<p>People love the paranormal. Which is why paranormal reality shows like <em>Ghost Hunters, </em>in which &quot;experts&quot; investigate reportedly haunted buildings, are so popular. But whether or not you believe in ghosts, you know that most reality shows show a very exaggerated version of &quot;reality.&quot; And <em>Ghost Hunters</em> is no exception.</p><p>In a popular Reddit thread, someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/nu9g28/people_who_have_worked_on_those_fake_ghost_hunter/" target="_blank">asked</a>: &quot;People who have worked on those fake ghost hunter TV shows, what goes on behind the scenes?&quot;</p><h2>These 14 people who&#39;ve worked on <em>Ghost Hunters </em>or a similar &quot;paranormal&quot; reality show spill the dirt on what went on behind the cameras:</h2><p>1.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Sbtoby/">Sbtoby</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I worked on one for a week, this was about 4 years ago. The hunters invited a psychic (not sure if that was what he called himself). This guy was a big asshole, and thought he was the shit. Big ego. Anyway they were hunting in a haunted house, and this guy was doing a walk through before taping. He went into the whole routine. Cameras were not rolling, it was just for staging an getting acclimated.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>During this time I was at video village and could see/hear what was going on. He was in an upstairs room and began to feel a cool breeze. He made a big deal about it and insisted we start rolling. We did, and he went on and on about thou room temperature drops mean a spirit. He started asking crew if they felt the breeze as well, they did. Finally the first AD (who was sick of this guy&#39;s shit) told the guy that the breeze was coming from the open window in the other room. The psychic threw a fit and stormed out saying we were all amateurs.</p> </blockquote><p>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ChasingCerts/">ChasingCerts</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Used to be on a show. Not a popular one. It was a team of 3; an empath, an &quot;undecided&quot;, and myself, the skeptic. Well my job was to debunk things on the show that the other two (or occasional medium we had on) were claiming was paranormal. Every time I would debunk something, it never made it on the air. The empath (the owner/producer) didn&#39;t want to be proven wrong I guess?</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>For example, that meter they use to measure electro-magnetic force, where the lights go from yellow to red; ours would go off randomly. Well it wasn&#39;t random cause every time he power-cycled a handheld camera or his tablet it would go off. I proved it was the burst of electricity or electrical field (idk) from turning their devices on. Nope. Never let that see the light of day; cause it&#39;s a very common ghost hunting tool and you can&#39;t prove how it really works or else an exciting part of an investigation goes away forever.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I love spooky stuff and the paranormal is really entertaining to me, but it sucked that he left out of skepticism because he thought it wouldn&#39;t draw people.</p> <p>I&#39;m a fan of the original Ghost Hunters, where they would continuously prove that ghosts or haunting didn&#39;t exist, and present their finding to the homeowners to provide them relief. Even the main guy never admitted to hauntings; that was their thing. Once they got super popular they turned into just a normal ghost hunting show.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I want a show, or to be a part of one, that does that. They go in, find something, and prove it wrong, but are still open to the idea and have fun with it. Because at that point if you <em>do</em> find something you genuinely can&#39;t explain, it has more weight because you&#39;re known to debunk nearly everything.</p> <p>I miss ghost hunting it was a lot of fun to me =)</p> </blockquote><p>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ThatGuyFromOhio/">ThatGuyFromOhio</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>That Ghost Hunters show did an episode in a large, old building where I work. (Rather not say the name.)</p> <p>I laughed out loud throughout the episode at the idiocy.</p> <p>For example, they were taping in a freight elevator. Damn thing is in need of repair and has been for years. When it did a little jolt just before taking off, the hosts insisted that was supernatural in origin. Naah. That&#39;s what it does every time it moves.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>And it continued from there. Every single thing they said &quot;proved&quot; ghosts had a perfectly simple explanation.</p> <p>The company I work for loved the publicity, even though it was complete nonsense.</p> </blockquote><p>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Ok-Percentage7297/">Ok-Percentage7297</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I worked for a show in the discovery family of networks, it wasn&#39;t a ghost or supernatural show but the host had previously had one such show. He didn&#39;t believe a f**king word of it then, and didn&#39;t when I worked for him, despite part of the jist of the show being that he believed in this stuff and was going to prove it.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Not much value to add here, but don&#39;t think these people believe what they&#39;re selling you. Most of them are also massive a**holes, and borderline creeps, too. There&#39;s a reason I left (I hear I&#39;ve been replaced with a much younger woman. Don&#39;t know if that means what I&#39;m inferring but it wouldn&#39;t surprise me. The host I worked for likes groupies.)