I admittedly didn't have high hopes tonight for "Ghost Adventures Live" on the Travel Channel, and I wasn't disappointed.  Rather, I wasn't disappointed with my disappointment.  You probably know what I mean.

If you didn't see it, you know the drill: a bunch of guys wander around in the darkness at some "spooky" place.  This time it was an old insane asylum,  hosted by a guy from the X-Files. 

They film everything in low-light, so the spookiest things you see are the people wandering around with strange green eye reflections.  They "taunt" the "spirits" mainly by yelling, daring the "ghosts" to scare them.  They pretend to "hear voices." They pretend to "see things" that we, of course, can't really see.  Hours and hours go by and nothing happens.  The end.

Happy Halloween.  How the hell does anyone find this interesting?  Besides guys like me with a significant buzz on looking for stuff to write about at midnight.

If these "spirits" really wanted to convince me that they were more than recording noise or poorly insulated wiring, why don't they just "manifest" themselves or something and kick the shit out of one these guys taunting them?  Seeing a guy being beaten up by invisible things live on national television, well that would do it.  Not only would we finally have evidence of the paranormal, an annoying jerkwad would be beaten half to death.  Double-bonus in my book.