Paranormal Home Inspectors

I thought the show was OK, considering.What ruins it is the very negative home inspector. He needs to have something happen to him, so he can shut the heck up, and let these poor people experiencing these situations find answers...jeez!

I have seen the psychic on TV before & she's very sincere. The investigators always seem to get activity on each episode I've seen! I don't know if this show is currently still airing, but if not, I will enjoy what I can see for my haunted weekend TV marathon! Perhaps, after reading these comments, the producers will start again new heading our comments, but please just leave the home inspector at home, or get a new one. Thanks! 😀

Let's be honest with ourselves here: this show is terrible. Just awful, really. So bad, in fact, that you'll want to purchase a DeLorean on the off chance it has a working flux capacitor that might allow you to travel back in time and punch your past-self in the face for watching.

That said, I happily consumed all 13 episodes. Couldn't stop myself, actually. That in itself could be classified as proof of paranormal activity.

Why is it so bad? The concept is interesting enough: home owners present claims of unexplained phenomena, and an unorthodox team with varying expertise assemble to try and find an answer. Sounds kind of awesome, right? The problem is that Brian, the certified home inspector, is the only one that can make a legitimate claim to having anything close to resembling expertise. The rest of the team? Yowza.

I should state that I am a believer in the paranormal, however, I am extremely skeptical. Michelle and Nadine, on the other hand, can't be bothered to make a skeptical observation. Nope, every house in Canada is apparently haunted. Whether someone was murdered "real close" to the house, or the house was built on top of an old Indian burial ground, this team is able to pinpoint with 100% accuracy what's going on within the distressed owner's home.

To back up such bold claims, you'd expect to see a lot of evidence, right? Well, don't hold your breath. Michelle and company conduct what only barely passes as a paranormal investigation. A toddler sticking a digital voice recorder in it's mouth is about as scientific as anything this team tries. And wouldn't you know it? They capture "hard evidence" on every investigation. EVPs? Full- bodied apparitions? Moving objects? Nope. More like knocks, bangs, and lights turning on and off "on their own." You know, hardcore proof of life after death kind of stuff.

Sure, the show is phony to a point well-past complete absurdity, but how they manage to fill those 22 mins per episode is hard to walk away from. It's so unintentionally hilarious that you can't help but stick around to see what happens next. And I did... for 13 episodes.

If you're a die-hard Ghost Adventures or Ghost Hunters fan, you can safely skip this without fear of missing out. In fact, the unprofessionalism of each investigation is likely going to make your eye twitch just moments before your head explodes. On the other hand, if you can appreciate shutting off your brain for 22 mins and not take the ridiculousness too seriously, there's gold just waiting to be discovered here. Pure Canadian gold.

These shows are always chalk full of people getting goosebumps and saying its ghosts and that is to be expected. What is usually more interesting to me is the scientific approaches and trying to gather some sort of evidence and history to explain hauntings. This show takes all of that and throws it out the window. You have three investigators who come in to check out the home. The home inspector who pretty much walks in a writes everything off as being easily explained, then the weird spiritualist lady who always senses something and coincidentally happens to hit the history on the head even though she supposedly doesn't know about any of it beforehand, and finally the "hunter" team who basically comes in at night and runs around going "did you hear that?" Every episode is the exactly the same. There's even a little voice over sound clip that I'm pretty much sure they use the exact same one for each episode along the lines of "the home inspector is convinced there's nothing unusual, but the family wants an explanation so our spiritual healer lady has been brought to investigate. she has no prior knowledge of the experiences or history of the home." Its exactly the same every time. I've seen 9 episodes so far. They could take footage from the different episodes and totally switch them around to different episodes and I doubt most people would even notice. If there's more to what they do, they sure don't show it on the show.

Found this series on Netflix a few days ago and have sat through 6 or so episodes. It is filmed exclusively in Canada and follows a team of investigators as they try to establish or debunk the presence of spiritual activity within private homes and buildings, very similar to Paranormal State and Ghost Hunters. The core team consists of a researcher, a home inspector, and "spiritual healer" who connects with the paranormal entities, in addition to several other production assistants. While I think bringing in a home inspector to rule in or out any possible explanations for reported phenomena is a good idea (loose door locks, banging pipes, etc) it really doesn't make the show stand out from Paranormal State or Ghost Hunters. His function actually appears to be more of a professional skeptic with a flashlight as he seems to think everything the residents report can be explained, often with some pretty ridiculous explanations. From there the show is otherwise generic and uninteresting. A psychic who always walks in a home and predictably "senses a presence". And a researcher who's job it is uncover the dark, tragic past of the property because, apparently, every property has one. A small team stays the night in the property with lights off and calls upon the alleged spirits to make a noise, flicker a candle, deal a deck of cards, whatever. Always "did you hear that?" or "was that you?". This sequence, like paranormal State, is overproduced with annoying filler music and punchy vamps whenever something is heard or seen. Overall the show doesn't seem to come together, there's an awkward flow to it and the experts are never together at once which I think is odd. The whole production value seems rushed and compartmentalized. Not a show I'm going to keep watching.