</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CptBloodyObvious/">CptBloodyObvious</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I worked in the same building to the U.K &lsquo;reality&rsquo; paranormal show Most Haunted. It&rsquo;s a show where a C list celebrity from Stockport basically takes a team of mediums and a camera crew into &ldquo;haunted&rdquo; places and they film themselves trying to get a reaction from ghosts.</p> <p>The entire crew of that show would often chat with our team and laugh at how fake the mediums being possessed where. (Supposedly taking on the actions of the ghost and allowing the spirit to talk through them.)</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>One medium in particular (a medium from Liverpool who had an Ethiopian spirit guide and has now passed away himself) was set up by the crew when they realised he was stealing copies of their notes meant for the history team. So one day they changed all of the historical names to be either rude or anagrams with the words &ldquo;fake medium&rdquo; or &ldquo;is a liar&rdquo; and also made reference to some not speaking English or having a strong Scottish accent to see how far he would go.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>There where a few episodes recorded and some actually aired before anyone higher up realised and that was only after some fans caught on and discussed it online. When they did however, the medium in question actually walked. He wasn&rsquo;t sacked like some of the news articles at the time suggest.</p> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/I8H_v8cM9CQ" rel="noopener nofollow ugc" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/I8H_v8cM9CQ</a></p> <p>&ldquo;Mary loves Dick&rdquo; became a regular punchline in the building after that.</p> </blockquote><p>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Fallenangel152/">Fallenangel152</a>:</p><blockquote> <p><span style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">I have done paranormal investigation for years. Done many famous places in my country and met several people &#39;in the industry&#39;, mediums etc. Many were quite bad, a couple were awful. Clearly throwing things from their pockets when the lights were off etc.</span></p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m fully of the opinion that these shows are fake - here&#39;s the dirty secret: Paranormal investigation is very very boring. 99% of the time you&#39;re sat in the dark trying to hear stuff. I think most TV stations realised after a few episodes and pressurised the shows into faking stuff - or at least coming up with nebulous evidence that can&#39;t be disputed on TV (smells, feelings etc.)</p> <p>Doing more psycological experiments at sites is a lot more interesting.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>7.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/startinearly/">startinearly</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I used to work for a company that had a few different properties/buildings. One of the properties did not get much business, so it was usually just manned by a receptionist. The usual receptionist was this older eccentric gal, who would also smoke a lot of weed on the job, probably due to the boredom/isolation of being there. On numerous occasions, she would tell me about how she was 100% convinced a ghost lived in the building. She even named him &#39;Matt&#39; or something. Anyway, she got the bright idea to call up a ghost hunter show and invite them up to film, which they jumped at. Mind you she did not ask management for permission.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Everything was agreed to, but on the date they were to show up, for whatever reason she flaked out and stood them up. Apparently the ghost hunter people showed up and were banging on the doors for a couple hours in the dark with no response. Fast forward a few weeks when I&#39;m talking to the GM when he gets handed a letter. It&#39;s a bill for $1600 from some production company. Half of me wanted to get out of that office asap, but half wanted to stay for the lolz. The look on his face when he learned what happened was priceless.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PlaceboRoshambo/">PlaceboRoshambo</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I dated a guy who worked on Paranormal State and he told me that 99% of the spooky sounds and whatnot are added in post.</p> </blockquote><p>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Siollear/">Siollear</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I dated a nice girl once who had an ex boyfriend whose ex-con step-father was a guest on a ghost hunter show. It was an episode about a haunted / cursed car in southie MA. At the end of the episode they made it seem like they destroyed the car in a trash compactor, but in reality the car was never destroyed and remains in the guys yard to this day. So, for this reason, I imagine there is a lot of fake situations created on these shows. If I recall, they paid him $10,000 for his story and time.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>The guy turned out to have various personality disorders and believed his car talked to him and prevented him from ever finding work, but honestly I think he just made it up as an excuse not to work, doubled down, and some how he ended up on this show.</p> </blockquote><p>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/joshflowers/">joshflowers</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I was a production assistant on Ghost Adventures once. It was the most real reality show I&rsquo;ve ever worked on. They actually didn&rsquo;t script the people I saw interviewed on camera and they actually went into the house they said they were going into. Other shows faked everything. I couldn&rsquo;t believe it. I knew they faked things in editing but didn&rsquo;t realize how much the production did until I saw it myself. Take after take of scripted lines in faked locations.