America's most haunted hotel ?

Sagittarius79

Crescent Hotel, Arkansas

http://www.americasmosthauntedhotel.com ((albeit self-titled!)

This was featured on an episode of TAPS/Ghost Hunters I saw recently and they caught some pretty interesting footage on the thermal imaging camera, it was like a full body apparition through the camera, when i saw it first i just thought it was the reflection of one of the investigators but it looks nothing like either of them!

Think this link should work, what do people think of this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDYnU-oMPVI

In this episode they also met with a local medium/psychic. They also caught some interesting footage of him on the thermal imager when they were filming him doing a reading on Grant. Has anyone else seen this?

Just thought I'd post this as I was very impressed by it.

Skeptic_Desu

Isn't it funny how ghosts like to start hanging out in hotels with slow business :pac:

Sagittarius79

Maybe so Skeptic....I suppose I posted this more to highlight the footage which TAPS caught on the thermal imager at that location. If no one else saw this then I'm probably on my own here but if anyone else here has seen it, I would love to know what you think

Dagon

That's pretty amazing alright. Doesn't look like a fake to me, but who knows.

Interesting how the number 2 was also glowing.

I am really hating this "most haunted Hotel" "most haunted castle" "most haunted pub"

There is absolutly nothing to measure how haunted a place is.

Thermal imagers can be dodgy though. That image there that TAPS have done is very easily re-created by standing against the wall for a minute.

As you can see it never moved. We tested this in Wicklow gaol . You could even write on the wall with your finger and a few minutes later it was still showing up on the Thermal imager.

If the figure was moving well maybe they had something .

iamhunted

i completely agree about the whole most haunted hotel/castle/stick name in here thing - theres no way of telling what a haunting is in the first place never mind which is the most haunted.

I think what the OP means about the video is how the 'glow' jumps from grant to the medium (or vice versa, its been ages since i saw that episode)

same time, who says heat doesnt move like that?

Skeptic_Desu

Deleted User wrote: »

Thermal imagers can be dodgy though. That image there that TAPS have done is very easily re-created by standing against the wall for a minute.

As you can see it never moved. We tested this in Wicklow gaol . You could even write on the wall with your finger and a few minutes later it was still showing up on the Thermal imager.

If the figure was moving well maybe they had something .

Quite correct Dre.
Those thermal imagers show the temperature of the surface of an object.
Further more they need to reflect off something (like a wall )to produce an image.

6th

Yeah I remember when someone thought they saw something in a cell in Wicklow and I pointed out that someone else had been leaning against the wall. Next time we went there we had fun writting rude words on the wall with our figures

See SD, some investigators do investigate.

Oryx

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I am really hating this "most haunted Hotel" "most haunted castle" "most haunted pub"

There is absolutly nothing to measure how haunted a place is.

+1 I have the most haunted tin of peas in my cupboard. I swear.

I saw an episode of Dead Famous which featured the most haunted hotel in America. It was a different hotel, of course. They also had a strange figure show on camera during filming. Hmmmm.

Skeptic_Desu

6th wrote: »

Yeah I remember when someone thought they saw something in a cell in Wicklow and I pointed out that someone else had been leaning against the wall. Next time we went there we had fun writting rude words on the wall with our figures

See SD, some investigators do investigate.

Yes and some investigators (popular ones with their own programme) saying a ordinary artifact of thermal imaging (that, as you and others have said, is a common occurence at investigations) is in fact paranormal in nature.

Sagittarius79

Ok so my extra sensory perception is telling me that you guys are none too impressed by the TAPS footage then yeah?

6th

Dont get me wrong I think TAPS do some great work but I dont think its "proof" by itself.

SD (I like calling you that coz it reminds me of Scooby-Doo) I dont presume that just because someone has been successful that they are corrupt. I've seen them debunk enough footage etc to give them some credibility. While I said that the thermal findings can be caused by natural means thats not to say thats what it is in all cases - of course we have to presume it is until all avenues are exhausted.

DANNY22XX

Sagittarius79 wrote: »

Ok so my extra sensory perception is telling me that you guys are none too impressed by the TAPS footage then yeah?

the footage is intresting, but all thru the years we have heard about the most haunted this and that,,,i could tell ya stories about places i have been to, but are they the most hanted places,,,they are haunted to some but to me they were not,,

marti101

Thats why i like TAPS they dont believe everything at face value and they do there best to debunk stuff.

DANNY22XX

marti101 wrote: »

Thats why i like TAPS they dont believe everything at face value and they do there best to debunk stuff.

and thats the way it should be;)

God Of Radio

Skeptic_Desu wrote: »

Isn't it funny how ghosts like to start hanging out in hotels with slow business :pac:

WERD!

Skeptic_Desu

6th wrote: »

SD (I like calling you that coz it reminds me of Scooby-Doo) I dont presume that just because someone has been successful that they are corrupt. I've seen them debunk enough footage etc to give them some credibility. While I said that the thermal findings can be caused by natural means thats not to say thats what it is in all cases - of course we have to presume it is until all avenues are exhausted.

I never said they were corrupt just that they were spreading false information and bad science and the fact they are popular and have a tv show spreads the false information faster and lend creditability to the bad science.

6th

Skeptic_Desu wrote: »

I never said they were corrupt just that they were spreading false information and bad science and the fact they are popular and have a tv show spreads the false information faster and lend creditability to the bad science.

Fair point but by calling it false information I obviously take it that that is your "opinion".

Skeptic_Desu

6th wrote: »

Fair point but by calling it false information I obviously take it that that is your "opinion".

Saying an image on a thermal imager,that has a perfectly rational explaination, is supernatural in nature is false information. My opinion is that it is bad to spread false information.

iamhunted

could someone run that perfectly rational explaination by me again? I missed the bit where one of them went over to the locker and made a handprint that they then saw a few minutes later. if they didnt touch it themselves, then someone else must have a few minutes earlier - is that part of the perfectly rational explaination? if so, do we know who touched it?

Skeptic_Desu

iamhunted wrote: »

could someone run that perfectly rational explaination by me again? I missed the bit where one of them went over to the locker and made a handprint that they then saw a few minutes later. if they didnt touch it themselves, then someone else must have a few minutes earlier - is that part of the perfectly rational explaination? if so, do we know who touched it?

One of them was probably leaning against the locker before the thermal camera swept by it. This is consistent with 6th's example.