TAPS Fakes Evidence Bigtime!!!!

Aedryan Methyus · Posted: Mar Mon 27, 2006 6:01 am Post subject: TAPS Fakes Evidence Bigtime!!!!

Well, i've finally seen a few TAPS episodes on the Sci-Fi channel and I have to say, I am NOT impressed! In one episode they went to Eastern State Penitentiary - A notoriously haunted prison in Philadelphia that has ghost tours. These guys had 9 video recorders running throughout the prison at all times and however many people taking pictures and recording audio and they came out of the prison with not so much as ONE SINGLE ORB on video or ONE SINGLE EVP!? Something is wrong here! BUT, they did manage to "produce" some kind of light at the end of a hallway that moved back and forth/up and down in a robotic fashion and tried to call it an orb! Sorry guys, that was NOT an orb, nor was it anything paranormal. I say this with all certainty! They also managed to hear banging sounds on the level above them on one of the cell blocks. I also shouldn't fail to mention that I spotted an orb in one of their video clips that they didn't even notice!

Another episode took place in the old Borden family house, where Lizzy Borden axed her parents to death. Once again, they came out of there without so much as a single orb photo or video and zero EVP's! HOWEVER, there were more mysterious banging noises coming from one of the rooms once again. How convenient! I noticed one other hoax during this episode as well. At one point they showed a video clip of a bed and they were saying how it always looks like someone is laying in the bed, etc. Well, during one of the clips someone had taken a picture of the bed and when the flash goes off you can see where the producers of the show edited in a shadow figure, laying in the bed! Of course no attention was brought to this. I'm sure they're thinking viewers like me will notice it and create hype for the show, etc.

I guess now I know why they have very little evidence whatsoever on their website, besides a couple of their classic hoaxes from other episodes....

Yours In Strange Happenings,

Aedryan
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Bryce · Guest

Yeah, I know they're fake. WHat pisses me off is how people eat that crap up and don't question it (srry mom).

I have not seen one single photo of a ghost or evidence at all (except for "feeling faint" or "getting a chill") any of the shows, I never seen taps, I have seen a few most haunted episodes though. ITs just a fake phsycic, a dumb chick trying to act smart and a couple of other useless people who run around swearing and screaming.

chaos theory · Guest

These shows are hilarious to watch Laughing

. It's funny how TAPS is becoming more of a soap opera then about ghost hunting, if it was ever about ghost hunting. It is sad when they find a coat hanger on the floor and call it paranormal activity.

It also pisses me off when people believe everything these shows tell them and they don't question it. I have an aunt like that too, Bryce. My aunt watches Most Haunted and believes everything that happens on the show.

fratka · Posted: Mar Mon 27, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject: Taps...whatever!

I haven't watched but a couple of the shows and was really turned-off by it. I haven't watched them since. Right now they are battling Dave Oester of IGHS on a smear campaign. I think it is hilarious! Poor old Dave...it couldn't happen to a nicer guy! Laughing

I like watching Most haunted, it's funny to watch them freak out over the little stuff...bump here...door closing there...OH Look, a light anomaly!? Rolling Eyes

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Bryce · Guest

fratka · Posted: Mar Mon 27, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject: Most Haunted

The last one I saw was on Friday night where old Derrick got possessed. I almost turned it off but wanted to see them manhandle him when he freaked out.

Do ya'll actually think people buy this shit?
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Aedryan Methyus · Posted: Mar Tue 28, 2006 6:32 am Post subject: TAPS SUCKS CONTINUED!

I wanna just tweak that dude - Jason from TAPS in his pointy, snooty looking nose soooo bad (Grant too for that matter!)! I'm sorry, but these guys just totally rub me the wrong way! It never seizes to amaze me how him and Grant seem to think they are some sort of authority on ghost hunting and how extremely careful they are to try and "debunk" everything, yet they somehow manage to keep a straight face, while they're playing along with all the hoaxes they present on the show.

They are such hypocrites! Those two clowns try to come across as such hardcore, skeptic ghost hunting authorities, yet go to the TAPS website and read some of the articles written by them. They are EVERY bit as OVERLY superstitious as even the Warrens themselves! They're even afraid of Ouija Boards and believe in fairies and other mythical beings for Christ sakes!

The thing with the show is, the only "supposed" evidence they have ever really collected seemed to be during the last 2 episodes of both seasons.... Hmm.... Maybe for the sake of getting ratings, so they can sell the Sci-Fi Channel 13 more episodes the next season perhaps!?

