Travel with Nigel Danvers to an eerie seaside town on England’s east coast. Learn to use advanced techniques used by real paranormal investigators, and uncover an ancient mystery and treasure. But, beware, not all of the towns residents will help in your mission, whether they are alive or dead.
Inspiration from the haunting works of Charles Dickens, M.R. James, Arthur Conan Doyle, and E.F. Benson combines with real ghost-hunting gadgets to bring this frightening story to bone-chilling life. Success or failure in locating wandering spirits depends on your skill as an investigator. Placing motion detectors, night vision cameras, and temperature gauges correctly will reveal a location’s haunted past, and expose terrifying apparitions. With nerves of steel, and wits to match, you will soon discover long lost secrets, previously known only to the dead!
I’ve been looking for a decent ghost hunting game for years, ever since I played the once-popular Amber Journeys Beyond. Based on the review from Just Adventure, this sounds like a great game. I liked the soundtrack on the trailer, but the animation looks a bit clunky. I’ll be watching for more reviews in the future.
Organizer Kerry Eble-Keller announced that the G4 ghost hunting summit has been canceled. Over 500 people made reservations to attend this event, which was to be held in Gettysburg in June. The Gettysburg National Military Park’s policy against commercial ghost hunting and large-scale events was the prime reason for the cancellation. Eble-Keller couldn’t get the necessary permit to hold the event because the summit violated the park’s preservation policy.
The second reason was the lack of accommodations for the guests. Eble-Keller tried to find other places in Gettysburg and Hanover that were open to paranormal investigation without success. In the end, he had to email the attendees with the bad news.
TechCrunch reports that Hollywood producer Steven Spielberg is preparing to launch a social network for paranormal enthusiasts.
The focus will be on users who’ve had or who are interested in sharing paranormal and extraterrestrial experiences. The new social network may also have original video content investigating alleged ghost and UFO stories.
This doesn’t sound much different from the other paranormal sites I’ve seen, but there’s no doubt in my mind that it will be hugely successful based on who is running it. If this story is true, and not a rumor, then the tentative plan for the launch is three months.
If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, then you’ll know that I love a good ghost story. I found this movie while wandering through Best Buy on Saturday and was intrigued enough with the synopsis to buy it. The first half of The Abandoned crawled to the point that I stopped playing the movie about halfway through.
One of the problems was my mild dislike for the character, Marie Jones (played by Anastasia Hille), who flies to Russia to search for her birth parents. I didn’t understand her bitterness and mistrust toward people until I watched the rest of the movie tonight. Then, I only got a glimmer of her backstory.
She discovers that both of her parents are deceased and that she has inherited their house in a remote part of the wilderness. For the first half of the movie, expect to watch her stumbling around one of the creepiest houses ever shown on film. Director Nacho Cerda did a great job with this, as well as the Russian wilderness backdrop.
The action got somewhat better when her alleged twin brother, Nicolae, appeared on the scene and helps her fight off the dopplegangers that keep following them around. What their purpose was, I didn’t find out until the very end. Why the murders took place wasn’t revealed, only that it did take place and the ghost of their father wanted them back.
This movie was heavy on creepy effects and weak on plot. While it was refreshing to see a 40-something protagonist, I didn’t like the character, although I felt sorry for her when she learned the truth about her family. Because of this, I wouldn’t recommend buying the movie. Rent it instead, if only to see the house.