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/happierthaniwas/">happierthaniwas</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I lived and worked in a mansion two ghost hunter youtubers had paid to shoot a video inside. We all still had to work so when they put the video out and were like .... :O do you hear that?? Footsteps!! We were all like yeah because we were all walking about.</p> </blockquote><p>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Numerous-Salamander/">Numerous-Salamander</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>One of those shows filmed at an old house where I worked. I never saw the episode but my boss reported their findings to us and we all laughed. Things like hearing noises in a room designed to amplify noises across the room (a whispering ceiling, I believe there&#39;s one at montecello) and detecting motion where there&#39;s almost certainly a vermin infestation. Not only were most of the things easily explained, many of them were by design from the original (prankster) owner</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/LazerMcBlazer/">LazerMcBlazer</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I actually did a full season of one of these. I&#39;m a production sound mixer, meaning I record all of the sound on set. For a show like this, I&#39;m wearing a recorder/mixer combo in a big bag attached to a harness, have wireless lav mics on all the cast, and am running around with a boom mic as well.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I did a less popular (but still legit) show where we traveled around the country for about six months, almost non-stop. Three days at a location, travel, three days at a location, travel MAYBE with a full day off peppered in there somewhere. It was a brutal schedule but a super fun experience with a great crew that I am all still friends with to this day. There were about 12 of us in total between the camera team, me, producers, and PAs, plus a cast of I think 5 people, one of which is a very legit person in the paranormal world.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I went into the whole thing not believing in ghosts at all and I left believing in ghost slightly more, surprisingly, despite some of the BS our crew pulled.</p> <p>On our 3rd or 4th location shoot, I realized that there was a person on our crew who I had no idea what their actual job was considering I rarely saw him on shoot days and only on travel days and at meals. I asked one of the camera crew (who had done the previous season) and he told me he was &quot;the magic man.&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Apparently the dude&#39;s job was to make things happen while we were filming and doing walkthroughs of buildings. Anything from making lightbulbs explode to creating creepy sounds to causing a bunch of stuff to fall off a table. I&#39;m not gonna lie, he was VERY good at his job because I never saw him and some very creepy shit would happen without warning and he never told anyone what he was planning for each location.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I genuinely can&#39;t believe one of the things that happened wasn&#39;t real. It involved digging up something that there was almost no way he could have buried without making it look like it had recently been buried. There was full undisturbed grass grown over the spot they dug into. To this day, it still creeps me out thinking about it.</p> <p>Overall, the only other time I &quot;felt&quot; scared or freaked out was once in a basement of a house in upstate NY. We were toward the end of the run and I was totally burnt out and just ready to get home to LA and see my girlfriend and dog. Ghosts are fake, this show is fake, everyone on the crew was annoyed with everyone else, the content was stupid etc.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>It was probably about -10&deg; F near Ithaca, completely pitch black, and I felt someone come get right in my face, centimeters away, and start breathing for like thirty seconds. The thing is, the equipment I wear is big and heavy and sticks out almost a foot off my stomach when I&#39;m wearing it, so there&#39;s no way anyone could have gotten that close. The thing was, I felt like I couldn&#39;t do anything about it. I reached out and no one was there but the warm breath and presence was still there. It freaked me the f**k out and still does thinking about it to this day. It was definitely a human presence and lined up with the &quot;story&quot; we were shooting.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Best part about the job? Or production manager used to work for Marriott so he was very loyal to that brand and always booked us in Marriott affiliated properties so we all were super platinum elite status for a long time at the end of the show. I ended up with like 10 free nights in nice hotels by the end of the run to use for my girlfriend and I, not to mention loads of airline miles and status upgrades.</p> </blockquote><p>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Rhinosaur24/">Rhinosaur24</a></p><blockquote> <p>One was done on a bar near my house that was supposedly haunted.</p> <p>Everything was based on falling/&#39;flying&#39; things (glasses falling off shelves. beverage hoses &#39;flying&#39; off their places they&#39;re held). The crew &#39;proved&#39; there were ghosts, by setting up a mock bar scene and putting salt around the bottom of all the glasses and left for the night with cameras.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Sure enough, the footage showed all the glasses/cups moving around. and the salt barriers were all disrupted. it was like 100% of the glasses had moved in some shape of form.</p> <p>What the show failed to mention is that the bar is literally under an overpass for a train, and at a train station. The &#39;moving&#39; items are just because trains are coming by, and the building is about 50 ft from the train tracks.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

14 people who worked on a 'ghost hunter' TV show share what went on behind the scenes.

