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My thing is why didn’t they sell watcher to someone while maintaining creative control?! I feel like they could have sold mystery files to Netflix and then would have been able to fund their other projects. I don’t know, I’m just a little sad but really happy for them
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boneopera · 1 year
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my #1 conspiracy is the guys from buzzfeed unsolved have found a ghost but were paid a huge amount of money and signed an NDA to pretend like they didn’t and continue their show
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This is outside the field of my usual posts but with the recent development of Watcher Entertainment rapidly digging their own grave:
If you want some content with the similar vibe to Buzzfeed Unsolved, whilst being really unique and honestly improving on the format in a lot of ways, I really recommend a podcast I’ve listened to for a while now called “This Paranormal Life”
Two Irish friends/comedians/“professional paranormal investigators” investigate the paranormal each week, alternating in bring each other new cases, and by the end of the episode, try to convince the other that the ghost/alien/cryptid story of the week is real or fake.
It’s been running since 2017, and while that means that not all the content is amazing, and I’d assume some hasn’t aged the best, there are so many absolute banger episodes, and there is a shit ton of backlogged episodes on most podcast platforms including video content on YouTube (episode 363 released less than a week ago from posting this), not even including the years worth of backlogged Patreon content.
Honestly like this is just an excuse for me to share a podcast I really enjoy lmao, but I know a big drive of people following Watcher was searching for the vibe of Buzzfeed Unsolved adjacent content, and I think that this might appeal to people searching for that kind of show!
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magick-memes · 9 months
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seriasphim · 1 year
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Did some poster art for Ghost Files for my college horror poster assignment last year !!
EDIT — AAAA thank u guys so much for the reblogs and the likes much appreciated, I do plan to make more watcher fanart turn some into a print eventually if anybody is interested!!! I had to print out my poster since it was a design class, it’s 11 x 17 inches :)
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hairmetal666 · 1 year
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Steddie paranormal investigator modern day au
I watched Buzzfeed Unsolved and this happened. Sorry?
Eddie's got his phone up, focused on Steve as he drives. "We should hunt ghosts, Stevie."
"What?" Steve says. He's being safe and concentrating on the traffic in front of him, not on Eddie's latest TikTok antics.
"Paranormal Investigation! It would be fun."
"Absolutely not."
"We're doing it."
"Eddie. No."
"Steeeeeeve, c'mon! It's like you've trained your whole life for this."
Steve looks at the camera then, hazel eyes serious. "Yes, and I've retired from active duty."
Eddie pouts until Steve rolls his eyes.
👻 Investigation 1 👻
Steve has one hand in his jacket pocket, the other holding his phone at it records his surroundings. "Hey, ghosts. Feel like talking?"
"Really? That's all, Harrington? You promised you'd act like you care."
"This is me caring! What else do you want, Munson?"
"Care with enthusiasm."
"Please enlighten me on how to do that." Steve keeps his voice even and deadpan, giving his head a pigeon-like tilt.
Eddie bounds forward, a bright and real smile lighting his face. "Hey, ghosts!! I'm Eddie. This is my best friend, Steve. We're here because we wanted to talk to you. Maybe you can start by introducing yourselves?"
Steve glares. "How is that different from what I did."
"How--Steve you--oh my god. You didn't even introduce yourself!"
"To the ghosts?"
"I thought you were raised to be polite."
"Yeah, to people, dude."
"Ghosts are people!"
Steve snickers, eyes glistening, and Eddie slaps at his bicep.
"Don't hit me," Steve says. He knocks Eddie away with his hip.
"Well, don't nudge me." He elbows Steve in the ribs.
There's just a flash of blinding smile from Steve before he launches himself at Eddie, full blown slap fight erupting between them. They giggle and shriek, and then Steve pins Eddie's hands together. They're breathless, panting and flushed, hair mussed.
"Is this respectful to the ghosts, Munson?"
"You started it," Eddie sicks his lower lip out. Steve tosses his head back and laughs, misses how Eddie's eyes linger, drink him in.
👻 Investigation 7 👻
Steve walks into frame, holding his phone as he records. "Hey, hi. My name's Steve, and this is my buddy, Eddie. We're here to chat, if you feel like it."
"Yeah, we just want to learn about you. See what you're doing. Did you die here?"
"Is that respectful?" Steve hisses.
"Shut-up," Eddie hisses back. They momentarily get distracted shoving one another.
