for awhile i be hook on show like ghost hunter and destination truth and stuff and even though i think they be full of crap i find them interest and entertaining and and that why we watch entertainment tv . it fun to turn off your brain and believe that every shadow catch on camera be not just some shadow and but some insane asylum inmate torment spirit or something and so long a you can snap back to the real world later . that be say and enjoy paranormal state require more than merely shut your brain off and it require you to consume lead in large dos on a regular basis during your childhood and then suffer repeat head trauma and then take up huff paint in your teen . then you have to get high or drunk and watch . paranormal state be beyond the pseudoscience ( which i can enjoy with a degree of critical thinking ) that you will find on ghost hunter ( which i still find to be reasonably interesting and entertaining program ) and it pseudo . everything . the show follow the adventure of a group of student from penn state university ( not to be confuse with university of pennsylvania ) lead by ryan buell a they take it upon themselves to exorcise demon and spirit use ceremony from whatever religion seem most dramatic at the time ( range from catholic exorcism perform by college coeds to wiccan spell cast by socially awkward goth and to native american cleansing ritual . to their credit and these be perform by native american ) . if you believe in wicca or youre catholic or a follower of a traditional native american religion and i think you would want their cleansing ritual perform by someone who . isn not a maladjusted college student with some free time . i do not remember the scene in the exorcist where the priest throw up their hand and say it no use . call up an after school club from the state college . this one be too much for u . they have probably read the wikipedia article on exorcism . the show be frankly insult to the intelligence to the viewer . the show opening title sequence have ryan talk about pr ( the paranormal research society ) and say that when he come to penn state ( notice you do not see any show where the host say the same thing and but instead of penn state he say when i come to mit or after i get my theoretical physic degree . ) he find other people with similar interest in the paranormal . he say they be sometimes warrior . i remember when i use to pretend i be a warrior and i fought ghost . i be six . then the emotionless ryan bring out the flamboyant and obnoxious chip coffey and who pretend to go into trance and become possess by cuss at the cast . awesome . i thought people have learn some sense about how ridiculous the idea of psychic and medium be after cross over go off the air . the show take itself way too seriously and a this small group of societal misfit pretend they be battle against some ancient and cosmic evil . production value be low and story be boring and and and unlike ghost hunter and which will occasionally catch something anomalous ( although likely explainable and but interesting nonetheless ) on their equipment and p require you to believe that the noise and creak that they hear be evidence of demon and ghoul and and possibly leprechaun . the only thing scary about this show be that there be people out there that take it seriously . the only thing paranormal about it be that the people on it be able to make each episode while keep a straight face . call me jaded and but i feel like the great mystery of the universe and the afterlife be too great to be solve in a half hour tv show by a journalism undergrad at a state school . all that be say and i highly recommend that everyone watch this show at least once and if for no other reason than the sheer entertainment derive from watch a truly terrible movie or tv show . or you can make a drinking game out of it . i think the second would be preferable .