People love the paranormal. Which is why paranormal reality shows like Ghost Hunters, in which &quot;experts&quot; investigate reportedly haunted buildings, are so popular. But whether or not you believe in ghosts, you know that most reality shows show a very exaggerated version of &quot;reality.&quot; And Ghost Hunters is no exception.In a popular Reddit thread, someone asked: &quot;People who have worked on those fake ghost hunter TV shows, what goes on behind the scenes?&quot;These 14 people who&#39;ve worked on Ghost Hunters or a similar &quot;paranormal&quot; reality show spill the dirt on what went on behind the cameras:1.) Sbtoby: I worked on one for a week, this was about 4 years ago. The hunters invited a psychic (not sure if that was what he called himself). This guy was a big asshole, and thought he was the shit. Big ego. Anyway they were hunting in a haunted house, and this guy was doing a walk through before taping. He went into the whole routine. Cameras were not rolling, it was just for staging an getting acclimated.  During this time I was at video village and could see/hear what was going on. He was in an upstairs room and began to feel a cool breeze. He made a big deal about it and insisted we start rolling. We did, and he went on and on about thou room temperature drops mean a spirit. He started asking crew if they felt the breeze as well, they did. Finally the first AD (who was sick of this guy&#39;s shit) told the guy that the breeze was coming from the open window in the other room. The psychic threw a fit and stormed out saying we were all amateurs. 2.) From ChasingCerts: Used to be on a show. Not a popular one. It was a team of 3; an empath, an &quot;undecided&quot;, and myself, the skeptic. Well my job was to debunk things on the show that the other two (or occasional medium we had on) were claiming was paranormal. Every time I would debunk something, it never made it on the air. The empath (the owner/producer) didn&#39;t want to be proven wrong I guess?  For example, that meter they use to measure electro-magnetic force, where the lights go from yellow to red; ours would go off randomly. Well it wasn&#39;t random cause every time he power-cycled a handheld camera or his tablet it would go off. I proved it was the burst of electricity or electrical field (idk) from turning their devices on. Nope. Never let that see the light of day; cause it&#39;s a very common ghost hunting tool and you can&#39;t prove how it really works or else an exciting part of an investigation goes away forever.  I love spooky stuff and the paranormal is really entertaining to me, but it sucked that he left out of skepticism because he thought it wouldn&#39;t draw people. I&#39;m a fan of the original Ghost Hunters, where they would continuously prove that ghosts or haunting didn&#39;t exist, and present their finding to the homeowners to provide them relief. Even the main guy never admitted to hauntings; that was their thing. Once they got super popular they turned into just a normal ghost hunting show.  I want a show, or to be a part of one, that does that. They go in, find something, and prove it wrong, but are still open to the idea and have fun with it. Because at that point if you do find something you genuinely can&#39;t explain, it has more weight because you&#39;re known to debunk nearly everything. I miss ghost hunting it was a lot of fun to me =) 3.) From ThatGuyFromOhio: That Ghost Hunters show did an episode in a large, old building where I work. (Rather not say the name.) I laughed out loud throughout the episode at the idiocy. For example, they were taping in a freight elevator. Damn thing is in need of repair and has been for years. When it did a little jolt just before taking off, the hosts insisted that was supernatural in origin. Naah. That&#39;s what it does every time it moves.  And it continued from there. Every single thing they said &quot;proved&quot; ghosts had a perfectly simple explanation. The company I work for loved the publicity, even though it was complete nonsense. 4.) From Ok-Percentage7297: I worked for a show in the discovery family of networks, it wasn&#39;t a ghost or supernatural show but the host had previously had one such show. He didn&#39;t believe a f**king word of it then, and didn&#39;t when I worked for him, despite part of the jist of the show being that he believed in this stuff and was going to prove it.  Not much value to add here, but don&#39;t think these people believe what they&#39;re selling you. Most of them are also massive a**holes, and borderline creeps, too. There&#39;s a reason I left (I hear I&#39;ve been replaced with a much younger woman. Don&#39;t know if that means what I&#39;m inferring but it wouldn&#39;t surprise me. The host I worked for likes groupies.) 