Also, notice how the "evidence" they get is TOTALLY unlike the real world paranormal evidence we other groups get? For instance; The hoaky chair rocking by itself, the full apparition that looked like a picture with the number 2 on the locker throwing off heat on their thermo-imaging recorder, the mysterious knockings and footsteps that anyone (even the producers) could be doing, the door slamming shut by itself (again, that anyone could be doing), the briefcase being moved from one point to another (again, which anyone could have done), etc, etc, etc. Then TAPS waaaay over-sells the whole "We're gonna try everything we can possibly do to debunk it" bit.

My point is, they get all of this un-provable "evidence", yet when is the last time they captured an EVP, an orb on video, an ecto photo or ecto on video, etc? I can't say that i've ever seen them do such. It's always something outlandish that no other ghost hunter has ever captured. Also, let's keep in mind that this is TV land, folks and take it from someone in the entertainment business, NOTHING is EVER as it seems on television or even in the newspapers! The producers of TAPS are under obligation to keep their ratings up or guess what.... The show gets cut! How many episodes do you think orbs, EVP's and ecto (real world ghost evidence) would keep their ratings up? Not very many. Those of us who are "in the know" even get bored with it, let alone a skeptical audience.

While i'm on my rant I must point out how I love how they stroll into their investigations with 9 (NINE) video recorders and walk out, raving about how they have 18 hours of video footage to review. Then at the end of the episode they sit there, declaring that they obtained no paranormal evidence from the location on video. HELLO, Mr. Ghost Hunting Authorities! Yeah, you have 18 hours of video footage, but you only recorded for TWO HOURS! Christ, the SHGHRS even brings in at least 3 video recorders and we film 5 hours of video on each one per investigation nowadays! There have been times where I recorded over 8 hours of video on my video recorder alone! Ghost hunting is a HUGE numbers game. It takes hundreds of hours of recording video, hours of audio recording and thousands of photos to get anything out of the ordinary.

Anyway, I contend that the show is total BS, but hey, they must be giving their viewers what they wanna see, because they just sold a third season....

Yours In The Real World Of Strange Happenings,

Aedryan
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fratka · Posted: Mar Tue 28, 2006 8:09 am Post subject: I Agree!

Like I said before..."I don't watch this show", but from the sounds of it they wold be lucky to catch an orb with only 2 hours of recorded tape. I'm with you Aedryan, I have spent several hours on site with 5 cameras going on any one night and not catch a damn thing . Then going back to the same location a month later we get our lenses filled with evidence.

To think that they show up on one particular night and capture all this overt activity is ridiculous!
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Aedryan Methyus · Posted: Mar Tue 28, 2006 8:27 am Post subject:

Heh.... They call orbs "Kamikaze Dust" when they do occasionally get one on video! LOL

- Aedryan
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fratka · Posted: Mar Tue 28, 2006 8:37 am Post subject: DUST!?

Isn't it amazing how dust can follow you around a room and set off detectors? Wink

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Bryce · Guest

"man, snorted some awesome shit last night"
"whats it called?"
"kamakaze dust"

Thats probably how it all started.

chaos theory · Guest

I'm watching TAPS right now...rotflmao. I needed a good laugh but this is ridiculous. They are wondering why they are seeing shadows on the walls as they are swinging around their flashlights Rolling Eyes

. Then got scared and ran away Laughing

shaybeck · Guest

As a rule I don't watch all that crap because it's just for TV but my husband and I watched an episode where a camera guy was yanked from behind and couldn't move or some such shit and then the blond lady always is like"Oh my god did you hear that" LOL What a idiot... then there's derek who talks for the ghost or talks to them and it's like they are answering him LOL come on It's just a hilarious bit of BS if you ask me so I don't watch it ....hehehe...Derek is a fake, Derek is a fake, the ghost beside me just told me and I told them back that yep I believe he is LOL

insertusernamehere · Guest

I've seen a few episodes and their "evidence" is quite weak. I remember watching one episode where they presented this video of lamp moving "by itself" as evidence. The top of the lamp is out of view, however. I suspect that someone behind the camera was probably moving it.

Most Haunted is crap as well. I saw an episode where they had ten people crammed into a tiny room, and they were screaming every time someone else bumped them(they thought a spirit touched them but there's so many people there that I doubt that). I had to turn the T.V off when they started their "spirit channeling" bull. I know that some groups like to use psychics to aid them in finding evidence but what they were doing was just plain sickening. They acted as if their "channeling" was the evidence.