Hotel Paranormal

I started watching this show from the beginning and thought, "Oh, okay, a cute little show with ghost stories in hotels."

Then I saw the segment about the man in the hotel where the telephone kept jumping off the hook. I saw this covered in "Paranormal Caught on Camera" and was more than a little surprised when they extended the story beyond what was shown on the aforementioned "Caught on Camera." Mainly because, they talked to the person who filmed the video for "Caught on Camera" and he didn't say a thing about "something" following him home. I kind of shrugged it off with the thought that maybe it was a time constraint.

But, after watching this latest show, where they "visit" a haunted hotel in Bisbee, AZ, The Copper Queen, I'm starting to question the show in its entirety.

I lived not too far from Bisbee for 10 years and have visited the Copper Queen many, many times. Sometimes I'd go for lunch or dinner, sometimes to stay the night for an article I was doing that included the place.

First of all, The Copper Queen was NEVER shut down and allowed to go to ruin. It's been a continuously running hotel since 1902. Not once has it been shut down and empty.

Second, the owners, the Rineharts, didn't renovate this building from the ground up. The Copper Queen is a beautiful old hotel that has always looked beautiful. Unless they're doing minor renovations on the place, I can't imagine what would be needed that would have them doing so much work? When the Rineharts bought the hotel, they bought a fully functional, completely finished, ready-to-go hotel, complete with an operating saloon and restaurant.

Third, the "archival footage" of the security cameras shown during the show definitely weren't taken at the Copper Queen. Like I said, I've been inside this hotel many, many times, and none of the footage even remotely looked familiar. The front desk? I have no idea where that came from because the front desk is connected to the wall on one side and is about 12 feet long or so. Also, behind it is a huge safe from when the miners and executives from it's early glory days would store their valuable in there. Also behind the front desk is a rack of room keys and mail slots. When facing the desk, to the right, behind the desk, is a small office.

Then there's the talk of a demon that attacks people? Nope. Complete lie. There's never been a tale attached to it about a demon that attacks people. I even called a good friend of mine who is a paranormal investigator and has actually been on some shows on the Travel Channel as an expert on hauntings in Arizona, to ask her if this was a new story. She said not only was it new, it was completely made up, probably for the show.

I was so thoroughly disgusted with such out-and-out lies being told about the Copper Queen I can safely say I'm done with the show. It's being removed from my scheduled recordings on my DVR and I'll never watch it again. The people behind the show are more interested in spreading lies for the sake of spicing things up. And here's the thing, the true story behind the Copper Queen is scary enough and good enough, they could have told the truth and people would have been impressed.

And I also find myself wondering about the integrity of the owners of the Copper Queen, that they'd go along with utter lies all in the interest of being on a television show. I mean, why? To get more people into your hotel? My integrity isn't for sale.

This show is so far from the truth, it's not funny. Knowing what I now know, that they lie to beef up a story, I'll never watch it again. If you're smart, you'll stop watching it, too.

This would actually be a pretty good show, well written, well edited, if it wasn't for the utterly cheesy narrator! He is so bad it is difficult to concentrate on what he is actually saying. Fire the narrator, then fire whoever hired him.

The 1940s called, they want their narrator back. Please send him back!

I absolutely love this show! I've always had a fascination with the paranormal and have had a few experiences over the years (not in hotels). The fact that Dan Aykroyd narrates makes it all the more better! Who better to narrate a paranormal show than the man behind Ghostbusters! I hope that make more episodes!

This is one of the worst ghost reenactment productions from the Travel Channel: it has bottom of the barrel production values and by that I mean it's the cameraman's fault and the editor's, or whomever told them to film in this way: every time there's an evil entity, the camera zooms past them really fast, so that you cannot see anything beyond a blurry black mass, and that's the most important thing when making a ghost show!! So if you cannot see the entity, it's not scary it's not horror and it's renders this show completely useless.

Every time I watch it, I can't wait for the commercial so I can take care of stuff and every time the commercial ends I'm annoyed that it ended so quickly; that's how bad this show is LOL.

The narrator's nasal voice is unpleasant and all around horrible, shouting his lines with a silly affected intonation that does not work at all with this show; so imagine my surprise when I figured out it's one of my favorite actors, Dan Akroyd! Every time I try to watch this show it's so boring I find myself distracted on the computer, like it's on right now and that's what I'm doing.

All the recreation scenes seem to be bathed in a golden light, which makes me wonder what possessed somebody to throw a bucket of camel urine at the camera.

There is no scare factor here whatsoever, and the filming is totally boring and not entertaining at all. The cuts to the interviewees are too much! They happen way too often and kill the momentum. Whoever created this show doesn't know how to create a show: everything about this production is horrible and none of the stories are thus interesting in the way they're presented.

And this is coming from a reviewer who, throughout my life, happens to have rented 3 different hotel rooms that were extremely haunted, so that's why this was interesting to me. Look, I wouldn't even care if the stories are fake, as long as you entertain me, that's all I ask, but this is absolutely unwatchable because it is boring AF.

Although I have experienced a paranormal event at a hotel famous for having a ghost, I watched this show expecting to learn something, or even just where other hotels have such events. Although this series could have taken a legitimate path, I can say as a fact that they, at best, exaggerate and embellish if not make up the events. It seems as if they might be combining events from other properties in with the hotel they're profiling. Ask yourself, for example, why they do not actually name the hotel specifically. Just "a hotel in the southeast" for example. Before my own experience, I considered 95% of these stories to be fake. I still do, and programs like this are the reason. Usually someone is trying to sell you something. In this case (as with all such programs) it's ratings and advertising dollars. And hey, at least some B-grade actors get a little work for a while. Watching this series is generally a waste of time. It's not entertaining, and definitely not fact-based. It's easy enough to Google hotels known for ghosts. Go. Take a trip. Stay in one. You may or may not have an experience, but your time will be better spent than watching this crap.