I watch Ghost Hunters a lot and I'm always waiting for that next good piece of evidence. Sadly, there hasn't been much the last couple seasons. I don't think GH is so much rehearsed as some people have said, but very editted. Whereas, Destination Truth just seems self-hyped and frankly some of the things they investigate are just stupid. I have noticed with GH they are obviously influenced by corporate and what viewers supposedly want. Jay used to be very reluctant to announce a site as haunted, now he does every place they go...I think he was told to do that. Plus, I think Kris was asked to wear tanktops...not that I mind :)

I used to genuinely enjoy Ghost Hunters. When they caught those shadows at the St. Augustine lighthouse, I almost needed new pants. It was seriously, as a believer in ghosts, the penultimate evidence. And the fact that I've been to that lighthouse fifty times makes me crap myself even more.

Then we get Ghost Hunters International. Not a huge fan. The locales are awesome, the show itself is not too exciting. Then Academy which is just more cash-in.

My problem is that the show is supposed to be professional, but they seem to be getting less and less professional. For instance, why the hell are the camera people always aiming at our hosts faces? Why aren't we paying attention to surroundings so when they see a strange shadow, maybe we could see it? That's the major problem anymore is that they catch nothing. They have that flashlight trick which was cool the first couple times, but after one hundred times, I don't care. it's become a boring, tedious show that just doesn't cut it anymore. I want to see ghosts, not Jason and Grant's faces. Because most of the time I just call bull on seeing figures. It's just become so much more based on it's popularity and not on genuine investigating. They make more episodes, they fake the fact they see stuff, people keep watching. Or they could be seeing stuff. I don't know. It's just the fact that they are not really paying much attention to the ghosts and locale, more on themselves.

Overall, I quit the show. I flip it on occasionally, but the series has become such a cash cow that it has lost it's flare.

 

Destination Truth has never been good in my opinion. I hated it when it started. I liked Sci-Fi Investigates though, which only aired one season quite a while back. I thought that was enjoyable.

 

Ghost Adventures takes ghost hunting and makes it [developmentally delayed]ed. There was one where the guy got possessed and went into the greatest piece of bad acting ever in which he rolls around, stands up, is screaming the whole time, yelling obscenities. They get so freaked out when they see something, they run away instead of investigating. It's not a ghost hunting show, it's a "let's find a ghost, poop our pants, and run away as fast as we can because the thing we are after appeared". How the show has continued for as long as it has is beyond me. I think they are all terrible actors doing a terrible job of being ghost hunters. They apparently have some sort of technology that can turn electro-magnetic fields into words or something so that they can listen to ghosts. I mean, it's so far fetched, so badly done, and so overdramatic. They might as well be doing Shakespeare.

 

One of the first ghost shows I watched was Most Haunted on Travel, which I don't believe they play anymore. It wasn't particularly good, but I'm just mentioning it because it was a step above Ghost Adventures, a step below GH.

 

I just gave up on the ghost shows. I prefer reading the stories and going to the haunted places myself.