Musiccosmos

A few years ago, I dragged Jim out to see a presentation being given by Jason Hawes and Steve Gonsalves of Ghost Hunters. Jim’s a good sport about it and went along willingly. Little did he know this was to be the first of many such lectures, but more about those at a later date, perhaps. At any event, Mr. Hawes and Mr. Gonsalves turned out to be very funny and entertaining, even while they were talking about investigating haunted houses and dark entities and frightening personal experiences. They showed film clips – including a spoof on Ghost Hunters as done by South Park – of various unexplained occurrences in their quest to document paranormal activities. They played recordings of EVP’s (electronic voice phenomena), some of which were pretty chilling. And they spent a nice amount of time taking questions from the audience. In other words, it was a well-rounded, informative, and entertaining evening. But there was one thing that Mr. Hawes talked about that stuck in my mind and s...