Level 19 - Is it Sci Fi or Siffee?

Lately, I have been taking in a lot of TV to see what is going on in the world, but no matter what I do I keep coming back to what was formerly the Sci Fi channel, now Syfy. I'm still confused about this, how did Science Fiction become Syence Fyctyon? I'm still not sure how improper spelling got into play, but that aside, that channel has had some interesting shows on it.

Status Effect: [Annoyance]

Recently, I started watching Paranormal Witness, a show that interviews people having shared or connected events in their life that are paranormal. Think of it like America's Most Wanted except what happens has ghosts or monsters. I was watching a few episodes last night and the show is full-on hysterical because some of the episodes are cliche and some are extremely easy to break apart with logic.

The first episode I saw was the story of two brothers living on a farm and visiting a nearby barn that belonged to their uncle. Apparently, the basement of the barn had a well which one of the brothers went into as a kid and had heard a voice. Later on they shared mutual  dreams about that barn. Even one of them was sleep walking to it. After some time, the brother's wife and daughters were haunted by this apparition and even at one point kidnapped his baby daughter. In the end, the family sold the farm and, some years later, the haunted barn was burned down.

Looking at this story logically, we can undo the majority of that paranormal activity involved. A boy goes into a well and hears things...a well with resounding acoustics. Or a brother having a bad dream that leads him to sleep walk again shares the dream with this brother. Of course, the brother could have had a similar dream another night after hearing about it. How about the baby being stolen? We know that one of the brothers sleep walks. Who is to say that he didn't take the baby outside during a sleep walking episode?

Don't get me wrong, a lot of these stories lead to some interesting dramatizations, but some of the stories are easy to destroy with logic.

To be continued...
Dave