One of the things about almost all ghost hunting programs that makes absolutely no sense in the searches is the following.
If they go to some foreign country,..they try to speak to the ghosts asking questions in English. How many of us could go to a different country and speak their language and understand it fluently.
If ghosts are human,..they would not understand our language at all and would not respond in our language either.
However....if ghosts are not of human origin,...as I suspect,...and are of demonic nature,...they could understand any language and reply in any language...because they have the gift of "deceipt".
The oldest, bestest trick of Satan,..is to make us believe he is not real. His entire purpose is to make us believe in anything but the truth. UFO's, ghosts, shadow creatures, EVP's, etc. all lead one to believe in something entirely different than what the Bible says happens upon our death.
The shows have a certain degree of entertainment, but make no mistake,..evil exists,...and the investigators open their doorway to our plane on every investigation by empowering them in some way, shape, or form.
Demons have different hierarchies, different powers, different abilities, different purposes. Not all demons try to scare, or do bad things in a physical sense,...but to trick, and to deceive, and make you believe that "auntie Mae" still lingers in her old room upstairs.
That is "hogwarts"....Auntie Mae resides in heaven now, or hell...not hanging around moving cups in the cabinet. If they are being moved,...it aint by her......no matter how much you wished it were.
That friends is no different than seeing UFOs, shadow creatures,,..all paranormal occurences are not of our world,...but a world of spirits that normally can not be seen....but occasionally may touch our world if a door is opened,..or the mind is open to such nonsense.
Yes,.,..things can go bump in the night,...EVPs can have real other world voices imprinted,...but these are never of human origin...trust me.
Hope you enjoyed thoughts on this,..."Righteous Sword"

The language thing is sooo funny, in that we are assuming that they can hear us, in any language, so why not have a team member on GHI who is multi-lingual, say who can speak 8-10 languages or I'd accept 6-9 languages, mainly Eastern European.So we have somone that can speak, say Spanish, and ask "Como sa llama"(my Spanish is not good) but asking "what is your name?". You might as well be trying "manual language" in case one might be deaf. I think, they think, it impresses the audience, which it hasn't done it to me so far.

Actually I HAVE heard them speak different languages on GHI

(02-03-2010 12:38 AM)weevamp13 Wrote:  Actually I HAVE heard them speak different languages on GHI

Whoa. I stand corected. Thanks, admitting I did see all show but since I speak several, just an opinion. I would gladly have the number of shows reduced and what that is left would be QUALITY.

(02-05-2010 07:06 AM)Ghost Monk Wrote:  

(02-03-2010 12:38 AM)weevamp13 Wrote:  Actually I HAVE heard them speak different languages on GHI

Whoa. I stand corected. Thanks, admitting I did see all show but since I speak several, just an opinion. I would gladly have the number of shows reduced and what that is left would be QUALITY.

Not exactly sure what this is supposed to mean. But it sounds as though you don't believe me. So I just needed to say this. First off....did you watch last night's new episode? Because they were speaking in Spanish....again. Sure it's not the whole entire episode, and they all don't do it. But my original point was they don't do ALL english all the time.

I understand what you were probably getting at, they should speak the language the whole time. BUT they seem to get evidence speaking english, so what does it mater. The way I see it, its SUPERnatural. So why shouldn't they be able to understand us? If they are going to do anything, they will do it whether they can understand what language the investigators are speaking anyways. You can simply tell by the tone of voice, even if you don't understand. If the investigator is trying to provoke to get a reaction, he/she is obviously sounding angry, therefore the spirits might be thinking "IDK what's going on, but its a threat" and react, doing something that we can catch as evidence.

I just had to say that. Again, it's not the whole episode, but they do try when they are in a place that they can at least speak a little of that particular language. I'm just saying...

How do babies work? They don't pop out knowing the language you know. They have an open-mind. Scientists think that babies understand pretty much every language, but hearing only one language for its upbringing, it loses it's sense for the other languages. Look at families that speak two different languages, and how the child is about 5 or 6 years old, and understands both languages. There isn't a language barrier in birth, so why is there one in death?

Maybe in death, you gain back your senses... But who knows, we are not dead... Yet, haha.

Could the afterlife be a higher plane of knowledge and learning?
Do we finally find out our purpose to the question "Why am I here?" when we die?

(04-09-2010 05:30 PM)Phreak Wrote:  How do babies work? They don't pop out knowing the language you know. They have an open-mind. Scientists think that babies understand pretty much every language, but hearing only one language for its upbringing, it loses it's sense for the other languages. Look at families that speak two different languages, and how the child is about 5 or 6 years old, and understands both languages. There isn't a language barrier in birth, so why is there one in death?

Maybe in death, you gain back your senses... But who knows, we are not dead... Yet, haha.

Could the afterlife be a higher plane of knowledge and learning?
Do we finally find out our purpose to the question "Why am I here?" when we die?

Good point!

The endless debate to whether ghosts do hear us, or if they can, do they really want to reply. Same thing along the lines of assuming shosts only come out at night as if they know the difference, maybe yes, maybe no.. I comments on this a couple of months ago but I thought it might be of some import, based on replies, no ones seems to care about the question, so I'll just llet it drop, with a noticable, WHO KNOWS?

(04-10-2010 12:24 AM)Ghost Monk Wrote:  The endless debate to whether ghosts do hear us, or if they can, do they really want to reply. Same thing along the lines of assuming shosts only come out at night as if they know the difference, maybe yes, maybe no.. I comments on this a couple of months ago but I thought it might be of some import, based on replies, no ones seems to care about the question, so I'll just llet it drop, with a noticable, WHO KNOWS?

I just wanted to comment on the bold part of the quote above. This is just MY thoughts on this. I think that they are around us at all times. I think the reason that we hear more tales taking place at night time or we tend to do our investigations at night time is not so much that's when the spirits come out, but that's when WE are more in tune with them. The night time frightens a lot of us. We cannot see everything that's going on like we can during the day, so we are more in tune with our other senses during the night. I think if we just tried to be more in tune with all those senses during the daytime that we'd probably pick up on more activity during the day as well.

But like I said, those are just MY thoughts on it.

(04-10-2010 02:38 AM)weevamp13 Wrote:  

(04-10-2010 12:24 AM)Ghost Monk Wrote:  The endless debate to whether ghosts do hear us, or if they can, do they really want to reply. Same thing along the lines of assuming shosts only come out at night as if they know the difference, maybe yes, maybe no.. I comments on this a couple of months ago but I thought it might be of some import, based on replies, no ones seems to care about the question, so I'll just llet it drop, with a noticable, WHO KNOWS?

I just wanted to comment on the bold part of the quote above. This is just MY thoughts on this. I think that they are around us at all times. I think the reason that we hear more tales taking place at night time or we tend to do our investigations at night time is not so much that's when the spirits come out, but that's when WE are more in tune with them. The night time frightens a lot of us. We cannot see everything that's going on like we can during the day, so we are more in tune with our other senses during the night. I think if we just tried to be more in tune with all those senses during the daytime that we'd probably pick up on more activity during the day as well.

But like I said, those are just MY thoughts on it.

Appreciate your comments. Any comments are welcome and I try to get back asap. I still think the issue of ghosts during the day are based on personal experiences, which others might never have, anf feel that nightime is best. I can respect that and right, the night's are prone to causing a sense of unfortable.