Interesting show that 'Destination: Truth' - never caught it until last night. One segment of their 'investigation' involved a forest in Japan, below Mt. Fuji, where about a 100 folks commit themselves to suicide each year. Now, I gotta fact find on that one - that's a boast that's gotta be wrong. Yeah...ok, just hit wikipedia that says it's about 30 per year and overall 500 recorded instances. Apparently, it's second to suicides to the Golden Gate Bridge which doubles Aokigahara forest's count. Never heard of the Golden Gate to be as active, though.
Of course, in true fashion, and from the minor research I did as a child, the Japanese ghosts appear to be more fully developed apparitions than our own. The few paranormal books we had at the local libraries typically referenced very violent Japanese poltergeists. However, if you look at many modern legitimate hauntings - I'm not sure if they are mere spirits or, stay with me, demonic.
The apparitions they spotted in the one night the 'Destination: Truth' team was there they did catch what appeared to be a full-torso white figure appear and, to me, look like it descended down a ridge. If it were a live-blooded human, the features would have been apparent in the night shot light. They had personal experiences, typicall full-bodied shadow figures. Wasn't there, don't know - it pissed me off that they would send investigators by themselves. You simply don't send people on their own - in a pitch-black, unfamiliar forest with rugged terrain? Come on. They are going to get hurt.
The other segment was a trip: the Filipino aswang. If there is a well-known traditional monster in the Philippines, it's the aswang. One of the researchers got caught up in the sounds of the islands, which, especially in the summer nights is extremely loud. They caught a lot of wild animals on tape. But nothing of a large, blood-sucking bat-like thing.
Read a lot of paranormal books in my youth. Real, serious books on the subject. But, unfortunately, the paranormal is difficult to gauge twenty years ago. The biggest modern legitimate case (we're talking 1950s) involved a group of authority figures that witnessed a chair levitate. Now, with a lot of newer technologies, it seems they are getting closer to legitimizing things they are catching on tape, still and video. The stuff trips me out, but, can we ever run to a conclusive piece of evidence? Not sure what that would be...
One of the investigators on Ghost Hunters Intl had an interesting point: he says he does it to show others that there is an afterlife. That's an interesting premise, but, if people don't believe your evidence, they aren't going to reach your conclusion.
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