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| Written by Jean Carder | |||
| Wednesday, 31 December 2008 09:00 | |||
 Doug has been converted! No, I’m not talking about being converted from regular bacon to turkey bacon or one religion to another. And I’m not talking Coke to tea, although after 20 years of marriage I have finally converted him to hot tea and he is cutting back on his favorite icy beverage. No, Doug has been introduced to sci-fi and, get this, he kind of likes it. I guess that’s what having kids does to you. Makes you branch out a little. Or makes you crazy. Or maybe a little of both. Kinsey enjoys the show “Ghost Hunters,” which is in its fourth season on the Sci Fi channel. She wanted the third season on DVD for Christmas. I’ve watched the show a few times with her. It’s probably not anything I would ever turn on and watch voluntarily but it’s a pretty interesting show. I couldn’t find the third season, but I did find the first season and thought that would be perfect. Since she didn’t start watching the show until the second season, I thought the first season would be fun to watch. And since she’s getting her tonsils removed this week, an entire season of “Ghost Hunters” might not be a bad idea to help pass the time. Of course the best laid plans of moms often go awry and this was no exception. She couldn’t wait to watch the DVD. So on Christmas afternoon she fires up the DVD player and pops in the first disk. “Ghost Hunters” is a reality-based series that follows two ghost hunters as they investigate haunted houses, prisons, restaurants or wherever someone claims to have seen a ghost. The show stars Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, who are Roto Rooter men by day and ghost hunters by night. They have a team of investigators and a couple vans full of equipment that they use to try and record ghostly encounters. Usually what Jason, Grant and their team do is try to debunk the reported ghosts. In one episode, renters in an old Philadelphia row house apartment claim to hear voices in empty rooms. The team discovers the voices come from other rooms in the apartment house as the sounds travel through the old heating system. Sometimes they can’t debunk a reported ghost. In one intense episode a cameraman is knocked flat to the ground when his camera equipment flies up and smacks him in the head. The entire scene was caught on a video camera and didn’t appear to be a hoax. As the afternoon wears on and Kinsey switches to the second disk in the set, the rest of us begin to gather in the living room. I’m the first to plop down on the end of the sofa and watch with her. Pretty soon Doug wanders in and asks what we’re watching. He sits down to read, and pretty soon the book is on his lap. After about two episodes, he’s hooked. Doug told me next time I’m out shopping I should see if I could find the second season on DVD. Yep. He’s hooked. Now if I could just get him interested in Kinsey’s first season of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”
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