Review: Ghost Hunters 10th Aniversary show
Review: Ghost Hunters 10th Aniversary: Gettysburg, PA: The Jennie Wade House, the Haunted Orphanage, The Farnsworth Inn, and the Bed and Breakfast Battlefield.
I watched this show with great anticipation. I live an hour away from Gettysburg, and my boyfriend lives just outside, so I am there at least once a week. The show, an hour long, covered not one, but four locations. This is highly unusual for TAPS. Usually they cover one location. Sometimes, the location can be very large, but four locations in one show? I found it odd.
What it resulted in was a very disjointed, confusing, sloppy show. No area was covered well. The investigators were spread very thin. It appeared to be done over two days, then edited and stuffed into an hour.
The other issue I have is with their research. It appears that, either they didn't do any, or they got their information from sources that didn't have a clue. A local author, Mark Nesbitt, who is a former battlefield tour guide and very knowledgeable about Gettysburg, having written a series of best-selling books called Ghosts of Gettysburg , was the "client" on this episode. He brings TAPS in to investigate the supposed increase in activity at all of the locations involving ghostly children. This they try to tie into the orphanage. However, here is what they get wrong, and, to me, it is not minor. Mark Nesbitt, in one of the interviews with him, tells the team that there were approximately 51,000 casualties in Gettysburg during the Civil War battle. This is correct. Later, investigator Britt says
51, 000 deaths. This is incorrect. False. Wrong.
During the investigation the cast discusses the orphaned children and why they may be running around at three different locations. During some of their on-camera discussions they claim that the orphanage was operating during the war. They mention soldiers dying in battle and having to leave their children in the orphanage. The orphanage didn't open until ten years after the war had ended. It was not part of the 150th aniversary celebration. Also, the orphanage housed not only children but their mothers as well.
The Farnsworth Inn, a restaurant down the street from both locations, felt tacked onto the end of the show, as if they had to fill time.
The battlefield investigation was so short, even though they caught their best evidence there; a thermal image of a ghostly figure that appears, then disappears, inexplicably.
I have lived near Gettysburg for many years. The ghost tours and hype surrounding the town and it's alleged haunted locations, has increased a hundred-fold in the past few years. Locations, like the orphanage, never had any reputation for being haunted until very recently. Most of the show felt like a promotional video for the ghost tours of Gettysburg.
TAPS, you know I love you and respect you. (read my review of Ghost Hunters in an earlier edition of my blog.) But this was so disappointing. Yes, you caught some compelling evidence, and that I loved. But the rest of the show...not so much.
P.J.
I watched this show with great anticipation. I live an hour away from Gettysburg, and my boyfriend lives just outside, so I am there at least once a week. The show, an hour long, covered not one, but four locations. This is highly unusual for TAPS. Usually they cover one location. Sometimes, the location can be very large, but four locations in one show? I found it odd.
What it resulted in was a very disjointed, confusing, sloppy show. No area was covered well. The investigators were spread very thin. It appeared to be done over two days, then edited and stuffed into an hour.
The other issue I have is with their research. It appears that, either they didn't do any, or they got their information from sources that didn't have a clue. A local author, Mark Nesbitt, who is a former battlefield tour guide and very knowledgeable about Gettysburg, having written a series of best-selling books called Ghosts of Gettysburg , was the "client" on this episode. He brings TAPS in to investigate the supposed increase in activity at all of the locations involving ghostly children. This they try to tie into the orphanage. However, here is what they get wrong, and, to me, it is not minor. Mark Nesbitt, in one of the interviews with him, tells the team that there were approximately 51,000 casualties in Gettysburg during the Civil War battle. This is correct. Later, investigator Britt says
51, 000 deaths. This is incorrect. False. Wrong.
During the investigation the cast discusses the orphaned children and why they may be running around at three different locations. During some of their on-camera discussions they claim that the orphanage was operating during the war. They mention soldiers dying in battle and having to leave their children in the orphanage. The orphanage didn't open until ten years after the war had ended. It was not part of the 150th aniversary celebration. Also, the orphanage housed not only children but their mothers as well.
The Farnsworth Inn, a restaurant down the street from both locations, felt tacked onto the end of the show, as if they had to fill time.
The battlefield investigation was so short, even though they caught their best evidence there; a thermal image of a ghostly figure that appears, then disappears, inexplicably.
I have lived near Gettysburg for many years. The ghost tours and hype surrounding the town and it's alleged haunted locations, has increased a hundred-fold in the past few years. Locations, like the orphanage, never had any reputation for being haunted until very recently. Most of the show felt like a promotional video for the ghost tours of Gettysburg.
TAPS, you know I love you and respect you. (read my review of Ghost Hunters in an earlier edition of my blog.) But this was so disappointing. Yes, you caught some compelling evidence, and that I loved. But the rest of the show...not so much.
P.J.
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