5.) From CptBloodyObvious: I worked in the same building to the U.K &lsquo;reality&rsquo; paranormal show Most Haunted. It&rsquo;s a show where a C list celebrity from Stockport basically takes a team of mediums and a camera crew into &ldquo;haunted&rdquo; places and they film themselves trying to get a reaction from ghosts. The entire crew of that show would often chat with our team and laugh at how fake the mediums being possessed where. (Supposedly taking on the actions of the ghost and allowing the spirit to talk through them.)  One medium in particular (a medium from Liverpool who had an Ethiopian spirit guide and has now passed away himself) was set up by the crew when they realised he was stealing copies of their notes meant for the history team. So one day they changed all of the historical names to be either rude or anagrams with the words &ldquo;fake medium&rdquo; or &ldquo;is a liar&rdquo; and also made reference to some not speaking English or having a strong Scottish accent to see how far he would go.  There where a few episodes recorded and some actually aired before anyone higher up realised and that was only after some fans caught on and discussed it online. When they did however, the medium in question actually walked. He wasn&rsquo;t sacked like some of the news articles at the time suggest. https://youtu.be/I8H_v8cM9CQ &ldquo;Mary loves Dick&rdquo; became a regular punchline in the building after that. 6.) From Fallenangel152: I have done paranormal investigation for years. Done many famous places in my country and met several people &#39;in the industry&#39;, mediums etc. Many were quite bad, a couple were awful. Clearly throwing things from their pockets when the lights were off etc.  I&#39;m fully of the opinion that these shows are fake - here&#39;s the dirty secret: Paranormal investigation is very very boring. 99% of the time you&#39;re sat in the dark trying to hear stuff. I think most TV stations realised after a few episodes and pressurised the shows into faking stuff - or at least coming up with nebulous evidence that can&#39;t be disputed on TV (smells, feelings etc.) Doing more psycological experiments at sites is a lot more interesting. 7.) From startinearly: I used to work for a company that had a few different properties/buildings. One of the properties did not get much business, so it was usually just manned by a receptionist. The usual receptionist was this older eccentric gal, who would also smoke a lot of weed on the job, probably due to the boredom/isolation of being there. On numerous occasions, she would tell me about how she was 100% convinced a ghost lived in the building. She even named him &#39;Matt&#39; or something. Anyway, she got the bright idea to call up a ghost hunter show and invite them up to film, which they jumped at. Mind you she did not ask management for permission.  Everything was agreed to, but on the date they were to show up, for whatever reason she flaked out and stood them up. Apparently the ghost hunter people showed up and were banging on the doors for a couple hours in the dark with no response. Fast forward a few weeks when I&#39;m talking to the GM when he gets handed a letter. It&#39;s a bill for $1600 from some production company. Half of me wanted to get out of that office asap, but half wanted to stay for the lolz. The look on his face when he learned what happened was priceless. 8.) From PlaceboRoshambo: I dated a guy who worked on Paranormal State and he told me that 99% of the spooky sounds and whatnot are added in post. 9.) From Siollear: I dated a nice girl once who had an ex boyfriend whose ex-con step-father was a guest on a ghost hunter show. It was an episode about a haunted / cursed car in southie MA. At the end of the episode they made it seem like they destroyed the car in a trash compactor, but in reality the car was never destroyed and remains in the guys yard to this day. So, for this reason, I imagine there is a lot of fake situations created on these shows. If I recall, they paid him $10,000 for his story and time.  The guy turned out to have various personality disorders and believed his car talked to him and prevented him from ever finding work, but honestly I think he just made it up as an excuse not to work, doubled down, and some how he ended up on this show. 10.) From joshflowers: I was a production assistant on Ghost Adventures once. It was the most real reality show I&rsquo;ve ever worked on. They actually didn&rsquo;t script the people I saw interviewed on camera and they actually went into the house they said they were going into. Other shows faked everything. I couldn&rsquo;t believe it. I knew they faked things in editing but didn&rsquo;t realize how much the production did until I saw it myself. Take after take of scripted lines in faked locations. 11.) From happierthaniwas: I lived and worked in a mansion two ghost hunter youtubers had paid to shoot a video inside. We all still had to work so when they put the video out and were like .... :O do you hear that?? Footsteps!! We were all like yeah because we were all walking about. 