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Fozzie Bear turns Monster Hunter
Josh Gates is silly and lots of fun with his equally goofy crew equally they go around the world searching for monsters and ghosts.
Josh, a big man with a vocalization like Fozzie Acquit of the Muppets, is a real ham. I recollect the prove is fun as long equally I don't attempt to take it seriously and therein lies ane of the problems. The championship implies that there's a "TRUTH" slant to this bear witness. Of class there's no serious or even scientific stuff going on. Yep, they accept cameras which they usually have on themselves. They have gizmo's that beep and buzz.....and so do I.
The funniest part of this show is when the guys get scared and scream worse than the women. Can you imagine being in an abased outdoor place of worship in Taiwan and Non seeing something moving?? Geez guys, they do have monkeys and other animals roaming around. It ain't ghosts! Oh well, that show was hilarious as was the one when the guys were in the water and saw something "Large" moving.
I Put aside any thought of it beingness serious and I remember it's a fun show with exotic destinations. Otherwise, I'll just go aggravated.
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The most fun you'll have watching some guys run around in the woods
Destination Truth follows the exploits of self-styled charlatan and cryptozoologist Josh Gates. Every episode Gates and his drinking buddies search for two new cryptids (or, when convenient, any other odd stuff in the vicinity).
If y'all overlook the fact that Gates lacks any real credentials (although he regularly consults with experts), the show is a great watch. It'south a light-hearted alternative to series similar Ghost Hunters and MonsterQuest.
Although Destination Truth's methods are suspect (equally they only spend a few days in most locations), they're by no means worse than other sensationalist documentaries and the casting more than makes upward for whatsoever shortcomings: Gates is both abrasive and witty as he playfully (and rightfully) ridicules first-manus eye-witness testimony; his outright skepticism is a breath of air; and his sarcasm, well, a bit over the time (he's most equally subtle equally a hammer... or Michael Moore).
All in all, Destination Truth is a surprisingly good watch for a Scifi channel documentary.
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Total great entertainment
Cryptozoology might be considered a crackpot scientific discipline, but no show makes it so entertaining like Destination Truth.
Headed by photographer Josh Gates and his immature and hip production crew, they get the travel the world in search of the unknown creepy crawlies and creatures nearly every country seems to have in its civilisation.
The bear witness has been around for about a season and half and we still don't know if lake monsters or Bigfoot actually be.
So if you want verbal science stay abroad from this prove just sentinel information technology if you but want a take a good ol entertaining time.
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really really awful
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Having watched the first two episodes of this show (a la Netflix), I get the impression that this is more of a failed parody of a paranormal hunters' prove, than an actual paranormal hunters' prove.
Each episode has the DT squad searching for ii creatures. Later on two episodes, the team fails to provide whatever real proof that their creatures exist. In searching for a dinosaur, the only proof we have are tree branches being moved. In a haunted cemetery, nosotros take a scraping noise on i of the microphones.
In the end, all we have are Josh Gates' lame comments. Everything else might add together upward to footage, for other like shows, that would've concluded up on the cut room floor.
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Josh Gates Should Never Accept Agreed To This Bear witness!
I've watched a number of these and the 60 minutes long searches e'er comprise a lot of trekking through jungles and oceans in both day and dark weather condition and aside from a lot of hyperbole, nothing is ever found...if you're looking for revelations of new creatures you will be very disappointed!
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An Entertaining Testify If Nothing Else
All correct, then they really don't observe anything, only maybe that isn't the bespeak. Something that is missing from investigation shows is a piffling bit of sense of humour and Destination Truth has enough of that. I notice this show admittedly hysterical and would scout episodes for that reason alone. However, DT does introduce many lesser known myths almost animals around the world. Maybe, but maybe, this is the true purpose of the show, to reveal stories and legends of other cultures. Maybe in Season two they'll observe some exciting prove, possibly they'll continue to come up empty, but I will larn something about a foreign culture and laugh a little in the process. My suggestion is accept the testify for what it is and relish it for what it offers, an entertaining hour of television.
