Venetians Try To Save 'Scariest Place On Earth' From Developers

[Ieyke]

huh, a bit of a "ghosts are dumb" attitude in here?
*snip*
As for the place being the Scariest Place on Earth, I think of that town in Russia(?) right away, from Destination Truth. A whole town, empty, buildings falling apart, no one around for miles, and the whole thing soaked in nuclear fallout with ghost stories abound.

That's because ghosts ARE dumb. There's just no such thing.

You're thinking of Chernobyl.

Incidentally, the reason Ghost Hunters is fucking retarded and Destination Truth ISN'T, is because the Ghost Hunters flip out about every creak, and squeak, and rustle, and mote of dust, and fly, and lens artifact they hear/see, and they try their hardest to prove it's something that it clearly isn't.
Destination Truth's Josh Gates, on the other hand, goes into everything dead set on trying to prove what it REALLY is, and prove that people are freakin' out about something with a logical explanation. And most of the time his team is hunting something that COULD feasibly be SOMETHING real. Sea monster could be a huge fish or giant eel, dragon monster could be a huge bat or bird, etc etc.
Don't get me wrong, the rest of his team are mostly morons. They do the Ghost Hunter thing and freak out about every little thing and try and prove it's something, but Gates himself won't let any of that shit fly on his show.
THAT is why, when they find something tangible that they can't begin to explain, it's so much crazier and more interesting. When Gates is like "We found...SOMETHING, but I have no idea how to explain it logically" it means soooo much compared to the Ghost Hunters jumping at their own shadows for the thousandth time and claiming they're haunted.
When Destination Truth disproves something by figuring out the more likely explanation, it's STILL interesting. Then you get to see the simple things that people freak out about.
When they find nothing and can't disprove something it can be uneventful, obviously.
When they can't explain something they DO find....well....yeti footprints?

 

[Brian Tams]

When I saw the "developers" in the title, I thought that it meant that some gaming devs were trying to make a survival horror game set in the place and the locals were none too happy.

*thinking*

Great, now I want a good survival horror game set in the place. Damn it.

 

[ChristopherT]

That's because ghosts ARE dumb. There's just no such thing.

Are you one of those kids, that when they found out Santa wasn't real had to run around telling all the other kids how dumb they were for still believing in Santa? =P Either way, I like the idea of ghosts, if you think I'm dumb for it I can live with that. I'll never claim ghosts are real, I'm talking about the idea of them, and how that idea can change how someone might deal with unexpected noises and sights. I love the fiction, the lore, the tales, and I started being a fan of Ghostbusters when I was 3, I'm 29 now, and I haven't stopped loving Ghostbusters since, I don't think that's going away any time soon.

You're thinking of Chernobyl.

Thank you

Incidentally, the reason Ghost Hunters is fucking retarded and Destination Truth ISN'T, *ect ect

Which is why I like and mentioned Destination Truth and not Ghost Hunters. I can enjoy some Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures, but they are dumb, and on a few rare occasions that's part of the fun. But Destination Truth at least tries, especially Josh Gates, and is so much better, and I agree with the rest.

 

[FalloutJack]

Yup! Let's build on Murder-Death-BloodPact Flats! Great idea! I can see it now. A big skyscraper overlooking everything, zombies on the prowl, and in the man office...Goldman is waiting for the AMS to make their move!

 

[ChristopherT]

Yup! Let's build on Murder-Death-BloodPact Flats! Great idea! I can see it now. A big skyscraper overlooking everything, zombies on the prowl, and in the man office...Goldman is waiting for the AMS to make their move!

Hey leave your pessimism out of this, or I'll make you suffer, like G did.

 

[Ieyke]

That's because ghosts ARE dumb. There's just no such thing.

Are you one of those kids, that when they found out Santa wasn't real had to run around telling all the other kids how dumb they were for still believing in Santa? =P Either way, I like the idea of ghosts, if you think I'm dumb for it I can live with that. I'll never claim ghosts are real, I'm talking about the idea of them, and how that idea can change how someone might deal with unexpected noises and sights. I love the fiction, the lore, the tales, and I started being a fan of Ghostbusters when I was 3, I'm 29 now, and I haven't stopped loving Ghostbusters since, I don't think that's going away any time soon.

I devour mythologies, sci-fi, fantasy, and other fiction at insane rates. Coincidentally, I literally rewatched both Ghostbusters movies yesterday.

Anyhow, there's a huge difference between enjoying supernatural fiction and letting it phase your perception of reality.
For kids it's all well and good, but adults need to've learned to require substantial evidence of something to believe in it, and to challenge that which defies reason. If you see something in the dark and it scares you, and your instinct says it's a chupacabra, go find a damn flashlight and point it at said lurking figure in the dark. When it turns out to be a rabbit, good job. If you don't find it again, all you've learned is there was something in the dark, not "I saw a chupacabra once".
That's all I'm saying.
Jumpy superstition was all well and good back in the stone age, where a fear of the unknown is what kept us alive. But nowadays we are equipped to intelligently explore the unknown in search of the truth, and (for those of us in modernised countries where we might be sitting on The Escapist talking about Ghostbusters) to do otherwise is simply a failure to advance knowledge. Your own, and possibly the world's - on the off-chance you actually do stumble across something of note.

 

[kael013]

"So we've got a beautifully creepy abandoned mental asylum on a pretty island with a history of being a quarantine zone for plague victims in medieval times. Local folklore says it's haunted. What should we do with it?"

"Ah, turn it into a luxury resort. No one cares about that history crap anyways."

*facedesk*

Hope the locals win and turn the place into a museum with guided tours. I'd fly halfway across the world for [i/]that.[/i]