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Watch A Nervous Meredith Vieira Wander Around A Dark Basement In Ghost Hunters Clip

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by Jon Bershad | 12:50 pm, October 25th, 2011

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I’m going to be honest, I just don’t get the appeal of Ghost Hunters. Don’t get me wrong, I find ghost hunting itself fascinating. But, as a TV show? I just don’t get it. The show has been on TV for seven damn years and, presumably, every episode’s basically identical. There’s never going to be an episode where a ghost just walks into the frame and says “Boo.” And, if these guys actually did get real proof of some kind of paranormal event, it would be all over the news months before it ever got on the SyFy Channel. Maybe I’ve just been spoiled by movies but, until one of these guys walks into the bathroom and rips his own face off, the whole endeavor seems rather dull.

So, yeah, I just don’t get it.

You know what I do get the appeal of, though? Seeing likable TV personalities wander around dark basements! Now, that makes sense to me as a television premise. So that’s why I’m all about these preview clips of Meredith Vieira guesting on the show and joining the team on a hunt.

Vieira’s going to be appearing on the show this week and the sneak preview shows her joining regular hunters Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson down into the basement of some house where a kid was apparently held captive.

Vieira’s always been one of our favorite TV personalities and she seems to handle the excursion with aplomb. However, she’d go up a few notches to being one of our favorite human beings if the full episode features her sneaking up behind one of the guys and yelling “Boo!” loudly.

Seriously, I’d rather see that than any actual ghost footage.

Watch the clip from SyFy below:

(h/t HuffPo)

Ghost Hunters, Meredith Vieira

Anonymous

“Vieira’s always been one of our favorite TV personalities ”

Talk about a hagiography- have you ever thought of going to journalism school?

Your words are so saccharine, you must have artificial diabetes.
TruDat

Another ugly liberal bitch wandering around in the dark, clueless. No surprise there.
JamesYouToo1980

Average Conservative Commentator:
Blah blah MSM blah blah not vetting Obama. LOL!
Blah blah Pelosi witch. Blah blah Obooma. ROFL!
Anonymous

Typical lib commentator:

off topic drivel.
http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

Americans are fat, intellectually lazy and superstitious. And those are the smart ones.
Guest

Yet another conservative man letting us all know exactly how he feels about women. No surprise so many women feel conservatives hate them.

You know, people like you could at least keep a lid on your misogyny, you’d have a chance of getting rid of Obama. No wonder he got so much of the women’s vote last time.
TruDat

yeah, no wonder Obama won because some people posted some comments to an obscure blog. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

Put down the crack pipe and walk away.
RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

Shes scared its Ray Maddows house
caconservative

Ghost Hunters, and the other laughable shows like it should have their own network called, SCAM-TV! Let people know from the get-go they’re going to be watching a program built on shadows, and the occasional noise, and allot of silly banter!
One pissed off liberal

Apparently you weren’t around for the public floggin n of Sara Palin, so you can understand how your own party feels about women.