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non-expert aye but rewarding
It'southward entertaining on some levels but what information technology sparks in me the most is that I acquire near local myths around the world and I begin to read up on them. If you watch the show, apply information technology as a starting point to read and learn almost local legends and myths that you never knew was out there (if you're into this stuff and intendance to expect information technology up for yourself). It's amazing how myths bound up all over the earth and have similarities no matter the people, civilisation, location, or fifty-fifty the number of skeptics; information technology'southward all connected in some way and I find that very interesting seeing how so many people detect differences in all races and cultures merely ignore the similarities in our origins. I never expect these guys to find annihilation but I similar the show. peace
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Problematic at best
My biggest trouble with this is the high and mighty attitude that the host has. "I hither for the truth!" he announces with each episode. The problem is the truth better come up out in the one nighttime they spend researching a case. I tin see coming into an area and doing the research with a salubrious dose of skepticism, merely they basically clown around, making more than fun of the locals than anything, so spending merely viii hours or so doing any actual research. They NEVER find anything, but they certainly do a lot of running effectually chasing the illusive whatever they are hunting that calendar week. Then as soon as day breaks, no matter how close they were to getting some real answers, they pack up and head out. It takes them longer to become there than to investigate. Plus my biggest issue with this show and with Ghosthunters is all of the stuff that they both claim to see and hear, just by the time the cameraman points in the right direction its gone. The cameras worn by the squad are a great idea, but I didn't tune in to see your damn faces! Turn THE DAMN CAMERAS AROUND! Allow us see what y'all come across, when you see it! I know what y'all look like, and I prefer non to see you upwards shut!
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Uuggghh. An insult to the intelligence that likes Expedition Unknown.
What a polar opposite to Expedition Unknown, which I truly like. EU is based in facts, archaeology, history, bear witness. Destination "Truth" is based in....nothing but amusement factor for ghosty ghoulie fans. Can't hardly stand watching this idiocy, except that once in a while they actually throw in some true civilization and history that keeps my attention and makes me think that if I endure the crap, I might learn something worth my fourth dimension. Large foot, large crocodiles, bats, animal noises, lights, urban and backwoods legends, over stating atmospheric condition and normal natural obstacles.....all Manner over dramatisized deliberately, for nix more than suspense to continue really bored people really duped. It's like one bear witness is scientifically based and then....well hell, just in case we don't do well with intelligent, historical scientific discipline (European union) permit's do stupid, drunkard hillbilly, sensationalistic bullcrap just in example. That way we get good ratings for EU from i demographic and some proficient, drug induced thumbs upward from....another demographic. Seriously....if you're fascinated by paranormal (and plenty of intelligent, scientific ppl are) in that location are many other venues which are actually meliorate suited to whet your appetite....that don't presume you're a total idiot. Flipside....Gates is ingeniously two faced in these shows. He is knowledgeable, level headed, factually in-tuned and a good instructor in Expedition Unknown. It is much less theater and more 18-carat conveying of real info. Still he is a silly peddler of tricks and drama in Destination "Truth" and betrays that he actually sucks at acting. Expedition Unknown raises my countenance. Destination Crap makes my eyes whorl.
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poor knockoff in an already-hackneyed field
I find Destination Truth to be profoundly disappointing. My first complaint is that they must be addressing an audition of ignorami, every bit the lion'southward share of the "lilliputian-known mysteries" that they examine are quite well known amidst fans of cryptozoology or paranormal (e.g., haunting) phenomena. I find the main guy, Josh, to be overwhelmingly arrogant and pseudo-knowledgeable: I'm not sure whether it'south his mispronunciation of words that's more abrasive to me than his corrupted citations of virtually-facts. The specialty of the show is what I term the "red herring cliffhanger": we are introduced to a "Holy cow!" situation that introduces--guess what--a COMMERCIAL and is immediately followed by a letdown. The attempts at detecting evidence of, say, ghostly phenomena are near equally childish as, "Whoa, did y'all see that?" "O.K., guys, I'm getting creeped out," "Oh, it just got colder in here," and that erstwhile standard, "Did someone or something just touch me?" The simulated, nonsensical terror--ALWAYS dispelled and resulting in a zero-lessons-learned mission--reminds ane (and this is FAR from a compliment) of "The Blair Witch Project" with a bear on of bachelor'south-degree-level biology or ecology.
