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Paranormal State, seeing the demonic in a box of Cracker Jacks

I think the West Virginia State Penitentiary investigation revealed a lot about Ryan. In fact, this season has shown me that Ryan is not the seasoned investigator that he thinks he is. In reality, he’s not even an investigator.

Ryan likes to scare people with his lack of understanding about symbolism. If you’ve been watching for any length of time you know how Ryan reacts whenever someone mentions Ouija boards, or there’s even a slight hint of the occult such as pentagrams. But what he fails to realize and explain is that these symbols and objects on their own are completely meaningless. And in fact, up until recently, the inverted pentagram was completely harmless.

The Ouija is simply a board with letters. Simply owning one doesn’t open any more portals into the demonic realm than owning Monopoly makes you a millionaire. It’s a toy, nothing more. Stop assigning all sorts of negative connotations to it. Further, if the Ouija is supposed to allow you to contact spirits why don’t you use it? Aren’t you and all the other investigators doing the exact same thing – trying to contact the spirits – when you stand there yelling at them demanding they make their presence known? A Ouija by another name?

Ryan has also gone completely over the edge when it comes to the demonic and especially the pentagram. Not only is he trying to inject ideas of the demonic into every episode, but as we saw in "Darkness Falls" all he has to do is see a pentagram and he starts to operate under his dark, emo, goth cloud.

First and foremost the pentagram, even upside down, has been used for decades without ever having any connotations to the demonic. Perhaps Ryan is familiar with the Masons/Freemasons? Perhaps you’ve seen their symbol of the pentagram? Been to an old cemetery? You’ll certainly see the symbol on grave markers. You calling these guys Satanists?

Organizations who have based their structure on the Masons also use the same set of symbols. Unless you are a naïve conspiracy theorist, I think you need to drop this juvenile association that just because you see a pentagram, evil is afoot. Keep in mind, before Hitler perverted the use of the swastika it was used as a sacred symbol by the Hindu’s. Same thing with the pentagram.

Considering the West Virginia State Penitentiary was more than likely built by the masons it really shouldn’t come as a shocker that a pentagram would make it’s way into the architecture. And even if it wasn’t built by the Masons I’m sure they had an influence somewhere along the way. But this pentagram is in a guard tower, as a window decoration, in plain sight. Hardly demonic. Once again, on it’s own, it’s meaningless and could just as easily be taken as the Masons leaving a symbol of their work behind. The fact that he jumped to so many unfounded conclusions proves to me that he is trying to create fear and hysteria with his investigations and has no actual intentions of debunking anything. But as we’ve seen, debunking doesn’t bring in the big ratings.

Ryan is on a witch hunt, both literally and figuratively. He’s seeing the demonic everywhere now. He has no want to explain these events or to even document them. He just wants to find one glimmer of the demonic and run with it regardless of what the evidence, or that thereof, supports. And from what I’m seeing, his actual understanding of what is and isn’t demonic is rather inaccurate. It doesn’t matter if you’re right, you just need to be scary!

I guess we should just start calling Ryan, Abigail.

Paranormal State – Darkness Falls
History of the pentagram

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Destination Truth: Season 1 – Finally on DVD!

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I have literally been waiting years for the first season of Destination Truth to come out on DVD. I missed most of the episodes from that season and I can’t find a place where you can watch them online. I’ve only been able to see snippet here and there, but Josh seems just as over the top in the early days as he does now.

Destination Truth has become one of my favorite shows on TV and it has nothing to do with Josh’s paranormal exploits. He is just so damn funny and no matter what kind of bizarre or ridiculous situation he finds himself in, he takes it all in stride and declares "So we pressed on". When you’re chasing down mythical sea creatures, El Chupacabra, Bigfoot and other hard to pronounce creatures you really aren’t disappointed if he doesn’t find anything. You’re more amused at how he’s treated by customs and why his suitcase always seems to be open when it comes down the carousel. And let’s not forget the incident with the roof of the plane flying off while they’re circling the island. Oh wait, I’m jumping ahead in the story.

I’m very excited to see this first batch of DVDs and hope the rest of the seasons follow quickly. It’s available March 16th, right before the new episodes of Destination Truth come back on the air. I’m ordering up my copy now, I hope they have a lot of "extras"!

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Ghost Adventures: Season One (DVD)

Ghost Adventures Season One is on sale at Amazon for only $10.99, an impressive 45% off. There’s never a bad time to go back and check out some of those earlier episodes!

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Ghost Adventures – Group Investigation

I’m not sure if this is from an episode in the upcoming season or a special group investigation, but it looks like Zak, Nick and Aaron have a whole slew of guest investigators with them. They’ve spread themselves out to cover a pretty large area, and then they get some off EVP recordings. Again, the music overlay is annoying, and it sounds pretty staticy. But it’s the last one that gets everybody stirred up.

 

 

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