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America's Most Haunted Inns

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I would rate "Real Ghost Stories" higher than "America's Most Haunted Inns" However I did enjoy for the most part watching the DVD. In all honesty it's getting harder and harder to find good documentaries on the paranormal. God in heaven knows I have spent a fortune on VHS and DVDs about the paranormal.I do know for a fact that Ghost do exist for I have seen Ghost with my own eyes. Maybe one day science will be able to prove beyond any doubt that Ghost do exist.Damn near everyone loves a good Ghost story. America's Most Haunted Inns is not the worst or best I have seen on the paranormal at any rate I give it a 3 out of a possible 5 rating.

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Jeffrey Boyd

I bought the DVD as a fan of Supernatural Documentaries. Some of the stories from the Inn Owners were interesting, but the DVD was ruined by the psychic Cathe who is so incredibly unbelievable it was painful! Cathe... some advice, usually there is a point when contacting the dead; I've seen better psychics at the carnival. Watching Cathe make small talk with empty space is really boring, and then finally, of the so called most incredible ghost video ever was so obviously faked by placing glass in front of the camera that it just is insulting.

The Inns in this video may very well be haunted, but Cathe the "psychic" tragically ruins any reputable evidence these Inns may have collected prior to her "investigations". Every time they take a photo you can see her deliberately kicking up dust; touching the dirt floor, then smacking her hands together, telling spirits to "sit down on the chair" as she dusts off the [clean, padded] chair for them. A complete joke.

i have many paranormal/documentary dvd's and found this to be quite boring I really disliked the medium Cathy. I found her quite annoying. Have seen much better. I disliked that they did not give a good history about each inn. Felt a little left out in the cold about some of the facts they were talking about and felt they should have given more information.

This is a horrible DVD! Not worth the money. It's bad...I mean BAD! And not in a good way! I don't believe Cathe the psychic one bit. And some of the affects are obvious fakes. You'd be better off purchasing a brick and watching that...it would be more entertaining!!!

All in all,I found this DVD enjoyable and would recommend it to others fascinated in the supernatural.Probably not for the die-hard experienced investigator or super skeptical fact-seeker.Approaches more from the metaphysical standpoint,but does have a few interesting anomolies interspersed here and there that I found to be captivating.Hopefully the medium Cathe Curtis comes out with future projects-I enjoy the calm way in which she approaches the subject.

There have been a number of what I feel are unfairly negative reviews of this DVD, and its sister DVD "America's Most Haunted Towns- New Hope". I felt I had to speak up for this really enjoyable DVD.
This review was on the paranormalnews.com website, and I couldn't agree more:
"One of the more interesting videos that have come along this year, America's Most Haunted Inns by Rob Child's Luminence Films, filmed in Bucks County Pennsylvania, details the investigations of a "sensitive" named Cathe Curtis and her silent photographer, Richard, as they explore a number of inns in a territory of the United States that is overflowing with pre-20th century history. Throughout the episode Curtis explores the county's homes while her photographer snaps digital photos of the spirits she meets. What is fascinating about the whole process is you get to watch her investigations happen, and in some instances, even see the orbs float across your television that her photographer is constantly snapping with his Sony.

"Look! There's a little boy in here. Can we take your image? Aren't you precious." Curtis states at one point, excited about a new discovery. Curtis's photographer then snaps a digital photo of an orb in the very same area where Curtis is pointing. The back of the video casing states, "Absolutely no computer generated or manipulated images have been used in this production," and the entire 59 minute production is chocked full of this type of activity from Curtis, making you feel that you are witnessing something that is definitely not the result of a mere production house's editing.

In some inns, Curtis is actually able to name some of the spirits she meets, and learns through the home owners stories that other guests have shared about encounters. Checkerboards that constantly set themselves up, strangers that appear only to children, maids that take on physical form and tidy up guest's rooms while they sleep in bed---In a various instances, you witness spirit orbs passing by the video lens, and if you have the patience, you can probably discover orbs of your own that the video crew did not notice, thus allowing for any number of repeated viewings.

Throughout the film, there is no voice-over intrusion telling you what to believe nor when to believe it. The entire film was created in a way that allows you, the watcher, to make up your own mind about what you are witnessing. By the time you finish, you will be opening up your family photograph albums, looking for floating orbs and unexplainable streaks of light.

The film gives justice to the field of ghost hunting--where other documentaries fail to bring to your television anything other than campfire ghost stories starring people telling you what they HAD seen, you, as the viewer, get to see it for yourself. And that is what anyone who is watching this type of documentary wants. Therefore, I have no choice but to place this film under Paranormalnews.com's "Recommended Viewing" list. Hats off to Rob Child and Luminence Films."

You know, people, it's a bit unfair to pan someone's entire work just because you don't happen to like a personality within that work. Yes, the psychic Cathe is a little annoying. But when she points at a corner and then the digital flash reveals a large orb floating in the exact place she's talking to, well, that's truly remarkable. She does it again and again. This DVD is an amazing thing, and I enjoyed the heck out of it. And to suggest that the last sequence was rigged somehow with glass just doesn't pan out. I've watched that sequence again and again, and it remains completely unexplainable to me. There is obviously no glass-- just pure strangeness. That particular part alone was worth the price of the DVD.-- C. Lewis