Back to GAC

After taking a long hiatus, I am back on the GAC train.  I haven't seen much from the shows that aired before or after Nick left, but after playing a little catch up, I can see some possibilities as to why he may have decided to quit the show.

Zak has always been a big show off and that's partially why his fans love him. However, in a show I recently watched from Season 9 about the ghost town of Bannack, MT, he was acting like a prima donna, bossing Nick and Aaron around and snapping at them like a cranky schoolmarm (15:48 into the video below). In an interview with a man whose family originally lived in Bannack, Zak practically poses for the camera in a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses and black shirt with German crosses on it. If you click on the video below and go to the 8:45 mark, you can see what I'm referring to. As Zak is interviewing the guy, he starts to walk away from him, taking up most of the screen space. He may as well have done his best "Blue Steel".

In another show I watched recently, he nearly forces Nick to return to a house that was making him physically ill. This was the Oman house from Season 9 and one of the scariest Ghost Adventures episodes I've ever seen. The house's owner, David Oman (pretty interesting name, no?), wrote a film based on his experiences living in the house called The House at the End of the Drive.  The film is loosely based on the real events of August 9, 1969 when Sharon Tate and six others were murdered by the Manson family. Oman's house is right up the street from where the murders took place. He believes the houses' location, along with the fact that the house sits atop a geomagnetic anomaly and that it's also on top of a Native American burial ground are contributing to the strange things taking place at his residence. The most disturbing thing about the episode, however, is Oman. He seems weirdly comfortable living in a house that has such bad energy and almost seems like he gets a kick out of it.

Okay, getting back to Nick - it's the only episode I've ever seen in which all three guys leave a lockdown. They get physically ill, especially Nick, who is scratched by something unseen and experiences severe stomach pains. Right after he leaves the house, visibly upset, Zak presses him to go back inside, right back to the bedroom where he was scratched (See 34:42 in the video below). Being the nice guy he is, Nick complies with the ridiculous request. It was at this point I wanted to kick Zak's Ed Hardy-embellished butt. And from the looks of it, Nick did, too.

I love Zak as much as any GAC fan and will continue to watch Ghost Adventures, however, I think he needs a big fat slice of humble pie. Preferably shoved in his face by Nick.

Paranormal Activity 5 Moved to 2014

Paramount pictures has recently moved Paranormal Activity 5 to October of next year. The film with now be released on October 24, 2014.  Before that, it's Latino counterpart, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones will be released on January 3, 2014. So we get two of the movies in one year - Yay! And none this October when the time is perfect for one - Boo!

INTERESTING CNN INTERVIEW: A HAUNTING IN CT

I'm finishing up my column on The Haunting in Connecticut and found this interesting CNN interview with Carmen Snedeker. She's the woman who lived in the Southington, CT house, which was the subject of the movie and the Discovery documentary, A Haunting in Connecticut.

In the interview she told CNN that she:

• is writing her own account of what happened in the house
• that she has always been sensitive to the paranormal and that might be why she and her family were visited by the presence in the house
• that she feels terrible about sending her son, Matt, off to a mental hospital
• and that Matt, who is now thirty-five, is cured of his cancer.

MARYLAND MAN GIVES TALK TO LOCAL GHOST HUNTERS

Last week, Maryland's Gazette published a story about a local ghost hunting group based in Odenton, MD who hosted Bill Bean Jr. as a guest speaker to an audience of over 90 people.

Bean's story of the haunted house he grew up in in Glen Burnie, MD has been made into a DVD which has been shown on Discovery Channel's "A Haunting." The same DVD was shown to the group, coupled with a lecture given by Bean.

Bean told the group that he moved into the house when he was just 4 years old.

"We left that home in 1980," he said. "I didn't discuss our experiences until I was approached to talk about it on a local radio station in 2002. . .Our childhood was robbed. There were no slumber parties at our home, no friends to come over and play for fear of what the evil entities would do."

Bean described the house as eerie, with dark paneling and a narrow hall. After his family moved in, a bedroom door began opening and slamming repeatedly. Soon after sinks would overflow, beds would be stripped after his mother made them, and heavy footsteps could be heard in the attic. He also said that he and his mother were attacked by an invisible entity.

Finally, the family called in a priest who blessed the house and gave the family holy water.

"It got to a point where the priest told us to call him anytime day or night. He would bring holy water to our home in large Mason jars on numerous occasions," Bean said.

You can read more of the article, written by Donna Fellows, here.

Bean has also written a book about his experience titled "Dark Force." Check it out on Bean's own website here.