12.) From Numerous-Salamander: One of those shows filmed at an old house where I worked. I never saw the episode but my boss reported their findings to us and we all laughed. Things like hearing noises in a room designed to amplify noises across the room (a whispering ceiling, I believe there&#39;s one at montecello) and detecting motion where there&#39;s almost certainly a vermin infestation. Not only were most of the things easily explained, many of them were by design from the original (prankster) owner 13.) From LazerMcBlazer: I actually did a full season of one of these. I&#39;m a production sound mixer, meaning I record all of the sound on set. For a show like this, I&#39;m wearing a recorder/mixer combo in a big bag attached to a harness, have wireless lav mics on all the cast, and am running around with a boom mic as well.  I did a less popular (but still legit) show where we traveled around the country for about six months, almost non-stop. Three days at a location, travel, three days at a location, travel MAYBE with a full day off peppered in there somewhere. It was a brutal schedule but a super fun experience with a great crew that I am all still friends with to this day. There were about 12 of us in total between the camera team, me, producers, and PAs, plus a cast of I think 5 people, one of which is a very legit person in the paranormal world.  I went into the whole thing not believing in ghosts at all and I left believing in ghost slightly more, surprisingly, despite some of the BS our crew pulled. On our 3rd or 4th location shoot, I realized that there was a person on our crew who I had no idea what their actual job was considering I rarely saw him on shoot days and only on travel days and at meals. I asked one of the camera crew (who had done the previous season) and he told me he was &quot;the magic man.&quot;  Apparently the dude&#39;s job was to make things happen while we were filming and doing walkthroughs of buildings. Anything from making lightbulbs explode to creating creepy sounds to causing a bunch of stuff to fall off a table. I&#39;m not gonna lie, he was VERY good at his job because I never saw him and some very creepy shit would happen without warning and he never told anyone what he was planning for each location.  I genuinely can&#39;t believe one of the things that happened wasn&#39;t real. It involved digging up something that there was almost no way he could have buried without making it look like it had recently been buried. There was full undisturbed grass grown over the spot they dug into. To this day, it still creeps me out thinking about it. Overall, the only other time I &quot;felt&quot; scared or freaked out was once in a basement of a house in upstate NY. We were toward the end of the run and I was totally burnt out and just ready to get home to LA and see my girlfriend and dog. Ghosts are fake, this show is fake, everyone on the crew was annoyed with everyone else, the content was stupid etc.  It was probably about -10&deg; F near Ithaca, completely pitch black, and I felt someone come get right in my face, centimeters away, and start breathing for like thirty seconds. The thing is, the equipment I wear is big and heavy and sticks out almost a foot off my stomach when I&#39;m wearing it, so there&#39;s no way anyone could have gotten that close. The thing was, I felt like I couldn&#39;t do anything about it. I reached out and no one was there but the warm breath and presence was still there. It freaked me the f**k out and still does thinking about it to this day. It was definitely a human presence and lined up with the &quot;story&quot; we were shooting.  Best part about the job? Or production manager used to work for Marriott so he was very loyal to that brand and always booked us in Marriott affiliated properties so we all were super platinum elite status for a long time at the end of the show. I ended up with like 10 free nights in nice hotels by the end of the run to use for my girlfriend and I, not to mention loads of airline miles and status upgrades. 14.) From Rhinosaur24 One was done on a bar near my house that was supposedly haunted. Everything was based on falling/&#39;flying&#39; things (glasses falling off shelves. beverage hoses &#39;flying&#39; off their places they&#39;re held). The crew &#39;proved&#39; there were ghosts, by setting up a mock bar scene and putting salt around the bottom of all the glasses and left for the night with cameras.  Sure enough, the footage showed all the glasses/cups moving around. and the salt barriers were all disrupted. it was like 100% of the glasses had moved in some shape of form. What the show failed to mention is that the bar is literally under an overpass for a train, and at a train station. The &#39;moving&#39; items are just because trains are coming by, and the building is about 50 ft from the train tracks. 

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