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Pure Crap, no additives, no preservatives, all natural
And you thought Jerry Springer was the bottom? Guess once more. Destination Truth and Ghost Hunters are the new bottom. Springer is now like Masterpiece theater
Is Josh (the "camera" guy) supposed to be funny. Um...take you lot ever seen Chris Rock, John Stewart, Robin Williams, etc.
Some take said this is parody. Of what? The parody was the Southward Park episode on this goofy concept. But you could hands lookout this prove and be in total awe of its stupidity and lack of originality.
A parody is like um...Plane 1 & 2 Scary Moving-picture show, 1,2,3,4 and at present v. Blazing Saddles.
Unless this is a parody of itself meaning a parody of no concept. Show concept: Become virtually 12 cameras, including goofy ones wired in front end of a cast member, helmet cams, pes cams, tree cams, cams on summit of cams, infrared cams, flir cams, (notation to self: invest in stock in cameras), and follow a 'crew' around looking for something that never happens...presto new Telly concept for shows. Is this why no one really watches cablevision except for Burn down Discover, Justified, Burning Bad. Don't you lot wish you could put those shows on your camera resume.
Simply credit to SYFY. Let'south suppose these "ghost busters" go some whopping fee similar $500 week which would exist overpaying for what they practice. A staff of say x equals $v,000 for the cheapest program possible. If they can draw some 5000 eyeballs of depression data idiots they can claim 'hey show us on cable'.
The bear witness could work if the guys become drunk all the time on shots of Jack Daniels, and got Katie out of those shapeless "ghost hunter' outfits and into outfits like the girls take on My Proper name is Earl, i.e. scantily clad females, the testify would at the least have some eye candy. One guy could say, "hey I heard something weird, we accept to go Katie into some cleavage outfits with tight shorts.
Otherwise information technology is a scrap fat goose egg....oh...wait...shhhh... I recall I heard something outside...shh..hear that... (break to commercial). Repeat.
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Fake
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I watch these show to see what's the bargain. Then you surf and discover out all the things the show tells you. And so you surf to see if the "crew" has any credibility. About are simply actors Erin Ryder is and actress that all. I'm guessing you have to have some pretty female person and then males watch. But like all the other reviewers say they never detect anything. If the e'er would observe something it would be in the news not on a Television set show that was filmed months ago.
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Waste of Fourth dimension
Wow, this guy is but patently bumbling and seems to scare himself (and his crew) more anything else. It's really kind of funny watching him work himself up when they're out on location trying to deflate some local legend or any they're attempting to do. Evidently, he is likewise quite terrified of thunderstorms, too funny, hasn't he ever heard of a lightning rod? Hire someone who isn't agape f mundane things when you want someone investigating something that might be delving deeper into the unknown.
I agree with the other guy who rated this testify quite low. There is absolutely no preparation before they become places or launch "investigations," they film for a few hours and call it quits, they exercise seem to patronize the locals, and worst of all they never get in at any type of decision or come upwards with any apparent prove. Any amateur given the paltry equipment they use in this series could come up with a much better evidence or at least some class of results. The SciFi Channel needs to hire someone who is less of a scaredy-cat and more than of a become-getter.
The show is worth information technology if you want to lookout a group of people jumping at their own shadows, just other than that there is no other redeeming qualities.
