Ghost Mine
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Ghost Mine is a particularly moronic paranormal "reality" TV series on Syfy channel featuring a group of miners and two paranormal investigators.
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Supposedly the Old Crescent Mine in Sumpter, Oregon is so haunted that nobody will work there. But they do. A crew of miners with nicknames like "Fast Eddie" and "Papa Smurf" sullenly dig for gold while paranormal "experts" Patrick Doyle and Kristen Luman try to scare the bejeezus out of them by interpreting any event as a sign from the spirit world. Power outage? Ghost did it. High wind? Ghost caused it. Cave in? Definitely a ghost.[1]
They zealously deploy the usual assortment of pseudoscientific ghost busting technology, including a remote controlled vehicle they've named the RIPA ("Remote Indicator of Paranormal Activity") whose numerous battery failures and mechanical malfunctions inevitably get blamed on ghosts. There is much footage devoted to Doyle and Luman using various devices with blinky lights in order to determine if the miners will be "safe" from paranormal forces while working in the mine. In the show's wrapup, they present their "evidence" to the miners; staticky digital audio files and fuzzy video clips of ordinary mine noises and shadows that the miners try their best to act impressed by.
You know a show is in trouble when even the paranormal fans are complaining about its fakeness. Luman's claim to have studied "paranormal psychology" at Portland University turns out to be shaky, and she's been spotted acting in a low budget horror film.[2] The "National Paranormal Association" isn't happy with Doyle either, especially his rather blunt admission that all paranormal shows are staged.[3]
Syfy hopes the series will hit paydirt. The show seems to have found a niche at rock bottom.
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[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.syfy.com/ghostmine/about SyFy.com
- ↑ Ghost Mine Fake Kristen Luman - Meet Your Real SyFy Cast, http://livescifi.tv/ forum
- ↑ http://nationalparanormalassociation.blogspot.com/2013/02/syfys-ghost-mine-star-says-all-syfy.html Syfy's "Ghost Mine" star says all Syfy paranormal shows are 100% entertainment. http://nationalparanormalassociation.blogspot.com