"If you're around, let us know," Steve says. "There's this rocking chair here, could you maybe move it for us?"
"Yeah, and hey," Eddie fiddles with the flashlight in his hands. "I'm gonna set this flashlight right here on the ground, and if you can't move the chair, why not turn this flashlight off for us, okay?"
He leans down to put the light on the floor, his phone camera capturing a few seconds of Steve watching him, a little smile on his face. A beat passes and Eddie's movements slip Steve out of frame. There's a shrieking scream and Steve shouts, "EDDIE?" followed by the skittering clank of things being dropped onto the concrete floor.
The view changes to a static shot, from a camera set up behind them. It shows Eddie bend down, setting the flashlight in front of him, before he screams. He leaps--fully leaving the ground--into Steve's arms. Steve catches him easily, dropping his phone, so he can brace Eddie against his chest in a bridal carry. Eddie's arms wrap around Steve's neck, his face buried against the other man's collar.
Steve laughs. "You okay, Eds?"
Eddie responds, but it's not picked up by the mics. It makes Steve laugh harder. "There was a rat, huh? I think I can take a rat."
"Don't make fun of me," Eddie grumbles. He peels his head off Steve's shoulder and the camera just catches the corner of his flushed face and his bashful grin.
"I would never," Steve shakes his head. "You good to get down now?"
Their gazes meet for a few long seconds. "Definitely," but Eddie's voice shakes.
Steve puts his friend on his feet, but takes a second to push some of Eddie's hair behind his ear. "You okay?'
"Yeah, yeah, it was nothing."
"You sure?"
Eddie scowls. "I knew it!"
"Knew what?"
"You're making fun of me!"
"I am not!"
They miss the chair rocking on its own behind them.
👻 Investigation 15 👻
Steve digs through a backpack before spreading a sleeping bag over the scratched wood floors. Eddie films on his phone.
"Okay, Stevie, this is the first investigation where we're staying over night. How you feeling?"
"Fine," he responds. He doesn't look away from his task.
"Fine? We're staying overnight, where there are ghosts, and you're fine!?"
"Well, sure, Eds. I've faced worse than ghosts before."
"How are you not freaking out right now?"
Steve turns to the camera, a tiny smile on his face. "Because I'm not freaked out?"
"Ugh!" Eddie flails his hands which makes the image shift and blur. "It's like you don't even believe in this shit."
"You know that I do." Steve takes a few steps forward, reaching out to grab Eddie's elbow. "It's just that. They're ghosts, you know? They can't hurt us. Not really. And you know I'll protect you."
The angle changes to a static shot from behind Steve, giving full view of the soft and adoring way Eddie watches the other man.
👻 Investigation 15 ~ 2:03-3:45am 👻
The camera shows Steve and Eddie in their respective sleeping bags, both snoring. A time lapse captures the way they shift and shuffle in their sleep, until they're curled against each other on the floor.
It also captures the distant sound of an unintelligible voice and something clank in another room. Eddie flails, twisting and turning.
"Steve?" He says. "Steve!" He pushes out of the sleeping bag. "What the fuck was that?"
Steve sits up, his hair standing on end around his head. "Eds? What's wrong?"
"You didn't hear that?" Eddie's eyes are wide and panicked.
"No. What was it?"
"I heard like, voices or some shit. Maybe something falling over?"
Steve squirms out of his sleeping bag, grabbing a flashlight and starting recording on his phone.
"What are you doing?" Eddie grabs Steve's forearm.
"Investigating?"
"Aren't you--"
Steve cups Eddies cheek. "No, babe, I'm not scared. Let's go look, yeah?"
Steve walks out of frame, and Eddie stands frozen, until he slowly lifts a hand to trace where Steve touched against face. "Babe?" he whispers
👻 Investigation 22 👻
"Well, we're staying the night again." Steve says. "How'd you feel about the last time, Eds?"
"At least we're investigating a hotel and get a bed. Last time was terrible," Eddie frowns. "You were so calm."
"So, it wasn't terrible because we spent the night on the floor in a haunted place, but because I wasn't scared?"
"Pretty much."
"Shouldn't it be a good thing that I'm brave and strong and protective?"
Eddie gags. "Gross, man."
"What? Look at these muscles--I could take a ghost out." Steve flexes.
"You're not allowed to fistfight the ghosts, we've talked about this."
"Aw, c'mon, you don't think I can take a ghost?"