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Full of adventure and fun
I admittedly love this show and am baffled nearly all the people bashing it. Josh Gates is one hell of a host and keeps things interesting and fun. I have no idea why some people get the impression that he is making fun of the locals in the exotic destinations he investigates. Josh is a goofy guy and finds humor in every situation and I don't recall that's such a bad quality and who ever thinks so must lead a boring life. People also seem to complain most them not finding whatever bear witness which I discover hilarious. Do y'all really look them to find evidence of a werewolf? Obviously there is no such matter as werewolves and if they found "evidence" to back up that, I'd stop watching. Destination Truth is nearly introducing united states couch potatoes to other cultures and their superstitions and beliefs and going out there to A. If it is a plausible brute, look for possible evidence of information technology's existence. and/or B. Look for what people could be mistaking every bit a unknown creature. Most of the time they find evidence to support the latter. I have also read comments criticizing the on camera "freak outs," I'm sorry but if you are in the eye of the jungle at night; you better be afraid of EVERYTHING. No one on this testify claims to be a scientist and bodily scientific inquiry can take years if non ones lifetime. So, if you similar travel mixed with sense of humour and learning about other cultures' superstitions and "monster" sightings with a healthy does of skepticism and then this show is for you. If you have life mode as well seriously, detest fun, and similar to spend fourth dimension ripping a TELEVISION SHOW autonomously... await elsewhere.
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Puzzled
Call me crazy, just wouldn't it make sense, when chasing spirits in Republic of peru for instance, to communicate with a suspected entity in Spanish or Quechua instead of English? Inquiring minds...
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Love it
I loved this evidence from the get go. It just gets meliorate each flavor. I expect impatiently for the next season every year. Josh is by far the best reason to scout. He'southward funny, adventurous and down right entertaining. His electric current crew is relatively new, and so there's some "getting to know them fourth dimension" that's necessary only typically, the crew seems to piece of work well together. The testify'south not about absolutely finding what they're looking for (although they have found some interesting evidence that gained earth-broad attention of the scientific community), but it'due south about the journey, visiting new places via the Goggle box and interacting with new and dissimilar cultures. It's about the adventurous spirit for those who don't accept it or the finances to travel the earth looking for themselves. By far this is the all-time SyFy bear witness and the best cable reality bear witness! Those that don't like it probably have a poor sense of humor, take a chance and lack the inquisitive nature of the human spirit.
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Keen Show!
Every calendar week when I'm flipping through the channels I run across the same onetime cryptozoologic show, where the hosts and hostesses don't seem to care nigh what they are researching, and hardly even try for evidence. This is not the case with Destination Truth. Destination Truth is a nifty show, following cryptozoologists across the globe equally they look for evidence of many undetermined species, in other words, cryptids. Every week I evidence to some os chilling show, (although mostly in that location isn't quite enough to show the existence of the cryptid) and the hardy, trying work of the hosts and hostesses. Destination Truth is a terrific prove, and I would recommend it to whatsoever fans of the genre. I feel like I really do know Josh Gates, and that I'one thousand tagging along with him during his earth trekking adventures to search for cryptids worldwide.
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Worthless and Non-Scientific - Just a Means of Inflating Josh Gates' Ego and Giving Him Free Vacations
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Allow me first explain that I find cryptozoology fascinating, all the same that almost of the more than famous specimens are either hoaxes (e.k. Loch Ness Monster - The "Surgeon'southward Photograph" has been clearly proved to exist a hoax) or are very unlikely to be real (e.g. Bigfoot/Sasquatch - unless they hibernate, they would be very trackable in wintertime in the snow in their so-chosen environments and we certainly would accept captured i or found a corpse past now). Even so, the world is indeed a large place with big tracts of wilderness that can hibernate significant sized animals for extended periods of fourth dimension, such as the coelacanth and the Okapi (which was simply photographed in the wild for the commencement time this year). And then, while I have a healthy dose of skepticism, I besides do not pass up all claims of unknown creatures as nonsense.
