What is with american 'haunting' programs being so melodramatic?
Something else most people tend to forget is that fear spreads, rebounds and grows - if one person is already scared (perhaps because they're superstitious) they have an effect on the people around them, making the previously not-scared people, jumpy and more willing (unconsciously) to be scared themselves.
You see this happening all the time in the english program 'Most Haunted' - you can actually watch it happening. The presenters have a habit of jumping at absolutely everything, even if it is obviously just a creaky floorboard or a pet, passing on their hysteria to each other.
Though I must wonder at why Seeker has put this up - so what if an atheist has gotten jumpy in a building he has been repeatedly told is haunted?
I'm an atheist and I still get jumpy in the dark, but that is because of the fear of the unkown, not because of any belief in ghosts/spirits/demons/devils/gods/whatever. Fear of the dark isn't even irrational - it's a hang up from our pre-historic days, when the dark often contained big scary things that could eat you as soon as look at you.
I'm terribly amused by the introduction of the 'Psychic Researchers' that helped out in the Amityville horror - considering that is actually proven and doccumented as a hoax. The owners of that house did it all themselves so they could get money and avoid paying various debts.
As can be seen here.
Another big problem with the ghost and psychic researchers, is that they
want to find evidence of ghosts and psychic activity. So they're not exactly un-biased, are they?
And do you notice how 'Liegh/Lee', the medium, only starts channeling something
after the researcher looks at the photograph and says 'it's a demon'?
Ah yes, this story is rife with the typical fraudulant practices of Psychics and Mediums, as well as the hysteria of the superstisious.
This program proves nothing. Except how badly made some programs can be.