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New episode: discussing drama in the paranormal field and how it is impacting valid research. As always, suggestions and questions welcome. Contact me or send to contact@thegsny.com
I have often stated that when debunking there are two criteria that must be considered. "Possibility" and "Probability". We all agree that damn near anything is possible. Hell, with today's technology, we can create a 2 hour movie without having one living actor involved or one real location. This makes "probability" even more important. Is it possible that someone snuck into Penn State Penitentiary and hung a dummy from the ceiling and swung it into the field of view of the camera? Sure it is. We then ask, is it "probable"? NO! and even HELL NO! To think for one second that someone could sneak past security, pilgrim production employees, TAPS employees, Syfy employees, Penn State employees, KNOW where they had placed the camera, sneak there, climb 3 stories of chain link fence while carrying a dummy and a rope to the third floor, hang that dummy without a ladder in full view of the camera, swing that dummy into the camera, take DOWN the dummy in full view of the camera, climb back down 3 stories of chain link fence and sneak out past all those people is a PIPE DREAM and the man who stated he debunked the Penn State anomaly is just plain stupid if he is using THIS as his proof.
I've also stated that just because something CAN be faked, does not go hand in hand that it IS faked. An amount of trust (and this is why credibility is soooooo important and why you should protect that credibility) must be given to the investigator who was actually THERE dealing with a myriad of activity, be it normal or paranormal, at the time the activity was recorded. Like most jobs, only many months of actual field work, will allow you to do your work subconsciously, wherein your mind and body work in harmony without spending precious seconds wondering what to do next. Leaving out the obvious contamination, dust, moisture, hair, pollen, fog, humidity, slow shutter speed, etc. to call someone an out and out liar is speculative at best. A picture is 1/60th of a second on a good pic and akin to reading one sentence of a novel and trying to explain the whole story based on that one sentence. Yet I see many trying to do that very thing.
All you should be doing is offering opinions, NOT arresting, bringing them to trial and convicting them from 1/60th of a second of life. To do so makes YOU look FOOLISH and YOU lose all credibility, not the person taking the picture. This is why this site has decided to change directions. We also got caught up in the drama of calling out other teams based opon 1/60th of a second of an entire investigation.
We got caught up in the drama that ensued and in the process, lost site of the entire message trying to be conveyed. This excludes blatant fraud. Fraud in this field should and WILL be called out, but...only the actual fraud, NOT the person conducting the fraud. In this way, the emotional attachment to the person by their fans and followers will not be added to the equation. It's hard to argue with the facts of a fraud. What we MUST do, is make sure what we are calling out is actually a FRAUD and NOT just a simple mistake. We will NOT condone nor take part in a witch hunt or a Macarthy era paranoid investigation. If this is your agenda, you are doing exactly that thing you are calling others out for. You will go in and call everything fraud, without due process, just as a team will go in and call everything paranormal. You are just as guilty!
