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What you're about to witness is messed up, very real. You need to talk to me out and supernatural. This is a creepy one. I'm hearing they're coming to get you. Okay, that is someone flushing a toilet. Now, I don't usually delve into
A comedic critique of the paranormal show Ghost Adventures, exposing its staged elements and absurdities at the Palmer House Hotel.
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Key Takeaways
- Ghost Adventures has not produced credible evidence of ghosts after many seasons.
- The show relies heavily on dramatization and scripted moments rather than genuine investigation.
- Claims made in the show, such as discovering human bones or demon sightings, lack verification and are often contradictory.
- The video uses humor to expose the absurdity and poor logic behind the paranormal show’s narrative.
- Viewers can enjoy the show as entertainment but should remain critical of its authenticity.
What the video covers
- The video humorously critiques the paranormal TV show Ghost Adventures, highlighting its lack of genuine ghost findings despite 19 seasons.
- The host shares personal discomfort with paranormal themes but watches the show for entertainment.
- The episode focuses on the Palmer House Hotel in Minnesota, exploring alleged hauntings and mysterious events like a fire in 1900.
- The show’s investigation includes dubious claims such as finding bones with a kitchen spoon and encounters with a 'demon' with red eyes.
- The video points out inconsistencies and poor production choices, like multiple spoons left at the scene and lack of follow-up on key claims.
- The hosts mock the show’s exaggerated paranormal measurements and improvised reactions.
- Sponsorship by SeatGeek is briefly mentioned, promoting ticket discounts.
- The video emphasizes the staged and scripted nature of Ghost Adventures, calling it 'the world’s worst improv'.
- Despite skepticism, the video acknowledges the entertainment value of the show.
- The critique blends humor with analysis, appealing to both believers and skeptics of paranormal media.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Paranormal Context
- 01:39Critique of Ghost Adventures' Long Run and Format
- 02:43Setting the Scene at Palmer House Hotel
- 03:58Questionable Evidence and Investigation Methods
- 05:10Discussion of Fire Victims and Spirits
- 06:25Mocking Paranormal Measurements and Improv
- 07:55Demon Sightings and Absurd Claims
- 09:12Sponsorship and Ticket Promotion
- 10:13Summary of Investigation and Final Thoughts
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the wacky world of the paranormal. I hate horror films. I hate horror games. Oh my God, I know that like Luigi boards or whatever aren't real, and TV sensationalizes everything, but that doesn't stop me from not messing around with that [ __ ].
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My immigrant family background has me knowing well enough not to mess with spirits, but I watch someone else do it. And just as we arrived here today, a rainbow was going into the building, but I don't think we're hunting leprechauns.
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On this lockdown, it could be very much darker. Ghost Adventures is one of those shows, which there are dozens of at this point, where a bunch of guys go hunting for something paranormal, and well, wackiness ensues. Oh my God, bro, no. Oh my God, it
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just detected your fart, bro. But I had never seen it before, so I called in someone who has—are you going to cut to the clip or what? My personal favorite is Ghost Adventures, which Ghost Adventures has been going on for
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19 seasons. They haven't found a single ghost yet. The entire show is just grown men walking into abandoned buildings going, "What? That?" That's the show. I have only seen Ghost Adventures through other videos. That's probably the best way to
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like to consume it. Yeah, 'cause I think the people watching this, the best way for them to consume it is also through us. Feel like, where should we go? Palmer House Hotel is really calling me for some reason. All right, the show starts by
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setting the scene of what the people there experienced and the terrible things that happened in this building. My name is Zach Bin. I never believed in ghosts until I came face to face with one. With no big camera crews following
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us around, I am joined only by my big W, who is joining me and following me around. Also, just want to say there's always what Evan and I call there's the ghost of Ventur man and the Ghost Adventures woman. The Ghost Adventures
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man are always aggressive and want to fight the ghost, so like Zach and his guys walk in a room and like, "Do you want to fight?" And then the ghost woman is always the same. They always look like a
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Darlene, and they're always like, "I just can't believe that this is happening to me." I think this one's going to be a Darlene. I think I saw a Darlene. We're at the Palmer House Hotel in So Center, Minnesota. I don't even have commentary
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because I'm just taking it all in. It wasn't until a mysterious fire in 1900 burned that building to the ground. Gray from those ashes rose the Palmer House since 1901. The origins of that fire remain a mystery. B, when was this, like
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the 1800s? There were fires all the time. I don't think we need to like speculate on what the cause was. If everything's made of wood and everyone's smoking, my guess is like, dude, people were disgusting back then. People are disgusting now, and this
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is what we traveled here for. This is why Kelly has called us because of what ising. He's made up his own accent. A stranger told me about a dream that they'd had, and they'd never heard of The Palmer House. This random
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lady underneath a set of stairs that she very specifically had told me where he would be. I started the digging with a large spoon from the kitchen. A spoon? What did you find? I started to find bones, a lot of rib
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bones. Did you ever maybe they sold ribs? Did we check if they were human bones or were they like making wings? Also, why would you go to the kitchen with a spoon and dig? Why not a shovel? She just got the
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biggest spoon she could find to start taking. That's crazy. Like, you don't have like a, like a [ __ ] thing? Are you going to put that back in the kitchen afterwards? What are you going to do with it? I'm so