Destination: Truth ("DT"), which is known as Monster Hunter outside of the U.Due south., is definitely the sort of bear witness I might detect interesting if it was at all well-done. Unfortunately, DT is about every bit far from well-done as is possible – in fact, nigh the just thing they could practice to brand this bear witness worse is rent the ridiculously melodramatic onetime actor who narrated the second season of the like Beast Planet show, Fauna Ten.
Where to begin? Let's beginning with Josh Gates, the star of the prove then-chosen leader of the merry gang of cryptozoologists. Gates might be the most obnoxious person on television these days. Information technology is rare to observe a person whose ego is so unjustifiably bloated, even more than so than his gut hanging over his safari belt. Gates leads his team of "investigators" on trips to various parts of the world where, if the local people are unsophisticated, Gates takes dandy pleasure in mocking them, sarcastically quizzing them on little bits of 21st century Americana, getting satisfaction from the blank or puzzled looks with which they answer. Another favorite subject of Gates' scorn is the rudimentary transportation they take, which seems to break down in about every episode. Every bit soon as they become to the region where they call up their cryptid is to be found, Gates has them set up their "base camp" with their tents and equipment. Usually, the only reason that such a camp is ready upwards is so that Gates can have someone with a walkie-talkie perch in that location and answer to his "Josh to Base, Josh to BASE" calls on his walkie-talkie, arrogantly pretending he is some sort of macho armed services figure or nifty explorer rather than the unqualified, pompous, lard-*ss he actually is.
What kind of cryptids do they investigate? They have gone to very remote areas of Africa and South-E Asia to investigate bounding main monsters, giant owls, dinosaurs, etc…, as well as the yeti in the Himalayas, suicide-inspiring ghosts in Japan and elves in Republic of iceland. So far, they have discovered exactly zero concrete proof of anything. They accept some extremely inconclusive videos and record recordings of movements and noises in the dark, and some unknown footprint casts but aught more. There is a very good reason why they practise not uncover any real evidence: they spend a lot less time investigating these mystery creatures than it takes for them to travel to these furthermost locales. Generally, they spend the end of an afternoon and part of a night traipsing around in the forest and then call information technology quits. Often, the reason given for why they have abandoned the search after only a few hours is because their batteries have run down on their equipment. Plain, no ane on the show, Gates included, is smart enough to think to bring extra batteries or maybe lug a gas generator with them in their jeeps that tin can recharge their batteries.
About episodes seem to be modeled after The Blair Witch Project – a bunch of people wonder around in the woods with infrared cameras becoming terrified at the slightest niggling noise. A viewer is more likely to get motion sickness from all of the shaky camera work than to go either scared or convinced there is a 18-carat signal to anything that they do. Most episodes feature someone named Erin Ryder, whom Gates refers to only as "Ryder" on their team of investigators. Ryder appears to have been involved with a bunch of tertiary-rate reality TV shows (including one with the Pussycat Dolls), has no scientific credentials and seems to accept only two qualifications for the job: she looks pretty proficient in tight camp shorts and she screams likewise as whatsoever girlie-girl in a B-movie horror motion-picture show any time a big bug, small-scale bat or big gust of current of air passes nearby.
So, if yous honey The Blair Witch project and want to come across people pretending to exist in that movie screaming "What the f^&%^#^ was that???" at every tiny piddling racket they hear at night, Destination: Truth is the prove for you lot. If y'all similar a testify that actually has some connection with the truth and a existent effort at an objective, scientific-based documentary, then yous will find that Josh Gates' show is a complete waste of fourth dimension.
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It's a Dramady
It looks like a couple of folks don't go it. It's a drama and a one-act.
We laugh our butts off every time nosotros sentinel information technology. Really about one-half the fourth dimension. The get-go one-half of each "investigation" is funny. This includes getting there, which is always a disaster. The investigation kind of slows the laughs down some every bit it is atrocious "Blair witchcraft". Information technology's OK though equally they have ii investigations per evidence.
