Breaking News … Of A Ghost?
It must be a slow news day here in northwestern Connecticut. One of the local papers, the Torrington Register Citizen, ran a news story about — of all things! — a putative ghost in a city bar. Yes,...
View ArticleHauntings Are Not News!
It’s become an old refrain in newspapers and television news rooms. They’re looking for stuff to fill the newshole and occupy airtime, so they resort to “make-news” on whatever crap they can find....
View ArticlePsychics Miss!
As if anyone needed any evidence that psychics and “ghost hunters” are full of it, here’s an example of them being way off. WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh reports on this fiasco, which took place in West...
View ArticleNon-News About A Non-Haunting
The “hauntings as news” trope has gotten old and tired, yet journalists continue to pound out “haunting” stories — even though hauntings are not news. But this latest example is a twist on that trend....
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Ghosts Made Him Do It!
In a slightly New Agey variation on the old excuse “the Devil made me do it,” a man being tried for murder insists “ghosts made him do it.” The Hartford Courant reports on this so-called “defense”...
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More Breaking News Of A Haunting
I’ve blogged before on the “hauntings in the news” trope. I’m amazed that reporters these days can’t seem to find anything better to report on. It’s nothing more than “make-news,” or stuff they crank...
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More Ghosts In The News
I’ve blogged several times already on the dismal phenomenon of “hauntings in the news” — that is, when bona fide media outlets treat ghost stories, hauntings and other paranormal events as though they...
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Ghost Hunter Killed Looking For Ghost Train
Once upon a time, ghost hunting was a rare vocation. The only “ghost hunters” I ever heard of — when I was a kid — were Ed & Lorraine Warren, who happened to live in my home state of Connecticut....
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Yet Another “Haunting” News Story
It’s to be expected, I suppose, given that Halloween is almost here. But the news media continue to waste their time — and that of their readers/listeners/viewers — on stories about “hauntings” and the...
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Ghosts Keep Appearing In The News
The “hauntings as news” phenomenon is one I’ve blogged about many times, as a sterling example of lazy journalism at its most obvious. A nearby newspaper, the Torrington Register Citizen (part of the...
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Wife Beater Claims Ghosts Pummeled His Wife
It seems criminals are increasingly using appeals to the supernatural when caught doing things they shouldn’t have. Once upon a time, this sort of thing was unusual. In the ’80s a fellow here in...
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Ghost Detector Proves Ghosts Exist, Supposedly
A man right here in Connecticut claims he’s invented a ghost detector. And at least one newspaper has published an article about him which conveys his claim and leaves it unchallenged. This is all part...
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So, Exorcisms In Connecticut Are News?
Like so many other media outlets, the folks at WTIC-TV in Hartford seem to have run out of material to fill their nightly news, to the point that they ran a story on exorcisms in my home state of...
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Angry About Finding No Spooks, Ghost Hunters Torch A Plantation
As I’ve mentioned several times before, once upon a time, the vocation of “ghost hunter” and/or “paranormal investigator” was rare. It was so rare, in fact, that in Connecticut, where I grew up, these...
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Hartford Courant Declares Connecticut Building “Haunted”
It’s been a while since I last blogged about the phenomenon of “hauntings as news.” Of course, that’s not because media outlets have stopped reporting on “hauntings” and other “paranormal” events as...
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Paranormalists Cause Havoc Around “Portal To Hell” In Ohio
As I’ve said so many times, the ubiquity of “ghost hunting” shows on television has caused the numbers of “paranormal investigators” in the US to proliferate ridiculously. Anyone can now grab a light...
View ArticleBreaking News … Of A Ghost?
It must be a slow news day here in northwestern Connecticut. One of the local papers, the Torrington Register Citizen, ran a news story about — of all things! — a putative ghost in a city bar. Yes,...
View ArticleHauntings Are Not News!
It’s become an old refrain in newspapers and television news rooms. They’re looking for stuff to fill the newshole and occupy airtime, so they resort to “make-news” on whatever crap they can find....
View ArticlePsychics Miss!
As if anyone needed any evidence that psychics and “ghost hunters” are full of it, here’s an example of them being way off. WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh reports on this fiasco, which took place in West...
View ArticleNon-News About A Non-Haunting
The “hauntings as news” trope has gotten old and tired, yet journalists continue to pound out “haunting” stories — even though hauntings are not news. But this latest example is a twist on that trend....
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