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confused. Honey, we're making some mac and cheese. Have you seen the spoon? It's downstairs underneath the stairs. It might be covered in dirt, but if you just rinse it, it'll be fine. Just push those human bones aside. Don't worry about
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those. Where are they conducting this interview? They could have done this in the lobby. They could have done it anywhere. And look at Zach, like wearing the tightest shirt in the world and covering his nipples because it's cold
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and he's uncomfortable. Did you ever find out if they were animal bones or human bones? No. Um, and that's the problem. When I went to retrieve them the next day, they were all gone. Do you think that people were killed in this fire down
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here? Yes, I do. Could the activity in the ed back trapped unrested spirits who were victims of this fire? Why were they—why were they locked in? Like, why were they trapped? Why was it the worst case scenario? Why
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why would they be trapped in a—like, they're not in the Titanic and it's sinking. Like, someone put them in there. They're one floor down. We're just going to brush over the fact that she clearly lied. She didn't find any bones under that cell. No, the next day they were
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gone. And he's like, understood, understandable. By the way, he never—there's no follow-up. Like, there will be push on it. No, zero push back. You tell him that it was a demon's rib and he's like, understood. This is a fact and we'll
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move on with this factual information. This is all that we needed to know is that there are human ribs that magically disappeared when you dug them under the stairs with a kitchen spoon. Kitchen spoon. It could have been like pieces of
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insulation. It didn't happen. That's what happened. Gabby, I think we just need to face the f—I want to believe people wouldn't lie. Well, we're on a show called Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel, so chances are contractually they
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already started. I feel surrounded. I feel—whoa, who 88.5. I feel tightness in my chest. I feel like just is going off. Look it, 5. What? This is what? Are the measurements? This is the world's worst improv. This is the world's worst improv.
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That's what's happening. First of all, five, five, 55, and then he's like, feel tightness in my chest. I feel really bad too. We got a reading of one. I don't know what that's supposed to mean. 1.3 to a 1.0 to
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A8 to a 4 to A2. What are the measurements? There was a large black dog, wolf, and red eyes. Kelly, that's not good. That's demonic. I saw a dark cloud that was also, and it had red eyes. That is bad.
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That's the other thing is again, no push back. She saw it. He didn't even think to question it. And now there's a demon presence in this house. There is a demon who set the place on fire out of
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vengeance, who murdered people and locked them away, somehow locked them up, and then they were buried under the stairs. Stairs that when they redid the house, they never redid the stair part, so then they were there. And then
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she brought a spoon from the kitchen. Let's— we're only 5 minutes in. Then there was a meter that went to 8 one. It's the alcohol. It's a breathalyzer, actually. And then they saw a demon dark cloud wolf with red eyes.
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That's a demon. And we're 6 minutes into the show. This is entertaining. Do you see? And there's 2, 24 seasons of this show. Spons—there's multiple spoons. Wait, what? Hold on, hold the [ __ ] on. There's three. These spoons here, there's
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three different spoons covered in dirt. You just left them there after digging [ __ ] up. First of all, why is there—why is there more than one? But you know what's scarier than this or spoons? Not having
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SeatGeek for funding my Fortnite. I mean, sponsoring th
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Zach is so intense and I can't tell if he's the most fit guy in the world or not I I feel like he's kind of hit this weird archetype of like early 2000's show host like a nicke all the Gen Z
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kids like who are really into Y2K right now and like early o sort of Matrix look this is really what we were dealing with yeah the hair goes here he used La looks and then the hair hair here goes there
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so goes forward oh my God his hair has his hair looks like a shake and go wig you can see all the implements that she used the spoons like just her imagining her going down to this basement by
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herself possibly intoxicated taking three different spoons to dig a a hole under the stairs there's an issue that's deeper than the ghost started to find bones bones bones but they're gone they're gone they disappeared they were here they're gone but the spoons are
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there the spoons are there the spoons they didn't take the spoons the three of them I should probably clean those spoons shouldn't I no just leave them there for the next people to find for the next house burns down yeah exactly
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and then they come and do it again like how do these spoons get here you'll never know the most disturbing encounter with the Paranormal is possession video crazy Sher we watch personal video of Chris Schneider you need to talk to me get out think we need
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to W in the area well the dogs are down here and I got to take care of them and we're how many minutes in 7 and A2 I don't know what they could possibly store in these next 35 minutes we would
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like to take you downstairs we just want to see if we can document any evidence around you absolutely 100% I'll get possessed again maybe they just can feel some energy that we can't I think it's a I think it's drugs look at this that
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does not do that hold it it's going to freak out it's going to break wow obviously there's something right here7 I hear I'm following her7 that is precisely what it sounds like gas lighting they're all lyes I don't think that's all we C they are
