This guy has a somewhat snarky and…skeptical…view of ghost hunting. Or, at least ghost hunters.
Not sure we would subscribe to his decidedly jaundiced view of paranormal investigations, although we are somewhat sympathetic to this view:
Some people yearn to talk to the dead. They think they will get some great truth out of the conversation. They assume the mysteries of life, the universe, and everything are all resolved the second you croak. Many actively seek an encounter with a ghost. There are now whole tourist divisions dedicated to encounters with the unexplained.
These people are painfully misguided. They don’t understand the true nature of what they are dealing with.
Unwrap the impatient skepticism here, and I think what this guy is suggesting is that it’s an easy trap to fall into; the notion that ghosts are somehow elevated and cross-dimensionally enlightened entities, teasing us with the Knowledge of Everything captured in compact, EVP-sized whispers. When in fact, they’re probably grouchy, kind, shy, quarrelsome, selfish, bored, egotistic…in other words, imperfect, like their corporeal counterparts. Seeking knowledge or wisdom from them says a lot more about us than it says about them.
For alot of ghost hunters, the question of whether they’re really there is already settled.
(h/t Prescott)
