Paranormal Not Caught on Camera

You know, the downside of the new series of Junk and Disorderly being on Blaze is that it means that I have to put up with Blaze's promotions for the rest of their whacked out programming in the commercial breaks.  I remember that, once upon a time, Blaze used to be full of stuff like Junk and Disorderly and  while some vestiges of it still remain, most of their schedule these days seems to be chocked full of UFO-related and paranormal nonsense.  Just this evening, for instance, they were pushing Paranormal Caught on Camera, which seems to be the supernatural equivalent of those shows where people would send Harry Hill their home video footage of their 'hilarious' mishaps, like decapitating their pet dog with a lawn strimmer, in the hope of winning the 'star prize' of a ten quid voucher for your local kebab van.  Except in the case of the Blaze show it is their home video footage of supposed supernatural phenomena in their homes.  You know the sort of thing: doors apparently opening of their own accord, things falling off of shelves, chairs moving.  It's all bollocks and undoubtedly faked, of course.  Because, the more earnestly and straight-faced that someone is on TV, telling you that they were genuinely terrified by something falling off of a shelf, the more convinced I am that it is a scam.  

I was once told that the way to approach such 'genuine' footage is always, when viewing it, to ask yourself how you could replicate it without involving supernatural agency.  If you could come up with a way to fake it, then what you are watching was probably faked in a similar fashion.  You know something?  I've never yet seen one of these videos and not been able to work out a simple way in which it could have been faked.  Of course, quite apart from moving chairs, opening doors and so on, we have the videos allegedly actually showing ghosts and/or spirits, usually in the form of orbs, but also various other glowing streaks and the like.  There is, of course, no evidence whatsoever that there aren't simply camera artefacts, dust motes or insects caught by the camera when filmed under particular lighting conditions.  But such considerations are usually airily dismissed in shows such as this, because, after all, they are made primarily for an audience who already believe in this sort of bollocks.  Just like Junk and Disorderly is made for those of us who can identify with middle aged men rummaging around in sheds and barns to uncover and buy automotive related junk, restore and sell it.  The difference being that it is far more believable that they might be able to turn a profit on a rusty old petrol pump than it is to swallow any of those other videos as evidence of the paranormal.