Portales al infierno

Bobby Mackey show was great. Love Katrina, love Jack, need to take out all the other people in the room and focus more on the two hosts. And for the love of Mike, those who left a comment about the size of the hosts need to go take a long look at what's wrong in their life to make them think it's ok to refer to others in that manner! Miss Paranormal Lockdown, always enjoyed Jacks show, this one has some kinks to work out but overall enjoyable.

I was very reluctant to watch this show because of the name, "Portals to Hell". It kind of gives the impression that this show is about them trying to prove there is a doorway to hell in these locations which isn't actually an accurate assessment of what they're doing. They're going in with the intention of investigating these places like any other "ghost hunting" show.

What I like about this show is that they let you see and kind of get to know the behind-the-scenes crew. They actually show if one of the crew has an encounter while at a location which helps to add validation to a haunting. I also like that Jack Osbourne seems to have a skeptical nature which is nice in comparison to some other shows where every noise and every sight is a "demon".

I don't like that they had Cindy Kaza on as a "psychic medium". I've seen her in other things and I don't believe she's a psychic or a medium. When she joined them at Bobby Mackey's, the information she gave them was stuff that has been well documented in other ghost hunting shows, specifically Ghost Adventures, and the haunted tour guide that took Jack around at the beginning of the episode mentioned the one and only documented death was a man who got in a fight and basically dropped dead from a blow to his head. Cindy could have EASILY researched that. And I'm sorry but "automatic writing" sounds like a bunch of BS and it didn't escape my notice that you didn't really get to see what she was writing.

Suffice to say, that Portals to Hell isn't really a unique concept because just about every type of ghost hunting show that could be done, has been done. But if you're like me and like to watch these shows to see what kind of evidence people get, then give this a shot.

I really did like this show, but then they explored the Emerald Hill House, which is less than 5 minutes from my home. This episode let me see just home little work they actually do looking into backgrounds and area history. Internet rumor is not historical fact. The Colvin's were never accused of witchcraft and its NOT a witch's broom on the stone - it's an upturned torch. Even a little bit of research or a phone call to the historical society (or any of our THREE local paranormal groups) could have cleared up a lot. So as much as I enjoy the show, I now have to question every historical "fact" they give, which really makes it hard to enjoy.

The show's premise had me extremely excited but it absolutely fell flat in execution. It went from a show I was stoked to watch to something to put on in the background while I do something else. Maybe I'm being a little harsh since there's only been 4 episodes thus far (Bobby Mackey's was most recent) and I'll give it a few more, but rough start.

First, they use little to no equipment ala Ghost Adventures like mapping cameras, spirit boxes, etc and instead use pretty much only an EMF detector and a watered-down version of Ghost Adventures spirit box. It is all based on Jack and Katrina saying "this place is eerie" or "I feel a presence". Jack is terrible as he is terrified of his own shadow and Katrina is a disappointment because she's excellent in other shows she's been on

Second, they've got like 5-10 people in every shot and wonder why they don't pick up anything. They seem too terrified to go anywhere alone and after not picking up anything they call in "a psychic medium friend" who walks around and again just says "this place is haunted." The medium on the Eastern Penitentiary episode literally came on and said "I'm picking up that this is a place people came to die." No s***? It's a jail.

The Bobby Mackey's episode was the biggest disappointment of all because they had every opportunity to really capitalize on what Ghost Adventures started and instead went the route of running 5 people around together and a "automatic writer" that did nothing to really prove anything. 50% of the episode was watching some girl doodle words and say "they want to hurt you." If they ever run into something remotely paranormal, they book it the other way or leave it alone and go somewhere else. Also, the "producer" who needs to comment and guide them every few seconds gets annoying.

I really like show, but I would like to see more history of the location, and maybe a little bit of reenactments, but not to much. The parts that I dislike the most is that they involve the camera crew to much, I think that only Katrina ,Jack and the people being interviewed should be the ones on camera talking.