Tonight’s crew is joined by the ECW’s CM Punk. They investigated the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. It’s the hotel the movie The Shining was based on.
The Ghost Hunters do a very different type of ghost investigation than the Most Haunted team. They don’t do seances, don’t bring a psychic medium, don’t have a historian checking their facts as they go along.
Instead, they rely almost entirely on their instruments to measure EMF readings, recorders to catch EVP sounds, temperature readings to measure differences and changes in temperatures, video cameras to catch movement. They bring with them the knowledge of the history of the haunting, so it makes me wonder if they don’t have more specific expectations that make them a bit prone to confirm things.
As they go along, they tell the previous accounts of hauntings, so it’s just a little less exciting because they are simply word of mouth accounts told second hand. WE don’t actually get to witness the activity all that much.
They apply a strictly scientific research method to the investigations, whereas the Most Haunted folks apply a more spiritual point of view. It’s strictly a matter of personal preference, which method you tend to enjoy more. I enjoy the MH version more.
The team starts by making base readings with all their equipment. We see them walking around several rooms taking measurements and talking about haunting reports, but it’s a little dull, compared to the active MH investigations.
Mostly the show consists of watching them talk to each other and looking at monitors. There’s not a lot of actual spirit activity happening on the screen. Perhaps I should have watched GH first, then MH so the contrast wouldn’t be so great.
A couple of hours into the investigation, Jason & Grant picked up a voice in an employee passage that was saying “Hello” a couple of times and also a laughing voice. They caught it on tape. They tried to locate the source of the voice, but had no luck. That was cool!
One of the investigators felt a tug on her shirt when there was no one there. At 11:17 pm Colorado time, they had the phone ring, when they answered, no one was there.
Some of the guys got a phone ringing with no one there, but did not think it was a ghost. They were trying to locate the place of an area of strange EMF reading but it kept moving around. The temperature suddenly dropped 10 degrees in only one area in the room.They kept measuring and confirmed that the very cold patch was moving around in the room.
A couple of investigators had widely varying EMF readings and tried to get the ghost to show itself. They also measured cold spots in the room.
In one of the rooms, the EMF meter started going crazy. The team set it on the bed and showed it jumping up and down for no reason. Very interesting!
The team and some folks online all spotted strange shadows in the billiard room. Then some unexplained voices started to be heard there too. Punk’s Aunt Kathy text messaged him saying she saw a shadow in the hall. It’s getting cool!
I do have to report that my trusty TiVo somehow just skipped recording a little over an hour of the show. I’m missing almost the entire recording of the fifth hour of the investigation. Coincidence? Who knows? I thought it was a little creepy. 
Jason & Grant seemed to get some reaction in one of the rooms from a spirit of a 12-year-old girl named Katie that died there, her uncle used to work there. They think it may have been her that was caught on tape earlier in the evening. They saw a shadow go in front of the microwave light while they were trying to communicate with her.
I have to say that the spirits at the Stanley Hotel were not nearly as cooperative as the ones in Scotland were for the last three days. The location seems to definitely be haunted, but the ghosts just weren’t as active for the cameras tonight. The crew seemed to like the help that the online audience was giving them by helping to spot orbs and shadows, but I know they wanted more spirit activity on the live show. Perhaps next Halloween the ghosts will be more interested in showing off.
I like the whole idea of ghost hunting live. There’s less chance to edit things in or out and people seem excited to be a part of it. What are your thoughts about the live show? Did you enjoy it? Were you disappointed? Let me know your thoughts!
If you are interested in the Ghost Hunters’ regular show, check it out on the SciFi channel.
