i be a pretty much a sucker for those ghost hunter show . from the cheesy mockumentaries like discovery channel the haunting to scooby doo reality show like ghost hunter . when i saw promos for a and e paranormal state i know i be go to watch . especially when paranormal state be juxtapose against a weak monday night football game . by the end of the pilot of paranormal state when the main character in this reality dance macabre give a creepy kid a bottle of max von sydow holy water and reassure him by tell this boy that he and too and have a unspecified bad experience a a child with thing that come out of the closet and the ( catholic ) church give him a holy water to fend off the thing come out of the closet i know i should have give monday night football another shot . the shtick behind paranormal state be a group of penn state student all get together and start their own ghost hunting club . or society . or super adventure club . and they run around pennsylvania research the most terrible hauntings and the lose plot to an m. night shymalan movie . the they be kind of a misnomer . really paranormal state revolves around a nittany lion name ryan buell who would probably be run penn state yearly anime convention if it wasn not for this show . he be often accompany on investigation by hot co ed and some other people see in the credit but rarely catch on camera . hey and be they ghost too . this be ryan buell show . paranormal state be his vehicle a we like to say in the biz . and and oh and what a dull ride in a vehicle he can be . do i mention ryan narrate the entire episode of paranormal state in a star date less director log voice over . almost immediately that get annoy because the obvious intention be to give ryan ghost hunt some gravitas and but his filtered monotone do nothing but provoke grunt and laugh . seriously and every serious intonation sound like the radio chatter from a call of duty video game . the investigation the plot that each episode revolve around be interest on the surface . no haunted inn or restaurant to be find in paranormal state . this be a show about fear the unknown like a good catholic boy and by god they give you stuff to fear . small child be harass and thing loom in the dark and voice encourage the living to kill and and the aleister crowely in me rub my hand . of the two episode i watch each revolve around violent and nasty hauntings tie to violent and nasty death . maybe . maybe not . everything in paranormal state be short hand into half hour and dog the bounty er and ghost hunter block . every time there be an interesting and verifiable shred of evidence the murder of a family in a farmhouse in the 1800s the proof be wave in front of the viewer like a con artist try to convince you a stack of paper currently under your nose be proof of that ten million come from nigeria and then yank away before you can get a good gander . at least with sci fi channel ghost hunter there be a somewhat over exhaustive need to trot out every possible shred of evidence and present it to the viewer . evps that could be a rat farting and cold spot in a drafty house and and orb that even the ghost hunters themselves discount a dust . it be a sort of scooby doo like approach that make ghost hunter . almost believable . whereas paranormal state claim to have evps but give the viewer a ten second video clip of a wave file in garage band with no audio . yep and see and an evp and right . people be claim to see dark figure in the basement . well and we will just go and see about that . while leave the night vision camera on an enthral stationary shot of the living room . ryan and the intrepid leader of this pack of penn state graduate and be claim to see vision of a demon name he know and that might be involve in a paranormal haunting . but he can not tell u and the audience and or his team of gothed out undergrad and because . he can not . you never say a demon name out loud and ryan informs the wide eyed co ed who dare inquires . well and how very very convenient for you . especially since this be a television show where the audience can not read your mind . paranormal state be all turn and no prestige . the audience get tell what be supposedly happen but you never see an ounce of proof that the creepy kid be see dead people . not even grainy video of a chair move and or a black blob run between prison cell . nothing . you be just tell what happen by ryan in yet another mechanical voice over . if you be go to try and spook me dress it up a little . if you be try to sway me and show me a orb or a blob and have the fat chick who work day at hot topic tell me why that black orb be really the spirit of an ax murderer . and if you want to make me watch a ghost hunt show give me something besides trot out lorraine warren by the second episode . paranormal state be weak sauce . not really worth watch unless you be hard up for tv time and or just have that thin of a dvd collection . or unless you want to know what really happen in that closet with the holy water .