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Scariest Places on Earth [VHS]

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Usually, when I see "haunted places" stories, they are the standard, lame fare of other people telling stories and no actual footage of these people in the haunted places. No proof in other words. This video is different. When I first saw it, I was rather excited at the concept. A family spends the night in a haunted place using scientific tools to measure changes in atmosphere and temperature. I watched, eager to see how this was going to unfold. Not only was I kept hooked to this story, but it was truly frightening in many places. For example, there was a doll that was sweating on its own, a piano that played itself (it wasn't a trick or the kind that is made to play on its own), furniture that moved on its own, voices that came from nowhere and screams that were not made by the visitors or the crew. I highly recommend this video. You won't be dissapointed!

Scariest Places on Earth (SPOE) is one of my favorite shows of all. My son loves to watch this video too. I can tell the people are scared by seeing the look upon their faces.I wish that the network had come out with more videos for people to buy. But, all in all if you were a fan of this weekly tv show you will love this video. It only has a very few episodes on it but, I think it is worth it!

I had purchased this video some time ago and watched it once with my husband. Last week I decided to watch it again, this time alone. Even though I had seen it before, it had me jumping at every little sound. This video is just plain scary.

The segments of the University campus in Ohio and Leap Castle are especially intriguing. I'm still wondering how the young man who visited the dungeon happened to get blood on his hand, yet no cut ever appeared. The Black Mausoleum of Bloody MacKenzie is probably the best example of poltergeist activity to present to any skeptic. And the haunted mission in California gives one pause when considering the existence of ghosts. Just who did ring that bell???

All in all this is one scary video. I sincerely wish this show would be brought back on TV. There are still plenty of places to explore and the success of current shows dealing with ghosts and hauntings proves there is certainly quite an audience ready for more of this type of ghostly entertainment. If this is not possible--more videos, please!

This tape consists of the best TV moments, and is fastinating. The viewers are given a honest history of the locations that adds to the atmosphere.
Fans of the show or those with an interest in the paranormal should pick up a copy!

i bought this video because i'm a big fan of the TV show. and this has some good clips from the show on it. you won't regret it.

I love this show. The great thing about it is that I can watch it with my twelve-year-old neice and not have to worry about the content. It's scary, but it's good clean fun.

Contrary to a previous reviewer's commentary, this is not "hokey comedy", and other errors in the commentary seem to be based on a lack of understanding of the technical processes used to create the show ("black hats turning white", etc.).

Scariest Places on Earth is a unique TV series, combining aspects of "reality television" (i.e. unscripted, unrehearsed participants), ghost stories, horror drama, and documentary.

In each episode we visit a new location with a new team of participants. Each site has a history of paranormal activity or a sinister/occult past and could be just about anywhere: a castle in Ireland, a monastery in South America, a haunted house in New Orleans ...

The participants are often a family, or a group of friends, recruited by the show to go and investigate the site (invariably at night) to "solve the mystery." The people are given typical paranormal investigator gear like temperature and electromagnetic sensors to aid in their investigations. Since each episode takes place at night and usually in extreme darkness or low-light, night-vision cameras are used extensively so that we can see the action clearly. In fact, each participant is fitted with a camera around their neck solely to catch their reactions!

The night-vision cameras use the infra-red spectrum to capture an image, which means that the color of people's clothes may appear to change when moving from a normal camera to night-vision (hence the "black hat becoming white").

Since participants are literally "kept in the dark" for hours at a time (they don't have access to the night-vision as we do), and are exploring very spooky and elaborately tricked-out spaces, they often become panicky and hysterical. And you would too! Even safe at home as a viewer you might get goosebumps.

Though it's never discussed (unlike MTV's Fear), each site is obviously rigged to enhance the atmosphere with objects that appear to move on their own, stairs that creak as ghosts descend behind you, cold spots to be detected with the gear, etc. Some of these effects are kept off-camera, which might be frustrating for some viewers.

All in all, the show is very well put together, and has a huge cult following. The writing (intro and voice-over) is excellent, and creepily delivered by the artists. The camera work and editing is equally good. Linda Blair (The Exorcist) makes few and, for the most part, completely superfluous appearances as the show's host, but also apparently served as creative consultant.

I loved this show, and I hope they make more!

ok,ok When is this coming out on dvd ?????? and is this the only season ... there was more then this .....

This does not contain full episodes of any of the places the series visited. It's the in-between stuff, when they'd have a narrator going into places like the tombs under Rome and Alister Crowley's mansion. That was never the best of the series.

I'd hope that Family Channel would give Robson the rights to his project and let him release it on DVD or something. I loved this series, and look forward to repeats at Halloween., since they don't play any other time. But last year was a huge disappointment, as they no longer show the good episodes from the original and have shot a bunch of stuff with (obviously) fake psychics and a silly hostess.

This is only good for reminding yourself that there was once a very cool show that had real families doing investigations into haunted places - but this video doesn't show it.

I think it's irrelevant whether or not the places visited are haunted even at all, but since it's mentioned a lot here, i'd like to say it's very unlikely. There's no way they could get that much paranormal activity from every location they visit, on every show. So the producers enhance the families experiences, with a little special effect and a lot of psychological influence.

Even though I think the effects are staged, it's obvious that the participants do not know. The amount of courage, fear and emotion, make the show entertaining in my opinion. Psychology is a powerful tool in frightening people and 'Scariest Places' obviously know how to plant the seeds, even before the participants arrive to the supposed haunted locations.

The show is just to have fun, not meant to be taken seriously in my opinion.