"Absolutely not, Stevie. You've never won a single fight."
Steve's mouth drops. "Excuse me. I've won at least one of them"
"Not a great track record."
"This is cruel. You're being cruel to me. After I've saved you from rats and from ghosts and from--"
"Yeah, yeah, my hero. C'mon, let's get moving."
Eddie's being sarcastic, but Steve's face still flushes a bright pink.
👻 Investigation 22 ~ 1:45-2:17am 👻
They fall asleep with the EVP still between them. Like before, the distance between their bodies closes as time passes until Steve is tucked close around Eddie, his arm draped over Eddie's waist.
It's sweet, peaceful until Steve starts to twitch. The mics pick up unintelligible murmuring until it becomes something close to short yelps and bitten off screams. Steve whimpers a long, heartbreaking sound and his body starts to shake, his hands grasping at his own face.
Eddie snuffles, is quiet for a second, before he realizes something is wrong. He twists to Steve, grabbing his shoulders. "Stevie, baby, oh my god, what's wrong. Steve!"
The other man wakes with a heaving gasp, flailing and shouting Eddie's name.
"I'm here. I'm right here." Eddie rests his hands against Steve's face, but pulls back, looking at his hands with wide eyes. "Why are you bloody, sweetheart?"
"What?" Steve reaches up, gingerly touching his cheeks. "What the fuck," Steve hisses. "What the fuck."
A flashlight flicks on, illuminating the long but shallow scratches across Steve's left cheek. "Jesus, baby. What happened?"
"I--" Steve is trembling hard enough his voice shakes. "I thought I was dreaming? I heard this voice and then this shape walked towards me from the bathroom." Steve points. "He--it reached for me, and I knew I shouldn't let him touch me, so I fought, but--" He's shaking too hard to continue.
"It's okay," Eddie 's voice is soft. "It's alright, sweetheart. It's over, yeah? I won't let anything bad happen to you, promise."
"I thought--Eddie, I thought--"
"I know, I know, sweetheart. It wasn't, though. We're okay."
"I'm scared, Eds," is barely heard through the mic.
"It's okay. I got you, yeah? I'll always have you."
Eddie starts singing something, soft soft, so only the melody catches, still too faint to make out. He holds Steve tight, cards fingers through his hair until the shaking stops.
"Not so brave now, huh?" Steve asks, giving a little wet chuckle.
"Baby, you are the bravest person I know. This doesn't change that. Not for an instant."
"Liar." Steve presses his face harder against Eddie's neck.
"To you? Never."
They sit in silence a little longer before Steve moves. Eddie caresses the man's face, lets his thumbs graze over his cheekbones. He knows affection is spilling out of him, overflowing, swallowing everything, but there's nothing Eddie can do about it anymore.
"Eddie?" Steve asks.
They close the lingering distance between them on some unspoken mutual agreement, lips slotting together like they'd been doing this for years and hadn't condemned themselves to a lifetime of quiet yearning.
Steve brushes his tongue against Eddie's mouth, and Eddie lets him in, their tongues meeting in a wet tangle. They kiss and kiss and kiss, lost to the moment, cameras and ghosts and the world forgotten for each other.
They part, staying close enough to share air. "Hey, Eds?"
"Yeah, sweetheart?"
"I have a huge crush on you."
Eddie's nose wrinkles before he erupts in a sweet laugh. "Well, thank god for that. I'm fucking gone on you, baby."
"Yeah?" Steve whispers now.
"You're sort of everything, Steve Harrington."
"Fuck," Steve buries his face into Eddie's neck. "Is now the time to say that I think you're it for me? Cause--"
He doesn't get the rest of the words out, the force of Eddie's kiss sending his mind to outer space.
When they pull apart again, Steve quietly says, "thank you, ghosts," and Eddie giggles.
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elhoopacabra · 8 months
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I went to see Ghost Files live last night in Dallas and I had so much fun! I managed to capture one of my favorite quick moments of the show during the Ovilus portion
I love when Shane says "Lord of the Dance" and you can hear one audience member gasp and say "Michael Flatley is here??"
