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America's Most Haunted Town

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First of all, I adore ghost documentaries. The most realistic the better.

Secondly, orbs are fascinating to look at -- the first one, two dozen times you see them. After that, they're boring.

When I see ghost documentaries, I need to see more than orbs. I need to see things moving by themselves, I need to hear sounds that are not being made by humans, I need to see figures through infrared cameras that aren't there when you take the camera away. Orbs and protoplasms just don't cut it anymore.

But orbs are just what you get in this documentary. That and a medium who "feels" the presence of spirits while she walks around a house. That's it.

This may be impressive for a novice, but it's quite a yawnful for someone who's already has seen other ghost documentaries (or has had their own ghostly experiences).

Incidentally, I'm afraid I can't say that this town could, by *any* stretch of the imagination, be called the "Most Haunted Town". By what standards? By a 10-mile radius? In the county? What? The name fools you already.

So it's up to you. If you're a ghost "virgin", you may be impressed. If you've been around the block already, move on. You may be more impressed with "Scariest Places on Earth". At least you can *pretend* that there's something going on there.

I'm a firm believer in ghosts, but always remain a skeptic when not experiencing paranormal occurrences myself. Cathe claims to be a sensitive... highly doubt it. Anyone could have put on the performances that she put on. The orbs that were shown on the videos could very well have been flashlights in the forest. At one point, when the camera zoomed in on the orb, the shape of the orb was more visible and wasn't circular as it had formerly appeared to be, it was a perfect square (like those square shaped flashlights). And the fact that Cathe kept approaching every "spirit" like it was a little child was incredibly annoying. She would say, "It's OK, come out. I love you, I love you. No one's going to hurt you." I mean come on, if they were spirits, then they obviously used to be human and don't need to be baby talked like they've never been a part of the real world. All in all, not a convincing documentary and barely even entertaining. The only enjoyable parts were the interviews with people who actually lived in the haunted buildings being investigated. Cathe just seemed like an intruder and, unfortunately, she was in the majority of the video.

I have watched a lot of true ghost story shows on Discovery, Travel Channel, etc. and expected something similar with this video. This was HORRIBLE! This had to be the dumbest "real" ghost story video I have ever seen. The "real" images were nothing more than light glares. To make the images move on video, the guy just wiggled the camera. They had a "sensitive" that went to 3-4 of the locations and immediately found the ghosts everytime at which point she professed her love for them and pretended to communicate with them.

By the end of it, my wife and I thought we were watching a Saturday Night Live skit because it was so ridiculous.

Hands down, the worst ghost documentary. Nothing here but 'orbs' and badly told tales of hauntings by people with less than half a brain. Plus most of the orbs are obvious camera flares.

In short, nothing more here than an author filming locations in their hometown, which they abruptly claim is the scariest. PLEASE AVOID AT ALL COSTS

Let's see...I am studying to be a Parnormal Investigator/Researcher and after seeing this...you can bet I will never make a fool of myself as these supposed experts did.

I bought the DVD on eBay for $10 and while it did have some interesting information it was also very inconceivable, esp the parts in the end of the documentary at the New Hope Cemetary...what were they doing???? They focusing in and out of a light fixture for goodness sake! In and out on the focusing was making me ill.

If you plan on purchasing this DVD do NOT do it at a BRAND new price, heck if you can find it for $10 and under, please do. Absolute waste.

They got some coocoo bird prentending to be communicating with these supposed spirits and making us all believe that she was credible.

When I saw another documentary, or docudrama, made for tv, called "Saved By The Light," I found it very fascinating; "The Peter Hurkos Story..." now there was a real psychic; the story of "The Rain Boy," featured on "Unsolved Mysteries," there too was a remarkable account of a true ghost story! Every Monday I watch "Weird Travels" on The Travel Channel, and often the accounts showcased in many of the hour-long documentaries are just excellent and, for the most part, believable. But Cathe Curtis' touchy feelie love affair with ectoplasm, if it is that, and her seemingly fictional ghostly "beautiful people," made me want to cry real tears it was so ridiculous!

Everyone else in the film, the hotel owners; the theatre owner; the man who wrote ghost stories and who is a rather interesting person to listen to when he discusses the local lore, even the ghosts, whom you don't really see (I didn't see anything except a few "orbs") and they could have been light reflection or swamp gas for all I know? Really, all you do see are a few lights caught by the camera and a lot of insects and dust. I saw something but I'm pretty sure it wasn't ghosts I saw, no matter what some of the other reviewers said they saw.

I believe strongly in the "spirit world," and know when someone is really a "sensitive," like Dannion Brinkley or Peter Hurkos or Rosemary Altea, a true medium. But this gal, Cathe Curtis with all of her "I love you,"; "Come here, come on! Come on everyone!" nonsense made me just laugh. That woman needs some counseling.

