Why Ghost Hunt in The Dark?

Yeah Yeah Yeah

Why do TV ghosthunters always (seem) to go ghosthunting in the dark?

Is that a TV thing to make things scarier? Or are spirits more active at night? And if so, why?

Thanks..

Probably just to make it scarier.

Yeah Yeah Yeah

Thank you for sharing. Yes that must be why.

boneyarsebogman wrote: »

Probably just to make it scarier.

Ziycon

Its to create an atmosphere as most people growing up were afraid of the dark as children so it brings the childhood fear of the dark back when watching the show.

Shows like that just wouldn't be scary in the daytime. Especially because a lot of them rely on you not actually seeing anything, as such, so it just wouldn't work in the bright.

MeadhbhL3

Deleted User wrote: »

Shows like that just wouldn't be scary in the daytime. Especially because a lot of them rely on you not actually seeing anything, as such, so it just wouldn't work in the bright.

Ya there is the not being scary element but also your senses are heightened when the light is taken away from you, your eyes adjust and your hearing and smell etc is heightened. Plus if there is something there that doesn't want to be found it would prefer to lurk in the dark.
And its loads more fun

runswithascript

I am surprised nobody has mentioned the main reason yet, they shoot the footage in the dark because it's easier to pretend there are ghosts, werewolves, and tooth-fairies etc when the person viewing cannot see so well because of the lack of light.

MeadhbhL3

dusf wrote: »

I am surprised nobody has mentioned the main reason yet, they shoot the footage in the dark because it's easier to pretend there are ghosts, werewolves, and tooth-fairies etc when the person viewing cannot see so well because of the lack of light.

How about we just add, in your opinion to that statement above and leave it at that eh?

runswithascript

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

How about we just add, in your opinion to that statement above and leave it at that eh?

Well it's not just my opinion, it is a fact that none of these things have ever been proven, this is mostly likely due to the fact they do not exist.

MeadhbhL3

dusf wrote: »

Well it's not just my opinion, it is a fact that none of these things have ever been proven, this is mostly likely due to the fact they do not exist.

It is not a fact. It is an opinion. You cannot say they do not exist when you don't know.

runswithascript

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

It is not a fact. It is an opinion. You cannot say they do not exist when you don't know.

The onus of proof is not on the person saying something does exist, it's on the person saying something does exist.

You cannot prove I do not have a gold toilet but if I were to profess to the onus would be on me to prove it.

Also, you are saying it is not a fact the existence of ghosts, leprechauns, or Santa Claus has been proven? Which do you think has been proven, and where is this proof?

Please do not present me with things like "I felt a presence", if you were to it would not be proof, it would just be something in your head.

Defiler Of The Coffin

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

It is not a fact. It is an opinion. You cannot say they do not exist when you don't know.

Can you say for a fact that ghosts do exist? If so please provide evidence. Thank you.

MeadhbhL3

I didn't say a word about feeling a presence. I'm not a medium, I'm not a psychic, I am a skeptic and I came into this field to find out for myself if there is life after death. I throw a lot of things out that people would consider as proof but again its a matter of opinion. I like to believe that there is another life after this one. I have had my own experiences that I cannot disprove and that is amazing to me.
Why are you on a paranormal forum if you do not believe in even the possibility that something might exist?

MeadhbhL3

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

Can you say for a fact that ghosts do exist? If so please provide evidence. Thank you.

Can you say for a fact that they do not exist?

Defiler Of The Coffin

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

Can you say for a fact that they do not exist?

I absolutely can. Until I am proven otherwise they do not exist. You need to raise your burden of proof a little. Can you prove to me the existence of a flying teapot orbiting Venus? If not, why not?

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I throw a lot of things out that people would consider as proof but again its a matter of opinion

Like what for instance?

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

Why are you on a paranormal forum if you do not believe in even the possibility that something might exist?

To debunk utter garbage I would say.

MeadhbhL3

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

I absolutely can. Until I am proven otherwise they do not exist. You need to raise your burden of proof a little. Can you prove to me the existence of a flying teapot orbiting Venus? If not, why not?



Like what for instance?



To debunk utter garbage I would say.

lol I am not even going to bother telling you what I have seen and haven't seen. Not worth my while.
All matters of opinion. But I'd rather you keep yours to yourself from now on on this forum.

runswithascript

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I didn't say a word about feeling a presence. I'm not a medium, I'm not a psychic, I am a skeptic and I came into this field to find out for myself if there is life after death.

Sceptics do not believe in life after death.

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I throw a lot of things out that people would consider as proof but again its a matter of opinion.

