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YouTube - Paranormal Lockdown



Last week, I talked about one of my favourite paranormal shows on American television, Ghost Adventures. As I explained to you, in the 10th season, paranormal researcher Nick Groff was replaced by 2 other collaborators. Luckily for us, Groff returned with other shows, one of them being Paranormal Lockdown.

In this series, Groff teams up with another paranormal researcher, Katrina Weidman - who was featured on yet another American paranormal program - and a cameraman called Rob. The show follows more or less the same format as Ghost Adventures: the first 20 minutes feature an introduction with some historic details and eyewitness accounts of the haunted location, followed by the investigation itself. But instead of exploring the building during one night, both the researchers and at some intervals also the cameraman, are locked down for 72 hours, thus allowing enough time to gather substantial evidence.

Paranormal Lockdown takes you to haunted buildings all over America and the UK as well. And granted, some of them are very spooky. They also use the same equipment as featured in Ghost Adventures or any paranormal series for that matter. Yet, Paranormal Lockdown isn't as exciting as Ghost Adventures or any of the other shows that I will feature later.

It probably has something to do with the two researchers who don't really have distinct personalities and even come over as dull and boring, which has a negative impact on the show. Although I appreciate that Nick and Katrina both tackle their subject in a professional way, I cannot help but wonder if they actually enjoy what they are doing. Where are the inside jokes? Where is the fun? Or in other words: Paranormal Lockdown is not entertaining.

An important consequence of being locked down for 72 hours, is that in every episode Katrina and Nick become deprived of sleep and actually start seeing things that are simply not there. And as a viewer, you start questioning their credibility, which is a shame, given their experience and expertise in the paranormal. Is that the reason why Paranormal Lockdown only lasted three seasons? Since then, both Nick and Katrina have moved on to other paranormal shows, but more about that later.

It is difficult to find entire episodes of Paranormal Lockdown on YouTube, especially of the first 2 seasons. Lately, I have been able though to find most of the third season. But you never know... For some time, it was difficult to find older episodes of Ghost Adventures as well and nowadays, you find them everywhere. Just be patient...

A last piece of advice: watch Paranormal Lockdown first and then head over to Ghost Adventures. It will be more fun!

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