Thursday, August 21, 2008

Ghost Hunters International - Finale in Transylvania

The first stop on the finale is Banffy Castle in Transylvania, Romania. The castle is currently being used as a renovation school. Alot of the students report hearing noises, voices and seeing shadows.
Rob & Brandy start in the stables where a stable boy is usually seen. The stable boy was murdered by an older woman to keep him from talking after she seduced him. See, they even had cougars back in the 16th century! Brandy tells the spirit that she won't hurt him and Rob challenges him to whisper something in Brandy's ear. They do hear a noise but little else.
Barry was trying to debunk the shadows in the blue room when Dustin sees a shadow in a window in the room next to Barry, but that room doesn't have a floor and the window is a good 20 feet up! Barry goes in, as far as he can, to be sure no one is in there and sees flashing lights. No one is in the area and they are not using flash lights. Meanwhile in the courtyard, Dustin is waiting to continue with Barry and he hears hissing noises coming from the castle. Turns out it was just an owl. Had us going for a minute though!
Andy goes into the "secret room" off the stables as Brandy holds the thermal cam. The room turns out to be a tunnel that leads to the basement.
The findings show an audio of the noise Rob & Dustin hear in the stables. At the same time, Barry was taking pictures with the full spectrum camera and catches a flash of light right where the noise was heard. Rob says there isn't enough evidence to call the castle haunted.
On to Curtea De Arges, Romania and Dracula's Castle. The team has to climb 1400 (not a typo) stairs to get to the castle and wisely decide to take their equipment to avoid multiple trips. Rob decides to try a technique called triangulation using three teams in a triangle formation all doing EVP work simultaneously. At the end of the session, they listen to the recordings to see which area to concentrate on. Barry hears noises on his recording from the top of the castle so that is where they go to conduct additional EVPs.
It turns out that the noises Barry heard where natural and Rob says the castle is not haunted. I guess Count Dracula is resting in peace. All in all, not a bad season. Can't wait until next season to see where GHI goes next. Double D

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