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eirxair · 2 months
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theyre both a lil bit alieny but i feel like shane is more elderitch beeny than alieny tbh but i still need to know 😔✊reblog for sample size please grma <3
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aliencrystals · 1 year
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aint he pretty  made him transparent 
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im thinking of writing a book thats kinda sorta based off of ghost files where its two "ghost hunters" in a world where ghosts are DEFENITELY real, but they never find any because one of the guys is a normal human, and the other is their guardian angel or something that keeps the ghosts away from him
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I am so upset about Watcher’s decision to put all of their work behind a paywall. I just feel like they completely ignored the current situation of their entire fanbase and longtime supporters. I love them so much but so long Shane and Ryan😭
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chrismoet · 8 months
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The new season of Ghost Files has begun and I’m now spending my evenings now pressing new Ghoul Boys buttons to meet all my orders!
Link for buttons: https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1385794267/ghoul-boys-buttons
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This new season is awesome, I’m definitely noticing they’ve upgraded their graphics.
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msmcnevertweet · 10 months
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GHOULBOYS - Where ghosts are real, or not I guess.
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GHOULBOYS is a one-shot horror/comedy TTRPG for 3 players. It's about amateur paranormal investigators hunting for ghosts in supposedly haunted locales, interpreting evidence and bullshitting with their friends. I made this one! I love ghost things! Let's talk about them! But first...
Will we finally answer the question... are ghosts real?
Inspired by shows and games like Ghost Files, Buzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural, Phasmophobia and Most Haunted, you'll play as one of three classes:
The BELIEVER, trying to uncover evidence that the paranormal is real, and detail the nature of the supposed haunting.
The SCEPTIC, who believes that everything has a reasonable explanation, and the idea of ghosts is kinda funny. 
The PRODUCER, who’s recording this whole thing, and looking out for what the other two might miss.
It's a GMless game where you and your two friends fuck around in abandoned buildings with spirit boxes, motion sensors, and turn the gain up on your microphone incredibly loudly to hear what might, maybe have someone saying half a word.
If that sounds cool, it's $5 until the end of the month!
My friends it is time to peer closely at a blurry photo
YES IT'S TIME FOR MORE SELF INDULGENCE BELOW THE CUT.
(Potential) Spoilers for: Ghostwatch and The Blair Witch Project.
Bro bro bro did you see that bro BRO
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When I was a teen posessed by the grim specter of an idea known as "Thinking I was a guy", I used to get very stoned and sit in cars with my friends and drive around at night. Being stoned with The Lads was a good way of pretending I wasn't possessed, I guess.
One time we drove to a supposedly haunted stretch of road; the story was that a woman who lived nearby had gone out onto the road late at night and been hit by a car and killed. If you drove along that road at the time of her death, you might see her, wearing the nightgown she died in.
After about an hour of driving up and down the road, we were about to give up. The driver swung into a driveway to turn the car around, and out of the pitch blackness, I saw it. White, twisted, grasping. It was just a flash, but I know what I saw. I screamed, my friends screamed, the tires of the car screamed as they span griplessly on the tarmac for that endless split second before it pulled away.
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Yes of course it was a fucking tree. But for at least 5 minutes, we all believed I'd seen her. As plain as day, a dead woman in a nightgown had grasped at me on the other side of the windscreen through the darkness. The real fear lasted seconds. The adrenaline lasted a few minutes. The laughs lasted for a while afterwards.
I don't believe in ghosts. But the idea of them has the power to make us conjure them. We stare at the fuzzy frozen frame of video and think we can see a form, a face. We listen to the overpowering static hum of a shotgun mic pointed into a hallway and swear we hear a voice. We peer into the darkness, and our brains connect the dots we've decided are there. We want to be scared, especially when we can laugh about it afterwards.
It's just the Pipes
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If you know the Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast, Ghostwatch pulls a similar trick. It's 1992, you've sat down to watch a live TV show doing a "scientific investigation" into a haunted suburban home with Big Name TV News Guy Michael Parkinson, Big Name TV "Robot Wars" Guy Craig Charles, and a bunch of other Big Name TV people I don't really know.
The house is supposedly possessed by a malevolent evil spirit who the homeowners kids call Pipes. They hear banging noises at night, their mom tells them "It's just the pipes." Watch along at home, phone in using the number on your screens with your ghost stories, and you know, just in case you maybe see anything on the footage that we might miss.
It's staged, of course, and staged incredibly. It's very fucking creepy. Kitchy, mundane 90's TV gives way slowly to creeping dread that never seems to stop creeping, eventually arriving at a terminus of full on Blair Witch surrealness. It drew so many complaints from people whose children were turned to traumatised wrecks that it was banned from being broadcast for 10 years.
