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January 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 02/02/2010 8:33 AM Page 24 24 ‘X’ Zone Radio Shows - Jan 2010 The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show Tuesday, January 19 spin-offs, “Ghost Hunters Academy,” where January 2010 Seg 1 - Jeff Knott aspiring paranormal investigators learn the Seg 2 - Joel Garreau tricks of the trade, and “Ghost Hunters Seg 3 - Rob Catlin International.” Seg 4 - Philip Smith Again, these are not difficult skills to Available at master. Mainly, it amounts to wandering around www.xzonepodcast.com Wednesday, January 20 creepy, abandoned, decrepit buildings and Seg 1 - Dr Marion Ross & Dr Tracy Latz attributing every creaking floorboard and drafty Seg 2 - Dr. Nader Pourhassan room to a ghostly presence. Monday, January 4 Seg 3 - Charles Jerome Ware It’s so easy, college students can do it, Seg 1 - Stephen Bassett Seg 4 - X Minus One which they do on A&E’s “Paranormal State.” Seg 2 - Frank Ogden The show follows members of the Paranormal Seg 3 - William Buhlman Thursday, January 21 Research Society at Penn State University as Seg 4 - Dr. Len Saputo, MD Seg 1 - Sylvia Anthony they try to bust ghosts and cast out evil spirits. Seg 2 - Craig Grothe I’ve seen about a half dozen episodes of Tuesday, January 5 Seg 3 - Dr. Barry Pollack “Paranormal State,” and two of those led the Seg 1 - Martha Jette Seg 4 - Marilyn Ivy Zerbey Paranormal Research Society to Alabama. Seg 2 - Jennifer Robins Make of that what you will, but I blame Kathryn Seg 3 - Erik Stearns Seg 4 - Doug Elwell Friday, January 22 Tucker Windham, whose “13 Alabama Ghosts” Seg 1 - Patrick Cooke books used to have half of my elementary- Seg 2 - Bruce Campbell Adamson school classmates believing their houses were Wednesday, January 6 Seg 3 - Joseph P Farrell haunted. Seg 1 - Gillian Holloway Seg 4 - Jim Hickman Earlier this month, A&E launched a new Seg 2 - Richard P Jackson Seg 3 - James Rollins Monday, January 25 series, “Paranormal Cops,” about four Chicago police officers who arrest the living by day and Seg 4 - Jeff Peckman Seg 1 - Dr Caron B Goode confront the dead by night. I hope they’re better Seg 2 - Paul Schroeder at catching crooks than they are at catching Thursday, January 7 Seg 3 - Ed Komarek ghosts. Seg 1 - Ben Abba Not to be left out, Travel Channel airs Seg 2 - X Minus One Seg 4 - Pastor Harry Walther my favorite show of the bunch, “Ghost Seg 3 - Jason Leigh Tuesday, January 26 Adventures.” Seg 4 - Doug Elwell Seg 1 - Bonnie MacDade As a Travel Channel show, “Ghost Seg 2 - Marilyn Shannon & Joyce Keller Adventures” goes to the some of best locations Friday, January 8 Seg 1 - Hassan Jaffer Seg 3 - Miss Bonnie & Psychic Clara — places that are downright creepy whether or not they’re haunted. But apart from that, “Ghost Seg 4 - Mary-Anne Lightfoot & Baby Foofie Seg 2 - Dr. Georgina Cannon Adventures” has the most entertaining cast of Seg 3 - Alan Sloanker Wednesday, January 27 ghost busters. Seg 4 - Jim Hickman Seg 1 - Carolyn Shield Zak Bagans is the team’s leader. With Seg 2 - Elizabeth Joyce his spiked hair and tight, Ed Hardy-like T-shirts, Monday, January 11 Seg 3 - X Minus One he is a stereotypical alpha male. His main Seg 1 - Dr. Nader Pourhassan PhD Seg 4 - Erik Stearns investigative technique is to yell at any ghosts Seg 2 - Dr. Len Horowitz who may be present and dare them to attack Seg 3 - Dr. Meg Blackburn-Losey Thursday, January 28 him. Seg 4 - J Allan Danelek Seg 1 - Michael Cohen If any ghosts have ever taken Zak up on Seg 2 - Bruce Gernon that offer, I missed that episode, unfortunately. Tuesday, January 12 Seg 3 - John Michael Greer Next is Nick Groff, Zak’s second in Seg 1 - Howard Bloom - Part 1 Seg 4 - Jeff Havens command. Nick tries to copy Zak’s alpha-male Seg 2 - Howard Bloom - Part II routine, but he’s nowhere near as good at it. Seg 3 - Ben Abba Seg 4 - Scott Dietrich Friday, January 29 He’ll always be just a wingman. Seg 1 - Patti Conklin And then there’s Aaron Goodwin, the Seg 2 - Mitch Battros team’s equipment technician. Wednesday, January 13 Seg 3 - Ben Berkley Alas, poor Aaron. He’s the one the Seg 1 - Daniel Clarke Seg 4 - Alison Silbert ghosts supposedly always pick on, to the point Seg 2 - Patrick Cooke Seg 3 - Andrea Stanfield that Zak and Nick often use him as bait to lure ill-tempered spirits into showing themselves. Seg 4 - Amethyst Wyldfyre Who wants to be a Again, if this trick has ever worked, I’ve Thursday, January 14 paranormal investigator? not seen convincing proof of it. I’m not a scientist, but I’m amazed at Seg 1 - Jason Valenti by Franklin Harris Seg 2 - Debbie Ford what counts for evidence during these so-called investigations. Seg 3 - Loyd Auerbach Culture Shock Motes of dust filmed on night vision are Seg 4 - Robert W Morgan If you have a pair of night-vision “spectral orbs,” and low-frequency ambient Friday, January 15 goggles and like stumbling around in the dark, noises caught on tape are voices from beyond. I don’t blame the average person for not Seg 1 - Jane Miller maybe you can be a ghost hunter. knowing that our brains are wired to detect Seg 2 - Ivan Amodai It’s all the rage. At least three cable patterns, sometimes even where no pattern Seg 3 - Sharon Sakson channels currently air shows devoted to exists. That’s cutting-edge neuroscience. But Seg 4 - Rev Judith A Baldwin “paranormal investigations.” And ghost hunting doesn’t take any special skills. The hosts of you’d think expert paranormal investigators Monday, January 18 Syfy’s “Ghost Hunters” are plumbers, which I would be familiar with the concept. Then they’d be more skeptical about what they see and hear. Seg 1 - Don Milo Duquette guess can be useful if your toilet is haunted. And Seg 2 - Miriam Delicado who hasn’t seen something scary in a toilet? Your comments are always appreciated Seg 3 - Paul Kimball Airing since 2004, “Ghost Hunters” — and they can be sent to publisher@xchronicles- Seg 4 - Jeff Knott the granddaddy of the current crop of paranormal TV shows — has spawned two newspaper.com.