GHOST SHOWS SUCK

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I liked Sightings when I was younger, but some of the later episodes started getting ridiculous. Every other ghost show I've seen has been incredibly lame...either they are outright faking their footage, or anything that might actually be happening is drowned out by spooky music and sound effects

I like Ghost Adventures, but it could be a lot better. I wish they would spend more than just one night at most of their locations, and they neglect some of their more interesting scientific devices in favor of things like the "spirit box" (which is clearly picking up radio broadcast signals or maybe interference from telephones or other devices) or the Kinect (which, while looking interesting, seems like it's only picking up glitches).

I also hate when people tell them "oh, someone died here", and they take their word for it without doing any research (which they used to do, and they did a lot less reenactments). I don't agree with most of their "evidence", but when they do get something really creepy, it's pretty cool. And even if they don't find anything at all, I just like to watch them explore and explain all of the historical locations they visit.

Plus, it's a lot of fun to make fun of those "bros"

I've experienced ghosts with most of my five senses, on several different occasions. I'm a very logical person, but I can't explain my experiences away as being mere imagination or hallucinations. Especially when some of them are experienced by an entire group.

The hypothesis that makes the most sense is that Atlantis was actually ancient Minoan Crete. It was in fact destroyed by volcanoes or some such.

Known as the "Santorini/Thera Hypothesis". Yeah, that could work, except that the Thera eruption occurred in 1642 to 1540 B.C., while Plato stated that the alleged destruction of Atlantis occurred some 9000 years before his time, making it about 9400 B.C. -- some 7800 years before the Thera eruption.

Hypothesis there is plato was off on the year by a rough factor of ten due to misunderstanding the egyptian priests who were the source of this info

So say the apologists for Plato.

The earliest mention of Atlantis in existence is from two Socratic dialogues called Timaeus and Critias, both written about 360 B.C. by the Greek philosopher Plato. Together, the dialogues are a festival speech, prepared by Plato to be told on the day of the Panathenaea -- a festival held in honor of the goddess Athena. They describe a meeting of men who had met the previous day to hear Socrates describe the ideal state.

The Atlantis myth is part of the Socratic dialogue, and is not an historical treatise. This becomes obvious when one notes that the story is preceded by an account of the sun god's son Phaethon yoking horses to his father's chariot and then driving them through the sky and scorching the earth. Rather than exact reporting of past events, the Atlantis story describes an impossible set of circumstances which were designed by Plato to represent how a miniature utopia failed due to the hubris of its leaders and became a lesson in defining the proper behavior of a state.

The Atlantis story is clearly a parable on the order of the David and Goliath story: Plato's myth is of two cities which compete with each other, not on legal grounds but rather cultural and political confrontation and ultimately war. A small but just city (an Ur-Athens) triumphs over a mighty aggressor (Atlantis). The story also features a cultural war between wealth and modesty, between a maritime and an agrarian society, and between an engineering science and a spiritual force.

Only this, and nothing more.

I believe that Plato did just make it all up for the reasons you post. However, if there was in fact any historical civilization that may have been an inspiration or whatever, I think Archaic Crete is the most likely candidate. As for legendary Atlantis, as in a continent sized landmass in the North Atlantic that sunk beneath the waves, that is pure fiction. If it were real we would know it by now.

I'm more in favor of the idea that the Atlantis Myth may have arisen from people all over the world experiencing and discussing the coastal flooding at the end of the most recent glaciation period. That being about 12,000 years ago, there is almost certain to be some distortion of the original facts.

I agree that if a continent-sized land mass took less than 24 hours to sink to the bottom of the North Atlantic, there would be more "evidence" of its existence than a few sentences in some didact's essay.

I'm still looking for Bigfoot. If he is living in the wilds of North Dakota, I will find him....

He runs a Burger King along Route 66 in Arizona. Tell him I said, 'Hi'!

I can't stand how artificial and scripted the shows feel.

I'm glad Shark Week is over because now the Megaladon can go back to being extinct and not have a bunch of losers on Discovery trying to prove it still exists.