(This time, one of my buddies is appearing as the "guest breasts")
"Fact or Faked" last night showed an interesting video of a supposed ghost on stairs who shows up in the windows and believed to be nothing paranormal. A hellhound beast was caught on film running across a field and England; they decided to pursue this one. Next, a video of a dude on all four in a white bodysuit in the background behind campers at night--total hoax. In El Cajon, CA a nighttime triangle UFO had them intrigued; they decided to pursue this one. A triangle UFO like a pyramid sat over top of Moscow. They aren't too impressed by that one.
Half the team goes to England in search of the beast. I found this one interesting. They took the potential animals and filmed them running with green screen and then were able to superimpose them on the location where the original film was taken to see if they look similar in the environment. They thought the lion off the bat looks similar. A tracker discussed the sightings of black cats and potentially wild cat hybrids in the area and boars, as well. They went out in the woods to see what they could find. They found a killed ram and wondered what large animal might have killed it and dragged it. The turned on IR and thermal imager and sat in the darkened woods. They found another carcass at night. They came up with a hilarious hybrid animation of a boar mated with a lion. They came, once again, to the conclusion...unexplained. (I'm glad they don't get paid for decisive answers or they'd be poor.)
Next case, half the team went to El Cajon, CA to investigate a triangle-shaped UFO filmed at night. It looked like 3 solid lights staying equidistant and it was silent. It sort of faded out fast. They tried chinese lanterns in the sky and only did one and it burned out quickly. Now, at my 2000 New Year's party, we lit many lanterns and let them float away and they did quite well and looked very very much like the video that man took. They called it quits after one burnt lantern. I wasn't impressed with how wimpy this team is on followthrough. They hooked up a helicopter with an LED light beneath it. Not sure what this was supposed to prove as I seriously doubt any helicopter pilots were putting a rig underneath their helicopters and putting lights on them. It looked very similar, but it was noisy. Even up higher, it was still loud. They launched a balloon with lights. Okay, any of us could have said that a helicopter is too freaking noisy to even consider, but no they had to rent one. The weather balloon with lights was precisely the same. They came up with a "faked" designation (someone is going to make some cash for a decisive answer).
Okay, I'm not going to rip apart the show. I still love the premise. I will say, though, that the women are troubling. They are both totally unable to make expressions on their faces which is rather telling--if you know what I mean. They are much too young to be paralyzing themselves, so I will just hope they have some sort of scleraderma condition instead of taking the Hollywood method to rid themselves of furrows. If for some reasons they come by it naturally to be completely unable to soften their concrete expressions, then they are the most waxen lifeless human beings I've ever seen. Either way, I find it hard to believe their surprise or shock and find it a bit like staring into Medusa. I fear I too will turn to stone.
Beyond that anxiety-producing aspect of the show, I have to say that I still love Ben and Bill and I would include in that the curly-haired blonde dude and I'm oh so sorry, but I never pay attention when they flash their names below them. He seems rather gullible. Bill acts skeptical, but I think he tends to believe stuff. Ben seems to carry the group's decision more than his own. I think I'd like to see a horrible skeptic on the team who is bristly and can express on his/her face and perhaps someone very nerdish who is seriously into the technical aspects of recreating things and willing to go the extra mile instead of running a lion in 10 feet of space and expecting that to show how a lion runs across a field.
I'm pulling for this show. I think it still has the kinks of first season to work out and after that I will be probably as avid a viewer as I am of "Destination Truth." It's the right concept and concept is a huge part of success. It's just a matter of adjusting the characters within.
I am still going to get on hands and knees and beg to see more viral videos and just have them sit around and tear them apart with clues. When they showed the first film of the supposed ghost in the hallway and in the windows, I got all tingly when the pointed out the discrepancies and shadows and features that made it a hoax. That's what I want; more skills for the folks at home to start questioning viral videos with their own skills. I want them sitting around a dorm room and watching the vids and tearing them apart. I'd like a clown to be amongst them who mocks the vids, a skeptic, a nerd, and a gullible guy. I want to hear them banter back and forth and point things out and talk atop of each other. Jeez, I really want that.
QUIZ: Which animal did they NOT suggest as what the beast might be?
dog
boar
puma
lion