Proof is proof, it is there or it is not, and it is definitely not a matter of opinion.

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I like to believe that there is another life after this one.

I do not think you understand the term sceptic.

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I have had my own experiences that I cannot disprove and that is amazing to me.

Whatever warm fuzzy feeling or hallucination you had can be explained away by science.

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

Why are you on a paranormal forum if you do not believe in even the possibility that something might exist?

Because this is a free and public forum, the OP's question came up
on the boards homepage, and the question had not been answered correctly.

MeadhbhL3

dusf wrote: »

Sceptics do not believe in life after death.



Proof is proof, it is there or it is not, and it is definitely not a matter of opinion.



I do not think you understand the term sceptic.



Whatever warm fuzzy feeling or hallucination you had can be explained away by science.



Because this is a free and public forum, the OP's question came up
on the boards homepage, and the question had not been answered correctly.

I'd rather you not cast aspersions on my mental state or my capabilities of undestanding words. I do not hallucinate, I do not make things up and yes I am a healthy sceptic. I want to believe there is something and so I am out to find out whether there is or not.
I rely on science in all investigations, all of my team do.

runswithascript

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I'd rather you not cast aspersions on my mental state or my capabilities of undestanding words.

Then look up the dictionary, sceptics do not believe in things that are not there.

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I do not hallucinate, I do not make things up and yes I am a healthy sceptic.

You have mentioned your experiences being the reason for your belief, if you are experiencing something that is not there it's either an hallucination or a fraud etc.

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I want to believe there is something and so I am out to find out whether there is or not.

I want to believe I am a billionaire, but I do not want to believe it enough that I actually believe that I am one.

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I rely on science in all investigations, all of my team do.

And apparently thus far science has shown you have no proof, and I would not hold your breath on that changing any time soon.

Defiler Of The Coffin

M3eadhbhL wrote: »

lol I am not even going to bother telling you what I have seen and haven't seen. Not worth my while.

Please do tell me what you have seen. Why wouldn't it be worth your while? Are you just not bothered with trying to convince people?

M3eadhbhL wrote: »

All matters of opinion. But I'd rather you keep yours to yourself from now on on this forum.

I'd rather a lot of things happened in this world, but things sometimes don't work out the way we want them to. Why shouldn't your opinions be challenged on a public forum? If you don't like it you could always start your own forum.

runswithascript

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

I absolutely can. Until I am proven otherwise they do not exist. You need to raise your burden of proof a little. Can you prove to me the existence of a flying teapot orbiting Venus? If not, why not?

Hear hear!

Also, that was a good book

alie

Is it not to do with electro magnetics and the belief that spirits feed off electrics which are stronger in the dark

MeadhbhL3

I'm not here to convince anyone. I don't give a rats ass whether you believe or not. Just do not tell me that things do not exist when I know what I have seen and heard.
I am a sceptic, which means I maintain a doubting attitude and I question things. If I doubt something, then I throw it out.

runswithascript

alie wrote: »

Is it not to do with electro magnetics and the belief that spirits feed off electrics which are stronger in the dark

How convenient for those profiting from ghost shows being on television.

MeadhbhL3

dusf wrote: »

Then look up the dictionary, sceptics do not believe in things that are not there.



You have mentioned your experiences being the reason for your belief, if you are experiencing something that is not there it's either an hallucination or a fraud etc.



I want to believe I am a billionaire, but I do not want to believe it enough that I actually believe that I am one.



And apparently thus far science has shown you have no proof, and I would not hold your breath on that changing any time soon.[/QUOTE


How about you look up sceptic in the dictionary and tell me what you find.

runswithascript

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

Just do not tell me that things do not exist when I know what I have seen and heard.

You hallucinated or someone was playing a prank on you etc. If they did exist there would be proof. You have no proof.

I think it is important here that you mentioned you want to believe. This may very well have contributed to a hallucination. Some people see what they want to see.

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I am a sceptic, which means I maintain a doubting attitude and I question things. If I doubt something, then I throw it out.

I suspect you throw out things that do not agree with what you want to be the case. This is not scepticism, it is faith.

If you truly were a sceptic you would demand proof before belief.

runswithascript

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

How about you look up sceptic in the dictionary and tell me what you find.

It says 'Not MeadhbhL3'.

MeadhbhL3

dusf wrote: »

Then look up the dictionary, sceptics do not believe in things that are not there.



You have mentioned your experiences being the reason for your belief, if you are experiencing something that is not there it's either an hallucination or a fraud etc.



I want to believe I am a billionaire, but I do not want to believe it enough that I actually believe that I am one.



