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Tried watching Project Fear, but they've become too loud, hyperactive and annoying.
Destination Fear put the focus on fear, so it didn't matter so much that they were faking it because the locations were creepy anyway. Project Fear is a retread of the old series, revisiting the same locations, but now Dakota, Chelsea, Tanner and Alex are off the leash, and off the rails.
I tried, but they were irritating from the first few minutes. I skipped forward through the episodes, but I don't have the patience for these scripted 'paranormal' shows any more.
Ouija Brothers and Ghosts on Trent are more to my liking now, and on the fringes, Ghost Theory, who sit between the former two and the glut of extreme fakery that make up most ghost shows.
It's actually satisfying when nothing definitively supernatural happens in an episode, because you know it's real. So when something does happen it has far more impact, because it could actually be genuine evidence.
Most viewers won't be satisfied with seeing nothing occur, because it's boring, so most channels make sure it happens. The first episode of Project Fear, before they've even gone inside Sweet Springs Sanitarium, someone knocks on the door from the inside.
Well, they did learn their craft from the master of fakery, Zak Bagans.
Ghost shows, and numerous sites like Nuke's Top 5 or Caspersight which gather videos from various sources, have succeeded in creating a simulated reality for so many people. They see and want to see the supernatural everywhere. Even in regular urban exploration videos that have nothing to do with the paranormal there will be people in the comments pointing out "orbs" or "shadow figures".
The truly scary thing isn't ghosts, but that so many of the living have lost the ability for rational, independent thought, and are so willing to believe whatever the presenters show and say. The followers of certain channels exhibit cultish behaviour. They'll go to war to defend their idols: "There's no way _________ would fake content. You're just jealous of their success." etc, etc.
It's really a reaction to science. There's a good series of videos on Youtube made by a group of CGI/video professionals explaining the natural phenomena of digital cameras, and how things are faked in editing. I can't remember the channel name right now, but they explained things like "orbs", and low quality security cameras that can constantly capture a static background, but struggle to capture a person or animal as it passes towards the edge of the frame, making them appear to fade out like ghosts.
Destination Fear put the focus on fear, so it didn't matter so much that they were faking it because the locations were creepy anyway. Project Fear is a retread of the old series, revisiting the same locations, but now Dakota, Chelsea, Tanner and Alex are off the leash, and off the rails.
I tried, but they were irritating from the first few minutes. I skipped forward through the episodes, but I don't have the patience for these scripted 'paranormal' shows any more.
Ouija Brothers and Ghosts on Trent are more to my liking now, and on the fringes, Ghost Theory, who sit between the former two and the glut of extreme fakery that make up most ghost shows.
It's actually satisfying when nothing definitively supernatural happens in an episode, because you know it's real. So when something does happen it has far more impact, because it could actually be genuine evidence.
Most viewers won't be satisfied with seeing nothing occur, because it's boring, so most channels make sure it happens. The first episode of Project Fear, before they've even gone inside Sweet Springs Sanitarium, someone knocks on the door from the inside.
Well, they did learn their craft from the master of fakery, Zak Bagans.
Ghost shows, and numerous sites like Nuke's Top 5 or Caspersight which gather videos from various sources, have succeeded in creating a simulated reality for so many people. They see and want to see the supernatural everywhere. Even in regular urban exploration videos that have nothing to do with the paranormal there will be people in the comments pointing out "orbs" or "shadow figures".
The truly scary thing isn't ghosts, but that so many of the living have lost the ability for rational, independent thought, and are so willing to believe whatever the presenters show and say. The followers of certain channels exhibit cultish behaviour. They'll go to war to defend their idols: "There's no way _________ would fake content. You're just jealous of their success." etc, etc.
It's really a reaction to science. There's a good series of videos on Youtube made by a group of CGI/video professionals explaining the natural phenomena of digital cameras, and how things are faked in editing. I can't remember the channel name right now, but they explained things like "orbs", and low quality security cameras that can constantly capture a static background, but struggle to capture a person or animal as it passes towards the edge of the frame, making them appear to fade out like ghosts.
