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The goofy machines they use are enough to put me off. As a former repair electrician with pretty extensive (formal not self taught) supplemental training in electronics during my misspent youth, those assinine contraptions they tend to carry around are enough to make my head explode.



I haven't looked into it enough to give you really good links. But, that's exactly what the guys who talk shit about seeming too worried about their "reputation" say. It's those goofy machines they use on TV that are absolute proof those shows are fake. They've tried the machines and just tell funny stories about how stupid they felt after having used the thing for half an hour.

That porn whore that was quote recently on the board, she said her Dad bought her some box that converted ambient environment variables into spoken words, yeah right. Another one that's a common hoax is the K-2 meter. That thing, you're supposed to be able to train the spirits to turn the lights on it on and off so they can respond to questions. I've read about that thing a couple of times. They say the trick they use on TV is that when you press the talk button on a walkie talkie, that makes those lights go off. So on TV, they sit the K-2 meter next to a walkie and sit there and act like they're having a conversation with a ghost.

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As I said, it isn't the idea of it that puts me off, and I don't look down my nose at people who are into that like many skeptics. I think of it as an interesting fishing expedition type hobby for people who already believe.



From what I've been able to gather, that level of skepticism is exactly what some of these groups want. It may be all talk. But, I don't know why they'd bother making web sites with seldom used message boards just to talk hype about how genuine they are. But, I guess you could point fingers at someone who puts effort into a seldom used web site and just say their a kook because they did that to begin with.

They know all the better jargon that ghost hunters use to make them sound real on TV. Then, they come up with their some clever, some silly, hoaxes to give the folks something to watch at home. But, if you pick up on the jargon on the TV shows, then search around on the web for people who are actually claiming to do that stuff. Anyway, that's where I'm at. Maybe one day I'll contact one of those groups, go down, and realize I've never spent time with a more deranged group of individuals in my entire life.