And apparently thus far science has shown you have no proof, and I would not hold your breath on that changing any time soon.

dusf wrote: »

It says 'Not MeadhbhL3'.

Nobody played a trick on me, a few people saw the same thing. Yea I would like to believe but it takes a lot to convince me.

runswithascript

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

Nobody played a trick on me, a few people saw the same thing.

I would imagine all these people that were with you ghost hunting wanted to see ghosts too.

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

Yea I would like to believe but it takes a lot to convince me.

A lot, but short of proof apparently.

Defiler Of The Coffin

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I'm not here to convince anyone. I don't give a rats ass whether you believe or not. Just do not tell me that things do not exist when I know what I have seen and heard.
I am a sceptic, which means I maintain a doubting attitude and I question things. If I doubt something, then I throw it out.

They do not exist. It was in your mind.

Unless you have something that can substantiate what you have "seen and heard" you will not convince me. Nor many others for that matter.

You do not seem to realise that the term 'sceptical' can cut both ways.

MeadhbhL3

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

They do not exist. It was in your mind.

Unless you have something that can substantiate what you have "seen and heard" you will not convince me. Nor many others for that matter.

You do not seem to realise that the term 'sceptical' can cut both ways.

You are the one disagreeing so this is all on you. I present as findings what I believe is something that cannot be explained. After that it is up to people what to make of it. But it has to be something very strange for us to look into it and try to debunk it.

MeadhbhL3

dusf wrote: »

I would imagine all these people that were with you ghost hunting wanted to see ghosts too.



A lot, but short of proof apparently.

Believe it or not, everybody on the team are sceptics. We go in somewhere, somebody will say, this this and this are happening. More often than not we can give a rational explanation for it.

Defiler Of The Coffin

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I present as findings what I believe is something that cannot be explained.

Please repost these findings.

MeadhbhL3

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

Please repost these findings.

www.irishghosthunters.com

Defiler Of The Coffin

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

www.irishghosthunters.com

http://www.irishghosthunters.com/ wrote:

After about 30 seconds a strange thermal shape appeared about two feet to the side of Jeremy. We have no idea what was causing this strange phenomena. I explained to Jeremy what was happening, he said he felt a strange feeling as he passed his hand over the area.

You will forgive me for not feeling convinced at these 'findings' if you yourselves don't even know what the hell it was.

Anything more specific MeadhbhL3?

runswithascript

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

You are the one disagreeing so this is all on you.

You are still not grasping this. The onus of proof is on the party professing something exists.

Besides, you cannot prove a negative.

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I present as findings what I believe is something that cannot be explained.

You have presented us with exactly zero, zilch, bubkis.

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

Believe it or not, everybody on the team are sceptics. We go in somewhere, somebody will say, this this and this are happening. More often than not we can give a rational explanation for it.

And when you can not explain, it must be a ghost, right? That's illogical.

It's like wondering who put cookies in the cookie jar, and not being able to figure it out concluding a ghost must have done it.

Considering you describe yourself as a sceptic but you believe in ghosts and an afterlife, something there is no proof for whatsoever, I very much doubt your team are really sceptics.

I imagine you watch a lot of True Blood etc.

runswithascript

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

www.irishghosthunters.com

There are a lot of videos there, which one specifically is proof? I would rather not have to sit through an entire episode of a show like this because it's full of either fraud or misguided people.

MeadhbhL3

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

You will forgive me for not feeling convinced at these 'findings' if you yourselves don't even know what the hell it was.

Anything more specific MeadhbhL3?

As I said, we present our findings, up to each individual to decide after that.

MeadhbhL3

dusf wrote: »

You are still not grasping this. The onus of proof is on the party professing something exists.

Besides, you cannot prove a negative.



You have presented us with exactly zero, zilch, bubkis.



And when you can not explain, it must be a ghost, right? That's illogical.

It's like wondering who put cookies in the cookie jar, and not being able to figure it out concluding a ghost must have done it.

Considering you describe yourself as a sceptic but you believe in ghosts and an afterlife, something there is no proof for whatsoever, I very much doubt your team are really sceptics.

I imagine you watch a lot of True Blood etc.

I have never seen True Blood.
Here we go again,
I am a sceptic
I am a ghost hunters, I look for things that will prove this. So far, I've seen things but I will not say somewhere is haunted because of my findings alone. We always always always back things up with science.
If we cannot find a rational explanation and we have no concrete proof then we often go back again and keep looking.
I am not asking you to believe, I don't care if you do.
I want to believe there is something after death, who wouldn't.

Defiler Of The Coffin

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

As I said, we present our findings, up to each individual to decide after that.