I wish they would simply change it to more of a travel show so nosotros would have the laughs the entire show. Information technology would be great if they could have some guests on the show similar Geraldo Rivera equally he has to be the model for Josh Gates grapheme.
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Utter garbage
Over-hyper rubbish made for the ignorant and superstitious.
The presenter is a supercilious, self-of import publicist who cares not a whit for the truth or even a destination unless he can become some gullible production company to subsidise his trip there. The editing is woeful and 30 years out of appointment and the use of cuts to bring an impression of drama is pathetic.
These clowns take not, and will non, e'er find anything interesting because if they ever did nosotros'd have heard about it from proper researchers, not bloviating cretins like this crowd. The blatant production placement is withal some other reason to find this insult to the viewing public reprehensible telly at its worst.
This is one of the worst things my TV has always spewed at me.
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Travel Chennel has hit Stone BOTTOM!!!
I would rather watch 10-year-old Anthony Bourdain shows rather than hear 1 more irritating tenor-filled nasal-ly syllable from Josh Gates rima oris! This show similar all his others is completely ridiculous. There really isn't anything interesting near the travel locations because Gates ruins it with is stupid comments on everything.
Don't waste product your time with this or any of Josh Gate's 'shows'! He's nothing more than two-bit bell-ringer.
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What a waste matter of fourth dimension and free energy
I honestly gave this bear witness enough time and viewed plenty of this nonsense and discovered they should be doing something else. Someone had said that this is a comedy/drama. Well not according to the description of this bear witness by this site. They accept made it a sad one-act, unable to track anything effectively. "High Tech Equipment", correct. They didn't even have a compass or a GPS. Why jump into a monastery to discover spirits but to run out of the building...? I do believe these folks are a chip on the sensationalistic side evoking oohs and ahhs from a younger crowd.
Oh well, good luck to the residuum of you lot defending this series.
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this is an absolute shame of a prove
at that place are then many wrong things nearly this series that is difficult to choose i for a beginning.
Offset of all i find the host extremely inadequate, unfunny and even racist when treating some of the people of smaller villages and dissimilar towns, you tin can run into exactly how ignorant he actually is.
And for the show itself., it is an absolute waste of time, this show as the championship says its almost truth, and finding the truth about some myths, legends, creatures, etc., but they practise exactly nada. Instead of refuting these myths they prefer to propagate the false idea that something is at that place and happening in society to gain more attention. Every bear witness is exactly the same, they always find something just they tin't confirm nor deny what it was. and with this lazy excuse they pretend to have a good show and proceed trying the same formula over and over.
There'southward no credibility whatsoever in this show. Zip is conducted with seriousness and a truthful scientific approach. Avert at all costs.
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By far, the best investigation bear witness on scifi
First of all, Josh Gates is a very entertaining guy, something which has been missing from prior 'investigation' shows which scifi has aired. Amanda Tapping in Proof Positive, while a good host, was only far also serious and fabricated the show very dry out. Boston Rob in that prove from final year, which I tin can't even recall, was plainly bored with it and falsely skeptical. It was all a prove and not an overly entertaining one. Josh Gates ... he'south crawly. He takes something that really does not warrant the level of serious treatment which makes people interested in cryptozoology and such things appear as weirdos and brings it down to earth. A prove of this type is expert for interesting people in the field of Cryptozoology. Equally a 30 year erstwhile who IS interested in such things, information technology'due south prissy to detect an entertaining, fun to watch, semi-investigative series. And it's likewise fun to be agape that some of their less than smart ideas might end up with either the host or the producer seriously injured.
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I wanted to similar it I actually did simply
This is the worst paranormal hunters' prove I take ever watched. Feels liked I picked the lowest bid and I got what I paid for. His other show Trek Unknown is much better.
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