Probably because the newscaster they saw on TV every day turned, in the course of about half an hour, from this
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There's not really many clips on youtube but trust me, it's good. It's slow. Give it a chance, you should watch it.
Josh? Is that you down there?
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There's so many jokes about The Blair Witch Project, but that's not because it's bad. I mean, it IS kind of bad, and that's the point. Heather, Josh and Mike are just amateur film makers making a documentary on a shoestring budget, about the mystery of the Blair Witch, the details of which matter little to what happens next. The jokes are attempts by people trying to break the hold the film has on them. But it holds on tight.
It works so well because it's so sparse. The minimal, natural sets, the handheld footage, the we're-not-even-really-acting-I'm-actually-kinda-just-creeped-out performances. The characters talk like convincingly kinda shitty people, deal with getting lost like real people, argue like convincingly scared people. It explains nothing about the greater mystery, cares not for any attempt to make sense of what's going on, all it wants to do is slowly drag you to it's stark, screaming conclusion.
Like many successful horror films, it got a bunch of sequels which I've not seen, and don't care to. It doesn't need them.
Ok but what about real ghosts
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There's something about a weird dollar store Trent Reznor and his bros crawling around a tourist spot that makes Ghost Adventures so fun to watch. Trant Reznot is out here shouting at ghosts with his whole chest like "I HEARD YOU DON'T LIKE BIG LIGHTS SHINING IN YOUR FACE HUH", and it's great. When the often questionable "activity" occurs, it's rarely actually spooky in any way, but the deadly serious way with which they describe the mote of light (read: dust particle) moving across the footage that it's endearing.
These shows (Most Haunted, 28 Days Haunted, et al) tend towards having a pseudo "intellectual" angle. Ghost Adventures doesn't care, it's listening to Tool in it's car outside the high school, passing you a joint and saying "Isn't it fucked up that people die, but like, aren't gone, man?" I can't tell if it doesn't take itself too seriously, or if it just doesn't really know how to be serious, but it's good.
Hey there demons, it's me... ya boi
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I watched so much god damn Buzzfeed Unsolved through Covid. I watched it until the early hours of the morning, until I'd successfully creeped myself out to the point where I had to run from the living room to the bedroom in the dark to avoid the Texarkana Phantom Killer that my brain had successfully materialised just behind the back of my head.
Somehow Buzzfeed Unsolved Supernatural - it's sister show focused on.. well, supernatural stuff, and it's successor Ghost Files manages to be both scary, whilst also simultaneously very stupid and funny.
Both Shane and Ryan are always ready to be scared, but they're also both ready to laugh. They have a very endearing camaraderie too, like two kids in class trying to get the each other told off by the teacher, and despite the semi serious presentation, unlike Ghost Adventures they're not precious about trying to make sure you're scared. It invites you laugh and be afraid in equal measure, and it feels natural, especially in the early episodes. If Ryan is freaking out about the Waverly Hills Hospital body chute, it's because.. well.. watch the video? I would absolutely not go down there.
This tension between laughing and screaming drives the show. The balance between spooky-funny and spooky-scary is a delicate one. Ryan and Shane are great at knowing when to tip that balance, one way or the other.
It's easily the single biggest influence on Ghoulboys (I mean, of course it is?) because of this. When playing, you're always caught in this in-between moment that the Ghoulboys themselves do so well. Waiting for something to fall over, the spirit box to speak, the SLS scanner to show a fleeting figure. Whether it's scary or silly, your brain is waiting for it, ready to draw the shapes of ghosts we want to see.
Thank you for coming to my Ghost TED Talk
Man ghost stuff is so good, real or fake. I just wanted to make a funny game that occasionally made you raise your eyebrows and look at each other like "Oh, shit..." and had lots of stupid ghost hunting equipment, and I think it worked out. Thanks for reading.
Again, if you want to check out Ghoulboys, it's $5 until the end of the month. Take a look! There's a video of me and some friends playing it!
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parkercore-69 · 1 month
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i was a victim of the gravity falls to transgenderism/buzzfeed unsolved (+watcher) pipeline and i made a visual representation for it.
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i'm genuinely curious how many of us there are out here in the tumblr sphere. if you're a fan of the ghoul boys, but you DIDN'T discover them through buzzfeed unsolved, please tag where you first saw them and what your favourite show of theirs is now.
i'll go first. my first ghoul boy show was ruining history in 2018, and now my favourite show is either puppet history or ghost files.
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