If you want a real ghost story buy the book, "Grave's End: A True Ghost Story," by Elaine Mercado, R.N., Llewellyn Worldwide Publishers, at www.llewellyn.com, a book which is the most amazing ghost story I have ever had the pleasure and wonder to experience in any form. I pray one day someone will make an accurate film of that remarkable book! Or buy the film, "Grave Secrets: The Legacy Of Hilltop Drive," if you can find a copy of the DVD (Try Ebay). It was based on the true story recounted in the book, "The Black Hope Horror: The True Story Of A Haunting," by Ben and Jean Williams and John Bruce Shoemaker, William Morrow and Co., 1991. But whatever you do, unless you collect documentaries about hauntings and just have to have "America's Most Haunted Town," consider purchasing the two books mentioned above, or at least the DVD, "Grave Secrets," rather than spend $24.95 on this 59 minute visit to New Hope, which wouldn't be so bad if it were not for Cathe Curtis and all of her "I love you" touchy feelie ghost banter.

I would rather put some pebbles in my shoes for pennance and walk around in them for weeks on end, or knash my wrists with jagged stones rather than listen to Cathe Curtis talk to another ghost to whom she insists on professing her love. Do you remember Lucia Pamela's recording of "Walking On The Moon"? Well, Cathe Curtis, I'm sure, is her daughter: "Come on, come on, come on! Let's take a walk on the moon!"

One thing I really did like about this movie was the music. Listen to the music and at the end of the film pause it to write down some of the names of the composers of the music used in this film (especially the music used in the segment on Pineapple Hill B&B, I think it was; the music alone is worth the purchase of this rather disappointing documentary, or mockumentary.

To be fair to the neophite viewing this film, I understand how you could be conned into thinking this film is different and perhaps even good, explain sex to a six year old; and to the others, the novelist at the film's beginning, to the historian whom I could have easily listened to throughout the film, and to all of the hotel owners and tour guides, and the others who were obviously serious people, I have to say as long as any of them are telling us about this or that spirit, the film is just fine, but whenever Cathe Curtis appeared I wanted to murder her. I'd like also to murder the narrater at the film's introduction who tries so hard to sound like Rod Serling.

By the way, some spirits are not full of love; some were (probably) and remain truly scary "people" who like in the tv documentary, "A Haunting In Georgia," would definitely hurt you. Not all ghosts are so loving as Ms. Curtis says they are in "America's Most Haunted Town," which if it is (the "most haunted town"), would better be served by getting Elvira to walk us through the locations in New Hope than the very unremarkable and unconvincing sensitive Cathe Curtis. At least Elvira would have been believable.

The last scenes at New Hope Cemetery made me wish terribly that it would begin raining radioactive fallout and that the dead would rise up and eat her. The only thing worse than listening to Cathe Curtis talk to spirits is imagining another four years of George W. Bush. Now that is something to fear!

After watching many ghost videos over the years I've seen many excellent and not not excellent videos, and this video falls in this category. This is more of a badly thrown together documentary, then a ghost hunt! The video is very ameteur and actually reminded me at times of the blair witch movie!!!The acting, yes acting is obvious and I find the lead character a close second to to being possessed herself, but not by the spirit world. If you love a good ghost hunt and scare this is not the movie for you and is a waste of money and better left on the shelf.

I own this one the worse ever I have seen. Take my advise don't waste your money .

This video is so different than most ghost shows...and for that reason it is GREAT!! There are no silly "ghost" reenactments... but, instead, some absolutely incredible photos and VIDEO of spirits in their "soul forms" and "ectoplasmic forms"...you can actually see spirits "floating" (I don't know how else to describe it!) by the camera...and you can tell they're not dust, flashlights, whatever else a skeptic may suspect. And because the director just lets you watch without "slicking" it up with fancy editing or graphics, you can actually watch the spirits in real time, as they were filmed.

And the "sensitive" featured on the show, Cathe Curtis, is utterly believable: down to earth, funny...how many ghost shows make you laugh? All in all I thoroughly enjoyed this show.

And I have to admit, the last segment, in the New Hope Cemetery, brought me to tears it was so absolutely beautiful and moving. You simply have to watch it to know what I mean. I cried like a baby...and I still tear up when I see watch it..but as Ms. Curtis says in the show, it was a "happy cry."

This has to be the worst dvd i've ever seen. Period. Cathe Curtis is a complete joke and an embarrassment to the human race. She passes off dust particles as orbs and says "i love you" to them, my girlfriend and I are huge ghost hunters fans and fans of the paranormal in general, this was just ridiculous and boring. We sat and watched this dvd and just laughed the whole time, and to think there's a disclosure at the beginning of the "documentary" that the images shown were not fabricated digitally in any way....like that needed to be known, every picture is of her and an "orb"(dust).

DONT PURCHASE OR RENT UNLESS YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A REASON TO GET OUT OF DEPRESSION, THIS WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH.