Paranormal State - Season 1
Either way, it’s the full first season of the series but there don’t appear to be any extras on the set which is odd.
Still, for those of you, like me, who may have missed an episode here and there, it’s the best way to catch up and see them all again and in order!
A desire to explore the world of the paranormal, seeking that which is unexplained or unproved, is exciting and often fulfilling. But unfortunately, our society has an M.O. of taking advantage of belief and desire. It can make the faithful into fools. And usually that can be accomplished with simply separating the believers from their hard-earned money.
Paranormal technology has the potential to enhance seekers’ paranormal quests. Or it can be useless scams. The latest in this arena? Various expensive tools designed to capitalize on grieving believers’ desires to contact departed loved ones.
Some examples. The Phone Angel, a cell phone buried in a grave with an external speaker, has been sold for nearly ,000 a piece. Mourners can call and broadcast their voices towards their deceased family member or friend. Or how about the Endless Echoes satellite dish tool, developed on the idea that dead souls float in outer space. For the price of .95 a minute, you can leave a message on the company’s answering service — ideally that message you never got to communicate — and have it blasted into space. Read the full post at Paranormal Insider
In this episode, the crew goes to Vegas to visit Savannah, a teenager who appears to be seeing dead people. Once again, I was really intrigued by the fact that Ryan didn’t immediately accept her story and that he was concerned for her emotional and mental well being. Savannah was the victim of assault a few years earlier and Ryan was concerned that she was using the ghost sightings as a way to deal with her trauma.
If you visit The Paranormal Insider blog, you’ll see that Savannah’s mother has several strange stories to tell but it doesn’t end there. During Ryan’s visit, Savannah drew a picture of one particularly visible spirit. A teen girl named Emily, who had also been assaulted but wasn’t lucky enough to survive. She drew a picture of Emily and then related details to the team that were very specific. Specific enough for the team to get a bead on exactly who the spirit belonged to.
Here’s where it gets wonky. In the episode, Ryan states that Savannah had details, such as the young victim’s pregnancy, that had never been reported on the Internet. Thus, she couldn’t know unless she had spoken to the dead girl. However, I did some investigating on my own and I found “Emily”, too. And those details ARE listed on the web. Now, I understand that these episodes of Paranormal State were filmed some time ago, so perhaps the websites weren’t active then.
Still. Take a look at the photo and the details for Emily Garcia at this website and see if you don’t notice a real resemblance to Savannah’s drawing at the top of this page.
Finally catching up on the last two episodes of Paranormal State before the new ones begin on Dec. 31. I’m not sure if I like this show or not, to be honest. I keep coming back, so I guess that says something but I feel like it’s a bit overly dramatic for the camera and that puts me off.
In this episode, Ryan and the group visit a home that is reported to be the latest playground of the demon that announced itself an episode earlier. The little girl in the house claimed she often got woke up by a growling monster and the husband claimed he had claw marks on his back after confronting the ‘thing’ in the house.
What I found really fascinating about the episode was the fact that the family was clearly in an emotional upheaval and you have to wonder if one thing has anything to do with the other. The house was a mess, the husband and wife having marital problems, signs of neglect all around. Ryan talks of demons finding the weak, and it makes me wonder if people who are in this kind of state don’t actually seek out a paranormal explanation rather than face the reality.
And then there was Pat. Pat was a family friend who was obviously making matters worse. On the Paranormal Insider blog, Ryan tells of an incident that I wish they had left on camera but it would have shattered the illusion for sure. During one of the most emotional moments in the episode there was a banging on the front door. Pat yelled at Ryan not to open the door because it was the demon trying to get in. Everyone was terrified and it turned out to be a production assistant delivering an item to the camera man.
Now THAT would have made for an interesting moment in my eyes. Present the facts to me and I’ll keep watching. If I feel like you’re twisting the facts to suit the show, I’ll turn the channel and I won’t come back.
If you’re walking down a dark, lonely street in New York City and you hear a voice inside your head — fear not. You haven’t lost your mind, you’ve simply come across an innovative new advertisement for A&E’s Paranormal State.
The technology behind it is called HoloSonic and it actually projects a sound wave into your brain so you literally are hearing voices in your head. Creepy, huh? Ironically, the technology was made for less creepy uses such as providing tours in quiet places such as museums or reducing noise pollution in the city. But people who experienced the voices late at night weren’t thinking ads when the female voice said, “It’s not your imagination. . . ”
