Haunted Hospitals

Why do all the ghosts gargle and snare like a choking cat? Really drags you right out of what could have been a potentially entertaining show.

So the Travel Channel recently ran marathons of Paranormal 911 and Haunted Hospitals. Well I like a good ghost story especially if it's told by the people that actually experienced it. Well both of these shows must be produced by the same people (Canadians according to their accents) and were dumb enough to have the same "actor" telling different unbelievable stories. In one he's wearing a 3-piece suit claiming to be a federal policeman for homeland security and in the other he's wearing a knit shirt claiming to work for a funeral home transporting dead bodies. Really??? This stuff is so fake it's pathetic!!

The witness accounts and recreations are fine. What blows it are the so-called "experts" and their ludicrous observations. It's like they're auditioning to be the next Captain Obvious. Totally pointless and devoid of any actual insight. If you need this, you're not paying the slightest attention to the story.

What are the minimum qualifications to be a paranormal expert anyway? For this lot, the title seems self-imposed.

The experts take the viewer out of the story because they are dry & for spooky fans, we know all of the designs of ghostly presence & they keep repeating the same thing every episode. The show works hard at making the stories sound scary but the stories are often exaggerated dragged out with all the hesitation when often these events are typically quick & often dismissed. I wish it would work out the stories more with less drool. I keep watching, hoping for better & less experts. Thank goodness for Amazon Fire TV I use my 10 second pass.

The words they use are repeated by different people......."chills", "hair on the back of my neck stood up", "Black as night", "eyes penetrated", "eyes looked right through me", "I thought......but, I was wrong". Also, all "shadow people" don't have to "growl". If you are going try to make this sound authentic, you need to use different writers, with different styles and vocabulary. At a minimum, you need to get input from sources to change it up a little. Using a thesaurus might help. Also, don't go over-the-top with the demon stuff. The more sensation you try to make it sounds, the more ridiculous it becomes. The actors are good, but the writing and crazy stories don't work.