I
understand that I promised this post on Saturday. But in that case, Saturday meant Monday,
so I hope you forgive me for that
temporal flop as I finally post something after not knowing exactly what to
blog about. There's two parts to this
one…with this half part warming you readers up.
Please
allow me to explain the title…. because it might not make sense to a random
"normal" person stumbling upon this blog out of sheer boredom or
Googling. First of all, the Ghost
Adventures Crew just aired their 100th episode so I'm going to review
that. Yes, a review of their 100th
episode. They have been around for years
so why haven't I reviewed any of the others?
Easy: I didn't have this blog up before!
"Midget
Ghost Theory" came out of a discussion on Twitter where I was simply
scrambling for a topic to blog about. I
just asked a few people for topic ideas, but @NotGayDalek just had to bring up
religious topics and gay marriage and I'm like, "I'M NOT DOING
THAT!" Later on, people brought up
the Amish and "gay Amish," "Amish Gay Marriage" and finally "Gay Amish Ghosts". To which I responded
with the tweet pictured below…..
And there
it is….I have my reasons for it, which includes audio from the Nerdist
Podcast. But I'll get to that in a
moment.
First, the
review of Ghost Adventures episode #100!
Ghost Adventures #100: The Exorcist House
I'd like to
first congratulate Zak Bagans, Nick Groff, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley, and Jay
Wasley (whom I've met and chatted with at Parafest 2013! SQUEE!) on making it all the way to their
100th episode! And being a nerd, I can't forget to also say congratulations to the rest of the production team, the editors and
the team at the Travel Channel… Giving
credit where credit is due so people don't feel left out…
It's either
credit or plastic! Though plastic may be
a bit cheaper…
It was only
2004 when Zak, Nick and Aaron first started filming the documentary and
captured not only footage of a FULL-BODIED APPARITION (which is a big deal
within the paranormal community because it's SO RARE!) but also poltergeist
activity on film. (You can read more about this in the books Zak Bagans published, Dark World, or Chasing Spirits by Nick Groff) Now, they've been
considered experts in the paranormal field, and are quite often recognized as
celebrities by a ton of fans. Their
investigation style quite often involves breaking one of the rules of
paranormal investigation: never go someplace alone, which has safety and
practical reasons behind it. They also
sometimes provoke and almost always head to locations with a dark history and
what could be demonic activity. They've
investigated strip clubs, brothels, casinos, abandoned hospitals, Loretta
Lynn's Ranch, an English fort, even an island used to quarantine people and
cremate their remains when plagues hit Italy, the very same island that is now
forbidden to locals and tourists on holiday by the Italian government. But for their 100th episode, they decided to
do something very significant, to give a very special intense treat to all the
fans who also like horror films….
The
Exorcist was a novel and also a film that is actually based on real events that
happened in the 1940s in St. Louis. It
is believed that the demonic entity that possessed the boy when he and his
grandmother were playing with the Ouija board is still in that house where the
actual exorcism. People are afraid to
enter it and even the family that currently owns it is afraid to talk about it
at all. So this little journey really
seems like a search for some answers for the crew's previous bouts with
demons. It's also dangerous, as demonic
forces can really fuck your health and life up, perhaps even possess you and
tear families apart. It is real and very
dangerous; people could die from demonic possession.
There have
been strange goings-on surrounding this investigation as well, with Father
Ashcraft, their consulting priest, falling ill a couple of days before the
investigation when he was on his way to talk with the crew, with an
unexplainable crack appearing in one of the windows while talking with a
neighbor, with the guys feeling such fear, especially Nick, who exclaimed,
"I have a…family! I don't want to
die from this!"
My
assessment of the episode? It definitely
seems special, definitely has that sense of darkness that surrounds the
story. The sequence editing (arranging
the clips in a certain order for those who don't understand the jargon I
sometimes use to sound technical), I probably wouldn't touch for now but if
there was a better way to arrange things, I would've done it that way. It wasn't the best episode by far but it could have some improvements so
it could be better. I can't pinpoint
them at the moment. The narration could
also use some polishing…. All in all,
it's still a very exciting episode, with #GA100 becoming a trending topic on
Twitter!
But there
are also questions related to the paranormal that I feel need answering--which
brings me to the next topic in regards to little people (which will sometimes
be referred to as "midgets"--simplification, not labeling, so please
don't take offense; apologies in advance….)
The Midget Ghost Theory
People can
come up with some weird questions for Google; mine included, "Do people
who abuse LSD see in ultraviolet when on acid?" or "Can cats hold
complete conversations in not-dubbed English with people?" And the most important one I wouldn't just
ask the GAC, but also members of the Haunted Collector team, TAPS and the
Constantinos:
DO MIDGET GHOSTS
EXIST?
It is a bit
difficult to determine whether the ghosts of little people really do exist, as
they can be mistaken for children due to their being "fun-sized". But there is another reason for this, as
"midget ghosts" might just not exist at all. The best explanation for this can be provided
by a Matt Mira story from Nerdist Podcast episode number 10, which was recorded
at a live show at Largo in LA and features Adam Savage from Mythbusters….
Here's the audio from Youtube......
Matt Mira: I have a somewhat related midget story. Uh, the, uh… When I, I used to work at a
funeral home and, uh--
Chris
Hardwick: Oh my god! His…funeral home stories are…and he loves it,
like, when he goes home to Boston, he fills in part-time at the funeral home,
just helping out.
Matt Mira: Put the fun in funeral! (Laughter)
But, uh, so we're at the cemetery, and uh, Manny, one of the cemetery
guys who digs the graves, he says--we're just standing there afterwards, you
know, we make sure that the grave is filled in so that no one steals stuff. Uh, so we stand there with him….
Chris: That's the minimum that guy's job is, making
sure that the grave is filled…
Matt: So he turns and he goes…He just goes,
"Hey, uh, can I ask you something?"
And I was like, "Yeah, what's up, Manny?" and he goes,
"You guys ever do a funeral for a leetle person?" and I think and I
ask my friend Joe, and we're like, "No, we haven't." And [Manny] goes, "We haven't either,
man. They don't die!"
(Laughter)
So, with
that (so-called) knowledge, we can now apply the property of Association: if ghosts are the earth-bound spirits of dead
people, and little people don't die, then how can there be midget ghosts if there
aren't any dead little people?
Of course,
I might be wrong. Which is why this is
called the Midget Ghost Theory, not the Midget Ghost Fact. I might also be wrong in the sense that there
are midget ghosts and they are just mistaken for children. They could just be hiding somewhere out of
the way or something, or they could move on right after death to some unknown
afterlife that many religious scholars and quantum physicists theorize
about. We just really don't know.
But I
really hope there are midget ghosts, if not for my excitement but also to help
my tweep @LisaR_M feel less disappointed about the supposed non-existence of
these types of spirits; if there are any of them out there, we need to hold the
digital recorders and PX devices a little lower or provide step stools to help
them out, lest we feel phantom kicks on our shins that are trying to grab our
attention.
(Please
note that this second half is solely based on silliness and comedy. There's almost nothing serious and factual
about the "Midget Ghost Theory".
And I'm not an expert, so don't take my word for it.)
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