The more complicated answer is that I'm burning out on the paranormal "community" as a whole. That's not to say I've lost interest, what I mean is that the overall level of basic common sense seems, every day, to be trumped by "experts" who fake evidence, by money grubbing "inventors" of gadgets that perpetuate fakery and their cohorts with "conferences" that are nothing more than large scale amateur ghost hunts for a price.
Case in point this video, collected by a group during one of these so-called "conferences" on the Queen Mary. Supposedly it shows the spirits of two children "playing tag". Of great interest are those present who put forth this treasure, as listed on the video itself, including the creator of the "Ovilus" device so heavily criticized and so heavily defended by its proponents.
Take a look... is this a "ghost playing tag" or is it what every responsible investigator in the field would call it... a bug and IR light. You know my opinion, since I've seen identical stuff a hundred times on our own footage even watching once as a large moth that I thought was a pebble levitated and then streaked off by the lens. Then we move on to dust that they term an "anomaly". The only part of the whole thing that is mildly interesting is what appears to be a trigger object moving. Of course, the camera is not stationary and the object moves in the direction covered by someone standing nearby. The "ghost" in one section is an investigator walking by a window. Oh well, if you're easily impressed prepare to be astounded:
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I'm of a similar mind, Buck. I can't even bring myself to stomach shows I would have been hopping up-and-down, clapping like a fool over a few years back: Ghost Hunters, Monster Quest, etc... The same formulae are regurgitated in every episode with little or nothing to show for it. I've experienced burnout somewhat, too. It's harder for me even to blog on the topic. :-( So, I have been focusing on my fiction, which is where I see my writing going in the future.
I've been burning out off and on for years now. But the stories still fascinate me, as does the history, so I probably won't ever bore entirely. Yet it isn't easy to be enthusiastic when you watch what other people run around with as "evidence".
Most of the video leaves me unimpressed. Yet there are a few questionable spots that I wouldn't have skipped over had I been reviewing the footage. One is the shot of the woman leaning over atop the balcony. But I'm not talking about the shadow in front. The shadowy child-like figure behind her seems to move at one point, and does possibly have a "face". The other is the scene immediately afterward and the shadow in the hall. It doesn't appear flat against a wall like a shadow would. But either way, a tiny YouTube video doesn't convince me of anything entirely. I'd have to see the full-sized original.
I've been extremely quiet too lately, but I have dozens of chapters to write in a relatively short time. I'll probably stay silent for a couple months, rearing my head here and there to keep my sanity...
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