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This episode makes even less sense than the previous one.

Start off with a boy who falls out the second story window. He claims a bad boy pushed him and that he’s scared of him. Right off this sounds like a family who can’t cope with a stupid accident in the family. It wasn’t that I simply wasn’t paying attention, it was the work of an evil spirit.

The kids have bad dreams about dying and being stabbed (too much Xbox at a friends house). Further, they say there are cannibals outside in the woods. The parents think there is something evil in the house causing all the problems. Certainly no child in the school would make up stories about a haunted wood where cannibals live, that’s just silly talk.

Ryan brings in a medium who says she feels something about a "quick death" and that something is warning her about the woods.

During their first dead time Chad sees his normal shadow movement. This guy sees shadows every single time. Are we sure he’s not just seeing himself standing in front of the damn lights?

To get some history of the location they talk with a local reporter who says that a boy and his dogs disappeared in the woods where the house currently stands. The reporter says the name of a suspect which is also a name heard on one of the tapes another paranormal group captured.

Ryan and team move outside for their next dead time and low and behold they hear twigs snapping and things falling from the trees. Of course my first thought it’s nothing more than branches falling or squirrels running in the trees. They do capture some sort of movement on the camera but no one can make out what it is. Chad goes with fast moving fog. You see shadows in every room and you now say this is fog?

Again they pretty much have no evidence so they go with the idea that because the family cut down trees when clearing the land for the house that they pissed of Mother Nature. Mother Nature is looking for some payback so they plant some trees to make things right. Eilfie does a little chant in the woods and that’s the end of that.

Plant a tree, ward off evil.

Other Articles of Interest:

• Paranormal State – Bedroom Eyes – S05E13
• Paranormal State – Dwelling of the Dead – S05E11
• Paranormal State – Do Bad Things – S05E10
• Paranormal State – Haunted Homecoming – S05E13
• Another false start for Savannah hauntings
• Paranormal State S04E05 – Haunted Sex Dungeon
• Paranormal State – The Jersey Devil – Season Finale
• Paranormal State – Season 2
• A Haunting in Georgia
• Paranormal State – Spirits of the Slave Dungeon – S05E03

Here we have a hotel where the clients have apparently captured a shadow of a little boy who died on the property. There are claims of knives being thrown around like it’s a hibachi kitchen. And spirits are supposed to roam the halls scaring the Dickens out of people.

Ryan and Chad claim to have experiences of their own as they wander around the hotel. They hear noises, claim to hear the squeak of a tricycle wheel and see a shadow or some other figure in one of the rooms. But as far as tangible evidence goes they find a whole lot of nothing. They don’t capture any evidence, no voices, no knife wielding entities of any kind.

Further, when they check out the history of the location not a single story or death can be substantiated. Even though there was a fire there, no one is reported as dying because of it. When Chip arrives though he gets the sense that there was an explosion and a death.

Since they have no real evidence of any kind, it’s time to dig into the bag of tricks and pull out one of their far fetched ideas; and this one is a doozy. There really is no paranormal activity, but people have been telling stories and now believe in them which actually created spirit energy and paranormal activity. Basically, they have a bunch of urban legends which people have now convinced themselves are real. And because they think they’re real they feel they’re having experiences.

So what do you do when faced with such a dilemma? Why make up your own urban legends which refute the original urban legends of course. Make up stories that state there is no paranormal activity and the paranormal activity will disappear.

This episode made no sense at all.

Other Articles of Interest:

• American Paranormal – Eastern State Penitentiary – Part II
• Paranormal Lockdown – Malvern Manor – S02E09
• Ghost Adventures – Old Town San Diego – S05E03
• Paranormal State – Ghost on the Tracks – S05E04
• Haunted Highway – Bridge of Doom and Shades of Death Road S02E05
• Paranormal State – Paranormal Detour – S05E07
• Paranormal State – Season 1
• Ghost Asylum – Missouri State Penitentiary – S03E04
• Ghost Lab – Episode 4 – Chicago/Texas
• Ghost Adventures – Old Fort Erie – S04E12

Ryan and team are called out to a house where a three year old claims she heard scratches and clawing at the walls and apparently has fits where she cries out for Jesus and spouts off some rather colorful language.

Michelle Bellanger comes out to get a sense of the house and says she senses clawing creatures and forces trying to dig their way out.

Since the activity came out of nowhere Ryan feels there has to be a trigger to it all. While having a conversation with the client’s brother Ryan hears a story where he dabbled in the occult and tried to summon a spirit. The brother created a summoning circle but before he could close it the rest of the group bailed on him and ran out of it. Ryan feels that since the circle is still open they have a created a gateway to the demonic. Man it’s easy to conjure up bad spirits. Too bad the good ones don’t answer the phone as readily.

Much to my surprise Ryan doesn’t call for an exorcism. Instead he feels they need to perform a closing ceremony to cut the spirits off. I find it amazing that someone can perform some half-assed ritual of the occult and you get possessed and open a doorway to hell right in your living room. But people spend their entire lives in hopes of getting glimpse of the divine and get nothing for it. And the people who do claim they have a conduit to the Almighty show up on TV in shiny suits. Just seems a little off balance to me.

In the end the closing ceremony is all they need to do. Gather around the kitchen table, hold hands, do a little chanting and viola, everything is right as rain. No more child hearing noises at night, no bumps, no bangs. I have to say, this one seemed a little weird.

Other Articles of Interest:

• Paranormal State – The Lurking Man – S05E09
• Paranormal State – Bedroom Eyes – S05E13
• Ghost Adventures – Bonnie Springs Ranch – S04E17
• Paranormal State – Ghosts of the Forgotten – S05E08
• Paranormal State S04E05 – Haunted Sex Dungeon
• Paranormal State – Dwelling of the Dead – S05E11
• Paranormal State, seeing the demonic in a box of Cracker Jacks
• Paranormal State – Do Bad Things – S05E10
• Paranormal State – Spirits of the Slave Dungeon – S05E03
• Paranormal State – Haunted Homecoming – S05E13