You haven't presented any 'findings' at all. Just a bunch of blurry youtube videos featuring excitable members of the general public. www.irishghosthunters.com seems to be more of an advertisement for FM104 than anything else.

I'm going to do your work for you and leave some evidence in this thread of the existence of ghosts. I don't care if people don't believe, I have presented my findings and that is that. If you have anything better feel free to share! Goodnight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7PiN-SG4-s

runswithascript

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

As I said, we present our findings, up to each individual to decide after that.

Ah, so no proof then. I cannot say I am surprised, as it would be major worldwide news if something supernatural was proven to exist.

There is no way in hell I am sitting through an hour of 'ghost hunting' drivel only to see what you think might be proof.

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I have never seen True Blood..

Perhaps Buffy the Vampire Slayer then, anyway it's besides the point what inspired you.

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I am a sceptic

Sceptics do not believe in tooth-fairies, leprechauns, ghosts, or Santa Claus.

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I am a ghost hunters, I look for things that will prove this. So far, I've seen things but I will not say somewhere is haunted because of my findings
alone. We always always always back things up with science.

So you have scientific proof of the existence of ghosts? if so, you are being incredibly shy with it.

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I am not asking you to believe, I don't care if you do.

I only believe in the truth.

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

I want to believe there is something after death, who wouldn't.

Yes, I explained this to you already, wanting to believe in something is not enough reason to fool yourself into believing it, I am stronger of mind than that, and I value the truth more than a comfortable false perception.

runswithascript

I see you are affiliated with that most intellectual and reputable broadcaster Adrian Kennedy, I should have known.

I have spent enough time arguing with zealots for one night, I shall leave you to your ignorance, enjoy it.

Unsubscribed from thread.

MeadhbhL3

dusf wrote: »

Ah, so no proof then. I cannot say I am surprised, as it would be major worldwide news if something supernatural was proven to exist.

There is no way in hell I am sitting through an hour of 'ghost hunting' drivel only to see what you think might be proof.



Perhaps Buffy the Vampire Slayer then, anyway it's besides the point what inspired you.



Sceptics do not believe in tooth-fairies, leprechauns, ghosts, or Santa Claus.



So you have scientific proof of the existence of ghosts? if so, you are being incredibly shy with it.



I only believe in the truth.



Yes, I explained this to you already, wanting to believe in something is not enough reason to fool yourself into believing it, I am stronger of mind than that, and I value the truth more than a comfortable false perception.

There is a huge difference between toothfairies, santa claus, leprechauns and spirits. Do your research. Or don't, I really don't care either way. I love what I do

Defiler Of The Coffin

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

There is a huge difference between toothfairies, santa claus, leprechauns and spirits.

They all share one thing in common. They don't exist.

MeadhbhL3

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

They all share one thing in common. They don't exist.

Who can say for certain.

Defiler Of The Coffin

MeadhbhL3 wrote: »

Who can say for certain.

Me.

Around and around we go...

MeadhbhL3

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

Me.

Around and around we go...

And you are the all seeing all knowing aren't you

Riamfada

Okay folks, wether Ghosts do or do not exist is not the purpose of this thread. Can we please keep it on topic. If you want to say that ghost hunting is done in the dark because it makes it more scary then please state that it is simply your opinion and accept another poin of view. If you wish to go further please link to some evidence.

Likewise if you believe ghost hunting in the dark improves the chances if finding ghosts please link to something which supports your claims.

Cowenwatch

With the media especially television you have to look at MOdes of Address and how things are framed. Things look scarier in the dark so they present shows in the dark. Personally speaking I saw my mate's dead father a couple of years ago in his house. Didn't say anything at the time in case I was loosing it but said it to my mate a couple of weeks after. My mate replied that he'd seen him as well on a different occasion. People are of the mentality that if you can't see it, it isn't there.

Beubeu

dusf wrote: »

I am surprised nobody has mentioned the main reason yet, they shoot the footage in the dark because it's easier to pretend there are ghosts, werewolves, and tooth-fairies etc when the person viewing cannot see so well because of the lack of light.

what's funny is that nothing, i mean NOTHING, happen during the show. so yes, its in the dark because its the only thing that might scared people

MeadhbhL3

Riamfada wrote: »

Okay folks, wether Ghosts do or do not exist is not the purpose of this thread. Can we please keep it on topic. If you want to say that ghost hunting is done in the dark because it makes it more scary then please state that it is simply your opinion and accept another poin of view. If you wish to go further please link to some evidence.

Likewise if you believe ghost hunting in the dark improves the chances if finding ghosts please link to something which supports your claims.

Tried that. Sent a link and it was thrown back in my face.