OK so one of my guilty pleasures is watching ghost-hunting shows & I have to admit "Ghost Adventures" is my favorite.

I don't believe in the supernatural for a cold minute, don't believe in ghosts, am ridiculously skeptical about the paranormal, & I know such shows are completely ridiculous & basic. & I don't care, I still watch 'em.

I call just about every one of such shows "Ghost Bros", because it's always a handful of white bros running around doing totally ridiculous bro shit & doing all this macho posturing & trying to take the piss out of the alleged "ghosts" they find... which they really don't ever find at all, they just use a bunch of equipment that doesn't really measure what they think they're measuring, & say it's a haunting.

For the most part, ghost shows are accidental psychology shows: they're shows about belief, cognitive biases, & skepticism. They're not really about ghosts or the paranormal at all. & that's fascinating to me.

Thing is... the vast majority of shows don't ever really find anything weird or unusual or out of explainable human experience.

...until they do. Until you have *that one episode* where for a couple of minutes, somebody captured something that truly doesn't make sense & is spooky as FUCK.

I love 'em for that, too.