂
Jereme went to the hospital with signs of a heart attack, but the doctors couldn't find any physical evidence, right? (kinda like our investigators.) This happened moments after he wore the god helmet. You know, a device that blasts rapid flashing lights into his eyes to "awaken his psychic abilities". The guy just gave himself an epileptic seizure that mimicked a heart attack. That's why there were no physical signs. And either the doctors told him there was nothing wrong with him, which he was too ashamed to admit on camera, or to Brandy, or they told him he gave himself an epileptic seizure, which, again, he was too ashamed to admit.
Still, that removal of the shirt was epic. It was the part in the trailer that convinced me to watch it, because I knew it would be ridiculous.
Oml please, I need more of John reacting to awful reality TV stuff like that 😂this is amazing
PS: John's hair be looking especially beautiful and luscious lately ✨
One thing that I love too is how they emphasize that these teams are “isolated” and supposedly even gave their phones to production before the “experiment” but at one point you can clearly see Amy on her phone during Shane’s Salty Deprivation Tent 😂
I love the "psychic medium". When me and my grandfather where watching the show (we like stupid monster hunting shows, mostly to make fun of them) his response to PM was "well, if we are going by hamburgers, im a psychic well done". Had me cracking up.
I'm so glad I found someone talking about this show, I binge watched the entire thing earlier this year and it felt like a fever dream. Simultaneously the most offensively fake and most entertaining ghost hunting show I've seen. You pointed out so many details I didn't even notice, great video!
the coffin bit gives off the same vibes of a husband and wife but Brandy is trying to put groceries away and for a minute it looks like Jereme is coming over to help but he actually just reaches into the fridge for a beer
This is one of my favorite videos of yours! The way you narrate everything and all the shenanigans 😭 hilarious!
First thing I learned in Occult 101, when drawing the pentagram you fill in the star
Thanos wants his helmet back
This. Was. EXCELLENT. I didn't know I needed this video in my life.
Absolutely adore this kind of review content, it's so fun. I'm glad to see more WolfeWatch and more of the content you've been wanting to make!
My sentiment exactly!
I was interviewed about the history of a house that I had written about by the Paranormal State team because it "became haunted." I have never encountered anything or seen any proof of the supernatural, but I was impressed by how seriously they took the whole thing. They were more interested in finding a ghost or whatever than good TV. It was the TV producers who made it silly.
If you want something that feels 'real', there are WAY better options. But if you want pure comedy gold, this show delivers. Jereme, especially, is incredible. The moments where he tries to throw hands with the ghosts are particularly funny.
This was a great video, very funny at times, and i really appreciate John being as angry as I was for them making fake drama over the unfortunate murders that took place, and potentially ripping those wounds open for the families, should they see it.
Great job, John. Would love to see more of this.
I was on the fence about whether or not the show was attempting to take itself seriously whatsoever, and then the show answered my question by almost literally winking at the viewer in the last few seconds of the last episode.
"Hopefully those are dry dreams, you know what I mean?" I choked 😭
This was the best analysis and reaction to paranormal content I have ever seen. The way you called out inconsistencies in a ghost show like one would critiquing a movie was so entertaining. I really hope there are enough terribly funny shows like this out there for you to do more on!
I honestly loved Jeremy's side of things as bad as the show was he made it manageable with his shithousery. Never forget a grown man squaring up to a ghost and taking his top off or at the end when he believes he's possessed
This sure isn't a show that I'd be watching for myself, but through the lens of a fellow "skeptic", this is just an amazing video. Hope for more of this type
Jeremy just standing around in night vision like a potato with permanently hard nipples is peak television.