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Are you looking to watch a scary movie today? Ghost Hunters Live is airing on SciFi. Here are some more details on it.
The fright-night potential exists on Ghost Hunters Live (today, Space at 7 p.m.). Billed as a supernatural TV event, the live, seven-hour marathon will follow the Ghost Hunters crew on a sleepover at a site reputed to be one of the most haunted locations in the United States. In lieu of night lights, they will bring night-vision cameras.
Produced by the U.S. Sci-Fi Channel, the special will investigate things going bump in the night at historic Fort Delaware, located on remote Pea Patch Island in Delaware.
The broadcast will be helmed by the regular Ghost Hunters duo of Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson – two Rhode Island plumbers who have achieved considerable cable fame in recent years as blue-collar ghost chasers – with Stargate SG-1’s Amanda Tapping and Crossing Jordan’s Steve Valentine serving as celebrity guest investigators.
“The fact they’re inexperienced should keep it interesting,” Wilson said in a recent conference call to promote the special. “They should have a lot of questions and will probably get spooked out.”
However, the show’s skeptical approach will remain intact: Most episodes in the series have the experts capably debunking claims of paranormal activity. “Eighty per cent of all our investigations turn out to be nothing,” Hawes said.
The Ghost Hunters methodology involves the deployment of a wide range of ghost-detecting equipment, including digital thermometers, infrared cameras, white-noise generators and, on occasion, a Geiger counter. “We’ll pull out all our techniques,” Wilson said. “Our audience is aware that it doesn’t happen all the time.”
The Fort Delaware location was previously visited by the Ghost Hunters team in a fourth-season show. Commonly referred to as the “Black Hole,” the site was used as a PoW camp during the Civil War and at one time housed more than 30,000 Confederate soldiers; roughly 2,400 perished.
“We’ve already built a rapport with what might be there. Most of the deaths at Fort Delaware were due to accidents, but nonetheless it was a prison camp, and that’s always miserable,” Wilson said.
In a nod toward interactivity, amateur ghost hunters can participate in the special by logging onto the Space website (http://www.spacecast.com), which will show alternative camera angles of the Fort Delaware grounds. Viewers at home are invited to watch and report any ghostly activity that might have been missed by the plumbers.
Ghost Hunters Live will also feature regular reports from the Space entertainment show The Circuit, which will be on-location from the offices of the Canadian horror magazine Rue Morgue (located in a former Toronto funeral home).
Keep in mind that ghosts tend to be finicky, and there is always the possibility Ghost Hunters Live could suffer the same fate as The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vault.
Broadcast in April of 1986, the live broadcast was hyped for weeks and garnered an audience of more than 30 million viewers. When host Geraldo Rivera – who else? – finally opened the late gangster’s vault in the show’s closing minutes, the contents were revealed to be dust, and a few empty bottles. There’s never any guarantee with this type of TV event.
“Of course we hope all the ghosts come out to play, but we can’t guarantee it,” Hawes said. “It’s been our experience that ghosts tend to be fussy about when and where they decide to make themselves known to humans. It’s just the way ghosts are.”
via GlobeandMail
