10 Reality TV Shows That Question Your Supernatural Beliefs

Proving that you can never have much of a “good thing” (of course, your definition of that expression may vary), The SyFy Channel premiered “Ghost Adventures” on its network in 2007. Starting life as a documentary filmed in 2004, the film was popular enough to get a series order, but now switching networks to The Travel Channel, where it continues to air.

The show is basically a carbon copy of “Ghost Hunters”, only here we follow three douchey investigators instead of a larger group. There’s Zak, a dude-bro who would seem more at home at a bar telling you tales of his female conquests than believing in things that go bump in the night. Aaron, the whipping boy who’s always left alone in alleged “hot spots” so he can mug with mouth agape for the camera, and Nick. Uh... the guy with the beard who has since left the group to star in other, equally as terrible, reality programs called “Ghosts Of Shepherdstown”, and “Paranormal Lockdown”.

For some reason, this show has tons of fans despite being one of the most blatantly phony programs of this sort. Each noise or shadow is almost automatically deemed paranormal. Every dead battery is blamed on a ghost trying to manifest itself. And if there’s a sudden temperature change? Well, that must be where a portal to the underworld is located.

These guys must be the luckiest investigators ever, because they never fail to catch some sort of evidence every place they go! Not that the evidence is ever anything to write home about, mind you. Barely audible whispers, unknown banging in the distance, or, my personal favorite, ghosts “talking” through something called The Ovilus, a device that spews out robotic sounding words depending on the electromagnetic fluctuations in the air.

“Ghost Adventures” may be good for some laughs at how over the top dramatic these guys can be, but if you’re looking for proof of some sort of afterlife? You ain’t gonna find it with these jokers.