I believe in ghosts. There have been too many experiences in my life for me to remain a disbeliever. However, I cannot understand at this point why anyone would believe without seeing due to the absolutely terrible attempts at falsification of paranormal evidence. I’m not talking about the low-budget YouTube stuff. I’m talking about the financed and televised hoaxes peppering A&E and SyFy. The stuff coming out these days is terrible. It is so bad that I feel insulted as a viewer.
The A&E show that has me so disgusted is a poopfest called American Haunting. The show feels like a seven year old watched Paranormal Activity, showed it to her producer parents who said, “yeah, let’s go with that.” The show attempts to persuade you that the family of the episode is being haunted and cameras are stations around the house for 11 days to catch evidence. What you end up with is a terribly and amateurishly staged hoax that doesn’t even attempt to look real. This show may single handedly remove any few believers in the idea of the paranormal.
If you want to make a disbeliever feed them a steady diet of hoaxes to the point where they’ve been so moved to disbelief that a ghost must actually slap them in the face for them to believe a ghost is real.