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this is a creepy one I'm hearing they're coming to get you okay that is someone flushing a toilet now like she feels like she's he's victimizing her and makes her feel like the center of attention and then it
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specializes her and then she starts to like believe in it more and play into their act for better Clips because they can't hire actors for this so he's like kind of gaslighting her that's true there's a very intelligent dark entity
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here yeah it is why is it intelligent instead of us three down here we've built three robots and we're going to remotely operate these robots from the Best Western what it's not like Radioactive It's not Chernobyl why are you not going
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to be there I thought your whole thing was like you wanted to be around ghosts how are you talking to ghosts who lived like 120 years ago how are you a robot right they're not going to know what the
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[ __ ] that is no they don't even know like what a light bulb is now you're going to like throw an ad VC at R2D2 we're going to send a robot and see was like oh dear oh dear oh oh goodness I
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come here with the owner and she said this is Lucy's room Dave she's not fond of men now that chair is known I like that they turn all the lights off to make it creepier it's like middle of the
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day I know you're not fond of men and you're certainly not fond of them being here in your room just say hello or talk to us let us know why are you so angry well cuz you're in my room you're there
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cuz you exist Lucy are you here with us dude I would be like leaving the [ __ ] alone is there any danger for any of the people here in this house what is he looking for is there any danger for any
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of the people here in this house right there I hear baggin right after it no they'll just ask like do you want to kill us if this technology was real wouldn't we use it for everything we'd be at
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weddings like we'll see what Nana thinks of your dress like true's a laugh right afterwards [Applause] sounds like he's dve and Nick brought to my attention a spirit voice captured on his Shack hat but the spirit was mimicking
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my [Applause] voice so if he's been doing this for 24 seasons and all of these ghosts want to kill him don't you think one of them would have succeeded by now yes like or don't you think he would have found one
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by now why are they diing what is he hoping to find bones we have amassed a compelling collection of evidence and we haven't even begun our lockdown they're making fun of you it's like it seeks us out now right
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now what's going to happen with us all it takes is one of us to be pushed over the edge then there's a blood bath amongst us yeah then it's going to be really bad what are these conclusions were're coming to that was not a
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conversation that was insane what happens to us man I don't know but when it happens to us it'll be a blood bath for why what now we're at the lock down part where they lock down so we learned
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all this lore there's like all these things that are happening but you'll see there'll be no resolution so now they go scare themselves and then the credits go up and they do the same thing every other episode every other season okay so
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I guess they're showing all their equipment that they're going to use yes this is equipment it's a waste of plastic and metal because none of it does anything supposedly whatever female is in here hates guys you don't like
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guys huh ew you don't like us messing the bed up here hold on hold on do you not like us doing this this feels like a cross between a elementary school bully and I feel like I'm being assaulted and you're
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right those are both of those feelings so you don't like that when I make the bed untiy what if we arrange the room even more huh dude do you like this you like that this is why I feel like I'm being Ault I
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know it's not like a bad porn you like that why are they playing White Noise if I was that ghost I'd be pissed I'd be P I wouldn't like men either cuz then they just come into my room and mess [ __ ] up
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like that mess at my furn like this is all I have is this bed like this is all I have left from this [ __ ] Dimension and then you're like let me going to mess this up probably why she doesn't
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like G cuz they come in here and mess up her room with an analy and the wire swinging Aaron sees some type of glowing anomaly that was a mouse that was a mouse no I think it was the demon that
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she saw oh that's it that's the episode oh and and there it is so there's no conclusion there's there's never a conclusion no there's there's no resolution there's no conclusion you watch people freak out but like what's the point is the point to prove that
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ghosts are real is to prove that the place is haunted cuz like if the people who lived there think it's haunted like there's no further proof needed I we learned a lot today we this show is not only educational but also insightful
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insightful it's spiritual I just you know it's nice to see like a group of honest people go out to just try and make the world a little bit of a better place and I mean that I mean they look
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however you want to believe Zach Z he is entertaining it's entertaining so if you believe it good for you if you don't believe it and you think it's funny to watch good for you as well good for you
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as well by good for you good for me bye bye everyone we're going to go play with spoons now you going to go dig under the stairwell and find some ribs and then they're going to disappear why did you cut back to me
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what's the scariest movie you've ever seen scream scream
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