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.
Every Ghost show:
"We are not sure what is causing this, so it is definitely ghosts"
*Everyone high Fives (including the ghost which you cannot see)*
@Kinnison LOL yeah exactly. If I showed up on one of those shows, they'd HATE me: "Bro - why you using that EMF detector? What's it showing? Why do you say it's showing you a ghost? How do you know? Did you check sunspot activity this week? How about get a map of this location's electrical system? You sure you using that thing right?"